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HORTICULTURAL ITEMS, 

 spared from Foreign Journals for the Genesee Farmer. 



Ej. TnoMSON, in Lis book on the Cultivation of 

 Jrape-viue, says that there is uo necessity for 

 ng the borders so deep and so rich as some 

 cate, especially when it is easy to feed tie 

 with liquid manure at the seasons when it is 

 needed. The compost wliich lie prefers is a 

 calcareous loam, mixed with lime-rubbish, or 

 laster containing hair, wood-ashes, and pieces 

 oroughly-charred wood, fresh horse droppings, 

 ? broken to about an inch square, and some 

 •shavings, if they can be obtained. 



Belgique Hortioole says that M, BouonE 

 nade, in the Botanic Garden at Berlin, some 

 iments on different species of tropical Or- 

 I with a view of making them stand the open 

 He put them in a slieltered spot and gave 



no artificial heat from June till September, 

 intense green of their leaves, and the vigor 

 which they formed their pseudo-bulbs, showed 

 dvantage of this treatment. Some varieties 

 flowered. 



CORRESPONDENT of the London Journal of 

 culture, in speaking of "Lady Gardeners," 

 ons a visit that he paid to the garden of Mr. 

 OE Hallibdrton ("Sam Slick,") and says: 

 er do I remember to have seen bedding dono 

 11, or so clioice a collection of plants brought 

 ler in a place of so limited an extent." The 

 ! arrangement was in the hands of Mrs. Hal- 

 ton. 



the awards made at the May exhibition of 

 iiyal Botanic Society, Mr. Standish, of Bag- 

 received a first-class certificate for two new 

 ies of Japanese Clematis — one named C. 

 nia having several rows of white sepals 

 with lilac, and the other C. Florida Staud- 

 : deep violet variety of great merit. 



I Gardeners' Chronicle says that H. R. H. 

 e Alfred, having looked in upon the Botani- 

 arden, Edinburgh, took the opportunity of 

 ng a memorial tree. The kind selected was 

 fornian Conifer, called by Mr. Murray Abies 

 iana. It is the Hemlock Spruce of Oregon. 

 s London Florist has a colored plate of a new 

 lus, brought out by Mr. Bull. It is a cross 

 en Minnllus cupreus, introduced from Chili 

 r. VfiiTcn, and one of the common garden 

 ies. The flowers are bright orange, and well- 

 for green-house decorations. 



David Foulis, of Astoria, writes to the London 

 Cottage Gardener a short article on "New York 

 Florists and Flowers." He says "that although 

 many of the florists are thorough-going business 

 men, but not gardeners by profession as defined by 

 Loudon, still we have such men as Mr. Robert 

 Reid, who has often oflSciated as a judge of plants 

 at Cheswick in its palmiest days, Mr. Buohanast, a 

 skilful and successful hybridist, and Mr, Peter 

 Henderson, of Jersey City, whose practice of 

 growing fine saleable plants in the the smallest 

 possible pots I have never seen equalled." He also 

 says that boquets are arranged most artistically — 

 that he had never seen better even in Covent 

 Garden. 



Mr. Thomson thinks he has discovered a com- 

 position that will etfectually prevent the bleeding 

 of vines on the commencement of forcing, or when 

 pruned late in the season. He says that he hopes 

 soon to put it within the reach of all who may 

 wish to use it. 



A OOERESPONDENT of the Loudon Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, in describing some ornamental grounds, 

 speaks of a bed of "Petunia Inimitable pegged 

 down, lined Avith large white- blotched purple blos- 

 soms, as double as those of an Oleander, and much 

 larger." 



Mr. Isaac Buchanan, of New York, sent Mr. 

 Beaton, of the London Journal of Horticulture, 

 some seedling Petunias and Native Ferns. The 

 plants arrived safely, and were nearly all alive. 



Mr. Salter of the Versailles Nursery, Hammer- 

 smith, who is celebrated for his Chrysanthemums, is 

 producing a formidable rival to that flower in the 

 shape of a race of double Pyrithrums. 



The London Journal of Horticulture for May 

 has a long article on the cultivation of the Violet. 

 It is pleasant to see that this old, but charming 

 little flower, is not quite forgotten. 



A correspondent of the Cottage Gardener says 

 that Artemisia maritima forms an excellent cut- 

 leaved plant for bedding-out. The foliage turns 

 quite white when out of doors. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle says that green eyes 

 in roses are owing to "high culture counteracted 

 by the checks of cold nights, cutting winds, and a 

 long succession of hoar frosts." 



The London Gardeners' Chronicle says that at 

 the National Auricula Show, the leading prizes 

 were carried off by the Halifax growers— Mr. 

 Pohlman and Mr. Wilson. 



