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been found a very dilEcult matter to stop. That great authority, T. A. Knight, 
however, says If to four parts of scraped cheese be added one part of 
calcined oyster-shell or other pure calcareous earth, and this composition be 
pressed strongly into the pores of the wood, the sap will instantly cease to 
flow, so that the largest branch may of course be taken ofi* at any season 
with safety. 
GUMMING OF FEUIT TKEES.—When a tree is found to exude 
a quantity of gum, the cause will be most frequently found in defective 
drainage and unfavourable subsoil. 
HORSE RADISH. — This is a useful and wholesome vegetable that 
deserves more attention than is at present bestowed upon it by the Queens- 
land market gardener. The plant thrives best in a deep, soft, sandy loam, 
not very dry, and never inundated in water. The ground requires to be 
trenched and well pulverised. Use good strong crowns for sets, which 
need not be more than 2 in. long. The b.ds should be 4 ft. wide. In 
planting take out a trench across the bed about 12 in. deep, level and 
plant your sets along the bottom about 0 in. apart. When this is done take 
out another trench, the mould from which place over the sets of the first 
trench, and proceed thus to the end of your bed. For manure use leaf- 
mould or well-rotted cow-dung. 
HYACINTHS IN GLASSES. — Fill the glasses with pure water, so 
that the base of the bulb may just touch the water; then place them for 
about a week in a dark room ; this will promote the formation of root. 
After this expose them to as much light as possible. The water should be 
changed as it becomes impure. In doing this draw carefully out of the 
glass all the roots, and well rinse them in clean water, taking care not to 
injure tiiem ; and at the same lime well clean the in.side of the glass. 
LAYERING. — This is a method of increasing plants without at once 
separating from the parent. Various methods are adopted to suit the 
requirements of difler ent plants. A few notes may be given, such as — For 
all plants which are of a brittle character, it is well to give the branchlet of 
which it is intended to form the layer a twist between the thumb and finger 
to cause it to crack longiiudinally before cutting the tongue; informing 
this latter, alwaj's cut just bedow one of the upper buds of the shoot as it 
lies in the ground, as it will be le.-s liable to break ; a piece of brick, rock, 
or stone will be found preferable to the usual pegs, and save time. In 
multiplying plants of the superior varieties of Blackberry, the surest mode 
of obtaining good rooted young stock is to take a dibber-stitk and go round 
the jjareut plant, dibble holes, and insert into eacli, point downwar is, the 
end of all shoots available for the purpose. They are sure to make good 
bushy plants in a very short ti ne, while the ordinary mode of layering is 
seldom satisfactory, and never i>leasant to perform. 
LEAF PROPAGATION.— The propagation of plants by their leaves 
is a method of rapid increase adopted with great advantage in the 
case of those which succeed. An incision made in any firm part of 
the midrib, as well as the petiole, will in certain iristances induce the pro- 
duction of a young plant. The kinds of plants to be so propagated should 
have, as a rule, thick fleshy leaves, such as B.-gouias, Gloxinias, &c. Take 
the leaves which arc nearly fully matured, not too old, and peg them on 
light sa’idy soil, and keep them somewhat dry, until the bulbily-like plants 
are formed where the incisions were made. 
LECHEGUANA HONEY.— A dangerous kind of honey, supposed to 
be furnished by Faultinia anstf'cilis and Serju?iui lethalis. This is given 
because plants of the above genera are to be met with in garden culture. 
LIE, LIEF, LOOF.— Names for the fibre by which the petioles of the 
Date Palm are bound together. 
