CUKCULIO r.EMEDIES. 



longer, or you will lose much, of the lower leaves, which will turn yellow. Some judg- 

 ment is required in this operation, but it is soon gained by short experience. When 

 this check has been given, supply the plants with water, but in small quantities, com- 

 paratively, for a week, giving it at the root and not with the syringe. The plants will 

 immediately "knot" for bloom; and then, but not before, (still keeping them near the 

 glass,) give them manure water twice a week, and plain "water daily, if required, for as 

 soon as the ends of the shoots indicate by their thickness that the bloom buds are form- 

 ing, the supply of water must again be liberal as it was at fii-st. The old fashioned 

 manure water, made by stirring up a spade full of old hot-bed in a pail of water, / know 

 will answer, and you know the strength; but with guano, and its adulterations, you 

 may not know, and may spoil your plants, althougli it is very good when properly used. 

 The above manure water should be used clear and diluted with water till it is about the 

 color that a crust of burnt bread two inches square will give to a glass of water in which it 

 has stood five minutes. The next object is to encourage the growth of the bloom, 

 branches, and buds, but not the foliage, which is best effected by giving water at the 

 root, syringing only now and then to keep off dust, <k;c., (for if the syringe is much used 

 in this state, the j^lants get straggling,) and by giving all the air possible. When the 

 flower buds are just opening, some shade on the glass is necessary. Open canvass, or 

 close, coarse netting, is the best thing that I know of, because it does not altogether shut 

 out the sun's rays. 



I am aware that mucb must depend on locality and time of year, as to how far the 

 above directions can be carried out. An expeiienced hand will do best to pot in 

 December for his first set of plants, and in January for tbose to follow, because he can 

 then stop the shoots (which, by the by, he should do, and let the plants break just 

 just enough to show the eyes, in the small pots before pottuig,) and by this means he 

 will have his plants mucli larger. But it requires some experience for this veiy early 

 work to be done well. The principle, however, that I wish to point out is this : that 

 in this country the European system, as to time, must be varied, and the plants must be 

 got to their full size, as to wood and foliage, before the time of sj^ring, when the increase 

 of the sun's power will necessarily force them into immediate bloom without giving time 

 for their bloom-branches and buds to be properly developed before the flowers expand. 



CURCULIO REMEDIES. 



BY WILLIAM ADAIE. 



If we look around at the various remedies that have from time to time been proposed 

 for the Curculio, we will find that they are almost as numerous as those found in the 

 pharmacopoeia of the quack medicine vendei-s for the cure of consumption, or any other 

 incurable disease. Such being the case, and a new one in the hands of a committee 

 for investigation, which it is confidently expected will prove successful, it may perhaps 

 be considered supei-fluous to add any more to the hst_; but as we are not to have the 

 benefit of the new discovery the present season, and as it may prove, like most of the 

 ultural novelties that we have lately received, rather expensive for these 

 " it may be well to examine the subject a little, and see if anything can be 



