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use, it should be taken to pieces, and kept in a dry airy situation. A tent or 

 movable structure, to cover not only the clergyman but the mourners 

 assembled, either during rain}' weather or hot sunshine, might be formed with- 

 out difficulty, and at no great expense. The framework might be light iron 

 rods ; and the canvass might be so arranged as to be drawn up and let down 

 like the awnings to tulip beds, or the outside gauze shades to hothouses. ( See 

 ^-M^. i/orif., fig. 113. p. 175.) 



The other articles of cemetery furniture having nothing particular in their 

 construction, and being in use either by mechanics, ground workmen, or cul- 

 tivators of the soil, do not require farther notice. 



Roots and Plants. — In some of the London cemeteries dahlias are planted 

 in the summer season, and these are kept through the winter in the unoc- 

 cupied catacombs, and, with geraniums and other greenhouse plants, are 

 brought forward in spring in frames in the reserve ground, or in some other 

 concealed part of the cemetery, or perhaps in an adjoining garden or nursery. 

 In the reserve ground of the great cemetery at Rouen, there is a large green- 

 house, and the curator lets out plants in pots during summer at so much 

 a pot, undertaking to keep them watered and trimmed, to decorate graves 

 and monuments. 



(To he continued.^ 



Art. IL Bicton Gardens, their Cidture and Management, in a Series 

 of Letters to the Conductor. By James Barnes, Gardener to the 

 Right Honourable Lady Rolle. 



{Continued from ^.W^.) 

 Letter XII. Reasons for following the Business of a Market-Gardener. 



Having sent you a rough description of a few things con- 

 tained in these noble gardens, before I commence giving you 

 my method of growing, training, &c., my fruit trees and plants, 

 I will tell you my reasons for following the business of a 

 market-gardener for so many as twelve years. Hearing, when 

 a boy, gentlemen's servants and others that had been in London 

 talk of having there seen such fine and early fruits and flowers, 

 I always felt anxious to go there to see them grow ; and I started 

 when quite young for that purpose, and got work with a noted 

 cucumber and mushroom grower ; a good grower too of grapes, 

 pines, and melons, and a forcer of all early fruits and flowering 

 plants. I stopped there more than four years, until I thought 

 there was nothing more to learn. I next went as framer to a 

 large market-gardener, quite on the other side of London; 

 where I had the charge of 1000 lights of framing, 2600 hand 

 and bell glasses for growing cucumbers, melons, early potatoes, 

 &c., forcing asparagus and sea-kale in an extensive way, and 

 fourteen acres of beautiful ground for vegetable-growing, under 

 the spade, managed in a first-rate style as to cropping and the 

 general management of it. I remained there until I thought I 

 knew all I wanted, and then went to a very extensive groAver of 

 grapes, peaches, pines, strawberries, mushrooms, and all kinds 



