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commends that " the stopping of the main shoots should not be done till 

 they have reached to sixteen or eighteen joints ;" long experience having 

 taught him that melon plants require a larger space to grow in than is 

 generally allotted to them. He prefers pits eight feet wide for a main crop ; 

 but for an early crop he adopts the common dung-bed, or Macphail's 

 brick pits, and stops his shoots at the tenth joint. 



Hogg, Thomas, Florist, Paddington, Author of a Treatise on the Carnation, 

 Pink, &c. : An abridged Catalogue of Carnations, Picotees, Pinks, and 

 Auriculas. Paddington. Is. 6d. 



This astonishing collection consists of upwards of 700 names; arranged 

 as Scarlet Bizarres, Crimson Bizarres, Pink and Purple Bizarres, Scarlet 

 Flakes, Purple Flakes, Rose and Pink Flakes, Bizarre-feu, Bizarre Incarnat, 

 Bizarre Rose, Violet, Feu, Incarnat, Pourpre, Cramoisi, Cerise, &c, Blush 

 and White, English Picotees, Foreign Picotees, Picotees with yellow grounds, 

 Pinks, Variegated Auriculas, Auriculas plain, and Alpines shaded. Few florist's 

 flowers are so truly desirable as the carnation, both on account of its beauty 

 and fragrance. A collection equal to Mr. Hogg's, we believe, is no where 

 to be met with ; we would recommend such of our readers as are admirers 

 of fine flowers, to send for his catalogue, (which being in one sheet can be 

 sent by post as a single letter,) where each sort has its price fixed, and where 

 they may choose at various prices, from 5s. per pair, up to 25s. per plant. 



Cushing, J., a Native of Ireland, and for some time Foreman to Messrs. 

 Lee and Kennedy, Nurserymen, Hammersmith. He died in 1819 or 

 1820: The Exotic Gardener, &c. London. 3d Edit. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 



Titford, W. I. M. D. : Sketches towards a Hortus Britannicus Americanus, 

 &c. London. 4to. 2l. 12s. 6d., or with the Plates uncoloured, 1/. 15s. 



Withers, Wm. junior, Esq., of Holt, Norfolk : A Memoir, addressed to the 

 Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 

 on the Planting and Rearing of Forest Trees, demonstrating the Neces- 

 sity of trenching Ground previously to planting, and of keeping it clean 

 afterwards, and proving, from actual Experiments, the powerful and 

 profitable Effect of Manure, in promoting the Growth of Trees. With 

 an Appendix, containing Mr. Waistell's valuable Tables, for ascertain- 

 ing the progressive annual Increase in the Growth of Trees, at every 

 Period of Four Years, from Twelve to Sixty-four Years, the Rate per 

 cent, they pay in the several Periods of their Growth, and other inte- 

 resting Particulars. Holt and London. 8vo. pamph. Is. 6d. 



So much has been said on the advantage of preparing ground previously 

 to planting, that it would be difficult to offer any new argument ; but a 

 few striking facts published now and then are useful, by recalling the im- 

 portance of the subject to the attention of the planter. Such facts 

 Mr. Withers has brought forward in this pamphlet, which, as Mr. Cobbett 

 {Reg. Nov. 25.) observes, is " neat, plain, unassuming, and full of interest." 



Expeinmentl. Five acres planted by pitting in 1811. The trees made no 

 progress. At the end of five years they were almost all dead but the Scotch 

 pine :• trenched the ground, and filled up the vacancies with deciduous trees, 

 which have grown vigorously. 



Experiment II. Half an acre, trenched two feet deep, and planted in 

 1819. In 1826, the trees much superior to those planted eight years 

 before them. 



The notion that weeds, by covering the surface, keep the soil cool, is 

 ably and judiciously combated ; and also another notion, equally fallacious, 

 that stirring land in dry weather lets in the drought. As '• young trees 

 must be principally indebted to the superficial soil for their nourishment, 

 every weed which is suffered to grow must rob these trees of a portion of 



