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PART II. 
HORTICULTURAL AND RURAL SUBJECTS. 
REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
Article I. — Reviewft oJ\ and Extracts from, Works on 
Horticulture, f^c. 
J .—Gardener's Magazine ; Edited by J. C. Loudon, F.L.S., &c. 
Published every two montlis, price ^s.{5d. 
No. 34, POR October, contains, 
A. Plan for Groiving Early Potatoes and Badishes. By Mb. J. H.-vythokn, 
ol Wollaton, near Nottingham. 
Place two stages, such as are used for g-reenhouse plants, back to back, fronting 
east and west, (fig. 44) and form the shelves into hoxes (a) of a sufficient depth 
for soil, and of any convenient length; a sort of frame, or square trellis, !^h) shoiiM 
44 
S.H. 8C. 
be raised a sufficient height above the boxes, to support mats for proleetion 
against frost and stormy weather ; such boxes, the writer says, would be much 
better than a sloping bed, as they would receive the moisture better, as well as 
the heat from the dung.(f) The same scheme light, perhaps, answer for growing- 
early fruits, trained on trellises in the position of the protecting covers. In win- 
ter draw the stages from under the protecting trellis, empty the boxes, and turn 
them upside down, to protect Lettuce, Endive, &c , from wet and frost. 
