165 . ' Transactions' of the 



riety of esculent. This paper describes the only two kinds 

 that are worth cultivation in England. 



IX. Notices of Communications to the Horticultural Society^ between 

 Januat-y 1, 1824, and January \y^\^!^ cj^^f<'^^/''^^^^ Minute 

 Books and Papers of the Society. " ; i . , / ; ■ ; . ■ , : , 



A novel kind of pine pit is described, which is said to answer 

 every purpose that can be desired. It is heated by flues 

 passing through a chamber, formed by beams extending from 

 the back to the front wall, and so becoming a sort of floor, 

 upon which is first placed a layer of turf; and then the tan 

 in which the pine-plants are plunged. The warmer air is 

 conveyed into the upper part of the pit by means of small 

 apertures contrived in the walls, at four inches and a half 

 apart, both in the back and front of the pit, and also through 

 iron pipes resting on the beams and passing through the tan. 

 The ventilation is efl'ected by air-holes in the front wall, and 

 sliding shutters in the back walls. An explanatory figure 

 accompanies the statement. 



The famous rhubarb, which has of late acquired so much 

 celebrity under the name of Buck's rhubarb, is mentioned as 

 excellent when forced. It is not generally known, that this 

 sort is the genuine Rheum undulatum of botanists unconta- 

 minated by mixture with the common garden kinds. The 

 plant generally called Rheum undulatum, is a half-bred, pos- 

 sessing none of the good qualities of the native species... (i^tyr^' 

 George Toilet, Esq., of Betley Hall, in Staffordshire, re- 

 commends the preservation of apples for winter store, packed 

 in banks or hods of earth like potatoes. The method js said 

 to be effectual and economical. 



Thomas Bond, Esq., of East Looe, in Cornwall, describes 

 his mode of cultivating strawberries. He does not adopt 

 the common practice of cutting off" the runners, but they are 

 confined to the bed by being turned back among the plants 

 from which they spring. In the autumn, the beds are 

 covered to the depth of two inches with fresh earth, through 

 which the strawberry-plants shoot in the spring with great 



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A kind' of wjcKer'basket is described, which is cheap and 



well adapted for screening half hardy plants during the 



winter. It is fixed in the earth by means of the points of 



the ribs of the wicker work, which are allowed to project a 



few inches for the purpose. , . 



It is stated by John Wedgewood, Esq., that good celery 



may be readily obtained by transplanting seedling plants 



that have remained in the seed bed, till they had acquired a 



