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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
a stock of plants, a few old roots should be placed in heat in Feb- 
ruary; take oft' the young shoots a3 they advance, and strike them 
in a similar way to dahlias. They should afterwards have a shift, 
and be kept in a frame till all danger of frost is over, when they 
may he planted out as above. 
NOTES FOR AMATEUR GARDENERS. 
for Fruit Trees. — The following mixture is used 
the gardens of the Horticultnral Society in the form 
a paint, and is applied every spring to the bark of 
ry hardy fruit tree : — Two parts tenacious clay, one 
ui lirne, three-fourths of soot, soft soap, sulphur, and 
size, the last to make it stick the better to the branches. 
Paint for Iron Work. — Mix two-thirds Stockholm tar with 
one-third gas tar ; boil them together, and when thoroughly incor- 
porated, apply the mixture as hot as possible. If lime is added, it 
nardens and thickens this paint, but renders it much more difficult 
to put on. 
How to Make and Use Liquid Manures.— For vines, peaches, 
standard apple and other fruit trees, and for strong-growing edibles, 
such as cucumbers, celery, cabbage, etc., use one part, by weight, of 
cow-dung, with four parts of tepid water, or the collected drainage 
of the cow-house or pigstye, diluted with a similar quantity of 
water. Stove-plants, such as pines, forced vines, peaches, and mul- 
berries, besides most flowering bulbs and shrubs, relish a liquid 
manure made of soot, in the proportion of six quarts of soot to a 
hogshead of water. The principal materials now used for liquid 
manures are to be used in the following proportions for all ordinary 
purposes : — Guano, dissolve fifty pounds weight in ten gallons of 
water, and of this strong solution, add five ounces to ten gallons of 
water for use ; sheep’s dung, one peck to thirty gallons ; sulphate of 
ammonia, a quarter of an ounce to every gallon. 
Composition for Wounds on Roses, etc. — Take five-eighths 
of black pitch, one-eighth rosin, one-eighth tallow, one-eighth bees’- 
wax ; these should be mixed in a small pipkin, and dissolved over a 
slow fire. Apply it to the wounds with a brush, and it will heal 
them, as well as prevent their dying back. — Jones's Gardener s 
Receipt Boole. 
How to Prepare Nails for Wall Trees. — They should be 
of cast-iron. Before using them, make them red-hot, and then 
throw them into cold linseed oil. This gives them a varnish which 
preserves them from rusting, and prevents the mortar of the wall 
sticking to them when they are drawn. — Jones's Gardener's Receipt 
Book. 
Sibthorpea Europea. — An Old Subscriber . — You are probably keeping 
your Sibthorpea too dry : it likes a peaty soil and plenty of moisture. The natural 
habitats of the plant are wet banks, the sides of springs, and the borders of 
rivulets. 
