or planting at the very first in the position the plants 

 are intended to occupy permanently, are secured. 



This plan of sowing seeds, or of planting young 

 plants intended for transplantation, into pots made of 

 turf, is not only applicable to cucumbers, but might be 

 very extensively adopted in the case of annuals and 

 half hardy plants raised in frames, during the spring, 

 in large quantities for the flower garden. In these 

 cases, however, as the quantity that could be reared with- 

 in a given space would be an object, the turves should 

 be as small as possible in their lateral dimensions a 

 bore of two inches and a half, with half an inch on each 

 side, thus making the diameter three inches and a half, 

 would be found convenient in this respect. For cucum- 

 bers, however, or when the plan was applied to any 

 special object, a larger size might be employed, which 

 would allow of the plants attaining a larger size before 

 it would be necessary to place them in their permanent 

 positions. 



On Watering the Soil. 



In the diagram at p. 18, and the description of it at 

 p. 20, I have indicated and recommended a plan of 

 moistening the soil by pouring water down beneath the 

 soil : this was to be done by the help of tubes provided 

 for the purpose. The soil was supposed to rest on the 

 top of the hot water -tank, which was to supply bottom 

 heat ; and immediately beneath the soil, a layer of open 

 rubble was proposed to be placed, among which the 

 water applied might find its way, and gradually 

 moisten the superincumbent soil. Mr. Hunter, gard- 

 ener at Mawley Hall, in detailing* his sixteen years' 



* Gardener's Journal, Ia47, p. 339. 



