268 Winter-keeping of Apples. 



Transplanters are chiefly used by florists to fill up blanks 

 in show-beds of flowers. The French one (Jig. 53.), is one of 

 the neatest. Excepting for the purposes mentioned, 

 a trowel or the spade will be preferred by the prac- 

 tical gardener. Mr. Saul has very obligingly sent us 

 one of his implements, and proposed that we should 

 take up a tulip, pot it, and send it by coach to the 

 Lancashire show ; but not being " high in that fancy," 

 as the phrase is, all we could do for the credit of 

 his ingenious invention was to send the transplanter 

 to Weir's, Oxford-street, where it is manufactured 

 for sale, under the name of Saul's Transplanter. — 

 Cond. 



Art. VIII. On a Mode of keeping Apples through the 

 Winter, as practised by Mr. Robert Donald, Nurseryman, 

 Woking. 



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