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General Notices, 



The OrchardkCs Crooh {Jig. 102.), of which a sketch has been sent 

 lis by J. M, of Gloucester, though cheaper, is less perfect than the one 

 %urecl and described in our EncifclopcBdia of Gardening (§1351.). It is 



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advisable to hare a pin at the end of the rod, to prevent the sliding piece 

 u from falling off, in carrying the crook from one tree to another. Every 

 body knows that the use of this crook is, when thinning or gathering fruit, 

 pruning, or taking ©ff insects, to take hold of one branch with the hook end, 

 draw it towards the operator, and then, by hooking on the sliding cross piece 

 to another branch, to hold it in that position till the operation is performed. 



To groiu large Liliaceous Plants in the Front of a Green-house, where there 

 are an open shelf and large pots,, 

 would not only be unsightly, but 

 would raise the pots too high j 

 place, therefore, the pots below 

 the shelf, and let the plants grow 

 up through it, as in the Bairs 

 Pond nursery, (fig. 103.) — G, B. 

 Ajml, 1830. 



A Plan for grmoing early Po" 

 iatoes, JRadishes, Src, was some 

 time ago sent us by Mr, Hay- 

 thorn of Wollaton. Place two stages, such as are used for green-house 

 plants, back to back, fronting east and west (fg. 104.); and form the 

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shelves into boxes (ao)of a sufficient depth for soil, and of any convenient 

 length. A sort of frame, or square trellis {b b), should be raised a sufficient 

 height above the boxes, to support mats, for protection against frost and 

 stormy weather. Such boxes would be much better than a sloping bed, as 

 they would receive the moisture better, as well as the heat from the 

 dung (f). The same scheme might, perhaps, answer for growing early 

 fruits, trained on trellises, in the position of the protecting covers (b b). In 

 "winter draw the stages from under the protecting trellis, empty the boxes, 

 and turn them upside down, to protect pots, let- 

 tuce, endive, &c., from wet and frost. — ./. Hay- 

 thorn. Wollaton, near Nottingham, Jan. 7. 1829. 



The Pot-carrier {fig. 105.) mentioned by W. C. 

 was many years ago invented by Mr. Anderson 

 of the Chelsea gardens. With two of them a young 

 man can carry two dozen of No. 24 pots, or four 

 dozen of 6Qs, with the greatest ease. 



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