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linings (f\ inclosed by walls (g), and kept dry by drains 

 (h), and by a gutter to the sashes (i). The plants are inserted 

 in a hill (&), and gradually earthed up in the usual manner. 

 This pit is much cheaper than Mc Phail's, especially if the 

 retaining walls (g) are omitted. 



Mr. John Nairn, gardener to Thomas Forbes Reynolds, Esq., 

 of Carshalton, has grafted cactus flagelliformis, speciosus, and 

 speciocissimus, on cactus triqueter, which makes a singular 

 plant, especially when the different species display their fine 

 blossoms ; he says, " I take a small part of the plant I pro- 

 pose to engraft, and attach it, by cutting away a slice of the 

 fleshy part of the stock, taking off also from the piece to be 

 attached, a small portion of the flesh, to secure its adhesion ; 

 the sap is so glutinous, that the piece will adhere without tying, 

 but it is most advisable to fasten it with bass ; great care, how- 

 ever, must be taken not to bruise it, for such an injury will 

 cause it to rot. An union will soon be formed, and the graft 

 will grow freely. The pendent direction will cause the scions 

 to produce their blossoms, not only more abundantly, but 

 earlier." Cactus pereskia answers equally well for an elevat- 

 ing stock, as triqueter. 



Mr. William Gibson, gardener to Henry Peters, Esq., at 

 Betchworth Castle, in Surrey, grows pine-apples under a frame, 

 with the heat of leaves alone. In the fruiting frames, the 

 plants are plunged about three inches above the rims of 

 the pots, so that they throw out roots among the leaves, re- 

 quire less water than usual, and produce fruit of a higher 

 flavor. 



Joseph Brookhouse, Esq., of Warwick, grows cucumbers in 

 a dung bed in the front of a peach-house ; the peaches being 

 trained against a back wall. The cucumber shoots are trained 

 about four feet up wires under the front glass. 



Mr. John Reid, of Yalding, Kent, exhibited a syringe, with 

 recent improvements, a figure and description of which we 

 have given in the 2d edition of the Encyc. of Gard. § 1419. 



A remarkably large gooseberry plant grows in the garden 

 of Mr. William Bates, a market gardener at Duffeld, near 

 Derby ; it is planted on the east side of a steep hill, the sub- 

 stratum of the soil being a hard grit-stone. It has been there 

 for at least 46 years ; its branches extend to 12 yards in 

 circumference, and they have produced several pecks of fruit 

 annually for these last 30 years. It is usually manured with 

 soap-suds, and the drainings from the dunghill. There are 

 two other gooseberry plants, nearly of the same size, in the 

 garden at Overton Hall, near Chesterfield, the seat of the late 

 Sir Joseph Banks. 



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