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and one or two applications of manure water 
will be beneficial. Keep them free from weeds, 
and either protect them from early frosts, or 
take them up before the weather becomes 
severe enough to injure them. When lifted 
they should be cleaned from all leaves, and 
the bulbs on the crown should be taken off 
and preserved for a future planting; the roots 
should then be stored for use in the same 
manner as carrots and other similar crops. 
Many other species of Oxalis, perhaps nearly 
all the bulbous ones, produce similar secondary 
roots, if the term, may be allowed ; but none 
appear to attain a size to fit them for culinary 
purposes but the above. 
As the leaves of this Oxalis have been used 
in a similar way to sorrel, as have also those of 
Oxalis crenata, (of whose roots, true tubers, 
great things were at one time expected,) it 
may be as well to mention, that Begonia 
■Evansiana, or discolor, is also grown in stoves 
in Russia, especially in winter, for the same 
purpose. This plant, an old and favourite 
inhabitant of our gardens, appears to have been 
extensively grown at St. Petersburgh and 
Moscow for this use, about the year 1819. 
It was even preferred to sorrel as an agreeable 
acid, and as being more tender and palatable 
than that vegetable. It is not likely to be 
grown for such a purpose here ; but if it were 
desirable to try it, a sufficient crop could be 
easily grown in any vinery or forcing-house 
that happened to be in use. 
GRIGOR ON PLANTING ROCKY AND 
PRECIPITOUS SCENERY. 
Much attention has from time to time been 
paid to the mode in which Ornamental Plan- 
tations should be formed, and many excellent 
works and articles have been written on the 
adaptation of various trees and shrubs to cer- 
tain situations. Tourists in search of the 
picturesque, have repeatedly described the 
grandeur of the dark forest-side, the beauty 
and elegance of Nature's drapery amidst rocks 
and craggy precipices ; but so far as is known 
by the present writer, no one has set about 
the work of describing practically and plainly 
the method by which Nature can be success- 
fully imitated in the latter respect — that is, 
in rude, abrupt situations, where there are 
steep crags, whether beside the sea, or by 
rivers, streams, waterfalls, cascades, or in 
isolated places. Ruins, too, whether real or 
artificial, are susceptible of embellishment in 
this way ; and it is sometimes found that 
Nature lias added much to their interest by 
planting a lone Ash or Pine tree, or some 
other similar object, amidst their mouldering 
remains. It is presumed, that every one 
admires rocks and ruins ornamented in this 
way, and that all will feel disposed to adopt 
a plan by which original scenery can be so 
exactly imitated. 
The exquisite effect which might be pro- 
duced by clothing the face of crags in the 
immediate neighbourhood of the sea is too 
apparent to require explanation ; but this I 
admit is the most difficult department of the 
work here alluded to. Still, it can be accom- 
plished ; and, before concluding this short 
paper, I shall state how it has been done suc- 
cessfully. 
Experience teaches us, that it is of very 
little use leaving such places for unassisted 
Nature to clothe them, for her operations in 
this way are necessarily uncertain ; and be- 
sides, endless instances might be pointed out 
where rocky precipices have remained un- 
garnished for centuries, even where the cli- 
mate and locality were favourable to the 
growth of trees. 
My plan, therefore, is to form pellets or 
balls of clajey or moist earth, and a little 
chopped" straw (to make it the more adhesive) 
of about the size of a hen's-egg, each contain- 
ing generally about a dozen seeds. Those 
balls are to be thrown into the interstices, or 
on the ledges of the rocks ; and if the pellets 
are not made of brick-earth or a very adhesive 
clay, the influence of the weather will in due 
time dissolve them, and the seeds will germi- 
nate, the plants speedily assuming the most 
picturesque and striking forms. 
In order that we may imitate Nature the 
more perfectly whilst performing this opera- 
tion, I shall divide the subject into two 
sections, — 1st, Rocks, &c, which stand at a 
distance from the chief seat of art, the man- 
sion ; and 2ndly, Those which are near to the 
mansion, and are included, it may be, within 
the pleasure ground, where the hand of man 
is everywhere recognised. 
Our models for decorating the first class 
are to be found in craggy fastnesses of a high- 
land ravine, and amongst the margent drapery 
of the rifted precipice, such as is often seen in 
the north of Scotland. The trees which gene- 
rally prevail there, are, the birch, alder, ash, 
aspen, mountain ash, elder, ivy, pine, &c. 
For the other class, art has appropriately set 
apart the pine, arbutus, rose, periwinkle, cis- 
tus, cytisus, daphne, ivy, honeysuckle, ribes, 
broom, rhododendron, erica, arulromeda, ju- 
niper, and several others. 
In the case of the birch. I may mention 
that they should not be enclosed in the ball of 
earth, for this is one of those seeds which if at 
all covered with mould, refuses to grow ; the 
moistened ball should therefore be merely 
laid upon the seeds, and a sufficient number 
will attach themselves to it, to ensure a good 
crop wherever it may be lodged. The Others 
