Mr. J. C. Bidwell, of Ti-nana, New South Wales, recommends Cereus triangularis as being a superior stock for graftbear great heat, considerable coolness, any amount of wet above ground, and in rich soil will make a shoot six feet from a cutting of six inches in one season. "My advice to gardeners in England who wish to procure gigantic specimens of slow-growing Cacti in a short space of time, is to procure plants of C. triangularis, plant them in any rich soil, give them plenty of heat and water; when high enough, stop the shoots, in order to make the angles thicker, and graft at a time when the stock is attempt-ing vigorously to sprout at every eye. A graft of C. Mallisonii, three inches long, six months after, has seventeen shoots all pushing at the tips: eight of the largest are twelve to fifteen inches long, and none of the rest less than six inches." The original plant of C. Mallisonii, growing in the same place in the same time, barely replaced the shoot taken off to graft.- Gard. Chron., p. 22.

Oxalis Bowei, in the open garden. "The earth was removed to the depth of two feet; I then introduced eight inches of drainage, laying on the top of it a layer of fresh turf, with the view of preventing the soil falling into the interstices. I then filled up the bed with equal parts of well-rolled turfy loam and leaf-mould intimately mixed together. In May I turned out the plants, and placed them so that the bulbs might be three inches below the surface. Thus circumstanced, I have never found them to receive any injury, with the exception of the foliage being destroyed by frost. They flower beautifully every autumn." - Ibid. p. 89.