44 DISCO VEKY OF PROCESS TO rBESERVE FLOWERS. 



and sand under glasses ; they will quickly strike root, and in a month 

 will be fit for potting ; the composition should consist of equal parts of 

 rotten dung, leaf-mould, and loam. Plants raised this way from cut- 

 tings will flower well the first year, when those raised from seed will 

 not blossom till the second year. In raising from seed it should be sown 

 as soon as ripe, and placed in the green-house ; the plants will be fit 

 for potting in the spring. 



DISCOVERY OF PROCESS TO PRESERVE FLOWERS. 



Among the recent scientific discoveries, we are informed that Dr. 

 Fascale, a chemist at Westeras, in Sweden, has announced to the 

 Academy of Sciences at Stockholm his discovery of a process for pre- 

 serving flowers in their natural condition. He sent, it is stated, some 

 Roses which he assures the Academy were prepared by him in 1844. 



CLEMATIS SIEBOLDII (Bicolor). 



BY AN EXHIBITOR. 



Although this beautiful flowering plant will grow tolerably freely in 

 the open air in this countrj^, yet when it blooms they are comparatively 

 small, and nearly entirely white ; but when grown in a warm pit frame, 

 the green-house, or conservatory, the flowers are much larger, have a 

 delicate tint of sulphur over the white and the almost black centre, 

 producing a handsome contrast, and rendering it very ornamental. It 

 does equally well trained against a pillar, trellis, or grown in a pot and 

 coiled round a wire framework. I have had 360 flowers upon a plant 

 at one time. My mode of treating is the following. The plant always 

 flourishes best when raised from layers, or cuttings, not grafted upon 

 the root of another kind. 



In December I pot, or re-pot, the plant, giving it a liberal drainage, 

 over which is laid some pieces of chopped turf. The plant is divested 

 of its former soil, the roots are coiled around the sides of the pots, and 

 as the compost is filled in they are spread in the compost around the 

 sides ; when completed I prune in the branches to about 8 or 10 eyes, 

 and place it in warmth for a week or 10 days, then remove it to a cool 

 pit, till the end of March, when I place it in the green-house, giving it 

 a frequent syringing, &c., and the vigour and beauty it displays is 

 much beyond what I have seen in any other plant. 



SLUG GUARD. 



To repel the attacks of slugs and snails on plants, it is stated in 

 Johnson s Gardeners' Almanac that Mr. Sharp, of Winchester gas- 

 works, employs a simple and effectual remedy by encircling the rim of 

 each pot with a piece of horse-hair rope, partially cut across its strands. 

 The bristles start forward and present a chevaux-de-frieze which 

 neither slugs nor snails can surmount. It is very durable, may be used 

 to protect any plant, and is rather ornamental. 



