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fed on them would soon sink under heavy agricultural 
respondent, by seeds or division of the roots. By seeds 
I er as follows :—I cut a _ A, zips ¢ the outer 
ma therefore it is in the power of every one to culti- 
> and hurserymen would do well 
labo 
Root-grafting —On ti she! lL w Leen" knife, iin has s the mination ; 3 | to b M. T. 
in the Gardeners’ Chronicle Ay he on I was 4 eee I ith water Snake Mitiipden —Ruricola, i in the fourth article on 
reminded of what I on ion ing e’s nu anal i cue in a frame or house wher i base batinndine by Entomology 
mersmith. Calling there on ing, I s which means cae will germinate in a few days. When | are dest In my garden they are very numerons, 
employed in cutting up wicees of Sates looked i ike “stick, they oo at gous veri ength of 4 or 5 inches, I lant and last spring they destroyed my early crops of French 
and on inquiry Mr. Lee told me they were er oe them nches 3 dee eet square, and 1} foot | Beans, by eating into the be Ri ni ah _ of its 
grafting the roots of pear trees, with a layer of gravel ‘about germination; not one bea sown 
swered perfectly well. I remember also to have heard that 3 » aa thick, and pa “illed i with rich loamy soil. | escaped. The Julus pulls w was a wae destructive: : 
in Greece they foot-graft all their vines, aan find this es- bow tub is then plu —_ in anoth . deca 6 i sores larger | in many of | the beans or five of these were found, 
pears By necessary for their success.—John Wedgwood, | every way, and kept filled with water, which must be re g th manner wire- 
add a few ra depend upon a strict attention to this. A light situation | portion of the hee They al eat 9) at the time of 
Praia Forest-trees.—I beg to 
ication on “the as. 
be dei ths rmer communi ct of forest o 
ber-tree pruning. 1. I am glad tos wy opinion con- 
sides fortified by the ob “cod es”) 
r Number of the eee — feet also 
should b86 Jpapeyt ne heat of 65° by night, rn gn 
ates 
he tenor who is ee to the Count of Thun in Bo- 
we | hema, informed me - oem pound a) had yaa a new 
ariety betw: een N.s 1; th 
and lut 
| germination ; and they ri Mg polite 
the w 
ough not so 
tho 
much as the wire-worm. About a mais since, | planted 
—o roots of beet-root of a je a for seed, oN 
y three wee ks, 
they did “not veantete, I pike grind and foun iin in 
each root, upon 
of Julus I have 
‘petaatenael: snc mischief, which h 
man) I could see by the o operations undertaken with the 
a after its publi cation. At that 
tey’s, ‘as far a as youn 
th Poni 
plantations were concerned; but having since had many 
soe 
Rehtful 4. 
e| th 
= 
in the ear vue. i ced t 
yellow x Kase with the points of cig peta 
more double than bt and ver: 
poe orig 2 
Is tipped with 
rose colou y fra 
This rapid perfection doe: 4 old 
I think I have sufficient evidence of the f 
any reasonable = reat apy Subscriber. 
, Roses. —In rep a Rose Amateur, p- 198, who i is 
‘act to co 
gran 
notion that two or three years pt 
years’ experience and observation, wen ions are con- | Nelumbia from seed. A gradual rest “hould be Tadussd oe the late severe winter, I beg leave to enumerate th 
siderably modi ified The code, idl late Nu mber, i is | towards autumn when the plants begin to die down, and as the R of those which have suffered in this naa es but 
3: th t 
subject ; yet the writer of nae whoever he is, does not | does not fall below 45°, takin ng Iam ha appy to say the loss is but triflin ng. 
'y sanguine in his vi he benefits of pruning. | moist. In the month of March this ~~ ee must be following varieties paap mgs ges foxy killed, voaied 
But I would observe, 3. That before apy system of | taken to pieces carefully, without damaging the roots o 44 maps and on their shared ti 
pruning is a adopted, tho: ose who undertake it show Id fee 1 crown of the plants, as the least injury at this season e, Viz.— Hybrid Perpetual Psyc’ d Queen Xiaade 
hey prove fatal to their well-doing, ani endanger pee Cen Rosea, Berberifolia Herdii, Banksia Yellow. 
ae to secure a desired end. Now the desired result | life. In planting, T place e the root in in. the middle of th 
vary in a great variety of ways, scoring to bers, ace ne ree eyes or buds, but are now bi very 
situation, K eye of trees, — ria ther for mere timber, eep the crown above the surface, and I earth it up as it Pa — Noisette — D'Espalis Jaune Dés- 
what wood, “ ether for r picturesque ofect, nealing in growth. ‘The leaves wi aay rely a "heght of pres, Seo arque 4 Beurre mellia rouge, Wells’s 
all thes: nd early uly the flower-stems 
Should bel well porte oss bert in any | proning operations | make their appearance in about three weeks after the | Castalie, La Fayette. o have suf- 
never be absent from the mind. I said that I was friendly flower fi th iy basta gy é Tucida, Duplex 
‘ timber” | which will be of preserving it in beauty for a Mari onida.— Miécrophylia; Coccinea, Hybrid Pourpre 
is the ultimata um, I woul er carry i Sips am what can | longer peri Abeer treatment will also be fi du L bourg, Rosea, Violet cramoisie.—Bourbon ; An- 
be done with the knife, ad “that only to give a direction pas By to oat ciated Nympheas.—Z. Yoscht, Chats- i hal Villars, Bengale rophylla.— Mudii- 
to the leading and to remove Ges that have any | worth Gardens. a; Alba, Diy "RO Gre ure, 
tendency to Stes. and at subsequent periods to clear quatics.—Since you gave a list of water-plants, I Davoust, Raub ra, Superba.— ; pa- 
dead. goal aera so that = have inquired for tad at several nurseries, R G the 4th (Rivers’s) Stand 
the dared be! = 
do 
® } 
ef by timely judicious ‘thinning. When 
the liv 
all else should sabsequentl be 
{ only be 
ald 
er be cut in so as to endanger its ity ant if it 
ust choose betwe een the = 
still of Gye nee 
to the par! “ng or other 
u | paper the 
eetevnag the phi. without doing any ir injury to. oa 
Can 
are to be purchased !— 
any of your correspond- 
K, [This can 
rds —Vingt-neuf Juillet. The above-named are 
aide and plants on their own roots. The Tea-sc er 
Roses, which are sgenealy considered the “most a 
ve always found Tobacco 
h 
if the house ~- not filled too <7 with cae 
plants : 
ed to reac the glass wit hout coming in c 
and i is a allow 
varietie: 
have suffered tively but litt! tle; it is rt 
tips of the shoots h have been Rey sta a Ido pee a blir 
out of all 
ties. The followiog is the ie ‘I rnin nee tie e 
frost set in, T caused some dry fern to be tied loosely 
d th the standards. Others I col- 
ape g an r 
unde 
& 
yin, 
Mex aye de ms anual ibe to be injured. b by f 
the smoke, | if not done cautiously. There ‘oa 
l ery thick, placing mats round them oad 
taliae “bet I find those protected with fern 
But wha’ 
kind of T 
Tobacconists, a appa ently made 
remar artable, ail 
my stock of standard and dw. ed Roses, which 
n the summer of 1840, ‘and consequently 
g ask, Did any body Gitte eg crease 
the pi eres, o or Never. I sili demand ; and this kind of paper will bei a a lesied off | were _budded in 
that a par sometimes be improved, wu: ace a plants, mithout killing | ——e of the Aphides. Itisofa a lighte: 
judicious x be : litele eat ; but 9 is quite ore colour Pee e@ genuine sort, and y, I have hardly lost 
matter. It must not be done Ala Pontey. But n, | by th ph being very "diferent. gn “should > lene to add ‘hey no Rigi. vivant, 
is one object kept ist uch out of sight i in all a Page dry when a house is fu umigated, b 
ese speculations,—that is, the quality of timber. The | be syringed till next morning. plants are syringe 
cheek mostly put forward is to o tain a _large bulk i ina immediately after fumigation, many | of | the Aphi ies wil shige ene Pansies Slices of Swedish b Turnip aid on 
short time. Now pp under them, fro: 
knows this: that take a tree—a Scotch pine for instance— | which any one may soon Bh ‘amigating a house. sdesnes they may be picked off in vast numbers. have 
d place it in paprika soil be trenched first, it will | —D. Cameron, Botanic B sacri = mingham. this ae Coppa ee a 50 of ps’ e bed, though the 
grow at a rapid rate, laying o coats of wood from __ Luminous Insecis. —In the observations made in the tarnip-sl nly Pp there sagen I mere 
} to 2 of _an inch thick, its lik t ha that in partin 
timber, of other kinds. 7 a = “eg haart insects in this country, no notice as far as I Pansies “ - the roots shouldbe well washed i in clean water.” 
ed prevent this, or - to Promote . that pruning is 
ave 
ingly advocated? I hav n Fife shire timber oft ‘the 
Seorch pine cut, th Vor- 
way or r Sweden, which I am certain never was touched by 
a Soi il 
Hair- 
| gist — - — — rang edsigation, 
bo th e 
ir-worm, or the yellow Centipede; I 
That they 
iy Soom very strongly on the us theo ory. 
Without absolutely denying that theory. f Pi sommes 
any Draping | instrament, and | grew on 
would live f heather or hard 
“ne can conitiie ‘Ory 
and ‘som etimes since, poked each _kind up, (oat = 
to my mind is one of the strongest rok against ie. 
r fifteen years 
of a 
wiry grass. Time, I fear, is essential to ll naman 
ve 
ey 
' Abutilon striatum. —As this seems like ly 
8*5' 
ch 
—. le 
of it ae ishing increase it, for t at purpose o ught to 
keep it in the it will there Piro 2a to Aang 3 
in the dull pie pre on ag nights of winter, and every tw 
Joints will be sufficient for a cutting, which will make ‘ 
ost 
the mselves were “toplaced ‘fom gs coverts 
bya the ene of the trees. I may add th: ei 
nature at sity times, or 
not only are 
a 
cutting may be made of “At, | and procee roceeded with as yea: 
rs fingers also, 
which 
ch to any 
dingly 
several pieces luminous, but the 
taminges appearance may be conveyed by tou 
her agi This brightaess however is excee 
ner last bantenna? T have now upwards of 150 plants in pots, 
and as many more rooted and ready to pot off. If kept in 
the the greenhouse patos winter, it will not move at all so 
Peale ything can be made of it—John Halliday, Elm- 
Checag o ene bE gee observe in the Chronicle 
of the i3th inst. your r made to a Aclogtar Seay 
who as that the m racthod of ter 
cashire as been use for some time 5 eit alge aces. 
nsects, | in m 
nity bet: 
from the difficulty of picking them up in the dark, are} ts 
peculiar to this country (North bibeaa in tyr 
a new field for consideration. Th ti se alam 
Asli 
er’s a at Dinton Hall, Bucks. 
safely 
rsonal observation, I can 
a universal favourite, as it is an 
to recommend it, being of the} 
Squari es. The oe of what I have glazed by this method 
is ‘small squares,” viz. 6in. by 3in., and Sin. by 2}in. 
mes May, Hope Oe Bedale. 
aaa —Ha 
Hardy “Aut, —Aponogeton distachyon, when better | 
t become 
aS 
: feccoryar gia 
of unhealthy 
a state that I have ct 7 my care, for many ara Oranges 
Lemons 
gtd 
eties, bat they are Ss ined ut, Siew, 
~ other diseases ; whereas the old at is is always eho 
m them...Is there not here 
tween thet piety and that soil? I could multiply simi- 
lar instanees to a great extent—J. Williams, Rectory, 
Lianfairynghornwy, Anglesey. 
Management of Orange and Lemon Trers.—t see in 
Ch ‘*M.” for the treat- 
and Lem 
ons. I beg leave to 
from se bud 
ae of avinery in tu 
a space 10 feet long, by7 i feet high, and hada a grea 
supply of water 
Tam pote aware 
under s 
a om aes 
ees nm ses eg ‘20 speci- 
wowed ieee ere is, as Tiss ioned by your cor- 
The Oranges 
made aes the same <p bar cy lage a 
they were of the “St. Michael” kind. The 
had used was loam from under large Oaks 
