The season has arrived when the most of us are beginning to think of selecting our bulbs, especially for growing in pots. Liliums, hyacinths, tulips, etc., have each their place assigned for the above purpose; but very few make choice of the Gladioli for pot culture, considering that they succeed best when grown in beds or borders, and certainly their effect when so grouped and in flower is strikingly grand; but let me advise those gardeners who have to maintain a succession of bloom in the conservatory throughout the year, now they are ordering their bulbs, to procure some roots of Gladiolus for growing in pots. If they have not previously adopted the practice, they should now select them for flowering during next summer; and, if they succeed, I am certain after that they will be only too anxious to extend their culture in the future.

Having, in the early part of this year, a surplus stock of Gladiolus Brenchleyensis, floribundus, and one or two other varieties, for which I had no room in the borders, the thought occurred to me that I would see what they would do in pots. The roots of Brenchleyensis were very large and fine. Of this variety I planted three in an eleven-inch size pot. The soil which I used was good stiff yellow loam, mixing with it about a fourth of decayed manure. In planting them I did not cover the crown of the root with more than an inch in depth of soil; but I potted them very firm, taking care to press the soil well round the bulb. After this they were placed in a cold pit; and as soon as they had grown somewhat, and the weather would permit, they were removed to a spot out of doors, and abundance of water given them as they needed it. The great object of the cultivator should be never to let them suffer for lack of moisture to their roots, otherwise the foliage will become brown and unsightly. Thus treated, my bulbs have sent up splendid spikes of flowers, and the effect has been gorgeous, the color of Brenchleyensis being a rich vermilion scarlet, contrasting finely with the soft but delicate white and rose color of Floribundus, another beautiful variety.

Pot Gladioli are the more useful, because they come in when the showy pelargoniums and other early summer subjects are ceasing to attract admiration. - John F. McElroy, in Gardener's Magazine.

Cuttings of geraniums, verbenas, etc., that were made some time since and placed in a cold frame, should now be potted off, brought into the house, and placed in a cool, shady place for a time before giving them a position for growth.