Plants In Wardian Cases

The Gardener's Monthly says, that in a true Wardian case there is very little growth, a plant simply lives. If it grew, it could do so only by the decomposition of carbonic acid, and this would cause such a dense mass of oxygen in the atmosphere of the case, that the act of growth would be its own destruction. There are three essentials to growth - light, heat and carbonic acid; by supplying the two former only, the plant simply lives, and does not grow ; hence a plant will remain an indefinite time in a closely glased case in this way. Fern cases are not Wardian oases, nor are the plant cases often called Wardian. Air is partially admitted, and thus the plants actually do grow.

Plating Ship Timber In Florida

A plantation of Live-oak, made by some careful public officer in West Florida, is said to be flourishing finely, and Colonel Claiborne publishes a letter, in which he proposes to establish extensive plantations of this oak on reserved lands in Louisiana. He says the Live-oak grows there with astonishing vigor and rapidity. In seven years from the acorn it forms a beautiful shade. In twenty years it has the tenacity a and durability of iron, and is ready for the axe of the ship-carpenter.

Pleasant Valley Fruit And Wine Reporter

This is a new semi-monthly, published at Hammondsport, N. Y., by A. L. Underbill, directed especially to the interests of grape culture and wine making in the grape regions of Central New York. It is printed in a most superior manner, has a pleasant general look, and bears evidence of good editorial talents. It starts with prospects of becoming a permanent success, for we know it will be supported with the necessary capital and enterprise.

Pleasure Ground And Lawn

Frequent mowing is necessary to preserve a neat lawn; mow it when damp, and clean the cut grass thoroughly off with the patent grass rake. Lawn mowing machines are now constructed which economize labor, and leave a beautiful surface. Lately planted trees should be secured from swaying about in the wind; they will grow better if the soil round their roots is kept clear of weeds. Trees fairly established do not require this treatment. It destroys the harmony of the lawn when the grass does not grow close up to the stems of the trees and shrubs. For the same reason, all grass edgings should be kept low; nothing is more unsightly than deeply out edging to roads and walks, although they should in all cases be well defined and neatly trimmed.

Pleasures Of Insects

At a meeting of young people, it was agreed as a plan to exhibit their several' acquirements in composition, imagination, and so forth, that each should produce a short account of insect life. A young lady almost instantly handed in the following, which received the award of merit, as it well deserved. " Insects generally, must lead a truly jovial life. Think what it must be to lodge in a lily. Imagine a palace of ivory or pearls, with pillars of silver and capitals of gold, all exhaling such a perfume as never rose from human censer. Fancy, again, the fun of tucking yourself up in the folds of a rose, rocked to sleep in the gentle sighs of summer air; nothing to do when you awake but to wash yourself in a dew-drop, and fall to and eat your bed clothes".