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soft-wooded, i.e. green, robust, and short-jointed. Is it not wrong, therefore, 

 to pot these differently constituted plants in the same mixture ? 



Suppose a few spring struck plants, in 2-inch pots, to have been lately re- 

 ceived from some nurseryman, and that a shift is necessary; before you com- 

 mence, separate your plants into the two classes above alluded to — probably 

 the first, or dark-wooded, will consist of the Gem of the Season, Commodore, 

 Perfection (Banks), Cortona, Nil desperandum, Dr. Lindley (Banks) Grandis, 

 Verrio, Clapton Hero, Splendissima, Ajax, Miranda (Turner), Scarletinare- 

 fiexa, Dr. Smith, &c, &c; while the soft-wooded kinds may 1 include Lady 

 Emily Cavendish, Amy, Empress, Hebe, Nonsuch, Napoleon, Joan of Arc, 

 Ariel, Gigantea reflexa, Beauty of Deal, Dr. Grosse, Expansion, Esteem, 

 Prince Arthur, &c. When so separated, give the former nice light compost; 

 the latter, stronger ingredients; and the slender-habited varieties should not 

 receive so liberal a shift as their more robust associates. A cooler situation 

 should also be given to sorts of naturally slender habit;- while to the stronger 

 kinds, heat, moisture, and a stiffer compost may be afforded ; and thus, by 

 assimilating the treatment to the wants of the plants, better results will be 

 attained than we have lately been in the habit of getting. As to the routine 

 of after culture^ it is not my wish to enter, but the grower who considers 

 well before he acts will not be at a loss to manage that part of the business. 

 Let us hope, after this notice, to see Fuchsias brought forward in better con- 

 dition than we have ever hitherto seen them. — J. E. (Grard. Chron.) 



RESULTS OF TILE DRAINING. 



Messrs. Editors : — As you have published John Johnson's account of his 

 Success in under tile draining, you may also in corroboration tell your farm- 

 ers that a miller here says that the only perfect white wheat he has bought 

 this year was the crop of this same John Johnson, grown on those tile or 

 pipe draining fields. Owing to the amelioration of the soil by draining, the 

 wheat ripened a fortnight earlier than that of his neighbors ; its rapid 

 growth completely distanced the insect ; yet the uninitiated farmer would 

 say, after viewing the rolling surface, that it needed no drains. 



Our farmers generally at this time grow the Mediterranean wheat, which 

 ripens early and escapes the fly ; but it will not make extra or good family 

 flour. The result is that our millers can no longer depend on this once 

 famed wheat country to supply them with the de quoi to make good flour. 

 But I am glad to say that hundreds of our best farmers are beginning to try 

 Mr. Johnson's experiment. Our tile maker, Mr. Whartenby, cannot now 

 begin to burn his kilns as fast as the pipe and tile are required. He will 

 work another machine this summer, and increase the number of his kilns. 



