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ture, if used sufficiently thick, so as to pass tiirough the rose of a common 

 garden syringe, and thrown over the entire collection once, twice, or 

 thrice a-year, as the case may be, will be sufficient to prevent that, 

 which is better than to cure. For this I am indebted to a gentleman of 

 Berlin ; and having tried it successfully for some years, I can with con- 

 fidence recommend it to others. This, in my opinion, confirms what 

 Homunculus says, viz. : " It is more eflTectual, more cheap, more clean, 

 and, to my mind, ten times more practicable than using it in a dry 

 state." — Joseph Goode. 



Melon Cactus, Cloth of Gold Rose, &c.— F., a subscriber, 

 will feel extremely obliged by some cultivator giving some instructions, 

 through the medium of this Magazine, for the treatment likely to pro- 

 duce flowers on tlie Melon Cactus. F. has two plants of it, a young 

 and old one ; both grow well, and look healthy, but never blossom : 

 difl^erent temperatures have been tried without success. With regard, 

 also, to the Cloth of Gold Rose, F. has been greatly disappointed, 

 having had a plant for three years growing vigoi-ously, but wiiich has 

 not produced a flower during tiiat time. Tiie aspect is a sheltered one, 

 soil shallow, and it is never pruned. Directions respecting it will 

 confer an especial favour. 



Striking the Orange, Lemon, and Citron, by Cuttings. — 

 My mode of increasing tiie Orange, Lemon, and Citron, for many years 

 with great success may be of service to some of your readers ; I there- 

 fore send it for insertion. It is from single eyes with a leaf attached 

 to it ; I immure the eye in the mould about half an inch deep, and they 

 begin to make roots very soon, sending up a strong shoot at the same 

 time. I have struck fifty to a hundred in a large sized pot, and scarce 

 one of them failed, and of course a plant on its own bottom is preferable 

 to a plant introduced on another stock. AYlien potted, they should be 

 watered liberally, and introduced into dung heat and shaded. I find 

 they strike most readily in a cucumber bed, the pots plunged to their 

 rims. The compost I generally use is rich loam and rotten dung, the 

 pots well drained, and about three inches of soot at the bottom of the 

 pot. — A Nobleman s Gardener. 



Watering Pot-plants in Winter. — An excess soon destroys 

 them. And if, on the other hand, yon allow the soil to be so dry that 

 the delicate parts of tlie roots cannot absorb inoisture from it, the proper 

 supply of food is witldield, and the plant suffers in proportion to the 

 time it is so treated, and soon dies. At each watering give sufficient 

 to moisten all tlie soil, and only give a repetition just before it would 

 arrive at a dry state. — Sarah Jane. 



Cinerarias. — The following treatment with these lovely flowering 

 plants succeeds most admirably. 



Plants now in three or four-inch (diameter) pots should immediately 

 be removed into five or six incli ones. Use free drainage, and iiave a 

 rich compost of good prepared turfy loam, oltl rotted cow-dung, with 

 a little of leaf mouhl and silver sand. When the plants push shoots 

 stop the leads; this will cause lateral ones to push: as they do, thin 

 away the weak ones, and leave four well-placed ones, and give them 

 every encouragement to promote vigour. When the pots become filled 



