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fested with vermin, dash clear lime water over 
them. 
Grafts. — Remove the clay from the grafts, 
and slacken the ligatures : be particular in 
training in the young shoots; and in standards 
tie them to stakes put in for that purpose. 
Rub off all the shoots issuing below the grafts ; 
this applies also, as a principle, to the grafting 
and budding of last year. 
Nectarines. — Keep nailing and thinning the 
wood : in young trees the stronger shoots may 
be stopped, so as to increase the strength of 
the others. Attend to raising and lowering 
the branches according to their strength, as 
before recommended : thin the fruit to ten 
inches apart, if the tree is in good condition. 
The wood if laid in at five inches will be suf- 
ficiently thick ; if there is more than this, thin 
it. Should green fly or red spider still appear, 
apply the syringe or engine, with soap and 
soot water (clear), and with some force, for the 
latter ; and fumigate or syringe with tobacco 
water for the former. 
Peaches. — The treatment for nectarines is 
applicable here. Liquid manure may be given 
now with benefit to all: for transplanted trees, 
make a wide basin around them : all waterings 
should be thorough ones, and afterwards the 
dry soil should be again returned; this prevents 
evaporation, and keeps the soil from cracking. 
When frost has destroyed the crops, a less 
rich soil will do ; and the chief end in view 
must be the proper ripening of the wood : thin 
it well, and entirely remove ill-placed shoots. 
Pears. — See that the breast wood, especially 
of the finer sorts, is kept in, so as to give the 
tree all the benefit of light and heat, thus 
concentrating the strength of the tree in the 
fruit and buds as much as possible. 
Strawberries. — The late sorts should be 
watered and mulched: withhold, as far as pos- 
sible, all moisture from those which are ripen- 
ing. Now is the best time to prepare plants 
for forcing, by getting the runners rootfd, 
thus : — stop the runner beyond the plant ; 
place the plant in a three-inch pot, using rich 
turfy loam, than which, if mixed with super- 
phosphate of lime, nothing better can be used 
throughout ; give occasional waterings ; and 
if well firmed with a peg or a stone, they will 
be ready to repot, in a fortnight or three 
weeks. Protect, by netting, the ripe and 
ripening fruit. 
Vines. — Thin the wood to as much as will 
be required for a crop next season : tuck in 
the shoots ; thin the bunches and the berries, 
as soon as they are well set. 
Wasps. — Destroy all the nests of these as 
soon as possible, by some of the several plans 
which are adopted for this purpose. Those 
hanging on trees, &c. cut away and drowned : 
both should be done late at night. 
Those who cultivate fruits will find it 
worth while to ascertain whether they possess 
the most desirable kinds ; and when this is 
found not to be the case, improved kinds 
should be gradually substituted. In most 
cases this can be more easily and speedily 
effected by budding or grafting the old trees 
(if healthy) at the proper season. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
FIRST EXHIBITION FOE 1846. 
The first of the magnificent flower shows 
of the Horticultural Society took place in 
the gardens at Chiswick on May 9th. The 
day was a fine one, and nearly five thousand 
visitors were present. We shall only allow 
ourselves space to notice a few of the leading 
plants. 
Stove Plants. — Mr. Green, of Cheam, had a 
beautiful Ixora coccinea, upwards of five feet 
high, and well clothed with foliage, on which 
were twenty large heads of brilliant scarlet 
flowers, and several smaller heads. A smaller 
plant of the same kind, from Mr. Clarke, of 
Muswell Hill, less than two feet high, had, 
altogether, forty heads of bloom. Clerodendron 
Kamipferi, with its ample leaves and towering 
panicle of scarlet flowers, was contributed by 
Mr. Barnes, of Bromley, and by Mr. Robert- 
son, of Ealing ; each plant having one stem. 
Lantana mutabilis, from Mr. Catleugh, of 
Chelsea, formed a pretty bush, two feet high 
and a yard across, studded with Verbena-like 
heads of purplish flowers. Siphocampylos 
coccineus, a new plant of last season, (see 
Ann. of Hort. p. 449) was shown by Mr. 
Robertson, a yard across, and gay with its 
drooping scarlet flowers ; it was also shown by 
Mr. Epps, of Maidstone, in a smaller state, but 
equally pretty. Mr. Green had Achimenes 
picta, a yard across, and well flowered. Mr. 
Beck, of Isleworth, had a very neat small 
plant of Achimenes argyrostigma, (see Ann. 
of Hort. p. 433,) growing in one of his small 
slate pots, of very neat construction. Mr. 
Green had a beautiful plant, about two feet 
high, of a very rare Cactus, called Epiphyllum 
Russellianum, which in habit resembles E. 
truncatum, but in the form and colour of the 
flowers — bright rose purple — approaches Diso- 
cactus biformis (see Ann. of Hort. p. 177). 
Greenhouse Plants. — There were several 
beautiful plants of Tropasolum tricolor. Mr. 
Stanley, of Sidcup, had one on a curved shield 
wire trellis, three feet across ; Mr. Epps had 
one on a four feet trellis of this construc- 
tion ; Mr. Hunt, of Bromley, had one on a 
three feet trellis : all these were closely 
covered with foliage, and quite thick of scarlet 
and black flowers. Mr. Robertson had Acro- 
phyllum venosum, a round bush, two feet high, 
