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mould, (for which leaf-mould or any light vegetable soil may 

 be substituted,) and one half sand. The cuttings are taken 

 off about three inches long, and smoothly cut across at a 

 joint ; one is put in each pot, and the pots are set in a frame 

 on a gentle bottom heat. In three weeks or a -month, they 

 are well rooted, and then hardened in a cold frame till the 

 beginning of June, when they are shifted into forty-eight 

 sized pots, and placed in an open airy situation. Here they 

 are watered with liquid manure, in which soap-suds have 

 been mixed. About this time, the tops of the plants are 

 nipped off to make them bushy, but no more side-shoots are 

 allowed to remain for flowering than the plants are likely to 

 be able to support. In August, shift into thirty-two sized 

 pots, using strong loam, with about one third of rotten dung, 

 and tie the plants to sticks. The pots are never plunged, 

 but frequently moved to prevent the roots growing through 

 their bottoms. When the buds are formed, they are taken 

 under glass. " In setting the plants in a glass-house for 

 show," says Mr. Munro, " it is necessary to mix the varieties 

 as much as possible." Why necessary ? We presume the 

 writer to mean that by mixing them a greater variety or a 

 better effect is produced ! Mr. Munro and the Garden Com- 

 mittee ought to know better. (See p. 105.) 



The old plants, from which the cuttings are taken, if shaken 

 out of the old mould, freed from their suckers, and repotted 

 in forty-eight sized pots, afterwards in thirty-twos, and in 

 August in sixteens, will form large, showy plants. 



We may add to Mr. Munro's very clear and judicious 

 directions, that small suckers may in many, if not most, 

 cases, be substituted for the cuttings ; thus saving some 

 trouble, and a little risk, especially to those who have little 

 time, or no spare hot-bed frame. 



32. Account of a Method of forcing Figs, practised in the Garden 

 of the Earl of Haretvood, F.H.S. at Haretvood House, in York- 

 shire. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. F.H.S. &c. Secretary. Read 

 February 7. 1826. 



No fruit-tree is so docile as the fig ; it bears as well or 

 better in a pot than in the free soil ; cuttings come into bear- 

 ing the same season ; a first and second crop are obtained in 

 the open air, and no tree forces better. Mr. Robert Chap- 

 man, the intelligent and skilful gardener at Harewood House, 

 has cultivated the fig in pots under glass at that place suc- 

 cessfully for the last thirty years. The pots are generally 



