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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ December. 
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. 
’HE very best receipt for broiling Mushrooms or Agarics of every kind, 
is Soyer’s :—“ Place young fresh Agarics or Mushrooms on toast 
freshly made and properly divided. Salt, pepper, and place upon each 
one a small piece of butter (or a little scalded or clotted cream). Put one clove on 
the toast, then cover with a glass, and bake for a quarter of an hour, or broil before 
a quick fire for twenty minutes. Do not remove the glass until it is served up, by which 
time the vapour will have become condensed and gone into the toast, and when the glass 
is removed a fine aroma of Mushroom will pervade the table.” A common kitchen basin, 
though not so elegant, will equally answer the purpose of a glass as a cover for baking. 
- - double-flowered Allamanda cathartica has been obtained by Mr. 
Hossack, of Alderley Park Gardens, Congleton. The flower owes its 
“ doubleness to a substitution of petals for stamens, as is the case in the 
allied Oleander. We presume it is a “ sport,” and if it is so, it is certainly 
desirable that it should be perpetuated by cuttings or otherwise. 
- <!12cIeeds on walks may he kept under by watering the gravel with 
the following solution:—Dissolve 2 lbs. of blue vitriol in an old pan, and 
then dilute it with six or seven gallons of water; apply this through the 
fine rose of a watering pot, and will destroy every sign of vegetation, and after a shower 
render the gravel as bright as when just put down. The walk should not be trodden on 
w r hen newly wetted, as the vitriol will destroy the shoes. 
- (Certain new Kitchen Apples have been shown during the autumn 
at South Kensington. Messrs. Harrison, of Leicester, sent one called 
Annie Elizabeth, a fine large seedling, with a brisk, crisp flesh; this re¬ 
ceived a first-class certificate as a kitchen Apple. Mr. Sampson, of Yeovil, furnished 
Benedictine, a large seedling of pale colour, with a fine brisk acidity, and said to keep till 
January. Messrs. Small, of Colnbrook, sent a large variety of good flavour, named Queen 
Victoria, but the Committee did not regard it as sufficiently distinct from Golden Noble. 
- simple but useful garden contrivance, which is called by the 
meaningless name of Floreten, consists of two rings of galvanised wire 
of different sizes, connected by an intervening piece bent at a right angle. 
The lower horizontal ring is intended to hold a vase, a flowerpot, or Orchid block; the 
upper ring serves to attach it to a nail in the wall, or a projecting branch. The contrivance, 
is susceptible of ornamentation, and is specially serviceable for balconies and window 
gardens, and for covering blank walls. The rings are made of various sizes, and may be had 
by the dozen, of the manufacturer, Mr. Tait, of ltugby. 
-Et Castle Kennedy, Mr. Eowler has tins year, owing to the intense 
sun heat, placed tissue-paper over his Grapes to intervene between the sun’s 
rays and the bunches, so as to prevent sun-stroke. The paper does not affect 
the colouring, and seems to possess the power of frightening away mice. 
-One of the prettiest of Basket plants for the roof of a hothouse, 
suspended among the climbers, is the old and half-forgotten Paisselia junceci. 
A fine healthy plant in full flower, with drooping shoots a yard long, of the 
healthiest green, illumined with its coral flower-tubes, would show that the 
true position for this fine old plant is to be thus suspended in a basket. 
