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worth g rowing, I should not have selected it | growth in spring, „they should be placed 3 р pots. 
hey flower 
EE oth z 
т. subject of an article ; 
and I do so now more for > 
0 recommending А. ап to giv 
es 9 peg 
2 however, opera ment to some 
ars i» add the plant to their асоб (and there 
are few plant houses in which table plac 
Mandevilla 
worth while t 
It is v ey suitable for E Ld at least I 
not; for except the two first plants I 
x » e iie never . to grow it in this manner. 
nvinced, however, from success which 
a vith those, that it 88 
Ene and the M ente ind beauty o 
ffort to obtain them 
M 
ine its culture in pots, 
O B mS 
n 
I Twould t treat it as follows ; — although the display of 
ed | d 
r 8 
ute W | 
e for the | to 
v ve be ftn SE I have thought it - 
t 
had | ho 
Dwarf plan flow 
* reason As I 
re better than tall ones, 
t is, 
e makes but little show. F. Symons, acie 
ondent, Mr. Biddul а Tbe 
P 
owever, e 
e time named b 
generally em ae yed 
sock 
e good strong a pla 
ys k closely, leaving but one a 
t season's growth; then place them 
house where the n sed temperature might ideni. ‘pont 
50°, and eet the plants started into active growth, I 
Effects o 
would give a mode erate shift, and stop the shoots once 
. When | du 
f 
t of i good sized ires n necessary, 
which mue be a ьа a at once, and t 
tied over 
r 
en so UE T 
attempt — ivating it 
Rh. di in 55 
8 — univ 
obse 
e | Fagus 
Lucas, Bre 
Lollies р. 216). — Permit me to info 
A.“ that de: of Turnip are the best possible 
decoys for these pests ; they will congregate abo 
n hundreds. A bucket of boiling wa i 
Мш to give the whole 72 
as low as 19° Fahr. None 
have ha ad any Ar ced protect 
ersally 
sere is 
3 Quer 
stc * of shoots ; 
ntarctica, 
and insigni sb 
tribehar d; y including: adpressa, j Nd and pyramidalis; 
Escallonia ntha has not suffere much as E. 
bra, and is db 
us 
urifera ; 
macro маиб з are uninjured; 
doctors in NN ү let fall upon et at the 
time when I was doing all in 
cause | k 
and Hot-water лада (see p. 229).—In order 
g Ih 
ut them wit 
y ; | test sheer helping 
fou 
wn, but alive and | spo 
my power to them 
se, 
be 
"58. with E fi 
7 UR the amoun 
D. Corehouse, Lanark, tthe 
estion are » unusually fit 
odars.— Your — on the 
^ 
iL 
[= 
ag 
er wd bene of four 
t that in a 
ll be ready for 
ore becomes desirable previously to 
rom ^» 1 of those 
il is best suited for their growth. 
i ile to send you one 
this problem, and before 
, may be able to confirm prese 
r years are over, nt 
| observations or correct them. — аў localities in 
ndy and 
e planted Deodars—B a sa 
t lime; and — a lime 
the surface soil, add to it 1 quart of water, 
a small portion add hydrochloric acid. Ifit 
f lime im proporti pim the greater 
atifo 
hat Leycesteria formosa 
themselves here, and 
. Pentstemon cordifolius has 
know whether it will 
Hafodunos,—— The pl 
severely from the late frost here 
Juniperus _Bedfordiana, i 
fall killed 
osa ; 
a, and pheenicea ; - 
e gróvm will find the 
the soil I would also 
mmend for its pot bile 
wor ther in pots or turned out in the conservatory 
er, the soil sh ther dry after flowering, 
and till it may be —.— to iet th 
May not have Mal ed the desired size, and 
fi cm ould be given to keep the border in a healthy 
prs . during wing a! ring seasons. 
ud and thus afford 
ady extent, Alpha 
vein 
family, after, ven in 
and the foliage ces before, going out of of flower itg - 8 
Shits it c iage turns yellowish. mediate house 
oe dil ibis — t; к манас ине М, 
е best situation to grow it i = and it сек 
to flower. noved to a house of f nearly the ва mperature | 
Sand in Cutti f it placed in light в soil - aver 
they ^ Bentle bottom-heat root freely. n as 
Sie eon гона ат happen in the — or a 
much better mper singly in small pots, or which is 
both cases whe I ж me a аи — Iv 
3 winter but io чнч let 2 — 
hen they begin to make acti 
over-dry. 
border composed | be 
active | 
d 
Taxodium ; Berberis dealbata, Fortuni, and Jamiesoni. 
Eseallonia has lost — folin age ; Cupressus 
ыа and Lam- 
Pt home 
f pre- 
ds X4 Pines! Will 
oved 
silex), a a "the E ghee may be nearly ascer 
this ner, 
or less 8 of carbonic acid ; ; agitate the mixture 
whi bottl tumbler, the sand will be 
ns first ; the 
€ or 
st: and by repeated 
A few weeks ago I tested some soil | which 
1 walked 28 ei he farmer, i — — called dead 
To the eye loam, but I was not 
prepared А: Me the ка of the district being limostotié 
hat it contained no li me, h ined it in the 
posed of lime and clay. your readers 
studied La oil, and remedio 1 T hope they will 
n report 
ry much ; scarcely one ha: escaped unhurt, ex favour in your Paper. Thomas C. 
Hollies and the common Firs ; even the Ferns aud Pow p eie 
urze have been affe by the frosts in February; in| Changi nging Ke Nam mes of dar at mote oy d for 
exposed places the latter has the appearance o * Pyrus,” the course of reasoning he has pursu n his 
been scorched. Is ot probable that the rain and last, and 80 in all his —— cations, o 
mild weather in the early of the winter may have against himself and not against me. If he — Dr. 
rendered these ore succulent than us Die ork, as an au , › for the errors 
rs, May it not be fairly 
presumed that those exotics which hav thi 
winter enti 
our aces. evergreens ? the 
W. L. Price. 
3 Heat 
such as 
my drawing- 
Dee an 
0 ойто , fie either | principl 
Disi ax di кын. If I did, Vies dees he Tid i iti 
—the pit into which the 
the 
worthy Be fell. Again, И he n Е E ame in 
the north for Dumelow's * Normanton 
Wonder” and, if its popular nd. <s ум the —— are 
e а n hy 
to 
popular of the thre 
as tha 
sexing only, с the correct опе, оп ће 
will obli by saying whether it is best done by hot | sa me о а I use * Golden Winter Pear- 
air fi agas stove or from hot water c ulating in ттт bens it — the correet one. This very 
pipes heated by B what they consider the | poor ing o he jan of “Pyrus,” and shows 
expence per week in win coals. | ho be to have reo to 
An Old Subscriber, Manchester. such positions. When 1 spoke of fruit trees in 
Softening t Ski —As — по po no allusion culti ^ua 
nstruetions sufficiently — have = учин is be met with at under 
your , „ hesita 8 
write a few lines on the subject. I say — — 
I still feel the effect of the venom which our grave closet 
the pri 
v, to ene of Mr. Ingram. I did not even say pred 
about the system as it is there — my obser- 
| vations were confined to the 
remarks of Pyrus and his 
