88 BRIEF REMARKS. 



quarter of decayed leaves. This mixture I lay in the compost yard for 

 use. The Hydrangeas I bloom in a sixteenth-sized pot; I divest the 

 roots of the old mould. From those plants I intend to produce blue 

 flowers, I cut off the long fibrous roots, reducing the ball to the size of 

 a thirty-two sized pot. I take one ounce of oil of vitriol, and, with a 

 quill or strong feather, I touch the roots of two plants all over. The 

 remaining oil of vitriol I mix with a sufficient quantity of mould to 

 put two plants. When I have potted them, I place them in ashed or 

 some sheltered situation for three or four weeks, until they have made 

 new roots ; then I place them in a forcing-house, and take especial 

 care not to let them droop for want of water. The above method I 

 have practised with success for upwards of twenty years. The flowers 

 are equally as large as those that are pink, and of a fine blue. — 

 Senex. 



Propagation of Cafe Heaths. — In reading over the January 

 Is umber, I was much satisfied on seeing how to grow this lovely class 

 of plants, and I should be additionally obliged by a few remarks on 

 their propagation, and the Epacris too. Last August 1 tried to strike 

 some cuttings in a bark-bed, under bell-glasses, but without desired 

 success, having only raised one or two. 



I am desirous to know the entire routine as to their increase by 

 cuttings, &c. Will pounded free-stone do to insert them in? — (No.) 

 "What is silver-sand, which I see some cultivators recommend? — (The 

 white sharp sand usually sold at the shops.) — An Admirer. 



Potting Plants. — The season is now approaching when greenhouse 

 plants, &c, commence growth, and require in most cases to be re- 

 potted. If any of the soil looks black and wet, and the pot feels more 

 than usually heavy, there is something wrong. There is a soil which 

 is good for almost every kind of greenhouse plant: loam, with the 

 turf rotted in it, decayed cow-dung, leaf-mould, peat-earth, chopped 

 small, or rubbed through a very coarse sieve, and road sand, equal 

 quantities of each ; it will do for everything. If Heaths are grown, 

 then treble the quantity of peat-earth, and not alter the others, so that 

 it would be one of each of the others and three of peat-earth, instead 

 of one all round. 



In moving a plant from one pot to another take care that the plant 

 be not sunk in the least more in the new pot than it was in the old 

 one, and see that the compost, well mixed up, is made to go down 

 nicely all round the ball of roots, &c. — A Practitioner. 



Jasmixcm nudiflorum. — The flowers appear before the leaves. 

 The end of the five-parted corolla is nearly the size of a shilling when 

 fully open. Of a bright yellow colour. It is perfectly hardy; and 

 blooms against a wall, this season, as early as February. In-doors it 

 will bloom all winter, by introducing the plants in succession. 



Dialytra spectabilis.' — This very beautiful Fumaria-like flowering 

 plant, with its large gracefully pendant rosy pink flowers, makes a most 

 charming plant for the bed in a flower-garden. I tried it last summer 

 v. ith perfect success ; it ought to be in every one. I had good plants 

 put out the first week in May. — A Country Curate, Somerset. 



Clotu of Gold Rose. — In order to induce this very superb rose 



