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which is not to be sifted, is put under each light. If this is dry, it is to be 
well watered, and the hills are trodden firmly, making a hole in the centre of 
each, and turning out a pot of plants, with the ball entire, into each hole. 
Should the weather be very warm, they are watered over the head abundantly; 
and in the space of a fortnight, they will have grown to four or five joints each. 
They are then stopped down to three joints. By this time the heat of the bed 
will have become reduced, mound up the plants, well treading in, and watering 
as you proceed. The above stopping will cause them to push strong horizon¬ 
tal shoots from the three eyes that are left, and they will seldom fail showing- 
fruit at the first joint; you may rely, at least, on two out of three of these fruit 
setting. Before the plant comes into blossom, the bed must be covered an 
inch and a half thick with dry sand, or with soil if sand cannot be obtained,and 
the bed must not be watered for at least three weeks. All shoots that appear, 
except the three above-mentioned, must be removed. In pruning, great care 
must be taken, never to stop the three shoots that bear fruit; nor yet, the la¬ 
teral ones produced from the same joint as the fruit,—these lateral shoots will 
show fruit, which must be preserved till the other is swelling, and then taken 
off. All laterals that spring from the main shoot, must be stopped to one joint 
and leaf only. 
3. —The Garden; or Familiar Instructions for the Laying- 
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This little volume forms the sixth of a series, called, the Little Library'^ 
which, when completed, will contain a fund of information, in the various 
branches of useful knowledge, on which it proposes to treat. “The Garden” 
is complete in itself, and being rich in practical information on Floriculture, 
is, we conceive, calculated to be a useful little work to young persons. We 
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4. —Transactions of the London Horticultural Society. 
(Second Series,) Vol. I., Part 1. 
WE mentioned last month that this Part was rich in information; two papers 
are particularly so, because they allude to two important fruits, Pme^and Apri¬ 
cots. The former is taken up by Mr. Munko, Head-Gardener to the Society, 
who has given ample proof of bis competency to the task he has undertaken. 
The information he has afforded is of the highest importance to gardeners, and 
others, who cultivate this fruit, and will, we feel assured, be perused by them 
with considerable interest. The Apricots are treated on by Mr. R. Thompson, 
Under Gardener in the fruit department, in a manner that does him eredit. 
If we had had room this number, we would have condensed one or both of these 
papers, and inserted them for the information of those who are not in posses¬ 
sion of the Society’s Transactions ; but as we are much pressed with matter, 
we shall content ourselves this time, by merely extracting the following 
communication.— 
