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ferent parts of the country what sorts are best adapted to our climate. A cer- 

 tificate was awarded for the Calceolaria. — From Mr. Piper, gardener to A.Ward, 

 Esq., was an exceedingly well-grown plant of the Calceolaria Lady Constable, 

 covered with flowers, and three Schizanthus retusus. A certificate was awarded 

 for the Calceolaria. — Mr. Couway, of Brompton, sent a plant of his Cactus 

 called Conway's Giant, a kind distinguished for the large size of the flowers, 

 and for the bright red colour which they possess. — From Mr. Jackson, of 

 Kingston, were Ononis rotundifolia, an Epidendrum from Guatemala, and two 

 plants of Comarostaphylis, a nearly hardy Mexican shrub closely related to 

 Arbutus. In the fruiting season it is covered with pretty dark purple berries, 

 which give the plant a remarkable appearance. — From the garden of the Society 

 were Stanhopea oculata, remarkable for its strong odour. Cypripedium barba- 

 tum, the useful Epidendrum gladiatum, a fine Brassia guttata, three Begonias, 

 a <n>od Erica intermedia, and several well-grown Cinerarias, L together with 

 Glossocomia ovata, a hardy Indian herbaceous plant, producing pretty pale- 

 coloured bell-shaped flowers, which are elevated on long stalks above the 

 foliage. Along with these was the Persian annual Cochlearia acaulis, a species 

 of stemless Scurvy-grass, which forms little green patches closely studded with 

 small pale starlike flowers. — Finally, a Hyacinth bulb was produced which had 

 been grown in water, and which had had the base all rotted away. On the de- 

 cayed part being removed, however, and the bulb placed under circumstances 

 favourable to vegetation, nearly all the remaining portions of the scales pro- 

 duced young bulbs ; thus showing with what facility such things may be in- 

 creased by any part of the scales, even when the portion from which the young 

 bulbs usually grow has been removed. 



Dkainage for Pots. — I am but a novice and amateur ; yet little as my expe- 

 rience is, 1 have found in it the incalculable good effects of perfect drainage, 

 and have long used a material that I have not anywhere seen noticed, although 

 amongst the wise men of the profession it may be quite familiar — that of using 

 the lound cinder that falls from steam-engine furnace-fires. It is clean and 

 half vitrified, and agrees with the health of plants. I first place a few crocks to 

 keep the hole free, then one or two inches of these ashes, then a little Moss, 

 and, lastly, the lumpy soil, &c. ; by which I effect hi a superior way all that is 

 needed. The advantage that the plan possesses is, that no worms will "go 

 through these ashes, and they make a most perfect drainage. — Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. 



On Lucui.ia qratissiiia. — In a former Number of the Cabinet, in 1844, I 

 observed a valuable article inserted on the culture of the Luculia gratissima, but 

 as there are many persons who have not the means at command to grow it in a 

 conservatory, &c, I beg to remark that by the following attention I grow it 

 admirably in a pot. I find it is a point specially to be attended to, not to stimu- 

 late it to grow in spring and the early part of summer, as it is not naturally 

 inclined to do. I keep my plants in the greenhouse till about the middle of 

 June, then plant them out balls entire in the open border, in a situation that 

 is warm, but shaded from mid-day sun. I take them up again, keeping all the 

 small fibrous roots I can uninjured, the first week in September, putting them 

 into additional sized pots, and place them in a vinery and plant-stove of mode- 

 rate temperature ; they grow strongly and soon produce heads for bloomiug, 

 which display their beauty and fragrance nearly through winter. 



Hants. Senex. 



On 'Wireworm. — To destroy this pest most effectually : — Towards the end of 

 last year, when my Carnations and other plants had all been removed from my 

 flower-beds, and previous to the latter being turned up for exposure to the winter 

 frosts, I took sulphuric acid, in the proportion of one gallon to twenty of water, 

 and applied the mixture plentifully to the soil. In two days I again repeated 

 the operation, having previously turned up the soil and seen that it had been 

 well pulverized. After the lapse of ten or fourteen days I gave a plentiful appli- 



