DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



high, transplant them, (during wet weather,) 

 into a favorable place in the garden. You may 

 succeed in making the seeds vegetate by plant- 

 ing them in the open garden — but you will not 

 probably, get half the number in this way that 

 you will with the boxes. The strawberry may 

 be treated in the same manner. 



Tyro, (New London, Gt.) The rose leaves 

 which you have sent us, and of which only the 

 skeleton remains, (the covering of the leaf 

 having been entirely eaten up,) have been de- 

 voured by the rose slug. If you wish to get 

 rid of this pest, which as you say destroys all 

 the beauty of the queen of garden flowers, you 

 must commence next year, early in the season 

 — as soon as the rose buds begins to show the 

 first faint signs of the color of the flower, and 

 syringe the foliage on the under side, with to- 

 bacco water. This, repeated two or three times, 

 at intervals of four or five days, will effectually 

 destroy the rose slug while it is in the state of 

 a small green fly. 



Hot water Apparatus. — W. Field. We 

 recommend you to apply to Hogg & Benton, 

 engineers, 136 Crosby street, New- York. They 

 devote their attention especially to heating 

 green-houses and buildings in this way, and can 

 ensure you the best and latest improvements. 



Cedar of Lebanon. — M. Martin. The 

 largest sized plants that we have heard of for 

 sale are at Hancock's nursery, Burlington, N. 

 J. A deep sandy loam suits this tree best. 



Chrysanthemums. — A Lady. (Pittsburgh.) 

 You may have nice dwarf plants of these by 

 bending down the long shoots of the old stock 

 plants, and fastening them to the ground with 

 •pegs at a distance of 4 or 5 inches from the end 

 of the shoot. In a few days this end of the shoot 

 will again take an upright position. Then sink a 

 flower pot filled with rich mould under the 

 bend of the shoot and make a layer of it. It 

 will soon send out plenty of roots into the pot 

 — after which you can cut off the connection 

 with the mother plant, and your young plant 

 will bloom finely at about a foot high. 



Wintering bedding out Plants. — A. W. 

 M., (New- Bedford.) You fail in wintering 

 Verbenas in your cool green-house mainly be- 

 cause your plants are so young that they damp 

 off Cuttings of Verbenas, Scarlet Geraniums, 



&c., should be made no^v, as speedily as possi- 

 ble, so that they maj' form abundant roots, and 

 the plants become strong with well ripened 

 shoots before winter. The same remarks ap- 

 ply to Maurandias, Cobeasand other half hardy 

 climbers. 



Apricot trees. — B. Johnson, (New- York.) 

 The cracking disease of the trunk ffnd decline 

 of your trees is owing to their having suffered 

 in the bark from the great alternations of tem- 

 perature in winter. Wind the stems of your 

 sound trees about with straw ropes and you 

 will avoid the same result in them. 



Carnations. — B. J. In order that the lay- 

 ers should root freely, you must water the 

 ground every morning in dry weather — and if 

 you can cover it with moss or short grass as a 

 mulcher it will promote greatly the formation 

 of roots. 



Peach trees. — Junius, (Princeton, N. J.) 

 From the account you give of the difficulty of 

 raising good peaches in your soil as compared 

 with twenty years ago we should say your soil 

 is exhausted of the proper food for the tree, 

 to restore it prepare large holes for a new plan- 

 tation of peach trees, by trenching the soil two 

 feet deep and mixing with it a heavy dressing 

 of leached wood ashes and stable manure. If 

 we were to add another hint it would be to send 

 to a distance and get a new stock of the best 

 varieties. 



Drawing Plants. — A Young Gardener, 

 (Charleston, S. C.) The best possible way for 

 you to learn drawing " by yourself," is to pro- 

 cure " Chapman's Drawing Book," which may 

 be had. no doubt, in Charleston, or at any rate 

 ordered through any bookseller there, as it is 

 published in New- York. This work is accom- 

 panied by a copy-drawing book, in wliich all 

 the needful elementary practice is put before 

 the beginner in the most comprehensible form. 



Climbers. — A. P., (Northampton, Mass.) 

 The difference between the Virginia Creeper, 

 (or jlmpilopsis.) a harmless plant, and the poi 

 son sumac, or Mercury vine, (Rhus toxicoden- 

 dron,) which somewhat resemble each other, 

 as you, say, is, that the former has five leaflets 

 in a cluster, and the latter only three. They 

 both cling to stone-walls by the little rootlets 

 sent out from the stem. 





