Separate Accounts have not been published. 563 



Twelve trees which were planted in the house, six on each side, 

 in the autumn of 1817, averaged a produce of seven dozen 

 Peaches to a tree three years after. The borders were formed 

 of good fresh loam, without any manure, and are well drained ; 

 the forcing is begun in the middle of February, when the bor- 

 ders are covered with loose horse dung mixed with leaves 

 twelve inches thick, and the stems of the trees are protected 

 by hay-bands. For a few days after the glass is put on, no 

 fire is lighted ; after the fire commences the heat is kept to 

 50°, till the end of February, it is then encreased to 55°, and 

 kept between that and 60° till the fruit is set and stoned, after 

 which the temperature is increased by fire to about 6o°, till 

 the fruit is ripened; the sun heat is allowed to raise the ther- 

 mometer 10° above this temperature, especially after the 

 stoning, before it is thought necessary to admit air. The 

 fruit begins to ripen about the middle of July, and the crop 

 continues productive till the beginning of September. 



November 7, 1820. Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. 

 sent from his garden at Boyton, in Wiltshire, some Fruit 

 of the Trapa Natans* the imported seeds of which had 

 vegetated freely. The plant is an annual, abundant in 

 the south of Europe, growing in deep, muddy, and stag- 

 nant waters; in its general appearance, it is ornamental. 

 It grows freely in its native places, but the difficulty of 

 transmitting it has been great, owing to the seed quickly 

 losing its vegetative powers. The seed must be carried 

 immersed in water, in which it will put out its roots, and 

 may be afterwards transferred to the place destined for 



* See Botanical Register, vol. iii. plate 259. 



