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SYNOPSIS. 



PLACE. IKCREASK. DECREASR. 



Etlirope, Arago, ..,....., Branches of trees. Cabbage, Lettuce, early fruit. 



South of France, Garlic. Root crop. Beans, Peas. 



Italy, Pliny, ...Lentils. .' Beans. 



Brazil,...." ....Corn, Beans, Sugar Cane. Roots, &c.* 



So that in different places absolutely contrary influence is ascribed to 

 the moon. At th* opposition (full moon) and the conjunction (new moon), 

 at positions differing in distance 80,000 leagues. 



The long habit of observing the seasons of seed time and harvest has 

 connected the moon with it, although the fair satellite has no more power 

 then than over winter. The moon was our first almanac ; they were 

 governed by it, but it really had no more power than our present penny 

 almanac has. The real influences ace heat, cold, rain, sunlight, winds. 

 These are what our farmers and gardeners should study, 



HEDGES. 



Mr, Reid, of Clarion, Pennsylvania, wrote for information relative to 

 Hedges, particularly Thorn, 



I have written to him that wc make good and beautiful hedges out of our 

 native rose bushes in Texas, sweet, beautiful and good. That hawthorn, 

 one of the best of the sixty kinds of thorn, yields abundant seed, which 

 should be planted, and when grown high enough the plants of a size, as 

 nearly as possible, should be set. I advised that all weeds be kept out, 

 and a fence made to defend the hedge until it is strong enough to defend 

 itself. That care ! care ! will do it as well as every thing else — best. 

 That when done it is for a long time. That it is beautiful. That the 

 warmth of well hedged fields is higher than those inclosed by open post and 

 rail fence. That hedges protect some crops from fierce storms far better 

 than the post and rail, &g, 



I would add, that if the birds, who love to build their nests in hedges, 

 were duly encouraged, they would do more good in clearing out crops of 

 noxious insects. 



[Revue Horticole, Paris, May, 1859.] 

 THE MARKETS OF PARIS. 



Railroads have vastly extended our supplies. Instead of the market 

 gardens around Paris, we receive from a^ir. We wish to tell those at a 

 distance what our rules are. We have carrots, turnips, parsnips, leeks, 

 radishes, onions, sold in bunches of about two and a half pounds weight ; 

 sorrel, spinach, parsley and chervil sokl in what are called haynets, of 

 about the same weight ; musltrooras are sold in little baskets of five to 

 €fight mushrooms of average size ; those from a distance sell by weight. 

 Large vegetables, such as cabbages, cauliflowers, artichokes, and some- 

 times celery, sell by the hundred. 



THE MOON INFLtENCE. 



Mr. Tillman.—- If the light of the moon is such as to photograph itself 

 through a telescope in six seconds, it m.ust have some influence upon vege- 

 tation. 



