The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . rocuses, & be advantageously grown in pots, plunged in the openborder while in fliower, and afterwards removed to makeroom for other plants. Divide Gentianella in the early Rhododendrons when the wood is ripening. Cloacineis best disinfected by sulphate of iron in solution ; see p. 555, 1844. -SKt-Melons requii-e to be set in the same way as Cucumbers. Too much moistme and too little heat is, pos-sibly, the cause of their damping off after they have been set. In either case the remedy is apparent, t G^iS^^If you have set yo
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . rocuses, & be advantageously grown in pots, plunged in the openborder while in fliower, and afterwards removed to makeroom for other plants. Divide Gentianella in the early Rhododendrons when the wood is ripening. Cloacineis best disinfected by sulphate of iron in solution ; see p. 555, 1844. -SKt-Melons requii-e to be set in the same way as Cucumbers. Too much moistme and too little heat is, pos-sibly, the cause of their damping off after they have been set. In either case the remedy is apparent, t G^iS^^If you have set yom- Melons, they have been kept too cold and damp, which is no doubt the cause of the evil. J A HA—We never name florists flowers. / T—Greens Duchess of Suther-land Calceolaria has been described as a large flower, withwhite ground, pink eye, and rather inclined to be G -D—Parsley foims the best garnish and the best edging for a kitchen-garden ; but it is not used for dessert. We cansuggest nothing better than Strawberry organs, and often affordsexcellent Morphologicalevidence. Such a case isfound in the annexed cut,which is something likeyom-s. In this case thecalyx is dislocated, andhas altogether lost one ofits sepals ; two are in theusual condition, or nearlyso ; but the fourth, thrownout of its place, is exactlyhalf-way back to the con-dition of a leaf. Such acase is what is called re-trograde the change had gonemuch further, the flowerwould have been con-verted into a branch, -nitha few straggling petals atthe upper end, Naioes of Plants—C/—Your so-called scarletLaburnum hasproduced one of its usual sports, in the form of a branch ofCytisus purpureus. You will find the history of this produc-tion at p. 325 of oui* volume for 1841. A B—1, Lapeyiousia anceps ; 2, Saponaria ocymoides, perfectly hardy, Lime-trees will begin to flower in six or seven years after being planted ; or even sooner in warm dry soil. JS 8—Tecoma veluti
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