Name Of Plant (A Reader)

The specimen sent was so thoroughly shrivelled that we could make nothing of it. There must have been some delay in posting the box.

Name Of Plants (A Forester)

The double-white grove Anemone (Anemone nemorosa flore pleno).

Names Of Flowers (A Lady Reader)

1. Bulbocodium vernum; 2. Anemone Appenina; 3. Saxifraga oppositifolia alba; 4. Scilla Siberica.

Names Of Plants (Jane L.)

1. The Cobweb House Leek, Sempervivum Arach-noideum. 2. Saxifraga pyramidalis. 3. Omphaloides verna. 4. Arabis lucida variegata. The foregoing are quite hardy, but it will be as well to give them the shelter of a cold frame during winter, as you have them in pots.

Needham Market, Suffolk

Will one of your numerous subscribers inform me as to the subdivision and general management of Ferns in a common greenhouse? Edward Dove.

Nemo

Perhaps it will. But we have no faith in any leader in horticulture who himself has not been a successful practitioner. Would you like any one to doctor you, who, like Dr Hornbook, killed all his patients?

New Orchids In Flower

Beautiful as the Orchids in our collections undoubtedly are, we are continually meeting with or receiving fresh introductions that eclipse them in beauty and novelty. In this paper we propose to notice two or three of the most effective Orchids that have flowered this season.

New Plant And Bulb Company

Owing to a press of matter, we are unable to notice this month.

We have to thank several correspondents, for esteemed contributions which are unavoidably held over.

North Wall

An excellent arrangement for a north aspect is to put Morello Cherries and Red Currants on the wall, and plant a row of Warrington Gooseberries on the border. These, when in crop, can all be covered with the same net, and kept late, and prove most profitable crops.

Northumbrian

Place your Dahlia roots in a dry cellar, where frost cannot enter, and cover them over with dry sand or ashes, and they will keep perfectly well; but see that they have not had a touch of frost before you store them.

Notes And Queries

Woodlice on Mushroom-Beds (T. L. A.) - Pieces of Apple placed in a little moss under an inverted flower-pot will trap the woodlice wholesale. The bait must be examined occasionally.

Notes On New, Rare, And Choice Hardy Herbaceous Plants

The attention now being given to those plants, a pledge of their rising popularity, induces me to forward you the following notes of a few thoroughly good things, which, though not new save in a few instances, are yet comparatively little known and seldom met with.