to 90 degrees, ventilation being considerably diminished, and water in any form discontinued.  After being subject to this treatment for about four or five days, the vines received a thorough syringing, which cleansed them from every particle of sulphur.  With respect to the use of sulphur in killing mildew, many ladies and gentlemen,’ adds Mr Fry, ’with whom I have conversed, consider it highly objectionable:  they say, that they do not like the idea of eating sulphur with grapes; neither would any one, and I can prove to them that this need never be done; and, moreover, that the use of sulphur, when timely and judiciously applied, does not in any way deteriorate the fruit.  I much question if the most practised eye could detect sulphur on the grapes exhibited, although they have been twice covered with it; and as to the mildew itself among vines, I fear it no more than I do green-fly among cucumbers, which is so soon deprived of existence by the fumes of tobacco.’

What is called ‘a French sulphurator,’ whose great merit appears to be ‘simplicity and cheapness,’ was also exhibited.  It is described as ’a tin box for holding the sulphur, placed on the upper side of the pipe of a pair of common bellows.  The sulphur gets into the pipe through small holes made for the purpose in the bottom of the box, and, in order that no stoppage may take place, a small hammer-head attached at the end of a slight steel-spring, is fixed on the under side of the bellows, a gentle tap from which, now and then, keeps up a continuous fall of sulphur into the pipe.’  It is said, that ’these appliances, which may be attached to a pair of bellows for little more than sixpence, answer every purpose for which they are intended, equally as well as a more expensive machine.’

At the same time with this contrivance, some bunches of black Prince Grapes were shewn to the assembled horticulturists, which could only be preserved from mildew by frequent applications of sulphur.  The bunches are to be afterwards cleaned by dipping in water, or what is considered preferable, ‘syringing on all sides with a fine syringe,’ which process, it is well to remember, disturbs the bloom on the fruit least when directed ’downwards, or obliquely, as rain would fall.’

As the season for gardening operations is coming on, Mr Rivers’ account may be mentioned of his mode of growing strawberries in pots; it will be found to involve certain combinations opposed to ordinary practice.  ‘About the second week in July,’ he says, he filled a number of six-inch pots ’with a compost of two-thirds loam, and one-third rotten dung, as follows:  three stout pieces of broken pots were placed in the bottom, and a full handful of the compost put in; a stout wooden pestle was then used with all the force of a man’s arm to pound it, then another handful and a pounding, and another, till the pot was brimful, and the compressed mould as hard as a barn-floor.  The pots were then taken