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you don't want for leaf-mould. After | 

 lying five or six summer months, take 

 it out, turn it well over, and begin a 

 new heap. In six months more it will 

 be good manure. You may hasten its 

 decay and improve its quality by 

 adding gas-water from the gas-works, 

 if they are near. Do not add old tan, 

 which ruins a " mixen," unless you 

 burn it, when its ashes become as 

 valuable as other wood-ashes. If the 

 heap becomes offensive, you mu°t 

 either add peat charcoal, or cover it 

 with earth.* 



Among liquid manures, there are 

 many substances that may be made 

 available. Liquid manures have been 

 fashionable of late, and will certainly 

 come more and more into use every 

 year, for, if judiciously applied, they 

 are far more effective than any dress- 

 ings of solid material. Guano dis- 

 solved in water, in the proportion of 

 half an ounce to a gallon, may be used 

 to almost everything in a kitchen 

 garden, and especially to any crop 

 which requires to be grown quick for 

 its succulence ; celery and lettuce 

 especially. Onions like it in a liquid 

 form, and make splendid bulbs if 

 indulged freely with it, and it may be 

 used in preparing seed beds, as advised 

 by Mr. Glennie, thus: — Suppose we 

 are about to sow a bed of onions, say 

 of one rod, two pounds of guano, 

 which is at the rate of nearly three 

 hundred weight to the acre, should be 

 dissolved in sufficient water to go over 

 the said rod of ground, which should 

 be previously fresh forked and level- 

 led. It can be applied with a common 



watering-pot, and distributed evenly 

 over the surface in the evening ; and 

 having done this, the next thing would 

 be to water it with plain water, unless 

 it rained in the night, and this washes 

 the guano down a little deeper ; then, 

 as soon as the surface is dry enough, 

 sow your seed, tread it in hard all over 

 the bed, rake it in, and roll it, or pat 

 it down with the spade. The applica- 

 tion of guano is very efficacious if the 

 land be at all poor. But the house 

 will furnish you all the year round 

 with abundance of liquid manure of 

 the very best kind. Have one or two 

 large pails or watering-pots of zinc, 

 made with close fitting lids, and into 

 these let all house slops, soap-suds, 

 the water in which meat and vegeta- 

 bles have been boiled, in fact, every- 

 thing in the way of liquid refuse be 

 poured daily. When there is an extra 

 quantity, as on washing days, be on 

 the alert that it is not sent down the 

 gully hole, and use it slightly warm to 

 any crops that you want to grow par- 

 ticularly fine. The ordinary slops 

 may be diluted in dry weather ; but 

 in rainy weather it is best to use them 

 as you get them. Cabbages, celery, 

 lettuces, and onions are just the things 

 to take it thankfully, and you can 

 hardly give them too much. If you 

 purpose to make a general heavy 

 watering at any time, let this stuff 

 accumulate for a few days, and then 

 mix a little of it with every can of 

 water. For a few day before cutting 

 any crop, discontinue the use of 

 liquid manure, and water with rain 

 water only. 



BLOOMING OF PAWLONIA IMPERIALIS. 

 Several instances have occurred this I this season produced two hundred 

 season, of the blooming of this noble, I spikes of blossoms, each having sixteen 

 deciduous tree, which proves quite blooms. At Bryanston, Dorset, in the 

 hardy where the position is good, and j grounds of Lord Portman, isapawlonia, 

 shelter afforded from cutting winds in thirty feet high, with a circumference 

 spring. One planted upwards of twenty I of ninety feet, which produced flower 

 years in the cold climate of Stubton buds last year, and was protected 



Court, has attained to a height of 

 thirty-five feet, with a circumference 

 of ninety-five feet, and this season 

 burst into bloom for the first time. At 



during the winter, with a covering of 

 six hundred yards of canvas. In May 

 this Avas removed, and, on the 20th of 

 the same month, the first flower opened, 



Lyncombe Vale r Bath, in the nursery and gradually, the whole tree became 



of the celebrated James Kitley, a 

 specimen planted sixteen years ago, 



covered with the elegant blooms pecu- 

 liar to it. 



* " Agricultural Gazette." 



