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be applied to the unexpanded blossoms of fruit trees genei-ally ; we have 

 seen it tried with success in the case of peaches, pears, and camellias.] 



2. On a successful Method of blooming Treviran« coccinea (Cyrilla 

 pulchella). By an Amateur. When the plants have done blooming, gra- 

 dually lessen their supply of water, so as in six weeks at most to cease 

 giving tliem any. Set them by in their pots where they will be kept dry, 

 cool, and from frost, till March ; then cut off the tops, and carefully 

 divide each pot of roots, with a sharp knife, into four portions, and keep 

 each as entire as possible. Pot each portion in rich sandy soil, in a pot of 

 the 24 size, and so as to cover the tubers with half an inch deep of soil ; 

 place the pots in a gentle hotbed, and when the growing stems have become 

 2 in. high, remove the pots to a vinery. The writer deems the mode of 

 division essential : for where the balls are repotted, without division, he 

 has seen few or no flowers produced; and where the pots are planted 

 with the tubers individually separated, he has found the like result. 



3. On the evil Effects of Metallic Hot-houses on Vegetation. By Mr. 

 M'Murtrie, Gardener to Viscount Anson, Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire. 

 A letter from Mr. M'Murtrie to Mr. Sabine, Secretary of the Horticultural 

 Society,against metallic hot-houses. Read at a meeting of the Horticultural 

 Society in the spring of 1827, and noticed by us in our Report of that 

 meeting. Vol. II. p. 242. 



4. Account of a large Brussels Apricot Tree. B}^ Mr. Deas, Gardener to 

 His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, Sussex. We noticed this 

 tree as the Breda variety in Vol. V. p. 587. from what was stated to us by Mr. 

 Woods, the then gardener ; but Mr. Deas says that we were not quite correct ; 

 and, instead of setting us right as soon as he discovered the error, which 

 good feeling on his part ought to have directed him to do, he has waited 

 some years, and then sent the correction to another publication. If we 

 had ever declined inserting any correction of this sort, we should not have 

 noticed this circumstance ; but as we never have, we do not think that 

 any person can be justified by the law of doing to others as he would wish 

 others to do to him, in sending to one work the correction of an error 

 which appeared in another. Correcting an error is quite a different thing 

 from sending a communication ,• a man may not choose to do that, because 

 he may disapprove of a work, or of some party connected with it. But the 

 cause of truth and the honour of his employer ought to induce every 

 gardener to correct any error relating to his employer's garden, in the 

 manner in which that correction will be most effectual in remedying it. As 

 to the error in this case, it is so trifling that it is hardly worth mentioning 

 for its own sake ; but we have written the above for the sake of the prin- 

 ciple which we wish to inculcate, and because we think it very likely that 

 Mr. Deas is not fully aware of its importance. 



5. Hints to the Conductors of the Horticultural Register. By A. J. 

 A calendar, laying out a garden, and landscape-gardening, are recommended, 

 and it is stated, that if there be any one branch of horticulture [gardening, 

 according to our arrangement] which, in this reforming age, stands in need 

 of radical reform, it is that of landscape-gardening. In this sentiment we 

 entirely concur ; and we might direct the attention of A. J. to a proof of 

 it in the Horticultural Register. 



6. Floriculture. On the Cultivation of the Auricula. By Mr. John 

 Revell, of Pitsmoor, near Sheffield. Very good directions ; but not so far 

 differing from those already published as to justify us in abridging them. 



7. Design for forming Subscription Gardens in the Vicinity of large 

 commercial Towns. By Joseph Paxton, F.H.S. This is a good article, 

 and for a very laudable purpose. It is accompanied by a plan for " dividing 

 12i acres of ground into fifty small gardens, each garden containing one 

 fourth of an acre. This space would be sufficiently large to produce 

 vegetables and common fruit, for most small families. There would be no 



