a bri^'ht preen, tufted tiling, with rose-colored flower heads, and leaves not unlike chamomile 

 It is largely cultivated in Southern Russia, where it is dried to the amount of five-and-thirty 

 tons. How many bushels of fleas this will destroy is not stated. It also kills flies, gnats, 

 and lice, and the maggots which breed in the wounds of domestic animals ; for winged crea- 

 tures, it is mixed with anything they like. It is figured in the 1,080th plate of the Botani- 

 cal Maf/azine. The powder is called Piro-oti, and was very important to tlio Englisli and 

 French oflBcers in the Turkish barracks. Possibly, tliis might jirove a remedy for the cur- 

 culio. Boydell's traction steam-engine, an English invention, is pronounced " a great suc- 

 cess." It ascends a declivity of one in three, walks on a common road, with a heavy load 

 behind it, backs, advances, or stops, instantaneously, and its impress is scarcely perceptible 

 where a horse's foot left a deep impression in a turnip field. This success is owing to the 

 endless and wide railway attached to the circumference of the wheels, which gives a fulcrum 

 for the lever, and a bearing sufficiently wide to carry a great weight on soft ground. We 

 shall doubtless hear more of this soon. — In drying plants for preservation, each specimen 

 should be placed between a sheet of brown or blotting-paper, and between each filled sheet 

 several empty ones should be placed : for the first day or two, the pressure should be only 

 just sufficient to prevent the leaves and flowers from shrivelling. When the papers are 

 damp, the plants should be placed in dry ones, increasing the pressure after every shift till 

 the specimens are perfectly dry. — The prizes to be given at the three London Crystal Palace 

 Shows, this season, exceed, in the aggregate, eleven thousand dollars. The lists embrace 

 a wide extent of subjects, and provision is made to encourage the humbler class of visitors. 



Roses pecced down to the ground make superb beds. The Red Geant de Bataillos, mixed 



with the White Aimee Vibert, forms one of the best mixtures. Devoniensis makes a noble 

 bed on dry, warm soil, as does Souvenir de Malmaison and Mrs. Bosanquet. — A good friend 

 writes us, "That was a capital article on the treatment of Evergreens in May. It is just tlie 

 way I treated mine at my old country-seat in Europe, though a lighter soil made it less 

 necessary to dig the radii, but a supply of ashes and rotten leaves was plentifully dug in. 

 I have followed one root of a Scotch pine, for thirty-eight feet, till it came up under the high- 

 way, where, most probably, its spongioles were gathering all the benefit of passing cattle, 

 horses, &c., to carry those materials to the general store. And as for pruning, this can be 

 efiected, by gradual processes, to a great extent, even to the pruning of Norway firs with shears, 

 any time during the summer. Tliese hedges look very thick and green, but are not so long 

 lived as Thuja hedges, although stronger and impassable for cattle; but I prefer the Thuja 

 occidentalis closely shaved till a hedge of eight or ten years is not over eight inches thick, 

 and as well filled as one can wish."— A correspondent, in New Jersey, says : " I find my wife, 

 as well as myself, devours the Horticulturist. Strange that it should do us so much good, 

 who have only a plum-tree in the bricks, and a bed of horseradish 1 The latter we pull 

 up every Sunday morning, grate a bit ofi" the lower end, and replant it to grow again I so 

 as to have a taste from our own garden. This you may set down as an evidence of the 

 advantages of root-pruning, or of cutting off the tap root !" We hardly know whether this 

 would prove anytliing except great economy, or, possibly, the advantage of saving at the 

 tap, and drawing on the spile (spoil).— Another, in the editorial line, says : "Your gossip is 

 capital ; that for May was so spicy, that I ground it over into a splendid editorial leader .'" 

 What an excellent newspaper he must publish, and how profitable to be thus able to drive 

 tandem .'—Another correspondent says, he attempted to tell the story of Mr. Rivers' dwarf 

 cherry-trees, only one foot high, bearing a quart of fruit, when a listener put him to the 

 blush, by assuring him, a neighbor of his had a cherry-tree, in full bearing, which he carried 

 about in his snuff-box ! If true, these might be sent under cover by mail to Mr. Rivers, as a 

 specimen of American improvement of races ! — Philadelphia is the great centre of camellia 

 propagation. We have uuirieries which enumerate forty thousands of these beautiful 



