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might be used with advantage, and with less trouble. These vessels, 
being perfect cylinders of about a foot in height, may stand conve¬ 
niently close together, or upon each other, and present the means of 
preserving a large quantity of fruit in a small room : and if the spaces 
between the top of one vessel and the base of another be filled with 
cement, composed of two parts of the curd of skimmed milk and one of 
lime, by which the air will be excluded, the later kinds of apples and 
pears will be preserved with little change in their appearance, and 
without any danger of decay, till February and March, and the best 
keeping apples much longer. A dry and cold situation, and in which 
there is little change of temperature, is the best for the vessels ; but I 
have found the qualities of pears to be much improved by their being 
taken from the vessels about ten days before they are wanted for use, 
and kept in a warm room, for warmth at this, as in all other periods, 
accelerates the maturity of the pear. The same agent accelerates decay 
also, and a warmer climate contributes to the superior success of the 
French gardeners, which probably arises only from the circumstance of 
their fruit being the produce of standard or espalier trees.’’— Hort. 
Trans. 
Flower Garden. —The beginning of this month is the time chosen 
by commercial and other florists for planting the principal beds of 
choice anemones, ranunculuses, hyacinths, tulips, &c. The ordinary 
method of performing this work is briefly detailed in a previous article 
in this number, which the reader may refer to. The other business of 
the season is raising all roots, bulbs, or tubers, &c , as dahlias, marvel 
of Peru, or others which would be in jeopardy from frost. Pruning 
shrubs, as well to keep them in form as to encourage flowering. When 
the pruning is finished, the clumps and borders, soon as the leaves are 
down, may be digged ; reducing overgrown herbaceous perennials ; 
replacing such as have become misplaced, and filling up vacancies 
where any have died or are worn out, taking care to keep the tallies, if 
there be any, in their proper places. This brushing up of the flower 
garden at this time will give the whole a comfortable aspect, even when 
the air is filled, and the edges and angles of every leaf are fringed, with 
frozen spiculae. 
Some of the operations directed to be done in the last and present 
month may have been executed before the notices appeared, and some 
of them may yet remain to be done. This is almost always the case, 
even in the best regulated establishments, and is also almost always 
right; because the manager, being governed by local and other circum¬ 
stances, must necessarily be the best judge of the times most proper 
for the execution of any seasonal work. 
