112 BUIEF REMARKS. 



of an inch thick), and, per pound, is the cheapest description of glass 

 manufactured, being sufficiently strong to resist any hailstorm. — 

 Northumbrian. 



Mignonette. — As the common Mignonette has ever been an especial 

 favourite on account of its sweetness, perhaps the following method of 

 inducing it to assume the character of a bush may not be uninterest- 

 ing : — Not later than the beginning of April, sow a few seeds in deep 

 pots, tilled with rich sandy loam ; place them in a melon-frame where 

 there is a good moist heat ; when they have made about four leaves, 

 pick out all but one strong plant in each pot ; as they grow, pinch off 

 all side shoots, taking care to leave a leaf at the bottom of each. When 

 the plants have attained the height of twelve inches they will show 

 their blossoms. The latter must be nipped off, and at the same time 

 the plants will require tying up to thin sticks with matting ; leave them 

 about a week longer in the melon-frame, taking care to pinch off all 

 side shoots ; then remove the plants to the greenhouse, where they will 

 have less water and plenty of air. In a short time they will again begin 

 to put out the top shoots ; but only one on each must be retained, 

 which must be led up the sticks, and all side shoots again pinched off. 

 By this time the plants will be about eight inches high ; the bloom 

 must be again cut off, and the plants still kept in the greenhouse. In 

 the autumn they will put out plenty of shoots from the top, and will 

 form handsome bushes, which will come into flower in the following 

 March. By cutting off the flowers occasionally for bouquets in the 

 spring they will send forth fresh shoots, and will continue to flower all 

 the summer. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



The Chrysanthemum a Spring Feower. — On April 12th some 

 flowers were sent to the Horticultural Society's meeting, and the person 

 who forwarded them remarks in the Gardeners' Chronicle that they 

 were treated as follows : — " Towards the end of the plants flowering 

 (last season), and when they began to throw up their new wood, instead 

 of turning them out into a cold frame, I quietly put them into the 

 stove, and there kept them up to the present time. Two plants were 

 only tried, but both succeeded. There is a peculiar look of hard dry 

 health about them, not easily described, but which is not seen in plants 

 bloomed in our damp autumns. There is not a dead leaf from top to 

 bottom ; and fresh bud blossoms and blooming wood are being thrown 

 up daily, as if the plant never would leave off. It always seemed odd 

 to me that the Chrysanthemum should be ten months, more or less, 

 preparing to flower. " — Mickleivell. 



Chinese Primroses. — Sow seed, in heat, as early as possible ; pot 

 the plants off as soon as large enough ; repot when required ; and such 

 plants will answer your wishes by blooming from August to the follow- 

 ing spring. 



Pimelea decussata. — (7b H., Cornwall.) — When the new shoots 

 are about half ripened, cut them off close under a joint, at about an 

 inch and a-half long ; dress off the lower half of the leaves, and insert 

 them deep in silver sand ; cover with a bell or small hand-glass. 

 Plunge them to the rim in some material in a striking-house, if you 

 have one. They do not at that period of summer require any bottom 



