2*78 ON A SUBSTITUTE FOB TEAT, AND GRAFTING FUCHSIAS. 



ARTICLE II. 



ON DESTROYING THE BROWN SCALE, AMERICAN BUG, &c. 



BY ELIZABETH. 



On reading the directions given in a recent number of the Cabinet, 

 that to cover over an infected plant or tree with a coating of liquid 

 mud I tried on some stove and greenhouse plants, as well as an 

 apple-tree in my garden, and I find it answer everything I could 

 wish. I found, whilst it soon suffocated the insects, it did not injure 

 the plants in the least. I had it washed off the plants in a fortnight 

 after applying it, and now they are flourishing finely. 



ARTICLE III. 



ON A SUBSTITUTE FOR PEAT, AND GRAFTING FUCHSIAS. 



BY SCOTDS. 



In answer to the query of Lincolnensis, in the Fi.okicultur.al 

 Cabinet for July, " Can any of your correspondents inform us if 

 there is any efficient substitute for peat?" I beg leave to refer him to 

 a pamphlet written by Mr. William M'Nab, the Superintendent of 

 the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, published by Thomas 

 Clarke, Edinburgh, in 1831, entitled " Hints on the Planting and 

 General Treatment of Hardy Evergreens," where he will have an 

 answer to liis query. Mr. M'Nab is one of the best practical 

 gardeners of the present day, and his opinions are entitled to full 

 confidence. I send you an extract from it: — " In many places pit 

 sand and vegetable mould, that is, the earth produced from the 

 deenved leaves of trees or other vegetable substnnces, or even rotted 

 hot-bed dung, with sand, will answer equally well, and can often be 

 got in abundance, where peat earth is scarce and expensive." He 

 says also, — " In good hazelly loam, without any mixture whatever, 

 Rhododendrons, Kalinins, &c, will grow and thrive perfectly." 



I formerly sent you a communication regarding the inarching 

 Fuchsia fulgens upon F. Riccartonia, by Mr. Mercer, at Craufurd 

 Priory Garden, in which he succeeded perfectly. I may now mention 

 that in the spring of this year I grafted two plants of it upon 

 F. Riccartonia, by the common method of whip-grafting, and that they 



