35 THE sabe eiat dode cane. a 16, 16, 1868," 
$ 
p Achillea tomento the “of 8 tons per acre. The sason of the bl 
hs Lee eg i hae ba gee a aire Ays om, Antirrhi a ago aai Peoia st “of bye row ped there can b n E 
ossessin hs ar more attractive appearances, and bei eus, Chr: sale a Clarkia pulchella, page naving used in it sets he upper ta a the 
jamada and more densely pop’ Pa than siesta sie. Propa, Cuphea platycentra, Dian i thu The lower pran of the roots, Seti hes o the length of 
which city he sot a throu: gh. The, ople of | batus, Gilia tricolor, French Honeysuckle, Whi te Theris, develop i ds, td 
Ilorin are Mahom Up to the ti Larkspurs, Lupins, Malope gran- {throw up their shoots above ground in 
the party h ad ony lost c one white a one black man— diflora, Nasturtiums, Nemephita insignis, (no! theras, weeks basi ‘one 
even in the e prov bial mortality of the Niger. Phloxes, a Se foeniculaceum, Rud- economy 0 plan eem 
the Days pring is "at, Mr. May er achieved a great icon Newmani, Salvia splendens, Stocks al thin upper part of the 
1 fi Ral bby o Lagos.” irginica alba, Verbenas, Violets, and Wallflowers The | the place hem it begins to swell to become 
[We have before us an ramai tter from Mr. | Autumn-bearing Raspberry is fully in fruit. 4. C. able. This part, which is more truly refu 
Barter, “which want of room ye eve ents our printing to- | Wotton- -um ader- Bdge, Gloucestershir re i; the : : i as Potatoes, 
ds Admiralty has already : ap- ady Doune’s Seedling Grape. by my present short experience, will be act 
said, and I are justly, of the merits of the a of | the most desirable portion to lay by for the next r 
pool to rescue Dr. aikie 73 a and prosecute the = new Gr apes” ” that t have just burst upon us, I crave | planting. And plante: tec: and not diy ided ini 
" ‘The a which Dr. Baikie sent down the words of a Grape which, ee nps new, 3 inche s lon ng, A result of ano 
river to Fernando Po was much harassed, and literally is cert Pre so well known as its pec t Im ust e: — “my astonishme 
riddled with shot fir ed by the tribes on hart river, who entitle “tt ‘to | be. In the summer of 1855 I ry a he flavour to that of Potato; i 
e expedition hav: Į Vineries here, and I found it difficult at very di ifferent t, and somewhat peculiar, but pleasant, 
high up and opened trade there. | that ama season of the year to procure suitable | extremely diges estib e The root, I fancy, contains 
— Vin ines, an nd I was led to ate some varieties of which I } peculiar aci t minute, and so 
RADE MEMORA ND wha at resemble those of the EREE and the fi 
tee tes an mgley si ove “a = Howse t by Singh; , and | Eagle & Henderson’ s nursery, in whose cal iim e I saw A pera R ae Tight, AdR 
ee: ae er, ee E T af oe first and only time in print, and as you ‘doa i ti ny person puoi Ee pai 
large— 
rm & 
KA 
poi Schad a steamer, the Sunbeam 
directed tot the last of whom from Plymouth have been ‘ 
obse: is described there: “ Bunch 
Seppe AEri a tained Taser s? : bear 10 edhe skin t Sg ag res t—first quali 
Be Beal ene ee All this it proves to be, a s far as my experien 
Home Correspondene excep t that the bunch is only medium, as you w 
How to Destroy Scale on Cacti —The on insect | by tl LB ar 
na single rod, „perhaps I ought not to expec b 
peo ateur in succulents, T to be large. My reason, however, for calling ‘in c 
say, wi with one exception 1 I p not been annoyed | attention to it Bee tha it is likely to prove one| proved w 
with it at all, mainly from this reason, whenever I add|of the best keeping caper in cultivation. The ed species. But, to gardeners, the mos i 
afresh plant to my collecti con I always see that it is} bunch I forward was grown in a house where Figs point in the article given at p. 4 is, that the Oreh 
thoroughly f = from ge of all kin ng be fore put it | are forced in pots, and was ripe in the latter wend of| whose history is there narrated, flowered when ti 
with the This is always don ess of th Auf gust ; the foliag se panei a were only two years’ old. i 
ominy place the whole gardening world under a dd 
A year or so back, ho owever, po deli plump as in rrenat, i Mack Prince and Black z gratitude to „him _ by Piained such the ete ie 
some some (imported I expect) gone no Y sale of the | Hamburgh Grapes in the same house had to be 
Horticultural Society, and o found utterly two months ago. eerie in the pti e hou of Calanth Dominii is not an 0 
impossible to clean, ey o spines T oy t ripened ns all, and while the latter is shy i passed lightly over, it forms an re Yl 
that the finest point I could cut to a slip a deal would “shower,” Lady Delma “showe d” three bunches at | count a new era in ening, if prope octal d 
gh shen I spent ie aeva: one entire | each eye, and will set and el I ttet that that indefatigable parle mil 
evening in the a attempt to clean it, and a few weeks | keep as well as Barbarossa, while it is its superior in befor re us the wh ole cire cumstances of 
afterwar ds another evening —— perhaps se every other respect, except in size of bunch. | p 
p dent f i his plant, Snie flow 
fiom theo hes a high ny . tl gin of thi Gr: which I am certain is « destined state, is i thet one ae its parents is aa 
avour the propagation of the sorte for at | to b i tant variety flo points es whith 
the end of September I pga Se: plant begin to ratum. Y. Thompson, Dalkeith Park, coat ar tert fiom saa Orch 
assume the hour-glass sha h showed me some- fo an. ‘9. denn is ose! a ed nice black Grape. | C. W. C. P 
thing was wrong. peira I found it|__ Rain at Ttchen Abbas in 1857 :— Myrtlesin South Wales. — aoe occasio L 
covered all over with minute scale, myriads in number I day at the villa residence of Mr. H. K. atone 
wo believe rmn the Mba oa of the crown, Rain pt w Hory pa ay ‘Site much pleased to find a handsome plant of 
where a struggle for life was evidently going on), Thi lected. ing| pe i ing si 
set me ager ng I said to myself “ The’ ew À wack pa as P Fears or years. Stig Agi Aegea a? D twi oul re ich, 
ious; why not try to drown it in water? I wond 1 ; 
ss it is proof against soda in the water ? Taone J: ab mer ce: i 22 16 hg r ever recived io Tte specimen 
i ible to hold his | February - | 0.66 1.16 8 12 { i 
ground?” ToworkI went. I took apan fall of water, I | Mz! E a 2p 42. polana TADE An 10 
put alittle soda (common household soda) in en | 1 Oar al ss Mea pe eg rg ig pt! aed, 
common yellow h ith till it looked Tikè Jane, s.. cor; 173 278 15 ib These” Sorts 
“soap suds” T then took the plant and care. | Jt! 165 | 2.58 16 | pia Peretti Es 
Hilly’ shold. Ab: avila “ree August 98 | 270 u 15 <5} Swansea noar the Munible 3 
lest the should come in ae 799 A rv H ie k wa vee Je ily, Sw 13. 
tact with them, and not kno i November ; tick e PAE ae as A 
baen I th poy dane bar might be | hovempe +f ts ip i Spot ad Eda —Is the enclosed a 
I then took an empty gard and pat it over the . Riot: ial deni eG 
xe ii ome on the spines. I then inverted the ree -B et "3.40 is "ia kmni tg Še ‘tt N TA rejoice I am ign 
so roots stood pped i ae Spicer. z gs 
I then placed the pot and mans in dome ese i jams Batatas.—As this root has excited por ruben ae ant a A cae 
feat naalr twh B ge s : aiik is new as e you predicte e grown, a plant 
Bania o NUF “A perai ak apaa re some interest, I venture to give you my three years’ | in the house, and when “discovered and rem 
piant a ae ae: Synes J ga e | experience of it, which is by no means oe Ij quently appears from its state to thrive by i n 
mp ai ipapa all over —— clean water, | may remark that at the outset I determined to use no| J. C. D. [It is the real spot. 
pu e house as clean as any there. artificial aids to growth beyond the amount of pio Cheap Vi 
I eve the lant health i vet 
r paa is y and irren clean i in | that Potatoes require, because if f the plant is to take hegre your correspondent «$, F. Wa 
on more plants, but had none to do so wit pampering. nstance, indeed, cured them erel 
quently this must stand on its own merits; cane samy b i oe nwa dar p apa paea uey sterg 
Š as so small | wants a ch Vi he 
give “ey vena at ru ers, and they may they were hardly to be trusted to the open “gromi, but hapeno lali saath sie Se 
adopt e mi ae td i ewes 1, Soar pots were me a cold frame. The result of the| wooden shutters. If “ 
seine t ii d errioan then we ma mairrin: yo rriari mall roots, the weight of which I would like + to see mine, or to 0 obta 
information as sult. Ima Tal 1 Exch 
sal “These w i Bs 
: Soe ee eet n f jope ra sarsies gp about the end cate rent Ga 
l ie inset or perhapothe resale of of all in eon ues | 1856. — time of planting was too late, pas the| The Prairie Rose.—I see in Notices to e 
insect, this junction ; | crop was disappointing, scarcely saconding ze the|on Saturday it is stated that the Prairie Rose i 
experiment eeann perso cohen rece f ear before. I determini Pa a| known. The i i 
this NB. H rma suceess tried aun ce a ra parai j ao e to seej|rubifolia; The Queen of the Prairies in 
plan. dee e ing. i 
serene Se ii ara gemat ly | two rows pie aean weinisnte NORE, ANEA E meea a our cor 
a Tai no pe of reeves ror of die say wi go nes grey ag ae eee ee | 4 
nurserymen dae y ow no precedent | appeared above ground May 15, just ae =~ befo t 
e shoul require a kind of | those which were left to nature. In Ni ber I took 
, trees in each | up all my erop; rey seria yea gt Il isf: 
wi cause much yi ook g 2b. 11oz. and 2 lb. | so much as t 
- ively; the former was tand ing; ð 
vent any monopoly, and to: ive | inches long, the latter curiously branched. If fe oe nero a 
ae success, a could be. is the would 
oe egress - | be as remunerative as crops of Potatoes. It ev 
Rose not the grower amount to more than per acre, but it is i 
our care. ont, Géant des | ill reckoning from a square yard of ground or even 10 t f from ‘60° 
of the time and place; or if hel rowiend in ‘Sm seine an ch dtertof the a anag | sumeaetitt ep een continuously, carpe 
Panen In the first, planted at intervals short of this. a one to lose their leaves icaves and sto t 
pint nig nition. 8. R. _ | amountet to 14 lbs., averaging less than } Ib. Natea mara od number al 
Limes iot peda at te no ace, Bua were in| root; this would give but 3 tons to the acre. Ca os th canoe sere grok 
he gardens s on Christmas| row planted at half the above interval yielded a larger | flower the wp: ra e prape m 
beautiful nosegay was picked from them, | average per root, and gave an aggregate of 40 Ibs., or at | note-book that for tthe fone years w a 
