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liability to produce worms, Mr. Kent was induced to construct a 

 house in which the flues should pass through a large space, 

 which becomes a chamber of heated air, and which appears to 

 be as effectual as the tan in warming the bodies that are conti- 

 guous to it. 



On the Cultivation of Strawberries in the open Ground. By 

 Mr. Michael Keens. 



Account of a new Method of cultivating the Lobelia fulgens, 

 practised by Mr. William Hedges, Gardener to the Earl of Mans- 

 field. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



Description of a Stove used for tropical Plants, in the Garden 

 of Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



A short Account of the Works of the Rev. John Volkmar Sickler, 

 an eminent Pomologistin Germany. By George Henry Noehden, 

 LL.D. &c. — We are informed that the subject of this paper was 

 bom in 1744 at Giintersleben, near Gotha, and was pastor at 

 Kleinfahnern in the Dutchy of Saxe Gotha. For many years he 

 paid particular attention to the management of orchards ; he had 

 three nurseries, one of which alone contained no less than 8000 

 grafted trees. This nursery was entirely destroyed by Marshal 

 Ney's troops after the battle of Jena, and another of Mr. Sickler's 

 nurseries, in which there were 1,500 grafted trees, shared the 

 same fate from the Cossacks after the battle of Leipzic. The 

 third, containing 1,200 trees, appears to have escaped. He is 

 the author of a great work on pomology, consisting of no less 

 than 48 volumes, containing a very full account of all the fruit 

 trees that are grown in Germany, illustrated by above 1,200 

 plates. Mr. Sickler has also published a general farming dic- 

 tionary in 14 volumes, and a botanical dictionary in one volume, 

 besides many smaller tracts. 



On a Mode of training Fruit Trees, described by M. Noisette, 

 by George Henry Noehden, LL.D. &c. — M. Noisette's account 

 is published in a French work entitled Bon Jardinier, for the 

 year 1817; it consists in placing a frame-work either on one 

 side or all round the tree, according to circumstances, which is 

 flat at the top, and upon which the branches are trained as on a 

 trellis, in a horizontal position. Another method is, when there 

 are two inclined frames, joined at the top at an angle of about 

 50 degrees, on which the trees are trained. This latter frame 

 may, if necessary, be covered with a glass case, thus converting 

 it into a small forcing house, and this may be put on or removed 

 at pleasure. 



