XXIU so. 48 



AND 



H R T t C U L T U R A L R.E G 1 S T E R . 



365 



barb— The largest and b<'al, provio'is t» 



llie first SaHirday in July, Vi stalks, •"! 00 

 —The earliest ami best pock in June, 4 00 

 rce — riie finest 6 tieaiJs, <if "pi'it culture, 



previous to the first Sntviril;iy in July, 2 00 



■itoes The best peck previous lo the first 



Snturday in Auf;usi, 3 00 



umiers— The best pair yrown under ^'lass 



previous to the first Saturday in June, 4 00 

 The best and curliest, of open culture, 2 00 



,ns— The earliest Large Luna, two quarts, 3 00 



,(,ng-f — The earliest and best 3 heads 

 Drumhead Cabbage, 



tlifloicers— The best and largocl 4 heads, 



,eo/t — The best and largest 4 heads, 



en/ The largest and best 12 roots, 



^ Plaiih — The finest six, 



,„„;r?s— The best, not less than one dozen, 2 00 



lashfs—The best display of the largest 

 number of varieties at the annual ex 



:? 00 

 ;i 00 



3 00 

 3 00 

 3 00 



brief observations on the mode of cultivation, if 

 peculiar, togelher with any other remarks of utility. 



All fruits, flowers and vegetables for competi- 

 tion, are to be the growth of the competitors. 



Articles intended for premiums must be on the 

 tables by H o'clock, A. M. 



No person allowed to be in the room while the 

 committees are awarding the premiums. 



»Qc.The foregoing having received the approval 

 of the Executive Committee, 13 now published as 

 the list of preinionis for the current year. 



MARSHALL P. WILDER, 



President. 



Ebenezkr Wight, Rec. Secr'y. 



liibition, 



5 00 



r Ihe best display of various vegetables at 

 the annual exhibition, (not including 

 squashes,) •"> 00 



Second premium on do. 3 00 



JOHN A. KENRICK, Chm:n. 



Regdlations. 

 If, at any meeting, the committees for awarding- 



miuins shall be of opinion that the time appoint- 

 by the premium list for the exhibition of any 

 uit. Flowers, or Vegetables, will be too late or 

 1 early, they shall have power to alter the time 

 exhibr.ion, giving notice thereof to the Society 

 the time of such change. 



Committees shall have the discretionary power 

 withliolding premiums, if the articles exhibited 

 not merit them. 



All oi'.icles exhibited shall remain in the Hall 

 nil 1 .'clock, P. M., when they will be delivered 

 the contributors, unless otherwise directed. 

 Every article, if possible, is to be accompanied 

 its proper name. 



When specimens of any Fruits, Flowers, or 

 e^plables arc presented for a name, the owner is 

 ques'ed to give all the inforii.alioii in his pos- 

 ssion as to their origin, and the name which they 

 ave usually been known by. 

 When the committee have good reason to be- 

 eve that any information has been withheld, as 

 ) the n- Tie of specimens, they will decline to give 

 •leii opinion: they are ready at all times to awl 

 nd assist, to the utmost of their ability, in ascer- 

 iining tlie true name of any production presented 

 nder these regulations, but not otherwise. 



The committee are authorized to remove all or- 

 linary specimens from the table. 



The regulations of the Society forbidding the 

 jandling of fruits, flowers, &c., will be strictly ad- 

 lered to. 



No premiums on Fruits are to be awarded, un- 

 .ess specimens (if desired) of the same, shall have 

 been pre: ented to the committee, to enable them 

 to judge of the quality. 



No Seedling Flower will be considered as de- 

 serving a premium, unless it possesses points of 

 superior excellence. 



No premium will be awarded to a Seedling 

 which has already received one. 



It If also desirable that the Fruits, Vegetables 

 and Flowers exhibited, should be accompanied by 



From the London Gardener's Chronicle. 



GUANO AND TURNIPS. 

 On reading in your last paper, the statement 

 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 neigh- 

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

 ing so much about the wonderful effects of guano 

 as a manure, induced him to make trial of it lor 

 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 tur.iip-seed together, as when bones 

 lire used. He accordingly did so ; and after wait- 

 ing 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 sur- 

 prised to find that some of the seed had chipped, 

 and made an effort to grow, but had afterwards 

 shriveled 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 was it 

 and every other new kind of manure abused. Noth- 

 ing, in his opinion, would ever surpass good old 

 farm-yard manure, and any body might have his 

 share of guano, for what he cared about it. Hap- 

 pening lo ride past 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, by way of experiment — for I ought to 

 observe, he had applied the guano at the rate of 

 rather more than 3 cwt. per acre. He adopted my 

 suggestion, and, singular enough, in the course of 

 some days, the turnips which had been sown broad- 

 cast, made their appearance from one end of the 

 field to the other, marking as distinctly as possible, 

 the lines where the drill had deposited the guano 

 in the first sowing. In due time, the intermediate 

 spaces were liorse-hocd, and the turnip rows prop- 

 erly thinned. Nothing could exceed their luxuri- 

 ance. Although sown nearly three weeks later 

 than the main crop, they soon overtook them, and 

 became far superior in every respect— so much so, 

 indeed, as to be the subject of general remark in 

 the parish. Hence I think it may be safely laid 

 down as an axiom in the use of guano, and which 

 has already been mentioned in tlie Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, Hint it should never be apidifd in contact 

 with seeds, as it kills the embryo in germi:ialion. 



M. E. H. 



No man can borrow himself out of debt: if he 

 gets free of it at all, honorably, it must be by indus- 

 try and frugality. 



SELECTIONS 

 From the London Gard. Chron. and Jlgricult. Gaz- 

 Foot Rot in Sheep — Caution. — While your read- 

 ers' attention has been turned to the di-easo of 

 foot-rot in sheep, when cither house-fed or kept in 

 a damp situation for any length of time, 1 would 

 beg to offer a caution to shepherds and others, who 

 may have the care of animals so affected. If any 

 of the mutter of foot-rot come in contact with a 

 sore or scratch on the hand or other part of the 

 body of a person tending the animal, it is apt to 

 produce a violent inflammation and rapid mortifi- 

 cation — a disease termed by medical men, gangre- 

 nous inflammation. A shepherd in this neighbor- 

 hood, nearly lost his life from this cause lately, and 

 the disease wa.s only arrested by burning out the 

 whole part aftected. The mode of treating the 

 diseased animal here is, to clean the parts diseased 

 and apply the strongest nitrous acids carefully with 

 a straw or glass rod. Animals affected with the 

 complaint should be immediately separated from 

 the rest of the flock, as treading in the same foot- 

 steps will spread the disease from the tainted lo 

 the free, J- L- 



Field-beit v. Mangel Wurzel, alias Mangold Wurl- 

 zel. — In the last number of the Gazette, yoor cor- 

 respondent *' S." comments upon '' the barbarous 

 mode often adopted of spelling this name Mangold 

 Wurlzel," and pretends to show that it should be 

 called Mangel Wurzel. This is decidedly exclinng- 

 in" bad for worse, as will be seen from the follow- 

 ing explanation: — The word Mangold signifies 

 Beet, and is applied in Germany to Le^if-beet, 

 (Beta cicla, L.) which is grown in gardens lor the 

 sake of its leaf-stalks, which are eaten like Sea- 

 kale. Wurlzel, or more correctly, Wurzel, signi- 

 fies root : Mangold. wnrzel, therefore, is literally 

 Beet-root, a name given to a variety of Beta vul- 

 garis, L , of which the Field-beet and Sugar-beet 

 are also varieties. As for Mangel Wurzel, it lite- 

 rally means, root of scarcity. A German. 



Protection of Turnip Plants against Ihe Fly. — 

 As the following meihod of treating turnip seed 

 has proved very successful in preventing the rava- 

 ges of the flea, I have taken the liberty of sending 

 it to you. A day or two before sowing, put the 

 seed into a sieve and tub of clean water, and rub 

 it quite clean through the sieve, changing the wa- 

 ter once or twice ; dry it in the sun or before a 

 fire. A little flour of brimstone is to mixed with 

 the seed while yet damp. If the egg of the turnip 

 flea is committed to the soil with the seed, this is 

 an effectual preventive. A. B. 



Rooks Your correspondent " S." suggest that 



those who shoot these birds, should examine their 

 crops, to ascertain the good or evil which thny do. 

 Some farmers who have done this, have declared 

 that they would never destroy another. I believe 

 it will be found that they will never touch corn 

 when they can procure grubs, &,c. ; that 

 moist weather. Similar observations 

 that pigeons do not so much harm as many sup- 

 pose. They will sometimes be found full of Char- 

 lock seed, &c., when the larmer shoots lleui for 

 destroying his barley ; and the grain which they 

 may eat occnsionally is only what is left on the 

 surface (and would C'>me to very little,) as they 

 cannot move the ground. B. W. 



Onions. "Tyro." — Try on youronions ihe fol- 

 lowing mixture: One peck of salt, two of soot, well 

 mixed and left for a few days; then applied «s a 

 top-dressing, or lightly forked in. 



IS, in 

 will show 



