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distance. Many experienced florists place the flowers in perfect 
darkness for two or three days previous to their being shown, and 
usually in a cellar, fixing the cut flowers in bottles, and often chang¬ 
ing their water. This is found to improve their colours wonderfully, 
the reason of which we should be glad to have explained by any of 
our chemical correspondents. In sending flowers in pots to a dis¬ 
tance, a light box being made (Fig. 51,) to fit the pot, place some 
moss betwixt the pot and sides of the 
box to keep it from breaking, bind 
some upon the top to keep the soil 
from falling out, and tie the flower to 
a stick to preserve it from shaking. 
Then take two pieces of wood ( a , b,) 
just the length of the distance betwixt 
the pot and the lid, place them upon 
the edges of the pot close to the side 
of the box, nail them fast to the lid, 
after it is placed on the box, and the 
lid being well fastened down, with 
common care, no injury whatever can 
happen to the plant. 
ARTICLE IX.—ON PRESERVING GREENHOUSE PLANTS THROUGH 
THE WINTER.— By T. W. H. 
H aving a small collection of the hardier greenhouse plants, I 
should feel obliged, if any of your valuable correspondents, would 
point out an easy method of preserving them through the winter 
months in a thriving state. The parlour, I find, keeps them alive, 
but the plants require the whole summer ere they resume a healthy 
appearance. A temporary shed, with hot-bed glasses for the roof, 
and heated with dung, of which I have full command from any farm 
yard, I suppose might be easily planned by any one conversant with 
the management of hot-beds. I wish the least possible out-lay and 
risk, having only a lad and myself to manage the garden. Can you 
mention the best work on the management of bees useful and fit for 
a farmer’s garden ? Accept my best thanks for the rlmbarb-seeds, 
which I highly prize, and hope from present appearances to enjoy 
the benefits of your kindness. In answer to a remark of your cor- 
respondent C.C.C. C. I have many plants of the Berberry, in my 
fences, and I shall take due pains to observe the. effects on the wheat. 
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