COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION. 
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June 19. 
leaves of the plant, by being dried, lose tbeir acridity, 
therefore your cows and horses are as safe from “ Lords 
and Ladies” as if there were none of them in the land. If 
you want to get rid of these Arums, you must dig or spud 
them up by the roots every spring, till the land is cleared of 
them.] 
, SOWING CAMELLIA AND CALCEOLARIA SEED.— 
MANAGEMENT OF DIELYTRA SPECTAEILIS. 
“ Will you inform me of the right time and mode of 
sowing Camellia seed ? Also, the management of the seed¬ 
lings afterwards? Likewise, I wish to be informed of the 
management and propagation of Dielytra spectabilis, and 
the time to sow Calceolaria seeds. — A Birmingham Amateuk.” 
[Sow Camellia seed in October, or as soon as it is ripe. 
Use the same kind of soil as you would for a Geranium. 
Keep the pot from the frost, and the plants will appear next 
April or May; then the pot must be looked after very care¬ 
fully all that summer; and by that time twelve-months the 
seedlings will be ready to pot off; but they will be Chinese, 
to the last leaf—that is, slow and sure — very different 
from Birmingham progress ; and some years after they are 
potted off a few of them will begin to flower; some may 
flower sooner; but others much later. 
The management of Dielytra is this ;—to be planted out 
in good ground, such as would suit Gooseberries; and to 
dig up the old plants every third year, either in February or 
March. Divide the roots as you would Dahlias, or Rhubarb ; 
to pot some of the pieces to flower in-doors, and earlier, and 
to plant out the rest. Of course you know that the Dielytra 
is as hardy as Lancashire Gooseberries. 
For sowing Calceolaria seed , the first week in August is 
the best time in the whole year. Sow very thinly, in light 
soil; keep the plants a little damp, but always let them 
have air. In October, they will be ready to transplant— 
four or six in a small pot; and early in the spring pot them 
singly.] 
STRIKING CUTTINGS OF GERANIUM CITRIODORA 
MINOR.—EFFECTS OF LAST WINTER NEAR 
DUBLIN. 
“ I shall be much obliged if you can tell me the name of 
ibis Geranium, and how it is best propagated. We have 
tried it; several cuttings made very short, set round a pot, 
in hazel-loam and silver-sand, placed in a hotbed. And 
also, in the same way, round a potof water (Fyffe’s method), 
which we found most successful with Verbena ( Aloysio), and 
Myrtle, but neither modes seem to suit this, for we did not 
got more than one out of a score to strike. It is so peculiarly 
sweet-scented, we wish much to get a few new plants, as we 
have but one, which is very old. 
“You desire to know how various shrubs and plants, out¬ 
door, have got over the winter. 
“ Here, three miles south of Dublin, half a mile from the 
sea, on the slope of a hill facing the East, but well shel¬ 
tered by high garden-walls and tall trees, the following 
plants lived, entirely unprotected; they died down to the 
roots; but are now growing strongly, and six to ten inches 
high. Fuchsias —Napoleon, Ignea, Comte de Beaulieu, 
Voltigeur, Corallina, Arc., &c. Zauschneria Californica, 
Cheiranthus Marshallii, protected with leaves. We have 
the Dielytra spectahilis, a splendid plant, loaded with bloom. 
— (It is as hardy as your national Shamrock.) 
“ We had killed, a very fine six-year old Acacia dealbata, 
which was upwards of twelve feet high ; it was protected 
with leaves about the root. Also killed, Veronica spe- 
ciosa, and V. Lindleyana ; a large old Brvymansia Knightii, 
and Baccharis Halimifolia .— Cartg Catiiol.” 
« 
[The name of your sweet Geranium is Citriodora minor ; 
and the reason why you found it so hard to strike is, that 
j every little morsel of a shoot flowers through the summer, 
! and roots not when it is in a flowering condition. If you 
begin with it early in the spring, long before the flower-buds 
are formed, every little bit of it will root as easily as any of 
them. It will also root in August, under a handglass, out-of- 
doors ; and so will Unique , which is of the same habit of 
not rooting by flowering wood.] 
INSTANCE OF CATTLE POISONED BY YEW 
LEAVES. 
As a caution to the public, allow me, through the medium 
of your valuable Journal, to mention an unfortunate occur¬ 
rence which came under my notice a short time ago. 
Whilst engaged in the renovation of a fine old place 
(Weston Hall, in Wliarfdale, originally the seat of the 
Vavasour family), I, unfortunately for two fine heifers, 
removed the protection from some splendid old Yew-trees, 
in order to throw them into the open park; for, not long 
after the removal of the fencing, these two heifers, whilst 
feeding with others, got to one of the Yew-trees, and eat so 
voraciously of it that their death was the consequence. 
There could be no mistake as to the cause of death, for 
the contents of the animals’ stomachs were analyzed, and 
the cause clearly ascertained. Now, though this is the first 
time I have had actual proof of mischief resulting from the 
want of protection to Yews, yet I remember, some years ago, 
a gentleman cautioning me against leaving some of his 
unprotected, when I was altering his pleasure grounds. But 
I must confess, though I took care to protect the Yews as I 
was desired, the caution made no great impression upon my 
mind at the time, for I had repeatedly seen Yews left quite 
open to cattle of all kinds in cultivated places. And, 
indeed, it is indigenous to the hills in the Lake districts, and 
yet I had never known any injury, much less any fatality, 
arising to cattle from feeding on it. The case, however, 
mentioned above, proves, beyond a doubt, the poisonous 
properties of the Yew; and I trust it will serve as a caution 
to all landed proprietors and breeders of 3tock who may 
have Yews on their estates and farms, and induce them 
forthwith to have them fenced off either with strong wire 
or light iron-work. 
In conclusion, I would just remark, that had not the 
pasture been very bare of herbage, and the tree, suddenly 
introduced to the hungry cattle, been unusually green and 
healthy, the probability is, I think, that they would not have 
been induced to feed on it; and yet, for all this, after the 
fatal case above alluded to, I would not have a single tree of 
the kind left unprotected; for, as it is certain that cattle 
will eat the Yew, every one should guard against the danger, 
for no one knows where the misfortune may occur next.— 
Joshua Major, Knosthorpe,ncar Leeds. 
DESTROYING WORMS. — MANAGEMENT OF 
CYCLAMENS.—HOW NEMOPHILA SHOULD 
BE SPELT. 
Is there anything which will destroy worms in a bed with¬ 
out injuring the plants ? I have a bed of transplanted 
annuals which has been almost ruined, in consequence of so 
many of the plants having been drawn into the ground by 
the worms. [Soak the bed once a week with lime water, until 
the annuals have grown out of danger.] 
My Cyclamens have not bloomed this year. They have 
been managed exactly according to the directions given in 
The Cottage Gardener of February, 1854. They budded, 
and the buds withered away. Meanwhile, they made many 
and strong leaves. They were kept on a shelf of the stage 
in a greenhouse, and were liberally supplied with water, but 
were never drowned. They are now turning off yellow, but 
the conns are well and healthy. [They will bloom next 
year. They had been ill-ripened, so that the conns could 
not sustain the flowers. Continue to manage as we directed.] 
In your last number are some fair remarks, signed “ Fil- 
lingham," on miss-spelling the names of plants. These 
remarks you yourselves endorse. But allow another “ Cler¬ 
gyman and Amateur Gardener ” to make some further ob¬ 
servations on the same subject. 
In the Cottage Gardeners’ Dictionary, page C31, there is 
an article on the Nemophila (so spelt). The derivation of 
the name there given, is “from nemos, a grove, and phileo, 
to love, from an erroneous idea of tbeir place of growth.” 
If I now find fault with the incorrectness of this derivation, 
at least let me bear my testimony to the ingenuity of it. 
But, let me suggest that nemns (not nemos) is the 
Latin for a grove, and <pi\eo> (phileo), the Greek for I love. 
