710 EXTRACTS — HORTICULTURE. 
the moisture. Water now and then, according to the season. By the cud of Au- 
gust, cut the shoot half through, just below the pot, so as to increase the num- 
ber of roots, which will be formed about this time in the soil contained in the pot. 
In the course of the month of October, according to the season, cut the shoot 
quite through, and remove the pot with the vine laden with from twelve to twen- 
ty bunches of fruit, to a dry airy room, with a northern exposure ; here water 
occasionally, till the leaves drop off, but no longer. Thus treated, the fruit will 
keep good on the vine till the end of February, preserving its natural flavour. 
The best sort for this purpose is the white sweet- water. — Pruss. Gard. Soc. 
Germination of Seeds. — Mr. Bosse finds that the germination of seeds is 
accelerated by moistening them malic acid ; and also that covering seeds with 
the pulp of rotten apples, causes them to germinate sooner than usual. — Prusa. 
Gard. Soc. 
Chloride of Lime. — Unless spread very thin on the ground, it will do 
harm ; spread thin, and intimately mixed with the soil ; when the latter is in a 
dry state, its effects are similar to those of the common carbonate of lime. — 
Pruss. Gard. Soc. 
Culture of the Carnation. — The flowers are propagated either by seed or 
by layers ; the first is the method for raising new flowers ; the other is the way to 
preserve and multiply those of former years. To raise them from seed ; that 
from the best double flowers should be selected, which will produce the strongest 
plants, and should be sown in April in pots or boxes of fresh light earth, mixed 
with rotten cow manure, exposed to the morning sun, and occasionally watered. 
In a month the plants will appear, and in July should be transplanted into the 
beds of the same earth, in an open airy siutation, at six inches distance, and there 
left to flower. When in flower, the finest kinds should be marked, and all the 
layers that can be, should, during the time of flowering, be laid down from them ; 
these will have taken root by the end of August, and are then to be taken oft" 
and planted out in pots in pairs. — E. Rudge, Esq. F. R. S. — Gard. Mag. 
Sieue's Universal Garden Syringe. — (Fig. 115) consists of only one ap- 
paratus, which can instantly by turning a pin, be applied so as to serve the pur- 
pose of four difl'erent caps. By means of a universal joint (a) the cap or head 
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b) may be turned in any direction, and to any angle (c). The pin by which the 
alterations in the rose head are effected, works in a groove (d) in the face of the 
rose ; and by it a very fine shower, a coase shower, or a single jet from one open- 
ing (e) may be eflectcd at pleasure. The valve (f ) by which the water is ad 
mitted to the syringe, is in the side of the rose. — Gard. Mag. 
