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Guano and Turnips. — A Cheap Paint. 



Vol. IX 



For the best American seedling self- I 



coloured dahlia, $2 



For the best ten named varieties of dah- 

 lias, grown by amateurs, 3 



For the next best ten named varieties of 

 dahlias, grown by amateurs, 2 



For the best dahlia, grown by amateurs, 2 



FOR DESIGNS FORMED OF CUT FLOWERS, ETC., 



Which are not. to occupy at their base mere 

 than six feet square. 



For the best and most appropriate, $"^0 



" " next best and most appropriate, 30 

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" " do. do. do. do. 20 



" " do. do. do. do. 15 



» " do. do. do. do. 10 



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Oi^ No special premiums to be awarded 



for designs. 



FOR BOVQUETS. 



7'o be confined to those suitable for the cen- 

 tre-table, the hand, or of basket form. 



For the best and most approved, ^1 



" " next best and most approved, 5 

 " " do. do. do. do. 3 



" " best formed of indigenous flowers, 5 



next best do. 



do. 



3 



" " best pair of wreaths for fes- 

 tooning, 10 



" " next best pair of wreaths for 



festooning, 5 



was it and every other new kind of manure 

 abused. Nothing, in his opinion, would ever 

 surpass good old farm-yard manuie, and any 

 body might have his share ot guano, for 

 what he cared about it. Happening to ride 

 pnst at the time my friend had made this 

 unfortunate discovery, I recommended him 

 to have the part of the field harrowed afresh 

 and sown again, b}- way of experiment — 

 tor I ought to observe, he had applied the 

 guano at the rate of rather more than three 

 cwt. per acre. He adopted my suggestion, 

 and, singular enough, in the course of some 

 days, the turnips which had been sown 

 broadcast, made their appearance from one 

 end of the field to the other, marking as dis- 

 tinctly as possible, the lines where the drill 

 had deposited the guano in the first sowing, 

 In due time, the intermediate spaces were 

 horse-hoed, and the turnip rows properly 

 thinned. Nothing could exceed their luxu- 

 irionce. Although sown nearly three weeks 

 ■later than the main crop, they soon overtook 

 I them, and became far superior in every re- 

 Ispect — so much so, indeed, as to be the siib- 

 Ijcct of general remark in the parish. Hence 

 i I think it may be safely laid doMn as an 

 jtixiom in the use of guano, and which has 

 already been mentioned in the Gardener's 

 Chronicle, that it should never be applied in 

 contact with seetls, as it kills the embryo in 

 germination. — Gardener'' s Chrcnicle. 



Guano and Turnips- 



On reading in your last paper, the state- 

 ment made by John Henry Vivian, Esq., M. 

 P., president of the Swansea Farmers' Club, 

 respecting the failure of his turnip crop that 

 had been manured with guano, it reminded 

 me of a similar occurrence, which happened 

 to a friend of mine in this neighbourhood, 

 and of which I was an eye-witness. Hear- 

 ing so much about the wonderful cflects of 

 guano as a manure, induced him to make 

 trial of it for part of his turnip crop; and 

 not knowing any thing of its nature, or of 

 the mode of using it, he thought the best 

 plan he could adopt was to sow the guano 

 and turnip seed together, as when bones are 

 used. He accordingly did so; and after 

 wailing for some time, he wondered why no 

 turnips made their appearance, as they did 

 in other parts of the field. On examining 

 the drills, he was surprised to find that some 

 of the seed had chipped, and made an effort 

 to grow, but had attervvards shrivelled up. 

 Others, again, looked as if they had been 

 kiln-dried, and lost their vegetative power. 

 As a matter of course, the guano was blamed 

 as the cause of the failure, and most heartily 



A Cheap Paint.- — Take one bushel of 

 unslacked lime, and slack it with cold 

 water; when slacked, add to it 20 lbs. of 

 Spanish whiting, 17 lbs. of salt, and 12 lbs. 

 of sugar. Strain this mixture through a 

 wire sieve, and it will be fit for use after re- 

 ducing with cold water. This is intended 

 for the outside of buildings, or where it is 

 exposed to the weather. In order to give a 

 good colour, three coats are necessary on 

 brick, and two on wood. It may be laid on 

 with a brush similar to whitewash. Each 

 coat must have sufficient time to dry before 

 the next is applied. 



For painting inside walls, take as before, 

 one bushel of unslacked lime, three lbs. of 

 suirar, five lbs. of salt, and prepare as above, 

 and apply with a brush. 



I have used it on brick and wood, and find 

 it preferable on both, to oil paint. 



You can make any colour you please. If 

 you wish straw colour, use yellow oclire in- 

 stead of whiting; for lemon colour, ochre 

 and clirome yellow: for lead and slate colour, 

 lamp-black; for blue, indigo: for green, 

 chrome green. The different kinds of paint 

 will not cost more than one-fourth as much 

 as oil paints, including the labour of putting 

 on. — Exchange Paper. 



