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roots; but these will expand, and the supply of food will continue to 
be taken up by them, and appropriated to the restoration and repro¬ 
duction of the leaves and branches. 
12th. All trees are furnished with many more buds than they can 
sustain, to form fruit and branches; the position of the buds deter¬ 
mines their office; those which occupy the most eligible situation for 
extending the branches, are formed for wood-buds; the others form 
fruit-buds, or lie dormant till wanted to form fruit-buds, or to supply 
the casual loss of any wood-buds that were above them. 
13th. If a bud formed and placed for a leading branch be removed, 
or its position be altered, or the vessels connected with it be con¬ 
tracted or injured, and the usual passage of the sap be obstructed, 
the wood-bud occupying the next best position will take its supply 
and perform its office. And when from any number of buds formed 
to receive a quantity of sap, a part be taken away, the share of sap 
which that part would otherwise have received is given to those re¬ 
maining, and they are extended proportionally.” 
The System of Practice recommended, appears generally good, 
and with a few exceptions, we can recommend them from experience. 
The book deserves to be read by all gardeners; and we particularly 
recommend it to the perusal of every young gardener, who will find 
it an excellent guide to him in the Science of his business. 
ARTICLE XI.—COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
Culture of Geraniums. —The hardy, perennial, herbaceous 
kinds of Geranium are mostly beautiful plants, with showy flowers, 
of various hues : these are well adapted for ornamenting flower-bor¬ 
ders : they will thrive well in any common garden soil, except the 
G. argenteum and the Nipaul specips, which should be grown on 
rock-work or in pots, in order that they may be protected during 
winter. A mixture of loam, peat, and a little sand, will suit these 
last well. The greenhouse and frame species will thrive best in a 
mixture of loam and peat, or any light vegetable soil: these are 
readily increased by cuttings, planted in the same kind of soil, or 
from cuttings of the roots; but the hardy, herbaceous, perennial kinds 
are to be increased by dividing the plants at the root in spring or 
autumn, and the whole may be increased by seeds, which ripen in 
abundance. The annual kinds are in general not so showy as the 
perennial species: the seeds of them only require to be sown in the 
open border early in spring .—Dons Millers Diet. 
Culture of the Genus Erodium. —Most of the perennial spe¬ 
cies of Erodium are rather ornamental, and they will thrive well in 
