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warm, it may be sown out of doors in April, 
and will flower during the later summer months. 
If not favourably situated, it is best sown with 
other half-hardy annuals on a sheltered bed, 
with or without gentle bottom-heat, and planted 
out when sufficiently advanced. To obtain 
earlier flowers sow towards the end of February 
in a warm pit, pricking off the young plants 
when large enough, removing to cooler quarters 
before they begin to draw up spindly, and 
BRACHYCOME IBERIDIFOLIA. 
gradually inuring to bear first the cold frame, 
and then full exposure, before being finally 
planted out in the beds or borders. Being 
of branching habit they continue for a long 
period in blossom. — T. Moore. 
WHITE TOKAY GRAPE. 
"R. BARRON says truly that this Grape 
was much more extensively grown 
formerly than now. According to 
my experience the cause of this is 
the frequent cessation of Pine growing. It 
was formerly planted in almost every Pine 
stove or succession house, and it may be exists 
in many still, but the doing away with Pine¬ 
apples removed the necessity for keeping up 
so high a temperature, besides being con¬ 
sidered a reason for moderating the outlay on 
fuel. The White Tokay is by far the finest 
late White Grape in cultivation, and can be 
had as late as any Black Grape. I have had it 
so late that it has become dried and brown like 
raisins, and it was then excellent in flavour. 
This is a form many of the late Black Grapes 
can never assume, as they are mere bags of 
water, and only grapes in name. It must 
have great heat otherwise it remains white 
and tasteless, often shrivelling, but with 
plenty of dry heat it becomes, as Mr. Barron 
says, of a rich amber colour, with crisp flesh, 
and a brisk Muscat flavour. It was always a 
great favourite with good Grape growers.—J. 
Fleming, Cliveden. 
SULPHUR FUMIGATION. 
TT is a well-known fact that sulphur fumes 
(j are most destructive to animal and 
0 ^ vegetable life, especially to the latter 
when the plants are in an active con¬ 
dition and the foliage is luxuriant. But when 
fruit-trees are at rest sulphur burnt among 
them sufficiently strong to kill insect life does 
them no harm, and is an easy method of 
eradicating old “stock” and their progeny, 
which would be likely to prove troublesome 
during the coming season. We have often used 
sulphur in this way in vineries and peacheries 
as a preventive. How far it may be used to 
effectually exterminate mealy bug or scale I 
am not prepared to say ; but a gentleman 
who has extensive glass structures told me 
lately that he had thus cleared his vines of 
mealy bug in the most satisfactory manner 
without injury to the plants. He was first 
led to experiment in his vineries from advice 
given by a bricklayer who came to put the 
flues in order. The latter saw how much 
trouble was given by the bug, and how much 
labour was expended with unsatisfactory re¬ 
sults, and he suggested that a clearance of 
the pest might be made in the same way as 
was sometimes resorted to in the case of 
“insects” which had to be dealt with in 
dwelling-houses. He was allowed to go to 
work with a shovelful of fire, over which the 
sulphur was thrown, and allowed to burn till 
the house seemed filled with the fumes. No 
bugs have been seen there since, and the vines 
are as vigorous as ever; but as to what was the 
real proportion of sulphur burnt to each cubic 
foot of space within the structure I suppose 
the bricklayer alone could give correct data. 
If any one can give further information re¬ 
garding the burning of sulphur in fruit-houses 
it would be thankfully received. The danger 
in using burning sulphur is great.—M. T. 
