NOTICES AND ANTICIPATIONS. 
379 
imum, chiefly by sun -heat, ranged from 74 to 103 degrees. During the whole of 
May, the average of the three periods may be stated at from 5 to 10 deg. warmer. 
Air was not considered as of primary importance. The sashes were more or less 
moved when the temperature was above 80, but seldom were lowered above two 
inches. Hence it may be said that the direct solar ray always passed through the 
glass, and that the house was always covered, the spaces for the admission of air 
being little more than so many narrow crevices in the glass roof. My house is 
low in front, and from the nature of the slope (26 deg.) better adapted to pines 
than vines. The tree in question was trained in a direction corresponding with 
that slope, and about 8 inches below the glass. Under these circumstances, and 
with the treatment described, the fruit swelled well, changed colour about the 25th 
of May, and became perfectly mature in a fortnight. The vine has gained a 
foot of well ripened wood at the end of the main shoot, and has produced a 
secondary shoot seven feet long from one of its lower eyes. This has been trained 
across the house at a right angle with the main shoot, and now is shortened to 
about four feet. The two leaders and all the laterals, are brown and hard, and 1 
never saw a more healthy tree. Each of these was sloped early, save one, near the 
top, which had two bunches upon it, and I suffered it to run on, to try the effect. 
For a time these bunches swelled the best, but they ceased to do so; and when 
as large as peas, began to show spots. I stopped the shoot, but could not arrest 
the local disease, and therefore cut off the two bunches. I had previously re¬ 
tained only seven, being unwilling to try the vine too far; but, had I not pruned 
off the laterals, I believe I might have had twenty or two dozen bunches. Not 
wishing to enlarge a paper which has already become too long, I desist from 
saying more than that I shall be happy to answer any question which may be 
put to me, if it be in my power to do so. If any be proposed that my reason or 
experience cannot solve, matter will be afforded for reflection, and for future in¬ 
vestigation, which may lead, ultimately, to profitable results. G: I. 1’. 
II.—NOTICES AND ANTICIPATIONS. 
Literary Notices.— Mr. Curtis is preparing for the press a new edition of 
his Guide to the Arrangement of British Insects.—Professor Dewhurst’s Natural 
History of the Order Cetacea, and the Oceami Inhabitants of the Arctic Regions, 
is expected to appear early this month. 
The Antheum. —Having visited Brighton for the purpose of inspecting this 
stupendous erection,, we are enabled to give our readers a faithful description of 
the design from our own observations. We confess that we were both astonished 
and delighted at the boldness and simplicity of the edifice; it rises like a little 
world out of the earth ; already it promises to form a new era in the art of gar¬ 
dening, and to bring about an entire revolution in that of exotic horticulture. 
The doom, of which the diameter is one hundred and sixty four feet, and its 
height sixty-four feet, exclusive of the cupola, is supported by twenty cast-iron 
principals, and the same number of auxiliary ribs, the former of which butt 
against a strong iron ring in the centre, and thus form a gigantic arch without 
the aid of prop or pillar. The principals spring from a solid mass of rock-w ork, 
ten feet below the surface of the earth, and are tied together by seven cast iron 
