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and if so, what is the best method to adopt for that purpose ? It might, 

 I think, without impropriety, be called Quercus .ffobur var. ^alicifolia. 

 Yours, &c. — W. T. Bree. AUesley Rectory, Aug. 17. 1832. 



Hybridisements of the Melon by the Cucumber, (p. 611.) — To Mr. 

 Oliver's instance -of this effect may be added the concurrent experience of 

 M. Sageret, stated Vol. IV. p. 383. — J. D. 



_ Limekilns and Burning of Lime. — A treatise on the best form of lime- 

 kilns, the most economical fuel for burning lime, and the most economical 

 method of using turf, peat, coke, coal, wood, furze, and faggots, with hard 

 and soft limestone, blue lias, and chalk, is most exceedingly wanted. Is 

 stone coal, Welsh coal, Staffordshire coal, or Newcastle coal, the best for the 

 purpose? and what may be the proportionate differences of advantage and 

 disadvantage, supposing them all at equal price ? I would earnestly venture 

 to direct your attention to this very practical subject. — X. Y. Sept. 5. 

 1832. 



A work to the above effect would be very useful. Until one is published, 

 we can only refer X. Y. to Mr. Menteath's excellent article on limekilns 

 of varied structure, illustrated by figures, in our Vol. II. p. 399.; and to 

 strictures on that article in Vol. III. p. 369, 370. In Vol. IV., also, p. 506. , 

 is a notice of a method of burning lime without kilns ; and in Vol. V. 

 p. 176., a mode of burning lime by moss, or peat, and clay, is briefly noticed. 

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Art. IV. Provincial Nurseries. 



Uckfield Nursery, Sussex. — This nursery was established, fifty years 

 ago, by Alexander Cameron, uncle to the present proprietor, James Ca- 

 meron. The extent of the concern is 12 acres, but in detached divisions, 

 with a seed-shop and general assortment of seeds. At present there are 

 only a small green-house and some framing; but Mr. Cameron is now 

 building a new and extensive green-house, on an experimental plan of his 

 own, of the excellence of which he is very hopeful. The nursery contains 

 a good general assortment of fruit trees, forest trees, and of ornamental 

 trees and shrubs ; also of herbaceous plants, and o£ green-house plants as 

 well, so far as the present extent of glass permits. The specimens of hardy 

 evergreen shrubs are very superior, particularly the phillyreas, iaurustinuses, 

 Portugal and common laurels, aucubas, red and white cedars, &c. All the 

 new fruits introduced by the London Horticultural Society are propagated 

 here; and there are 112 stock trees, of as many sorts {for taking grafts 

 from) of apples, including the original tree of the Alfreston, or Shepherd's 

 Pippin. There is a very superior collection of georginas. Mr. Cameron 

 connects with the business of his nursery the practice of contracting for 

 new ground work and planting by the acre. — J.C. Oct. 17. 1832. 



Carlisle Nursery; Messm. Wm. and Thos. Hutton, has been established 

 upwards of half a century. It contains a few acres, two green-houses, and 

 •several pits; and Messrs. Hutton have a seed-shop in Carlisle. The nur- 

 sery is neatly laid out, and contains a tolerable stock of articles for local 

 consumption. Among the new shrubs, we noticed Ribes sanguineum, and 

 a double white Helianthemum, raised here from seed; and, among the 

 herbaceous plants, a very distinct and handsome variety of Potentilla 

 atrosangufnea, and a double-flowered P. reptans. The fuchsias, iinum 

 arbdreum, Pittosporum, and other half-hardy shrubs, stand out about 

 Carlisle as well as about London. American plants also thrive well in this 

 nursery. Some turnip and other seeds are raised here ; and we found a 

 plot, now ripe, guarded from other birds by a hawk in a cage. The hawk 

 is found more to be depended upon than a boy or a girl. 



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