258 BRIEF REMARKS. 



Van Bam Issart, light pink, with a deep crimson stripe, 

 very distinct. 



Lord John Russell, scarlet, white and violet feathered. 



Princess Sophia, light rose, crimson and white stripe. 



Wilhelminus, deep crimson-scarlet. 



Beeswing, orange.scarlet, white stripe. — An Ardent Admirer. 

 Chinese Primroses. — Plants that are to bloom through winter 

 should not be allowed to flower in autumn, pinch off all that appear 

 prior to the beginning of September. Guano water, given once or twice 

 a-week, greatly improves the size of the blossoms, and the coloured 

 ones become of much deeper hue. It is one of the most charming 

 winter flowering plants. 



Cape Jasmine. — Will any of your correspendents be kind enough 

 to inform me in what manner I ought to treat a plant of double Cape 

 Jasmine, which I purchased in Covent-Garden Market a short time 

 since, and which seems to require treatment it does not receive, as it 

 has lost its leaves, and looks in a very mournful condition. The person 

 of whom I bought it told me it would do in an ordinary sitting-room ; 

 but this I do not find to be the case. — Flora. 



To destroy the Wireworm. — A subscriber would be glad to 

 know the best method of destroying the wireworm, which has made 

 dreadful ravages among the Carnations in her garden. — [Several liquids 

 will kill the wireworm on being poured upon them ; but they would 

 destroy the plant too if poursd upon it. The wireworm is very 

 fond of carrot, turnip, or oil-cake ; and if slices of any of them or all 

 be just buried under the soil around the plant, the insect will be found 

 attached to or cased in the baits, and then are easily taken away and 

 destroyed. The baits should be examined morning and evening, and 

 again buried, &c. A short attention will soon extirpate the race. — 

 Editor.] 



Fleming's Salting Machine. — Observing remarks in recent Num- 

 bers of your Magazine on the use of the above-named machine upon 

 walks, I beg to state that I have had one in operation for the last 

 month, and have found it of the greatest utility. It is a most admirable 

 machine, and I am delighted with the satisfactory results upon about 

 five acres of gravel roads and walks. The cost of keeping the above 

 in a decent manner of cleanliness, per annum, has been upwards of 

 thirty pounds ; and I am confident that by using this machine, and 

 salting as directed, I can keep the five acres of roads and walks in the 

 best possible condition, free from moss or weeds, for less than ten pounds. 

 I beg to recommend it to all concerned. — A Midland County Noble- 

 man's Gardener. 



Anemones. — An article on this handsome tribe of flowers was in- 

 serted in the volume of your Magazine for 1850, but nothing was said 

 about the lovely single flowered, which are so interestingly beautiful as 

 border flowers. By sowing seeds in pots in February, and turning them 

 out entire as soon as strong enough into the borders, then a sowing in 

 the borders where I intend them to bloom in April, June, and the end of 

 August, I have a succession of bloom nine months out of the year. Those 



