
          P.S. There is a curious thing mentioned in one of our 
late forgeign Horticultural magazine. It is the cultivation 
of of plants in close glazed boxes without the admission of air 
or supply of water! as practiced by a gentelman in London 
with much success. The lower part of the box is made 
water height? & the upper part is a glazed lid which 
may be taken off. The lower part is filled with 
a mixture of stones, moss, & soil - the seeds or 
plants are properly stowed or planted after which the 
contents are copiously watered the superfluous part  
of which is drained off by a plug in the bottom. - 
This plug is then closed -  the glazed lid is firmly 
put on & the box receives no water for several months 
and in the case of some (illegible) for a year or more. The 
only admission of air which is given is caused by the 
change of temperature (illegible) out & drawing in fresh 
supplies. Upwards of (10) species of ferns have been 
beautifully grown in this way & the idea has occured 
to me that you might have a pretty & most curious 
rock-work in miniature in this way : the small & nicely 
assorted pieces of rock inter opened with soil being in the 
first place disposed in a moderately large box & the seeds 
of some of the most beautifuly ferns planted amoung them. 
        