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PS greatly from them. I have tried in my time sulphur, Nux Vobiica, ( -@ ) 

 q° Hellebore Powder, and other poisons with very little success. My ^j 

 / plan, it answers admirably, is to watch closely for the first appear- \ 

 ance of the insect, then to remove the plants to the open air, lay i 

 them on their side, and give them a powerful syringing. Another 

 essential to success is 10 give the plants all the light possible, but to 

 shade them from the svn. The glass over them should have a thick 

 coat of whitenpg, or rye flour paste, over it on the inside ; or sugar 

 of lead ground in oil, or white paint on the outside. 



In the January potting I use a soil composed of nearly half well 

 rotted dung and bar sand, and one half loam — decomposed surface 

 soil of grass land. In the March potting a much poorer soil is em- 

 ployed — the manure being; very nearly left out. 



In the management of these plants never pinch of their leader. 

 There is no occasion to stop back any of the shoots, as the Fuchsia 

 under the above management will burst from every eye. In the 

 growth of all plants never pinch back a shoot, unless it is absolutely 

 necessary — every shoot shortened tends to weaken the -plant. When 

 the flower buds first appear pluck them off; about a month before you 

 wish the plant to flower profusely cease this operation. About May 

 a quantity may be re-potted into fifteen or sixteen inch pots, and the 

 flower buds still kept plucked off for a time — these will make noble 

 plants by the fall. Exoniensis and Beauty of Leeds make splendid 

 objects so treated. 



The above treatment of the Fuchsia it will be observed is very 

 different from that which is generally followed in Great Britain, and 

 recommended in English periodicals — but it is the result of my prac- 

 tice in America, and I know will give satisfaction to those who may 

 follow it. 



Foreign Agricultural Correspondence. 



Model Farm, Glasnevin, Dublin, ) 

 May, 1852. \ 

 To the Editor of the Florist. 



I beg to thank you for the first number of the " Philadelphia Flo- 

 rist," which reached me a few days ago, and which I have just read 

 with very great satisfaction. I assure you that it affords me sincere 

 pleasure to find that you occupy at present a position in which you 

 will be able to disseminate to others a knowledge of that science 

 which you yourself have so carefully studied, and with which you are 

 so well acquainted. I am also happy to perceive that you offer the 

 use of the columns of your Journal for the insertion of communica- I 



r, tions on Agricultural subjects. This, in my opinion, will very much J? 



(^enhance its value, as it will be a very desirable channel through which jf J 



