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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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cuttings, even when unable to leave my bed-room; and 
none but an invalid can appreciate tbe pleasijre of thus 
sharing in the pursuits from which they feel otherwise 
cut off. 
The cost of the lights is just twopence for twenty-four 
hours. 
All I have ever known of gardening has been learnt from 
your ])ages, and I can never express my gratitude for tlte 
consolation (the purest of earthly ones) they have been in 
sickness and in sorrow.—E. T. 
PERNE'TTYA CILIA'RIS. 
(HAlR-rniNGED PeRNETTYA.) I 
The genus Perneltya belongs to tbe Natural Order | 
of Heathworths {Ericacea-), but the species composing ' 
the genus have more of the appearance of Vacduiamii, 
or Whortleberries. The genus is in the JJecnndriu d/o- I 
ncyyiiia Class and Order of Linnteus, and is allied to ! 
Gaullheria. 
A HUMBLE PROPAGATING APPARATUS. 
If you think tbe following account of a very humble, but 
economical, apparatus for striking cuttings and rearing seed¬ 
lings, in a bed-room even, witliout smoim or smell, may be 
acceptable to any of your lady readers, who, like myself, are 
debarred by ill-health from even ventuiing into a green¬ 
house during the cold spring months, and yet long to join 
in all the interesting operations of that period, it is heartily 
at your service. 
I had a common, old rushlight shade cut down to tbe 
height of nine inches. On this I place a tin baking-dish, 
one foot square, the sides two inches deep. 1 fill tbe dish 
with silver-sand, kept moist. I jrlace my little pots of cut¬ 
tings and seedlings in tbe sand, and cover them with a large 
bell-glass (a hand-light, made exactly to fit the dish, would 
be better). In the rushlight shade, raised on a small or 
larger inverted pot, as I wish for more or less heat, I put 
; (in a small saucer to bold a little water) one of Price’s 
i Child’s Night Lights to burn ten hours. By this means I 
! keep up a heat of from 70° to 90°, or even higher, as I raise 
j or lower the light; and, without tbe least smoke or smell, 
. can have the delight of raising seedlings and striking 
