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the point, he observed winter aconites and crocuses in blossom from 

 north of the river Trent so far as York, where the winter had not 

 been so mild as in the southern counties, but several days of con- 

 tinued frost and snow had occui'red ; those flowers, with the meze- 

 reon being much more advanced tlian in the gardens and nurseries 

 about London, which were visited the day before he left London. 



3rdly. To any person, who wishes to pursue this mode of hasten- 

 ing the maturity of grapes, north of Stamford in Lincolnshire, he 

 recommends the cultivation of the miller's or Burgundy grape 

 exclusively, for he has found it uuaflected by smart frost, when the 

 shoots of the muscadine and sweet water were injured ; and this is 

 easily and physically accounted for by the very thick wood of its 

 young shoots. 



4thly. In the more southern counties, where many varieties of 

 grapes ripen better, still an attention to the practice now recom- 

 mended will ensure a superior flavoured crop, and some of the very 

 best Grisly Frontiniacs he ever tasted wei'e produced in the late Earl 

 of Tankerville's garden, at Walton-upon-Thames, when under the 

 care of Mr. John Dudgeon, who afterwards lived with Dr. Fother- 

 eill. 



WISTAEIA CONSEQITAETA; OR, GLYCINE SINENSIS. 



BT ME. JAMES CUTHILL, OP CAMBEEWELL. 



[HIS plant is one cf easy cultivation, and, when pruned 

 properly, a most beautiful object when in bloom. It is 

 one of those plants that can be severely handled by 

 cutting, stopping, and making it a dwarf, handsome, 

 flowering plant. We are not over abundant in early 

 in-door flowering plants, and upon making this sweet and beautiful 

 plant one more, I wish to make a few remarks. In the first place, 

 I have a fine plant on my house, growing up the wall, and that has 

 been cut in most severely every year, until it has thrown out its 

 latent buds, and has formed spurs in all directions. One branch 

 introduced itself into an old greenhouse three years ago, and has 

 every year bloomed profusely ; and is now, April 20th, comirg into 

 full bloom, with seventy spikes, or racemes. I have always noticed 

 that the flower is redolent with perfume, which is not so much 

 •when exposed in open air. This branch always flowers at least a 

 month before the same tree flowers out of doors. Neither is this 

 bouse heated by hot water or flues. The above tendency to early 

 flowering proves to me that, if properly managed as potted plants 

 (that is, by pinching, stopping, and cutting in and clothing all up 

 the stem, and keeping the plants in a warm place to ripen their 

 wood properly^ and make them produce plenty of flowering buds), 

 this plant would quickly take its place as an early flowering shrub. 

 This plant is to be had at every nursery in pots, and is most 

 reasonable in price. In conclusion, mind the Chinese plan of con- 

 tinually nipping in, or stopping, must be rigidly followed out. I 

 am not a nurseryman, and it is no use writing to me for plants. 



