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two close brick-pits. The mushrooms appeared i larger as they and by ae losso’ 
cember, and fresh dang a constantly re Aran et thd many in er ate are all ye feet ix in height. These —— injeryseal a ae se I ats oe without 
pits, which has kept ual st apparently = kept cool and rather dry during winter, and tl d b the sun and li ht, 
highly beneficial to the saaeiban anted out against a wall, where they are y ua the hole i y. an 
Neglected Plantations—Some neglected plantations in. The soil for potting them in is light prmdewred peat | The flowers eae eo when little: 
which came under my care some years ago had neither | and loam; d when planted out, they d be also | more than half t a weather the will be 
been thinned nor pruned, and consisted of oak, ash, elm, | placed in a light sandy soil, two feet Ser on a per- fited if the pots are tle off, ed » and 
».Spruces, and rag i The larches were much | fectly dry bottom. I se that thine few remarks m replaced drring the oa In cars otatihin 
highest and stoutes I considered no small | bring this plant into more general Paws the wet should b luded t he asked } 
prise er te a ine gang of them to be left for | —David ‘on, Botanic Garden, Birmingham eer, | = the hole of the pot, which sho prev tins 
timber. Many of the ash, and elms were sickly, | communication was accompanied by specimens of leaves | entering; if this were done ay ehh, ae he board. 
little better than ap a0 s, and nearly as bare of | in the most perfect health, 9 inches long.] oiled, these Dahlia pests een pense — dri 
branches. At the first thinning we removed about one- The Galvanic Protector. —I wis h to notice arather i ims} Sway. > To Prevent the ‘pot from being blo wn off a few 
half of the spruces and ‘eateh pine, but only a few of th oe hy 
larches, to make head-room for promising oaks ; e nic Protector. The strip of copper should be placed ; 
and o} ranches whic! to remove wer fthe top of the zinc| Hot. nan aves observations have 
plate ; and | the remaining upper portion of zine should 
house He m the ations that 
— —_ = ~ ~_ Penn’s system of poet and venti- 
n h ee 
by the bole, and the wounds were painted 
over The next season nearly all 
the spru ved, e: tin 
and Scot nes were remoy 
ee of. the plantat 
1 
a shelter; a aes more larches were cut out, and 
many rt he smallest oak, ay or elms weet ext “town 
o the surface of th ools. 
© | ing over wan _ This 
is most material ; for whilst 
last year ‘aien the 
to creep up them, I observed that, i a 
a “a plan “hat {have adopted for about 12 months, and 
which porte ale ta pag T do not claim to 
t is only a copy 
creature elevated i its head and horn: 
a 
en it came to 
whe a the 
the reine shock. It thus 
e ground for 
and at tention the following 
} 
ay all the 
ae Z 
ts further “~~ rogres: 
ak 6 of the season, 
were in many cases ; upwards of six feet high, and after 
five years were finer and more pias — ram — 
cases nse stopped ae its pea (the seat 
f necessity in contact ce the 
border of zinc. As the pl 
overhanging edge or are 
crusted with dirt as come 
frequently soiled and enc 
ton Gardens. 
Erysimum Peroffskyanum is called an annual in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, es all coiaiguon which I have 
(with terati piss) of wheat a heen “dows by some 
friends of mine; but, having seen in several houses the 
| original plan i 
duce y opini 
which 1 ‘pple it ‘had been in operation for 
reviously as a a word is pair by hot- 
rol 
omen J the i ffi the ong 50 3 
seen. I eg td 8 that t ae Gree which bloomed and may a dd, cheapness, of this contrivance, I ai tisfi cn ati und three of it, with a walk at 
_ with me last year it wil y adopted wherever "anything Kk — a pit in the centre, — a row of large slates 
and some of them have estes ge te. to flower mith - of value is cultiv: ah e Aa that its sound the o of prevent the tan coming in 
the pti time, ugh bu t slightly cov — with s application should be clearly ex he sketch. “ 
during the severe weather.—. theoutset. The hoops for ogee as ade | out the ag I had in view, and w! I am inclined t 
esneria elt ata is an excellent “drawing-room plant. | for r siepence each; they being rd inches in diameter and Penn’s system, th ang of i i a 
I brought it into the house g at the | four inches in depth. I uld be to observe, that ho rse- moist air, instead of a dry or burn was only ne- 
beginning of December 1839, and it bloomed well for two | hair, cut small, and tl d to sink some rough the walk ¢ at the 
months. I have not poe so fortunate this year, having preferable to either,) as reco! onion by Mr. Veasy, afford | back of the house, b 
home during pa the severe weather ; but avery inefficient protection { from slugs. anes a shower d thence to carry horizontal drains “across * bringing 
e plants, though I sie no doubt on one or two occa- ly littl are, more- | th f ter-pipes, 
sions ex’ to a temperature of 30°, are still healthy | over, not always easily to to be procured, as en as Pegi posts a, mp Pry I thought, would be to ky adi the upper 
and tob ob apres iber. beste their appearance.— F. R. Horner, M.D. in the drains, which 
insects 
ecting oranges, 1 ake are hak injured w any criicast re to 
They breed faster on 
Birch Stools. —There is no doubt that fe A Young ‘Fo- 
rester” ha sree right in be cut 
down 
rather an spring. But the object of 
orange-trees in the summer than since their 
a careful attention to stripping of the 
to clear 
t (p. 85) is to obtain an underwood of 
bush from the artes Now if the plantations are at all 
of the same ie ee a the aoa: the syca- 
more, and the horse: -chestnut—in a similar aspect pad 
soil, will differ regularly every year by a week 
a 
whatever will cause aad from the stools to grow strong 
enough to form underwood. Having a number of birch- 
I have d that 
boar Seat the a of a eee the shoo 
and soon die off; in tact as 
and light, and this is 
apparently, 
or a fortnight i in the times 
Gar — <poniets sug- 
gest 2 a cause hoop thie phenomenon ? ies VT. r. 
1 
raaoee the soil and mixed wie it jst are 
pew will be found a remedy for t! he grub 
will not grow*without plenty of ai 
g without pl: 
the reason why they succeed b better in coppice-wood: 
8 it = box, or laurel, pla in groups, make 
and may even 
een in plantations which 
base in ee progress of thinning. Fano Sse Milion. 
To secure ushrooms ftw e.—Procure a few 
nie a 
and cauliflowers pam clubbing.—A. H., Noitin, akeshea 
Alstremeria acutifolia, a Hardy Plani. —The Alstre- 
talk 
ure a 
one edge having 
a groove to contain liquid, ary the other - being wedge- 
rising 
masse place in its volume to be 
supplied from the drains or air-holes athe back and 
further, thinking that I might promote the draft slightly 
shay to insert in the so il. W! 
nea nd the earth 
rity of “the winter, both in Guernsey ‘and in Devon- 
is pressed so tightly round them as to pa the insects 
aire, but I 
Spates a ead for ch dap ieee! eked 
seeds for propagation, vis placed tyond dx doubt oy ae art ind barrier. —T. 0 totes Another correspondent 
east end of one of the alehoianes sae fevalnens Bo- poke a pir gemonlpree wood. 
a Garde —< sclles pal tee without any @ Peauttally “= be rae by ‘pari aie te 
pes of his pits 
seeds, which are ripened “by conte ns off with about 
eee ae November, and hanging thi em head 
of fem cut lke chaff, which attracts them in large num- 
bers 
inside. The space for training the plant is limited, being | Coe 
been done a few times these pests will 
To Shi Shade Dahlia Flowers.—Procure some hazel-rods 
A. Ground line. B. Pit. C. Walk in the House. Dak Dinkins. 
E. Water-pipes round three’sides of house. 
be Soca G. Wall standing above the 
are trained horizontally until they reach the extremity 
the space, ad th nao then turned and trained tack ie 
the same Zee plant generally sends up from six 
the flowersto be shaded, and about an inch in in diameter ; 
point them at ove end, to inset in the ground. and nail 
acting " 
ing, as the ouch ne is dry ip. | 
holes were open, with water in them, the 1 
