32 Domestic J^otices. 



rubber! on a grating, the same as is used for beet root, and the seeds, 

 which produce an e-ccellent oil, are l<ept separ;Ue. One pound of 

 oil is obtained from five pounds of seed. The jii'ce is obtained from 

 th« grated puinpltins in the same manner as from boet root. M. 

 HofFiuan olitained from an indifferent press, ei^rhty-lvvo pounds of 

 juice, containiuz a proportion of sugar of from 3^ to 10° according 

 to B.iuuce. The juice is far preferable to that of beet root, because 

 it does not so soon lose its virtue, but remains good twenty-four 

 hours. It is purified and cleaned by the same process as beet sugar. 

 The pumpkins should be cut up in pieces before they are grated. 



This discovery may be of some importance to the agriculture of 

 this country. In the West, where such immense cro[)s of pump- 

 kins may be produced, it will prove more profitable for cuitivalion 

 than the sugar beet. — Ed. 



Four new species of the Gdrrya have been discovered by Mr. 

 Hartney, in Mexico, and plants have been raised of one of them, 

 in the garden of the London Horticultural Societj', Dried speci- 

 mens have been sent to London, of the whole four, from which they 

 have been described by Mr. Bentham, secretary to the Society. Mr. 

 Hartwig has also sent to England seven species of IVIe.'.'ican oaks, 

 figured in Humboldt and Bonpland's work, Plantce JEquinocLiales, 

 and in the Arboretum Brilannicum, Vol. IV"., and also two species 

 not yet figured. His discoveries will be of great value, and furnish 

 many fine trees, which will probably endure the climate of England, 

 and thus increase the interest of arboretums. He has also sent home 

 several new and splendid plants; among the number, a brilliant ja- 

 cobEBa lily. — Id. 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



Russell'ia. juncea. — This truly beautiful plant hag been introduced 

 four or five years, but we have never yet seen a good specimen of it 

 in bloom. It is capable of being made one of the most splendid ob- 

 jects our green-houses aflTord. Mr. Paxton remarks, in a late num- 

 ber of his Magazine of Botany, that it is not often seen in full per- 

 fection in English jiardens, and attributes it to a want of proper 

 knowledge of its cultivation. It requires a light, rich soil, (heath 

 earth ami light loam,) plenty of pot room, and a liberal supjily of 

 water durin? its growing season, and it will throw out its long, de- 

 I)ending, leafless shoots, wliich will be wreathed with its elegant tu- 

 bular l)lossoms. We ho|)e some of our amateur cultivators, who 

 have the leisure, will try and grow the plants to greater perfection 

 than has yet been attained in our gardens. — Id. 



Destruction of worms in flower pots. — I have read with much in- 

 terest the various articles (editorial especially,) in your journal, and 

 I feel convinced that you have done much, very much, towards ere- 



