Black Hamburg, Maddresfield Court, Golden Champion grafted on Muscat stock, Lady Downes, Bowood Muscat, and, for fine flavour, Duchess of Buccleuch. Keep Bowood Muscat at the warm end of the house, Golden Champion next it, then Duchess of Buccleuch, Maddresfield Court, Lady Downes, and Black Hamburg.

Novice #1

If you have the command of leaves or tan, or both, hot water is not necessary for bottom-heat, and some of the finest Pines have been reared by the leaf-and-tan-bed system. It will require rive or six rows of 4-inch pipes for top-heat. Queens are best for early supply, that is, to start from January to June. Smooth Cayennes, Charlotte Rothschilds, and Jamaicas, are best for winter. Prince Albert is entirely distinct from Black Prince, and is much superior to it.

Novice #2

Your Eucharis have evidently got into a bad state from insufficient drainage and too heavy a soil. Shake them entirely out of the old soil, wash their roots, and repot with light turfy loam and leaf-mould in equal proportions, with a fifth of the whole of clean sand. Put four or five bulbs in a pot, and plunge in bottom-heat for a time.

Novice #3

Cut away entirely the last year's crop of fronds, and then the young ones, now springing, will get more light and air and come away stronger. Shift into larger pots as soon as the young fronds are a few inches high, but do not disturb the roots over much. For soil, take loam and leaf-mould in equal parts, with a little sand.