FOBEI6N NOTICES. 



fts Imrdv (wtho most linnly plant we have, being in fact a native of tlie countiy, nnd not, like 

 the Sniix Hal>vl<>nic«, i!itri><luceJ from a foreign clime. The mime of Kilmarnock Weeping Wil- 

 low was bes'fowed upon it to distinguish it from the common Weejjing Willow, the Napoleon 

 Weeping Willow, anil the American Weeping W'illow ; it is quite distinct from either of these 

 varieties, hoving loaves two inches broad. — Abridged from the Kilmarnock Journal. 



Mateuiai-s kor a Cutting Pot. — Provide either broken potsherds, pebbles, or chips of stones 

 from a mason's yard, and place them in the bottom of the pot. Over these put rough fibrous 

 peat or turf; this will act as drainage, which is most essential ; then prepare peat, loam, and 

 silver-sand in equal parts, with the addition of a little powdered charcoal ; let these be well 

 incorporated together and passed through a fine sieve; put this compost on the top of the above 

 mentioned drainage and press it well down. This must be in sufficient quantitj' to reach within 

 1^ inch of the top of the pot. Finish with pure silver-sand, and let the whole be well watered, 

 to settle all down before the cuttings are jmt in. Then, having bell-glasses at hand, and the 

 pots ready, dibble the cuttings into the sand, which will induce the emission of roots, and 

 these will strike down into the compost, which, prepared as directed, will suit any plant. — 

 After the cuttings are inserted let them be watered with a fine-rosed pot, to settle the sand 

 round them. Cover with the bell-glasses, and shade until they have become rooted. Cuttings 

 must not be put in too closely together, otherwise they will damp off. Wipe the condensed 

 moisture from the glasses once a day, but keep them close for the first fortnight or three weeks; 

 afterwards admit air by degrees, by placing a little wedge under the glasses. W'hen the cuttings 

 are rooted remove the latter altogether. Sprinkle occasionally with water from a fine-rosed 

 watering pot. By attending to these minutiaj, success will certainly be attained. A slight hot 

 bed is the best place for cuttings. — A Gardener, in Gardeners' Chronicle. 



Caution-. — The following " Caution," which we extract from tlie London Gardener^s 

 Chronicle^ shows that all the fools are not on this side the Atlantic. Victims may gather 

 consolation from this, if they can : 



" Some 40 years ago a few Frenchmen opened a shop in St. James' Street for the sale of miscel- 

 laneous plants, and amongst other "nouveautes" sold a baronet a "yellow moss" Rose at five 

 guineas a plant Between that time and the spring of 1852 I heard nothing of a similar swin- 

 dle; but in March of the year just mentione-1 (in Bond Street) two of these scamps sold a friend 

 of mine a collection of new Roses "vary sheep," as they "most go avay," not one of which was 

 otherwise than the veriest rubbish, — a plant or two of common Moss and red Provins worked on 

 dwarf stocks being the cream of the purchase. This year, in Regent Street, another " Ilorticul- 

 teur et Fleuriste" lias recently commenced victimizing the public, an amateur of some standing 

 having bought there last week " Mousseuse Jaune," at the low price of one guinea a plant. I 

 need say no more to convince your readers of the manner in which their pockets will be picked 

 should they venture into this magazine. — C. G. Wilkinson, Western Rose Nursery, Ealing. [We 

 print this ; but such warnings are perfectly useless. The crop of fools is inexhaustible."] 



