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showery, May, June, July, August, and September are very 

 hot and dry. The Solandra sheds its leaves in September, 

 and does not renew them again till the commencement of 

 April, when they appear conjointly with flow^er buds. On my 

 return to England, in January, 1826, I removed my plant 

 from the stove into a small green-house, and commenced 

 watering it but slightly. It began immediately to grow 

 rapidly, and, in April, I transplanted it into a tub, 2 ft. 6 in. 

 broad, by 2 ft. deep ; the bottom pierced with holes, and well 

 drained. The soil was composed of a mixture of strong loam 

 and vegetable mould from decayed leaves ; water was with- 

 held from May till November, when slight waterings overhead 

 commenced. This treatment was continued till February, 

 when the whole plant, which had grown to an amazing size, 

 showed flower buds on every spur. These advanced rapidly, 

 but the gardener having accidentally omitted to water it, every 

 bud dropped as well as leaf. This, I am convinced, would 

 not have happened, had the tub in which the plant was growing 

 been at a greater distance from the flue, which, running under 

 the spot on which it stood, became overheated ; but this 

 double mismanagement ruined all. The plant is, however, 

 now doing well. I shall pursue the same plan this year, 

 attending personally to the treatment, and have no doubt of 

 a successful result. If you think this worth insertion in your 

 Magazine, as pointing out any thing novel in the culture of 

 Solandra, I am happy to offer it. 



I am, Sir, &c. 



E. W. Churchill. 



Art. XVII. On the Formation of Kitchen-Gardens. 

 By Mr. William Wilson. 



Sir, 



Through the medium of your useful Magazine, I beg^ 

 leave to offer a few remarks on the subject of kitch^-gardens. 

 In doing this, I have only to assure yourself and readers that 

 my only motive is the wish to add a little information on a 

 most important branch of our business, and to show, what 

 many seem to consider as doubtful, that a kitchen-garden may 

 be made as agreeable and as interesting a scene as any other 

 part of a country residence. It is too much the fashion to 

 consider the pleasure-ground and flower-garden as the only 

 spots deserving of polish and high keeping, and to allow the 

 kitchen-garden to be laid out in any by-corner, or in any 



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