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the eye an incongruous mass, and ill adapted to the vigorous 

 growth of any article that they contain. It is my wish to see 

 one garden exclusively appropriated to the growth of fruit, and 

 another to that of culinary vegetables. Let each be kept dis- 

 tinct : the flower-garden should be void of fruits and culinary 

 vegetables ; the kitchen-garden of fruits and flowers ; and the 

 fruit-garden of culinary vegetables and flowers. Impressed with 

 this idea, I have sent the accompanying sketch {Jig. 22.) of a 

 garden for fruit only; and I think that this or some other 

 similar plan ought to be generally adopted. If some such plan 

 were adopted, it would at once strike at the root of the per- 

 nicious practice of digging and cropping among fruit trees; the 

 injurious effects of which have been so often pointed out in this 

 Magazine that they require no farther comment from me. I 

 would recommend the zones to be planted as described in the 

 figure ; taking care to keep the different sorts in their proper 

 places, because, by so doing, the fruits, that are generally 

 ravaged by birds, &c, might be easily protected from them by 

 covering the whole centre with netting, in the manner the cherry 

 garden is covered at Hylands. (III. 596.) 



The wall is an octagon, with a border for trees on each side ; 

 and a sunk fence, with a hedge of common holly and hawthorn, 

 surrounds the whole; thus making an impenetrable fence, and 

 facilitating the draining of the garden, should it be found 

 necessary. John Jennings. 



Day's Nursery, Shipton upon Stoar, Feb. 26. 1834. 



Art. XIII. Short Communication. 



THE Cereus speciosissimus at Woodhall gardens, in Renfrew- 

 shire, attains an extraordinary size and beauty. The late excel- 

 lent Mr. Henderson, gardener there, used soil composed of two 

 parts of rich loam, three of decomposed manure, and one consist- 

 ing of equal quantities of peat, sand, and broken tiles. The plant 

 is placed in a large pot, and trained to the back trellis of a pine 

 stove ; where, in July, 1833, when I saw it, it occupied a surface 

 of 84 square feet, and had 300 flowers all open at the same time. 

 Mr. Denholm, the present gardener, gives this and other species 

 of the Cactus family a more ample supply of water than is 

 usually done, while they are maturing their flower-buds; and to 

 this he attributes, in a great measure, the vigour of the bloom. 

 In winter, when the plant is in a state of rest, little or no water 

 is given. — Juvenis. Glasgow, March 7. 1834. 



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