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17. On Vtnus Strobus and Cupressus ihy'oides. By M. Schoch, 



Head-Gardener at Worlitz. 



The Weymouth pine grows to the height of about 60 ft. 

 at Worlitz, and will live there for various periods between 

 twenty and seventy years. It dies soonest in poor dry soil. 

 The wood is of little use, either as timber or fuel. Cupressus 

 /hyoides, the white cedar of the Americans, is one of the 

 handsomest trees at Worlitz. There are specimens there 

 from 70 to 80 ft. high, though of not more than fifty years' 

 standing, and growing in very middling soil. The gi'eatest 

 cold does no injury to this tree. The wood is very light, and 

 it is fragrant and durable. [The white cedar is to be ob- 

 tained in the English nurseries : but, owing, as I suppose, to 

 its growing more slowly, and less compactly, than the red 

 cedar of the Americans, Jiiniperus virginiana Z/., it is far less 

 often asked for, or met with on lawns or among other decor- 

 ative applications of shrubs. — J. Z).] 



18. To 'preserve Grapes for the Table during the Winter Months, 



•which have lieen ripened in the open Air. 



In the spring, before the buds have begun to swell, take a 

 healthy well-ripened shoot of the preceding year, and draw it 

 up through the bottom hole of a flower-pot of about 15 in. 

 in diameter ; then fill the pot with rich soil, and cover both 

 the soil and the outside of the pot with moss, to keep in the 

 moisture. Water now and then, according to the season. 

 By the end of August, cut the shoot half through, just below 

 the pot, so as to increase the number of roots, which will 

 be formed about this time in the soil contained in the pot. 

 In the course of the month of October, according to the sea- 

 son, cut the shoot quite through, and remove the pot, with 

 the vine, laden with from twelve to twenty bunches of fruit, 

 to a dry airy room, with a northern exposure ; here water 

 occasionally, till the leaves di'op off, but no longer. Thus 

 treated, the fruit will keep good on the vine till the end of 

 February, preserving its natural flavour. The best sort for 

 this purpose is the white sweetwater. 



19. On the Culture of Hibiscus attenuatus of Bosse. 



This superb species, of which a splendid quarto coloured 

 figure is presented, is some very near ally of the beautiful 

 i/ibiscus palustris, already in British collections, and of 

 which mention is made in p. 13. Its herbaceous stem is 

 from 5 to 7 ft. high ; its leaves are smooth and elliptic, but 

 attenuated (whence the specific epithet) into a long acu- 

 minate point. The flowers are pedunculate, and placed one 



