THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



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BITTEE ALOES. 



I HAVE tried bitter aloes for greon fly 

 and found it answer. Tlie best plan of 

 applying it to greenhouse plants is by a 

 camel's hair pencil to each leaf, as it is the 

 vnder side of the leaves which is most in- 

 fested, and by syringing the plants are 

 disfigured, both in flower and foliage ; but 



to the standard roses in my garden I shall 

 apply it by the syringe. jane k. m. 



[We have tried it in the proportion of 

 half an ounce to the gallon to peaches and 

 roses with the best result. If washed ofl" 

 the fly soon appears again.] 



THE CLIMATE OF TOEQUAT. 



The plants, of which specimens are sent 

 herewith, have been out for three or four 

 years without any shelter from the frost. 

 I have been waiting, hoping the Habroth- 

 amnus would be in bloom, which has also 

 been out two winters, but covered with 

 matting on cold nights ; but it is not yet 

 in bloom, so I pick a piece from the green- 

 house of the same. This shows what our 

 seasons are, and what may be done here, 

 if plants can be sheltered from the wind. 



The plants sent are : — Clianthus pu- 

 niceus, ten feet high (?) against the wall ; 

 Acacia armata, three feet high, near a wall ; 



Acacia — , about three feet high, not at all 

 a useful plant in or out, as it appears to 

 me ; Bottlebrush, five feet high ; Beau- 

 fortia splendcns. 



Torquay, May 17. A. B. S. 



The specimens arrived in beautiful 

 condition without moss, loosely laid to- 

 gether in a card-box. They are instruc- 

 tive examples of the truly Italian climate 

 of the south-west coast of Britain, and 

 they are also evidences of good culture, 

 and in every way a credit to our corres- 

 pondent. The Acacia is an unattractive 

 kind with which we are not acquainted. 



COTTAGE ARCHITECTUEE AN'D ADOENMENTS. 



It has been remarked that man made the 

 town, but God made the country. Pro- 

 vidence has ordained that you should re- 

 side amid the beauties of creation. The 

 book of nature is unfolded to your view, 

 wherein you may read in legible characters 

 her wondrous laws. You are surrounded 

 by a vast museum, furnished with every 

 object that can administer to your com- 

 fort and delight. The dew-drop which 

 glitters on the thorn, the fish which cleaves 

 with nimble fins the yielding waters, the 

 feathered songster which warbles on the 

 spray, the beast that labours with you in 

 the field, or furnishes you with food, the 

 flower, or herb, which adorns your hedge- 

 rows, the gorgeously-painted butterfly, the 

 buzzing insect, nay, even the constituents 

 of the land you cultivate, will afford 

 themes for profitable meditation and in- 

 struction. 



When a foreigner visits old England, 

 he is not so much impressed with its 

 national monuments and public buildings 

 as he is with its park-like scenery, and the 

 emerald verdure of its lawns and pastures. 

 Those charming little cottages which are 

 80 often seen nestled in the woody dingle, 

 or the deep romantic glen, the rocky valley, 



or the wide, the rich, the fascinating vale, 

 also excite his particular attention. These 

 unpretending buildings, whose whitened 

 walls so harmoniously contrast with the 

 surrounding dark green foliage, not only 

 associate the ideas of rural comfort, peace- 

 ful enjoyment, cheerful industry, robust 

 health, and tranquil happiness, but form 

 one of the most interesting features of the 

 English landscape. 



Home is a household word, perhaps bet- 

 ter understood in this country than in any 

 other. To render our cottage homes still 

 more picturesque at a small outlay is a 

 desideratum which most of the readers of 

 the Flokal World would hail with plea- 

 sure, if not use their efforts to forward. 

 This might be effected, if the talented cor- 

 respondents of this interesting sei'ial would 

 furnish sketches of some of those neat 

 little cottages, with their rural adorn- 

 ments, which are so profusely scattered 

 over our highly-favoured country. 



Mr. Shirley Hibberd, in his excellent 

 work, " Rustic Adornments for Homes of 

 Taste," has given us practical directions ; 

 but as his remarks relate more especially 

 to the Terme Ornee, and the price of the 

 book excludes it from the library of the 



