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should be sandy loam and leaf mould. Water and light should be given freely while 

 flowering, avoiding too strong heat. 



Calla Ethiopica, if to flower in winter months, should be exposed to full sun in 

 June, sheltered from rain and without water. At the last of August remove from 

 pots, shaking off" old soil and removing all decayed matter and young shoots. Put 

 them in rich soil, sandy loam and leaf mould, exposing to full sun in open air. 

 Water freely until they are housed at approach of frost. In the house give them a 

 sunny place near the glass. The pots should be well drained and the plants freely 

 watered while growing. The least frost will kill them. With air, light, moisture 

 and a temperature of 50° they will flower freely. The plant deserves to be in every 

 collection. 



bcarlet Geraniums are easily grown. They require a light, rich soil, of loam, 

 leaf mould, or rotted manure and sand. They root readily without glass or bottom 

 heat. Take cuttings in autumn, put into well drained six inch pots, filled with sand. 

 Place them in a cold frame, where they will root in a month or five weeks, when 

 they should be put in three inch pots and watered occasionally until housed. During 

 the winter they need little watering and only a low temperature. In March shift 

 them to five inch pots. They can easily be grown without a greenhouse. When 

 frost nips the foliage, put them into as small pots as possible, and put in dry pit or 

 a cellar free from frost, and leave them dry until spring, when they should be cut 

 back to four or five eyes, and they will flower better for the winter's rest. 



How about the Peaches? 



BY DA.VID EVANS JR., CHESAPEAKE CITY, MD. 



THERE seems to be a great outcry amongst fruit growers generally that the very 

 prolific fruit year of 1872 will be followed by a season of great scarcity. We 

 do not entertain such ultra views, yet, judging from careful observation, and the 

 views of many prominent peach growers in this State and in Delaware, I think the 

 crop will fall short at least one-half, compared with last year, which, in my estima- 

 tion, is a pecuniary benefit to the growers, for the cost of transportation and gathering 

 will be no more per basket than when the trees were overloaded, while they will 

 bring much more per basket clear. The consumers will, too, be benefited, for they 

 will have good, eatable fruit in place of much of the worthless trash which was 

 consumed last year under the name of peaches, although they may have to pay 

 something more per basket. 



During our observation, it has been a noticeable fact that orchards planted where 

 they are under the immediate influence of large bodies of water, other things 

 being equal, are promising a generous yield of fruit, while other plantations, 

 though more remote, and where they would be denominated as inland orchards, will 

 not produce any more than half a regular crop. 



It seems that above the latitude of Smyrna, Delaware, the peaches have sufi"ered 

 severely from the unusually severe winter, while below that the general impression 

 entertained is that a full crop will be marketed. Now, whether this be due to 

 diff'erence in cultivation, diff"erence in management, the youthful or aged state of the 

 trees, I am not at present prepared to say, but such is the case, and I believe is 



