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majority of cases this is the result of necessity rather than choice % 
but where the latter can be exercised, select rather the side of 
an elevated spot than the valley at its foot. It is a mistake to 
suppose a hollow must be warmer than the side of a hill. The 
aspect must be determined by the kind of plant the erection is 
intended for. Stoves and greenhouses, for general collections, 
should face a little to the westward of the south ; a house for 
succulents immediately to the south. If intended for ericaceous 
plants, a span-roofed house with glass on all sides, standing east 
and west, is most proper. If for ferns, &c., one facing the west¬ 
ward only will be found to succeed. The consideration of which 
is always best left to some person practically conversant with 
the plants intended to be grown. Editor. 
ON STRELITZIA REGINiE. 
Sir, _I entertain an idea that one of the most useful ends to 
be gained from a work like yours is the removal of difficulties 
which stand in the way of those who are admirers and would 
be cultivators of plants, but from the apparent insurmountable 
obstacle presented to them, in the difficulty of growing] such 
and such plants. There are many who possess a greenhouse, 
and have also the convenience of frames, yet content themselves 
with growing nothing better or higher in the scale of vegetation 
than Geraniums, Fuchsias, and such common plants, that may 
be collected at any market, or may be found in the collection 
of the smallest dealer; not that I would withhold from these 
flowers the award due to their respective merits, they are very 
beautiful; but what I wish to advocate is thtf introduction among 
such collections of the more rare and beautiful productions of 
the vegetable kingdom. There are many plauts now too gene¬ 
rally confined to the stove that would certainly succeed as well 
or better in a greenhouse, and among the number is the truly 
splendid subject of this paper. There are, too, persons who, on 
the mention of such plants, say at once, “Oh, they are stove 
plants, and their culture is ‘ difficult,’ we shall not succeed 
with them.” Now this impression is erroneous and injurious; 
