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mentioned above and although some of the roots decayed in the winter, the plan, 
on the whole, entirely succeeded—we have tried it for several years. It would he 
ungenerous in me not to acknowledge that I am indebted to an early number of 
the Gardener’s Magazine for the method of preserving them during the winter, 
upon which the success so much depends. 
Wishing your publication to prosper, I remain, &c.. 
Flora. 
On Cotting the Leaves of Peaches and Nectarines, —Gentlemen, in look¬ 
ing over the Horticultural Calendar for October, you assert, or in other words, 
wish to impress on the minds of your readers, that October is the best month in 
the year to plant fruit trees. You observe that trees receive great advantage if 
planted with their leaves on, “for it must be remembered the leaves are vital, 
organs, and so long-as decidious plants retain them, circulation is still in opera¬ 
tion.” If I understand it rightly, you mean by the ob-servation to say that the 
co-operation of the leaves with the roots will enable the plant to establish itself in 
its new habitation much sooner than in any other way. If the leaves are vital 
organs, and absolutely necessary for the welfare of trees in general, whilst the 
sap is in circulation, have you not erred when you state on the same page, under 
the head “ Peaches and Nectarines,” “ to accelerate the ripening of the wood, 
it is necessary to go over the trees, and carefully shorten the leaves one-half to 
admit the sun’s rays?” If the perfect leaf is useful in planting, I should think it 
much more so in ripening the wood ; and do you not, by cutting the leaves in two, 
destroy that very power the leaves, as vital organs^ are intended by the 
Author of Nature to perform, in maturing both wood and buds? Yours, &c. 
NOCTURA IN THE DESERT. 
Vinks in Pots. —Gentlemen, in the first number of your truly valuable Register, 
which contains Mr. Stafford’s mode of training vines in pots, you remark that some 
of his grapes exceeded in flavour those trained on rafters. If this is the case, 
why is so much stress laid on the formation of vine borders, which Mr. Harrison, 
in his book on fruit trees, says should be two feet wide, when a little earth is suf¬ 
ficient to produce superior flavour in a pot? I ask merely for information, with¬ 
out the sniallest wish to cavil. 
Heating Conservatories —Is not F. T. O.’s mode of heating conservatories 
by hot water an indirect advertisement from Messrs. Graham and Sons? It is 
certainly the cheapest I have met with. 
Gooseberries. —You strongly recommend Mr. Muscroft’s mode of training 
Gooseberries. Is not flavour sacrificed to size? and are not some of the old small 
hairy Gooseberries of much superior flavour ? An answer to this would oblige 
Jan. 10, 1832. M. D. 
An Answer will he given in our next.— Cond. 
Cucumber Frames. —What is the best mode, and the expense of conslruclino' 
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a Frame for Cucumbers, which without using stable dung, would enable me lu 
have them on the table all the winter through ? And who would you reconiinend 
to erect it ? 
Q. V- 
An answer will appear shortly.—Co.vn. 
