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To Insert Cuttings

Cuttings, tion of a small quantity of stearine, carefully if inserted in a mere mass of earth, will hard- stirred, so as to thoroughly mix the ingredily throw out roots, while, if inserted at the ents. The quantity of stearine to be added is side of the pot so as to touch the pot in their whole length, they seldom fail to become rooted plants. The art is to place them to touch the bottom of the pot; they are then to be plunged in a bark or hot-bed and kept moist. 1833. The Color of Flowers Changed by Charcoal. A horticulturist in England purchased a rose-bush full of promising buds -the flowers, however, were of a faded hue.

He covered the earth in the pot about an inch thick with pulverized charcoal, and was surprised, some days afterward, to find the blooms of a fine lively rose color. He then tried the powdered charcoal upon petunias, and found that both the white and violet colored flowers were equally sensitive to its action. It always gave great vigor to the red or violet color of the flowers, and the white petunias became veined with red or violet tints; the violets became covered with irregular spots of a bluish or almost black tint. Many persons who admired them thought they were choice new varieties from the seed.

Yellow flowers appear to be insensible to the influence of charcoal.