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No. 4. Sfinicirciiliir ImnUt*. to protect plants 

 trained against a wall, es|)c'( iallv if newly i)lanted 

 and expo>ed to a sunny or windv (piarter. 



No. 5. is a double semicircular hurdle 

 or split < ylinder, with loops on each side 

 iorniin^ liini:;cs or clasps. This is useful 

 to put round the stems of yoiinf^ trees, 

 whose branches are too spreading to al- 

 low of a circular hurdle beint; passed over 

 Iheni from above. It is used as a pro- 

 tection against hares and rabbits in a 

 shrubbery. 



These contrivances are particularly adapted for gardens near 

 the sea, or in any windy situation : or for pleasure grounds not 

 secured against game. They are of common hurdle work, of 

 hazel and withy, the main stakes being made strong and pointed 

 60 as to be tirmly fixed in the earth. Those that are used for 

 winter protection or for the tenderer plants may be filled with 

 straw or covered with a mat. They are particularly useful in the 

 spring, as they are easily put on and off according to the weather, 

 and are more healthy for many plants than a close covering, 

 being permeable to the air. The forms only are represented in the 

 margin ; the size and proportions being varied according to 

 the use for which they are intended. Small semiglobular close 

 chip baskets, not above a foot high, are also used, as shades for 

 delicate alpine plants in sunny or windy weather. 



From Mr. Glendinning, Gardener to the Lord Rolle, F.H.S., 

 six fine Queen Pine Apples. 



From Messrs. Chandler and Son, a beautiful collection of varie- 

 ties of Rhododendron Catawbiense. 



From the Revd. W. Mansfield, Rectory, Milton Bryant, Bed- 

 fordshire, two seedling Calceolarias. 



From Mr. John Lumsden, Gardener to Henry Bevan Esq., F.H S., 

 a very fine collection of 10 shrubby Calceolarias, and a plant of 

 the beautiful Brazilian Manettia cordifolia, trained in various 

 directions over a treillage fixed to the pot, and covering it so 

 completely as to form a bed of deep rich green, along which the 

 long crimson trumpet-shaped flowers hung in great profusion. 



From Mr. Myatt of Deptford, stalks of a new kind of Rhubarb, 

 called the " Victoria." It appeared to be a variety of Rheum 

 hybrid urn, of enormous size ; the leafstalks were each two feet 



