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Ringing Trees. — Amaryllis vittdta. 



each plant, by which mode all have room to swell and bring 

 their tubers to perfection. The soil is not much exhausted 

 by this practice, and the potatoes are easily got at so as to 

 mould them up, even in their last stage of growth. I next 

 pick off the blossoms, a practice which has been proved by 

 Mr. Knight to add to the produce one ton per acre. Sir Ro- 

 bert Williams Vaughan, Bart. M.P. and F.H.S., at Nannan, 

 county of Merioneth, seeing my method, was, I believe, led to 

 the raising, on his estate there, that immense though late- 

 planted crop, noticed in a communication to the Horticultural 

 Society, and which appeared in the Gardener's Magazine for 

 January, 1827. 



I allow potatoes to be planted wherever I make plantations 

 of trees for timber, as the spaces between the trees can be 

 profitably used without detriment to them, and from the way 

 the potatoes are moulded round, whatever rain falls in a dry 

 summer, is quickly conveyed to the roots of the newly planted 

 trees, as it runs down the hill of earth containing the potatoes. 



Yours, &ic. 

 CJielienJiam, MarcJi 13. 1828. C. Hale Jessop. 



Art. XIV. Abridged Communications. 



Ringing Trees. — 1 have found a very great economy in 

 ringing, by the use of the common scorer 

 used by woodmen in marking timber 

 trees. {Jig> 123.) I ring many of our 

 shrubs and ornamental trees, to throw 

 them early into blossom, and to cause 

 them to produce larger blossoms. I have 

 flowered the tulip tree at seven years 

 from the seed-bed, and I have a very fine 

 set of dwarf fruit trees all circumcised 

 below the surface. — John Brown. Near 

 St. Albans, March 21. 1828. 



Amaryllis vittdta. — This showy plant 

 I have this season flowered in great per- 

 fection, by shifting it, as soon as it began 



to grow, in the month of January, from a 32 to a 12-sized pot, 



and with soil composed of equal 



without disturbing the ball 



portions of perfectly rotten dung, leaf mould, river sand, and 

 light loamy soil, mixed together. I watered sparingly till it 

 began to grow, and afterwards plentifully. One of my plants 

 produced two scapes nearly 3 ft. high, each bearing five large 



