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are all very valuable autumn blooming plants, with scarlet or crimson 
spikes of bloom; they require rich light soil, and plenty of water in dry 
weather. 
Gazania uniflora, Pavonia, and rigens, rich yellow and orange. A 
great improvement on the above is splendens, a rich orange. 
_Lythrum roseum superbum.—F¥or a cool damp situation there are 
few plants more showy than this hardy herbaceous plant. It 1s a great 
favourite in some parts of Scotland, and where many other things could 
not be planted this will grow and bloom freely. 
Pentstemons are well known to modern flower gardens. There are 
several first-rate new kinds from the Continent, which should be procured. 
Phlox.—The same remark applies to this family, which consists of 
the most really useful tribe of herbaceous plants our gardens contain. 
Bouvardia longiflora, oriana, &c.—The former is one of the sweetest 
plants we know, with dark glossy foliage, and flowers of the purest 
white; with care these will make neat and unique beds. 
Scutellaria splendens makes a very showy bed. 
Veronica Andersonii, &c.—This makes a beautiful autumn bed, 
and is a fine plant for mixing with shrubs. 
Dianthus Heddewigi and laciniatus——Every one will have beds of 
these superb plants. 
Pyrethrum, hybrids.—There is an immense improvement in this 
class for bedding purposes. Seeds should be procured at once, if intended 
to grow them this season. 

AURICULA SHOW, &c. 
I AM very much afraid that the difficulties in the way of a grand 
national Auricula show are insuperable, at least for the present. It is 
not only that there are very few growers, and these few scattered 
widely apart, making it difficult to fix a place of meeting convenient to 
the majority, but Dame Nature has to be consulted, and her consent 
obtained, in order to retard the south, and advance the north country 
plants, so as to bring them into bloom tolerably well at the same time. 
And who has so much influence with that respectable old lady as to 
cause her to alter her usual course of proceeding so far as to bring 
Falkirk and Slough or Deal together, I cannot say ; but beg to appoint 
Messrs. ‘‘ D.,” ‘A. J. C.,” and C. Turner for the south; and Messrs. 
Lightbody, Cunninghame, and Campbell for ‘the north, as a committee 
to arrange matters with the aforesaid lady, if they can! The “black 
spot’ complained of by ‘‘ D.” attacked my collection the last two years 
that I possessed one (alas!). I treated it as mildew, and dusted it 
with flowers of sulphur, and did not find it injure the plants at all 
seriously. I quite agree with ‘“ D.” as to contrast of colour and match 
in size between the plants when shown in pairs, but am inclined to 
vote for five pips as a minimum, instead of seven. ” 
For separating the pips when growing, to allow of a proper expansion 
of each, and regulating the shape of the truss, cotton wool may do, 
but it is not neat, and interferes with the meal on those plants which 
