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making it afresh, and you will not be troubled with tlirips. For the green-fly 
use Appleby’s Fumigator and his prepared tobacco-paper. To effectually cure 
the gouty stems, place four bricks flat-ways round each plant, filling up inside 
the bricks with charcoal, and never allow a drop of water to go inside the bricks. 
The soil I use is good sound turfy loam, rather light than heavy, trodden 
firmly before planting. Excepting syringing with the soot and lime water once 
a week, I never allow any water to touch the foliage. By keeping the floor and 
the bed moist, the plants will help themselves.—R. Gilbert, Burghley. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
@ HE Report of the Royal Horticultural Society at the Anniversary meeting 
on the 14th ult. was of a very favourable character. The Society’s 
f finances are improving, the Committees work well, the Wednesday meetings 
are eminently successful, and the garden at Chiswick, the real horticultural 
workshop of the Society, though reduced in size from 30 acres to 12, is yet likely to be even 
more useful than before, because its contents will be more select, and its keeping better 
cared for, while the space will be enough for all necessary work. Mr. Murray is to give a 
course of lectures on Economic Entomology in the course of the season; and the International 
Exhibition is expected to make adequate return to the Fellows for the privileges accorded to 
the Royal Commissioners on behalf of those who visit it. 
- have lately met with Gynerium argenteum pumilum, a dwarf form 
of Pampas Grass , exactly suited for positions where a miniature Pampas might 
be desired. It is a plant with all the features of the ordinary Pampas, except 
its bulk and height; its flowering culms rise only about 3 ft., where the ordinary kind grown 
beside it reaches 6 ft. or 7 ft.; the panicle is erect, silvery, and of somewhat pyramidal outline, 
in which respect it seems to differ from the ordinary form. It is a seedling, now of several 
years’ probation, raised by Mr. Charles Noble, of the Sunningdale Nursery. 
- following mixture has been strongly recommended for the Destruc¬ 
tion of Mildew, Scale, Mealy-bug, Red-spider, and Thrips on out-door trees and 
shrubs, and on stove and greenhouse plants :—2 oz. flowers of sulphur, worked 
into a paste with a little water; 2 oz. washing soda ; ^ oz. common shag tobacco ; and a piece of 
quicklime about the size of a duck’s egg; put all into a saucepan with 1 gallon of water, boil, 
and stir for a quarter of an hour, and let the whole settle until it becomes cold and clear. It 
should then be poured off, leaving the sediment behind, and will keep good for a long time. In 
using it water is to be added, according to the strength or substance of the foliage, and the 
plants are to be thoroughly syringed afterwards. 
- J&ohe samples of Celery recently sent to us enable us to say that 
Williams Matchless White , a tall Celery (3 ft.), weighing 5 lb. 5 oz., was tender 
and solid, and of a remarkably sweet and mild flavour ; in fact, much superior to 
Turner’s Incomparable ; while Williams' Matchless Red, which grew about the same height, 
and weighed 41b. 14 oz., was remarkably solid and fleshy, tender, mild in flavour, and with 
very little colour. Matchless Pink had much the same appearance, but had a stronger-flavour. 
These two varieties of Matchless Celery are undoubtedly good, and might be grown without 
risk of disappointment. 
- £The Rev. Mr. Radclyffe reports, in a contemporary, that in his judg¬ 
ment the best Early Potato in the world (not a frame Potato) is the old original 
Ashleaf ; but, as it requires extra cultivation and shelter from spring frosts, 
which destroy the haulm, he recommends the Royal Ashleaf, which is very hardy, a good 
cropper, always level and uniform in shape, and very good. Myatt’s Ashleaf is also an admir- 
