112 Notices of Communications to the Society, of which 



55 to 65 degrees, the shoots will grow, become blanched, and be 

 fit for cutting in February. If a fresh box be brought in every 

 three weeks, a regular supply for an ordinary family will be 

 easily obtained. In April, when the plants are done with, they 

 are to be taken out of the boxes and planted in the open 

 ground, and if they have not been too much exhausted, they 

 will become fit for future similar use. Mr. Smith was led to 

 adopt this plan in consequence of reading that described by 

 the President in the third volume* of the Transactions of 

 the Society. 



John Wedgwood, Esq. sent for the inspection of the 

 Society, on the 16th of April, some Specimens ofBuda Kale, 

 blanched in the manner of Sea Kale. The blanching is 

 effected simply by covering the plants with garden pots, about 

 the beginning of March. If dung is applied, they may be 

 covered much earlier, and forced, as is usual, with Sea Kale. 

 The plants thus treated become peculiarly delicate. 



Mr. John Read, of Newington Causeway, Southwark, late 

 of Yalding in Kent, communicated, in a Letter to the Secre- 

 tary, a sketch and explanation of a mode of glazing hot-bed 

 lights, and the roofs of forcing houses. Mr. Read observes, 

 that in the usual way, the surface of the putty being entirely 

 exposed, soon loses its tenacity, and partially separates from 

 the bar, thereby admitting wet into the house, and hastening 

 the decay of the wood. To obviate these defects, Mr. Read's 

 sash-bar has a groove on each side, to receive the glass and 

 putty, and the top is planed off, leaving it slanting both ways, 



* See Horticultural Transactions, vol.iii. page 154, 



