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tively little trouble, for I have little time 

 at my disposal, and veiy many things to 

 engage my attention. 



when it has reached the top, and the lamp 

 is full ; but should you exceed this, the 

 contrivance which I have adopted of 



Fig. 11. A A,; These rest on iron bars fixed in the top of wooden stand, and support it. 



I ought to have said that I never have 

 to complain of what I see some of your 

 correspondents do, namely, the not being 

 able to get sufficient heat ; my difficulty is 

 to lieep down the heat in my frame. With 

 two lids open, I can get, easily, 70^. 



I would further add that my lamp is 

 the cleanest thing imaginable for a lamp. 

 I always trim it iu the dining-room, in 

 which the case is at work. The supply 

 tube being so much above the burner, no 

 oil can get on to the screw to soil the 

 fingers when unscrewing the top ; and it 

 has this advantage, also, that you cannot 

 fill the lamp too fall, so as to overflow, 

 except you be the most careless of the 

 careless. Tlie tube is sufficiently wide to 

 look down it, so that you see at once 



doming the upper part under the wick, 

 assists you, as it receives the excess and 

 prevents it running over. There need not 

 be the least spot of grease. 



y— -. 



If you fill it to the* point h, Fig. 12, 

 it will "not rise higher in the dome than g. 

 Richmond. K. Z. 



AUTUMN-PLANTED POTATOES. 



We have lately travelled over a conside- 

 rable extent of ground in the south of 

 England, and seen immense breadtlis of 

 potatoes in the process of lifting, and it 

 has been a delight to us to see the tubers 

 remarkably clean, hard, well-ripened, and 

 without a trace of disease visible over 

 entire parishes and hundreds. On the dry 

 lands of Essex towards the Tliames valley, 

 there is as fine a crop as to quality as was 

 ever harvested since the potato has been 

 in cultivation, but the quantity is rather 

 less than an average, and the condition is 



in exact ratio to the dryness of the ground. 

 Some lands now under our eye in the 

 neighbourhood of Eochford, have had 

 scarcely a drop of rain for three months 

 past, collards are stunted, turnips a failure, 

 beet good but small, whatever needs abun- 

 dant moisture is poor, but the potatoes 

 make up for all the losses in their superior 

 quality and entire freedom from disease. 

 Let us draw sound conclusions from good 

 premises : moisture is ruin to the potato ; 

 a burning sun, effectual drainage, planting 

 ^ at wide intervals, these are the conditions 



