216 
THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST 
[ September, 
to the attractions of Edinburgh. In fact, Dr. Cleghorn, alluding to the purchase, at the last 
meeting of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, went so far as to say that “ he thought the 
addition of the Inverleith grounds to the Botanic Garden was the greatest improvement of the 
city of Edinburgh, in a sanitary and educational point of view, which had taken place during 
the last thirty years.” 
-^HOSE wlio duly appreciate the Tomato^ observes a writer in the 
Garden^ will probably fancy they know all needful ways of cooking it; so did the 
writer, till he recently tasted a tomato omelette^ which is delicious. It is made 
by simply incorporating a few good tomatos (cut in not too small slices) with an ordinary 
omelette aux fines herbes. 
- ®HE Cijrtanthera magnifica has been found hardy in the College 
Botanic Garden, Dublin, where a plant of it has been growing for years, in the 
open border in front of one of the houses, without the slightest protection. Each 
year it grows into a well-finished, symmetrical specimen, but fails to perfect its blooms before 
the autumn chills. The circumstance is suggestive of turning out young plants into the 
open ground for the summer months, and then lifting and potting for flowering indoors. 
- a basket plant, the Convolvulus mauritauicus^ a thickly growing 
and drooping little greenhouse plant of hardy constitution, producing a great 
quantity of pretty pale blue flowers throughout the most of the year, may be 
recommended. By keeping it growing, and removing the oldest shoots, in order to give 
place to the young ones, it may be classed amongst perpetual-blooming greenhouse plants. 
Good specimens of it are of themselves suflficient to furnish a basket. This Convolvulus is 
readily propagated by division, and grows well in a window, blooming most freely in a sunny 
position. 
- ^T the summer show of the Eoyal Horticultural Society of Ireland, the 
prize for New Tioses sent out since 1873, twenty-four blooms, two of each variety, 
was won by Messrs. Saunders and Son, who exhibited the following sorts :—Miss 
Hassard, La Rosiere, Rev. J. B. Oamm, Thomas Mills, Queen of Waltham, Triomphe de 
Franco, Gonsoli Gaelano, Comtesse de Serenye, Madame Prosper Langier, Peach Blossom, St. 
George, and Mdllo. Marie Cointet. 
-- ^HE following is vouched for as a good plan to stop the bleeding of a 
Vine, by “ C. E. L.,” a correspondent of the Field newspaper:—Apply hot grease 
to the bleeding part (having first wiped the sap off), and when it has cooled, 
which it does almost directly, apply weak glue, in a cool state, over the greased part. He is 
anxious to have this remedy of his made known, having tried it with the greatest success ; 
indeed, the vines may be operated on at any season of the yeai*, and the application will at 
once stop the bleeding. 
- ®HE Use of Iron for general purposes, as well as for strictly horticul¬ 
tural uses, is very large. Bust is an oxide of iron, which, as every one knows to 
his cost, is peculiarly destructive in damp situations. But rust is not the only 
oxide of iron ; among them is the black or magnetic oxide of iron, which is all but imperish¬ 
able under ordinary agencies. According to Professor Barff, if any iron article be exposed 
to the action of superheated steam at a very high temperature, it will become coated with a 
film of this magnetic oxide, which is harder and more resisting than the original iron. 
Articles so treated resist any exposure to the weather, and are rendered imperishable, for all 
practical purposes. 
- Kn order to Render Wood Uninflammable, the following plan has been 
recommended by M. F. Sicburger. He first washed the wood twice with a hot 
and saturated solution of three parts alum and one part of sulphate of iron, and 
next with a more dilute solution of sulphate of iron, to which sufficient pipe-clay 
was added to render it as thick as oil-paint. 
