Toour importing nursery men and florists the name of Van Houtte, the great Belgian horticulturist, is as well known as a standard book. Everything done by him is on the highest possible scale. For instance, reading lately in the Journal af Horticulture respecting his operations, we are quite surprised to hear of the magnitude of his Camellia trade.

In one house there was on one side a batch of 150,000 cuttings, striking, apparently, with the greatest freedom; on the other, recently worked, were 100,000 more. In another part were 80,000 in bud, for sending off in the autumn, and in the summer time the entire collection of Camellias was transported out of doors and the pots plunged in the earth. They were placed between tall upright poplars, which were planted in line from the east to west, and at distances so that the shadow of one row reached the other. Here were 500,000 Camellias, a perfect forest.

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Best remedy for ants among pots, greenhouses or vicinity, is very hot boiling water.