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any kind of soil. The frame kinds will grow well in a mixture of 
loam and peat or decayed leaves : these are easily increased by di¬ 
viding the plants at the root, or by seeds which ripen in abundance. 
The greenhouse species are mostly sub-shrubby; they will thrive 
well in sandy loam, and leaf mould; and young cuttings, planted in 
pots filled with the same kind of soil, will strike root: they are also 
easily increased by dividing the plants at the root or by seed. The 
annual kinds, several of which are rather handsome, only require to 
be sown in the open border, in spring, in anv kind of soil .—Ibid 
4 
Sketch of a fine Oak Tree (fig.4) that grew in Chatsworth Plea¬ 
sure Grounds, the top and part of the bole of which was blown off by 
the remarkable high wind of the 29th of December 1798; by which 
it was found to be hollow, owing to a large branch having been bro¬ 
ken or cut off at an unfavourable season for its healing over, that oc¬ 
casioned internally the dry rot, when a branch bent into its trunk 
and shot into roots instead of branches, as here represented, and grew 
down into the ground for a considerable depth. Is it not probable 
that in time the trunk would have decayed away, and this branch 
have formed a succeeding tree. White Watson. 
T. HARDCASTLE, PR I NTER , H IG H-STR EFT, SH EFF l ELD. 
