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of the bed. Bv this treatment all clumsiness is avoided, and the 

 vessel, water, and pots are totally concealed. The moss, lying so 

 near the water, is, with an occasional sprinkling on the surface, kept 

 always fresh and green ; whilst its porosity admitting air and heat, 

 the temperature of the water is considerably heightened. Nothing 

 more noble than a mass of plants thus treated can be well imagined ; 

 the vivid green of the broad, ample, leathery-looking leaves, contrasted 

 with the large, showy, white flowers, forms at once an object both 

 beautiful, imposing, and magnificent. 



To prevent the unseemly appearance of the. pit, after the plants 

 are taken to their winter quarters, I place a quantity of evergreen 

 flowering shrubs, in tubs or large pots, in their place for the winter, 

 filling the interstices with moss, in a neat manner. 



I have several other articles in hand, which I had intended sending 

 with this ; but having, through my desire to be as explicit as possible, 

 made this article more lengthy than I at first intended, I have 

 reserved them for some future opportunity. 



[We thank our respected correspondent for his many very useful 

 and interesting communications sent us already, and shall feel highly 

 obliged by the other promised favours. — Conductor.] 



ARTICLE VIII. 



REMARKS ON THE CARNATION POPPY. 



BY MARIA. . 



Being in the neighbourhood of Boston, in Lincolnshire, during the 

 past summer, I was much pleased with a bed of beautiful carnation 

 poppies. The bed was on a lawn, round, and about twelve feet 

 across. It was raised to the centre ; and the culture of the plants 

 was so managed, that near the side they were in profuse bloom, and 

 only >ibout half a yard high. On inquiry, I found it was effected hy 

 the following treatment: — The bed was enriched with vegetable 

 mould at the centre, and gradually allowed to be less enriched to the 

 side, a foot of which at that place was a very poor gravelly soil. The 

 bad being a foot lower at the side than the grass, the (lowers were 

 about six inches above; and the growth being regulated as above 



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