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land, Sweden, and in vartous other wet or late countries of Europe, corn is 

 set up in the above manner, and protected by a hood Bheaf, but without the 



stick, which would occasion a considerable expense and trouble to farmers 

 on a large scale : but cottage farmers and gardeners who raise seeds may 

 find it worth while to adopt it; and it is for this reason that we have 

 noticed the subject. The idea of a patent for a hedge-stake ! — we cannot 

 all enter into. — Cond. 



A Horticultural Impostor from Paris. — Sir, On reading your account of 

 the Sheffield impostor, I determined to inform you how I have been de- 

 ceived by a Frenchman. In December last, a M. p*****^ from Paris, an- 

 nounced his arrival in the Times paper, at No. 4. Green Street, Leicester 

 Square. I called on him, and was shown a printed catalogue of his stock, 

 and I purchased several articles. The following I have already proved, and 

 have little faith but that I shall be equally deceived in the georginas, 

 carnations, yellow nerium, and others : — 



A double yellow camellia proves a single red ; a double tricolor camellia 

 the same ; a yellow double China rose, and a tricolor, a lemon, and a brown 

 ditto, all turn out to be i?dsa semperflorens and common China roses; 

 a yellow moss rose turns out to be the common moss rose, a double white 

 the Cabbage Provins, and a tricolor the Rose de Meaux. 



I hope you will caution your readers against being duped by such travelling 

 gentry, and enable them to profit by my experience, and go in future to 

 respectable nurserymen. — A. B. Banhury, June 13. 1829. 



Breaking Stones in Gravel Walks. — The two last times we turned 

 our gravel walks, we used a hammer of 2 lbs. weight, with a green ash rod 

 handle to it. With this we broke all the large stones. Gravel thus pre- 

 pared, as it is dug from the pit, binds well, and makes the best walks. — 

 William Anderson. Botanic Garden, Chelsea, Fehruary 4. 1829. 



Ornamental Flower-pots, Vases, and Baskets, as figured in our first volume, 

 are now made of various sizes and prices, as indicated on a lithographic 

 plate of patterns, by W. Dalley, Rudge, Chilmark, Wiltshire. — Cond. 



Hyde Park. — We hear it is intended to conduct water pipes to different 

 points of the highest and dryest places of the grassy surface, for the pur- 

 pose of irrigation in dry weather. This will be an excellent improvement, 

 provided it be limited to the quantity of water necessary to keep the grass 

 green ; but if it be carried so far as to produce a moist surface in the day- 

 time, we should deprecate the idea, as tending to destroy all the comfort of 

 walking, and to increase the production of malaria. Of course, we never 



