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autumn, winter, and spring months : indeed, its value cannot be overrated. A 

 shilling packet of seed (which we had true from Messrs. Barr and Sugden), sown 

 in April, will produce plants which will fruit well from the following autumn. 



The seed readily vegetates in a cucumber-frame ; and, when the plants are 

 about an inch high, they should be potted singly in thumb-pots. When well 

 established, they should be shifted into 32-sized pots, in which they will fruit 

 abundantly. In the following spring, if larger plants are required, they may be 

 shifted into 24-sized pots, in which they will produce an immense number of 

 fruit, which is exceedingly useful for garnishing grapes and other fruits, and 

 also for mixing amongst cut flowers for vases. A few sprigs mixed amongst 

 white camellias, white primulas, and other flowers, for bouquets, give a most 

 enchanting appearance. 



The soil whicli the plants require is peat, with a little loam and sand, well 

 blended together ; and they may be grown either as standards, pyramids, or 

 bushes. A warm greenhouse or stove suits them best from October till March : 

 and, in the summer months, they will grow well in a cold pit or in the open air.^ 

 John Perkins^ in Cottage Gardener. 



A ZoNALE Pelargonium may now be seen in the garden of the city of Paris, 

 at Passy, which produces rose-colored and scarlet flowers in about equal propor- 

 tions on the same plant. The rose-colored are like Christine, and the others are 

 of a brilliant scarlet : there are some, too, which may be called intermediate, 

 being of a deep red. On several of the rose-colored trusses, there is -here and 

 there a solitary scarlet flower. The plant is a seedling of 1865 ; and the young 

 plants that are propagated from it maintain the same remarkable characteristics. 



We gladly insert the following article. The waste of fertilizing material is 

 very great ; and any one who aids in calling attention to the subject, and shows 

 how waste material may be utilized, is a public benefactor. 



Rubbish-Heaps. — I have generally two or three rubbish-heaps, which I 

 treat differently ; and much future labor as respects weeds would be avoided, 

 were they always kept distinct by the workmen. The first or regular rubbish- 

 heap, the never-failing help to the kitchen-garden and the rougher flower-bor- 

 ders, consists of the remains of all vegetables and plants that are useless for 

 other purposes, balls of temporary plants that are of no more use, weeds that 

 are seeding, and, from the lawn, short grass that is not needed for heating-pur- 

 poses or mixing with litter. By this time of the year, there are generally two 

 such heaps ; and much of their future utility depends on the mixing of their con- 

 stituents, and when, as in the case of much green grass being added, there is 

 considerable heating, on the covering all over with a coating of the most earthy 

 part, to keep, as much as possible, all gases from escaping. This can 

 scarcely be done in the additions that are made day by day, as there will be 

 baskets of this, and barrow-loads of that, thrown down in the easiest emptying- 

 place. If these heaps are near the working-sheds, all work connected with 

 them may well be done between the showers in such uncertain weather as that 



