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cement, and tarred and painted. If vines were planted in 

 boxes or confined beds, in the manner suggested by our cor- 

 respondent F. N. B. (p. 145.)? we have very little doubt that, 

 with a little protection by canvass or woollen netting in spring 

 and autumn, they would ripen their fruit even in Scotland. 

 For the above excellent communication, the Caledonian Society 

 voted Mr. Henderson the London Horticultural Society's 

 medal for 1826. 



Art. II. Verhayidlungen des Vereins zur Beforderung des Garten- 

 baues in den Koniglich Preussischen Staaten. Transactions of 

 the Society for the Advancement of Gardening in the Royal Prus- 

 sian States. Part. II. completing Vol. I. Berlin. 4to. 1824. 

 7 plates. 



(Continued from p. 66.) 



46. Remarks on the Treatment of Cactus specibsus. By Mr. Coun- 

 sellor Fleischinger, of Berlin ; with the Opinion of the Com- 

 mittee. 



M. FLEiscHiNGERhad kept this plant for years in a hot-house 

 without being able to, throw it into bloom, till at last he placed 

 it in the open air during summer, when it made shorter but 

 much stronger shoots than it had ever made in the hot-house ; 

 and in a year and ten weeks after he commenced this treat- 

 ment, he had several strong flowers. He began this practice 

 in 1815, and continued it with success till 1823, the date of 

 his paper. 



47- Some Remarks on the Gaps arising by the Death or stinted 

 Growth of some Species of Trees in the Leaf wood Plantations of 

 the Natural Garden at Berlin. By the Grand-Ducal Head-Gar- 

 dener, M. Bosse, of Oldenburg ; with the Opinion of the Com- 

 mittee. 



The natural garden alluded to is a piece of ground laid out 

 in the modern English style of landscape-gardening ; and leaf- 

 woods (laubholzeri) include both deciduous and evergreen 

 trees with broad leaves, in contradistinction to needle-leaved 

 woods (nadelholzen), which are composed chiefly of the pine 

 and fir tribe. Mr. Bosse states that gaps among bushes are 

 not readily filled up by inserting new plants, however large, 

 and that a much better mode is to lay down the branches of 

 the adjoining bushes on all sides, or of such as are strongest, 

 or are preferable in point of beauty or utility. In cases where 

 the adjoining plants do not root readily from layers, or do not 

 grow freely, the introduction of new plants must be resorted to ; 



