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Ne\7 Gardex Pot. — The following account 

 of a new kind of garden pot appears in the 

 Eevue Horticole. An English amateur, Mr. 

 Keir, residing in Paris, has contrived a me- 

 thod by which the branches of trees can be 

 more conveniently layered than heretofore. 

 Pots with a slit on one side have been long 

 in use ; but difficulty has been found in their 

 use out of doors, on account of the want of 

 any good means of securing them in a fixed 

 position or at any desired height. Mr. Keir 

 proposes to make such pots with a tubular 

 projection on one side (a 6) through which a 

 staff may pass, and, being driven into the 

 ground, hold the pot perfectly steady. 



The adjoining cut explains at a glance the 

 nature of the invention. In forming such a 

 pot, it is said that the potter must take care 

 that the slit c is so small as just to allow the 

 branch d to pass in without leaving room for 

 the earth to slip out. But this precaution 

 seems needless ; for it would be easy to pre- 

 vent the earth slipping by means of pebbles 

 or crocks applied to the slit after the branch 

 is inserted, and as the pot is being filled with earth 



Large Plums. — The Farm Journal says : — " One of our neighbors was recently show- 

 ing us a specimen of his fruit orchard in Philadelphia, only a few feet square, attached 

 to his dwelling, which illustrates how much can be done in a small space. They were 

 Cue's Golden Drop Plums of extraordinary size and beauty, one of them weighing two 

 and a half ounces — a luxury even to look on, to say nothing of the eating qualities, which 

 of this variety are well known to be unsurpassed. We have often observed the superior 

 quality of fruit grown in our city gardens, particularly pears and plums. The compara- 

 tive freedom of the latter, in the city, from the curculio, is no doubt partly owing to the 

 pavements admitting no harbor for their eggs, which are destroyed with the punctured 

 plums when dropped. We know of a case where air-slaked lime was applied once a week, 

 early in the morning, by dusting it over three plum trees. Adjoining were three other 

 plum trees, equally loaded with fruit, to which the lime was not applied. In the latter, 

 the plums were stung and all dropped off; in the other case they ripened and perfected 

 all their fruit. What has become of Matthews' remedy for the curculio ? Are not the 

 committee prepared to report 1" 



The Strawberry " Sir IIarrt." — This new berry has received much attention of late 

 in England and France. One of our correspondents says he " has never eaten anything so 

 delicious. It is equally well adapted to forcing as to open ground cultivation. It was 

 raised by a Mr. Undcrhill, near Edgbaston. In flavor, size and color, it is said to surpass 

 s Seedling, British Queen, or any other variety, and is a prodigious bearer.' 

 of our amateurs or gardeners received it? 



