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piece, and one-celled, bursting length- 1 plantations, shrubberies, and fruit-bor- 

 wise, and having the seed on or near its - ders, a two-pronged fork is olten .employed; 



edges, on a receptacle parallel with it. | but that with three prongs is quite as 

 Examples are the seed-vessels of the unobjectionable, and a multiplicity^ of 

 Periwinkle and Peony. 



FONTANE'SIA. (In honour of the 

 French botanist, Des Fontaines. Nat. 



ord., Oliveworts [Oleacese]. Linn., 2-Dian- 

 drta 1-Monogynia. Allied to Lilac.) 



Grafted standard high on the Manna Ash 

 (Ornus) it would make an interesting object on 

 lawns. It resembles the common Privet, but 

 with rough bark. Layers and cuttings under a 

 hand-glass, in autumn, and by grafting on the 

 Privet. When grown to a single stem it has a 

 graceful appearance, owing to its slender, droop- 

 ing branches. 

 F.phillyraoi'des (phillyrea-like), 12. Yellow. 



August. Syria. 1787. 

 FORCING is compelling culinary vege- 

 tables to be edible, flowers to bloom, and 

 fruits to ripen at unnatural seasons, 

 being the very contrary of the object for 

 which our greenhouses and hothouses 

 are constructed ; viz., to secure a tempe- 

 rature in which their tenants will be 

 in perfection at their natural seasons. 

 Under the heads of HOTBEDS, and of 

 each particular plant, will be found direc- 

 tions for forcing, and it will be sufficient 



tools is an expensive folly. Dr. Yelloly's 

 fork is certainly a good working imple- 

 ment. Entire length, three feet three 

 and a half inches; handle's length, two 

 feet two inches ; its diameter, one and a 

 half inch; width of the entire prongs, 

 seven inches at the top; width at the 

 points, six inches ; prongs, thirteen and 

 a half inches long, and at the top seven- 

 eighths of an inch square, tapering to a 

 point. The straps fixing the head to the 

 handle are eleven inches long, two inches 

 wide, and half an inch thick, feathering 

 off; weight of fork, eight pounds. 



Leaf-fork. Mr. Toward, of Bagshot 

 Park, describes a very serviceable imple- 

 ment of this kind. He says: One person 

 with this implement will take up with 

 greater facility more leaves than two per- 

 sons could do with any other tool. It is 

 simply a large four-lined fork, made of 

 wood, shod with iron ; the tines are 

 eighteen inches long, and are morticed 

 into a head about seventeen inches long, 

 and one and a half inch by two and a 



here to coincide with Dr. Lmdley m say- ; uarter inches thick> The tines are one 

 ing, that as forced flowers are always less j inch in width and Qne and a balf inch in 

 beautiful and less fragrant, and forced ; d th at the head dual] taper ing to 

 vegetables and fruits less palatable : and | & int with a curye or bend rds . 



less nutritious than those perfected at ; TJ WQod Qf which t} ^ ^^ 

 theirnatural periods,itis desirable, atthe htto be hard and tough . either oak 

 very least to devote as much effort and ex- Or 8 agh ^ d but the jg^ , do . 

 pense to obtain superior produce at accus- ; ^^ ig prefe ^ ble to either . T e head 

 tomed times as to the procuring it un- j should b( f made of ash with a handle of 

 seasonably. Karity is good, but excellence , the samej and should be two f eet fcmr 

 is best. 'inches long. Its recommendations are 



FoEE-EiGHTSHOOTsaretheshootswhich ; itg size and lightness . the leaves, also, do 

 are emitted directly in front of branches | not h n it fts Qn ft common fork 



trained against a wall, and consequently, ; ^ j J f ^ tineg tearin tbem 



cannot be trained m without an acute 



asunde y 



bending, which is always in some degree j FoEM j CA See ANT 



ing back fruit-trees in summer, and of 

 pruning forest-trees at any time, by which 

 the lower branches are shortened, with- 

 out removing them altogether. 



FORGET-ME-NOT. Myoso'tis palu'stris. 



FOEK. This instrument is preferable 

 to the spade, even for digging over open 

 compartments, for the soil can be re- 

 versed with it as easily as with the spade ; 

 the labour is diminished, and the pul- 

 verisation of the soil is more effectual. 

 (See DIGGING,) For stirring the soil in 



ord., Oliveworts [Oleacese]. Linn., 2-Di- 

 andria 1 - Monugynia. Allied to Fonta- 

 nesia.) 



Hardy deciduous shrubs. Cuttings or layers ; 

 common, sandy loam. F. viridi'ssima requires a 

 little protection. 



F. suspe'nsa (hanging-down). Yellow. Japan. 

 viridi'ssima (greenest). 10. Yellow. March. 

 North China. 1845. 



FORSYTE'S PLAISTER for healing the 

 wounds and restoring to vigour decayed 

 trees, was as follows: One bushel of 



