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THE PASSION-FLOWER. 
clay, and water occasionally ; take off some of 
the fruit where they set too thickly, if 
you wish the produce to be fine ; if you are 
indifferent about size, and prefer number, let 
them remain. In most respects things left 
undone last month may be done this. 
Carrot seed may be sown to stand the 
winter the first and third week in this month. 
Endive may be transplanted, and some 
more seed sown. 
FRUIT GARDEN. 
The great art of producing good fruit on 
well-established trees consists in regulating 
the quantity to be retained, and carefully 
gathering them. A Cherry-tree will bear 
five or six gatherings, for the best alone ought 
to be taken each time. Wall-fruit generally 
is so easily managed, that the fruit is mostly 
had in perfection, but standards are too 
often cleared at a single gathering, ripe, half 
ripe, and not ripened at all ; and this rough 
lot goes to market to be sold for less than the 
good among it would bring alone, or it is half 
wasted in the house. Great care should be 
used in gathering almost every thing that 
ripens irregularly; Plums, like Cherries, might 
be. gone over many times, and only the best 
taken. It is impossible to calculate the ad- 
vantages of gathering the forwardest first, and 
leaving the others to get rapidly better. 
Strawberries. — Take off the strongest 
runners, and plant them six inches apart in 
the row, and the rows a foot apart, on a good 
rich border ; there they will bear the first 
3 r ear, and the crop improve the next. If there 
be no edging to the beds and borders in the 
fruit garden, or even in the kitchen garden, 
the warm side is often edged with Straw- 
berries. The best place, however, for Straw- 
berries is a border under a south wall, where 
they always ripen much earlier. 
Wall Fruit, Grapes under Glass, &c. 
— Bottles of beer and sugar should be hung 
up in various places, where the flies, wasps, 
Sec. are likely to attack fruit, to trap them and 
destroy them, as a choice between that and 
their destroying the fruit. Wherever there 
is any growth of little shoots that must be 
useless, take them off to throw more strength 
in the rest of the plant. Thin the grapes 
again, so as to leave no more than will ripen 
well at the same time. 
Newly-budded Trees may be examined, 
to see if they are all properly fastened, to take 
off all portions of the growth from the stock, 
and suckers from the root, all of which will 
distress the new bud. 
Passijlora Kermcsina. 
THE PASSION 
The generic name Passiflora, constructed 
by Linnaeus, was formed from passio, passion, 
and jto.% a flower ; on account of some fanci- 
ful resemblance between the filamentous rays, 
in the centre of the flower, and the emblems 
of our Saviour's passion. There are upwards 
of a hundred species and varieties recorded in 
FLOWER, 
catalogues, many of which, however, are not 
in cultivation ; others are not found beyond 
the precincts of botanic gardens ; whilst some 
few are generally cultivated for their beauty, 
and others for their fruit. They are chiefly 
natives of hot countries. 
Among the species of Passion-flower, there 
