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be thinned out, and the remainder shortened a littl e heat passed ee war 
plant should then be placed in the stove or vinery, prone I find that a peng ae of the wr peti remain | Shich inten ot si hom ne ne mpes ht is 
till June a yina decay, | very beneficial, as the ere hy igo ap 
will = eae as if it a ‘done growing for the seaso ae will be sccleaied by ar ance of yea lants eetentes I de pend upon the heat 
but in a few weeks, when the young shoots are a que’ ings. . am anxious to pate the ss gi t fi pes fox t Ten even months in the 
ai will saa a ‘econ push at the extremity of this heap 0 of compost, a ; year, epee could the bed be = d independently of the 
every young shoot. These house. goa no rte all an k . of botto £ 
by the month of August i vill loaded with its beau- | ficial results. I have for instance used ammonia with might athoneman: 3 with ; the dah: stem being used 
tiful tresses of purple flowers, whic for beauty are advantage in the cultivation of the” Pine ye more es- | h ouse becoming 
scarcely to be surpassed by any other exotic. In the 
United States of America it is much admired ; it i is there I have also seen the ~_ Siphon’ aera of Heating.—One objection to the 
kept with orange and pomegranate trees ii g ron having w: oan Bey to their — in which iphon system of hot-water apparatus, is that one half of 
tubs trained with a single stem like them, and a fin large | that substance was held i in solution.—J.D. Why no the heat is lost, the pipe being carried round the 
het a six to ten feet nes eth ms _ enn the ammonial liquor of the gas bide 4 ouse within 18 inches of the i 
nges, & 
pot. 
s 
—Take a 48-size 
“ag in the oan cover 
this with a thin la ayer of sifted « coal-ashes, then about $ inch | 
pf so near! 
apt 
to wi gen by the rapid 
r to any they y ha 
injured 
en of Mont- snionaiehasi of h Another cbjetion is en, the pipe 
er a a poe y Basen a i pei about 15 feet | of broken glass, which prevents the admission of worms, which shel aupplic heat to the hous oo en as 
high, and is a magni ificent object i in the autu n. } and on this another layer than fo: 
Poi fi erie sufficiently thick i. In this s large pi pipe th Ppa aida 
better i in America than i have ever seen it in this aie to elevate the mouth ofa 60- | is Some ho ha ing a the under side is cold, and it never 
sized pot placed on ita little | attains the sa eateries that the upper surface does 
the same way as ra treat Erytirinas, d is k y till above the 48. e vacant | which hoes: the existence of two currents in the same 
be warm weather sets in, wh 1 it space between the potsis then | pipe acting against each other—A Saul, Castle Hill, 
partially — of its old ball of ae ~ — planted filled to within an inch of the | February 8. 
in the open ground ma summer, w where t grows with top, which is covered with Helianthus tuberosus.—The Jerusalem artichoke is de- 
amazing vi igou t has ceased growing in the au- silver sand to receive the bell- some attention. Swine are fond of it in a raw 
tumn it i i , where lass apo — e ieee ¥ | state, and do well upon it. The t rows well on the 
it flowers beautifull y all winter long. In this country, exclud rnalair. The | most barren sandy soils, an 
where it can be planted out in the corner of a pine-pit, 60- sized pot ‘then led n | the soil a succession is secured for years, without any far-. 
and its roots owed to run in the tan, with a full the sa e 48, | ther trouble. es abt Aer be grown on the down 
expo: the sun, I ek im ge flower stronger and a Sek; mers a a in | near ny sea-ci As al of wee for the poor it is 
and larger than in any other wa: \ YESS it, the bott ing with | not of - hea Faehy pa pen us properties, 
loxinia speciosa.—In the spring of tesa ‘ ——— the t ae of the - The space between the thumb and the | Philo- Ui 
sixpence-worth of seed of this p 60-pot, the porti « aueena to cutchoges is fled with the Brachycome ‘iberidifolia is one of the finest annuals i in 
—_ _ and came up very thick 3 pl courpost suitable to the pare to be p a bap hole | cultivatio 
h high a dozen were ked i fon tate heated since the ‘intendbnetes of Verbena ioe A bed of 
different shades of —— in the stems being s ele oa oo I appe , every indivi- 
Those having green s' ms proved oe white variety; the cating —T Da aviaon, —- At Oakfie igerdens, Cheltenham 
colours of the o' cers ware intense rn ge to the lons.—The following mode lee growing Melons has | they last. summer a a height of t and 2} 
lou — their s 3 the remaining plants ve away. ee tomded with so much success, that in a pit 12 feet | feet in pin and more than 2,000 a ath were ex- 
What I sits bloomed in August and a September of that | by 9 feet, 40 good fruit have been ripened. The soil that | panded at one time. It is well adapted for pots for early 
YORE = y. appears most — on the ne is ~ first spit from | a i S = = —, whether grow. 
g 1 flower till the | 9 rich oamy pas read a a foot thick and fre th n pots. A light rich a suits 
end oe September, v3 ntly turned during the _ that bs may have the fall | it best, oops it has bet few bender roots. Seeds 
them to be su peri n in size frost. Over every lo soil, 10 or 
of plan 
and wach ance of sem They wi ae on n in very res d 
loam with a little e peat, and were abundantly supplied with 
water while growing. three to four 
inches in ae ris were the peetien sixpennyworth | 
I see! hang a —Flor 
que: 
benefit of the 
gallons of I; 
young cuttings, placed nae = a 
jh, 
dglass 
liquid mini st fe en «-delinkogs of 
and isi ng and their urine, is th ‘own during the | 
winter. The pit is filled with leaves to within a foot of | 
€ i ‘001 
the rafters in May, and in three oo they are cuficiently | 
ttled The hill ced i 
a at ha aving but one 
~~ stea two; ; 
allow one to bear each 
— 
a rafter, 
t the other eck to 
n 
svel the > fruit, instead of a large f it, by the o 
4 4 weve 10Or Dearing 
th e ne: - y @ space required t be more than 
for one vine, wii ssion of wood ; the only 
additional troub’ ll be in enrichin border, an 
having to p the shoulders of some of the banal 
from their increased size. any practical men approve 
of this remiintey 0. 
'romeliace. 
sare Li eens 
of soil are place 
the centre of the pit about three fect a apar' 
laid a piece of turf ne t 
£¢ under cach ie | 
Brewster, Oakfield- 
garden, Chelte oo 
—We have several answers for the Foung Bee- 
beeper (G. pi «10 02), from which we select the follow 
:—Dr. Bevan, the celebrated eg * “ ifhe will 
| tert the mike called The a ey Bee,’ 341, I think 
e will boys gpa that he i a mistak 
pt e as to the 
ae 
beauty barren pines in tropical masta ad a 
how seldom do we see them in cultivation! a it is par in 
our botanic gardens t' may be m et with in some out- 
er. 
rishment, “ach or 
t. allo ~ on each 
oug- 
the grass side downwards af ter a few days the hills be: salt working-bee’s life, and agree with me in 
come settled, to as _ _— feet in depth, gently war d by six or seven tuonths. It is 
and fit to receive the plants; two plants having the see a. th 1 
leaves well devel ‘lope ed are plan ted on ea ch hill. _ When F 
i o consider her spelen to be sug d th 
f the hills, they me covered | with fresh sat a it to | third year, either to p d I “se 
the north and sou families in which such bsti- 
covered with me tiles, which are better than slates, - | tute young ones in feos" stead. The Poor of. ao Tom 
they keep the fruit _drier fro m their r power of abso bin Bee-ki "s queen was, in all probability, the cause of 
the hive’s being de cpap ut not in consequence of 
degree of moisture, wh health | her ee em ; for the original sovereign of the h hive 
the young fibres parr which ¢ the plant ives it ‘o hav ve ea four, if not five successors, two 
on ps 2 a up they will b $ 
> 1 
is 
ay 
. 
it is well known that a swarm 
of-the-way corn produce fruit-bearing laterals, whic ch are al cone a young successor behind either mature or in obey. 
and want of flowers. No doubt some of your able cor- within tw th fruit, | If th 
is Neer tar ipoegunte cee time. th 
rescue them from their yh a which appears to be | laterals are kept constantly cut back, leaving an eye to nto ‘ark seems aie, I uae other 
undeserved.—., break again, in oe ree r of pruning vines. The soil is of accounting for the depopulated. state | of the hive than 
Snails on Orchidaceous Plants (p. 22).—The snails |,not watered fro’ e it is put into the pit till the 
alluded to by J. R. are do ubtless s common Bri itish species. ‘fruit are all set rare evelng when the lights are taken po other Seni probably one of the swarms that had issned 
id 14 or 16 ordin: ed garden pots of rain water from them The last season se Sreignt Bor taking 
one Zz. pura Or Fane Both inhabit damp moss, and pra red over the tiles on a —— y day ; but — al the k — m throug gh, was ce tainly an unfavourable 
een introduced into the house with | air mus iven to pre nt damp, when the lights ew which 0 i ‘this n isbteare 
= t substance.— again put on. Aft —An Apiarian 
The Corn Moth Tinea nse -—Would not: a few dry as t 1 from the sides of the pit ; _ during very of en thinks there is little doubt that the eect lll 
pred perf both att with a syringe. Air is given plentifully, but a is en ~ om oe ~ f its plferig eighbos 
truetive of this it? Lamps would not do, as ae tirel wit thheld when the fruit is ripenil mpe- | i ‘ae unfrequently freed or sev 
would soon be oi pow aan dead m vies ¢ eo = 4 tie y nigh together 3 that the weakest are liable to. thre prota 
‘oss on Gravel Wi Gs 36). eae Hens dant | visits n plundered of hard- 
low let us know of his solution of s etiphate of carey of air, ¢ even: in. dall- en when the t U d st tl a rag a of their cita-— 
copper ?—S, does exceed 60°. Ne artificial heat is used exce cepti del. Just nor an ocew took place in my apiary two 
Sawdust asa Manure.—Tam aware of the peli: of wood- that fi ves ; but i y fruit is required a pit asin 3 “Or it has been peg that tose impadent 
with or hot-water pipe , or a pit on , and bees’ wasps, have 
bat, I e Mr. Dixon, my object i is = improve thet texture of | McPhail’s plan lined with hot-dung, though the linings aie the — of a weak ae and in an raecatnrd 
the ‘an, which no surface-dressin of + wood-ashes will do. apt to destroy the yo near the sides, and e have committed such ravages, that the —_e 
ee the s of the plants.—G. G. Watson, gar- | ous, had almost said intellectual, tenants, seeing nothing 
face an old meadow with « a rte very ro tten tan in | dener, Norton Vicarage non- Tees, Jan 1841. | but starvation before them, have , oubt 
the same situation bas improved the weight of the crop; eee Sheet Glass is much a and as clear as | very tly, to relinquish their co 7 — 
sheep-folding e have crown glas ass, an and thoug nos mee ep foot, pair. : dent would do well not to have his 
effects for several years, but € common salt, lime, and gypsum it will ultimately pro a asily | en his b be large, which will enable 
produced no pe reptile effect. Last spring some of _ ee broken by frost, or the jarring of the the bees to” spn tain @ vigorous defence be = a smaller 
— ved, the soil broken up, and a hem. In a house built four years since and pe with poorer a siege ; poop he would do still better to 
manure — 0 ti which the a was relaid, ak the , | prevent them tie 
crop was at "least three times as hea’ y as on os ‘of ay Merevale Feb. 13 spring 1 to remain at home, which aad will r it he will 
the field th n jensen asa "otlom ‘heat f for Pi rd * 
dung. The dunghills, whose pata are of sa te g- —W. H., Reigate he parent. 
contain six parts of the best farm-yard manure, capes bottom heat to pines have been expressed, and its utility | stock ked and aces — ate lice which i 00 Be 
of sawdust, containing about one-eighth deal, and th q 1 hot fi ee ed by swarming. © 
parts of r pO _— -mould, and ditch-scourin PE ged 
There are mgredients which ight have been u: eran tan may be di reeset a I fill my gen with | is very casteardinery, the bee 
with more esate vn e, as sth instance peat and nightsoil. | fresh early de the a _ gong own s 
For the of fermentation on the | old laneee 4 for eighteen he hot | destroy the queen, and after 
sawdust. a of the mass, | water. @ part of my “rating pits ent filled with | Owners seem to Jo ose all in 
and on in boiling water the soluble from the in- | decayed leaves, aud the plants for 
