. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . the balls will last a^ long as three loads of soft coal, the priceof which is from 12s. to 14s. per ton. The small amount^ofashes which come from the balls is a great advantage in asmall stoke-hole ; they partake of the character of burnt brick,and are an excellent material for applying to heavy land. Thereis no danger of sparks, and the annoyance of much smoke isavoided, for the cottages here have their chimneys of the shapeof a small round hamper with the bottom out, rising about afoot above the thatch, and having a little m
. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . the balls will last a^ long as three loads of soft coal, the priceof which is from 12s. to 14s. per ton. The small amount^ofashes which come from the balls is a great advantage in asmall stoke-hole ; they partake of the character of burnt brick,and are an excellent material for applying to heavy land. Thereis no danger of sparks, and the annoyance of much smoke isavoided, for the cottages here have their chimneys of the shapeof a small round hamper with the bottom out, rising about afoot above the thatch, and having a little mortar rounddt tokeep it on ; but I never heard of any disaster from fire.—J. T.^Maesgicynne, Carmarthenshire. SOLANUMJIThis highly-ornamental species has been reintroduced byMessrs. Carter & Co., nurserymen and seedsmen, High Holborn,from Porto Rico. It was cultivated here fifty years since, and CILIATUM. was portraited as long ago as 1813, by Danal, in his .HiatoireNatnrelle des Solanum, & is either an annual, or has to be cultivated as if it were. ^^^f0mm^4f^^ Solanum cilifltam. 80, by being sown yearly. Its stem is herbaceous, from 12 to I prickles on their ribs; leaf-stalks short; flowers white, five^18 inches high, having numerous yellow prickles ; leaves sub- lobed ; berries nearly ppherical, more than an inch in diameter,cordate, sinnately lobed, ciliated (hence its specific name) with I orange-scarlet when ripe. These render it highly ornamental^ March 2, 18 il. ] JOUKNAL OF HOETICULTUfiS AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 165 clustered among the dark green foliage, and especially fit it,being a dwarf plant, for table decoration. THE WAR AND FRENCH WEEK or two ago we gave an extract from a letter toDr. Hogg, from Mr. Henry Vilmorin, of Paris, in which hementioned his two brothers, Manrice and Phillipe, as beingdratted into the army, and serving with the Mobiles. Thoseof our readers who know the family will bs grieved to hearthat Phillipe, the youngest of the Vilmor
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