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by suckers, or pieces of the root, or by layers, any of which 

 modes M. Van Mons considers preferable to grafting. He 

 remarks, that the best varieties throw up the fewest suckers. 



Two new gourds, coui'ge d'ltalie, and courge de Valparaiso, 

 (gourd of the Vale of Paradise, our vegetable marrow,) have 

 been cultivated in the Royal Gardens; and Madame Adanson, 

 in her " Maison de Campagne," gives directions for cooking 

 them before the seeds are full grown, otherwise the fruit 

 becomes fibrous and coriaceous. 



M. Boursault has, in his beautiful garden, large standards of 

 Magnolia grandiflora, and having found by experience that 

 when this plant is killed by frost, it is by the alternate thaw- 

 ing and congelation of the ground and 

 the lower part of the stem, he therefore 

 mulches and thatches, &c. (Jig. 18.) 

 which keeps out both frost and rain. 

 The culture of Tetragonia expansa 

 begins to spread in the neighbourhood 

 of Paris. Mr. Way preserves carrots 

 by placing them in a cask, with alter- 

 nate layers of sand, and then closes 

 them hermetically, placing the cask 

 in a dry cellar. The carrots are 

 taken up for this purpose in August, 

 and when taken out for use in the 

 following spring, are found of a much 

 more delicate flavour than those which have not been dug up 

 till September or October. 



Another cultivator cut off the leaves of his carrots twice 

 during the summer, and yet found that the roots were larger 

 and better than such as had their leaves left on ; but this, as 

 M. Poiteau remarks, is contrary to reason and experience. 



The New Zealand flax, Phormium tenax, has ripened 

 seeds at Cherbourg and Toulon, and hence it is conjectured 

 may be cultivated in a great part of France. 



Notice is taken of the treatise on heating hot-houses by 

 steam, by Mr. Bailey, (Gard. Mag. Vol. I. p. J 97.) of this en- 

 gineer's operations at Messrs. Loddiges', and at Mr. Gray's of 

 Harringay, in England, and at the villa of Mr. Caters-de- 

 Wolf, near Antwerp ; and due credit has been given to the 

 Dutch, for having introduced the use of steam in heating 

 hot-houses before the French. 



M. Larminat, curator of the forest of Fontainebleau, has 

 grafted about 10,000 of the Corsican pine., Pinus Laricio, on 

 the Scotch pnie, Pinus sylvestris. Every body knows, M. 



