170 THE FLORIST. 



prove a troublesome pest, dissolve half a pound of soft soap in a gallon 

 of hot water, and add to the mixture 1 lb. of flowers of sulphur and a 

 little soot, to make the mixture less conspicuous when laid on the 

 Vines; the mixture should be applied warm, and if thrips made their 

 appearance on the Vines the previous season, a pint of strong tobacco- 

 water may be added to a gallon of the above ; with this well wash the 

 Vmes, first remonng any loose bark from the older parts of the stem ; 

 this will remain on the Vines some considerable time, and will greatly 

 assist in keeping down both red spider and thrips. After dressing, the 

 Vines should be tied to the trellis in their allotted places ; but as young 

 strong canes, when first excited, have a tendency to break at the upper- 

 most eyes only, and as the object should be to induce all the buds to 

 break evenly, the upper half of the rod should be bent round to a curve 

 of half a circle ; this will check the sap half way up, and cause the 

 buds below to break first ; and when such have fairly started, the shoot 

 may be turned back to its right position, when the uppermost buds will 

 progress, and from the lower ones having had the start of them, will not 

 now take the lead, and rob them, as they would if suffered to break 

 unchecked before the lower ones had started. This will make all the 

 spurs hereafter of a uniform strength. It the Vines have made the 

 short-jointed wood expected of them, to suffer all the buds to grow and 

 form spurs would leave them much too crowded, especially with strong- 

 growing Vines ; it will therefore be necessary to remove a portion of 

 them ; but as the buds are arranged alternately, the two following must 

 be taken away, reserving each third bud for the permanent spurs ; by 

 this the spurs will be left at regular distances on each side the main 

 stem, and therefore care should be taken in looking well before-hand, 

 where to begin to get the spurs at regular distances apart. 



{To he continiied.) 



DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF HARDY CONIFERS.— No. XVII. 



XXVII. PINUS MACROPHYLLA — THE LARGE-LEAVED PINE. 



In our last number (page 137) we gave a description of the very 

 interesting Pinetum at Highnam Court, and we now, by Mr. Gambler 

 Parry's permission, give a wood engraving of Pinus macrophylla fi'om 

 the same place, where it forms a fine feature in the collection. 



Pinus macrophylla is represented as a low growing tree, and a native 

 of the Ocotillo mountains in Mexico. Although described in catalogues 

 as a straight-leaved Pine, we have no doubt this is the true kind. 

 It is a very ornamental species, from its long pendulous foliage, which 

 is of a pleasing hght green. In the Pinetum at Highnam it grows 

 very fi-eely, and is quite hardy, having passed through the last winter 

 without having a leaf injured. 



