THE GENESEE FARJCER. 



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B Cottage Oardener has a notice by its editor, 

 BATON, of a book called Flower and Fruit 

 'ation, by T. 0. Marsh, published by Hamson 

 ON, which he says tells all the secrets of house 

 Jinner-table decoration, and gives clear di- 

 ms for acquiring the art to perfection. He 

 the most minute directions as to the best 

 to be used, and the arrangement of the 

 idation" for ornamental work. 



tfE. P. Oastlks writes to the London Florist 

 he strong condemnation which was expressed 

 ,t periodical, of M. Roberts' system of taking 

 irk from diseased trees in order to restore 

 to health, has not been confirmed by his prac- 



On the contrary, that he has succeeded in 

 ing to health fruit trees which were appa- 



utterly destroyed by rot and canker. 



CORRESPONDENT ot the Loudon Gardeners^ 

 dele recoKnmends the various varieties of the 

 oa (cabbage) tribe for winter gardens, as that 

 only way tliat color can be obtained until 

 les come, and grows quite enthusiastic over 

 vivid Magentas, mauve and rose of the Bari- 

 ' and the " living growing green of the Ger- 

 :ale." 



in article on raising celery, in the London 

 al of Horticulture, from a correspondent, it 

 to be of the first importance that it should 

 3 forced too rapidly at first, as if the seed 

 sed too much the plants will be hollow, and 

 >d to run to 



Malta Times says that many persons have 

 oisoned by milk in two of the principal ho- 

 Villetta, and that last year at the same time 

 ■ cases happened. It seems to be some 

 f herb which the cows and goats eat at that 



Beeton, in the Journal of Horticulture, de- 

 in article to the Magpie pansy, which he says 

 all others. It is an old variety, but has 

 eglected, and, like the Double Purple pansy, 

 coming into notice again. 



^'Abbe D. Duput, Secretary of the Horticul- 

 lociety of Gess, in a paper on the culture of 

 .SDberry, recommends the system, of which 

 tve the details in the Rural Annual for 



London Gardener''s Chronicle, in an article 

 ,es, advises planting on their own roots, at 

 me or two of the most valuable varieties, as 

 re much more hardy than when grafted. 



The Eevue Horticole has a notice by M. Nau- 

 DiN of three new plants brought from Japan. 

 First, the Libinum Auratum, concerning the 

 beauty of which all the the English papers are ra- 

 ving, then a Honey-suckle, which will only 

 succeed in a warm climate, and lastly, a very 

 showy Amaranth. 



The London Florist has a very beautiful colored 

 plate of a new rose, Andre Leroy d'Angers. It is 

 very large, and is a rich, dark crimsom. 



The Royal Horticultural Society received £5000 

 from their flower shows the past year. The larg- 

 est sum that they have ever taken. 



Fruit trees are now sent from San Francisco to 

 Vancouver's Island. 



A Cheap Croous Holder. — 

 A correspondent of the Cottage 

 Gardener makes a crocus holder 

 by hollowing out a turnip, leav- 

 ing about half an inch in thick- 

 ness all round, and taking care 

 not to injure the base leaves. 

 It is filled with soil, and the 

 crocus root planted, and the 

 turnip suspended by wires, as 

 shown in the engraving. The 

 moist soil starts the leaves of 

 the turnip, which turn upwards, 

 and grow in a short time so as 

 to completely hide the root. 

 It is simple, cheap, and very pretty. 



Cabbage Plants. — A farmer in this vicinity 

 adopts what is to us a novel way of raising early 

 cabbage plants. He takes an old hog trough in the 

 fall and fills it with soil, and puts on the top of a 

 fence, or any place that will be five or six feet 

 from the ground. Here it remains all winter. 

 The frost mellows the soil, and in the spring it will 

 be fit to " work" much earlier than the soil in the 

 garden. He sows the seed in the trough, and has 

 all the plants he wants, and some for his neighbors, 

 and earlier, we are told, than they can be raised in 

 any other way. A frost whicli will kill tender 

 plants on the surface of the ground does not 

 trouble those on the fence in tlie hog trough. 



Coal Tar. — The Journal de la Societe d^ Horti- 

 culture, says that M. Thenakd, lias tried coal tar, and 

 has found it a sure preventive of the ravages of 

 the beetle on cabbage and other plants; but great 

 caution must be observed in usinir it as only a very 

 little is required to efl-'ect the object, and an over 

 dose will kill the plants. 



