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little, but that must be regulated by the quantity of salad to be 

 raised ; and, in place of taking the outside leaves, I cut the head 

 close down, though not so low as to injure the second cutting. 

 Some of the heads produced enough for one salad each, along 

 with other small salads. Every gardener, who has to produce 

 good salads during the winter, ought to provide himself with 

 chicory ; and, if he has not got flued pits, the next best place is 

 any shut-up or enclosed shed. If there is a stock-hole, with a 

 fire, so much the better ; but no light must get at it, as it must 

 have a fine cream-colour when fit for table. Market-gardeners 

 would also find chicory a most valuable salad when their endive 

 was all over. 



Dyrham Park Gardens, Bar net, March 10. 1837. 



Art. XIII. On a Method of obtaining green Mint during Winter. 

 By James Cuthjll. 



The following simple method of obtaining plenty of green 

 mint, during the vvinter and spring months, I have practised, for 

 some years past, with great success. I had boxes and pots the 

 first year; but, finding they did not supply a twentieth part of 

 what was wanted, the following plan struck me as likely to be 

 excellent : and so it proved. I first looked out a large two-light 

 frame ; I then got a quantity of faggots, with which I built a 

 foundation 2 ft. high, and on which I laid 1 ft. deep of long 

 dung, and above it 6 in. of good light mould ; after which I 

 planted the mint, about the end of April, about 4 in. apart. The 

 next winter it was forced by middling hot linings ; and I need 

 hardly say the experiment was completely successful. I had a 

 bed of the same kind last year, and will never be without one 

 where I am required to have winter mint. I have a bed of the 

 lily of the valley exactly upon the same principle, and will be 

 glad to let you know the result next year. 



Dyrham Park Gardens, Barnet, June 24. 1836. 



Art. XIV. Floricidtural and Botanical Notices on Kinds of Plants 

 neivly introduced into our Gardens, and that have originated in themy 

 and on Kinds of Interest previouslt/ extant in them ; supplementary 

 to the latest Editions of the " Encyclopcedia of Plants," and of 

 the " Hortus Britannicus." 



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Jackson Hooker, LL.D., &c. 

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