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Suitable to form handsome Treea. — Belle d'Orleans, Bigarreau Napoleon, Black 

 Tartarian, Cleveland Bigarreau, Dovvnton, Elton, Governor Wood, Archduke, 

 Empress Eugenie, Kentish, Nouvelle Eoyale, 



Lists of other kinds are of less importance than the classes 

 already considered. We have no handsomer shrubbery trees than 

 the American and Siberian crabs, but the pity is that very few- 

 people can turn their fruits to any good piu'pose. Yet they are well 

 worth preserving. One method, practised in the writer's household, 

 is to place them in jars quite dry, and pour boiling honey over them. 

 In due time they are taken out, and used for open tarts, and are in 

 this way delicioiis. Another good use for them is to make apple 

 jelly. The little apples are stewed till quite soft, but are not allowed 

 to break, in as much water as will just cover them. They are then 

 strained off, and squeezed, and thrown away. The liquor is then 

 boiled with sugar, at the rate of three-quarters of a pound of sugar 

 to every pint of the juice. Flavouring may be added, if desii^able, 

 but a little lemon-peel and lemon-juice are all the flavourings 

 required. After simmering half an hour, the liquor is poured into 

 moulds, whei'e it becomes a transparent jelly, of most delicate 

 flavour and elegant appearance. S. H. 



SOME STOVE PLANTS THAT BEAR COOL TEEATMENT. 



[HE idea of '' naturalizing " plants from the tropics has 

 long been exploded ; but, like the search of the alche- 

 mists for some principle which should transmute any 

 and every metal into gold, this idea has unexpectedly 

 been the means of leading us to the discovery of much 

 of which we can make practical use. Our stove plants are no 

 hardier now than they were fifty years ago, but we have learned 

 much better how to cultivate them ; and one of the lessons we have 

 learnt is, that at certain seasons of the year, and under certain cir- 

 cumstances, they will bear a much lower temperature than had been 

 anticipated. In a word, all plants require a season of rest. Allow 

 them to hybernate for a time, and then when you rouse them up 

 once more they spring into existence with renewed vigour. How 

 many plants we can recall wliich we at first stewed and parboiled in 

 our stoves ; soon they were moved into a warm corner of the green- 

 house, and then, having overgrown the space allotted to them, they 

 were some lucky spring morning planted in a warm corner out of 

 doors, just to take their chance. With what result? AVhy they 

 perfectly astonished us with their wonderful growth ; they had at 

 last been treated in a manner which suited them. I could spread 

 out this paper to any extent by giving illustrations of this. I might 

 give instances from the plants which were introduced years and 

 years ago, such as the Aucuba and the Leycesteria, and might bring 

 my observations down to the present day by giving some of the 

 results obtained this very year in the sub-tropical department at 

 Battersea Park. 



