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[The stronger the lime-water the better ; some portions of lime being much 

 stronger than others, no definite quantity can be stated. Trial only can point 

 out the quantity. Pure lime-stone should be put into a tub or cistern, well 

 stirred up with the water, then allowed to settle, and the water be poured over 

 where desired. If to destroy slugs, worms, &c, the lime-water must be stirred 

 up just before taking out of the vessel, and be used as a strong white mixture. 



The Clianthus grows well in rich loam and peat, planted out against a wall 

 which has several hours' sun during the day. The more south the better ; but 

 if the western aspect is tolerably sheltered from strong winds, it is preferable to 

 the east; in the latter, spring frosts are more likely to injure the young shoots. 

 When thus grown, the plant requires winter protection. Where there is the 

 advantage of a sash light from a garden-frame, that placed before the plant in a 

 sloping form, having the sides boarded up, or secured by a straw or reed screen, 

 is found to answer satisfactory. The roots, too, should have a little mulch, as 

 dry leaves covered over with a little soil, &c. There is a splendid plaut growing 

 against an open wall in the garden of the Rev. C. N. Rolfe, Heatham Hall, 

 Liuruham, Norfolk, which has been planted but a few years, so protected in 

 winter, and the plant covers the wall to the top, and extends several yards wide. 



Another most splendid specimen is growing in the garden of . Both 



bloom most profusely every season. We should esteem it a favour to have the 

 particulars of soil, mode of treatment, extent of plants, &c, for insertion in the 

 Cabinet to meet the wishes of our correspondent. — Conductor.] 



REMARKS. 



Treatment ov the Fuchsia fulgens. — No plant is more capable of being 

 improved, or more certain of being spoiled by cultivation than the Fuchsia 

 fulgeus. After seeing it in its best state last year, I considered it altogether 

 unworthy of the character it had received. 1 now entertain a different opinion; 

 and that it may afford a hint to others, I detad the treatment that produced 

 this change. Last year I treated the plant like a Dahlia or Erythrina ; before 

 it commenced growing I shook the whole of the dry soil, iu which it had been 

 wintered, from its roots, repotted it into as small a pot as would contain them, 

 and assisted the growth by frequent shiftings until it showed bloom. The result 

 was, so far as overgrown foliage was concerned, as fine a specimen as could be 

 wished. The flowers were, however, very disproportionate, and produced in 

 clusters at the ends of the shoots. These were well enough individually, but 

 by no means realising, as a whole, the expectations that had been formed of it. 

 1 was so much disappointed at this that I neglected it, and placed it upon the 

 back shelf of a greenhouse, where it remained torpid until April. It then began 

 to put forth a few feeble buds at the extremities of its unpruned branches; and 

 it was watered with the other plants, but no addition was made to the soil in 

 which it had flowered the preceding autumn. This has effected a complete and 

 desirable change of habit; the foliage is much reduced, and the flowers en- 

 larged. They have not the same tendency to drop early ; and instead of being 

 produced at the tips of the shoots only, they form racemes of considerable 

 length, and in this state the plant forms a fine ohject. Why a scanty supply of 

 nourishment should increase the size of the flowers in proportion to the decrease 

 of foliage, has not I think been clearly explained, as the rule is not universal.— 

 (Gardener's Chun.) 



On Lobelias destroyed by the severity ok Winter, &c. Last year I 

 •wrote to you regarding the Lobelia propinqua, L. lottgifolia, and L. grandiflora, 

 having stood 23° of Fahrenheit, without suffering from it; I have now to men- 

 tion that, trusting to their hardiness they were allowed to remain outlast winter, 

 but the cold was here much more severe, having on the 8th of January, 1841, 

 fallen below 8 8 at nine, P.M. j and at eleven, p.m., so low as 2° of Fahrenheit : 

 this was by much the coldest day during the winter, the only other day worth 

 noting being the 14th January, when the thermometer stood at 7° of Fahrenheit. 

 In some parts of Fifeshire the thermometer fell to zero ; and in Perthshire, in 

 some places to 2°, and in one place to 5° of Fahrenheit. 



I do Dot find, however, that I suffered much loss in the garden, there being in 



ral a small covering, of about two inches, of snow, which protected the roots; 



but unfortunately there was no snow covering the Lobelias, and it now appears 



