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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ February, 
by clotted lines. From the mode of construction abundance of light is admitted 
to the interior. 
No better model than this need be devised for either a plant stove or a 
forcing house, or with certain modifications as regards heating, for a greenhouse. 
It is roomy; it is light ; it is thoroughly ventilated ; it is amply heated for a 
hot-house, and of course would need less piping if intended for a greenhouse. 
It has a plunging bed placed over the heating apparatus, which in the case of stove 
plants, or for the culture of pot-vines, or melons, or cucumbers, would be 
-especially advantageous. Even if used as a greenhouse, we believe, although it is 
not commonly adopted, that the plunging bed would be found a real acquisition, 
inasmuch as it would obviate the necessity for the perpetual watering, which is 
one of the most difficult of all operations to carry out efficiently in the culture 
of pot plants, on account of the risk which is always run‘of going to an extreme 
in either direction. The plunging or half-plunging of the pots, in the case of 
greenhouse plants, would render less frequent the necessity for applying water, 
and thus neither would the fertilizing properties of the soil be washed out, nor 
the soil itself become soddened by the disturbance in its mechanical condition 
which frequently results from repeated and copious waterings. Hence we look 
upon this as in every respect a model plant-house.—T. M. 
NOTES ON SOME NEW PEACHES AND NECTARINES. 
-jN the Florist and Pomologist for 1870 is an illustration of one of the new 
l peaches— Lord Palmerston , much more highly coloured than it ever came 
with me under glass. I fear its large size may induce many people to 
plant it, but when they come to put their teeth into it, they will repent 
having done so. I have fruited it for two years in a late house, its fruit being 
very large, but its flavour and the texture of the flesh are both bad—worse in 
1871 than 1870, though in neither year was it good with me. I have put buds 
of another sort into it, as I did not want to remove it, the stock being very clean 
and healthy. 
In the same house I put in a quantity of Princess of Wales Peach in 1869, 
and last year I had three or four dozen fruit, very large, and of the most exquisite 
flavour; indeed, I thought it the best-flavoured peach I had tasted during the 
season. This was budded on a Bellegarde Peach, and, strange to say, the fruit 
of the Bellegarde came much paler than usual, approaching more to the colour of 
the Princess of Wales, which is a beautiful creamy white, with streaks of pink 
on the sunny side. 
Prince of Wales , another of the new Peaches, I have fruited for three years, 
and a very good-flavoured, racy peach it is, having a deal more colour in it; the 
fruit has not been large with me, but the tree is not very vigorous, and it may 
improve in that respect. 
Amongst the early Peaches, I have only planted out permanently Dr. Hogg , 
the very early ones being so small. I have fruited Dr. Hogg now for two years, 
