June 26. 
pound of brown sugar, one pound of treacle, and a table- | 
spoonful of fresh yeast. Let it work for three or four days, ' 
and then put it into a cask. When it has stood for twelve 
months it may he bottled, and then it will he strong enough 
for anything. —Roger Ashpole. 
DERIVATION OF NEMOPHILA. 
I am one of those who, even from 1833, have always 
spelt Nemophila as you have it in the Cottage Gardeners' 
Dictionary; and as all botanists have written and printed 
it; hut, seeing in your last number that “H. G. M.” tells us 
we are all wrong, I began to rub up my Greek, and see 
whether or not, since the days when I used to bite my lips 
over Homer and Anacreon, I had not got rusty. On 
reference to the Dictionary, I find N epos, rendered Nemus, 
loans arboribus dens ns ; so that a word composed of N epos 
and 0iAcco is not a “ Graico-Latin monster” after all. 
Thanks to “H. G. M.” for his ingenious “ Nemophylla," 
notwithstanding. —Nemo. 
SEEDLING OAKS AT BELVOIR CASTLE. 
In the last number of The Cottage Gardener, at page 
209, “Arborist ” asks why seedling Oaks do not spring up 
in the woods at Belvoir Castle? and as a reason why he 
thinks they should, he says, “ Mice do not at all abound, 
and squirrels are destroyed to a great extent.” Now, I 
think that is just the reason why the Oaks do not spring 
up. We know that the habit of the squirrel is to hoard up 
a store for future use ; and that they very frequently bury 
acorns in holes with the intention of finding them again 
when they are wanted; but either forgetting, or not being 
able to find where they were put, the acorns vegetate, and 
not unfrequently grow up to timber-trees. Many a sturdy, 
stalwart Oak, who is now extending its giant arms in defi¬ 
ance of the elements, owes its origin to a little squirrel; and 
who knows hut the prow of some of these floating leviathans 
now in the Baltic did not once form a store laid up by that 
instinctive foresight which mortals would sometimes do 
well to imitate. Why destroy the poor little gamboling 
squirrels ?—Beta. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Cu pressing and Juniperin.e (An Old Subscriber). —You have 
transgressed the rule, in writing to Mr. Appleby. You should have sent 
your letter to the Editor, hut as others may, like you, be ignorant of the 
meaning of the words you mention, your letter shall have an answer. 
In the iirst place, it was not at Sion where Mr. Appleby saw the trees he 
mentions, as having suffered severely, but the Royal Hardens, at Kcw. 
In the next place, when he says, that Cupressince and Juniperinte had 
been greatly injured by the winter, he meant, in plain English, that the 
Cypresses and Junipers, and all genera placed under those sections of 
Coni terse, had suffered by the severity of the winter. Surely some of 
your friends, or some of the publications you say you have consulted, 
ought to have known the meaning of the two names he mentions. In 
future, send all your queries to the Editor. 
Pits (F. W -, J. B. M., and others). —See what Mr. Fish says 
to-day. 
Summary of News (J. J. Miller). —We do not intend to give a 
separate summary. All the news we think within our scope will be 
spread throughout our pages. 
Daisies on Lawn (J. J. Batiman). —We know of no other mode of 
destroying them than spudding them out; and a sharp chisel is excellent 
for the purpose. Do any of our readers know of a better method ? 
Flower-garden Plan (An Old Subscriber). — The design is very 
original, and may well be “ admired,” but, practically, the shape of the 
beds is extremely faulty, every one of them has one, two, or more sharp 
points, which no bedding-plant can occupy, without running constantly 
on the grass. But it is well worth engraving. 
Cottage Gardeners’ Dictionary (A Young Garde>ier). — This 
may now be had at Mr. Bogue’s, Fleet-street, London, and may be ob¬ 
tained through any bookseller. 
Mulching (Lcelius).— You will have seen this defined in our last 
number. In the Dictionary mentioned in the preceding paragraph all 
these terms are explained. 
Woodlice.— E. B. will be very much obliged, and so shall we, by 
any reader stating a mode of getting rid of these pests from frames. 
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Names of Plants ( F . W . S .). — Yours is Ceanothus azureus. 
(Lancastriensis).—The pink flower, Phlox subulatu. The small white, 
Rununculus aconitifolius plenus; the large white, Ornithogalum um- 
bellatum, and the blue, Centuurca montanu. (J. A. S.). — Orobanche 
minor, the Broom Rape. It must have been in the earth used for 
potting the Heliotrope cuttings.. (A Subscriber).—Spirtea Hypericifolia, 
or Hypericum-leaved Spiriea. Its white-blossomed, slender twigs, are 
often employed as wreaths for ladies’ hair. The colour of your Turkey 
Poults may have come from their grandfather or grandmother; cer¬ 
tainly not merely from the hen sitting upon them. Colour often re¬ 
appears from a very distant ancestor. 
Everlasting Rose. — M. D. P. says,—“ Some years ago, a seed-pod of 
some species of Mescinbryanthemum was sold in book-shops, which ex¬ 
panded when placed in water; the name the shopkeepers called it was ‘ The 
Everlasting Rose.’ Could you give me the correct name ? I raised several 
plants from the seeds contained in the pod—the flower was yellow.” 
Your plant may be the Mesembryunthemum calendulaceum —the Pot- 
Marigold-flowered Fig-Marigold. The seed vessels of plants are very 
various in their forms in the different plants ; see what Sir J. E. Smith 
says, in his “ Introduction to Botany,” page 211. The use of the seed 
vessel, among other purposes, is to protect the seeds till ripe, and then, 
in some way or other, to promote their dispersion, either scattering them 
by its elastic bursting, or serving for the food of animals, in whose dung 
the seeds vegetate. The same organ which remains closed, so long as it 
is juicy or moist, splits and flies asunder when dry, thus scattering the 
seeds in weather most favourable for their success. By an extraordinary 
provision of nature, however, in some annual species of Mesembryunthe¬ 
mum, natives of sandy deserts in Africa, the seed-vessel opens only in 
rainy weather, otherwise the seeds might in that country lie long exposed 
before they met with sufficient moisture to vegetate. The following may 
be interesting to many of our readers, and serve to throw some light 
upon the subjectof our correspondent. In “Curtis’s Botanical Mag.,” Tab. 
4,400, there is a figure of that curious plant called the Rose of Jericho, 
or the Resurrection Plant; and how many other names this plant may 
be called we cannot say. Its Linmeau name is Anastatica hierochuntica. 
Respecting this, the true Rose of Jericho, much ignorance prevails in 
our own country, and of late years, among us, the name has been incor¬ 
rectly transferred to two very different plants (possessing similar hygro- 
metric properties) as widely differing from this as all are differing from 
any real Rose, and coming, too, from w'idely different countries ; one is 
the Lycopodium lepedophyllum, from Western Mexico ; the other, the 
capsules of certain South African species of Fig-Marigold of the Annual 
kind. The Rose of Jericho is just as much like a Rose as a Cabbage is 
like a Pear. It is a weedy, Orach-like plant when growing, but possesses 
that curious property of coiling itself up when dry, and unfolding when 
moistened, 
CALENDAR FOR JULY. 
FLOWER-GARDEN. 
Annuals (Tender), bring out from frames; dress ; give fresh earth ; 
stake and tie. Annuals, sow for autumn ; transplant generally. Auri¬ 
culas in pots, dress and water judiciously; seedlings transplant; old 
plants repot, e. Box edgings clip, b. Bud Roses, Jasmines, &c. Bulb¬ 
ous Roots, take up (see June); seeds sow. Carnations, attend to 
(see June); shade and shelter during hot weather ; water freely, and give 
liquid-manure. Chrysanthemum suckers separate and plant; layer. 
Cuttings of most herbaceous plants will root now, and of all the scarlet 
Geraniums, if planted on a south border, b. Dahlias require support 
and pruning. Edgings, clip. Evergreens, prune; seedlings, prick 
out. Flower-beds, stir surface often ; train; stop and often regulate 
the plants, to get an uniform growth and bloom. Grass mow and roll 
freely. Hedges, clip. Hoe and rake at every opportunity. Layering 
Carnations, Ike., may be performed, b.; water freely; transplant rooted 
layers. Leaves, decayed, remove as soon as seen. Liciuid-manure, 
give occasionally to flowering shrubs. Mignonette, and a few other 
quick-flowering annuals, may be sown, b., for autumn. Piping of Pinks, 
&c., may be still practised, b. Pelargoniums, cuttings, plant, b. 
Polyanthuses, seedlings, transplant; roots of old, part. Roses, bud, 
layer, and make cutting of, b. Seeds, gather as they ripen. Stake 
and tie up the plants whenever necessary. Transplant, b., from the 
reserve garden in damp or dull weather. Water freely, not only the 
roots, but over the foliage. D. Beaton. 
GREENHOUSE. 
Air, admit freely night and day, unless when stormy; make an ex- 
i ception, however, in those cases where growth is still desirable. There 
shut up early, and use the syringe morning and evening. Bud and 
t Graft Oranges, Camellias, Azaleas, Climbers, &c. Cinerarias, cut 
1 down, plant out-of-doors, or keep in pot. according as you wish to grow 
i from suckers, or merely by thinning-out, or dividing the old plants when 
growth has commenced. Cuttings, make and plant, placing them in 
cool pits at a distance from the glass, or in a mild bottom-heat, according 
to their requirements. Dress and keep everything neat. Calceolarias, 
I give manured water ; fumigate when necessary ; cut down early 
blooming: thin the pod3 of those left for seed, as one pod will give 
hundreds of plants. Fine kinds done flowering, cut down and plant in 
light soil, on a north border ; sow seeds of these and Cinerarias to have 
them early; for moderate early blooming in spring, it will be time 
enough a month hence. Geraniums, cut down the forwardest; tie and 
train successions; prepare for early supply of cuttings ; they will do 
better now stuck in an open border, than two months hence in pits or 
frames. Heaths, cut down and prune when done flowering; give plenty 
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