212 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



REMARKS. 



Plants in bloom at the Nursery of Messrs. Rolleson, Tooting. — 



Hardy. Greenhouse. — Azalea lateritia. 



Lonicera hispidula Azalea lateritia alba both quite new 

 Liliuin atrosanguinum from China. 



CEnothera Drummondii Spirea japonica 



Flox Omniflora. Lilium lancelolia rubra 

 Delphinum Hulmi " eximia 



Barlowii Erica Cavendishii a very splendid 

 Dianthus versicolor new yellow 



Linum, new species from rhili. Hothouse. 



Poteutilla tormentilla Tonguii Rondeletea speciosa 



Ixora purpurea. 



Destruction of Insects and vermin.— It has long been known, that the 

 leaves of the Elder when put into the subterraneous paths of moles, will drive 

 them away ; when the same in a green state are rubbed over fruit trees and 

 flowering shrubs, or when strewed among corn or garden vegetables, insects 

 ■will not attach to them. An infusion of these leaves in warm water is good 

 for sprinkling over rose-buds and flowers subject to blight ; also to prevent 

 the devastation of the caterpillar. 



A Pensylvanian farmer states, in a late American journal, that the water 

 in which potatoes have been boiled, sprinkled over grain or garden plants 

 completely destroys all insects, in every 6tage of existence, from the egg to 

 the full grown fly. 



Ammoniacal liquor, produced in the manufacture of gas from coal, and to 

 be procured for the trouble of carrying, at any gas work, will eventually de- 

 stroy the grub and other worms, which so often defeat the hopes of the gar- 

 dener ; more particularly as regards his early crops. So far is this liquid 

 from having the property of injuring even the tenderest plant, that it seems 

 rather to invigorate than otherwise. 



A paste of charcoal powder, or soot and train oil, laid on the trunks 

 of trees, in rings or circles, by means of a brush, a few inches from the 

 ground, will form a barrier over which snails or grubs, &c. cannot pass. 



Cabbages, &.c. may be easily guarded against the depredations of cater- 

 pillars, by sowing a belt of hemp seed around the borders of the ground 

 where they are planted ; for it is a well known fact, that none of these ver- 

 min will approach the place so enclosed. 



Destruction by the fly in turnips may be prevented by dividing the seed 

 intended for one day's sowing into two equal parts, and putting one part to 

 steep in a vessel containing soft pond, or ditch water, the night previous to 

 its being used. Next morning mix the whole together, and add to each 

 pound of seed two ounces of flour of sulphur. It has been adopted with 

 success for many years by the intelligent farmers of the south west of Scot- 

 land. 



By the following method an eminent horticulturist near Derby, never lost 

 a seed by vermin, although they sometimes burrowed in a direct line with 

 almost every row of peas, beans, &c. that he sowed: it consisted merely in 

 steeping the grain or seed for three or four hours, or during a sufficient time 

 to penetrate the husk, in a strong solution of the sulphuret of potash, com- 

 monly known by the name of liver of sulphur. 



The American farmers effectually prevent the blight or mildew from in- 

 juring their orchards, by rubbing tar well into the bark of the apple trees in 

 the spring season: this is done about four or six inches wide round each 

 tree, and at about a foot from the ground. Abundant crops generally fol- 

 low this treatment 



The gumming of fruit trees is to be prevented by forming a compost of 

 horse-dung, clay sand, and tar. This applied to the trunk and stems of fruit 



