382 THE GARDENER. [Aug. 1869. 



T. C. P. Q. — Echeveria metallica can be propagated by taking off the lateral 

 growths and striking them in small pots in sand. They may be placed on the 

 shelf of a dry stove, and sparingly svipplied with water. By far the easiest acd best 

 way to increase your stock is to seed one of your plants, and sow the seed next 

 spring. We saw thousands of this plant in a London nursery recently, all raised 

 from seed. The plants grow more vigorously, and are more ornamental and 

 shapely, than plants raised from cuttings. A plant kept in a pot in a greenhouse 

 will seed more readily than one planted out in the open ground. 



G. M. — The Golden Champion Grape Vine grov/s as freely on it's own roots as 

 any Vine we know. A gentleman who called on us yesterday said he had just 

 come from Drumlanrig, where he saw a whole house of it that had been planted 

 this year, and that the Vines had made growths of 30 feet in length, and that he 

 had never seen such foliage before. We know many other places where it is 

 growing with equal vigour. 



T. M. — Dissolve at the rate of one ounce of soft soap and one gill of tobacco 

 water to the gallon of pure water, and syringe your Eose-trees with it. Apply 

 it in the evening, and at 6 o'clock next morning wash them with pure water. 

 Repeat this several nights in succession. 



A. S. — The cold nights and want of rain combined have been the cause of the 

 running to seed of your Carrots, Turnips, and Beet, and probably you have sown 

 rather early. 



D. W. — We find Shanks's Mowing Machine stands hard work as well as any 

 we know. 



J. D. — The pressure on our space will prevent our being able to publish your 

 papers, interesting as they are. 



