No. 133.J 231 



DANDELION— DEKT DE LIOx^ (LION^S TOOTH)— PISSEN- 



LIT. 



For some years past this has been sought for much in its wild 

 state. It is now cultivated for a spring salad, and is deemed one 

 of the most wholesome. It has been remarked that the best are 

 8uch as the moles in their work had covered a little with earth 

 about the time of their beginning to grow. 



PREPARATION OF SEEDS FOR PLANTING. 



ItRoyai Agricaltural Society of England— A Weekly^ Council. Mark Lane Express, Mafcfa 



22d, 1852.] 



Mr. Martin, of No. 4 Hanover Square, informed the council of 

 the progress made in this country to test the efficacy of the late 

 M. Van Oost's Belgian method of preparing seeds before sowing, 

 not simply by steeping, but by enveloping each seed in an artificial 

 husk of powerful manuring matter, adapted to sustain the plant 

 after the means employed to give increased activity to the germi- 

 nation of the seed had taken effect. 



Malendie remarked '' In no single instances where the seed was 

 prepared by M.|Van Oost or since his death by myself agreeable 

 to the receipt left by him, has the prepared seed failed to vege- 

 tate ; the plant in most instances, during its progress to perfec- 

 tion, has shown a greater luxuriance of growth than the unpre- 

 pared, straw brighter, stronger, with a larger portion of the silicate 

 of potash — the produce and quality equal to, and in some instaa- 

 c^ superior to that grown on land high farmed (so called). 



CARROTS. 



Prof. Mapes observed that carrots as a feed for horses was 

 found to be about equal to oats, that one bushel of them and one 

 of oats were as good for the horse as two bushels of oats only. 

 Carrot is not injured by having some other plants growing among it. 

 I sow long radish seed with my carrot seed — when the radish pro- 

 tects the young carrots, and its spread of leaf helps to keep down 

 some of the weed — and|whe-n I pull out the radish, I find that the 

 hole it leaves are good for the carrots — leaving spaces easily 

 crowded in by the growing root of the carrot, and in the mean- 

 time while the radish was growing I found thj^t its long root 



