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Magazine, their distinctive and characteristic name in all time 

 to come. Whether any may infer that the above very appro- 

 priate designation shows any thing like a deriding or ironical 

 aspect towards the lofty and sonorous names frequently attached 

 to trifling inventions, must be left to the judgment of your nume- 

 rous readers. 



I am, Sir, &c. 

 Ashtead Park, Oct. 13. 1829. John Hislop. 



Art. XI. An improved Method of planting and protecting Bulbs 

 in Flower Borders. By Mr. W. Seymour. 



Sir, 



I am surprised that the beautiful tribe of bulbous-flowering 

 plants are not more propagated and planted amongst the 

 admirers of flowers, as there are a great many of them hardy, 

 as .Narcissus, Fritillaria, and $cilla; and some of the ixias, 

 gladioluses, and amaryllises are hardy enough for warm situ- 

 ations. As I suppose the objection to the cultivation of them 

 is owing to their liability to being destroyed (while in a dor- 

 mant state) by the operations of digging and hoeing, I will 

 endeavour to describe to you a method of protecting them, as 

 practised in the garden of Mrs. Saltmarsh, of Saltmarsh near 

 Howden, which is as follows : — Having determined the place 

 for the clump or patch, the earth is taken out to the depth of 

 about 6 in. ; and an earthenware rim, of the shape of a common 

 garden pot cut into two at half its depth, is plunged about 

 l^in. below the surface of the soil, the inside filled to the 

 proper depth with good earth, and the bulbs planted, so that 

 their tops may be about level with the top of the rim : by which 

 means they can be taken up and planted at any season of the 

 year, without much detriment to the plants, as the rim holds 

 the ball of earth together. 



The rims can be made by any common potter, at about holf 

 the price of garden pots of the same width ; and, if tolerably 

 hard burnt, they will last a number of years, as they are buried 

 out of the direct action of the weather. 



I am, Sir, &c. 

 Carlton, July 25. 1829. Wm. Seymour. 



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