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readily, and to be hardier, than any other of the Orange or 

 Citron tribe, it may therefore be expected to succeed well 

 in the green-house. 



July 7th, 1818. The Reverend William Williamson, 

 of Westbere, near Canterbury, communicated an expeditious 

 method of destroying Ants, which may be easily adopted 

 where those insects become troublesome, or are injurious to 

 plants. He stops the holes at the bottom of small garden 

 pots, and places them inverted, on the spot frequented by 

 these insects, which soon take possession of the interior of 

 the pots, and may then be readily destroyed therein, by hot 

 water. The ground whereon the pots are placed, should be 

 kept rather moist. There are two sorts of Ants which are 

 found in forcing-frames, the red and the black ; the former 

 are easily got rid of by introducing the large black Ant of the 

 woods, which will leave the frames when the red Ants are 

 destroyed, but they are not able to overcome the latter ; for 

 the removal of these, the above remedy has been found 

 efficacious. 



At the same Meeting, John Cresswell, Esq. exhi- 

 bited Sarracenia purpurea, in fine flower ; in health and 

 vigour it much surpassed the ordinary appearance of the 

 plant treated in the usual manner. Mr. Cres swell's me- 

 thod of managing the plant is as follows : it is planted in a 

 mixture of the fibrous roots, obtained from peat earth, with an 

 equal quantity of rotten willow wood, broken into small pieces, 

 by which the soil is kept perfectly drained. The pots in which 

 the plants grow are kept in a shaded part of the stove, and 

 watered occasionally but they do not require to be placed 



