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tending the plants, and a circular roof is greatly preferable to a 
plain one, not only for appearance sake, but because it conducts 
the moisture as soon as condensed, down the sides, instead of 
allowing it to fall among the plants, thus preventing the “ drip” 
that is constantly occurring from a roof of straight lines; the 
frame work should be as light as is consistent with a proper 
regard to strength, and the panes of glass as large as possible. 
The following are selected gesneraceous plants sufficient for 
a Wardian case six feet long, three feet six inches wide, and 
three feet high. 
ft. in. 
Gesneria Suttonii, 
Scarlet, 
2 
0 high 
splendens, 
ditto, 
2 
6 
tubiflora, 
White, 
3 
0 
faucialis, 
Scarlet, 
2 
6 
Gloxinia speciosa, 
Blue, 
0 
8 
rubra, 
Rosy crimson, 
0 
8 
Carton ii, 
Pink, 
0 
8 
Candida, 
White, 
0 
6 
violacea, 
Violet, 
0 
8 
speciosa alba, 
Blue and white, 
0 
6 
Achimenes iongiflora, 
Blue, 
1 
6 
grandiflora, 
Rosy purple, 
2 
0 
picta, 
Scarlet spotted, 
2 
0 
rosea, 
Rose coloui'. 
] 
0 
Sinningia guttata, 
Cream spotted, 
1 
0 
Drymonia punctata, 
White ditto, 
creeper. 
Two or three neatly growing climbers, such as Tropaeolum 
Jarrattii or Convolvolus pentanthus may be introduced to fill 
the upper part, and add variety to the whole. 
Editor. 
CULTURE OF THE ORANGE. 
The Citrus Aurantium, or common Orange, once the most 
fashionable and prevailing ornament of the greenhouse and 
conservatory, is still, though so much neglected, well deserving 
the little skill and attention necessary to its growth. Its beau¬ 
ties are known to every one at all conversant with horticulture, 
and therefore they require no encomium, though were it only 
for the pleasing associations so intimately connected with the 
plant, room should be found for it in every suitable plant 
structure of the least pretensions. “ It is,” as Loudon has ob¬ 
served, “ one of the most striking of fruit-bearing trees, and 
must have attracted the notice of aboriginal man long before 
