104 THE PHILADELPHIA FLORIST. [August 



Q 

 tie moss laid over to prevent the mingling of the soil with the esca- 

 ping water. They should be always well saturated after repotting^ 

 and allowed to remain in the potting shed until the water has been 

 absorbed. Much injury arises from the rays of the sun acting on the 

 sides of the pot, and when water is added in this position, the roots 

 become scalded and destroyed. The propagation of the Cape Heath 

 was once considered rather a difficult part of a gardeners duty; many 

 failed totally, others found no peculiar difficulty in the matter. The 

 state of the wood is the most important point, after that, pro-pen 1 

 shading from the sun and avoiding mildew from damp. Strike the 

 cuttings of ripened wood in a cool airy situation, protected from cur- 

 rents, or frost, — cover them with hand glasses, which should be wiped 

 regularly to prevent the accumulated moisture from damping them. 

 It requires eight or ten months to render them fit for shifting into 

 two inch pots — top them as they grow to make them clothed below. 

 Charcoal is very useful in the compost, as it preserves a beautiful 

 dark foliage and absorbs the gases. 1 add the names of a few desira- 

 ble species, capable of bearing our climate if plunged in tan or coal 

 ashes in Summer and kept in a shadjjplace. 



E. arborea, S. Europe. 

 Australis, New Holland. 

 Mediterranean, S. Europe, 

 andromedseflora, C. G. Hope, 

 ampullacea " 



Aitonia " 



Bowieana u 



brunioides " 



Cavendishii " 



elegans u 



Massonii, Cape of Good Hope 



odoro-rosea 



u 



princeps 



u 



Irbyana 



it 



Juliana 



u 



tubirlora 



u 



Willmoreana 



u 



Yestita coccinea 



sc 



Ventricosas superba 

 rosea 



it 



a 



minor 



a 



hyemalis 

 linnceoides 



The National Agricultural Convention. 



Amongst the variety of subjects which we have undertaken to re- 

 view in this periodical none shall hold a more prominent place than 

 American Agriculture. Although quite satisfied that it is the junior 

 of its sister horticulture, yet it has the right of precedence, as the 

 food raising science. It may suit very well for legislative bodies to 

 charm their constituencies with flowing language about Bureaucratic 

 powers, the result of Patent office reports, and the intended machine- 

 ry of the new Agricultural code, with its boards of runners, clerks, 

 inspectors, treasurer, secretar}', professors, &c, &.c. But the farmer 

 drives on his plough, and plants his corn, and reaps his harvest as best 

 he may; hoping better things from ''Uncle Sam" some future day, / 

 when other claims shall have been satisfied — some monuments have (P 

 Mg to be erected, and private bills to be passed. The farmer needs Jf) 



