COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS, 
511 
The Earliest, are 
Early Purple Guigne, Sect 1. Knight’s Early Black, Sect. 1. 
YVerder’s Early Heart, Sect. 2. Bovvyer’s Early Heart, Sect. 2. 
May Duke, Section 12. 
The Latest, are 
Late Duke, Section 7. Bigarreau Tardif de Hildesheim, Sect. 2. 
Florence, Section 2. Morelia, Sect. 10 
Hort Trans. 2nd Series, Vol. 1, p. 24. 
Growing Pine Apples in Pots having holes in their sides.— 
Observing that those plants throve best whose roots grew out of the 
bottoms of the pots into the tan, J. Hawkins, Esq. of Cosford, was 
induced to have a few pots made with eight holes in the sides of each, 
to let the roots of the plants run out. These holes are made at equal 
distances, about the circumference of the finger, round the pot, and 
from three to four inches from the top. In these pots the plants 
grow both much quicker and much stronger. It appears to the wri¬ 
ter, from this little experiment, that where leaves are used instead of 
tan, the pits will not require turning more than once a year; for 
where the roots are grown far into the leaves, the plants will thrive, 
although there be but little heat in the bed, because they will have all 
the advantage of it; which is not the case when the roots are confi¬ 
ned within pots. It is also inferred, that a pine plant will grow 
much faster and stronger, and will not require to be shifted into other 
pots so often as is generally done; that such large pots, namely, 13 
inches wide in the clear withinside at the top, and 13 inches deep in 
the inside will not be wanted; that more plants may be grown in a 
row; and that fruit equally large and good-flavoured may be grown 
in much smaller pots than those now generally used.— Gard. Mag. 
To increase the Produce of Vines. The Vine in Prussia, 
is in Autumn manured with bullock’s blood, and the shoots being- 
laid down and covered with dry leaves are thus protected against se¬ 
vere frosts, and, in the beginning of spring, against those fine days 
which occasion their early vegetation. They are pruned, in spring, 
after the leaves are removed.— Trans. Prus. Gard. Soc. from, the 
Gard. Mag. 
Cabbages.—M. Furstenau manures his cabbages with sheep- 
dung round the stems before they close their heads, which causes 
them to grow very large and firm, and makes them keep better, ib. 
Sowing Plum Stones.— M. Ohlendorf, at Hamburgh, lately 
communicated to the Prussian Gardening Society, his observations 
on sowing plum stones. When perfectly ripe, without being di¬ 
vested of the flesh, they are sown in beds in the autumn. The same 
