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benas, a number of which had suffered greatly from its application. With 

 hard-wooded or suffruticose plants more freedom may be used ; but no de- 

 cided advantage accrued from the employment of guano. — Id., 1843, p. 

 447.; 



Experiments upon Asparagus with different Manures. — Eight worn out 

 beds were treated with as many different compounds, and two were left 

 untouched : 1, to which 201b. of salt were applied at once, is weak and 

 yellow, showing that the dose was two great; 2, the same quantity of 

 nitrate of soda is rather stronger ; this substance pulverizes tlie soil and 

 renders it hghter ; 3, 201bs. of sulphate of magnesia, is scarcely different 

 from the preceding; 4, watered every week with guano and salt, at the 

 rate of a handful of each to every four gallons of water, is exceedingly 

 strong, — showing that weak doses applied often, produce a much better 

 effect than when a great quantity is given at once ; 5, watered once a 

 fortnight with 2 lbs. of magnesia, dissolved in water, is very good ; 6, 

 with an equal quantity of Potter's guano, dissolved in water, is of a dark 

 green and particularly vigorous ; 7, super phosphate of lime, 2 lbs. applied 

 in the same manner, is strong, but of a much lighter color ; 8, guano, 2 

 lbs., not so strong as the four preceding ; the whole of the beds thus oper- 

 ated upon, are, however, far superior to those which received nothing. — 

 (Gard. Ckron., 1843, p. 575.) 



Cultivating; the Strawberry. — For the general crop, I trench, clean, and 

 well manure the ground ; when the whole subsides, I draw the soil with a 

 hoe, into ridges six inches high and two feet apart; early in the season, 

 when the first runners are in a fit state, the best plants are planted out on 

 these ridges, two in a patch, twelve or eighteen inches apart, in the rows, 

 according to the richness of the soil and the vigor of the varieties. Pines 

 requiring more space than scarlets. By December,! take the opportunity 

 of frosty weather to wheel on a quantity of half decayed leaves, scrapings 

 from the wood-yard, dry dung, &c., to fill the space between the ridges ; 

 and early in May, the prunings of fruit trees and other small toppings, 

 strewn between the plants to support the fruit and runners, a few inches 

 above the soil ; by this method the fruit is large, well flavored, preserved 

 perfectly clean, and the ground is not impoverished by the growth of use- 

 less plants on the runners : the wood-supports prevent this. Early in 

 autumn, I remove all useless growth, fork up the soil between the rows, 

 and repeat the mulching in winter. By this system of culture, strawberry 

 plantations may be kept in the highest state of productiveness for several 

 years.— {Gard. Chron., 1843, p. 589.) 



Art. it. Foreign JSTotices. 



ENGLAND. 



English Dahlia Exhibitions for 1813. — The dahlia season for 1843 has 

 been brought to a close, and we have now before us the results of the 

 many exhibitions which have been held throughout Great Britain. As 

 has been our usual custom, we below present to the amateurs of this 



