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mixed with the rakings of the borders, mowing of the lawns, refuse vege- 

 tables, in short, with litter of all sorts ; and then well saturate the heap 

 with gas water. The result of this practice this year was, and continues 

 still to be, as follows: — My bed was under a southeast wall, and divided 

 equally between Keen's Seedlings and the British Queen ; the length is 

 one hundred feet, the breadth nine feet. I begun to gather most excel- 

 lent fruit on the 23d of May, and on that day picked a quart of Keen's 

 Seedlings, and from that time to this, (June 2G,) I have gathered more 

 than two and a half bushels, the Seedlings being nearly exhausted, but 

 the Queens promising a more lengthy duration. I have to add, that they 

 have, notwithstanding the dryness of the season, been watered but three 

 times, but then they were deluged ; and that every week I regularly took 

 off the runners. The fruit of both sorts was the finest I ever saw, and 

 that not by culled samples, but universally over the beds. These were 

 planted runners last year, and put in, the first week in July. [lb. p. 429.) 



The Deodar, or Himalayan Cedar, {Cedrits Deoda^ra.) — Its botanical 

 range extends from seven thousand to twelve thousand feet above the 

 level of the sea; and in its most congenial locality attains a great height, 

 and a circumference of above thirty feet. When young it closely re- 

 sembles the real cedar, but never sends forth spreading branches. The 

 cone resembles tliat of the cedar, and is preceded by a catkin of a bright 

 yellow color; so that the tree, when in full blossom, appears covered with 

 a rich mantle of gold. These catkins are loaded with a golden dust, 

 which the wind shakes from the branches in such quantities, that the 

 ground for a considerable distance about the tree, becomes, as it were, 

 sheeted with gold. So durable is its timber, that some used in the build- 

 ing of one of the wooden bridges over the Jailum, Avas found little de- 

 cayed after exposure to the weather for above four hundred years. — 

 [Thornton's Gazetteer of India.) 



Rose Budding. — I strongly recommend all amateurs who are desirous 

 of avoiding disappointment in budding roses, to leave a small piece of 

 the wood, as a protection to the bud when cut from the branch. By 

 adopting this plan, I have succeeded in propagating all descriptions of 

 roses, even in the driest weather, both late and early in the season. I 

 always use white worsted, instead of bass, for tying up, which I find an- 

 swers much better ; it keeps the parts more closely together, and they 

 unite in a shorter time. A very small portion of the wood is sufficient to 

 preserve the root of the buds. My stock on which I operate is the Ben- 

 galensis, free and rapid in its growth. The common Boursault also makes 

 a good stock and is easily struck. [Gard. Chron. 1844.) 



The third Jlowering of the Paulownia Imperialis. — The father of all the 

 Paulownias, which have now been distributed in such numbers through 

 the gardens of Europe, has just flowered, for the third time, in the Garden 

 of Plants, at Paris; one hundred and fifty terminal bunches, bearing each 

 twenty to thirty flowers, make the tree appear like a single bouquet of a 

 light blue color, having the most charming effect. The peduncles are 

 from fifteen to sixteen inches long, [licvite Horticole.) 



JVote upon a way of Grafting so as to accelerate Bearing, by M. Lecoq, 

 Gardener to the Royal Society of Horticidture. — People are surprised that 

 fruit trees are not so frequently raised from seeds as they ought to be. 

 There is no doubt that the scarcity of attempts of this kind is to be attrib- 

 uted to the great lapse of time that is required to judge of the result. 



