1 96 General Notices. 



taken from Sir Hugh Piatt's Garden of Eden, edit. 1675., which was first 

 published in 1600, under the title oi Flora's Paradise: — 



" A Stove for all Vegetables, good and cheap. And for the keeping of any 

 flowers or plants abroad, as, also, of these seeds thus sown within doors, or 

 any other pots of flowers, or dwarf trees in a temperate heat, with small charge, 

 you may perform the same by hanging a cover of tin or other metal over the 

 vessel wherein you boil your beef, or drive your buck, which, having a pipe in 

 the top, and being made in the fashion of a funnel, may be conveyed into what 

 place of your orchard or garden you shall think meet ; which room, if it were 

 so made as that, at your pleasure, it may become either close or open, you 

 may keep it in the nature of a stove in the night season, or in any other cold 

 weather; and in the summer time, you may use the benefit of the sunbeams, 

 to comfort and cherish your plants or seeds. And this way, if I be not de- 

 ceived, you may have both orange, lemon, pomgranet trees, yea, peradventure, 

 coloquintida and pepper trees, and such like. The sides of this room, if you 

 think good, may be plastered, and the top thereof may be covered with some 

 strained canvas to take away at your pleasure. Qiicere, if it be best to let the 

 pipe of lead to breath out at the end only, or else at divers small vents which 

 may be made in that part of the pipe which passeth alongst the stove. I fear 

 that this is but a meer conceit, because the steam of water will not extend far; 

 but if the cover to your pot be of mettel, and made so close that no air can 

 breath out saving at the pipe, which is sodred or well closed in some part of 

 the cover, then it seemeth probable, this cover may be put on after the pot is 

 scummed." (^Garden of Eden, part ii. p. 17.) — R.F.J. London, August, 

 1835. 



Transplanting. — Plant not deep, nor trench deep ; but tempt the roots by 

 baiting the surface with dungs to make them run ebb within the reach of the 

 sun and shoures. (^Reid's Scots Gardener, edit. 1683, p. 91.) 



Symmetry. — Make all the buildings and plantings ly so about the house, as 

 that the house may be the centre ; all the walks, trees, and hedges running to 

 the house. 



As the sun is the centre of this world ; as the heart of the man is the centre 

 of the man ; as the nose the centre of the face ; and as it is unseemly to see a 

 man wanting a leg, one arme, &c., or his nose standing at one side of his face, 

 or not streight, or wanting a cheek, ane eye, ane eare, or with one (or all of 

 them) great at one side and small on the other ; just so with the house-courts, 

 avenues, gardens, orchards, &c., where regularity or uniformity is not ob- 

 served. 



Therefore, whatever you have on the one hand, make as much and of the 

 same forme, and in the same place as the other. {Ibid. p. 2.) 



The Influence of Lightning Conductors on Vegetation has by many been con- 

 sidered as beneficial, and by some as injurious. Mr. Matthew, the author of 

 a Treatise on Naval Timber, relates in Jameson^ s Journal, October, 1831, four 

 experiments which he has made, from which it appears to produce neither 

 good nor evil. — Cond. 



Plants luere groiun in Moss by Charles Bonnet of Geneva, as related by 

 Du Hamel to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, April 16. 1749. {Gent. 

 Mag., xix. 259.) 



Potash cannot be made advantageously from resiniferous, or odoriferous 

 woods ; such as pines, firs, cedar, cypresses, sassafras, hquidambar, &c. ; 

 though more or less of this salt can be obtained from all vegetables whatever. 

 {Phil. Ti-ans., abridged, vol. p. 777.) 



Tulip Roots. — In the very cold part of the winter of 1833, M. Tongard, 

 found that his tulip roots, in the ground, had been devoured by some animal 

 which had scratched up the soil in order to get at them ; and, putting a snare 

 with a tulip root in it, close to the spot, he, the next morning, found the root 

 gone, and a dead field mouse close to it. A second morning the same thing 

 occurred ; a third was caught in the trap, and^ when discovered, was completely 

 benumbed. It was carefully warmed, but very soon died. Dr. Bouchet ex- 



