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Louisville tobacco-firm. They claim that it i.; absolutely 

 pure tobacco-extract, — C. Rayncr, in American Florist. 



Wall for Rock-Plants. — A shelter-wall is often neces- 

 sary to conceal from the public gaze what is really a sort 



FOR Rock-Plant 



of laboratory, indispensable in every garden. I resolved 

 to make my wall not only a shelter, but also an object 

 pleasant to the eye of the wayfarer. This has been 

 accomplished by building a hollow wall topped with tie 

 or binding-stones, and pocketed for the reception of soil 

 and plants, as shown in the accompanying sketches 

 (Figs. I and 2). In such a plant-wall the principle is 

 everything ; the proportions may be varied to suit any 

 special circumstances or surroundings. The wall is a 

 little over 4 feet high, over 2 feet through, and is 30 or 

 40 yards in length, and after having filled up the hollow 

 center of the wall with suitable soil I shall plant the top 

 with iris of the /. Gcrmanica and the /. fumila sections, 

 cloves, carnations and pinks, or with linarias, aubrietias, 

 and stonecrops, edelweiss and sempervivums, but I am 

 especially anxious to see established on its face a group 

 of the Californian Zauschneria, which does not flower 



s. > ( ^ well with us on the ground- 



J J level, except during very hot, 



I dry summers. A wall of the 



above size may be made by 



Tie & She 



Ston 



^ any man handy at stonework, 



and at no great cost. — 

 Burbidgc, in Garde 

 iroHd. 



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Bedding-Out. — When 



- v_-J — ^ spring and summer bedding 



^ are dovetailed into each 



^ other, the plans for both dis- 



J plays ought to be arranged 



^ / 1 at the same time, so that 



5 > whenever any particular bed 



^ i requires refilling the work 



, „ r- can be done without any 



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misgiving as to whether or 

 not the right color will be in the right place by the time 

 the summer bedding is completed. To prepare pansies 

 to go through this long season of flowering, the beds must 

 be liberal!)- treated in the autumn by giving them plenty 



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of thoroughly decayed manure, a good sprinkling of soot, 

 and by digging them deep. With this sound prepara- 

 tion and plenty of water at command during dry weather, 

 these now popular flowers will go through this long cam- 

 paign and prove themselves to be both 

 friends to gardeners and a source of 

 great pleasure to their employers Our 

 beds were so arranged that those occu- 

 Dpied by early spring-flowering plants 

 were planted with calceolarias ; others 

 in which silenes, myosotis and wallflow- 

 ers made a good show were filled with 

 zonal and ivy-leaved pelargoniums, ver- 

 benas, ageratums. Phlox Drummondii 

 and begonias. These plants were placed 

 in sheltered positions, and kept growing 

 steadily till wanted, when they were 

 planted thickly to produce an early dis- 

 play. — Journal of Horticulture. 



The Grimston Plant-Protector. — 

 In the Grimston plant-protector we have a simple, inex- 

 pensive form, equally adapted to cover rows of peas, 

 beans, lettuce, strawberries, violets, primulas, tulips, and 

 many other plants which we may want to preserve from 

 injury by frost or rain, or to hasten in growth. W. Den- 

 ning, of Grimston Park, says that they forward crops about 

 five weeks in the spring and early summer, and preserve 

 them for a like period in the autumn. By their use he 

 is enabled to supply good, firm, well-blanched Cos lettuce 

 by February 28. He also finds them useful for potatoes, 

 carrots, French beans, turnips, radishes, parsley, mint, 

 early celery, etc. These appliances are made usually in 

 S-foot lengths, costing about 10 shillings each when com- 

 plete. They require no putty nor 

 glazing in the ordinary sense of 

 the te^-m, and are readily 

 ventilated in accordance 

 ith the weather. They 

 may be made to use 



Gri.mston Plant-Protectok. 



singly, or several placed end to end. The ends, wliether 

 of a single protector or several together, are closed with 

 pieces of board, over which the glass is made to slide. 

 Plants under these protectors require plenty of water in 

 April, May, and later; this is readily afforded by tilting 

 the protector. — Gardener' s Chronicle. 



