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NEW METHOD OP POTTING PLANTS. 
bricks falling on the lights, broke a bar, and fifty panes of glass. As the wind 
lulled, it veered to N.W., the mercury falling to 32° ; yet, in total darkness, no 
remedy but a few loose boards was at hand or could be applied. The heat of the 
house was reduced 25° ; and as the draught of the furnace was quelled by the loss 
of the chimney, the fire could barely be made to maintain 50°. 
No injury resulted, the blossoms opened in a few days, the clusters drew out 
favonrably, and the grapes ripened in due time. 
Thus we have adduced evidence which cannot be objected to, of the great hardi- 
hood of the Vine, even under most critical transitions ; and the inference we would 
draw is this : — That, as the tree and fruit will sustain, and also profit by, a heat 
of 96° to 100° under the influence of the sun ; and can not only support, but 
prosper exceedingly, when, at midnight, and before sun-rise, the temperature is re- 
duced to 60° and 62°, — it will be wise to let high temperature by day supply the 
stimulus, and to consider the night as a period of repose, and not of excitement. 
The prejudices of routine should be abandoned ; and, in lieu of them, an educational 
system should be persisted in, till the trees obey the slightest impulses. 
But while we advocate strong solar, confined heat, we must partially qualify 
the precept, by remarking that, after the spring equinox, the direct ray might be 
softened by the intervention of a light screen stretched over the sashes. The 
thinnest muslin would suffice ; it would diffuse the light throughout the house, 
would produce every required effect, without leaving the chance of any injury to 
the swelling berries, from those minute globules in the glass or of water which, 
under the direct rays, act as lenses and scald the fruit. 
We have thus turned our attention to the Yinery chiefly, nevertheless we are 
persuaded that forcing, and flower-houses in general, would prosper better under a 
lower temperature, provided the system were commenced with prudence, and con- 
ducted progressively, under watchful circumspection. 
NEW METHOD OF POTTING PLANTS. 
The description we gave in a former Number of the advantages and defects of 
that system of potting which is now in general use among enlightened cultivators, 
leads us at once to propound the plan whereby those advantages may be still 
secured, while the defects can be alike remedied. 
We desire to be extremely cautious in ascribing praise to those who do not 
merit it ; but, as far as we can learn, the outline of the method we are about to 
detail, was struck out by Mr. Wood, now one of the foremen in Messrs. Hender- 
son s nursery, of Pine-Apple Place. It appears to have occurred to him that, as 
plants flourished with such amazing vigour when planted out in a bed, and, if 
judiciously exposed and drained, flowered also in the greatest profusion, it would 
