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ployed by Miller, Baldwin, and other gardeners, for destroying the red 

 spider and bug on pine-apple plants. — D. B. July, 1826. 



Horticultural Impostor. — I consider it would be well to caution the 

 readers of your Magazine against a man now travelling the country, ofFerin^ 

 tulips for sale, which he says are tree tulips, and will produce many flowers 

 on one stalk of various colours, and, I am sorry to say, many have been 

 imposed on by him here. I should have thought the striped dahlias sold 

 all over the country, by such another fellow, last year, had not been quite 

 forgotten. He asks Is. 6d. each for the tulips, and says I have purchased 

 twenty dozen of him, and that he obtained them when abroad. — C. Hale 

 Jessop. Cheltenham, Sept. 1827. — The colour of the flowers of dark roses, 

 dahlias, asters, as well as of many other, and probably of all plants, may be 

 changed or discharged by the application of the fumes of sulphur. Burning 

 a common brimstone match under them will do. The secret has been long 

 known to gardeners in France and Germany, and we have frequently seen 

 it tried with roses in this country. At a meeting of the Horticultural 

 Society of London on the 16th of October last, some variegated flowers of 

 dahlias were exhibited, from which the purple colour had been partially 

 discharged by the partial application of the fumes of sulphur. The dahlias 

 were of course striped or variegated ; and something of this sort may have 

 led to the imposition referred to by Mr. Jessop. 



The Silk Tree, Jcacia Jidibrissin, in the Bristol nursery, was planted 

 twenty-two years ago. It began to flower four years ago, and the two last 

 years abundantly. On the 1st of September last, it displayed about three 

 thousand blossoms. The tree covers a wall to the height of twenty feet, 

 and the breadth of fifteen feet. — E. D. Sept. 27. 



Two Rows of Dahlias in the Bristol nursery extend each one hundred and 

 fifty yards and exhibit about a hundred different sorts, chiefly double, and 

 almost all raised from seed by Mr. Miller. — Id. 



Roots of the Arracacha have been received by Dr. Hamilton, from Car- 

 thagena, packed in powdered charcoal ; they have been planted in the nur- 

 sery of Mr. Pontey at Plymouth, and are doing well. The native situation, 

 soil, and climate of the Arracacha are very similar to those of the potato. 

 (Plym. Jour., Aug.) A second notice of September 22d informs us that 

 two plants of Arracacha are now nearly in flower at Mr. Pontey' s, and that 

 two which Dr. Hamilton retained for private experiment, as to their capa- 

 bility of bearing the cold of our summer in the open air, are flourishing 

 vigorously, without any artificial aid ; of course their progress has not been 

 so rapid as that of a plant plunged in Mr. Pontey's tan-pit. Their state of 

 growth, however, is such as to promise favourably for the important experi- 

 ment of acclimating this valuable esculent next year. {Ibid.) 



The Seeds of Tetragbnia expdnsa were sown in the open garden at Yar- 

 mouth last autumn, and have produced fine plants this spring ; bv which it 

 appears that this plant will endure our winters in mild situations.— J. Youell 

 Yarmouth, July 27. 



The quickest and most certain Mode of raising the Mulberry Tree is from 

 cuttings of the old branches. Take a branch in the month of March, eight 

 or nine feet in length, plant it half its length in any good soil, and it 

 will succeed to admiration, producing fruit the following spring. This I 

 have witnessed in several instances. — Id. 



Planting by mudding in. — I am sorry so useful a mode of planting should 

 be disapproved of by some of your correspondents, in consequence of the 

 earth afterwards becoming cemented. This will certainly be the case if 

 stiff loam be used; but let them use two thirds of any light rich soil, with 

 one third loam, and the plants will succeed to admiration. Last April I 

 removed plants with fruit blossoms fully expanded, and in a growing state; 

 one plant completely perfected and ripened its fruit, and made abundance 



