a heat that woiilil broil a steak, blow the tliousands of glasses employed to grow them in 

 water. There is not a smoky liole in the most confined manufacturing town in which the 

 hyacinth will not bloom, if allowed moisture of some kind in which to lengthen its silvery 

 roots. If we calculated by the means required for its growth, instead of the price of a root, 

 it might truly be called the poor man's flower. There is scarcely an individual who is per- 

 mitted to live in daylight, but may indulge himself with two or three, if lie be fond of flow- 

 ers, and they will aff'ord gratification till the bloom is over. Let everybody who can raise 

 three flower-pots, or three hyacinth glasses, buy a bulb of each color, and tliey will have 

 flowers — ay, if they grow them in a smoky attic, or a still more smoky kitchen. 



The Skirret is a garden vegetable, well spoken of in the Revue Jlorticulc, but little known 

 here. It belongs to the family of Umbellifers, and is a perennial plant, with bunches of 

 fusiform, fleshy roots, from six to ten inches in length, and from three-fourths to one inch 

 in diameter, somewhat crooked, of a russet color externally, the flesh being white. It is 

 one of the richest alimentary roots ; its flavor is slight, slightly resembling celery ; is good 

 fried and for soups. Its produce is enormous, and efforts are making to introduce it in place 

 of the potato. 



OxALis BowEi. — It may not be generally known that this succeeds well as a bedding-plant. 

 It produces its beautiful rose-colored flowers in great profusion, until destroyed by frost in 

 autumn; and when planted in contrast with other gay colors, I have always found it to be 

 greatly admired. The bulbs should be potted the third week in March, and plunged in a 

 gentle bottom heat. I put three bulbs in a three-inch pot ; when they have grown about 

 two inches, I shift them into four-inch pots, and gradually harden thein ofi' in frames with 

 other bedding-plants. They are planted out about the middle of June, by which time they 

 will be nicely in bloom ; it is necessary to support the flower stems with small stakes when 

 first planted out, for if this is not done, they are liable to be blown off. Until the plants 

 have established themselves firmly in the ground, a situation rather sheltered from the 

 wind, and well exposed to the morning sun, should be chosen for them, as they show them- 

 selves to most advantage during bright sunshine. — William Adderley. 



Gkeen-Fly. — It has often struck me that your readers might do good service to each other 

 if they would, from time to time, record in your paper the various successes or disappoint- 

 ments which they meet with. For instance, no amount of smoke has ever satisfactorily got 

 rid of the green-fly in my houses. Frequent fumigation kept my geraniums, &c., tolerably 

 clean, but the pest still existed. Tliis year, I have immersed all my plants in a mixture of 

 tobacco, one-fourth pound ; soft soap, one pound ; water, five gallons ; and, although it is 

 now more than four months since they were dipped, I have searched in vain for a single 

 green-fly when cutting them down. — Iota. 



Sale at Chiswick. — Some of the plants sold here, on Wednesday, realized fair prices, as 

 will be seen by the following account of a few of the lots : Mammillaria globosa, Cirrhifera 

 and Auriceps brought 11. 6s. ; Gasteria conspurcata, a species of Aloe, and Agave filifera, 

 1/. 12s. ; Polygala Dalmaisiana, 10s. ; Theophrasta Jussisei, 3/. 3s. ; Paonia Moutan salmonea, 

 Zl. 5s. ; P. M. atrosanguinea, 5Z. ; a variety of P. M. versicolor, 5/. 10s. ; and a variety of 

 P. M. atropurpurea, 3/. 10s. The Chinese Tree Paeonies produced, on an average, about 21. 

 each. 



