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from sud, and sprinkle with water fre- 

 quently till rooted. 



Fruit. — Search among raspberries every 

 morning for snails, which take shelter on 

 the stakes and among the side shoots. If 

 large fruit are required, thin the blooms at 

 once, and give liquid manure. Stone-fruits 

 look well this season and no blight yet, 

 but it may come suddenly and must be 

 prepared for. Disbud and nail in. Pot 

 trees to have plenty of water, and, if 

 weakly in their new growth, pretty strong 

 doses of liquid manure at intervals of at 

 least a week each. Pinch, regulate, and 

 where fruit shows thick thin it out. 



Geraniums in beds, avoid watering if 

 possible, after the first dose to settle the 

 earth about them. They will root deeper 

 and do better in the end. Pot plants want 

 plenty of water, and if leggy pinch out the 

 tops and give a shift, and plenty of side 

 shoots and blooms will follow to the end 

 of the season. 



Hollyhocks. — Stakeat once, and tie in as 

 soon as the stems are tall enough, and fre- 

 quently look at the ties to see they do not 

 cut their swelling stems. Heavy manuring 

 in the first iustance is preferable to water- 



ing with liquid manure, but in poor soils 

 liquid manure may be used abundantly. 



Kitchen Garden. — Sow a succession of 

 saladings, choose shady spots for lettuce. 

 Plant out celery, tomatoes, hardy melons, 

 ridge cucumbers. Sow also succession 

 peas, beans, kidney beans, cauliflower, and 

 prickly spinach, which does not run so soon 

 as the round at this time of year. Stir 

 the earth between all advancing crops, 

 and there will be more growth and less 

 need of watering. 



Pansies. — Take cuttings of the best, 

 look over seedlings and root, out and de- 

 stroy all inferior ones. Sow again for 

 autumn bloom. 



Pelargoniums. — Shade the house, plenty 

 of water, stake and tie as needful, keep a 

 sharp eye after vermin. Plants out of 

 bloom, keep cool and dry out of doors. 



Tul'qjs. — These are very late this sea- 

 son, keep up the shading till the flowers 

 ] are over, then remove it, and let them 

 have the benefit of rains and dews. 



Vines will be visited with red spider 

 wherever the air is dry. Give plenty of 

 ventilation, and plenty of water overhead, 

 i Keep up the heat of Muscats. 



TO COItEESPONDENTS. 



Fiat Justitia — to the Editor of the Floral 

 World. — " In the April number of the Pi obai. 

 Would, which only reached rue a few days 

 since, I find, to my intense astonishment, an 

 article headed the ' Cultivation of Annual 

 Flowers,' purporting to he extracted from 

 Messrs. Sutton's ' Spring Catalogue and Ama- 

 teurs' Guide, for I860.' Permit me to inform 

 you, in the words of the Latin poet, Hosego 

 nerttculat feci, tulit alter honores; or, in plain 

 English, you have given to Messrs. Sutton the 

 credit which is due to another. The article in 

 question is a literal abstract, in more senses 

 than one, from the ' Gardening Book of An- 

 nuals,' published by me a few years since, and 

 does not contain a paragraph, nor, as far as I 

 can detect, a syllable not occurring in my work, 

 though there are sundry omissions apparently 

 for the purpose of compression. Whether this 

 slight condensation in Messrs. Sutton's work or 

 your own, is of little or no moment. I will not 

 hesitate to say that, in my opinion, no more 

 scandalous act of literary piracy was ever per- 

 petrated. The adoption by these gentlemen, as 

 their own, of whole chapters written by another, 

 would in itself be a most unwarrantable act, but 

 that these extracts should be made from a work 

 written by one pursuing the same avocation as 

 themselves, stamps the appropriation as one of 

 the highest indecency. To what extent Messrs. 

 Sutton have laid my little work under contribu- 

 tion, I know not, but assuming that their ex- 

 tracts are limited to those you have quoted, 1 

 am fully justified in pointing out the injury you 

 have unwittingly done me. I am, i assure you, 

 very far from entertaining an exaggerated esti- 

 mate of the value either of the extracts in 

 question, or of anything else I have written; 

 hut, since you have, in noticing the ' Heading 



Catalogue' in your February number, been 

 pleased to speak of those instructions as so well 

 done, that you intended to transfer them to 

 your own pages, you will feel no surprise that I 

 should put, in my claim for whatever merit they 

 may possess. 1 shall be obliged by your insert- 

 ing this in your next number, and I make this 

 request with the more confidence, that X am 

 persuaded your extracts were made in full reli- 

 ance on Messrs. Sutton's good faith; indeed, it 

 appears to me that as you had previously inti- 

 mated your intention of quoting the passages in 

 question, you have equally well-founded grounds 

 of complaint against them with myself. — W. 

 Thompson, Tavern Street, Ipswich. [Yes! of 

 course we have. The article appears in the 

 catalogue as original, and as we never publish 

 as original, but with proper acknowledgment, 

 whatever is extracted from other works, we put 

 faith in the catalogue and cut out the article as 

 the best on the subject we had ever met with. 

 Messrs. Sutton acknowledge other extracts, why 

 did they not acknowledge this P For the sake 

 of truth and justice, we are most glad Mr. 

 Thompson happened to light upon it, that he 

 may have the credit due to him for his carefully 

 written and practical essay.] 

 Lawion Blackberry. — 2V. P., Blaclchurn. — "I 

 have sown seed of this new blackberry in the 

 open ground, two inches deep, and, to my dis- 

 appointment, none have come up after five 

 weeks' waiting. Can I do anything to hasten 

 them?" No. Five weeks to the 15th of May 

 gives the date of sowing the second week in 

 April, which was six weeks too soon. Take a 

 lesson from a neglected plot of raspberries. The 

 berries that fall sow their pips, and the ground 

 soon bristles with seedling plants. The season 

 when the fruit is ripe is the time to sow the 



