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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
Messrs. Fairbairn, of Clapham, who grow this class of plants 
extensively, have purchased the stock of Mr. Atlee, and are now 
sending out plants of it. 
We may perhaps be expected to say something on the culti¬ 
vation of the Genista. Certainly no plants succeed better with 
the same amount of attention. They are peculiarly suited to the 
amateur’s collection, requiring only a well-ventilated greenhouse, 
which they alone would render quite gay from the end of 
February till the beginning of May. 
They delight in a mixture of peat or heath mould and turfy 
loam; and if allowed sufficient pot-room grow vigorously, 
forming handsome plants in two or three years from the cuttings, 
and are not so particular as to situation in the house as some 
other and less specious plants. Of course the usual attention 
must be paid as to watering, thinning, and repotting in due 
season. They are much benefited by being placed in the open 
air with other greenhouse plants during the summer months, 
selecting a situation where they may be slightly shaded in the 
middle of the day, without being under the drip of trees. No 
collection should be without several plants of the Genista, the 
Camellia, and the Azalea, the three blooming at about the same 
time, and affording a rich and pleasing contrast. 
LITERARY NOTICE. 
Rendle's Tank System of Communicating Heat. 
Loudon : Longman and Co. 
We were obliged very unwillingly to defer'our notice of this 
treatise in our last number from want of space, as we have 
looked very anxiously for its appearance; entertaining a con¬ 
viction of the utility of the system, we think it only requires 
its advantages to be understood to ensure its adoption for every 
purpose to which fermenting materials have hitherto been applied. 
It is written by Mr. W. E. Rendle of Plymouth, the ingenious 
inventor of this mode of applying hot water to the purposes of 
bottom heat. He explains the construction, fitting-up, and 
working of the tanks, and also points out some of the advan¬ 
tages arising from their use, but in our opinion he himself is not 
aware of them all. We have had two in constant use for the 
last five or six months and find them most effective. They may 
be constructed of wood, slates, bricks, iron, &c. To explain it 
more thoroughly, we will suppose a forcing-house with a pit in 
