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with the cabbage tops seemed to suffer most from drought, the 

 season being hot and dry ; they made little progress until the 

 end of August, and in November they were a middling, or 

 rather a bad crop. The row manured with the coal-ashes 

 had all along a more luxuriant appearance than the other 

 two. The rows were twenty yards in length, three feet apart, 

 and fifteen inches from plant to plant in the row. I took 

 them up in February; they weighed as follows: — No. 1. 

 78 lbs., No. 2. 88 lbs., and No. 3. 121 lbs., which, you will please 

 to observe, is very much in favour of the coal-ashes. 



I have for several years tried salt as a manure, but could never 

 observe the least advantage from it. I tried it on onions, car- 

 rots, and turnips, at the rate of four ounces to the square yard. 

 Having a number of large pear trees that were annually covered 

 with blossom, but very seldom produced any fruit, I had the 

 roots nearly laid bare and a portion of salt applied to them 

 without the least effect. Another season I applied water 

 with a very liberal hand, when coming into, and while the 

 trees were in bloom, but to no purpose. Of one tree I raised 

 the branches of one side considerably above the horizontal 

 line, those of the other side I depressed in an equal degree; 

 but neither plan had the slightest effect in producing fruit. 

 At last I tried ringing, which has produced some fruit, but 

 of a small, gritty, inferior kind, and the trees operated on have 

 been very languid ever since. I intend this season to try salt 

 as a top dressing on meadow land ; and if the above remarks 

 be worth your notice, I shall feel pleasure in stating the result 

 of any further observations I may make. 



Gardeners in general, and young ones in particular, are 

 under lasting obligations to you for your invaluable hints on 

 education. With every good wish for your success in so laud- 

 able an undertaking, I am, Sir, &c. 



March 9. 1827. Alfred. 



Art. XI. On the Propagation of the genera Cunningham/a 

 and Araucdria. By Mr. Stewart Murrav, C.M.H.S. 

 Curator of the Botanic Garden at Glasgow. 



Sir, 

 Having, with others, experienced the difficulty of obtaining 

 handsome plants from cuttings of the genera Pinus, Arau- 

 cdriay&c, I have, as far as regards Cunningham/a lanceolata, 



