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any other ; it would, therefore, be useless for him to 

 take any extraordinary trouble in getting this variety 

 very large. He has also raised several seedlings 

 within the last four years ; one of them was sent out 

 about two seasons since; it is not, however, con- 

 sidered any great improvement upon the original. 

 (Gard. Chron. 1844, 55.) 



Mr. Dunsford, gardener at Copesthorne Gardens, 

 writing upon the cultivation of the same French 

 establishment, observes, after personal inspection : — 

 The pine is grown to perfection at the Meudon gar- 

 dens, by M. Pervillian. There, quantity and quality 

 are combined, and the whole of the plants are fruited 

 without pots, on what is termed the system of open- 

 frame culture ; which is a very great saving, both in 

 time and expense, as it does away with the cost of 

 pots and the trouble of potting, and in a great measure 

 with the fermenting materials required for bottom- 

 heat. The suckers produced by the fruiting plants 

 of last season are allowed to remain on the plant after 

 the fruit is cut until the following March, at which 

 period, if the plant be a strong one, the sucker, when 

 taken off, will be almost a full-grown succession plant. 

 These suckers are not potted, as is generally the case 

 in this country, but planted out in a frame, previously 

 prepared with half-rotten leaves, made into a bed, 

 from three to four feet high, with little or no heat in 

 it, as at this time (March) we look forward to a daily 



