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sonous qualities are owing to an alkaloid strychnia | 
its pois 
Thi i is contained arg » the Strychnos ~ pm 
self according to the usual plan, never could 
erat a | Others were 
cro: Tha t kid beans ve their pods better a | small pieces fe ae or bricks, but the latter not pao 
S. colubrina, S. Tieuté, a probably = e S. rs application of water oman while adie are in | to powder. I now find all those pots in which the brick- 
Toxifera and Gidnatedin eg rte them the vetb-petlin flower, I hos a convinced; y bear nearly dust was used in pore sin less infested wit! 
of Guiana is _deriv ed. The effects = iedacet are in all bundantly if no’ nose acd It is and the plants them i 
viz., irritation of the spinal chord, | r rising the ight to which temperature may at the time this was done, 
producing ont amidst prolonged seri paroxysms of carried without. inj while in flower; | but the results are most ee eee Whether the brick- 
convulsion: s, better un ders tood, p asthe w worst forms but with regard to question, Is a ist state of powder may have any other effect u the plants than 
of locked-jaw, ing the irritability of osphere of the house beneficial or injurious under | merely afford good i » is a question which I am 
Penang by means of nux-vomica, nner is one of | such cir time and experimen: alone not at prepared to answer ; itself is 
a — saint's as well as hopeless, modes of death | cide. Science of every description is yet only in its — of being gen erally known. , and therefore it is at 
I trust this is enough to show the danger attend- | infancy; and this is icularl psi: ei 
eon expressions who wish to follow up | to Horticulture. Nor can we with justice hope orexpect} The Scale Insect.—There being “such a diversity of 
the subject will find the f the sca details that it can be a while = nanos shall con- | ped as to the best mode of sales the scale insect 
‘ tison’s excellent trea on poisons.—H. B. nue to recei’ t the ms do, « Orange trees, &c., I mus tung you what occurred to 
Ha ., Dumfri while they hal some years back, when on 
Root-gr ing.—1 have been much please with Mi: eth not d b in t Pp ighty int the country. In the m sag th gard 
Beaton’s interesting ennaiebion on i paribesn fist and won po Sn * that Power th h d from the gree Javier a js -siz d Orange tree 
but I do not concur i opinion, that by grat atom, me controls the senregnas 9 of Nature.’’? To return | growing in a large square box. It was ‘literally covered 
ies on healthy roots an Ap aoe h hy should moisture be ne neces- | with the Coceus Hesperidum. All the usual remedies were 
constitutional peculiarity suits a particular soil, the trees | sary to the ni of (epee — or destroying them, but.in vain. I then re- 
from these grafted roots would besos. pi healthy. pana the ene er to water the whole tree with a 
My opinion is, that angie should be take u from the Cucumb f k mmon salt. To his great horror, all \ 
healthy tree and g rafted on the ith the exhibition of jarani the leaves period off in a very short time, and he con- 
growing in the pat 2 soil, but which hav: exhibi ted signs on by Mr. alls gardener to the Baro; aroness de | cluded the tree had been killed. A re weeks 
of decay, not from any defect in the caniien — r of | Rothschild, I 28 t foli nd 
the. 3008s, but whose organs of sec cretion, the glan ds and 
beau- 
February, 1840, of going and seeing the establishment; | tifully, since which -it has been i in the A asgpita health and 
<a up by the roots in a soil unsuitable to the’ variety. 
he XN 
d alth rfect ean was kindly re perfectly free aay vermin. Perha is accidental cir- 
a great 
Mr. Mills. At that time hi 
cumstance may b turned to some tana by practical 
nd ey q Phil, fili: 
Hence a reason that Quercus, by grafting t 
Codlin on the stock on which before the Ribston Pippin 
had been d me rion pan Succeeded in i obtain- 
being delighted with the manner in which pot were pro- ”. French Vines—1 re a fread at Versailles to visit the 
duced, I pone felt anxio ious t 
Potager du Roi, who learnt there that their best early 
he pi es = Chasselas Gra rape for foreing was a nt from rangpcal 
ealthy 
organs of the anx Codi nm producing a healthy sap 
from the food te} = this gett the Rib- 
do: 
pi it for Wer lights decetah which they h: bios 
feet deep, which was used | (setting badly). He piss = y wacccky contains : 30 apes, 
answered admirably. | which conceives to equal to about as many 
tested during one of the | Scotch acres. In addition to the very cold climate, it 
the particulars | is Piéce 
arch, I a a 
ston Pippin is growing in a thy state, and annually | measuring feet long by 5 
produces abundant crops of fine fruit ; the | ra sar during the summer of 1840, and 
20 to ‘ is likewise grow- | Since then its worth has been 
ing here, and exhibits no symptoms pr h y Pp 
nounced upon the elder varieties Apple. Ih 
doubt, may think to the aca caf that 
while man continues to propagate to p soil The 
adapted to their constitutional peculiarities, the ta varietic s 
of the Apple may be continued to an indefinite period.— 
James Falconer, Cheam. 
Ag Forest Trees -—I observe that much has been 
imme y 
the 29th | Suisse, that it is subject to bad fogs. Nei Fe Louis- 
poanione and the > or raised rtartate put out into | Philippe ad any of the Royal F. a have ever shown 
Orléans 5 
was wonderful to me, who 
progress they made | any taste f¢ for gardening, except the D uchesse d 
fore attempted but as 
ae Peeters: 
foi 0 at —— early a period. From the 14th of January it up.—K. [There i is an old variety of Sweetwater which 
to the 2! Sth February, both inca, T cut 21 fruit off sets badly, and it is doubtless the one cultivated at Paris 
three plants. 
£ ‘ ay 
nd well-gro - 
bers, some of which ue 17 inches i in length. I 
f a dif- | stated to "be subject to that defect. The sort generally 
wn Cu: cultivated in this country is the Dutch Variety, usually 
is is undecided, T ip to stein to all saiteneny that ae 
should w trees Ga ee anne ton’s pe and also 
by cnotwaley. 3 = oe that they should also 
leave. a tree unpruned arent pats “They w will thus see 
Then whatever i 
those ia "interested will be enabled t to elge which system is 
ding shoot oa found to exist and the 
if more than 
} 
y | 
| effort to cut in “January and February, out 
i The poi ation : the Moon on cag in T: 
out of a son of ‘ropical 
obliga tion to Mr. Mills, and with a a view to encourage Countries. — The T: Trumpet-tree, Mahoe Bark-tree, and 
= 
which has lately been published. “From the success of my moon is full; but when in the wane, the bark adheres 
rst pit I now have four filled with Cucumbers and | tenaciously to the trunk. The mies of the Cassava are 
Melons, all of which are = y 
have cut, during the past 
good ; out of one I | sometimes hard and stringy ; a others, succulent and 
eee the — The Sugar-cane has ‘more liquor and less sac. 
week, three 
shortest of which exceeded 26 inches long. ‘The early chari e matter at full moon than at any other time, and 
th YW x 
half thin t 
of toes selected nate oi if whe not heathy, it toad, oe 
° 
aspring in the 
above alluded to, are now about half-grown. — These cir- on Has it been explained ? “Tf so, where ? Has the 
J 
mstances account for the number of 
cui Juvenis, 
work in this part of the country, many of whom were Orchitduccous Plants.— Remarks suggested by Mr. 
morenjess of the forcing | detai led. The production of | Beaton’s paper on the cultivation of Orchidaceous plants 
fruit, however. 
an 
ular proportion or onien oe. ‘increasing ia in length 
é, Bi, 
ure in Vinerie. this Seaton.=— oes 
nected with Mils’s plan, but. thet which is important to | 1939:—* For I do not inclade Orchidaceous 
most persons is t aden ype a a. material. The 
ities which I before described were filled | of the generality of bulbs, that they (the Orchidaceous 
aarieeot nt tee 
Y tha aa Wi 
Mois: 
igs of making the ior following remark 
leading portion of the Calendar of ‘Operations for leet 
cei bes beon ated heer Barge to the Apes them,”” This is an important observation to those wha 
filed 
4 Pompe doubt but I shall conti 
with 
jain hae ie "marta he olen gro of nature, is sure to succeed. Pict caro 
perature 
idl =, by a little atte ea ane 
manure, 
sufficient heat therefrom until 
| whole amagesdactan that if ‘ The 
Mills’s system be followed with ordinary care and diligence, | time of Sates is “Cependent on, and ——— by, the 
@ | success 
1, z 
will be certain, and the expense of insuring the suspension — or} promotion of exciting ca uses, which is a 
as } * oll sh less 
plan hi hitherto developed to the public; ‘the quantity of | dependent on sblaetaharie ea dale dari ta 
depends on cer- 
pas 
fermenting material requisite comme wi bing nly the successful cultivation of Orchidaceze 
oe ag eget durability of the o 
Price Edwards, 
as Sompared the empiric tod aiventhbs etle Peace 
: thi Lk one te ord ep 
ord af sc 
