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are two or three small green-houses and pits, and more will 

 be erected. Down the centre of the ground, there is a rustic 

 arcade over a walk, planted with creepers, two of a sort, one 

 opposite the other, which has a most beautiful effect as a 

 whole ; and when walked through, shows in detail the cha- 

 racter of each creeper, so as to enable intending purchasers 

 to make a choice from personal inspection. Borders are to 

 be formed along the principal walks, to display the finest 

 kinds of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, including 

 standard roses ; all for the same purpose, viz., that of en- 

 abling the public to choose for themselves. Our readers will 

 recollect the notice of Mr. Priest's Sehizanthus (p. 465.) : we 

 had an opportunity of seeing some of the flowers on the 

 decaying plant, which has produced several seeds. There 

 can be no doubt of its being a distinct variety. The 

 drawing sent us was a very accurate representation. Mr. 

 Priest has promised to send us a communication on a flori- 

 cultural impostor who has visited him, and another on the 

 subject of the fly in turnips. 



The Market of Reading is well supplied with the com- 

 moner vegetables and fruits, and particularly with apples and 

 cherries. The latter fruit this year is very abundant, and of 

 excellent quality. The cherry market is held on Wednes- 

 days and Saturdays, and on the last market-day, the 7th inst., 

 the price was \s. 6d. per score pounds. The last cherry market 

 for the season will be held on Saturday. It is a pity that the 

 cherry-growers have not learned the art of making kirsch- 

 wasser. (See Vol. IV. p. 179., and Vol. VIII. p. 182.f Flowers, 

 both cut and in pots, are brought to market on Saturdays, both 

 from market-gardens and private gardens. Great quantities 

 of green-house plants in pots have been exposed for sale in 

 the market-place, from the gardens of private gentlemen, and 

 also hawked round the town in carts, Mr. Priest mentioned 

 to us one gentleman who sold, in one summer, as many as 

 950 pots of pelargoniums in this way. Onion seed is exposed 

 in the market for sale at a certain season, and this year pro- 

 mises an abundant crop. 



The Garden of the Reading Gaol well deserves notice in a 

 work, the great object of which is to promote a taste for this 

 art. It is, as may be supposed, small ; but the governor has 

 a taste not only for gardening, but for natural history. He 

 has, on his lawn or grass plot, a beautiful piece of rockwork, 

 composed of flints and fragments of mural antiquities. He 

 has, also, a variety of plants of the choicest kinds, such as 

 Wistarm, double furze, Rihes several species. Petunia phoe- 



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