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early in January. We saw Mr. Meredew's strawberries and 

 other articles at Whitton, in May, 1826, and bear witness to 

 their excellence. 



To preserve the Golden Pippin and other Apples free from 

 canker. — John Williams, Esq., of Pitmaston, believes, and to 

 a certain extent has proved, that this may be done, by every 

 year pruning away as much of each shoot of young wood as 

 is not perfectly ripened. He has practised this for six years, 

 and has now a fine young dwarf golden pippin tree, as per- 

 fectly free from canker as any new variety. The best stock 

 for the golden pippin he finds to be the Siberian crab, be- 

 cause, as " the shoots of this crab cease to elongate after the 

 month of August, the roots become less active in propelling 

 the upward sap ; hence the wood and buds of the grafts are 

 more perfectly ripened in the autumn." We are very happy 

 to learn the result of this experiment, believing as we do, that 

 the canker in the golden pippin, or any other fruit-tree, has 

 nothing at all to do with the age of the variety, and believing 

 also that the golden pippin or any other variety, however old 

 or diseased, may, by proper, or say the best, treatment, be 

 reinvigorated and perpetuated in as good a state as it ever 

 was, for an unlimited period. We have seen too many can- 

 kered trees of recently originated sorts, and a sufficient num- 

 ber of healthy golden pippins, to be able to be of a different 

 opinion. 



For washing the Branches of Fruit Trees for the purpose of 

 destroying the Insects 'which harbour on them, John Braddick, 

 Esq., mixes one pound of flour of brimstone in three gallons 

 of gas liquor, adding soft soap to make the liquid adhesive. 

 The mixture is made over a fire in March, and the trees 

 completely washed about the same time. 



The influence of Salt on Vegetables was proved, by Mr. G. 

 W. Johnson, to be a remarkable excess in the produce of 

 seeds. Of the experiments referred to we have already given 

 the result (p. 341.). 



Dovetail grafting, by which is meant a mode of preparing 

 the scion as carpenters prepare a tenon, and cutting the bark 

 and soft wood of the stock in the manner of a dovetail groove 

 for the reception of this tenon, is recommended for grafting 

 the large branches of old trees, by Mr. E. Malone, gardener 

 to George Foljambe, Esq., of Osberton House, in Notting- 

 hamshire. 



Orange and Lemon Trees in Italy, according to Mr. Shea, 

 gardener to Lord Burghersh, at Florence, are manured with 

 kilndried lupines, goat's dung, and stable manure ; they are 



