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Page 85 .—On the Cultivation of the Persian Varieties of the Melon. By T. A. 
Knight, Esq., President. Read, May 1, 1831. 
The writer informs us that he erected a small forciug house, for the almost exclu¬ 
sive culture of this fruit, and grew them by means of tire-heat only. This house 
consists of a hack, wall, nearly nine feet high, and a front wall nearly six feet, 
inclosing a horizontal space of nine feet wide, and thirty feet long. The fire-place 
is at the east end, and very near the front wall ; and the flue passes to the other 
end of the house within four inches of the front wall, and returns back again, 
leaving a space of eight inches only between the advancing and returning 
course of it, and the smoke ^.escapes at the north east corner of the building. 
The front flue is composed of bricks laid flat, in order to give a temperate perma- 
ment heat, and the returning one, with fhem standing on their edges, the usual 
way. The space between the flues is filled with fragments of burnt bricks, 
which absorb much water, and gradually give out moisture to the air of the house. 
Air is admitted through apertures in the front wall, which are four inches wide, 
and nearly three in height, and which are situated level witii the top of the flues, 
and are eighteen inches distant from each other. The air escapes through similar 
apertures near the top of the back wall. These are left open, or partially, or 
wholly closed, as circumstances require. Thirty-two pots are placed upon the 
flues, each being sixteen inches wide, and fourteeen inches deep 5 but they are 
raised by a piece of stone or brick, to prevent their coming in actual contact with 
the flues. In each of these pots one Melon plant is put, and afterwards trained 
upon a trellis, placed about fourteen inches distant from the glass, and each plant 
is permitted to bear one meloti only. I'he height from the ground at which the 
trellis is placed, is such as can be conveniently walked under, to discover the. 
appearance of Red Spiders, or other noxipus insects; and by this method, two, 
and even three crops may be obtained in one season. 
Being so liable to burst, Mr. Knight raised the points of the fruit higher than 
the stems, and not one failed to ripen in a perfect state ; they were found to ripen 
very well hanging perpendicularly, but the Ispahan grew very deformetl. 
3.— Gardener’s Magazine; Edited by J. C. Loudon, F.L.S., ike. 
Published eA^ery two months, price ^s.^d. 
No. 34, FOR October. 
This number contains a continuation o-f the general results of a Gardening Tour, 
which takes up nearly 45 of its pages; it is followed, however, by a series of in- 
teresting articles, some of which we shall extract. 
On the Cultivation of the Cyclamen coum. By Mr. James HouseAian. 
The Cyclamen ednm, says the writer, deserves to be rescued from that neglect to 
which its easy propagation, and consequent commonness have subjected it. Spw 
the seed as soon as ripe, in the month of May, in a wide pan or pot, well drained; 
fine leaf mould is the most suitable; place them on a dry bottom, in any shady 
part of the flower g’arden. In October remove them to a cold frame or pit, where 
they may be defended from frost; and though a little heat does not hurt them in 
this stage of their growth, it is altogether unsuitable when they have arrived at 
the age for flowering. In twelve months,' they should be transplanted into pots or 
large pans, in which they will flower in the month of January following From 
the time they are transplanted, keep ihem in a shady, yet airy place, occasionally 
watered ; and about the first of November they may be removed to an open airy 
