Soil For The Flemish Beauty

The Western Pomologist says that for the West it is peculiarly fitted to a lightish soil, for the finest fruit grown in Iowa and Kansas has been grown on a light sandy loam.

Solanum Capsicastrum

A pretty greenhouse dwarf sub-shrub with small oblong lanceolate leaves and small flowers, succeeded by globular vermillion colored berries, which are extremely ornamental. Brazil.

Solatium Pseudo-Capeicum Variegatum

A greenhouse species from Madeira. Half shrubby. Leaves a long oval, irregularly margined with white. It has small white flowers, succeeded by round yellow berries. Should be increased by cuttings, in order to keep the variegation. Though not so showy as many variegated plants, yet, on account of the variegation being so profuse and distinct, it is well worthy of a place in a collection. It thrives best in a moderately warm stove.

Soldat Laboureur

Fruit large, resembling the Beurre Diel in form, but a little more depressed at the stem. Flesh, melting and buttery, with a little perfume. Ripens from December to February. This is a distinct variety, raised by Maj. Esperen, of Malines, a hardy and beautiful tree, and must not be confounded with the Soldat Laboureur of the French, or Beurre d'Aremberg.

Solution For Destroying Insects

Mr. Cloes, of the garden of the Paris Museum, gives in the Revue Horticole an efficacious recipe for destroying plant-lice and other insects. Three and a half ounces quassia chips, and five drachms staves-acre seeds, in powder, are placed in seven pints of water and boiled down to five pints. When cooled, the strained liquid is ready for use, either in a watering-pot or syringe.

Some Pumpkins

A new species of pumpkin is announced from the Jardin d'Acclimaiation at Paris, under the Spanish name of "Zapallito de tronco," or "Tree Pumpkin." It differs from all its congeners in its mode of growth, as, instead of trailing, it forms erect tufts, with numerous fruits of a depressed spherical shape, and from five to eight inches in diameter, depending from the stem. These are said to be of excellent quality and flavor. The chief merit of the plant, however, is that from its mode of growth, it occupies very little space in cultivation, while a single plant of any other species usually covers a large area. The seeds of the Tree-Pumpkin, here described, came from Buenos Ayres.

Something That Happened At Orange

Something happened at Orange, and we went to see it. It happened at our publisher's. There were lots of people there, and bouquets, and girls, and flowers, and every thing looked cheerful and pleasant. By and by the company all went into the big parlor, and we went in too. Then our publisher's daughter came in, all dressed in white, and looking as pretty as an angel; and a tall young man stood by her side. Then a grave-looking man stood in front of them, and said something to them, and they looked very solemn; but presently he stopped, and then they looked glad, and all the people looked glad, and went up and kissed them, and we did the same, and rather liked it, and kind a got agoing that way, and had a good time of it. But such things can't last fur ever! so we said good-bye to Carrie and the tall young man; and the last we heard of them, they were eating chinquapins down in Mississippi. And that's what happened at Orange.