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the foliage. I should think, therefore, though I have not yet tried it, 

 that the above plan is very likely to succeed in raising these tender 

 plants. 



Another recommendation of it to amateurs, who are sometimes 

 obliged to leave home for a few days, is, that their cuttings, &c. are 

 secured against the carelessness of servants, and can supply them- 

 selves with drink instead of drooping and dying for the want of it. 



[A new kind of pot, advertised in the Cabinet a short time ago, 

 is admirably adapted to serve the same purpose, viz. of successfully 

 striking cuttings, or keeping plants moist at the roots in any degree 

 required. It is also a certain method of keeping slugs, &c. from the 

 plant growing in it. We strongly recommend it to all persons re- 

 quiring such assistance, as it fully answers the purposes designed to 

 effect. — Conductor.] 



ARTICLE III. 



ON DESTROYING THE GREEN APHIS THAT IS SO DESTRUCTIVE 

 TO VERBENAS AND CALCEOLARIAS. 



BY GLADIOLUS. 



A few pots of the common Camomile (Anthemis nobilis) interspersed 

 among the Verbenas, Calceolarias, &c, will be found an effectual an- 

 tidote to this pest, and much less troublesome than the dilated 

 tobacco liquor usually recommended. Its smell makes the green fly 

 drop off and die very speedily. 



ARTICLE IV. 



ON THE UNSKILFUL PRACTICE OF WASHING HOT-HOUSE 

 AND PLANT STOVE FLUES WITH SULPHUR. 



BY I-AQEUSTROiMIA. 



Having just read an article in the September Cabinet, by a "Prac- 

 tical Gardener," on the erroneous method above mentioned, I beg to 

 corroborate his statement, where he says that sulphur thus applied 

 will be " attended with serious, if not fatal, consequences." 



I know a young man that had the responsibility of some hot-houses, &c; 

 and one night in the middle of the summer, in going his usual round, 

 found that one of the flues in question had got unusually hot, though 





