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cucumbers, &c. 13. Pine-stove. 14. Peach-house. 15. Vinery. 16. Pits. 17. Back 



shed. 18. Department for compost, mixing dung, &c. 19. Mushroom sheds, tool-house, 



wintering vegetables, Sec. 20. Slips. 21. Gardener's house. '22. Fruit and onion room, 



with lodging-room for under-gardener, and seed-room over. 23. Yard to gardener's house. 



24. For pot-herbs. 

 Reference for a plain Kitchen- Garden. — 1. Fruit garden. 2, 3, 4, 5. To be omitted, if not desirable. 

 6, 7, 8. Culinary departments, with espaliers. 9. Pond. 10. Forcing department. 11. Water 

 basin or pump. 12. Ranges for melons, cucumbers, &c. 13. Pine stove. 14. Peach house. 

 15. Vinery. 16. Pits. 17. Back shed. 18. Department for compost, mixing dung, &c. 



19. Mushroom sheds, tool-house, wintering vegetables, &c. 20. Slips. 21. Gardener's house. 

 22. Fruit and onion room, with lodging-room for under-gardener, and seed room over. 23. Yard 

 to gardener's house. 24. For potherbs. 



Art. V. On taking up the Roots of the Scarlet Runner in the 

 Autumn, preserving them through the Winter, and replanting them 

 in Spring. By Mr. James Cuthill, Gardener to Lawrence Sulli- 

 van, Esq., Broom House, Fulham. 



I have made a discovery, with respect to the scarlet runner, 

 which, I am told, may prove of some consequence both in the 

 management of gentlemen's gardens, and those of cottagers. 



In the month of November last, when digging the ground 

 where the crop of runners had grown, I could not help noticing 

 the large size of the roots ; and it occurred to me that, if I took 

 them up, potted them, and kept them in a cold pit during the 

 winter, they might furnish another crop the following spring. 

 I tried the experiment on two of the best roots, potting them, 

 and keeping them in a cold pit till the 1st of February. At 

 that time I put them into a hot-house, in which the average 

 temperature was about 60°. They soon began to send up 

 strong shoots, and to show flower in abundance from the ground 

 upwards. They are now about 12 ft. high, and make a very 

 good appearance in a green-house, where they pass with many 

 for a new species of plant. 



If I had saved thirty or forty roots, and had put them in heat 

 in spring, in the manner done with georginas, and if I had 

 turned them out in the open air about the same time that these 

 plants are turned out, I certainly should have been able to 

 gather kidneybeans a month sooner than is done by the usual 

 practice of sowing in the open garden. 



In cottage gardens, the roots might be taken up every autumn, 

 and preserved in the same way as those of potatoes ; and, by 

 being planted on a fresh piece of ground in spring, they would 

 not only produce a much earlier, but a much more abundant 

 crop than one raised from seeds. 



Fulham, May 10. 1834. 



With this communication Mr. Cuthill sent us ten racemes of 

 flowers, on most of which a number of pods were set ; in some 

 five, and in others six or seven. For previous notices of the 

 scarlet runner, and of crops obtained from plants of it in their 

 second year, see VII. 485., VIII. 53. — Cond. 



