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to, but insert them in the sand only. In fixing the cuttings therein, always 

 have it pressed closely round the stem, but be careful not to bruise it. Bell 

 glasses are essential iu the hard-wooded class. Gentle bottom heat is necessary. 

 A moist atmosphere, but not so extreme as to rot, is indispensable to success, 

 the cuttiug being for a season dependent for support on absorption" from the atmo- 

 sphere, &c. We cannot here go into a longer detail, but enough is said for 

 general purposes. An Article of all the minutiae shall be given in our next 

 number. — Conductor.] 



On preventing the Growth of Weeds and Moss on Walks. — I should 

 feel much obliged if you could inform me. through the Fi.oricultural Cabinet, 

 whether anything can be done to prevent the growth of weeds and moss on gravel 

 walks. I am now having some new ones formed, and am therefore anxious to 

 know. An Old Subscriber. 



[Unless the inclination of the ground be sufficient to allow the water to pass 

 off freely, a drain along the middle of the walk, and the substratum surface 

 sloping from each side of the walk to the drain. Cover ever the drain with 

 large stones or brickbats, &c, then, next, rough stone, brick, or gravel, over 

 them, free from any mixture of earth, &c. The surface of this constructed sub- 

 stratum in the walk, for the final gravel surface, must be filled up with a some- 

 what finer sort, till the surface gravel completes the whole, and even pebble 

 gravel being that of the surface. This being well rolled, and kept firm ami even, 

 is easily kept free from moss. A good sprinkling with salt, or salt water, will 

 readily destroy all that appears ; or if the surface be occasionally scrubbed with 

 a stift besom, &c, it will loosen it, and then be swept away, &c. Weeds of any 

 other class are easily destroyed by a strong application of salt. When the 

 surface of a walk is composed of gravel, it may be readily turned over, and made 

 even as before; this tends to its being kept free fiom the pest of weeds. 

 Where there is not the advantage of gravel, we have used a covering of rough 

 lime rubbish, four or six inches deep, in the substratum, rolling it even, and 

 when wet beating it smooth ; upon this we laid the surface coat of what we were 

 necessitated to use, as saud,&c. The lime kept the surface dry, and in summer 

 it usually destroyed, by the heat, any moss or weeds. — Conductor.] 



On TropjEolum fbntafhyllum. — Will this handsome and profuse-blooming 

 plant succeed it grown in the open air ? 



[Yes, perfectly well, if grown against a wall or trellis, in a warm situation, and 

 it deserves to be grown wherever it can. We have seen it bearing thousands of 

 blossoms trained to a trellis at the front of a dwelling-house. — Conductor.] 



On heading down Petunias in Autumn. — A Subscriber would feel much 

 obliged to the Conductor if he would inform her, through the medium of the 

 Flojuculturai. Cabinet, whether Petunias should be cut down in the autumn 

 after blooming. She had several grown to a great height ; they were cut to 

 within six or eight inches of the root, and now some of the plants appear in a 

 dying state. They have been in a cold pit, or the greenhouse, all winter. 



[When there are several young shoots near to the main stem, then the heads 

 may be cut down as low as where the shoots proceed from, and being taken up 

 with as much soil adhering to the roots as possible, potted, &c, they generally 

 succeed. If they can be placed where there is a little warmth for two or three 

 weeks, it contributes to an earlier establishment. The plants, when first potted, 

 should be well watered at the root, but afterwards, till they have pushed fibrous 

 roots, only as much as will just keep the soil moist. Water should, however, be 

 syringed over the foliage two or three times a-day.to aid iu sustaining the plant 

 till the routs derive benefit from the soil, &c. When the heads of the plants 

 grown in the open border are cut down, and there be no young shoots near the 

 origin, they seldom survive winter. The following method we have pursued in 

 some instances, and it has answered well. The number of old plants we require 

 to furnish stock lor the following year are headed down early in August. Tiny 



