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lose a great number of my seedlings when they are coming into flower, and con- 

 sequently too dwarfish and shrubby to be injured by the most gusty weather. 



Besides this, a plant attacked by the grub dies in a day or two without (at least 

 as tar as I or any of my neighbours are aware) any remedy, whilst the only 

 injury the wind can do is the breaking off a few long shoots, which generally, 

 instead of being fatal to the plant, improves it. 



Trusting you will forgive me for trespassing so far on your time, 



k. w. 



On destroying the Wire-Worm. — Will some correspondent favour me by 

 information if there is any remedy known for destroying the wire-worm ? Will 

 essence or spirits of tar do it ? It' so, how is it to be applied, and in what quan- 

 tity ? Will it injure vegetation ? 



Glasgow. Carnation. 



On Campanula Grandis. — A subscriber will be much obliged to be informe 

 if the above Campanula is yet sold in the nurseries, and at what price per plant ; 

 also if it is too late to obtain one to succeed. The favour of a reply in May 

 Number will much oblige. 



[Can be had at 2k each, be sent by post, and will bloom well this season. — 

 Conductor.] 



On Lobelia Cyanea. — A subscriber will be glad to know the price per plant 

 of the Lobelia Cyanea, and if it is a dark blue ; it is named in the list of Lobelias 

 offered by the Editor of the Cabinet. 



[It is a beautiful sky-blue. — Conductor.] 



REMARKS. 

 LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



April 4. — A communication from Captain Dwyer, commandant of the island 

 of Ascension, was read, containing an account of the success or failure of various 

 kinds of European vegetables, seeds of which had been transmitted to the island. 

 From this it appears that the island is subjected to what are there called 

 " blackwiuds," which prove destructive to Haricots, several kinds of Lettuces, 

 and all the taller sorts of Peas ; of the latter, two dwarf kinds, viz. Pois nain de 

 Hollande, and Nain vert petit, stood the climate well, with the Versailles, 

 Sugar, and Alphage Cos Lettuce, Batavian Endive, Portuguese Cabbage, and 

 Vegetable Marrow. Amongst annual flowering plants it is remarkable that 

 those which succeed best are such as have been introduced from the north-west 

 pints of America or from other comparatively cool climates, comprising Nemo- 

 phila irisignis and atomaria, Lupimis Hartwegii, polyphyllus, and grandifulius, 

 Erysimum Perovskianum, and Campanula Lorei. A paper, accompanied by a 

 model, was also read from Mr. T. Torbrou, of Knightsuridge, relative to a new 

 method of arranging the sashes in forcing and other houses, so that when air is 

 given the ii^ht may not be intercepted by one sash overlaying the other. To 

 effect this, it is proposed allowing the roof to be fifteen feel wide, that the two 

 lower sashes should each be six feet long, and the upper sash three feet ; and 

 that the rafters should be continued lor a short space at the same angle over the 

 back wall of the house; in giving air, the lowermost sash will slide downwards, 

 the middle one will either remain stationary or move up or down as may be 

 required, and the upper one will, by means of a pulley attached to the back wall, 

 be drawn upwards along the projecting rafters; or, by having the sash secured 

 at the back by hinges, it may be raised vertically by iron rods to any desired 

 height. From Mr. Goode, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, was a collection of 

 plants, containing an exceedingly beautiful specimen of Erica transparens ; Den- 

 tlrobium densiflorum, bearing two dense racemes of gorgeous yellow and orange 

 flowers ; Jasminum ligustriiolium, trained to flat trellis, and covered with sweet- 

 scented white star-like blossoms ; yEschynuuthus maculatus, forming a dark 



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