Subterraneous Garden. -A curious account of a subterraneous garden, formed at the bottom of the Perry Main Pit, Newcastle, by the furnace keeper, was communicated at the last quarterly meeting of the Caledonian Horticultural Society. The plants are formed in the bottom of the mine, by the light and radiant heat of an open stove, constantly maintained for the sake of ventilation. The same letter communicated an account of an extensive natural hotbed, near Dudley, Staffordshire, which is heated by means of the slow combustion of coal at some depth below the surface. From this natural hot bed, a gardener raises annually, crops of different kinds of culinary vegetables, which are earlier by some weeks than those in surrounding gardens.

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