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GRAFTING WAX. 



The component parts of this useful and indispensable ar- 

 ticle in grafting, &c., is an equal part of bees-wax, rosin, 

 and tallow, with sufficient tar to make it soft and pliable 

 when heated over a fire. It may be laid on with a brush 

 quite thick (blood warm) ; and before baking dry, should be 

 sprinkled over with sand to render it impenetrable to the 

 weather, otherwise it would be of little use. If intended to 

 be worked with the hand, it should be made to the consist- 

 ence of putty, by adding more wax ; this also should be 

 nsed before cold. 



GARDEN PINK. 



(DIANTHUS HORTENSIS.) 



" - ' ' the wild Pink crowns the garden wall, 

 And with the flowers are intermingled stones, 

 Sparry and bright, rough scattering of the hills." 



This indispensable variety of flowering plants of late has 

 been taken under the care of the florist, and has been much 

 improved by art. It is an herbaceous perennial, flowering 

 in June ; the stem branching, flowers solitary and termi- 

 nal ; the scales of the calyx ovate and short, the leaves chan- 

 nelled and glaucous. There are many doubts whether this 



