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well afterwards. Sow and plant for suc- 

 cession crops as directed for Melons. 



' French Beans. — Water those in full 

 bearing more liberally, and every alter- 

 nate time with manure- water made of 

 guano or sheep's dung. Syringe on fine 

 afternoons, to keep them clean. French 

 Beans like warmth, and do well in any 

 light place in vineries or other forcing- 



houses ; but owing to their great ten- 

 dency to be infested with red-spider, 

 they should not be placed near the foli- 

 age of Vines, Melons, or Cucumbers, if 

 it can be avoided. Sow and transplant 

 or repot for succession crops. Fulmers' 

 Early Forcing, Sion House, and Negro, 

 are all good forcing varieties. 



All business communications should be addressed to the Publishers, and com- 

 munications for insertion in the ' Gardener ' to David Thomson, Drumlanrig 

 Gardens, Thornhill, Drunifriesshire. It will further oblige if all matter intended 

 for publication, and questions to be replied to, be forwarded by the middle of the 

 month, and written on one side of the paper only. It is also requested that 

 writers forward their name and address, not for publication, unless they wish it, 

 but for the sake of that mutual confidence which should exist between the Editor 

 and those who address him. We decline noticing amj communication which is 

 not accompanied with name and address of writer. 



Errata. —At page 55 of February ' Gardener, ' 8th line from top, read " of the 

 mossy " instead of "the mossy." At page 66, 7th line from top, read " fruiting '' 

 for "planting;" page 98, 15th line from bottom, read "front-sash" for "fruit- 

 sash." 



A Young Beginner. — Doubtless "North of the Trent" means by "a first-class 

 establishment " a private establishment, and not a nursery, although it would 

 be advantageous to all young gardeners to be employed for a time in a nursery 

 establishment. 



An Old Subscriber. — We saw it announced some time ago — in the 

 ' Journal of Horticulture ' — that it was to be a neiv edition. A mere reprint, 

 without bringing its subject up to the present time, is not at all likely, and 

 would be quite unworthy of the reputation of its editor. It will be advertised 

 when ready, and any inquiry in our pages just now would not in any way further 

 your object. 



A. M'Farlane. — Were we constructing a fruit-room, we would build it with 

 a north aspect, put a slate roof on it, and having the joists deep, lathed and 

 plastered inside, and built with either thick stone or hollow brick walls. If the 

 roof were thatched over with straw or heather, all the better — all this to keep 

 up an equable temperature of 45°, according to the weather. There should be 

 means of ventilation at the highest point of the roof, but there should be no 

 currents of air passing through. As to the exclusion of light there are different 

 opinions. If the window or windows are to the north, and as they should not be 

 large, it does not, in our opinion, much matter about excluding light. There 

 should, however, be shutters in the windows to shut at pleasure, to regulate tem- 

 perature in cold weather, A fruiterer once told us that he found Apples keep 

 best in a dry cellar in bushel-baskets. In such a place the temperature and the 

 state of the atmosphere as to moisture would be subject to little fluctuation. 



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