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may not materally add to the best kind of menona A plan I have adopted with success in the south of; conspicuous white blossoms, with roseate tint, which 
gi blink of the san—without adding to the England aga ainst cockroaches or, black beetles I do ae seen a — s DETR readily be mistaken for m 
bill ; but I am og’s tooth Violets. Am ut little 
‘may be taken i and tried again, and fairly re- | success, and Ido not think much of slices of on ee. mee of se ics na 
. The subject Aio a wide application, Man- ming ata qn and, li oing, wi 
‘seems hy o! ma atte . Geo Me wen chester. — Roasted i. yaana and arsenic Tabbed. together as pted for port bl ouble-flower- 
ing Seeds—Your remarks on dead d h Peach ickly-set ‘clusters lovely, rieh, 
have in some degree opened the eyes of many who h | rosy eaaa A Peri resembling nothing sọ 
but hitherto complained of the fly, the slug, and the For the extirpation of inanki pani ‘ae. 3 c., T | much as miniature Pompone Roses 7 sh the mga atro- 
severe frost of some byegone day. Lit tr s ely 
know the“ strange ways” that have practised | by Charles Penny, 4, Roseberry Cottages, Dalsto branches festooned with p enden 
‘of late. Our iante neighbours did not joni ve this | X. Y. Z. killed hundreds, lots shaded crimson flower- spikes ; T cd “Tasty — not ee, 
unholy and adultero! alliance until re t our | — to the funeral, they have since all isappeared. be g e blossomed 
very Sonne . D.—-By means of a half-crown box of Penny’s dwarf Almond, ‘studded over with b -tinted 
holds, but our weakest and most vulnerable points ani mposition we entirely red our kitchen of ramii and which would ergy very naak tive as an 
the enemy has now gained so much _ us crickets 0. D. [We c: a confirm the statement re- r cirele in connection with the two previous kinds, 
_ may It as tages see p ich, although effectual with Wiiliam Wood, York. 
< has a t i Theale aie “but we are not | black beetles, Bees.—The study of the natural way o te eae 
Russian enough to e tter| Ferns. —As regards for bee is surrounded by obstacles. To the di ty of 
d ante eth scrip oar dead—and then} the growth of Ferns, [ oe mention ‘int for my Fern- | making experiments it must be ascribed that so little 
we may cake it, but not otherwi ou imagine all | house I only use heat to Semien Ka and i have |p prot grei lace since the days of Huber in 
x Tebo, seeds can bet gi vitality or percentage; ; that | oceasionally found the thermom wn to 29° or 30° at any certainty with ard to tl points 
f regan but that eds, which | when I have oe a light a soap or en pin eep it up suf- roe ‘were de left re nhe do re Admitting at once 
| worse than diel a The , all grow and | ficiently. circumstances I have found the | that employed were occasionally 
ipehicien ought to state’ upon e face of thei invoice come haria uninjured by the wi — and also mistaken, and a he sometimes allowed — wher 
hat the seeds are pure, correct he year |attain a state of great perfection emote tt ie somew conclusions, the 
` grown; if of a former year and ikal, ogi vate ‘ae! viz, :— mind of Huber was EEA of an analyzing 
so state, for it will happen that last year’s seeds are | Pteris trem en canariense and many of hist theories e been confirmed by sub- 
ing to son. I understand| » ‘astata andjmacrophylla furcatum q The iuning referred to lately 
} d trad only buy with some kind of} ” lopntialle ” re area by a respondent, (see p. 87) is be the truth or 
warrant to certify this (for the most e pr ienced eye; ” vespertilionis oo palmatum fallacy of of which I have often for shed to see proved, but 
cannot detect every E d or vari 44 of seeds), and must | Adiantum pedatum »  umbrosum (Allanto- | have not had the opportun ity oi paeen the necessary 
racter of the seller. There are some, m anapebescane Fen aii aa experiments. Will your correspondent oblige me by 
however, v who sen nd o out seeds wholesale and retail with) ? Ganeatam Onetiathes vestita anying tf fo the idon anit nding Nsthien ae 
half di d d h > reniforme rofusa condition as Huber did w is, removing f 
` kind and the party who may ea I hae also long ” : San mic semen vimini t oo, a — loss by a 
Conceived it possible that not only the pte gpk s: byeedt Fee Seah: queen in a forced royal removing 
measures used to kill, but the "ary gua: or ho her before the date of batching, and marki ho ede 
or otherwise—helps to kill us, by ‘imbibing directly Blechnum pie STR | ‘Acrostictr corne ig 
or indirectly the pernicious poisons made use usiue No’ ations cae royalty. Such, if I remember right, w e process 
_ of. We know and see by experience the effect Pti icdtiécetm noginn employed by Huber, while his asistan, ‘i won- 
continued good Bo ie upon our bodily frames, (at aikoo ‘Anemia fraxinifolia — Sige se paer pagi inces- 
—blotches, boils, p! EE | Pyonopteris s Sieboldi sant y ours e e = ei -* a pers Kd 
yg T Astes us; in like manner do| Onyetium lucidum Poly ave ee their eggs. It is evident that the experimen might 
and although we ALe Sipe! | Todea pellucida | eris —— Tgi fail, without disproving the theory, as all 
epends on the chance of a portion of utriment 
all artificial manures, 
„Tent improvements in t the increase of our produce and | The parhaan varieties have tal with "alight injury 
wal egg Bhar sa is only tempo rary. Th he "a a stood t he winter ; but they would evidently succeed 
; the manures made on the farm fro ith m ly y g, e Yet when 
he Main 600 roe sawdust and ashes, with ammonia, ‘before th fronds app wonderful development which the larva of the worker 
are decidedly the bes st in the long run; and until we or become sot viz. :— | undergoes, changing the instinets, form and functions 
’ u insect = those of 
‘de 
destined for the queen having been dropped into some 
f 
Davallia dissecta ) r : . 
‘wl sehen cannot but tend to our ruin as a nation, r plumosum vi okna |a semi-metamorphosis scarcely excite surpi 
Anoth | Cheilanthes Slogans sparta AL iiy especially when we seer that the functions of th 
seco ot sient encourages slugs, &c., from the artificial | — Gyno gr re oo tomentosa fertile workers are described to resemble those 
bove n named, but the fies, lice, and vermin iifolia queens, wl organisation has been det 
ir fost *while we are deprived a pee Tt is evident that some Ferns, © chiefly found in nearly ‘also that a perfect queen, under certain ‘circu 
TAT all the day lon g. me trust t that you will n g pr bee : 
either subject hese st ; and I hope tl ral g will, by making yep pes ge May I farther inquire if i it has t 
Sa way for tr can beno pence till then i ind ined with 
Johnson, a Seedsman, Hedi alan mre "ative are, for “the convenience es many who have not stove- egg í egg from a a cell, except for aie purpose of eating it. @. 
seeds is a naie process. I 2 | new and benutifal Å oat ing 
many years o. D always kren one Huh red of his | abr meas Shrubs for Beds.—The suggestio: re we been disco vered in the state of Nortt 
‘Turnip and Clover seeds in a pot eg hig earth which ‘your correspondent, » at p. os that sg ores smani Carolina, eye County, S. It is said to be 
under it. 1 8 kria nds me that nameless and undescribed satiaey of Rh ‘the 
side of his kitchen fi pon the o Pee a very|we n possess orn foet a whi is second only in magnificence | to th 
short time suffice show whe ther | the inc would | floweri oor shrubs ates a furnish a ‘successive 
vegetate or not. Nothing can be more simple or ee nearly up to the season for ordinary bedding- feet, and is aoe transpinnted oo cultivated. It i 
factory weeps this, and aeng more e simple than to|out purposes. Is it not surprising that so little a ar tha pie n flow ceeds this in beauty ; 
leave the nurse: Gime senga you bad seeds, teen done in this rege of garden decoration ? colour is a afore ‘olen, K adaig y 
ling ies u E hios oto W. D. F. h the above-named ge eneral atin 8 the pànidies are composed of 20 or 30 flowers, forming 
ce has ly Eroniy hieréneed which I h (D. Mezereum), which, ‘thongh esse tial as the first of a conical mass —— hage as a man’s head, The 
dislike, i. e. placa E t the bottom of ‘advertisements | Jits class to greet the openi ng s oina with the rich deep colour, The spot where 
6 Seated f desirabl te flo rte eran told ik sont a’most inaccessible 
in its variety, is neve untains. A Labourer, Henrie [We know 
sooty of this. It is evide: an exaggeration, if 
- nothing more. 
not state openly p ł ess cum Shepherdia sh ee TE —In a ther 
whether you are likely to cook or not. The case is i pen —— in many Abboud e unde 
different when a tradesman refers to his printed cata- | few pl this very hardy, "ane Sa nags neat- this name wich was said to produce excellent fruit, 
dogue. A Subscriber of 11 Years. abited "beans amongst a clump of the first- and to be grown extensively Messrs 
Weedy Streams.—I have a winding rocky garden | mentioned, or arranged as a detached „mass, would Brighton, near Boston, U. S. Italso appears 
through which a stream of water flow wi the article | in question that Messrs Osborne of Fulham 
length of which may Age ng se 100 yards ; to keep regarded as the gayest of our early blooming shrubs lants-at that ti Now I should 
of Portland cement, and perhaps the most valuable and universally adapted | like to nee how they have succeeded i eee 
80 that in no place it comes in r eatit with earth. g- | whether this She) erdi mas Bergr growing in this 
varies from 4 to 6 feet in width, and 3 to 12 inches i in room met maton with the above for “a cou ntry as a fruit tree. J-M hell, jun. 
depth, b ut on accoun of the inter ‘and | "Orchids wrongly a pie at sdei In August, es ss 
d and in spite of g my gardener attended a chids belonging t° 
pipe with several opening s into hg to rare it, ie an excellent contrast ct its numerous clear iat Mr. Fairie, of pee Yanie egadir or and one meda the 
ld-b an rapidly y Primroses lots was marked “fine Som of Leelia ia pecmpental 
thick green slimy weeds, a although it is as clear as upon a green ground. When suitably arranged this its rarity it produced great competition, and my Fg- 
— where it falls 4 o ect dov luable object would appear most lively when seen | déner purchased it for in is I raised the plant with 
into the garden, i mes arate a tee yards filthy against the —_— tints of — EEES it. Ta i 
and slimy-looking. If it be cleaned out thoroughly cceeds the neat green-twigged For- my 
returns pss o te in the most in hia (F. linn ha ae forms ively ssn | fa pe variety of $ Gatiloys Crispa” worth 
f consisted of imported 
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some of the most respectable ‘firms in the trade. It is/| contrast of white and purple r- 
as much as to say, “ tell me who you are, and I shall theless much inferior where display alone is sought x 
ci equire. Why the ve beautiful Siberian Rhododendron (Redan 
literal i asmi _ 
esa I cou pat in 2 it to keep it clean ? The stream is roy blossoms, diffusing a tlean pr beet and appearing take might have occurred, but meray. È from gen 
a eae di stance like golden Furze „busi hes—as hardy in liema PEP I think, under such ci cumstances, 
a e g | there should be some redress, which I have in van 
ag elegant Canadian “Rhodora ‘sought for at Mr. Fairie’s hanan who says he bought 
Crickets.— van the winter ra ot wag Hes houses, | (Re loo pea Pp y | the plant of f the London nurserymen. F. H. 8: 
and hot pits were overrun ese pes I killed | Spicuous r lilac paoi e again are fol- | [Certainly Mr. Fairie onght to return the money, aP 
them y ilis èd to its recovery f im who deceived bim.] | 
Flavow į ve inter fru’ 
nd cement. 
wi 
during the night, but destroyed more by trapping them | and Berberis Darwini, ormer a Syring: minia- l rless e Apples.— ‘seen 
by means of wide-mouthed pickle bottles with a little | ture, with many racemes of snow-white blossoms, and | xactly i in the condition of those deseribed by “ P. P. 
trescl droopi i water and other 
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intended 
ile b ttle bel pers, ci even train-oil as a bait, the latter ornamented with numerous ping spil guano p 
s ing 1 stimut Aerie Aer rera 
E a kzi 
some in his kitchen, I got a hedge-hog to try 
hem. This winter the 
nuisance has pat a arde fit my pre having 
the same | 
against its glossy dark green lea 
comes the new Himalayan Rhododend: yrii inahin M to fruit in winter. D. D. a 
neat dwarf species, unfolding comparatively large and | Bathi nit any of your readers ‘suggest to me 
