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to save one pod of seed; but if I succeed in raising them, and find the plants 

 to be worth any thing, I shall have much pleasure in sending you a few. 



Feb. 18th, 1834. A Constant Reader and Subscriber. 



P.S. I am trying the plau of pouring milk (instead of water) on some Auri- 

 riculas, and shall soon be able to tell you how I succeed. 



On Destroying Slugs, &c. — I shall be much obliged by your opinion as 

 to the best mode of destroying Slugs in Carnation frames, without injury to 

 the plants. Owing to the mildness of the winter, Slugs have been more 

 numerous than I ever recollect them to have been. 



Near Bradford, Feb. \lth, 1834. An Old Carnation Grower. 



On the Culture of Agapanthus umbellatus. — Being aconstaut reader 

 of your most excellent Work, the Florieultural Cabinet, I shall feel much 

 obliged, if you, or any of your correspondents, will inform me through the 

 medium of its pages, the best method of keeping and treating that beautiful 

 plant, the Agapanthus umbellatus. Having purchased a fine young plant, I 

 was advised to re pot it into a larger pot, and to use two-thirds sand and one 

 of loam ; also to keep it well supplied with water, as it would live in water 

 alone. This I attended to, and it bloomed the first year, but not since; 

 which I apprehend is an improper method, as it has gone into three large 

 roots, besides many small ones I have taken away. The water, I conclude, 

 forces it into offsets and foliage. It being a plant 1 much admire, I should Lie 

 glad to kuow a proper treatment for it, also the compost. 



A Subscriber. 



ANSWERS. 



On Flowering the Double Pomegranate, &c — A Correspondent in 

 your February Number asks, Which is the best method ol producing flowers 

 of the Double Pomegranate? We have found, that so long as the tree is 

 pruned it will not blow ; but when permitted to grow wild, it yields the most 

 profuse bloom. From the 1st of June last summer, till November, our tree 

 was covered with blossoms, and we never had one while the knife was used. 



In a former Number, a Correspondent, I remember, asks, How the Gentia- 

 nella is made to blow well? I have found that profuse watering will have 

 that effect. 



And now, perhaps, some of your Correspondents will kindly tell me how 

 to make the Biguouia blow? B. E. 



On Destroying Ants. — Being from home some time, I had not the op 

 portunity of reading my December Number, in which 1 perceive a Query re- 

 specting Ants; and if you think my experiment likely to be of any utility, or 

 worthy of insertion, I shall feel very glad in having it in my power to tender 

 a trifle to so generous and valuable a Work. I have a large garden, two- 

 thirds of which is a kitchen garden, the other a flower garden. I had some 

 valuable apple trees in the larger one, from which, for three years, I could 

 obtain no fruit; the bloom was abundant, but as soon as it set, and got a 

 little size, it nearly all fell off; and on very strict observance one day, I per- 

 ceived the trees were all infested with thousands of Ants; and on speaking of 

 it to a clever old gentleman in gardening, he sa:d that tar was the only pre- 

 ventative to those insects, and that I must tar the trees about three or four 

 feet high from the ground. Accordingly, the next day, 1 had it attended to, 

 by having a pot of tar brought into the garden ; and an old paint brush ; fear- 

 ing this might injure the bark of the tree, I had a ring made of it quite round 

 the trees next the earth ; and when it was getting dry, had a ring pressed down 

 hard on the earth, close to the tree, which answered as well. I soon per 

 ceived the Ants would not touch it, the smell seemed to annoy them, for 

 scarce any was caught on it. The next thing was to destroy the insects; and 

 as I knew lime would kill small insects, I had a large tub of lime (finely sifted 

 with a hair sieve) brought and kept there; their haunts are easily traced, but 

 will require for the first time dressing, a man and a boy. Where there is a 

 great quantity of these marauders, they make their roads, and very frequently 



