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a stock of plants, a few old roots should be placed in heat in Feb- 

 ruary ; take off the young shoots as they advance, and strike them 

 in a similar way to dahlias. They should afterwards have a shift, 

 and be kept in a frame till all danger of frost is over, when they 

 may be planted out as above. 



NOTES FOE AMATEUR GARDENEBS. 



[ASH for Fruit Trees. — The following mixture is used 

 in the gardens of the Horticultural Society in the form 

 of a paint, and is applied every spring to the bark of 

 everv hardy fruit tree : — Two parts tenacious clay, one 

 of lime, three-fourths of soot, soft soap, sulphur, and 

 Bize, the last to make it stick the better to the branches. 



Paint eor Iron "Work. — Mix two-thirds Stockholm tar with 

 one-third gas tar ; boil them together, and when thoroughly incor- 

 porated,- apply the mixture as hot as possible. If lime is added, it 

 Uardens and thickens this paint, but renders it much more difficult 

 to put on. 



How to Make and Use Liquid Manures.— For vines, peaches, 

 standard apple and other fruit trees, and for strong-growing edibles, 

 such as cucumbers, celery, cabbage, etc., use one part, by weight, of 

 cow-dung, with four parts of tepid water, or the collected drainage 

 of the cow-house or pigstye, diluted with a similar quantity of 

 water. Stove-plants, such as pines, forced vines, peaches, and mul- 

 berries, besides most flowering bulbs and shrubs, relish a liquid 

 manure made of soot, in the proportion of six quarts of soot to a 

 hogshead of water. The principal materials now used for liquid 

 manures are to be used in the following proportions for all ordinary 

 purposes : — Guano, dissolve fifty pounds weight in ten gallons of 

 water, and of this strong solution, add five ounces to ten gallons of 

 water for use ; sheep's dung, one peck to thirty gallons ; sulphate of 

 ammonia, a quarter of an ounce to every gallon. 



Composition for "Wounds on Roses, etc. — Take five-eighths 

 of black pitch, one-eighth rosin, one-eighth tallow, one-eighth bees'- 

 wax ; these should be mixed in a small pipkin, and dissolved over a 

 slow fire. Apply it to the wouuds with a brush, and it will heal 

 them, as well as prevent their dying back. — Jones's Gardener s 

 Receipt Book. 



How to Prepare Nails for Wall Trees. — They should be 

 of cast-iron. Before using them, make them red-hot, and then 

 throw them into cold linseed oil. This gives them a varnish which 

 preserves them from rusting, and prevents the mortar of the wall 

 sticking to them when they are drawn. — Jones's Gardener s Receipt 

 Book. 



Sibthoepea Efeopea. — An Old Subscriber. — You are probably keeping 

 your Sibtborpeatoo dry : it likes a peaty soil and plenty of moisture. Tbe natural 

 habitats of the plant are wet banks, the sides of springs, and the borders of 

 rivulets. 



