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This Society is doing a great deal of good in the way of developing a taste for 

 horticulture amongst the proprietors of the numerous villa residences on the south 

 side of Edinburgh, and deserves every encouragement. 



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NOTES ANT> QUERIES. 



Woollen Netting. — In reply to your correspondent C. Z., I beg to state that 

 the woollen netting referred to by me on page 349 is what is known as " Patent 

 Wool Netting." Messrs Stuart & Mein, Kelso, are the only agents for it, so far as I 

 am informed on the matter. It is manufactured in widths of 1^ yard. The mesh 

 is square (not a diamond, as in ordinary netting), each mesh;being f of an inch by 

 4 an inch. The price is Is. per yard, in webs of about 50 yards long or there- 

 about. James M'Millan. 



To Preserve French Beans. — French Beans and Scarlet Eunners, nicely 

 trimmed for cooking, can be preserved for winter use by salting them, thus : — 

 Make a brine of salt strong enough to float an egg. Fill a jar with the Beans, 

 then pour over them brine enough to cover them ; tie the jar over with bladder. 

 When required for the table, take the beans out of the brine, and put them in 

 clean water for an hour or more : change the water often. They will be then 

 ready to cook in the usual way. It is not every housekeeper that can put French 

 Beans on the table in January. 



Names op Plants (Jane L.) — 1. The Cobweb House Leek, Sempervivum Arach- 

 noideum. 2. Saxifraga pyramidalis. 3. Omphaloides verna. 4. Arabis lucida 

 variegata. The foregoing are quite hardy, but it will be as well to give them 

 the shelter of a cold frame during winter, as you have them in pots. 



War in relation to Horticulture. — The magnitude of the recent French 

 reverses is vividly realised when a great centre of scientific intelligence, like the 

 capital of France, is hemmed in by a powerful army. The Jard'm dcs Plantes is 

 now little else but a collection of cattle-pens ; the Champs Elysees a dusty arid 

 throughfare, except when the heavy autumnal rains deluge its untended roads ; 

 and the beautiful woods around the city are devoted by the torch or the axe to 

 entire destruction. If the terrible ravages of war could have been prevented by 

 the advancement of Science, and the liberal encouragement of Art, Paris would 

 not now be suffering. We must go deep into the hearts of men before we can 

 find the reasons for such fearful outbreaks of human passion as we are now wit- 

 nessing. — Land and Water. 



Tomato Sauce for Cold Meat. — Boil Tomatoes when ripe with only enough 

 water to prevent burning ; rub them through a cloth ; to every quart of pulp 

 add 4 an ounce of Garlic and 1 ounce of Shallots ; salt to taste, boil half an hour, 

 strain out the Garlic ; add to every quart half a pint of common vinegar and a 

 wine glassful of Chili vinegar ; let it stand a day or two before corking. 



Amaryllis Vallota Purpurea. — Some excellent examples of this fine plant 

 were shown at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on the 7th of Sep- 

 tember. They were in large pots, and had been in them for five years, and were 

 finely bloomed, several trusses of bloom being on each plant. They were exhib- 

 ited by Mr Filcher, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., Wandsworth, S.W., and the 



