232 General JVolices. 



will bloom about the middle of June, and the seeds will begin to 

 ripen in the beginning of August, when, if it is required, the bulb 

 should be taken up: but it must be observed that when they are re- 

 moved, they seldom flourish well the ensuing season, and therefore 

 should not be replanted more than once in five or six years. When 

 the bulbs are taken up, they should he placed in dry sand for about 

 a month, and afterwards planted in the manner before mentioned. 

 Seeds of irises should be sown in drills, in September, in liirht sandy 

 soil; they will come up the following spring; but the bulbs should 

 remain for two or three years before they are removed. The Per- 

 sian iris is tender, but they are pretty plants to bloom in the parlor, 

 treated as follows: — Plant the roots in October, in pots filled with a 

 mixture of either sandy loam, well drained, and leaf mould, or 

 sandy peat and well rotted dung, and set ihem in some dry pit [pro- 

 tected from frost,] where they may remain all winter, and be taken 

 into the parlor as they are wanted to flower. 'I'hey may also re- 

 main in the pit till the latter part of March or beginning of Afu-il, 

 and then turned out into beds, where they form a gay ornament dur- 

 ing April and May. Take up the roots in August, and pot them 

 asain in October, and give them the same treatment as above. {Id., 

 1842, p. 113.) 



Floioer beds on Laions. — Many of our correspondents are desirous 

 of knowing what plants are best adapted for a circular or oval bed 

 upon a lawn. Through the kindness of a friend, we are enabled to 

 furnish them with a list of some which have the most ornamental 

 effect when arranged in the following manner: — In the centre of the 

 bed, a patch of the purple i^hlox paniculata should be planted, 

 around which should succeed a circle of the white variety of the 

 same parent. Then follows a range of Calliopsis tinctoria; after 

 which may come one of Pentstemon genlianotdes, and P. genuanoi- 

 des coccineum, but most of the latter. Next, a plant of Phlox 

 omniflora, surrounded by one of the tallest jiiuk sorts of verhena 

 [V. Eyrea/ia,] then another of the dwarfer kinds of scarlet verbena, 

 the outside of the whole bed being planted with LohkMa azurea [or 

 Clintonza pulchella.] In this list, the tallest plants are planted ia 

 the centre, and they are so arranged as to form a pleasing contrast, 

 whilst the brilliancy of colors j)ossessed by some, and the length of 

 time they will continue in flower, renders them a striking ornament 

 until destroyed by the autumnal frosts. {Id., 1842, p. 236.) 



[To those who wish to form circular beds of annuals, we might 

 substitute the following, in the same order as they occur above: — 

 first, a circle of African marigold; second, one of JV/alope grandi- 

 flora; third, Calliopsis tinctoria; fourth, Eiitoca viscida; fifth, jPhlox 

 Drummondu; seventh, ii^rysiinum Peioftsky<m(/ni; eighth, ^lyssum 

 maritinia; and ninth, finishing with a circle of Nemophila insignis 

 and Nolana atriiilicilolia, mixt together. — Ed.^ 



To stop the bleeding ofvi7ies. — Take one fourth of calcined oyster 

 shells, beaten to fine powder in a mortar, and three fourths of cheese 

 worked together, until they form a sort of paste. After pruning, 

 press this mixture into the pores of the wood, either with the thumb 

 or any other means, and it will effectually stop the flow of sap: some- 

 times a repetition may be necessary. {Id., 1842, p. 206.) 



