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they form bad cuttings (or suckers) when the season of propagation 

 comes round. But if they are merely protected, and attended to as 

 already described, they grow slowly and make excellent cuttings. — ( Gard. 

 Chronick, 1843, p. 229.) 



Trealment of Achimenes longiflbra. — It does not start as early as the 

 old A coccinea, and it delights in a very coarse leaf mould, containing 

 large fragments of leaves. It should have a large and broad-mouthed 

 pot, drained by inserting another within it, and plenty of crocks around ; 

 very sandy leaf mould over the crocks, and coarser, with less sand above. 

 The bulbs should be planted fully an inch deep. — {Id. 1843, p. 174.) 



Guano. — The superintendent of the hardy department in the London 

 Horticultural Society's garden, reported that he had tried several experi- 

 ments with guano upon plants in pots. In loam, containing one fiftieth 

 part of guano, verbenas and salvias become luxuriant in about the same 

 degree as if potted in rotten dung. The same plants also flourished ex- 

 ceedingly in sand containing a similar portion of guano. The same 

 effect, or even a more beneficial action, was produced upon them when 

 peat was substituted for sand. But when rich garden soil was employed 

 with the same proportion of guano, the plants became languid and died. 

 It was therefore inferred, that the value of guano, as a manure, will de- 

 pend upon the soil with which it is employed, and that a quantity which 

 would be highly beneficial in poor soil, will become deleterious upon land 

 previously rich and well manured. — {Proceedings of Horticullural Socie- 

 ty, No. 17.) 



Salt as a Manure. — I can bear testimony to the beneficial effects of salt 

 as a manure, when judiciously employed. My garden, when I came to 

 it, was so infested with slugs, as to render it almost impossible to pre- 

 serve a vegetable from their ravages, more especially from those of a 

 large species, half as large as a man's thumb, provincially termed the 

 herring-back slug. By the advice of a neighbor, I procured a quantity 

 of salt, which I kept in a dry shed ; and when a quarter of land was 

 cleared of its crop, I sprinkled it all over with salt, and allowed it to re- 

 main for a day or two before it was dug in. I likewise, on moist eve- 

 nings, when the slugs were most active, went carefully over the garden 

 and gave it a slight sprinkling with salt, even amongst the growing crop. 

 This effectually destroyed those pests without injuring the vegetables, 

 and my garden is now comparatively free from them. The salt I use is 

 a coarse salt. — {Gardener''s Chronicle, 1843, p. 54.) 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



Prince Albert Peas. — At p. 98, we noticed this new variety of the pea 

 under our head of new vegetables. It was there stated that peas were 

 picked sufficiently large for the table in 42 days from the sowing of the 

 seed. We procured a quart of this new variety, and have tried it, and 

 find it to be the earliest pea known. A quantity sown the 22d of April, 



