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of one guinea ; his *Heido and *Sunset, a guinea and a-lialf, and 

 *Isabella, one guinea. Stewart's Clara, at two guineas, was a nice 

 high-coloured flower, but did not get into the large cultivation its 

 merits deserved, perhaps from the raiser not being sufficiently known. 

 Mary Queen of Scots and Princess Olga were each raised and 

 sent out by Mr. Gaines, at two guineas. Mr. Garth's flowers were 

 Coup de Soleil, Emperor, Hercules, Mars, Sultan, and 

 Negress, each two guineas ; the latter has proved itself one of the 

 most popular exhibition flowers, being stout, of good habit, and a free 

 bloomer. Eureka and Queen of Trumps, though priced at three 

 guineas, were not of so much importance as Mr. Garth's other flowers. 

 Mr. Catleugh had a pair this season, Agrippina, at two guineas, and 

 Rachael-Scperb, one guinea, the latter being a silvery-white with 

 nicely-blotched plum-violet upper petals. 



BRIEF REMARKS. 



Striking Cuttings of Stove and Greenhouse Plants in Burnt 

 Clay. — Three years ago I was advised to try this kind of material ; 

 and having done so with the greatest success, I can most confidently 

 recommend it to the readers of your Magazine. My collection com- 

 prises nearly all the best of stove and greenhouse plants. Burnt clay 

 possesses the property of absorbing ammonia from the atmosphere, 

 which affords a constant and regular stimulus to the cuttings, and 

 enables them very quickly to send out the radical fibres. I strike a 

 great number of the cuttings from single eyes ; that is, cut it through 

 horizontally close under the bud, leave the leaf entire, and cut off the 

 fhoot about an inch above the bud. I plunge the pots one-third deep 

 in a slight tan-bed. I do not lose five in a hundred cuttings so treated. 

 — A Country Curate. 



On the Wire-worm. — Having seen many inquiries respecting the 

 manner in which the wire-worm might be destroyed, induces me to send 

 you my method of treatment for their destruction. For nearly two or 

 three seasons I had nearly all my Dahlia plants destroyed by those 

 destructive pests, the wire-worm. After having tried various experi- 

 ments, that of burnt earth succeeded entirely to my satisfaction, not 

 having a plant the following season injured. Thinking this might 

 prove beneficial to numbers of your readers, if you think it worth 

 insertion it is at your service. The burnt earth may be made by burn- 

 ing the refuse of the garden in dry weather. 



Botanic Garden, Vienna. — We are informed that a fine specimen 

 of Paulownia imperial is now in flower here. The tree is about thirty 

 feet high, and has at least four hundred flower spikes, upon each of 

 which can be counted from fifteen to forty flowers. It is truly a mag- 

 nificent object. If we could succeed to get a large tree to flower in 

 England, this fine plant would redeem its character. The flowers 

 quite perfume the surrounding neighbourhood. At Vienna, during 

 the winter of 1849-50, the specimen which is now in flower endured a 

 cold of 24° Reaumur, or 20° below zero of Fahrenheit. Last winter 



