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Convenient Carrier for Garden Purposes. 



with the property already mentioned of plants, viz. that of 

 forming their roots more perfectly in light mould, which contains 

 little nourishment. As soon, however, as the nourishment in 

 the plant is consumed, if it is not taken out of the charcoal 

 ashes and planted in the earth, it becomes sickly, as M. Lucas 

 himself declares, which is the surest proof that charcoal yields 

 no direct nourishment to plants. The comparative experiments 

 made in this garden entirely accord with this ; the cuttings of 

 quick-growing plants forming roots sooner and more numerously 

 in earth than in charcoal, whereas the latter may be preferable 

 for those of slower growth and of a harder woody texture. Leaves, 

 also, ofdifferent sorts of plants, developed roots from their secreted 

 nutritive sap, for the same reason, much more easily in charcoal. 

 We have as yet observed no influence on the formation of a shoot, 

 when the leaves are not taken off with the axillary bud. The 

 results of the experiments are all carefully noted down, and, when 

 they have been sufficiently carried on, they will be put together 

 and lai before the reader. 



( To be continued.} 



Art. IV. Description of a convenient Carrier for Seeds and for 

 other Garden Purposes. By B. H. A. 



Not having observed in your numerous works any mention of 

 a very convenient utensil, which is in general use in some parts 

 of the country only, I have forwarded you two of different sizes; 

 which, if they meet your approval, you can figure and describe 

 in the Magazine. Fig. 32. is a view of one of these baskets. They 



Fig. 32. Seed- Carrier. 



are made like a shallow cross-handled basket, and are very 

 light : the small ones are made of willow, and are exceedingly 

 useful for carrying seeds at the time of sowing ; they have two 

 brackets, for the convenience of standing upon the ground. The 

 larger ones, which are sometimes made to contain a bushel, are 



