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taining only to the height of four or six feet, and produces clusters 

 of upwartis of one hundred and fifty fruit. It may be made to pro- 

 duce its fruit with all the certainty of the pine-apple. It is propa- 

 gated hy suckers, when about a foot long. These should be taken 

 off, and i)Ut into pots, in a soil composed of two parts turfy loam, 

 with one part vegetable soil and well rotted manure from hot-beds, 

 and a small portion of sand: the pots should be plunged in a good 

 heat: when rooted, repot them into larger pots, as they require it, 

 until they are placed in a box, ai)out three feet square; in this they 

 will fruit. Keep them in a temperature of 55^ to 60" in the winter 

 months, and 75'^ to 90'^ in the summer. In eighteen months after 

 the suckers are planted, with good management, they will produce 

 a fine cluster of fruit. A house eight feet high is sufficiently lofty 

 to grow this species. — Id. 



Brick ruhhish a good Manure for Strawberries. — A writer in the 

 Gardener^s Chronicle states, that from the circumstance of his hav- 

 ing seen a luxuriant growth of grass on a piece of land where brick 

 kilns had stood eight or ten years before, he was induced to try the 

 experiment in his own garden. Accordingly, he selected an old bed 

 of Keen's Seedling strawberry, which had l)ecn planted out about 

 six years, and the land was nearly worn out. The ground was dug 

 up between the rows, and- the spaces filled four or five inches thick 

 with brick rubbish, (without a particle of manure,) during the win- 

 ter. The luxuriance and fertility of the plants was remarkable. 

 The soil was a strong loam upon a wet clay subsoil. — Id. 



Easy method of propagating the Pink. — In a late number of the 

 Gardener's Chronicle, we find the following plan of cultivating the 

 pink, by Mr- Mearns. We recommend it to the notice of our read- 

 ers who are partial to this fragrant and beautiful flower. 



The method which 1 have adoiKed in the |MO|)asation of the pink, 

 bids fair to render it much more abundantly cultivated than it has 

 hitherto been. The usual method required too much time and at- 

 tention, and consequently made it an ex[)ensivc process to get a fair 

 stock for the ensuing season; and after all the time and labor in 

 trimming, covering with hand-glasses, and the attention paid to 

 shade them from the powerful mid-day sun, it too frequently hap- 

 pened, that, from a quarter of an hour's neglect, whilst the merid- 

 ian sun d;iris his powerful rays upon the glasses, without the inter- 

 vention of shade, the whole have been destroyed. When I came to 

 lay out the Zoological Gardens at this place, all my men were mere- 

 ly excavators, and therefore not to be trusted to shade hand-glasses, 

 if I had possessed any, and I had no time to bestow on such work 

 myself. Yet I was very anxious, amongst my other propagations, 

 to get an abundance of my favorite flower, the pink, as easily as I 

 j)ossibIy could; I therefore procured as many cuttings as I desired, 

 among the gentlemen and gardeners around, and took the chance of 

 propjigating them in the open ground, as the only means at that 

 time in my power. I had many years been aware that shortening, 

 or any way cropping, the grass of the pink, previously to putting it 

 in to strike, was a bad plan; it likewise suggested itself to me, that 

 (something after my principle of coiling the vine) if I doubled up 

 the lower end of each slip, it would undoubtedly facilitate the 



