638 Fioricultural and Botanical Notices, 



April 1. this year, I sold the fruit as it then was, to be cut as 

 ordered, to go to London, for thirty-five guineas, along with 

 ten pines, ripe and ripening. The grapes were gathered, and 

 the vines turned out on the trellis about the middle of May 

 1836 ; and they are now in as fine and healthful a state as I could 

 ever wish them to be. The principle of growing these two 

 crops first occurred to me when I grew pines in the same pits. 

 The vines were old ; and, as one vine was placed under each 

 rafter, the two principals from each vine covered the entire 

 roof; so that for the sake of the pines I should have had either 

 to destroy half the vines, or to have cut half the principals away. 

 I therefore determined to make a fair trial, and the second year 

 I succeeded to my satisfaction. In the new houses that I am 

 about erecting for vines, I intend to have two distinct borders, 

 that I may have more principals under the glass. This house 

 has been heated by flues from one fire-place, and I am not 

 certain whether I shall not use flues for my new ones. I have 

 seen many on the new principles, but have not yet met with 

 any that work with less fuel or attendance than my own, inde- 

 pendently of the expense of erecting ; and not being yet philoso- 

 pher enough to make out how more heat is gained by a certain 

 quantity of fuel heating hot water, than by heating flues, on the 

 principle of my own, I shall not adopt it until I do. The fuel 

 that I use is small coal made into bricks with clay. The ashes 

 make a beautiful and lasting covering for walks, with the least 

 sprinkling of cement, or they may be used for manure. 

 Lancashire, July, 1836. 



Art. X. Fioricultural and Botanical Notices on Kinds of Plants 

 newly introduced into our Gardens, and that have originated in them, 

 and on Kinds of Interest previously extant in them ; supplementary 

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

 the " Hortus Britannicus" 



Curtis' s Botanical Magazine ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight plates ; 3s. 6c?. coloured, Ss. plain. Edited by Sir William 

 Jackson Hooker, LL.D., &c. 



Edwards's Botanical Registers in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight plates; 4*. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Dr. Lindley, 

 Professor of Botany in the London University. 



Sweet's British Flower-Garden ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 four plates ; 3s. coloured, 2s. Sd. plain. Edited by David Don, 

 Esq., Professor of Botany in King's College, and Librarian to the 

 Linnaean Society. 



The Birmingham Botanic Garden, or Midland Floral Magazine ; 

 containing accurate Delineations, with Botanical and Popular Dc' 

 scriptions, of Plants cultivated in the Stove, the Green-house, or the 



