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earth mixed with vegetable mould, when the iere is slightly 
e pem to it. Every five or six days ce tering is to be 
and as soon as they have gained strength enough they are trans- 
planted at a distance of um six inches from each other. Three 
months after this d eit they are transplanted again at a 
distance of from fourteen to twenty inches, according to their 
strength. Each transplantation requires, of course, anew watering, 
which, however, should be only moderately applied. Th 
blossoming of the Pyrethrum commences the second year, toward 
the end of May, and continues to the end of September. Mr. 
Willemot also states that the plant is very little E aos s cold, 
and needs no shelter, even during severe winters." (Pp. 165-166, ) 
CULTIVATION OF C. CINERARIZFOLIUM IN CALIFORNIA. 
“As to the Dalmatian plant, it is well known that Mr. G. N. Mile 
Dalmati i 
Pyrethrum cinerariefolium near Stockton, California, and 
powder from the California- “grown plants, to which Mr. Milco 
has given the name of ‘ Buhach,’ retains all the insecticide quali- 
know from experience. Mr. Milco gives the following advice 
about planting—advice which applies more particularly to the 
Pacific Coast :—* Prepare a small bed of fine, loose, sandy, loamy 
eta pe mixed with fine manure. Mix the seed w with dry 
sand and sow car í 
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depth. pur ihe bed every evening until sprouted ; too 
much water will cause injury. After it is well sprouted, Penta! 
wiee a week is sufficent. When about a month ed 
carefully. They should be transplanted to loamy soil during 
the rainy season of winter or spring. " (P. 166.) 
CULTIVATION IN VICTORIA. 
According to a Melbourne agricultural paper, quoted in ihe 
Cape Agricultur al Journal of June 5th, 1890, * Mr. Kleesattel 
has now six acres under oe and the portion first planted 
has commenced to yield a return. In establishing his plantation 
the land was ploughed 12 inches deep, eM the soil reduced to 
a fine tilth. The seed is sown in beds the month of August, 
and the following winter the young pnunts are transplanted 
out in rows 2 feet 6 iwi apart, there being a de of d 
l foot between the plants, The crop is kept clean by the 
of the horse hoe, and in the following November, i.e., fifteen 
months from when the seed was sown, the plants begin to 
flower. This is, of course, the harvest season for the Pyrethrum, 
and the plants continue to voi till the end of January. The 
picking operation was at first rather venite but a stri Va 
The powder, w iioi d of a saffron colour, has been eris and 
found superior to thé: jinpoitod article.” 
