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MISCELLANEOUS. 



ed with steam by heating over a lamp a 

 considerable time, till all the air is expell- 

 ed, so that when the glass is cooled, one 

 bidb remains half-full of water, and the 

 other bulb, and the intevening lube are 

 perfectly empty ot air. 



Now, if the empty bulb is immersed in 

 a mixture of salt and snow, the aqueous 

 vapour proceeding from the water in the 

 other bulb is congealed as fast as it is pro- 

 duced, and in a few minutes the water is 

 frozen solid. The distance between the 

 two bulbs may be very considerable with- 

 out impairing the eflect. Dr. W. has giv- 

 en this little instrument the name of 

 Cryophorus, or Frost JBearer. 



A PLAN OF A FRUIT ROOM, wn H SOME 



ACCOUxSIT OF IT. 



BY JOHN MAHF^R. — Horticultural Transactions, 



Vol. 2, part 1. 



This fruit room consists of a nest of 

 drawers occupying one side of it from the 

 floor to the ceiling; the drawers are num- 

 bered, so that the fruit contained in each 

 may be registered in a book, and its pro- 

 gressive delivery for the table or kitchen, 

 accurately noted. The lower drawers 

 have close bottoms, and are called sweat- 

 ing drawers, the fruit being put into them 

 as soon as gathered. In ten days or a 

 fortnight, as the apples and pears come 

 forward they are sorted, and the other 

 drawers are prepared to receive them, by 

 covering the bottom of each with very 

 clean wheat straw, thoroughly dried and 

 ventilated, the bottom of these drawers is 

 made of trellis-work. The room is di- 

 rected to have slides both in the door and 

 window to admit a circulation of air in 

 fine weather; but in damp and rains, the 

 rooms should be closely shut. 



ON THE TRANSPLANTATION OF BLOSSOM- 



BUDS. 

 J3Y T. A. KNIGHT, ESQll.— Horticultural 'trans- 

 actions. Vol. 2, part 1. 



The experiment 'of transposing buds 

 from the branches of one plant, to the 

 scions growing from the root of another, 

 was first practised on roses, in 1810, in 

 the month of August; and the success 

 with which this was attended, led to a 

 number of similar experiments upon the 

 pear and peach tree. 



An old unproductive pear tree on a 



north-west wall, was pruned so close as to 

 occasion the protrusion of many strong 

 succulent shoots, and into these were in- 

 serted blossom-buds of the St. Germain, 

 and long green pears; some of these veg- 

 etated and afforded leaves the same year, 

 but others, not till the following year, but 

 those buds succeeded best, which were 

 inserted into the bases of the abortive 

 branches of blossoms of the preceding 

 y^ear. Similar experiments were made 

 upon the seedling peach trees under glass, 

 with equal success, and the buds of the 

 peach tree were afterwards found to set 

 perfectly in the open air. 



ON THE PROPER STOCK FOR THE MOOR- 

 PARK APRICOT. 



BY T. A. KNIGHT, ESQR Horticultural Trans- 

 actions, Vol. 2. part 1. 



In some experiments with a view of 

 ascertaining the advantages, or disadvan- 

 tages of stocks of different species in the 

 culture of the peach, the nectarine, and 

 the apricot, made by Mr. Knight, the fol- 

 lowing {circumstance occurred. A single 

 plant of the Moor-Park Apricot obtained 

 sixteen or seventeen years before, by 

 grafting upon an apricot stock, retains a 

 smooth and polished surface, and the old 

 tree presents a perfect degree of health 

 and vigour ; while the other Moor-Park 

 Apricots in the garden, like those in most 

 others, become in a few years diseased 

 and debilitated, and exhibit in spaces near 

 the head of the stock, lifeless alburnum, 

 beneath a rough bark. So different was 

 the appearance of the Moor-Park, or the 

 Apricot stock from all the other trees of 

 the same kind in the garden, that its spe- 

 cific identity was at first view, doubted by 

 some gardeners. 



ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF WATERING THE 

 FROZEN BRANCHES OF PEACH AND NEC- 

 TARINE TREES VERY EARLY IN THE 

 MORNING. 

 By G. H. NOEHDEN Hort. Trans. Vol. 2, part 1. 



This method was resorted to in the 

 garden of .lames Stuart Wortley, Esqr. 

 near Sheffield, in order to counteract the 

 effects of spring frosts. The garden lies 

 very high above the level of the sea, and 

 is consequently without the advantage of 

 a sheltered situation, but the local position 

 is not otherwise unfavourable, as it slopes 



