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JOUBNAL OF HORTICULTURE AKD COTTAGE GABDENEK. 



( Angntt 19, 180. 



Ihem off i or 5 inches long belcw a jfjint, and remove the leaf, 

 and BO far op the phoot as will lo inserted in the Eoil. Make 

 a hole with a dibble, drop a pinch of sand into the hole, then 

 intrcdnce the catling ncd fill up the hole with fand. Fine 

 charcoal is better than sand. A piece of glass is placed over 

 each pot, and the pots may be set in the places where the 

 plants are to fruit. If due regard be paid to keeping the foil 

 moist, the cuttings will be well rooted in a fortnight ; then 

 lemove the pane of glass by degrees, and the plants will grow 

 lapidlv ; soil being added, as roots push from the fUm, until the 

 pot is "fall. The fruit will be fit to cut before Cbriatma?, when 

 the plants may be cut down to the lowest joint, the Euifnce 

 soil removed, freeh added, and the plants in all reepeots treated 

 as described for thoEe from seed in pola. Tlants from cuttings 

 ■will endure a drier atmosphere, and are neither eg succulent 

 nor so liable to snffer from cold as seedlings ; they will bear a 

 temperature of 5° lower than seedlings and a drier atmosphere, 

 and are not bo liable to damp off, otherwise we do not see their 

 advantage. By taking off cuttings at intervals the plants 



become, as it were, perennial. I know of one instance in 

 which they were continued by cuttings enccessiveiy for three 

 years and a hnlf, but then the deformity and uselessneeg of 

 the fruit weie abundant evidence that the natural limit to the 

 existence of the plant lad been exceeded. 



As one, or at most two sorts if Cucumbers are enough to 

 grow, I give the names cf half a dozen wLich I have proved 

 come up to the standard cf merit — viz., " Length, rot less than 

 12 inches ; oiameter, one-ninth cf the lecglh ; colour, dark 

 green ; spines, black or white, and numerous; bloom, nnre- 

 movcd ; circumference, circular and equal throughout ; neck 

 and ncfe, each not more than a diameter IcEg ; flesh, crisp and 

 juioy ; flower, remaining on the fruit." 



For Kinitr antl E<i rl y Vii'. 

 All the Year Round (Dicksou'J) 

 Tclepraph (KoUissoD's) 

 Tho ColesLill 



For Sii^ntitr. 

 Xewton Hi-ro 

 HflmiltcQ's Needle Gao 

 Dale's CoLqucrcr 



Those named for winter and early use are eiually eligible 

 for summer culture. — G. Abeev. 



RENDLES PATENT PLANT PROTECTORS. 



It ia now hard upon thirty years since Mr. W. E. Rendle 

 introduced " the tank system " of heating horticultural struc- 

 tures ; and although the novelty of this cheap and efficient 

 system has passed away, there are macy who still adhere to it 



as in their estimation the best and most economical. That the 

 tank fystem is the best for general purposes we are not prepared 

 to allow ; but if the advccatcs of bottom heat to Vine borders 

 were to adopt it instead of iron pipes fur their purpose, we 



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should not hear of so many failures in this practice cf culture 

 as we do. It is hcmid heat that Vine roots require, not a roast- 

 ing. Let those, then, who wish to apply bottom heat to their 

 Tines use the tauk closed, with a perforated covering, and this 



wiih permeable material betvreen the tank and the soil, and we 

 shall be astonished if their efforts be not attended with success. 

 The same llr. Bendle who rendered this service to horticul- 

 ture in his earlier days, has now invented a mode of protecting 



Fig. 2. 



tender crops, which onght to obtain ail the pnbUcily and popu- 

 larity which its merit demands. The ccntrivence ccneisis in 

 glazing, with Mr. Rendle's patent protecting bricks, low struo- 



by merely slipping the sheets of glass itto a grooved brick. We 

 cannot belter explain the principle than by referring our readers 

 to the accompanying woodcuts. Ihe length to which these 



tnres which may be called " frames '' without the aid of pntty, little Etincturee may be carried is liaited only by the extent 



