IJanks's Prince Albert, a good dark variety ; and Climax (Banks), a good habited 



kind, but wanting substance in the sepals. Others of Mr. IJanks's raising reached 

 us last year, but we failed in blooming them. The two varieties we now figure 

 will be found acquisitions : Emperor Napoleon is a very fine dark variety, and 

 Venus de Medici highly deserves a place in every collection. The excei)tion is 

 "Wonderful, one of Mr. Banks's seedlings, we believe, and it is certainly a wonder- 

 fully large and coarse flower, with not a good quality to recommend it beyond 

 si/A'. — London Flurist. 



METHOD OF USING SULPHUR FOR MILDEW. 



BY JOHN J. HOWE, BIRMINGHAM, CONN. 



I HAVE a small cold grapery, in which the vines have ])assed their fourth season, 

 and have borne two fair crops. One point in my experience may be worth com- 

 municating to the readers of the Ilortictdhirist. It relates to the manner of using 

 sulphur for the prevention of mildew. I have used it, in solution with quicklime, 

 in the following manner : Take, say a half Inishel of lime and 6 lbs. of flower of 

 sulphur. Mix them together in a large tub (a half hogshead), and pour on enough 

 water to slake the lime, and mix it to about the consistence of whitewash. After 

 this is thoroughly mixed, fill your tub with water, and stir it, so as to diffuse the 

 lime and sulphur through the water. Let it stand long enough to allow the lime 

 to settle, and you will have a clear, transparent liquor strongly impregnated with 

 sulphur, as will be manifest from its yellow color, and its strong, sulphurous taste 

 and smell. My practice has been to have the ground in the interior of the grapery 

 sprinkled with this liquor every evening through the season, as long as there is 

 any danger of mildew. The tub may be filled up with water, from time to time, 

 as the liquor is used, and the quantity of lime and sulphur mentioned, will be 

 enough for a grapery 3U to 50 feet long, the entire season. In a few instances, I 

 have used it diluted with about two parts of water to one of the liquor for syring- 

 ing the vines — but I have seldom thought it necessary to use it otherwise than by 

 sprinkling the ground as mentioned. My vines have never been attacked with 

 mildew in the least degree — and I have never used sulphur otherwise than as above 

 stated. There may be nothing new in the manner of using sulphur which I have 

 adopted, but I have never seen its use recommended precisely in that way — and 

 as I have found it entirely successful, and in no respect detrimental, I conclude 

 that it has not been as generally practised as it deserves to be. 



I have Black Hamburgh Grapes now (March) as good as when taken from the 

 vines — and good enough, too — which have been laid down in dry beech sawdust. 



