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considerable size. They grow more vigorously than the 

 younger plants that are transplanted in the usual way. 



William Cotton, Esq., of Wellwood-housc, describes the 

 good fefiTects of painting an old garden wall with seal oil and 

 anticorrosion paint, The wall in question was covered with 

 tree^, Which were every year attacked by blight. Since the 

 optt*ation the trees have borne good fruit, made healthy 

 woodi and been free from the bad consequences of blight. 



Mr. John Mearns states, that the red and white Antwerp 

 raspberries may be brought to bear abundantly in August, 

 long after the usual crop of raspberries is past, by the follow- 

 ing management. In May he removes the young fruit, bear- 

 ing shoots, from the canes, leaving in some cases one or two 

 eyes, in others, cutting them clean off. Under either plan, 

 they soon produce an abundance of vigorous new shoots, 

 which blossom freely in July. 



Mr.Elias Hildyard, gardener to Sir Thomas Frankland, kills 

 the grub which infests his onion beds by trenching the beds in 

 winter, digging in manure at the same time, and leaving them 

 exposed to the frost in a rough state till the time of sowing* ' 



A mode of inducing fertility in a barren SwanVegg pear- 

 tree trained upon a wall, is described by the Rev. John 

 Fisher, of Wavenden, in Buckinghamshire. It consists in 

 twisting and breaking down the side shoots of the main 

 branches in such a way, as to make them pendulous without 

 separating them wholly from the parent limb. In a short 

 time a grumous formation takes place where the fracture has 

 occurred, the wound heals, the flow of the sap is moderated, 

 and fruit buds are formed instead of sterile shoots. 



Mr. William Mowbray, gardener to the Earl of Mount- 

 norris, states, that the different species of eatable Passifloras 

 which do not generally produce fruit, may be induced to do 

 so abundantly, if the pollen of other species is applied to 

 their stigmas.'^ » .>rn,-. n •• a\ ^ .;Kr;-^|. vv.i,' ifcfdvr /: 



Currants are preserved in perfection fn tlie garden of Jfames 

 Webster, Esq., of Westham, by being covered with bunting 

 when the fruit is fully ripe, care being had to unloose the 

 bunting occasionally from the bottom Or the bushps, in, bidder 

 to remove the decaying fallen leave^V':*''^*'^'^, "^""l boJqcDB ^ ^ 



X. Hepgrt on the Instruments employed in, and on the Plan of a jour- 

 nal of Meteorological Observations ^ kept in the garden ofJhe Hqrti' 

 cultural Society at Chistmck^ , ,f, ^'!i i '"'"1 iV'!'' ' 



This and the following paper we propose' td notice in 

 (Jetail ou a future occasion. 



