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the blooms and ultimately kills the plants. I am inclined to think it is an 

 epidemic disease, as several of my neighbours' heartsease have suffered from the 

 same cause. Is the disease herediiary ? I mean, will seedlings raised from 

 plants affected be more likely to be attacked than others raised from plants not 

 diseased P 



From your invariable kindness in inserting the queries of correspondents, I 

 have been induced to ask the favour of any suggestion you, or some reader, may 

 be able to give as a remedy for the above disease, by which you will confer an 

 obligation on many growers in this part of Kent. 



Cranbrook. G. M. S. 



[Dusting the plants over-head, and the under side of the foliage too, with 

 common sulphur, we have found a perfect remedy. It costs but a trifle, and is 

 readily done, in old stiffish soil, and confined, damp situations, the plants are 

 liable to be affected with mildew. Each new plantation should be put in a fresh, 

 well-enriched, loamy (if yellowish, the better) soil, on an open substratum. If a 

 new plantation is made from the offsets of diseased plants, they should be well 

 dusted with the sulphur, and planted in the manner above stated. If there 

 should be appearances of an attack by mildew, the earliest attention to destroy 

 it should be given, or it will rapidly spread. We hope some of the general 

 cultivators of Heartsease will give us the results of their experience, in order more 

 fully to meet the wishes of our correspondent. The disease is not inherent in 

 the seed. — Conductor.] 



REMARKS. 



Open Carnation Show. — Mr. Dickson, of Brixton, has determined on having 

 an open show of Carnations and Picotees at the Bazaar in Baker-street, Port- 

 man-square, London, similar to the splendid Dahlia Show which took place 

 there last September ; and it is hoped, in addition to the London, that the 

 entire of the country growers will contribute on the occasion. The show, it is 

 expected, will take place on or about July 25, 1845. Dianthos. 



Twelve best Pinks exhibited in London in 1844. — Headley's, Duke of 

 Northumberland ; Garrett's Queen of Roses ; Aker's Lord Brougham ; Ne- 

 ville's John Dickson; Sharp's William Cobbett; Fairburu's Bob Lawrence; 

 Willmer's Duchess of Kent; Garrett's Alpha; Hodge's Malouia ; Creed's 

 President ; Willmer's Elisabeth ; Coppin's Wonder ; Hodge's Gem. 



A London Amateur-growkr. 



OnClerodendrons. — Last August, having four strong plants of Clerodendron 

 fragrans, (or Volkameria fragrans,) and a good plant of C. splendens, I placed 

 the plants of fragrans around the splendens, and inarched four branches of the 

 latter upon the former; they soon united, and grew vigorously, more so than 

 even the parent plant, and, 1 doubt not, but will furnish me with extra fine 

 specimens of this beautiful flowering climber. I think this branch of inarching 

 weakly kinds upon more vigorous ones is not attended to as its advantages en- 

 title it. J. M'Intosh. 



To make Charcoal. — Having used Charcoal most advantageously in various 

 composts for growing hot plants in, as recommended in the Cabinet, and in. 

 consequence of having to procure it from a considerable distance, and no person 

 near me, that I could find, understanding how to make it, I had a lot of black 

 Italian poplar poles, cut down a year previously, cut up into lengths of about 

 two feet. Having placed a portion of straw and some dry sticks on a few bricks 

 for a floor, 1 had the lengths of poplar placed in an erect position, and so as to 

 form a cone. After lighting the materials, I covered the entire over with turf 

 sods, allowing a few spaces for the escape of smoke. When the flame burst 



