THE WALTONIAN PROPAGATING CASE 



TtMicliine: the vnrietics worthy of pcncral cultivation on the qnincc, I wonM 

 fiiin speak reservedly. As yet, my experienee is too limited to warrant sayinjjf 

 much, llajipy would I he, >Ir. Kditor, if some one of your able correspondents 

 would come to my relief, and take u]) the thread of the sul)ject just at this point. 



!Mr. Rivers, that most accomplished PJnglish pomolofrist, says, out of one 

 thousand varieties of Pear in cultivation, he j^rows but four for the Covcnt Garden 

 market — three of these are on Pear stock, the Louise Bonne de Jersey alone on 

 quince. No judfje of Pears will dare to lift his voice dispara<xinp:ly to the charac- 

 ter of that most rapid frrowinp; variety, ilniformly bearing abundant crops of well- 

 formed fruit, which, thoucrh not of the highest flavor, is yet such a pleasant sub- 

 acid, as to be a universal favorite. 



Our e.\])erience in this country certaiidy demands that the Duchess d'Angou- 

 lerae should, of all others, be cultivated on the quince — the more vigorous growth 

 of the tree — together with the improvement in the quality of the fruit, secures to it, 

 in my judgment, a))ove all others, a substitution of the quince for the Pear stock. 



I have not, INIr. Editor, said all of what I had designed to say on this sub- 

 ject ; and, if you will accept as an apology my present pressing engagements, 

 even to weai'iness, in the garden and orchard, for discontinuing, for a time, the 

 completion of the series, when another season has enlarged my observations, I 

 promise a return to it, unless, in the mean time, some abler hand shall render the 

 labor superfluous. 



THE WALTONIAN PROPAGATING CASE. 



EY D. BEATON, LONDON. 



HE application of hot water to the heating of horticul- 

 tural structures, was a long step in the advance of pro- 

 gress. Since then, efforts have been constantly made to 

 improve on and simplify the principle, so as to obtain the 

 greatest results at the smallest possible cost. 



The Waltonian Case, of which we give, herewith, cuts 

 from the Cottage Gardener, is one of the latest improve- 

 ments, the chief feature being that the water is heated l)y a 

 lamp, instead of an ordinary fire. It seems to answer its pur- 

 pose very well, and will be quite the thing for many of our 

 amateur friends, while the principle on which it is heated 

 will afford a hint to many of our more professional 

 readers. 

 Mr. Beaton, one of the most practical of English gardeners, thus speaks of its 

 success there : — 



"I must repeat, that I never saw a better contrivance for amateurs to strike 

 cuttings and raise seedlings with than this of Mr. Walton's, and that there is not 

 a better mode in existence as far as I am aware of. There is nothing better in 

 any of the London nurseries I have seen ; nor at any of the botanic gardens ; 

 nor, in short, anywhere. 



Hot water, without circulation, is now proved to be as good, on a small scale, 

 as it is by circulation on a large one. Mr. Walton's first idea was to apply the 

 heat of a lamp, or gas jet, to the bottom of a tin can, by means of a double bottom 

 false bottom," and on that principle his own Case is still worked. In the present 

 of it, the heat is brought direct into the body of the water in a zinc tube, 



