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ravagos of birds upon currants, cher- 

 ries, &c. 



Netting is a very effectual preventive 



others of hemp : the last does not shrink 

 after being wetted like the woollen. I 

 prefer that with about twenty-live meshes 



INeiting is a very eiieuiuiii picvciiii>c |,icn,i n. 1.1. .. .v.. ..""". v » — j .. . v, .... w..v.„ 

 of coolin", for reasons which will be ] in a square inch, at 5(/. per scjuure yard. 



stated when considering Shelters gene 

 rally; and in connection with that, it may 

 be observed that it is not altogether im- 

 material of what substance netting is 

 formed. Worsted is to be preferred 

 not only because it is the most durable. 



NETTLE TREE. Celt is'. 



NEUROLOMA arabidijlorum. Hardy 

 herbaceous. Division. Common soil. 



NEW JERSEY TEA. Ceanothus 

 Americanus. 



NEW ZEALAND SPINACH, Tetra- 



noi only uecause 11 is iiic luuot uuiui^iv-, 1 i^i^.. «>.«»»»-.-•». ^ ■ . -• --, 



but because it is the best preventive of \ gonia expansa,*\s much admired as a_ 

 a wall-s cooling. I have found the tlier- substitute for summer spinach, being of 

 mometer under a hemp net sink during more delicate flavor, and not so liable 

 the night, from two to four degrees to run to seed. Mr. J. Anderson, gar- 

 lower Than that under a net of worsted, j dener to the Earl of Essex, at Cassio- 

 the meshes being small and of equal bury, Herts, gives the following direc- 

 size in both nets. This can only be , tions for its cultivation : — 

 because worsted is known to be a worse I " Sow in the seed-vessel as gathered 

 conductor of heat than hemp; and, not' the preceding autumn, at the latter end 

 absorbing moisture so easily, is not so ! of March in a pot, and placed in a me- 

 liable to^the cold always produced by ; Ion frame. The seedlings to be pricked 

 its drv'ing.— Principles of Gardening. ! while small singly into pots, to be kept 

 Netting will also exclude flies and j under a frame without bottom heat, until 

 other wmged insects from the fruit , the third week in May, or until the dan- 

 against walls, although the meshes arc | ger of frost is past. The bed for their 

 nu)re than large enough to permit 1 reception is formed by digging a trench 

 their passage. Why this is the case is j two feet wide and one deep, this being 

 not very apparent, "but the netting is j filled with thoroughly decayed dung, 



11.. _xE_:-_. :.. 1 ;.,„„:.„;!-,- :-- i and Covered six inches deep with mould. 



A space of at least three feet must be 

 left vacant for the extension of the 

 branches. Twenty plants will afford an 

 abundant supply daily for a large fa- 

 mily ; they must be planted three feet 

 apart. 



" In dry seasons they probably require 



equally efficient in keeping similar in 

 sects from intruding into rooms if there 

 are no cross lights. If there are win- 

 dows on different sides of the room, and 

 it is to be presumed, therefore, also in a 

 green or hot-house, nets would not be so 

 efficient. 



It is not a useless scrap of knowledge . inu. j oi.»o^..o ^..^j ,- -j .-.,..- 



to the gardener, that one hundred square ! a large supply of water. In five or six 

 yardsof netting, according to some mcr-1 weeks after planting, the young leaves 

 chants" mode ofmeasuring, will notcover may be gathered from them, these be- 

 more than fifty square yards of wall, for |ing pinched off. The leading shoot 

 they stretch the net first longitudinally must be carefully preserved, for the 

 and then laterally, when making Iheir branches are productive until a late pe- 

 mcasurement, and not in both directions riod of the year, as they survive the 

 at once, as the gardener must when CO- frosts that kill nasturtiums and pota- 

 vering his trees. Disappointment, there- , toes." 



fore, should be avoided, when ordering | To obtain Seed. — For the production 

 new nets, by stating the size of the sur- ^ of seed, a plantation must be made on 

 face which has to be covered. This a poorer soil, or kept stunted and dry in 

 may be done without any fear of impo- pots, as ice plants are when seed is re- 

 sition. I quired of them. On the rich compost 



Mr. Richardson, net maker. New ! of the bed, the plants become so suc- 

 Road, London, informs me, that one j culent as to prevent the production of 

 cwt. of oW mackerel net, weighed when , seed. This vegetable has not proved, 

 quite dry, will cover eight hundred , in the United States, worthy of its Eu- 

 square yards ; and one cwt. of old her- ropean reputation — probably owing to 

 ring net (smaller meshes) will cover six 1 the intense heat of our summers 



hundred square yards. Mr. Hulme, of 

 Knutsford, has sent me various speci- 

 mens of his nets and open canvass for 

 inspection — some made of woollen and 



NEW ZEALAND TEA. Leptosper- 

 murn scoparia. 



NICKER TREE. Guilandina. 

 NICOTIANA. Thirty-one species, in- 



