of the spade. Now, the dung is just level with the grass, or nearly so, more or less, and 

 you must keep it out of sight. Any good, light garden-mould will do to cover the dung ; 

 let it be full three inches deep, or rather more ; and, to keep up the sides from the grass, 

 you must use an artistic edging to give dignity to the whole. What we use is the best and 

 cheapest burnt brickbats, and whole bricks of a dark gray color, such as are too much burnt 

 in the making ; but stones would be as cheap, or cheaper, in many places, and stamps of 

 larch poles, or of any other poles, would do if cut into six-inch lengths, and sharpened at 

 one end, to be driven down two or three inches close to one another all round. The soil 

 is as high as the top of the edging ; ours is foiir inches high, and quite level on the top, 

 or, rather, with a hollow towards the stem of the roses. Three nice Tom Thumbs, and three 

 equally good Calceolarias out of about 48-sized pots, will fill one of these beds except the 

 edging. As we do not go quite close to the rose stem, (Enotliera prostrata, all the little blue 

 Lobelias, Campanula fragilis, Garganica, and two or three more of them, and many more 

 such 'tit-bits' will do for edgings." 



New Fruit, &c. — At a late meeting of the London Pomological Society, Mr. Rivers exhibited 

 a Raspberry, produced from a plant which had been raised by crossing the raspberry and 

 blackberry, or bramble. The plant has all the habit of growth of the common bramble, 

 does not throw up suckers, and produces fruit most abundantly, but it is the size and tex- 

 ture of the raspberry, and the flavor, though like the latter, is much more lively and 

 piquant ; the fruit is of a dark purple color. It will be not only a curiosity, but useful for 

 the dessert at a late period of the season. 



" At the Clapton Nurseries," says the Cottage Gardener, " they grow the Meyenia erecta by 

 the thousands, and sell it by the dozen for ' planting out' in the South of Ireland, first for 

 its bloom, and next for its young shoots for making baskets with. There is no end to the 

 numbers they have of it for English and Scottish greenhouses, and warm conservatory and 

 mixed borders during the summer ; but for stove cultivation they say it is not at all suited. 



" Thyrsacanthus rutilans, the finest winter-flowering stove-plant we have, is. here treated 

 just like a half-hardy plant, and like Meyenia erecta; but in Ghent and Brussels they get 

 it from cuttings early in the spring, and turn it out of doors all the summer. In the 

 autumn it makes a kind of Love-lies-bleeding fringe round the Orange-tubs, the little pots 

 standing in a circle inside the tub, and the drooping, crimson fringe hanging all round. 



" The Clerodendron Bungii, or fatidum, is all but hardy on the Continent, and ought to be 

 more so in England. It dies down like a Fuchsia for the winter, and blooms freely on the 

 young summer growth, just like the Brugmansias, where they are taken good heed to. 



" The lovely Sonerila viargaritacea, a dwarf, spotted-leaved Melastomad, comes from cut- 

 tings in nine days, and in sixteen more days is fit for the market, and worth from thirty to 

 forty penny-pieces. The dearest is the cheapest in the long run. 



"They have a large stock of a new hardy Oah with fern-like leaves, got over from Mackay, 

 of Liege, who seems to graft them as easily as apples and pears. Twenty years ago these 

 would cost £5 a piece, owing to the difficulty of increasing them. Now they 'come out' 

 cheap as bedding variegated geraniums. 



" White Glycine, or Wistaria Sinensis, from eyes grafted on the roots of the old one, and 

 come as freely as leaf and bud geranium cuttings. This led to a secret of great importance. 

 The whole of the Kennedyas, Zichyas, and such like, will graft on the roots of Wistaria, and 

 grow to double the usual size as conservatory climbers. The continental mode of splitting 

 the crown of the stock seems the easiest and best way for this root grafting also. 



" A new hardy Oah, which came from the Alps of Bhootan, promises to be one of the 

 finest for park scenery, being exactly intermediate between an Oak and a Spanish Chestnut 

 in the leaves. Quantities of Pinus fdifolia, one of the finest of the long-leaved kinds, but 



