ON STRIKING CUTTINGS IN PHIALS. 155 



drive it to its winter habitation, under the bark ; and in the next 

 spring the whole round of operations, through which we have 

 watched its parent and itself, would be performed with the same 

 unvarying unerring instinct. The cloudy misty east wind in which 

 our gardeners see the blight, is the very weather of all least fa- 

 vourable to these Weevils. The fine, clear, sunny days of March 

 are most favourable to them. 



The tom-tits, sparrows, bullfinches, and other birds, which at 

 this season of the year, are persecuted with relentless hostility by 

 the farmer and gardener, live during these months solely on those 

 Weevils and similar little insects ; and consequently are the 

 uiily check on their increase which we possess ; so that in the first 

 investigation of blight, we see how a little prejudice, supersti- 

 tion, and ignorance, tend to increase the injury they dread. 



ARTICLE VI. 

 OBSERVATIONS ON STRIKING CUTTINGS IN PHIALS OF WATER. 



BY AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. 



I have profited by a hint in one of your Numbers, about striking 

 cutting in phials of water, plunged in a slight hot-bed, as follows: 

 Melon, Cucumber, Pot-herbs, Geraniums. Myrtles, Antirrhinum, 

 Chrysanthemum, Rose, Carnation, Pink, double Rocket flower 

 stalks, double Furze slips, and a few others. The Dahlia I did 

 not succeed with, the Furze I had tried various ways without suc- 

 cess, before 1 found young top shoots of it slipped, do the best I 

 could ; I shall make a more extended experiment on the method 

 this next year, having, owing to illness, begun late in the sea- 

 son. An Old Subscribes. 



( We shall be glad oi' the results being communicated lor insertion in the 



Cabinet.— Cond.) 



ARTICLE VII. 



ON WATER AND WATERING PLANTS. 



(Continued from page 136.) 



Dot though a tract of land may happen not to contain matter 

 proper for the constitution of some one particular kind of plant, 

 yet it may for several others, and those much differing among 



