1876.] 
SALTING GRAVEL WALKS.—TILLANDSIA MUSAICA. 
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peach ; Ruby Queen (Hawke), deep shining ruby; Walden King , bright scarlet; 
Walden Queen, beautiful soft delicate flesh; and Walden Primrose, clear pale 
primrose. 
It may be added that of this list of flowers, all are seedlings raised by Mr. 
Cliater, with the exception of two raised by Lord Hawke.—R. Dean, Ealing. 
HOW TO CLEAN GRAVEL WALKS WITH SALT. 
’0 maintain garden walks in the best of order, and free from weeds, is often a 
very difficult task, especially where the means and assistance at the com¬ 
mand of the gardener are inadequate to the extent of ground allotted to his 
charge. Walks, moreover, to be really smooth and pleasant to walk upon, 
require either to be hand-picked or salted, and never touched by hoe or rake, 
which only bring the gravel to the surface, and leave the binding materials 
beneath. 
The plan we practise here is so simple and effectual, that I will try to explain 
it for the information of the readers of the Florist. Instead of boiling-water to 
melt the salt and applying it hot, as is done by Mr. Fleming’s method, we simply 
put the salt into cold water, at the rate of § lb. to the gallon of water. The water- 
cask we use holds upwards of a hogshead, and 28 lb. of salt is put at one time with 
5G gallons of water ; while one man fills in the water another is stirring the salt, 
and by the time the proper quantity is in, the salt has melted, and the salted water 
is ready to move away to where it has to be applied. The two men, being each pro¬ 
vided with a large watering-pan having on it a widish-spreading rose, commence 
watering by facing the centre of the walk, and keeping their hands low, they move 
along the sides for a short distance first, so as not to allow any of the water to be 
nearer the box-edging or grass verge than about 4 in. They then turn into the 
centre of the walk, and apply only sufficient to make it wet all over the surface. 
This small quantity soon dries up and leaves the walk with a whitish appearance, 
which remains until rain falls to wash it down ; and then, as soon as it becomes 
dry it assumes a bright and clean appearance, and will keep so throughout the 
season. 
The great desideratum is, however, to make the application only when the 
walks are dry, and the weather clear and hot. Any time during the month of 
April is a suitable period. I prefer the coarse salt to fine. What we use is the 
same as the fish-curers make use of. The cost here is £2 per ton. J. Webster, 
Gordon Castle Gardens. 
TILLANDSIA MUSAICA. 
'HIS handsomely marked Bromeliaceous plant, from the United States of 
Colombia, was sent out last season by Mr. W. Bull. It is a stove epiphyte, 
and as the illustration shows, is very handsomely marked. The leaves 
w which, as usual, sheath each other at the base, are somewhat channelled, 
teeuryed towards the apex, where they are either blunt or haye a short mucionato 
