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A letter signed by the Earl of Shrewsbury was sent with this com- 

 munication, stating that these furnaces have answered perfectly in the 

 garden at Alton Towers. — Cojid. 



Mallefs Patent Iron Wheelban'ows are remarkably light and strong 

 articles, well deserving the attention of gardeners, new ground workmen of 

 every description, and persons intending to emigrate. They take to pieces, 

 and pack in very little bulk. Ihey are manufactured in the neighbourhood 

 of Dublin, and sold remarkably cheap, considering their great strength and 

 durability (24«. delivered in London). When a poor-rate is obtained for 

 Ireland, which, we trust, will be the case in a session or two at farthest, 

 we hope hundreds of thousands of these barrows will be mounted for the 

 public works that must then be set a going to employ the population. — Cond. 

 Ddp/me indica [more properly D. odora]. — Having succeeded in blow- 

 ing this sweetest of all plants to perfection, and having witnessed its failure 

 in many collections, 1 shall state to you my method of cultivation : — I 

 take off cuttings from the top shoots, of which, when rooted in the autumn, 

 I place two in a small pot. In the third year, and perhaps in the second, 

 they will show bloom, when they should be moved into the vine houses, in 

 order to ripen the wood, and bring forward the flowers, before their re- 

 moval into the conservatory. By this method of treatment, I have never 

 failed in procuring an abundant blossom ; the flowers show themselves dis- 

 tinctly, and not clubbed together as otherwise they generally do. 



Cyclamen [persicum ?]. — I have also been very successful in the cultiva- 

 tion of another beautiful plant, the Cyclamen, of which I have twelve large 

 plants, unrivalled for size and abundance of flowers, amounting from one 

 to two hundred on each plant. When they have ceased blowing, and the 

 leaves begin to wither, 1 take the roots out of the pots, keeping them dry 

 till September, when I put them out in the border ; and when the leaves 

 begin to appear, I repot them, and put them in a moderate hot-bed for a 

 short time, and then place them in the conservatory. — R, C. H. Stourhead, 

 Feb. 1831. 89 



Training the Kennedia rubicunda. - — My me- 

 thod of training Kennedia rubicunda, formerly 

 Glycine, may be of use to some of your readers 

 besides myself. It is simply this : nails are 

 driven into the wall, near the ground (_/%. 89. 

 a), and at 3 or 4 ft. above it (b), close to which 

 the plant is placed ; strings are drawn from the 

 lower nails to those above, and the stems of 

 the plant twined round them. I should ima- 

 gine that this plan would be highly beneficial 

 and advantageous with all half-hardy climbers, 

 such as the passion-flowers, Cob^e^a scandens, 

 &c., as the nails may be drawn, the stems or 

 branches gathered together, and a strip of mat- 

 ting nailed over all for protection from frost. — 

 Mattheus Sylvaticus. London, June, 1829. 



Disdndra prostrdta died down to the ground last autumn, remained un- 

 protected during the extreme cold of February, and is now in the most 

 flourishing state of foliage, and with a promise of bloom. Both the Disan- 

 dra and Kennedia are in London, where I find that, for five months of the 

 year, common care and attention will keep in health and vigour most of the 

 hardy and green-house plants I am acquainted with. — Id. 



A Basket of Flowers. — In a late visit to the country, I wa^ much struck 

 with a bed of spring flowers. The framework of wire is covered with 

 honeysuckle, the border is of violets, and the inside of lily of the valley. All 

 were in perfect health and beauty, and the effect of the whole delightful.— 



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