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slight hotbed can be commanded, the potato may be planted as soon in the 

 month as convenient ; a few radishes may be thinly sown over them , they 

 will be 'off' before they interfere with the potatoes. I also sow a few early 

 Horn carrot under the protection of a frame at this time. Tomatoes, egg 

 plants, peppers, and so on, may be sown about the end of the month, in a 

 moderately warm place, so as to have them advanced a little for planting out 

 in May. If the weather is fine I open at the end of the month; a great deal 

 may be done by way of preparing the ground for spring work, and in some 

 cases, /the hardier kinds of vegetables, as parsnips, onions, salsify, spinach, 

 parsley and cabbage, may be sown or planted. T. J. 



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THE STRAWBERRY QUESTION. 



New Brighton, Staten Island, 

 January 24, 1854. 



Mr. Hanson — As I do not wish to occupy your valuable pages with any- 

 thing but what is of service, allow me briefly to refer your correspondent, 

 Walter Elder, to Lindley's Theory of Horticulture ; and likewise, if he can 

 get at them, to read over the experiments of Mr. Knight, which are to be 

 found published in the London Horticultural Society's transactions. He will 

 there find all that we have advanced fully corroborated by the highest autho- 

 rity, and "learn something to his advantage." He is quite mistaken about 

 his so named "trio" of "young revolutionists" being all young men. There 

 is one at least, over whose head has shone the sun of more than forty sum- 

 mers, and who has made more use of his observing faculties than Mr. Elder 

 appears to have done, if we are to judge by his batch of absurdities. He is 

 perhaps aware that there is only one step between the sublime and the ridi- 

 culous ; and I am sorry for his own credit, that in attempting the former he 

 has overstept the narrow boundary, and only produced the latter. 



Respectfully yours, Wm. Chorlton. 



For the Florist and Horticultural Journal. 



Flushing, Jan'y 25, 1854. 

 After perusing, in your January number, the commentary on sexual im- 

 mutability, by Walter Elder, which is one of the most lucid and comprehen- 

 sive ever penned by man, I was most forcibly struck by the first sentence of 

 your response, when you say " We really flattered ourselves that the Straw- 

 berry question was settled." Indeed ! And we on our part say, that w© 



