1846.] Analysis of the Ashes of the Sugar Cane. 



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That nurserymen may calculate what progress can be made in 

 putting clown these layers, I will say to them that last fall, when 

 the weather was favorable, with the help of two boys (one eight, 

 the other twelve years old), I dug the trenches and buried layers 

 enough for 1600 trees, daily. 



As I am fully satisfied that trees produced by layers are as good, 

 and can be afforded for half the price that those can which are 

 grafted, I have thought the above mode of propagation was worth 

 giving to the public. — Prairie Farmer. 



[We believe that apple trees propagated by layers are not so 

 likely to live when transplanted into the orchard: it is an old 

 practice, and by it trees may be multiplied rapidly; yet, let the 

 purchaser see that they are taken up carefully and planted care- 

 fully, and it may succeed.] 



ANALYSIS OF THE ASHES OF THE SUGAR CANE. 



BY CHARLES UPHAM SHEFARD. 



Knowing that some of your readers would take an interest in 

 the following results upon the ashes of the sugar cane, obtained 

 by Mr. Stenhouse, I have been at the pains to condense them 

 from a very valuable memoir published by this gentleman in a 

 supplementary number of the London, Edinburg and Dublin Phil. 

 Magazine, and Journal of Science (No. 183, Dec. 1845, p. 533), 

 and herewith ofi'er them to you, with a remark or two of ray own, 

 provided they meet your views. 



Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, were very fine full grown canes from Trin- 

 idad, consisting of stalks and leaves, but without the roots: Nos. 

 5, 6 and 7, were similar canes from Berbice; No. 8 from Deme- 

 rara; No. 9, of full grown canes, but with few leaves, from the 

 Island of Grenada; No. 10 from Trelawny, Jamaica, consisting 

 of transparent canes in full blossom, grown about six miles from 

 the sea and manured with cattle dung; No. 11, of transparent 

 canes, from St. James', Jamaica, growing about two hundred 

 yards from the sea, being old rattoons, and also manured with 

 cattle dung; No. 12, young, transparent canes three and a half 



