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Exhibition in Paris, to which botanists of all nations shall be invited. The Con- 

 gress will open on the 26th of July next, and will last for a month. Meetings 

 will be held every Friday evening at the society's rooms, 84, Rue Crenelle St. 

 Germain. On other days during the period, visits will be made to the Exhibi- 

 tion, to the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, and to private collections ; and 

 excursions will be made in the neighborhood of Paris. 



Ground between Strawberry-Plants. — The ground between the plants, 

 made hard by treading, may be pointed over with a fork to the depth of a couple 

 of inches, but not more : for strawberries like a tirm soil ; and hoeinj: or dissins: 

 the surface deeply is to be avoided, as it injures the roots. 



This should be done as soon as the fruit is off, that the runners may root 

 more readily. 



Liquid Manures. — Urine diluted with five or six waters, or house-sewage, 

 Avhich is better, as including the drainage from sinks and water-closets, is excel- 

 lent for flower-beds, and especially for roses, and may be applied all the period 

 of growth from early spring to late autumn. Soot, properly diluted, may be simi- 

 larly applied. Guano is as good for the purpose as house-sewage, but not bet- 

 ter. Bone-dust is good, pointed into the surface of the soil. Sheeps' dung 

 makes good liquid manure, but is not so powerful as either house-sewage or 

 guano. If the sinks and water-closets all communicate with the liquid manure 

 well, it will need no diluting ; at least, we never mix with it any water. In con- 

 clusion, we will add the expression of our conviction, that, for the generality of 

 soils and crops, there is no liquid manure equal to house-sewage. For potted 

 plants, especially if soft-wooded, we use it much weakened with water, and not 

 oftener than once a week. A knowledge of the soil, and of the plant and its 

 health, is needed before any one can say what manure will probably be the most 

 suitable. 



LiLiUM GIGANTEUM. — A friend in Newark, N.J., writes under date Novem- 

 ber, 1866, "I had a plant of Lilium gigantetim in flower beautifully last sum- 

 mer, that had been out in the open ground the two previous winters. I have 

 not heard of one flowering in the open ground before. It is well shaded, the 

 sun only reaching it the very first thing in the morning. It had fifteen flowers, 

 and was eleven feet hiirh." 



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Salt for Asparagus-Beds. — Salt should be applied twice a year : that is, 

 when the beds are dressed in spring, give them a dressing of a pound and a half 

 of salt per square yard, or twenty-four pounds to a bed thirty feet by five feet, 

 and repeat the application at the end of the cutting, or about the middle of June : 

 one pound per yard will be ample. Weeds will easily be kept under by this 

 means, as few of our most noxious weeds thrive in a salt soil. 



Celtis occidentalis {Sugarberry, or Hackberry). — Can any nursery-man 

 furnish trees of this beautiful species ? It is one of our finest native trees, in 



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