The following method of "Kyanizing" wooden labels that are to be used on trees or in exposed places, is recommended in a German paper: Thoroughly soak the pieces of wood in a strong solution of copperas (sulphate of iron), then lay them, after they are dry, in lime water. This causes the formation of sulphate of lime, a very insoluble salt (gypsum), in the wood. The rapid destruction of the labels by the weather is thus prevented. Bass, mats, twine and other substances used in tying up or covering trees or plants, when treated in the same manner, are similarly preserved.

At a recent meeting of a horticultural society in Berlin, Germany, wooden labels thus treated were shown which had been constantly exposed to the weather during two years without being affected thereby. Liquid Manure for Strawberries. • An English gardener has been very successful with his strawberry crop for several years on the same bed, and attributes the abundance and size of his fruit to the use of liquid manure, composed of one pound each Epsom salts, Glauber's salt, pearl ash and carbonate of soda, and one-half pound of muriate of ammonia to sixty gallons of water. He applies this manure as soon as the plants show signs of growth in spring, watering them pretty freely without a hose, three times, at intervals of about a week, so as to finish before they come into flower; and, if the season be dry, he finds it absolutely necessary to supply them liberally with common water afterward during the whole time of growth, or their increased activity, he thinks, would quickly kill them.