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but that the usual and best mode of dressing them, is first to 

 parboil them, and then dividing them lengthways, to score 

 them across and across with a knife, to dress them with butter, 

 pepper, and salt, and then to broil them on a gridiron. 



Captain Rainier, in a subsequent letter to the Secretary, 

 dated the 31st of the same month, gave an account of the 

 success which had attended his use of the Medlar, as a stock 

 for Pears. The shoots produced from the grafts are very 

 vigorous, extending upwards of three feet in length, but not- 

 withstanding this, they invariably produce great crops as 

 dwarf standards, and fruit the second year after being worked. 



Mr. John Bowers, Gardener to the Lord Selsey, at West 

 Dean House, in Sussex, communicated to the Meeting, on the 

 17th of September, the following directions for destroying 

 the Bug and Scale on Pine-apple plants. He prepares a 

 wash consisting of three gallons of rain water, two pounds of 

 soft soap, eight ounces of black sulphur (sulphur vivum), and 

 two ounces of camphor, boiled together for an hour, and to 

 which is then added, three ounces of turpentine. He turns out 

 his plants, divests the roots of their fibres, and immerses them 

 in a trough nearly filled with the liquid at a temperature of 

 from 120 to 136 degrees, for about five minutes. Queen and 

 Sugar-loaf Pines he finds require the highest heat stated ; 

 A ntiguas and others need not have it above 124 degrees ; 

 but those to which a lower temperature is used must remain 

 double the time immersed. When taken out of the liquor 

 they are well drained and set on the flue of the house with 

 the roots downwards, until they become dry ; they are then 



