282 
THE LADIES MAGAZINE OP GARDENING. 
The double stopcock will afford the means of occasional separation of 
the bag, and of examination of the contained air under the influence of 
different circumstances. 
In the section fig. 72, a shows the check or rebate in the top, which 
lifts up, and is faced with wash-leather; b , the drip for the condensed 
moisture from the glass ; c, the glass-frame screwed down on the soil-box, 
with a slip of wash-leather between them; d , the soil in the box ; 0 , the 
lining of lead, with an inner lining of thin wood; /, the bottom of the 
soil-box ; and g, the frame on which the whole rests. 
As before observed, I planted the case with some hundreds of bulbs of 
various sorts, on December 28th ; and, at the same time, placed some of 
the same bulbs in earth in garden- pots, and others in water-glasses. Those 
in the case are distinctly gaining on those in the pots and glasses, and 
will flower before them. The case stands in a window facing a little to 
the eastward of south, and gets what sunshine the season affords. There 
is no fire in the room, and the temperature near the window rarely exceeds 
sixty degrees ; and the pots and glasses are in a window looking N.N.W., 
but have the advantage of from two to three degrees higher temperature 
during the day ; in the night-time the whole house is nearly uniform, at 
from fifty-seven to sixty degrees, being heated by one of Silvesters 
cockles. 
( To be continued .) 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
[The following may be interesting to such of my readers as reside in the country, and wish 
to do good to the villagers living near them.] 
Reigate.—Encouragement of industrious cottagers. —On Friday 
evening, the 23rd July, 1841, the premiums offered for the best-cultivated 
Cottage Gardens within the parish were adjudged to the successful can¬ 
didates, in sums of two sovereigns, a sovereign and a half, a sovereign, a 
half-sovereign, and five shillings ; and the unsuccessful candidates, if such 
they could properly be considered, as enjoying the profit as well as the 
pleasure of the improved cultivation of their gardens, were each presented 
with some books on gardening, or rural or domestic economy, a copy of 
Watts’ Hymns for the children, and half-a-crown in money, as denoting 
the general approbation. After supper, in the presence of a few friends 
