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of their licmls should be cut within three or four inches of the stem, 

 and should be pruned about the roots; and that by this ordering, 

 they will prepare to shoot by that time they come abroad; and if 

 thev have water and shade enough, will make handsome plants that 

 summer. 



Mr. Bradley informs us, that Mr. Whitmil shewed him some 

 Myrtles that were inarched one upon another, and had taken very 

 well : among these they were the Striped Myrtle upon the Plain ; 

 the Nutmeg Myrtle upon the Upright; the Large-leaved kinds upon 

 the Small ; and the Double-blossomed upon several sorts : which 

 brought to his mind some thoughts he once had of making a pyramid 

 of Myrtles, the base of which should be garnished with the Spanish 

 Broad -leaved Myrtle, to be followed with the Nutmeg; and next to 

 that the Silver-edged Myrtle, and upon that the Upright sort, to be 

 succeeded by the Rosemary and Thyme-leaved kinds, upon which 

 there might be a ball of the Double-blossomed Myrtle, which would 

 make a fine appearance. 



At Sir Nicholas Carew's, at Bedington, is a Myrtle of the Spanish 

 Broad -leaved kind, which is above eighteen feet high, and spreads 

 about 45 feet. Mr. Bradley says, if to this are joined those Myrtles 

 that he has seen growing in Devonshire, in the natural gi'ound, he 

 cannot see any occasion for any great use of fire for these sort of 

 plants, as is common in greenhouses : but plants that are in pots are 

 much more liable to suffer by the frost, than if they were in the 

 naked ground ; and the more woody the plants are, the more hardy 

 they are. 



ARTICLE IV.— ON PRESERVING GERANIUMS IN A SMALL 

 SPACE THROUGH WINTER.— Ey Louisa. 



Gardeners are, in the spring, often at great trouble in collecting a 

 number of cuttings of greenhouse plants, especially of Pelargoniums; 

 and after these have struck, and the plants thus formed have flowered 

 through the summer, they must, when Autumn has drawn near its 

 close, be put into some place of safety for winter. At those places 

 where there is not proper accommodation for them, the gardeners hav- 

 ing a regard for the plants they have reared, are often much per- 

 plexed in bringing them through the winter, — in consequence, when 

 the time has arrived at which the plants must be transplanted from 

 the borders into pots, and after the knife has been used freely upon 

 them, they are often crowded together in ill-lighted rooms and other 

 places where they can scarcely draw breath, and where numbers die, 



