,Q4 ON THE CULTURE OF ANNUAL FLOWERS 



similar directions, common-place enough, as every one knows, and 

 every one, tacitly at least, admits to be necessary to the completeness 

 of any portion of ground set apart for the purposes of recreation. 

 "Would it not help to the attainment of the desired object, if such 

 things were more frequently brought before our notice in our period- 

 icals ? and should we not be brought to consider it of as much im- 

 portance that our gardens evince high keeping, as that the plants 

 grown by us should be so many proofs of attentive culture, ample 

 directions for which it is mainly the praiseworthy object of our floral 

 and gardening publications to convey ? I would not by any means be 

 understood to intimate we should have less of these directions, but 

 with the increase of beautiful plants, and ample directions for their 

 culture, let us have increased attention paid to order, arrangement, and 

 keeping, so that their beauties may be displayed in the most advan- 

 tageous and interesting light. 



ON DESTROYING THE THRIP. 



BY AN AMATEUR. 



I HAD some Fuchsia plants very much attacked by this troublesome 

 pest, to which I applied the following as a remedy, and it fully answered. 



I put 20 gallons of soft M'ater into a tub, and about lialf a peck of 

 soot to it, stirring it up well onceaday for several days ; I then strained 

 off the water through a coarse clotli, into a deep tub, put into it about 

 half a peck of charcoal-dust, and a quarter of a peck of unslacked lime, 

 and one pound of soft-soap, these were stirred up together for several 

 successive days, and when in a clear state, I used it as follows : — 



The under side of the leaves of my Fuchsias were pestered with the 

 Thrips, I therefore dipped them overhead, and it completely destroyed 

 the insects, but did not in the least injure the tenderest portion of the 

 plants, either foliage or flowers. An application with the syringe 

 might have answered had they not been so enormously attacked, and 

 especially at the under side of the foliage. 



ON THE CULTURE, &c., OF ANNUAL FLOWERS IN 

 THE OPEN BORDER. 



BY A VERY EXTENSIVE GROWER. 



This lovely, and generally most beautiful tribe of flower-garden orna- 

 ments are of such universal service for the flower-garden, and so 

 deservedly esteemed for fragrance, diversity of form, beauty, and 

 variety of rich colouring properties, that are enhanced by the facility 

 with which they may be grown, and the speedy display they aflTord to 

 the cultivator, may be procured at a trifling cost, and require but little 

 attention, that I deem it quite imnecessary to preface my observations 

 by any apology for bringing the following remarks on their cultivation 

 to the notice of the readers of the Floricultuhal Cabinet. The 

 entire class are deserving of attention ; but a selection of the best is 



