ktviews and Extracts. — Horticulture, ^c. 263 
Page 85. — On llie Cultivation of tlie Persian I'arieties of tlie Melon. By T. A. 
Knight, Esq., President. Read, May 1, 1831. 
The writer iufoniis us tliat he erected a small forcinj;- liouse, f'oi- the uiiiiost exclu- 
sive culture of this fruit, and grew iheiii by means of tire-heut only. This house 
consists of a back wall, nearly nine feet higli, and a front wall nearl}' six feet, 
inclosing' a horizontal space of nine feet wide, ai;«l thirty feet long'. The fire-place 
is at the east end, and very near the front wall ; and the flue passes to the other 
end of the house within four inches of the front wall, and returns back again, 
leaving' a space of V;ight inches only between the advancing and returning 
course of it, and the smoke ^escapes at the north east corner of the bu Iding'. 
The front flue is composed of bricks laid flat, in order to give a temperate perma- 
nient heat, and the returning one, with them standing on their edges, the usual 
way. The space between the flues is filled with fragments of burnt bricks, 
which absorb much water, and gradually give out moisture to the air of the house. 
Air is admitted through apertures in the front wall, which are four inches wide, 
and nearly three in height, and v.hich are situated level with the top of the hues, 
and are eighteen inches distant from each other. The air escapes through similar 
apertures near the top of the back wall. These are left open, or partially, or 
wholly closed, as circumstances require. Thirty-two pots are placed upon the 
flues, each being sixteen inches wide, and fourteeen inches deep; but they are 
raised by a piece of stone or brick, to prevent their coming in actual contact with 
the flues. In each of these pots one Melon plant is put, and afterwards trained 
upon a trellis, placed about fourteen inches distant from the glass, and each plant 
is permitted to bear one melon oidy. The height from the ground at which the 
trellis is placed, is such us can be conveniently walked under, to discover the 
appearance of Red Spiders, or other noxious insects; and by this method, two, 
and even three crops may be obtained in one season. 
Being so liable to burst, Mr. Knight raised the points of the fruit higher than 
the stems, and not one failed to ripen in a perfect state ; they were found to ripen 
very well hanging perpendicularly, hut the Ispahan grew very deformed. 
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On the Cultivation of the Cz/clamen cdum. By Mb. James Houseman. 
The Cyclamen comv, says the writer, deserves to be rescued from that neglect to 
which its easy propagation, and consequent conunonuess have subjected it. Sow 
the seed as soon as ripe, in the month of May, in a wide pan or pot, well drained ; 
fine leaf mould is the most suitable; place them on a dry bottom, in any shady 
part of thf flower garden. In October remove them to a cold frame or pit, where 
they may be defended from frost ; and though a little heat does not hurt them in 
this stage of their growth, it is altogether unsuitable when they have arrived at 
the age for flowering. In twelve months, they should be transplanted into pots or 
large pans, in which they will Rower in the month of January following From 
the time they are transplanted, keep iheni in a sliady, yet airy place, occasionally 
watered ; and about the first of November they may be removed to an open airy 
