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excessive sxcessive heat. „The other parts s of the plant are without porwr freely supplied mith water at _ root, and | period when poeabiy $ they may escape spring frosts al- 
any virtue eceived the same attention as before regard | toget ether. E aoran 
In the Persian drug, as brought from Caucasus in the ahia down Sas onia with ted view of ela the) Phormium Tenax or New Zealand Flar.—This is 
form 0 vl = which are a yet owe all these | growth. The her being now warm the lights ges evidently a very hiy plant, and I we been info 
parts mbined. It should be observed that the | entirely beta of on bright hot forenoons; but they | by persons who have lived in New Zealand that it grows 
fleas ra bugs s submitted to “the German a ms were | were replaced early in the afternoon after syringing, | there in different positions, the er en of the 
a eg ram but immediately ran my If a quantity of | thus maintaining a moist growing atmosphere at night | plant’s — depending upon the 
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them, however, are placed in a glass and dusted pie and whenever it could be done, taking care at the same | the parti locality in which "it may EA gf oe 
the powder , they ini aina saon on their backs time not to allow the plant to get “drawn.” The | I have a plant of it oS gig deat in shone whi 
cannot move from the spot, though they still move their buds broke me. À under this treatment, and strong | bloomed and ripen i 
legs cen the glass is shaken. M. J.B. peri jointed eve were produced. In July it bloomed | three seasons. In 1855 i nic E p one flower stem 
e nd time, when it had no sargat than 92 flower |10 feet long; in 1856 i roduced 10 flower stems — 
CHEAP VINERIES FOR LATE GRAPES. spikes on it oe eae time. It was again taken into| averaging the same pani oo in 1857, this past 
espondent * neron ” says, “ Essex is ver and when its ates, had decayed it | season, it has produ seven flower stems of the same 
Your correspo anii TET y ih y ania the same kind of treatment it had after the | length. The reason the plant ee not been so produc- 
Paes t blooming. The o only difference observ ed this time | tive of bloom and seed this season is simply because it 
hile growing with r liquid manure, | has been ill used, and deductions have been made from 
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which was rendered necessary t the pot having | it for the purposes of propagation. The particular posi- 
these 1 gro n BOE ory grapes gror coe Ore ted become full of roots, and the so’ en om. Man tion of this plant is moist and exposed, with a western 
of my neig tejet Kii tnai kn sak a Ae rid -i ENE matter of course the lights » were not removed when | aspect. e soil isa stiff, hungry, brown loam, a foot 
pa O $ jep TEE Be > p o teal. the weather below the level of a public road, running north and 
and has 8 aes Ta Be peg i the plant produced 156 heads of bloom, | south within 10 feet of it, which renders it wet and 
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fural district is, I think, “not pe BE big? Ms ned on which made the third time it had flowered in one year. | cold ; pence Oh boldness of my assertion that this plant 
sae The soil pinata was rich fibry pea loam in |i is hardy. argued, and with much reason, tha 
hitch it Bhi g Museadi about equal proportions, well mixed Mars rset gritty the Chanel Telands or Jersey are not E “armen but I 
Sit Big ETO TEE ag PH vg a slight. prm of bone may, from my experience in this attled assert 
tsa ants prow Sm rapidly that | that a climate much less genial to ve roe would suit 
cept pt eoad vay large specimens a required, old | this robust plant. 8 feet in 
lecith are not worth wintering. With a little skill pos he and we sometimes strip them off and make use 
Ea aes rse | however, this Justicia might be had in flower nea i 
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vba Vigneron” > in condemning. the w the whole year round. Surely so useful a plant is w TO pel von g. If these leaves are kept for two or three 
atlas expenses often incurred in making Vine attention i 
borders, when good re soil is all that is required—i by st cop i they 
such a case the more manure the fewer Grapes. ive ici t à 5 
seen a little of Grape growing these ‘ast few years, and Home car meen rg ne p dai Na ant bit aw =e ‘mp sy gent 
i differ from “Vigneron” in believing that in the| Bulbs produced by old bulb-scales. —Two ladies, rela- : 
south of England it is safe to attempt to grow Grapes tives of mine, on their return from a tour through the 
every year without making some oe ae saa a little | south of Europe i in the year 1856, remained for a few days | sexe pyctis z. oa 
artificial heat or protection. It is however wanted n me | an E thick that the plants: d ell. wi 
in autumn to ripen the Grapes, ie 5 spring 40 rpreventt | ¢ - the ladies had-a- book ith black sheets of paper and: 1. de not, think that, the ee 7 4 Ses yal We 
a ee ea pecimens of various dried | stationary, . Should you wish to have it tried by some 
of Devon and Cornwall it may be othe: The|in the various countries through which she passed; |}, appy to send you a at Of the scod I have — 
zmount of artificial heat sufficient to nea late frosts out | amongst those matters her courier brought her a very | 5o successful in savi ati : 
is exceedingly small and very inexpens beautiful bulb or rae Onion (in appearance like white | Bernard Saunders, Nurserym ersey. 
span-roofed Grape house innii n nor orth and south,| china), which grew in quantities wild on the rock of | gp your correspondent ts sy dione to treat this ring ? in 
that is, one face of the span fronting the east and the a , tolling Hi "that the inhabitants had cautioned | fofmin g the approach to a house i -aniteð to 
other fronting the west, is afar better eiiim for a | him to be exceedingly careful in handling it, as it oa x bank 2 or 3 feet. high ary 20 feet ner across, It. wes 
Iate Grape-house than any other, and a much greater |“ dead! poi ison.” The lady took off three pieces of the | soil on a esate bottom, and the. bank aris 
weight can be got | ay it. I write only t to induce | outer skin, or scales, from at a of the bulb, ait soil road, so th that th 
persons of small m to put up Grape hous sewed them with thread to o the paper leaves of ono sL 
ae oe sf wished d send a plan of a late Wouiés which | the book of collections I have mentioned. bot ree this among shrubs about ge ears ago. It is now a 
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up in a substantial manner (minus the after her return to our house in 1856 was pla 
heating) a 10s. + foot run, 12 feet wide, and which | press in her d , and last summer cin | ne 
shal Feast one-third eaey ery than | upon a nother tour, and having only lately retu m nt is very ¥ a; 
any I have seen described at sam Pray do] jit here, ae bop Bas ook the book from the Pt and | lanceolate leaves bursting out on all sides has a very 
T have about 1200 Orchids, d's vay little disease, | w prised to observe that its vat was not lying í pis : : 
and that only on some which got it before coming in flat, vät ‘Waleed “bi ; she pr it, and to her astonish- | hrnbberies, and makes a capital contras 
my houses. I can easily grow A Palin pi out of it. forms. It is very much admired by all ae it. It 
Warner. stands near the Pampas Grass, 
= JUSTICIA CARNEA. 
‘Tur miserable examples of this useful pa nie a 
fashioned plat w papaa one continually meets with, 
only in in the neighbourhood of om ar 
vincial gers ch indicates 
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tha in general ei either do ‘not know how to 
grow it propery, or that they ee it that | 
amount of attention it deserves. When w: 
however, few plants y care bestowed 
it this does. That it is capable of ing 
m ent highly mental, I 
‘just mention that Lhave seen a plant of it 3 feet in 
Sisip 4 feet in width, and the 
edge of the pot with flower-spikes, numbering in 
156. . The treatment by this magnificent result 
was obtained was as fo :— 
was struck in shifted car a 
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it in a cool house, rather at the root. In tho monty t 
beginning of March it i a biau aah 
t and placed near the glass in a house Sin en fond ha rm he Kt of each of of the three | the outfall of tl drainage 
. l rorarii renino a ara 50° and 60° with | scales small bulbs of those Onions had eaa A which the tide at high Baias 
fire-hont Hore it was afforded a slight -bottom-heat, | grow. This book has been in the e press in ectly | sluices, some low islands of mud have on 
a and a free ci i ait | acy in a dry room payer, sad as Gt : each bundle of Reeds twice as thi 
whenever the weather would permit. As this plant | now more than Gitkig wate tks eae rap [ober ghar pr / emp eerie 
crt prt at was k. I have planted two of ons in aaa gpa Sg enn 
very sparingly to the soil- until it was evident | pots to try the re : he mae appeared to us so | manner s smother really beautiful qui unlike 
from shoots that the roots had curious tha you one of t i its young | those 
Pr tortay piee ; indeed, beyond pace m bulb, attached to the paper, which I have cut out of the Chopped Furze v. Mice—One of your correspondents 
ing and ing very little water was given. The book for this purpose. Chas. A. Walker, Tykillen| asks for a remedy against ee era of mics oe 
t is a very rapid grower, very much inclined to | House, Weaford. [ curious ca to | Crocusroots. I lately saw aplan used fort e agian? ore 
"ares t thin at the base, which stopping will | one in Lindley’s Elements of Botany, p. 41.] Die e had been , be may pana e 
hardly prevent, as the back- break freely,| Spring Protection.—Should no feasi ion (as | same te" and betray enh was pat 
y ‘and the centre shoots always have'a. tin to take a|a preventative of wot) apens to mel the cue of| Cr pice bod, ma before yee a 
decided lead. To remedy this they | «Ww, M. R.,” who constantly loses his Marie Louise Pi rryp the pete 
‘close to the surface. of the | in spring, I beg to offer him the following hints. There cham and imately the mou on top 
soil, which will cause the back when |can be no doubt that all thick or hea for of chevaua-de-frise. The branches ftum 
the points old shoots turn up and show a the b of fruit purpose were wa 
w : their points be | such &e., for when — sigalg ps Meis 
pped off with the finger and In ee k neh ih time, up very small; | i pes 
the | has possible. | Stare 
Under this treatment early in May the plant: produced | weather causes quantities to fall and Fas, bot 
fine ayeee . Seeder age rH" a uncea. a en OM al wat 
‘ing care how it off soas to| views Instead of“ W. M. 
i gria ht foe the nge. When its beauty was over | material to his tree when about ~~ ae 
f its flower spikes were cut off, shade it with Frigi Domo în eariy addition to 
tting out some of fhe weakly ones, and it recived | teract the effects of 
mon nesroved wo ct wie 
