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and is attended with a great saving of fire-heat : the glass 

 being completely protected with shutters, very little fire is 

 required, except in the coldest nights ; the plants having 

 the advantage of being within from one to four feet of the 

 glass, grow compact and dwarf, and do not have that 

 etiolated appearance so common in high houses, where a 

 high temperature is constantly kept up. 



Mr. Monck is a good cultivator and propagator. In the 

 propagation of roses, he rarely uses bottom heat, preferring 

 a common frame for the purpose. A great portion of the 

 greenhouse plants are stuck without heat. A v/ide shelf 

 under the north lights is selected for this purpose, with a curb 

 to the edge. It is filled with sand or prepared soils adapted 

 to the several plants, and, in this manner, with due atten- 

 tion to heat and water, they root freely. 



We noticed an experiment which Mr. Monck is making 

 with grape vines. Passing through one of the houses, we ob- 

 served that there was a small vine growing in a pot to each 

 rafter ; but upon clos(n- examination we found the vine to be 

 only an inarching; upon inquiring the object of inarching, 

 when, it appeared to us, a plant on its OAvn roots would reach 

 the top of the house as soon as the most ardent cultivator 

 could wish, we learnt that the object was to transfer the 

 tender kinds to a hardy stock — the Isabella — as the latter 

 was planted outside of the house in the border, and the stem 

 was exposed to cold the distance of two feet or more, before 

 it was brought into the house. How much necessity there 

 is for adopting such a plan, and what is really to be gained, 

 are questions which occurred to us at the moment. To 

 obviate the danger of exposure of the stems, it was only 

 necessary to bring the vines into the house at the surface 

 of the ground. It may be advanced that the Isabella is a 

 more thrifty stock, and the wood would be consequently 

 larger and stronger : yet we believe nothing would be 

 gained in this respect. Should Mr. Monck discover any 

 benetit from the plan, we should be pleased to have him 

 communicate to us the result. 



Nursery of Wm. Reid, Murray Hill, Ath Avenue, near 

 34^'A St. On the high ground through which the first deep 

 cut is made for the Haarlem Rail-road, a short distance be- 

 yond Mr. Monck' S; we found the nursery of Mr. Reid, 

 occupying upwards of twelve acres of land well suited to 



