184 REVIEW. 



REVIEW. 



Tlie Amateur Florist's Assistant in the selection and cultivation 

 of Popular Annuals ; to which is added a descriptive cata- 

 logue of the more interesting tender Perennials used in 

 decorating the Parterre, and a copious list of European 

 Ornamental Alpine. Plants. — By George Willmott, 12rao., 

 p.p. 76. 



(Continued from page 160.) 



" Next to slugs, ear-wigs are usually the most pestiferous annoy- 

 ance the flower-grower has to encounter; their ravages, however, 

 are more confined to certain plants, and are experienced at a 

 more advanced period of the season — generally when the plants 

 are in flower, or nearly so. The best means of getting quit of them 

 is to lay a few short reeds, pieces of rolled paper, &c. about the 

 plants, in which they will take shelter during the night, and from 

 whence they may be blown or shaken in a vessel of water in the 

 morning. 



The wire-worm is also very destructive to certain kind of An- 

 nuals, particularly French Marigolds, Stocks, China Asters, &c, 

 and attacks them from the period of germination almost to the 

 time of flowering. The hard skin by which this enemy is covered 

 effectually protects it from injury by any application that will not 

 prove injurious to the plant ; therefore, the only means to entrap 

 it is to supply it with more agreeable food, such as pieces of 

 potatoe, carrots, &c, which may be sunk in the earth around it, 

 near the plants, marking the place, so that it may be withdrawn 

 and the worms picked out daily until extirpated. They are most 

 prevalent in soils recently brought under cultivation, as old pas- 

 tures, &c. ; therefore, care should always be taken that they be 

 not introduced among borrowed earth from such places. 



The management of hardy annuals, after briarding, consists in 

 thinning them out to proper distances, varying from two to six 

 inches, or more, according to the sizes and habit of the plant; 

 removing any decayed leaves or weeds, and supporting the 

 weaker sorts by carefully tying them to neat stakes; the more, 

 however, that this can be dispensed with the better, for plants 

 never look so well as when left to assume their natural habits. 



Prismatocarpits Herit. Vends L. -glass. 



1 hybridus He> it. hybrid 



2 pentagonus Her it. five-angled 



3 speculum D. common 



a/fro white 



pullido pule 



purpura) purple 



This genus is named, in allusion to the form of the fruit, from 

 the words Prisma, a prism, and carpos, fruit, and chiefly consists 



