October  9,  1902. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
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THURSDAY,  OCTOBER  9,  1902. 
The  Sweet-Sop. 
OME  years  ago,  while  staying 
with  a  friend  in  Yorkshire,  he 
received  a  large  case  of  Orchids 
?V)  and  other  plants  from  Singa¬ 
pore,  among  which  was  a 
bundle  of  cuttings,  all  planted 
together  in  a  large  tin  case,  each 
cutting  about  7in  long,  without  name 
or  any  clue  by  which  to  recognise 
Some  had  rooted,  it  is  true,  and  were 
just  beginning  to  grow  ;  but  for  the  most 
nart  thev  were  in  a  wretched  condition,  and 
looked  very  unhealthy.  As  I  have  always 
had  a  fancy  for  any  new  or  unknown  plants, 
and  my  friend  evidently  did  not  set  much 
store  by  his  “leafless  plants,”  as  he  called 
them,  I  begged  they  might  be  given  to  mp, 
and  on  my  request  being  granted  I  took  them 
home  next  day,  and  carefully  planted  in 
separate  pots  as  many  as  I  thought  had  any 
chance  of  living,  putting  them  into  a  new 
hotbed,  and  keeping  them  moist  and  shaded 
for  a  week  or  two.  The  few  which  remained 
I  stuck  into  the  bark-bed  of  the  stove,  where 
I  had  been  working,  pushing  them  into  the 
tan  behind  a  large  Pine. 
I  took  immense  pains  with  my  cuttings  in 
the  frame,  tending  them  with  the  greatest 
care — with  too  much,  in  fact  ;  for,  do  what  I 
would,  after  they  bad  rooted  slightly  and 
begun,  as  I  hoped,  to  grow,  all  died  off  one 
after  another.  I  moved  two  or  three  into  a 
drier  atmosphere,  but  with  no  better  result; 
and  the  upshot  of  the  matter  was  I  lost  them 
all,  much  to  my  vexation. 
Two  months  after  this,  having  occasion  to 
renew  some  of  the  bark  in  the  stove,  I  was 
moving  the  Pines  for  that  purpose,  when  lo  ! 
behind  one  of  them  was  a  plant  which  I 
recognised  directly  as  one  of  the  very  cut¬ 
tings  I  had  stuck  in  there  ten  weeks  before. 
Yes,  there  it  was,  sure  enough,  growing  like  a 
TJRE  WOOD  CHARCOAL,  Specially  Prepared 
for  Horticultural  use.  Extract  from  the  Journal  of 
Horticulture  :  “  Charcoal  is  invaluable  as  a  manurial  agent ; 
each  little  piece  is  a  pantry  full  of  the  good  things  of  this 
life.  There  is  no  cultivated  plant  which  is  not  benefited  by 
having  Charcoal  applied  to  the  soil  in  which  it  is  rooted.” 
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