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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
JMMtural department* 
NEW YORK HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY- 
The members of the Society met again on 
Monday evening, May 28th, to make further 
arrangements for their exhibition Tin 
members have been very generous in theii 
offers of voluntary premiums, thus incurring 
no expense to the Society. A committee 
was chosen to appoint judges, make choice 
of speaker, and perfect other necessary busi 
ness. It is proposed to have an Exhibition 
of high order, and to admit no plants except 
those worthy of careful inspection. The 
members of the Brooklyn Horticultural So¬ 
ciety are invited to be present, and all the 
officers and trustees of the Hunt Botanical 
Gardens. The Exhibition will be held some¬ 
where near the 19th of June. 
Mr. Stephen Cranston, of Hoboken, ex¬ 
hibited some choice cut flowers, consisting ol 
Pelargoniums, Tulips, Fuchsias, Soirees, and 
a very novel green Rose. The Secretary, 
Peter B. Mead, exhibited also a fine bunch of 
Rhubarb. 
JARRING CURCULIOS- 
C. S., of Shelburne Mass., states in the 
Country Gentleman that he has fairly tested 
all the usual remedies prepared for the cur- 
culio, including lime, ashes, plaster, sulphur, 
cotton, &c., and proved them of no avail. 
He thinks that where they have been sup¬ 
posed to be successful, either the curculio 
has not been there at all, or in numbers so 
small as not seriously to effect damage. He 
says that this insect, like all others, is mi¬ 
gratory, overrunning one locality and vaca¬ 
ting another in close proximity. He has 
seen them rise in the air on the wing more 
than fifty feet, which contradicts the errone¬ 
ous impression that they must necessarily 
crawl up the trunk of the tree and can be 
kept off by the cotton remedy. He advises, 
those who would be sure of a crop of plums, 
to commence, as soon as they are fairly set, 
jarring the trees over sheets once a day (at 
noon), and kill the curculios that fall off, 
continuing the operation for two weeks. 
This has secured him a bountiful crop where 
all other means have failed. 
Carnations. —Where it is desirable to have 
late flowering beds of these, this is a very 
good time to propagate them for that purpose. 
Neither knife nor dibber is required, either 
in preparing the cuttings or pricking them 
out where they are to strike, nor any arti¬ 
ficial heat, further than placing a hand-glass 
over them when pricked out. Having fixed 
upon the stem from which you mean to 
draw the piping, take the former in your left 
hand, and the top of the latter, with four or 
more leaves between the two first fingers 
and thumb of your right, making a steady 
gentle pull; the stem will give way at the 
place most suitable for its making roots. 
Then, on a south border, where a place has 
been prepared tor their reception by remov¬ 
ing the surface equal to the area of the open 
end of the handlights destined to cover the 
cuttings, to the depth of two inches, and 
filled with pure sand neatly leveled, but not 
pressed with a spade or other instrument, 
the cuttings may be inserted, the sand set¬ 
tled with a gentle watering, and the hand- 
light put over them. Treated in that way, 
one may safely calculate upon nine-tenths of 
them taking root. Plants so obtained will 
dower till the winter sets in.—H., in Gar¬ 
deners' Chronicle. 
CELESTIAL FLOWERS AT THE CAPITAL. 
Our readers are aware that certain Chi¬ 
nese plants, procured by Commodore Perry, 
were some time ago forwarded to the public 
gardens and conservatory in Washington. 
It will afford them pleasure to know that 
these far-off products are in good condition. 
They are occompanied, with others since re¬ 
ceived from Japan, by a Chinese gardener, 
who is said to be well versed in the Eastern 
style of trimming shrubs and training of 
dowers. By this method of horticulture, 
almost any desired form of ornament is pro¬ 
duced. A deer is made to be represented by 
plants so constructed that four stems look 
tike the legs ; while the branches and leaves, 
twined around a hidden bamboo or cane 
frame, suitably trimmed, bear resemblance 
to the head, horns, ears, back and tail of the 
animal. So adroitly is this art of the East 
displayed, that it would seem as if the deer 
lived again, shrouded in foliage, and filled 
with the juices of green and fragrant plants. 
For the gratification of the curious in hor¬ 
ticultural matters, we subjoin a list of these 
rare exotics : “ Four yellow or tea roses ; 
4 light red roses; 4 pink roses; 4 lan fas, or 
flower; 4 blue magnolia ; 4 qui fas ; 4 China 
grafted black roses ; 4 koco or small magno¬ 
lia flower; 4 China yellow aram ; 4 hymo- 
nicalus ; 4 lungan ; 4 guavas fruit; 4Loquat 
fruit; 4 custard apple, fruit; 4sweetwham- 
pee, fruit; 4 sweet carambolo, qj- China 
gooseberry; 4 acid carambolo, or China 
gooseberry; 4 acid Whampee ; 4 pumbalos, 
fruit; 4 mangres, fruit; 4 large mandarin 
oranges, lace skins ; 15 black tea, two varie¬ 
ties ; 4 small mandarin oranges, lace skins ; 
4 China mandarin oranges, hard skins; 4 
cumquats, fruit; 4 large yellow persimmon ; 
4 large round rose apples ; 4 large round red 
persimmon; 4 small round red persimmon ; 
5 small myrtle; 4 large rose apple; 4 small 
long rose apple ; 4 laichs, fruit and flower; 
4 papayas, fruit; 4 very fine lace skin man¬ 
darin orange; 4 nondescript, blue lily; 4 
red double-head sfar lily ; 4 China red lily, 
many heads; 4 China yellow lily, many 
heads; 4 China, single head white lily ; 4 
cymbidium; 12 nondescript, white small 
flower ; 20 lemon grass ; 12 Peruvian cry- 
nam ; 20 small hymonicalus ; 20 yellow day 
lily; 20 Benjamin flower; 3 blue magnolia; 
1 round rose apple, large ; 2 China dates. 
The country is indebted for care bestowed 
on these specimens from other lands to Dr. 
James Morrow, of South Carolina, the agri¬ 
culturist and horticulturist to the Japan Ex¬ 
pedition. Our friends who visit Washington 
should not fail to pay them a visit. 
Saturday Mail. 
TREATMENT OF THE CINERARIA. 
This is a very interesting genus of showy 
greenhouse plants, growing from six inches 
to two and a half feet high ; yet, common 
as they are, few manage them well. We 
too often see tall drawn-up plants, instead of 
dwarf bushes. Propagation is easily effected 
by dividing the young offsets from the old 
plants, and potting into small sized pots ; but 
cuttings are preferable, which should be put 
in about the end of June, and placed in a cold 
frame ; or, select seed from the best varie¬ 
ties, sow early in the spring, in wide-mouthed 
pots or pans, and place them where they 
may receive a gentle bottom heat; and 
when the seeds have germinated, and the 
rough leaves are making their appearance, 
move them carefully into small sized pots, 
also continue them in a gentle heat, until the 
weather will permit them to be removed to 
a frame. Let their position be close to the 
glass—kept shaded and free from air for a 
lew days; after which apply a little air, 
gradually increasing it until they become 
comparatively hardened. So that, after a 
short period, air may be applied without en¬ 
gendering any disorder to the plants. Wa¬ 
ter should be applied moderately—just 
enough to keep them moist. Never by any 
means allow them to become thoroughly dry, 
as an insufficiency of water is the sole cause 
of that destructive fungus called mildew, 
which gradually increases, consequently the 
plants get into an unhealthy state, and be¬ 
come next to useless. Then how important 
it is to be on the watch for this insidious foe ; 
for prevention is better than cure, and it is 
much easier to expel the disease on its first 
approach than when he has usurped his de¬ 
structive reign. 
Three things have come under my obser¬ 
vation, as regards excluding'this encroa' h- 
ing fungus. First, by admitting a free cir¬ 
culation of air, which should be regularly at¬ 
tended to every day, and shut off at night. 
Secondly, as before stated, attending care¬ 
fully to the watering. Thirdly, by removing 
the dead foliage from them, which is also a 
harbor for green-fly. By adopting the 
above treatment I have successfully kept 
this destructive parasite under. If green¬ 
fly appears, with which they are very apt to 
be infested, fumigate with tobacco. They 
should now require a shift into a larger 
sized pot, and let the following compost be 
used ; turfy peat ; fibry loam, leaf-mold, de¬ 
composed cow-dung, and drift sand, equal 
parts of each, beaten roughly together, mix¬ 
ing in a little silver sand. Prepare a six- 
inch sized pot, with a good drainage, over 
which place a thin layer of turfy-peat, to 
prevent the soil from intermixing with the 
sherds. Repot, and again place them in the 
frame. Water moderately, and the admit¬ 
tance of a good current of air will also have 
great influence on them. Let all possible 
care be taken not to have the roots coiled 
and cramped by their coming in contact with 
the side of the pot, which is generally the 
case after subsisting in the same pot too long. 
Then, as soon as the roots are penetrating 
through the soil, let the plants be again re¬ 
potted into a larger sized pot, using the 
aforesaid admixture, and be replaced in the 
same position as heretofore described, 
keeping them thoroughly clear from aphides 
by occasionally fumigating. By this time 
they will have made great progress, and be¬ 
come good sized plants, and those which 
will not be likely to be overgrown by such 
a stimulant may have occasional waterings 
with liquid manure. Cow-dung is the best 
manure to use for this purpose, as a much 
brighter color is effected. About the end of 
October potting should be proceeded with, 
taking care to pot them into the same soil as 
that described. A change of soil at this 
period is highly prejudical. Six or eight- 
inch pots should be devoted to the largest 
plants ; and soil rougher than that formerly 
described. Place them into a greenhouse, 
close to the glass ; thus they will be pre¬ 
vented from being drawn up too weakly. 
They may be also grown in a frame during 
the winter, if there is a flue or hot-water ap¬ 
paratus, to prevent the frost from injuring 
them. Between this and the time of flower¬ 
ing let all means be taken to insure a vigor¬ 
ous growth, carefully tying out, so that the 
plants may assume a neat and compact 
form. About the end of February they will 
have expanded their bloom, then the varie¬ 
ties of color, long continuance in bloom, and 
the splendid show which will be performed 
by them, in the greenhouse or conservatory, 
at this period of the year, when there is lit- 
