ON RESTORING PLANTS. 



raav be required. The bins must be made to run upon castors, so 

 tbat tbey may be readily taken out to be filled with such composts 

 as may be required. The wall above the back of the counter should be 

 fitted up with wells to receive round sticks for plants, of the lengths 

 of 6, 9, 12, 16, 20, 24, and 30 inches. And for square sticks for 

 border flowers, (or standards,) in lengths of 18, 21, 27, 33, 42, 54, 

 and 66 inches. The opposite side of the room is fitted up with a 

 closet, the top of which is a counter, or work-bench. Against the 

 wall, over the back of this counter is a range of shelves for garden 

 pots and seed pans. Eight inches of the back of this counter, (which 

 is two feet wide,) forms the bottom of the first shelf. Each shelf is 

 broad enough to hold two pots, and they are so distant from each 

 other, as to admit of two standing one within the other. A set of 

 shelves so arranged, and the pots thus placed, afford ample space for 

 as many pots as will be required by most amateurs. 



I have lately adopted a new mode of affixing names to platits that 

 are °rown in pots, it is as follows : — Instead of using tallies, I have 

 had a blank label painted on the rim of each of my pots. For pots, 

 up to large sixties, one inch is quite sufficient ; for those above that 

 size, one inch and a half. This affords ample space, either to write 

 the name, or place a number. Either one or the other is done with 

 a black-lead pencil, whilst the paint is newly laid on ; this does not 

 rub or wash out. Two coats of paint are necessary to have them 

 look well; the last coat of paint should have less oil in it than the 

 first, it will then be more easily written upon. These names will 

 last as long as the pot, and is cheaper than any other description of 

 labels. More time is required in preparing tallies, than is necessary 

 in adopting my plan, and not near so neat or durable. 



ARTICLE II. 



ON RESTORING PLANTS WHICH HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY 

 FROST.— By Mr. Jack Frost. 



As the winter advances, a few remarks on the nature of rescuing 

 Tender Plants from the effects of frost, by the application of cold 

 water, may not be uninteresting to some of your readers. Every 

 gardener is aware, that sprinkling cold water upon frozen plants has 

 a tendency to restore tliem, but I am fully persuaded that, through 

 ignorance of the nature of such application, it is seldom performed 

 with that degree of success which it is capable. Heat, or caloric, 

 exists in two states, viz., latent and perceptible; when any two sub- 



