FEBRUARY. * 4/ 



where the earwigs had committed considerable ravages. The box 

 remained there for two days and nights, and, upon being taken down 

 and opened, upwards of sixty living examples were at once turned out. 

 The experiment was repeated several times with very similar results. 

 I\Ir. Edwards immediately registered the invention, and is at the present 

 time engaged in adapting the principle to an article that will combine 

 elegance with utility. When these traps become generally used 

 the poor earwig will be well nigh exterminated from our gardens In 

 examining the traps there will be no chance of escape, as is now the 

 case from the inverted flower-pots, and when once inside they cannot 

 emerge from their resting-place to take their evening walk, and return 

 at pleasure with a well-filled stomach from the young petals of a 

 Rachel Rawhngs or Baron Alderson. 



Charles Perry. 

 Handsworth, Birmingham. 



[We have received drawings and description of the earwig--trap from 

 the inventor, which shall appear in our next.] 



THE TREATMENT OF CLERODENDRONS. 



This is a beautiful tribe of plants ; when well done, they are grand 

 objects for summer and autumn display in the conservatory. They are 

 easily grown ; but they require some room. The principal points to be 

 attended to in their culture are, a good bottom and top heat, plenty of 

 moisture, large pot room, and a rich soil. They are all beautiful, but, 

 as they are large growing plants that take up a considerable space, the 

 following will be sufficient for most private collections : — C. fallax 

 superbum, Ktempferi, paniculatum, and squamatum. Paniculatum is 

 not 30 showy as some of the others, still when well grown it is a beau- 

 tiful object. 



The present is a good time to procure young plants ; the smaller 

 they are the better, provided they are not pot-bound. If the roots are 

 in a good condition they should have a small shift at once, using a soil 

 composed of two-thirds loam and one-third leaf-mould with a little 

 sand Plunge them into a bottom heat of about 80 degrees, and let 

 them have a top heat of about 70 degrees by day, with an increase by 

 sun-heat. Keep them near the glass. Maintain a moist atmosphere ; 

 but do not let them have too much water at root. In three or four 

 weeks' time they will be fit to have a shift into larger pots ; — the roots 

 should come well through to the pots, but not get very matted. The 

 same soil will do for them this shift, with the addition of a little rotten 

 dung. After they are potted plunge into a bottom heat as before, and 

 keep up a moist atmosphere. In about another three or four weeks 

 they will be fit for another shift : this will be about the middle or end 

 of April. Supposing the plants are in eight-inch pots, they may be 

 put into twelve or fourteen -inch pots at this shift ; — the soil this time 



