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last year through necessity, on account of our new pits having 

 been built too late in the autumn to receive the endive plants 

 for forcing in due time. I covered about one thousand full- 

 grown green curled endive plants over with pans similar to those 

 generally used for strawberries in the forcing season ; and, know- 

 ing that the pans would neither keep out the frost from the plants, 

 nor the rains from the border, without some additional pro- 

 tection, it struck me that leaves would be better than any other 

 covering, on account of their absorbing the moisture. I accord- 

 ingly covered the whole border with tree leaves to the thickness 

 of 9 in., after getting the border as dry as the autumn would 

 allow. Nothing more was done. The green curled endive, so 

 treated, was much better than I have ever had it in frames ; and 

 two heads went nearly as far as four, on account of every leaf 

 being well blanched. I am quite certain, that those gardeners 

 who have the command of fine light ground will have no oc- 

 casion to use frames at all. The ground here is nearly as stiff 

 as any I have ever seen ; and it is more liable to damp. I am 

 also certain, from the nature of leaves, that, where people cannot 

 command pans, by taking the best dry leaves, the plants would 

 keep nearly as well without as with pans. 

 Dyrliam Park Gardens, June 4. 1836. 



Art. VIII. Floricultural and Botanical Notices on Kinds of Plants 

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 and on Kinds of Interest previously extant in them ; supplementary 

 to the latest Editions of the " Encyclopcsdia of Plants," and of 

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^ANUNCULACEJE, Cle?natidece, § A?ienionefdrce. Cle?natis 

 * azurea grandijlbra Sieboldt was in flower at Messrs. Loddiges's 

 on the 1 3th of May last; and Jig. 57. is reduced to the scale of 

 2 in. to 1 ft., from a drawing taken of it by Mr. Francis Rauch, 



