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platform of boards an inch and a half thick ; these are plas- 

 tered with neats' dung, which when dry, is covered two inches 

 thick with good mould, and the frame is placed on the piers. 

 Under the centre of each light, a bushel of mould is laid, form- 

 ing a hillock. After this the lights are put on, and linings of 

 hot dung applied all round, the interior space remaining hol- 

 low. In two days, the bed is fit for use ; if the heat is found 

 to decrease, a wheelbarrow full of fresh dung is added, and 

 shaken up with the linings, and well watered. In order to 

 confine the heat, the whole of the linings are plastered with 

 neats' dung, by which means a temperature is obtained of 

 from 75 to 80 degrees. A bed which was thus made on the 

 3d of February, produced on the 30th of March, two fine 

 cucumbers measuring 13 inches in length." P. 491. 



Mr. John Anderson, gardener to the Earl of Essex, at Ca- 

 shiobury, grows celery in trenches six feet wide and one foot 

 deep, inserting the plants in rows across the trench ; a method 

 generally practised by the market gardeners, in the. neighbour- 

 hood of Edinburgh. 



M. Pronville, of Versailles, finds that certain beautiful 

 varieties of rose lose their improved colours, and return to 

 their primitive state, when kept on their own roots. He 

 therefore grafts them on stocks of wild rose, which besides 

 placing the flowers at an agreeable height from the ground, 

 retains the variety in perfection. 



Mr. John Mearns, gardener to William Harbing, Esq., at 

 Shopden Court near Leominster, grows early cucumbers in a 

 pit {Jig. 32.) the walls of which (a) are of open wicker work. 



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1 here is a cavity under the bed (c), into which the steam 

 from the dung lining is admitted; posts of iron or stone (b) 

 support this bed (d\ which is made of slate, stones, or tiles, 

 while the cavity between it and the sides of the pit are closed 

 below with slabs of stone (e). The pit is heated bv dung 



