Vitality Of Cuttings

The Garden, of London, records an experience going to show that scions and cuttings retain their vitality much longer than has been generally supposed; those of vines, plums, figs, apples and pears, taken from England to the colony at Victoria, having been worked with success nine months after being severed from the parent stock,

Vitis Tricuspidata

A plant of this elegant cool greenhouse, or rather hardy climber, should be grown in very cool corridor or conservatory, where a vigorous growing plant is desirable. Grown under these conditions and planted out in a moderately rich border, it develops very fine foliage of a bronzy green color, and is one of the very best of foliage plants for such purposes.

Vriesia Splendens. Nat. Ord. Bromeliads

A plant resembling, in many respects, a Tillandsia, but with beautifully variegated foliage. It puts forth a long scarlet spathe, from the colored bracts of which issue the flowers, of a pure white. This is a handsome addition to an interesting tribe of stove plants.

Vriesta Psittacina, Var. Rubro-Bracteata, (Red-Bracted Variety Of Parrot-Flowered Vriesia)

"Native of Brazil, and a very great ornament to our stoves, by bearing its handsome scarlet and yellow spikes of flowers in the winter." - (Botanical Magazine, t. 5,108).

W. H. B., York, Pa

We know of no such article as Black sulphur. Probably you are right in your supposition.

W. L

For a handsome hanging plant "without cost," take a smallish sweet potato that has roots hanging to it, and insert it in a hyacinth or other glass, just as you would a hyacinth. In a warm room you will have beautiful roots in the water, and a charming foliage somewhat like ivy, over-hanging in beautiful festoons. Other experiments that will please you may be tried by excavating the lower parts of carrots or turnips, filling the hole with water regularly as it is absorbed or evaporated, and very soon you will have beautiful foliage that will amply repay your slight trouble.

W. Saunders

We are indebted to the member for his very full and interesting information, embracing the experience of a lifetime. As to charcoal, I would say that it has little or no manurial property, but its value is as an absorbent We are told that it absorbs ninety times its weight of water, but no information is given as to the description of wood, on which much depends. The influence of manures on the physical texture of the soil is a very important topic; indeed, too little attention is given to the subject. In many soils the best manure is comparatively of little value. If air, the natural agent, is excluded by superfluous water, the manure will be worthless or inactive. The question of the value of all manures must depend on various circumstances, and those doubtless account for the great difference of opinion as to the application of manure to the surface, or its immediate covering in the soil.

Walburton Admirable Peach

Raised near Arundel, Sussex, and supposed to be a seedling from the Noblesse, which it much resembles, but is more valuable in quality, in consequence of its ripening from three weeks to a month later, or about the same time as the late Admirable Peach. Flesh melting, parting freely from the stone; leaves serrated, glandless. Ripe and in fine perfection this season, (1850,) the first week in October.- Rivers in Florist, p. 11.