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in Aleppo, for four years successively, I received annually from 
Messrs. Martin, Bardin, and Co. of Chamberry, in Savoy, two hun¬ 
dred to three hundred grafted trees of all the fruits of Europe, which 
were sent to me packed in damp moss, without requiring any water¬ 
ing or care on board ship, but thrown into the hold like any pack¬ 
age of dry goods; and after having been necessarily deprived of 
light, air, earth, and water, for five months, I have sometimes, on 
unpacking them, found the tree in blossom. It has been planted, 
and I have, in two or three instances, eaten of the fruit of that very 
blossom .”—Alexander s East India Magazine. 
Botanic Garden in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield 
suggested. —My youngest son Arthur, in the spring of last year, 
wrote to you upon the subject of a fruit garden, of two and a half 
acres, which he was about to plant for Stephen Mills, Esq. at Bin- 
field, in Berkshire, requesting your opinion upon several points par¬ 
ticularly as to the best mode of preparing the ground and planting 
the same with a view to profit. You was pleased to communicate 
your opinion in manuscript, stating as a reason that the earliest pe¬ 
riod at which it could he given through the medium of the Register 
would he too late to be of any service that season. The plan you 
recommended was, I have reason to believe, strictly adhered to. 
The trees were purchased at the excellent nursery of Messrs. Ronalds’ 
and Sons, of Brentford, Middlesex; potatoes were planted between 
the trees as recommended by one of your correspondents, * and the 
result of the whole far exceeded our most sanguine expectations. 
The ridging up of the land into beds to receive the dwarf apple trees, 
as suggested in your letter, has proved unquestionably to he a capital 
mode of planting, and the planting of middle-sized potatoes whole, 
each in a hunch of litter dung is undoubtedly the least troublesome 
mode, and the most certain of success. From 13 bushels of seed two 
hundred and sixty-one bushels of fair-sized potatoes were produced, 
but to go more into detail at present would interfere with another 
object which I have in view, and about which I am anxious to pro¬ 
duce a sensation through the medium of your excellent journal, re¬ 
serving the Binfield fruit garden for a more lengthened statement at 
a future opportunity.! 
Know then I am at this present engaged in laying out between 30 
and 40 acres of land, heretofore farm land, into garden ground, and 
* Vol, 1, p.p. 20, and 158. 
f We will insert the system we recommended together with the letter sent to 
us on the occasion, if it will meet the wishes of J. D. who will oblige us by any 
further particulars of success. 
