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dividing them lengthwise, to score them across and across with a knife, 

 to dress them with butter, pepper, and salt, and then to broil them on a 

 gridiron. Captain Rainier uses the medlar as a stock for pears. 



Mr. John Bowers, Gardener to the Lord Selsey, at West Dean House, 

 in Sussex, destroys the bug and scale on pine-apple plants by a wash " con- 

 sisting of three gallons of rain water, two pounds of soft soap, eight 

 ounces of black sulphur, (sulphur vivum,) arid two ounces of camphor, 

 boiled together for an hour, and to which is then added three ounces of 

 turpentine. He turns out his plants, divests the roots of their fibres, and 

 immerses them in a trough nearly filled with the liquid at a temperature of 

 from 1200 to 1.36°, for about five minutes. Queen and sugar-loaf pines he 

 finds require the highest heat stated : Antiguas and others need not have 

 it above 124°; but those to which a lower temperature is used must 

 remain double the time immersed. When taken out of the liquor they 

 are well drained, and set on the flue of the house with the roots down- 

 wards, until they become dry ; they are then put into small-sized pots, and 

 plunged in fresh tan, with a good bottom heat kept up by dung linings. 

 They are shaded from the sun in the heat of the day, and a little air given 

 until they begin to grow, which will be in about three weeks from the 

 time they are potted. The above operation may be performed between 

 the months of February and September." 



Mr. John Breese, Gardener to Sir Thomas Neave, Bart, at Dagnam 

 Park, Essex, grows pines on boards placed over a pit filled with rank 

 dung, covered with six inches of old rotten dung. 



Mr. William Ross, of Stoke Newington, had a plant of the black Damas- 

 cus grape, the blossoms of which, every gardener knows, do not set we'd, 

 either in the hot-house, nursery, or in the open air. Mr. Ross had a piant 

 on the open wall, which for many years had invariably failed to set its fruit. 

 A royal muscadine grew near it. At the pruning and training season the 

 branches of the two vines were intermixed, and in the blooming season 

 their racemes coming almost in contact with each other, produced the 

 desired effect ; while a part of the vine trained by itself produced defective 

 branches as before. Mr. Ross had been in the habit of fecundating the 

 black Damascus by suspending over the blossoms, when fully open, bunches 

 of the flowers of other sorts then in the same state. These were shaken 

 occasionally to disperse the pollen. 



John Williams, Esq., of Pitmaston, near Worcester, cultivates straw- 

 berries on small ridges of earth running north and south, about nine 

 inches above the level of the ground, planting the strawberries on the top, 

 and laying plain tiles on each side of the ridge. He finds the produce 

 earlier, more abundant, and better flavoured, than on plants grown on the 

 flat ground. The flat tiles retain the moisture., promote the ripening of the 

 fruit, and keep it free from dirt after heavy showers of rairi. 



Art. II. Verhandlungen. des Vereins, fyc. Transactions of the 

 Prussian Gardening Society, fyc. Vol. I. Continued from 

 p. 189. 



The 26th Article of these Transactions is entitled, General Re- 

 marks on British Paris and Gardens. Extracted from the 

 Journal of Mr. Lenne, Royal Garden Engineer at Potsdam. 



Mr. Lennk is a young man belonging to a family on the 

 banks of the Rhine, who have been gardeners for upwards of 

 two centuries. Having received a very competent education 



