oOG General Jfolices. 



I have been repotting and examining several hundred plants within 

 the last few weeks. In potting the same plants last year, a great 

 number of them were drained with old bricks pounded to powder, 

 having, of course, a piece of flat pot over the holes, and some rough 

 peat upon the top of the drainage. Others were drained in a more 

 common way, that is, with small pieces of pots or bricks, but the lat- 

 ter not reduced to powder. I now find all those pots in which the 

 brick dust was used, in better order, less infested with worms, and 

 the plants themselves more vigorous and healthy. No experiment 

 was thought of at the time this was done, but the results are most 

 satisfactory. — (Gard. Chron.) [Nothing is of more importance in 

 the growth of plants in pots, than proper drainage: it is the key to 

 all successful cultivation. We have found, in our extensive prac- 

 tice, that plants potted in the manner first above named, that is, with 

 fine bricks, (using those of a soft character,) on those coarser, and a 

 jtiece of broken pot over the hole, thrive much better than those 

 only partially drained. There is no one thing, in potting plants, 

 which should receive more attention than the drainage. — Ed.'] 



Fuchsia fulgens, as well as many of its hybrids, is easily forced, 

 and may be had in flower at all seasons of the year. — (Gard. Chron.) 

 [We have a plant of this fine species, which is now in flower. 

 From its habit, we should think it well adapted for forcing. When 

 well grown, the plants are su])erb objects. Mr. Tidd, gardener to 

 S. Sweetser, Fulton village, Woburn, has had great success in his 

 cultivation of the plants, and has promised us an article on their 

 management. — Ed.] 



Late flowering Carnations. — When it is desirable to have late 

 flowering beds of carnations, the plants should be propagated in 

 April. Neither knife nor dibber is required either in preparing the 

 cuttings, or pricking them out where they are to strike, nor any arti- 

 ficial heat, further than placing a hand-glass over them when pricked 

 out. Having fixed upon the stem from which you mean to draw the 

 piping, take the former in your left hand, and the top of the latter, 

 with four or more leaves, between the two first fingers and thumb of 

 your right, making a gentle, steady pull; the stem will give way at 

 the place most suitable for making roots. Then, in a south border, 

 where a })lace has been j)repared for their reception, removing the 

 surface equal to the area of the opening of the hand-glasses destined 

 to cover the cuttings, to the depth of six inches, and filled with pure 

 sand, neatly leveled, but not pressed with the spade or other instru- 

 ment, the cuttings may be inserted, the sand settled with a gentle 

 watering, and the hand light put over them. Treated in this way, 

 one may safely calculate upon nine tenths of them taking root. 

 Plants so obtained, will flower till winter sets in. — (Gard. Chron.) 



Transplanting Trees in summer. — It has been doubted by many, 

 that trees transplanted in the summer season, especially those of 

 any size, could be made to survive. Whether it is advisable to make 

 a practice of ])erforniing such operations at that season, is another 

 question: but yet, there may be occasions when, from various caus- 

 es, it may be advisable to remove a tree in the summer, rather than 

 to cut it down. We well recollect, in our younger days, of transplant- 

 ing four peach trees in the month of June, when in full leaf, and, 



