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(^receive from the old country are so content with having been at a .4) 

 q° great place at home, that they are willing to rest their reputation en- c (j 

 tirelv on that fact, without exerting themselves to do anything here ; ^ 

 and for instruction, it has often surprised us that any gardener should 

 neglect perfecting his education as much as possible, since so much is 

 gained by it in his profession. We hope that "Anthophilus" will fa- 

 vor your readers with more of his remarks on these subjects, as gar- 

 deners and amateurs need stirring up occasionally ; and the advantage 

 is great when it can be done by one evidently so enthusiastic and so 

 cosmopolitan. 



Mr. Buist's account of the hardiness in England of such beautiful 

 shrubs as Mitraria and Escallonia, makes one sigh for a more genial 

 climate ; but we are already too hot almost for Heaths and some other 

 such plants — we cannot enjoy each extreme of plant growing, unless 

 we could manage cold-houses to summer our plants in. 



Green Crops. — It is being discussed now in the English papers, 

 whether roots grow after the leaves are cut off; and it seems from the 

 experience of many persons that such is the fact. And it is certainly 

 a most useful fact, for if the outside leaves of turnips for instance, can 

 be taken off and fed to cattle, without diminishing the yield of roots, 

 how much more is obtained from the ground. In the matter of liquid 

 manures ot all kinds, peat charcoal is coming into great use as a means 

 of distributing them ; but we suppose Mr. Connor will tell us all about 

 it in his chapter on manures. 



Calendar. — When we look at the fact that the best Grapes of Eu- 

 rope grow on gravelly hills it is surprising that any persons should 

 persist in reiterating that the grape prefers strong manures, especially 

 put on in such a wholesale way as some think necessary. But scien* 

 tific grape growing, as well as scientific growing and doing of everv- 

 thing else, is pushing aside the old methods, and we now must have 

 reasons for what we do. The potato rot is a witness against gross 

 feeding ; the poor tuber was fed and crammed with all sorts of over- 

 nourishment until it got the dropsy, and then a cure is attempted by 

 giving it more excitement instead of diet and tonics. 



The person who dt-s-lres a remedy for the mealy bug, red spider and 

 thrip, which will operate without killing the plant, will be worthy of 

 a great reward. The mealy bug seems to be the hardest, to reach, 

 buried almost in the joints of the young shoots, he is out of the way of 

 everything but a sharp stick or the point of a knife ; and then it is 

 vexatious to see coming out from where you killed him, dozens of 

 I young ones. We intend to try the sulphur and lime water, and will j 

 n report our experience. J^ 



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