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4 feet. De Candolle considers that the young trees ought to be 
planted at a distance of 10 feet, and if planted closer, they should 
be gradually thinned for 20 years. He recommends, likewise, 
that for security, uew seed should be brought from the Valais, 
where the cones are dried by the heat of the sun, and not from 
the Tyrol, where fire is employed for this purpose. M. Em. 
Thomas sells them at the rate of 2j francs (2s. Id.) the half 
Killogramme (1^ lb. troy.) M. Thomas advises that the trees 
should be always transplanted in autumn and not in spring. 
96 New METHOD OF Drying Plants. Dr. Hunefield recommends 
a new method of drying plants, by covering them first with the 
powder of lycopodium, and then placing them in a vessel con- 
taining chloride of calcium. By this method the colour and 
flexibility are preserved. On the 29th of July, 1831, the ther- 
mometer being at 53|°, Dr. Goppert of Breslaw, placed in a 24 
ounce glass, two leaves of the hyacinth, and a specimen of the 
Fumaria officinalis, with two ounces of muriate of lime, in such 
a manner that the plants were not in contact with the salt. On 
the following day the leaves began to dry, and on the 3rd of Au- 
gust, although not dead, the hyacinth leaves were capable of be- 
ing reduced to a fine powder. Even fleshy plants, as the Sedum 
rupestre, are so much dried in seven days, that they may be pul- 
verized. The lycopodium powder prevents the sap from escaping. 
97 New Fruits. By this term we do not mean, as the reader 
might at first be apt to suppose, fruits the produce of foreign 
countries and recently imported into Britain; but we mean fruits 
newly introduced in a living state into our gardens or hot- 
houses, and brought to perfection there. Of late years the Lo- 
quat and the purple-fruited Granadillo have been successfully 
cultivated, under glass, in various English gardens. The Long- 
yen (Euphoria longana) has produced its fruit in the splendid 
and lofty hot-houses at Syon, the seat of the Duke of Northum- 
berland, near Brentford ; the Banana was in fruit in the stove 
attached to the Coliseum, in the Regent’s Park, last summer, 
and it yields a crop every year in the large hot-house at Wynn- 
stay, the seat of Sir William Watkin Wynn, in Denbighshire. 
In the vinery at the Experimental Garden, Inverleith, near 
Edinburgh (an institution well worth visiting), a small tree of 
the Psidium Cattleyanum, or China Guava, has ripened its 
fruit freely for two years past. The fruit is round, about the 
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