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*' As soon as I apprehend frost, I take up the plants with 

 balls of earth attached to the roots, distiu'bing the young 

 growing fibres as little as I can help, and place them carefully 

 in pots that will admit of a little good mellow soil under the 

 ball and around it. When they are thus replaced in pots, 

 and watered, so as to settle the mould, those which are in 

 luxuriant bloom I mix among my green-house plants, where 

 they make a splendid appearance till January. When the 

 plants begin to shed their leaves, and the flowers are nearly 

 gone, I put them out of sight, as mentioned above, until 

 April. 



" I propagate the Bouvard/a by cuttings of the roots, which 

 1 manage as follows : — I fill some large fruiting jiine-pots 

 with good fresh mellow loam, well blended with either tho- 

 roughly rotten dung or vegetable mould ; I plant my roots all 

 over the pot, beginning in a circle round the outside, opening 

 the soil, and planting them with my middle finger, and con- 

 tinue filling up one circle with another till I finish in the 

 centre of the pot or pots, leaving no more of the roots visible 

 above the surface than just the top. I then water and place 

 them in a hot-house, where the temperature is between 60° 

 and 70°. As soon as the shoots get to between 4 and 5 in. 

 high, I transfer the plants singly into pots of a small size, and 

 by degrees harden them after they have been established. 

 When they have made some progress after this transplanting, 

 I plant them out into a bed 4 ft. wide, 8 in. between the rows, 

 and 4 in. in the row ; when, if the soil is good, many will soon 

 be in flower. I pot them again before frost, and treat them 

 as I described for my older plants." 



53. Oil the jirobahle Cause of the Russet Colour in Apples [^vitJi a 

 Hemark on the supposed Influence of artificial Impregnation of 

 Apple Blossoms icith the Pollen of others^ By John Williams, 

 Esq. C.M.H.S., of Pitmaston, near Worcester. Read Oct. 7. 



. 1828. 



" The alternating temperature, light, shade, dryness, and 

 moisture, which occur many times in the course of a day, 

 when July and August are showery, are, I am inclined to 

 think, from long-continued observations on the effects of 

 different seasons, the causes of apples becoming bronzed with 

 russet. Continued rain, preceded and followed by a cloudy 

 sky, does not seem to produce the same effect ; but the sudden 

 intense light which commonly succeeds a shower, at the time 

 the fruit is wet, injures the skin, and occasions small cracks, 

 which, when viewed through a magnifying glass, resemble the 

 cracked surface called the network of a melon. Cider and 



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