ON GUANO. C3 



flower garden is situated on the eastern coast of Northumberland, 

 and slopes from the sun, instead of to it ; yet notwithstanding these 

 disadvantages, my plants were not taken in before the end of October, 

 and they might have remained even longer with perfect safety. 

 [We shall be obliged by further communications. — Conductor.] 



ARTICLE IX. 



ON GUANO. 



[We have not previously introduced much into our Magazine on the 

 use of Guano, in its application to flowers ; a great deal has been 

 wrote upon it in other publications, and some very opposite state- 

 ments made. There are horticulturists in theory who applaud almost 

 everything new, and those who reposed confidence in their state- 

 ments, and embodied it in practice, have, in numerous instances, 

 incurred an expensive loss. It has been our course to wait and 

 ascertain practically, before we either commend or condemn. The 

 following particulars are from persons who have tried the use of 

 Guano for some time, and to a considerable extent ; we did so with 

 some pot plants last summer, and found its application produce the 

 best effects on Fuchsias and Pelargoniums. — Conductor.] 



On the application of Guano to flowers, whether in the open 

 ground or in pots, the following particulars are instructive : — 



Mr. T. E. Teschemacher addressing the Horticultural Society of 

 Massachusetts, stated — 



" In the following experiments, I will first observe, that all those 

 plants which were treated with Guano, were potted in a mixture, 

 consisting of plain earth without any manure, sand, and a little leaf- 

 mould, and peat, with which the Guano was mixed ; that those 

 plants which are compared with them, have been grown in the 

 richest compost, and that both have had the same attention, and been 

 grown otherwise under the same circumstances. Fuchsia fulgens : 

 one year seedling, potted 17th of June, when two and a-half inches 

 high, with one tea-spoonful of Guano ; re-potted 9th of August, then 

 twelve inches high, with another spoonful of Guano, is now a foot 

 and a-half high. The contrast between this and the two-year old 

 plant is very striking, both as to luxuriance of growth and colour of 

 the foliage, the plant with Guano being vastly superior. I think also 



