By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. 289 



regions of the atmosphere, by a very slight covering. By 

 following this practice on a Green-gage tree in Yorkshire, 

 during the unusually cold and wet months of August and 

 September last, the crop of fruit ripened very tolerably, while 

 on other trees against the same wall, most of the Plums re- 

 mained unripe, cracked, and sour to the middle of October. 

 All our early Radishes have long been produced for Covent 

 Garden by a similar expedient, only substituting straw for 

 mats. 



