330 Forcing the Cherry. 



the ground, but is now shooting Cap<? Bulbs which have stood in the 

 up from the root. open Ground, only protected by 



about 2 Inches of Sea Sand to cover 



Plants trained against a Wall ivith a le e s. 



Western Aspect. Ixias of many varieties. 

 Tritomas, ditto. 



Edwardsio! grandiflora, now in bloom. Sparaxis, ditto. 



Jasminura revolutum. Gladiolus, ditto. 



WallichH. Watson/cr, ditto, 



heterophyllum. Bobartw; aurantiaca. 



azoricum. Geissorhiza obtusata. 



Ceanothus azureus. Hesperantha pilosa. 

 Chimonanthus fragrans, flowered well cinnamomea. 



during the frost. Babidna, sorts. 



Wistana Consequa««, covering a Mor£e'« edulis. 



space of wall 10 ft. high, and 36 ft. Trichonema purpureum, 

 long, is now covered with bloom. oculatum. 



iJosa Banks/(» lutea. O'xalis rosacea, &c. 



Jersey, May 24. 1838. 



The time is now arrived when we should be glad to receive 

 lists of this description from all parts of the country. We recom- 

 mend to the attention of our readers Mr. Saunders's wishes 

 respecting acclimatising. — Co7id. 



Art. V. On forcing the Cherry. By Alexander Forsyth. 



Borders. — The soil for the cherry border may be the top spit 

 from a loamy pasture or common, mixed with about one fifth 

 its quantity of old brick-bats that have been used in building, 

 broken down to different sizes, from that of half bricks, down to 

 the size of hazel nuts. The border may be four yards wide, 

 and one yard deep, on a substratum one foot thick of stone, 

 brick, or scoriae, to prevent stagnant moisture, which, in all 

 artificial soils, must be carefully guarded against ; and in no 

 case is it more necessary than in the cherry border. You can 

 always supply water, or enrich the soil with liquid manure ; but, 

 if you neglect to mix some absorbing and retentive agent, such 

 as brick-bats, chalk, freestone, &c., along with the loam, you 

 cannot, with safety, enrich your soil with dung; for, if you do, 

 it will clot when liquid manure, or even clean water, is applied ; 

 and, instead of being permeable to fluids, and congenial to ve- 

 getation, you will have a rich but fulsome mass, analogous to 

 the sediment from the cesspools of a sewer. The border may 

 be covered with turf (the black side uppermost), which power- 

 fully resists the extremes of heat and cold, and on which the 

 necessary treading in thatching, watering, &c., can be performed 

 with impunity ; and, after it has been thus fallowed on the sur- 

 face for a year, it will be in excellent condition for forking into 

 the border; and this practice I should adopt with all hot-house 



