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abundant, hide the beds and fruit from the sun, and prevent 

 evaporation and the growth of weeds. The fruit-stalks grow 

 eight or ten inches in height, and as the berries at their ex- 

 tremities increase in size and weight, the stalks fall under 

 the leaves, and are consequently protected from showers 

 beating the earth on them, which is often the case when 

 plants stand in single rows. The first year of this plan is 

 less productive than succeeding ones ; the Wood and Alpine 

 Strawberries do not however succeed under such treatment. 



At the Meeting on the 15th of June, William Walcot, 

 Esq. exhibited Wicker Protectors for tender trees and shrubs 

 in winter, and for shading seedlings and newly removed plants 

 in summer. These were of various forms and sizes, and, 

 having been tried subsequently in the Society's Garden, have 

 been found to answer their purpose perfectly. They are 

 made of osier-work of the coarsest description, and, in figure, 

 are accommodated to the plant for which they are destined ; 

 or if small, and not prepared with any specific object, of an 

 hemispherical or conical form. They are either made entire, 

 or in two halves which are readily tied together. The points 

 of the ribs of the work are made to project a few inches at 

 the bottom, and thus serve as feet by which the Protectors 

 are fixed in the earth. 



John Wedgewood, Esq., in a Letter to the Secretary, dated 

 the 22nd of June, stated the success he had experienced in 

 the preceding year in making a plantation of Celery, late in 

 the year, from the seedling plants which had remained in the 

 seed-bed till they had grown to considerable size. The plants 



