Pyramid Pruxing. — I never see anything like proper pyramid pruning in this country. Having 

 given attention to the mode pursued by our brother gardeners in France, permit me to give criti- 

 cally the mode so followed ; that those who like to have trees of that character may, by time and 

 attention, easily supply themselves with them in this coimtry. The jirocess consists in shortenino- 

 the first year's shoot of the Apple or Pear tree, called the graft shoot, to one foot at a full bud. 

 The first year, on pushing out in spring, rub off all laterals except four or five at the bottom of 

 the stem, to garni--h it with a first tier of branches for future years. Train the leader to a stick 

 quite perpendicular. The next winter proceed as before, by shortening the leader to twelve 

 inches at a full bud. Eemove all inteiTnediate buds as before down the leader, and leave those 

 at the bottom to form a second tier of laterals ; and shorten the lower tier to an outside bud. 

 After the second year shoot, the summer pruning consists in rubbing off the laterals, formino- 

 now the lower tier, above and below the branch, so as to keep them as horizontal as possible. 

 Strengthen those which grow horizontal, by pinching off the ends if necessary. Each tier should 

 be, as near as may be, twelve or thirteen inches, one above the other; and if possible, the branches 

 of each succeeding tier should be so grown as to be above the intervals of the tier below. Thus, 

 as we see in France, this training makes a beautiful symmetric tree; which, without blousing the 

 borders, may, when planted at distances of twenty or more feet, adorn the flower beds of a 

 geometric garden, -with presenting to the eye of taste the offerings of Flora and Pomona at one 

 and the same time. — TF?n, Mason, in London Gardeners' Chronicle, 



How TO DRIVE AWAY MoLES. — Take 1 lb. of bean-meal, 3 oz. of slaked lime ia powder, ^ oz. of 

 powdered verdigris, and 4 oz. of essential oil of Lavender. After mixing thoroughly the pow- 

 dery part of this composition, incorporate the oil. With a little, water work the mixture into a 

 dough. With this form balls the size of hazel nuts; they will harden after having been exposed 

 to the air for twenty-four hours. Introduce them twenty or thirty feet apart into the mole's 

 runs, or one ball may be dropped into the hole of each mole-hill, taking care to cover it up 

 immediately. The smell of these ingredients is so offensive to the mole, that he immediately 

 deserts his ground. The mixture is, at the same time, a violent poison for moles, rats, and all 

 such vermin. — Flore des Sevres. 



FOREIGN NOTICES. 



hybrid Cape Heaths, consisting of Lindleyana, Exoniensis, puleherrima, insignis, exquisita, and 

 metulajflora superba ; all fine kind?, possessing large bold flowers and bright clear colors ; they 

 were stated to have been raised from Massoni, ampullacea, Sprengeli, Hartnelli, and aristata, all, 

 it will be seen, good parents. The same niu'serymen also sent Andi-omeda formosa, a charminc 

 new white-blossomed evergreen shrub, from Xepal, which has been found to be hardv at Exeter, 

 and which certainly well deserved the Banksiau Medal which was awarded it, and along with it 

 the brilliant Begonia Prestoniensis, gi-own in a green-house ; Acacia hispidissima, a new kind, with 

 large bright yellow flowers, and apparently sufficiently shrubbery to be suitable for pot culture ; 

 Viburnum plicatum, a very fine Gucldres Rose, sent out some time ago by the Horticultural 

 Society, and a Calceolaria called Ajax (yellow with brown blotch), which, having a stiff good 

 habit and multitudes of showy blossoms, will doubtless make a good bedding plant. Messrs. 

 Henderson sent a little shrub (called a Pultencea), from Swan river; and Mr. Glendinning had a 

 New Holland plant called Dianella cajrulea, for which a certificate was awarded. It produces a 

 great tuft of grass-like leaves, from among which issue tall flower-stems, terminating in fine 

 panicles of blue blossoms. Owing to the absence of sunlight, however, they did not open, and 

 therefore the whole beauty of the plant was lost. Mr. Burns, of Chevening, sent half-a-dozen 

 White Ischia Figs. The plants from the Society's Garden, consisted of three Cape Heaths ; Cole- 

 onema pulcherrimum, two Azaleas, Boronia microphylla, Eutaxia myrtifolia, an Everlastinfr, 

 Mediuilla magnifies, two species of Begonia, and the handsome iEscliynanthus speciosus." 



