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should be examined, giving a liberal shift, if the ball is covered with healthy 

 roots. Afford the same careful attention after repotting as recommended 

 above, keeping the atmosphere moist, and watering sparingly, until the 

 roots strike into the fresh soil. Perhaps the best directions that can be 

 given as to temperature during spring, would be to regulate it according 

 to the amount of light, keeping the plants growing as freely as can be done 

 without inducing weakly growth ; but by all means avoid this, which would 

 spoil the specimens. Remove to a cold frame as soon as the weather be- 

 comes at all favorable, and treat them during the summer as recommended 

 for last season, remembering that minute attention and careful manage- 

 ment is the only way of securing handsome specimens. If a second shift 

 should be required in course of the summer, see to this as early as can pro- 

 perly be done, in order to have'the pots pretty full of roots ; also discontinue 

 shading early in autumn, and expose the plants freely to light and air, so as 

 to get the young wood rather firm before winter. 



The same treatment as recommended for last winter, will be suitable 

 again, but if the plants are considered sufficiently large for flowering, they 

 should be kept in a cool, airy part of the greenhouse until they come into 

 bloom, when they may be removed to the conservatory, where, if they are 

 shaded from bright sunshine, they will last some two months in beauty. 



Cultor. [In Turner s Florist.'] 



QUERIES FOR BOTANISTS. 



Wm. Harper, Esq., a gentleman of this city, has growing in his garden 

 two apricot trees, which are essentially different in their sexual characters. 

 Their history, as near as I can learn, is as follows : Some ten years since, 

 John Harper, Esq., son of Mr. H., was in Virginia, and was presented with 

 some large and delicious apricots, and brought two of the pits home and gave 

 them to his sister (a young lady gardener) ; she planted them in a box of 

 earth in the cellar, and in the following spring they sprouted and were 

 planted where they now grow; since then they have never been transplanted, 

 grafted or pruned. The trees are now about eighteen feet tall with wide 

 spreading heads and stand so close that some of their branches mix; they 

 bloom profusely at the same time every spring. One has borne a plentiful 

 crop of fruit each for the last six years' the other has never set a fruit, and 

 although it3 stamens and pistils appear large, they are without pollen, stigma 

 and germen. Now one or other of these trees refutes the doctrine lately 



