328 General Notices, 



are planted and treated till they are thro->vn out into tlie forest again, -which, 

 if I am rightly informed, is not under forty years from the time they are first 

 enclosed.—! Gard, Jour., 1850, p. 229.) 



Stocks for Conifer^.— As regards tlie most suitable stocks for Conif- 

 enae, it may be obsei-ved, that they are most successfully raised from seed. It 

 is not advisable to take young plants from a collection for this purpose, be- 

 cause tliey do not accommodate tliemselves to pot culture so well as plants 

 obtained fix>m seeds. Good healthy seeds of the following species, should 

 be procured for the purpose of raising plants to be kept as stocks : — Arau- 

 caria imbricata ; the different species of Pinus ; Thuja orientalis and occi- 

 dentalis ; Juniperus virginiana ; Podocarpus elongatus ; Taxus ; Cuprcssus ; 

 Taxodium distichum; and Dacrydium spicatum, or Podocarpus spicatas. 

 Such plants will be found most suitable for those engaged in the propaga- 

 tion of Coniferse. The seeds should be sown in February, m wooden boxes 

 •of convenient size, and three or four inches in deptli. The soil most suita- 

 ble for sowing them in is sandy peat, mixed with a fourth part of loam. The 

 boxes should be well drained ; and, after the seeds are sown, placed in a 

 temperate greenhouse. As soon as the seedlings appear, the boxes must be 

 removed near tlie glass, in order to give the plants plenty of light before the 

 first leaves appear. The young plants should be taken out and potted in 

 two-inch pots, using a sandy peat soil, but no loam. This treatment is pref- 

 erable to allowing the plants to grow large in the box and then shifting 

 them into pots ; as when they arc taken out of the box very young, with 

 only one or two roots, they are less liable to be injured, and tliey soon adapt 

 themselves to their new situation. When the seedlings have been potted, 

 they should be removed to a cool frame, and placed on a bed of ashes or 

 gravel, but quite near the glass. They will require to be shaded during 

 bright sunny weather, and care must be taken never to allow them to be- 

 come either too dry or too wet. The frame must be kept rather close till 

 the end of M&y or the beginning of June, according to the state of the 

 weather, when tlie lights may be taken off. As soon as very rainy and 

 frosty weather sets in, the liglits must be put on again, to remain on all the 

 winter. Very little shelter will be necessary, except during severe frosts. 

 Air must be admitted to the plants on all favorable occasions. In spring 

 they will require to be shifted into four-inch pots ; and, if properly attended 

 to, diey will be ready to graft upon by the autumn. — [Id., 1850, p. 230.) 



Grape Rust. — The folloAving statement may tend to strengthen one of 

 the many suggestions already pointed out with regard to this malady to 

 which the grape is so liable ; and, as my case is so clearly proven to liave 

 proceeded from the effects of sulphur, my remarks may be the means of pro- 

 tecting some good vme borders from condemnation. Two seasons ago the 

 leaves of my early vines were attacked with red spider, in consequence of 

 which I was obliged to use sulphur for its destruction. I applied a little at 

 short intervals, which did, in some measure, keep under that pest. I ob- 

 served, however, that some of the berries were inclined to rust. I gave the 

 border the merit of this, being, as I thought, too wet. In the foUov.dng sea- 



