DAISY EXTRACTOR. 
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Cauliflowers should be planted on a south aspect, under hand¬ 
glasses in frames, and close under a south wall. Let some be potted 
in sixty-sized pots, and sheltered in a frame, to turn out in spring 
for the first crop. 
Lettuces, to stand the winter, should be planted close under a 
south wall, and some in frames, lest those under the wall should be 
destroyed. 
Herbs, for forcing, should be potted, as mint, tarragon, &c. 
Onions must be housed without delay, if this were not done last 
month. 
Asparagus Beds may receive a top-dressing towards the end of the 
present or beginning of next month. 
Potatoes must be taken up, or they will be injured by the frost. 
Radishes sown on an old hotbed, will come into use about Christ¬ 
mas. 
FLORICULTURE. 
ARTICLE VI.—A DAISY EXTRACTOR. 
BY VIOLA. 
In winter, when the fields are bare, and all the weeds are shut up 
in their safe and quiet cells, beneath the sheltering turf, a bright 
warm day, will seldom fail to lure abroad, one or two of the abori¬ 
ginal daisies, to cheer the casual footsteps of the wanderer who takes 
“ a Winter’s walk at noon.” 
Then the little daring strangers find a welcome; then are their 
chearful eyes greeted by equally charming eyes of Childhood ; and 
many a Chaucer’s darling,” is brought in, to linger out its three 
days of beauty, among the groups of exotics, that decorate the vase 
upon the mantle-shelf. 
But nipping frosts will yield to the influence of genial airs,—as a 
harsh spirit is subdued by gentleness;—and then the fields are gay 
with flowers; and the erewhile friendly winter daisies come out in 
crowds, and the pasture that had been cheered,—becomes not only 
disfigured, but spoiled by their over population ; and now our lawns 
are daily mown with “ daisy cutters,”—and are strewn with their heads 
in littering heaps: Now too, the discovery of a more efficient mode 
of destroying the intrusive weed, would be a “ consummation, devoutly 
to be wished :” and this is, I believe, accomplished, in the little in¬ 
strument of which I send a drawing and description. The desirable¬ 
ness of such a tool had long been obvious,— the inefficiency of the 
