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apply the solution by sprinkling ; and the application need be made 
im the tougher specimens only to the more tender parts of the plant 
which are especially exposed to the attacks of insects—I mean the 
flower itself, including the receptacle, the buds, and the younger 
“se ; thus the axils of the branches should receive special atten- 
The accompanying wood-cut repre- 
sents the most convenient bottle for 
this application. It will be noticed 
that it is different in construction from 
the ordinary “ drop-bottle,” and does 
not require any blowing with the mouth 
through one of the giass tubes, but 
needs only to be inclined at an angle to 
harge a fine stream of the solution - 
Wherever desired. DC is the tube | 
through which the fluid escapes; AB, — 
the tube through which the air enters. 
to supply the. place of the escaping 
stream. The bottle should be filled 
only to the line fe, below the lower : 
opening of the tube A B, otherwise on inclining the bottle the fluid 
will flow into this tube and obstruct the entrance of air. When 
such a bottle is ordered of a glass-blower, unless minute directions. 
are given, he will think you want an ordinary chemist’s drop-bottle 
and will reverse the lengths of the tubes. The extremity C of the 
discharge tube should be drawn to a very fine point. ; 
After poisoning specimens they are to be laid between driers and 
placed under a light weight for twenty-four hours, when, as the 
alcohol is quickly absorbed. or evaporated, they will be found to be 
sufficiently dry. Fi J. Be 
10. Notes by Mr. Bower—The new station of Asplenium montanum, 
illd., is very much more north than any before mentioned. I 
have a specimen from Lancaster Co., Penn., but believe it has not 
yet been reported from New Jersey. It is curious that this species” 
Should make such a leap north. Aspidium fragrans, Swartz, has 
een found at Bellows Falls, N. H., and among the Adirondacks, 
and perhaps a time may come when both may be found growing 
together. ‘They are plants of similar habits in not producing run- 
hers, and, although individual roots may increase so that several 
Spee may be made of one, the natural way of both is to multiply 
Y Spores. co 
The subject of the two modes of multiplication of plants is inter- 
esting. Those with running roots do not seed freely. In my gar 
den Lygodium palmatum, Swartz, creeps along and now occupies 
the sod of a bed about 12x24 inches, which is a little lower than 
that adjoining, but I do not see any seedlings. While young plants 
of Aspidium Goldianum, Hook., and A. cristatum, Swartz, var. Clin- 
tonianum, are frequent in my place, I see no seedlings of Asplenium 
thelypteroi, - iti h the other way. ; 
ypteroides, Mchx. ; it increases enoug hiabik peculier in mending 
Struthiopteris Germanica, Willd., has 2 
