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were inarched to the stems of the Muscats, and 

 when I saw them, the crop of fruit was then ac- 

 tually receiving its supply of sustenance /rom the 

 roofs of hoth/^ We do not say that such a thing 

 has nob been done before, for many of our readers 

 can cite examples of vines doing well with two sets 

 of roots. Mr. M'Elroy, of Stamford Hill, has 

 done the same thing, and it might indeed prove a 

 means of curing the shyness or bad ripening quali- 

 ties of some choice varieties. But there is origi- 

 nality a-, d ingenuity in adopting this means of 

 raising vines out of a quagmire, for that in effect is 

 the result of the operation, and one of the merits 

 of the plan is that it is carried out on the same 

 border as that which brought the original vines to 

 ruin. — Gardeners' WeeJdy. 



Carnation and Picotees.— These are apt oc- 

 casionally to have small portions of soil lodge in 

 the axils of the leaves. These must be carefully 

 removed, for should they be damp and wet, serious 

 injury to the plants will most certainly be the re- 

 sult. Carnations and Picotees, too, if kept close, 

 will contract mouldiness, being liable to the attacks 

 of parasitical Fungi. The leaves affected must be 

 cut away ; and, if possible, the affected plants re- 

 moved from the others, giving plenty of air, the 

 want of which, and late planting, superinduce these 

 evils. 



The Best Roses Last Year in London, 

 were : Mr. Cant's First Prize Twenty-four (three 

 trusses): Madame Julie Daran, La Brillante, Ma- 

 dame Charles Wood, William Griffith, Devonien- 

 sis. Dr. Andre, Pierre Netting, Mrs. Rivers, John 

 Hopper, Beauty of Waltham, Charles Lefebvre, 

 Souvenir d'un Ami, Victor Verdier, Senateur 

 Vaisse, Prince Camille de Rohan, Madame Vidot, 

 Marie Baumann, (a fine rose in the way of Laurent 

 Descours), Comtesse de Paris, Madame Victor 

 Verdier, Solfaterre, Laslia, Charles Margottin, (a 

 thumping rose, rather flat, like Lord Raglan, but 

 better), Maurice Bernardin, Comtesse de Chabril- 

 lant. 



Protection of Trees from Insects.— The fol- 

 lowing simple method of preserving fruit from the 

 ravages of insects is recommended by the Imperial 

 Society of Practical Horticulture of the Rhone, and 

 by the director of the School of Arboriculture of the 

 Pare de la Fete d'Or, at Lyons. The quantity of 

 fruit destroyed by insects that deposit their eggs in 

 the blossoms is enormous. These creatures are 

 said to have a great antipathy to vinegar, the mere 



odor of- which is enough to drive them away, and, 

 in some cases, to destroy them, and nothing more 

 is required than to sprinkle the branches with a 

 mixture of vinegar and water at the moment the 

 blossoms begin to appear. The mixture recom- 

 mended consists of one part of vinegar ro nine 

 parts of water, but as French vinegar is very 

 strong, perhaps the amount of water should be less 

 when English vinegar is used. When the hquids 

 are well mixed, the solution is to be sprinkled over 

 the flower-buds by means of a garden engine or 

 syringe, or even with a watering pot with a fine 

 rose. M. Denis, the director of the school referred 

 to, tried the experiment last year, and reports that 

 fruit trees so treated were covered with fruit, while 

 those to which the acidulated water was not ap- 

 plied bore scarcely any. The other remedy pro- 

 posed is against ants and other insects which mount 

 the stems of trees. Take common lamp-oil, and 

 expose it in the sun for three or four days, or until 

 it acquires a gummy consistency and very disagreea- 

 ble smell, then with a small paintbrush paint around 

 the tree at about two feet from the ground, a band 

 of the oil two inches wide, repeating the operation 

 for three or four successive days. It is said that 

 this method will protect the tree for four years at 

 least. Perhaps coal tar might be found to answer 

 the same purpose ; and perhajys the trees dressed 

 with oil may die. 



Double-Flowering Zonale Geraniums. — 

 "The varieties of Pelargonium of the inquinans 

 and zonal sections — we beg pardon of those of our 

 friends who wlU think the word Geranium so much 

 better for these races, though it isn't true— these 

 Pelargoniums, we say, possess a new source of in- 

 terest, now thai it has been found that they will 

 yield us good double flowers. So it is argued by 

 M. Emile Chate, in a recent number of L'Horti- 

 ciilteur Francais^ from whi h we glean some of the 

 annexed particulars. 



The first Pelargonium with perfectly double 

 flowers, was raised, he observes, in 1859, by M. 

 Martial de Chanflourd, of Clermont Ferrand, a dis- 

 tinguished amateur, after whom it is named, and 

 who had already in 1855, obtained the variety 

 known under the name of Auguste Ferrier. This 

 latter variety had remained for nearly ten years in 

 the garden in Clermont without its merit being ap- 

 preciated. In Auguste Ferrier, however, the doub- 

 ling is not so fully developed as in Martial de Chan- 

 flourd, but the coloring is more brilliant ; and as it 

 produces good seeds, it has become the parent of 

 numerous varieties, of which Martial de Chanflourd 



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