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brick-bats and Roman cement. The plants are dwarfs, look healthj-, and 

 bear well. We observed a beautifully curled blue-green variety of German 

 Greens, evidently nearly allied to tlie Woburn Kail; they have stood two 

 years without running to flower, but they have produced side shoots or 

 suckers which have been taken off and planted; the variety is perhaps of 

 too slow growth, and the leaves not suffiiciently tender to give it much 

 value as a culinary or cottage plant, but it is certainly highly ornamental. 

 Mr. Money propagates the mistletoe, and intends having a number of plants 

 on standard crabs for sale; he places the berry on a rough part of the bark 

 of a young shoot, causing it to adhere by its own glutinous pulp, and 

 sometimes he ties a bit of thin muslin over it to prevent the birds from 

 carrying it off. An improvement on the common watering-pot by him 

 deserves notice; instead of the common rose, the pierced surface of which 

 points outwards, he uses a rose of an oval shape, the pierced surface of 

 which points upwards. [Jig. 176.) The advantage of this form is, that the 

 shower never falls on the ground or the 

 plant with more than its own vveight ; 

 and no carelessness on the part of the 

 operator can ever wash away the soil 

 from newly planted things or recently 

 sown seeds, as is frequently done by the 

 common pots. These pots have also the 

 throat of the spout {a) made much larger 

 than usual, which increases the delivery 

 at the rose, especially when the pot is ' 

 nearly empty. These watering-pots are 



made by Thompson, Oxford Street, and may be asked for under tlie name 

 of Money's inverted rose ivaler'mg-'pot. 



The principal article raised in the Haverstock nursery is the pelargonium, 

 for which purpose Mr. Money has built a number of houses and pits ; and, 

 aware of thegreat importance to plants of soft and pure water,he has formed 

 gutters to all these houses, pits, and frames, and led all the water to tanks, 

 of which there are fifteen built, at an expense exceeding 500/. Almost 

 all the houses are span-roofed, and almost all the gutters are formed in 

 the wall plates by sunk grooves, formed in a direction from the inner to 

 the outer edge {fig. i77.), by which, and by placing the wall plate not on a 



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flat but on a bevelled surface, so as it may incline outwards, or its outer 

 edge be lower than its inner one {fig. 178.), the collected water has a con- 

 siderable current to the conducting pipe. {fig. Ill a) 

 There can hardly be a cheaper or more secure descrip- 

 tion of gutter. Specimen plants of all the principal sorts 

 of grapes are trained on wire trellises under the span 

 roofs of these houses ; but, as they are kept open all the 

 summer, grapes do not ripen in them so well as in 

 houses fronting the south, with back walls for absorbing 

 the heat in the day time and giving it out at night. We shall conclude 

 this notice by stating what was told us by Mr. Money of his former and 

 present customers. Twenty years ago his pelargoniums were sold at consi- 

 derably higher prices than at present, to families of property or regular 

 gentry, who called in their carriages, and looked out the plants; now and 

 for some years past, they are sold in greater numbers, and at much lower 

 prices, to hawkers and basket-women. — Co?id. 



