Machine For Hilling Celery

A Michigan man has patented a machine for doing this laborious work. On a frame like that used on a riding cultivator, two mold-boards turning towards each other are hung, quite a distance apart at their forward ends and nearer together at the rear. The rider can control these mold-boards, raising or spreading them at will. The mold-boards are run on either side of the row, throwing the earth towards the plants. - Rural New- Yorker.

Malouetia Lactiflora (Apocyneae)

Miers says this is a very lactescent tree, yielding in South America a vegetable milk used by the natives, and also forming a useful varnish, according to Schomburgk.

Mammilaria Simplex (Cacteae)

This species is said to yield a sweet, milky and wholesome juice.

E. Lewis Sturtevant.

Management Of Callaa

The article "My Callas Don't Bloom,"in the February American Garden (adv. p. 10), has suggested to me the idea of giving you a description of my callas which do bloom. After an absolute rest from the middle of June to the last of August, I repot in very rich soil, using a fourteen inch pot. Then give water, light and heat in abundance, and the result is most satisfactory. One of the plants is over four feet high, the flower stalk measuring four feet five inches to the end of bloom, the bloom itself being 6½ inches in width. One leaf measures 11½ inches in width, and 15 inches in length. A third bloom is now opening on the same plant, and it will continue to bloom until I give it rest in June. - F. A. Tamplet, South Carolina.

Manettia Cordifolia

This is not a plant of recent introduction, as it has been in cultivation since the early part of the century. It was brought into general notice, I think, by Mr. Wm. D. Brackenridge, now of Govans-town, Md., who collected it on the west coast of South America when botanist of the Wilkes South Sea Expedition. It has been long used in the greenhouse for late fall and winter blooming, but it does well out-doors and is useful on small trellises. The fleshy roots can be kept nearly dry in soil or sand in winter, in a cellar, and can be readily propagated by cuttings of the roots in heat in spring. The flowers are small but numerous. A pink variety of manettia is said to grow in Cuba, but I have never seen it. - W. F. Massey, N. C. Experiment Station.

Manettia Cordlfolla

Few plants of recent introduction are as valuable as this, from the fact of its always being in bloom. It is a growing climber, that is delicate, so far as foliage and flowers are concerned, but a vigorous grower and persistent bloomer. In the open border it will flower the entire summer ; in pots in the house the entire season. Its flowers are small, brilliant scarlet, tipped with yellow ; their immense number, ever present on a well-grown plant, is very attractive. Being a native of Brazil, it requires an abundance of heat and light.

Masdevallia Fulvescens

This novelty is a very pretty species, apparently allied to M. infracta, Lindl., but with more brightly colored flowers. The perianth is of a light half shade, passing into light purple-brown on the constricted sides of the throat, the upper sepal deeper orange-yellow, shading into purple-brown on the two lateral nerves - R. A. Rolfe, in The Gardeners' Chronicle.