The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . e several corners of such of our friendswho devote themselves to mysterious modes of in-creasing their stock, wc found one gentleman whohad been in successful practice of callousing cuttingsin a way similar to that which we described in ourlast, for some time back. It diflercd from our planin this, that though a similar jar to the one wc useis employed, wherein to callous the cuttings, it isburied up entirely under sand. In this glass thecuttings callous beautifully. Though our friends suc-cess has been very encouraging, he will not allow u
The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . e several corners of such of our friendswho devote themselves to mysterious modes of in-creasing their stock, wc found one gentleman whohad been in successful practice of callousing cuttingsin a way similar to that which we described in ourlast, for some time back. It diflercd from our planin this, that though a similar jar to the one wc useis employed, wherein to callous the cuttings, it isburied up entirely under sand. In this glass thecuttings callous beautifully. Though our friends suc-cess has been very encouraging, he will not allow usto do more than refer to it as corroborative to ourown experience. He promises us that when he shallhave completed some other connected experiments,he will give the rciders of the Monthly the whole ben-efit of them. But we commenced this article with another looking over the store of a pottery show-roomin Philadelphia, our eye caught a non-descriptutensil, to which the what is it? was particularlyappropriate. The annexed is a cut. Fig. The presiding genius of the establishment couldnot enlighten us, and we consulted our own oracle asto its uses, but it was mute. So we set our ownreporter on the track ; and by the use of that pecu- liar instinct which hns never been described in anywork on Natural History lh,\t we know of; butwhich nevertheless these useful and never-to-be com-pensated gentlemen of the press are so remarkablefor possessing ; he discovered one of them in the fulltide of successful operation on the grounds of our in-genious fellow townsman, Robert Cornelius, Esq.—Stuck around in the notches were green cuttings ofGrapes, Uaks, and other usually unstrikable things,all seeming so completely under the will of the op-erator, that instead of the unwilling look most cut-tings presented, these seemed to vie with each otheras to which should root the quickest and the best.—To show how they were rooted, Mr. C. tore themout as rulhlessly as we would a tu
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