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THE ati octal aida 
[N° 20 
the sod | 
June, inui 
seeds. It is 
O'xalis Saki My survived 
that the frost was sever 
and — ber observ ed two 
parr bg present i is one.—John oe ” Biel, 
now (april grits springing up se ithily. 
I have resided h 26 years, 
ere 
near ' Pretonki 
Weeping Willow. —When reading the Chronicle of the 
17th ik that the whole of a 
should be condemned by your correspon resi " eat un- 
fit to grow the Weeping Willow. Had you wats nd- 
ent = rmed us what the- length of the Gontinentat twigs 
is tha’ es dent, "any one ae be bet- 
Wee 
oe £, ey 
he Continent. 
gee last winter, pet ioe | 
nd s When 
ao set are full “grown, a succession is then allowed to 
see bed, and another into the open ground later, and tn 
serve e hei reafter if the ee gem _ wake ape 
— forward ; and a third sometimes in like 
thu 
re the other. ¥ rea. 
three fruits at long intervals ; but the one fruit is sins i 
nother is allowed to grow 
Melon Frames.—Get 
close 
it however, es ~ 
ull ij 
ts flag, pace nz a little hay 
over the glass, so as jus E: 
find your plants perfectly “vt from the Red Spier, and al 
son for suggesting others to 
T am—Senee. 
Sea Kale.— 
bi ‘this experiment is, that 
I observe, in a late number 
T have a seen it 
andy ston 8 
of pes Stomenoen. for ath oO} 
zephy: mer move them ; and as for * wporponslolasey,” 
= of seeing your plan ts grow vigorously; the Red 
pider haying been ‘he only g that prevented ad 
prev over an urn. bit oil in which I have seen them 
grow best was a moist sandy peat, transported by water 
from Bagshot-heath, and sheltered from the north and 
Ib ie many of your correspondents could refer 
east. 
bk - hy to aces in England where the Weeping Willow 
sorrow that ever sought relief beneath its shade.— Pe 
Fi joing so before. I am Ling that this method is by no | 
n Folkston: Bay sete on ri 
cliff at t’s, hed ws = South oe 
lif, on the oma at Whitstable, and on the cliff 
Wes and Aple. 
means new, but it appears 
communication . ont ec! 
effectual 
ia practise 
some | years ago when I first entered the profession, and 
was —_ delighted when, a few y rs after, 
estgate 
easures.—A correspondent suggests, that as 
is obvious from the first article under the head “ es 
Corr espon ndence,’ ’ in the oe of May ~ — ee 
Melons 1 shat ppt 
Mackenzie. 
eva eg —Perceiving in your paper of May I, 
under the head of ‘* Notices to Correspondents,” an an- 
hi 
lan and found it succeed 
the pla ‘ectly. 
Cure Sor the American Bight Many are the remedies | 
ecommended for this 
q y of land contained in a ~—s varies 
districts, it w be le o iut ra ra 
Un = Kingdom, ee i ate red {If our 
frien iil send us the information we will 
seats prepare : such a t table 
swer to “ Rusticus,’’ on growing Melons, advisi m to | sore pest of the orchard, all ur paper the 
low only one to set on a plant at a time, ich method | esa into _— wae Yaga on account of their inefficacy, | advertisement ofa i i Horan Colo pec 
is quite at variance with that adopted by most gardeners | their r from the continual painstaking | which professes to give much more favourab’ 
be am aT ioe a with, perhaps you wi me to state | and trouble wp tang in their constant application. purchasers of an annuity as Ae 
an I - ve adopted si eo years with invariable | disease occasioned by an insect, “the Aphis lanigera, tained; and I see by the repens of this company 
path ntial things in Mel pr ; it finds itself nal to do so of in- 
wing is is hoe ae ine sroeeet y prepared (if dung: b Holland or Anstralia (whi h cir- 
aoe be made: use of) ; and for that purpose it ought to be | which was so overrun va oe bight, that the : Proprietor cumstance as, I ptelcsay induced it to take the title of 
turned every four days for three wee! — or a month, and if | had, in despair, cut down two trees, and was about to de- | ‘tA ‘tolsia,” &e.). Not being ribet @ competent 
it appear rank, a mix ith leaves will moderate its vio- si 7 three more. I spcnmnmender  coal-tar ‘to be sepia judge of bi w far this company may be able b by such i in. 
t heat; but by no means put u by a strong brush to tho 
ya have assured you! that the ri is in a suitable | made appearance. Th 7 y by means } lic, I take the liberty of asking | your opinion—first, aste 
state, and sweet. I have had dung-beds so prepared in | of the long-shafted brash used by sailors in tarring i i he ined 1 for or money in- 
Feb retain their heat very little impaired until J ships. It is simpl ut i-headed brush, about tk Ly i 
when it was no longer n , without any lining what- | size of _ palm of the hand, with hair two or three eng to make -— gui i wheter "money may be 
ever, although usually a lining of hot one 7 required in | long, the shaft being about two yards i in length. Th her you believe 
the cold weather, which so often hapj April. Li this prin ee Company to on res and 
31 pre ie that | with the exesption of ‘but one tree, | was in no “ease re- trustworthy. Your answer to these questions will be a 
be wanted pposing the wa Se made, and the | quired. ges I g fi 
Ao wit wines on nor ree or tee Soke method of imm nedia tely ell. rubbed with the tarred brush. For not, as the fate of those poor persons who “have incau- 
gro 
y fi lam apps however, to say that, at the ‘pre- don insurance ng “has, in this neighbourhood 
» Which should consist mt bord cloddy lumps of im sent time, they look i thy h), been lamentable. At a distance from 
soil, dry, as bricks, mixed up with an | literally covered with gst the wy Should the disease agai h 
equal quantity of fresh loam end rotten dung, pre- | appear, = it is far from impossible that some of the matters, and our anxiety to make a good investment of 
viously prepared. My reason for usin hard impen should have first A Constant 
trable ar merino to & to gated wager and like- | year’s AAS vat trees | Reader. “(With every wish to oblige our corres) ts, 
wise i s the the , and makes the —Thaye the strongest confidence, from As eff ts seen, | we really cannot un e to answer questions of this 
more fruitful, by ch = a ine their roots h if at all, and will | sort. iy 4 is of great importance to gar- 
to bar Por aye! richer soil. _Only a small quan- say this second year, effectually and finally eradi¢ated. | deners to know we gel ig Paesiciened savings 
in oat up and to sac agyctee conse- 
must 
nina from the — Fam ppg condition of the 
paler RE a Pa € Cpe sae a 
Pay oe = 
Bs 
me ae } 
we have no aio to say ions we pau re yp ue 
pean in the bed it is not t advisable to < cover fl = over. 
b ow Act the names of the directors are 
t Li peo is | for 6d. a paper —F. R. jrsigg iM. D and of of high character and standing, 
de to laa young plant as Melons. we simum Peroffskyan num: Ss. Ww. says that his plants area that avery high cate of interest sag 4 undoubtedly be 
Presuming all went on right, oe will, ina egapond obt tained in the ustralasian coloni s) with safety, oe 
qui additional quantity of soil, which it is better only | are in anything but a inp: 168 vigorous state, as men- ided only 
g 9 J. Ww. .’s hs onary have acquainted gee their business. ] 
alittle more, always examining the hills to if ir brig Thowy om, Haan -A young student lately put 
their roots be approaching the outside. The Vi ill I sa I told him it was 
now pre athe to run; and if they were properly stopped comes so, it ra ae treated 4 ieokibed as anja « Greek word ‘selves of poets re 
" 1 t, their lateral sh ill annual. [At Strood, in ot only wil i 
moe oc male blossom, and the sub-laterals fruit | / nd its f lf » but also, and mor masiallge th their 
Blossom. It is th i hin out the vi y | the usual colour. ] and qualities, their uses in medicine and the arts, 
much, p the end of uch sh ots as show fruit-bl Flattened Stems. cme 8 plant of — trained | and in domestic economy : thet 8 er —_ pao 
r he soil | against a soul is growing in ous | tions formerly considered necessary to entitle any one 
above alluded to they wil searcel: uire it. As soo — 3 the Sehoiieg: instead of being ro read ti rational the appelation of botanist ; ets ffs such a knowledge 
pris he r four Netlog appear expanded together I shoots s hould | be, are becoming quite fiat, and growing was, with ri ng 
m all, and not one at a time, as recommended t imy ° ete sciences. pairs pinoy ee 
at o Rastian Pf rs I have invariably observed that when one with. One — is now about two inches wide at the | apply su defi to what is at p denomi 
rr tesggia Hoge pearance of its becoming | the science of Botany : for, is time, any ‘ 
pao tec of the most essential things, therefore wider and "wites. This fia’ extremity is ‘co a botanist who pays attention to the form of the 
to have as ‘et together (if'you can geethe) as You with leaves, which are much _ is the | flowers, fruit, aps Janoag ot 2 ‘oot is now 
on of ti this curious development ? I have a matter of 
grow ge circumstances. Usually gardeners - eatineiy of flatten } ‘ks Te} > she xt ig ene 
wth ai 
themclves seid fortunate if th 
—* six meth three, of 1 Ib. or 14h. weight ¢ — = 
a heavier sort. T have had 29 ripe 
flowers Aenoreng our catesmand on plants res year; for 
ce, Primula vulgaris, 
aging pdbryene trees oured. hed «till 
1b. 
ofa sci peace eri int _ ane 
times less a fair I give t pad bur tittle 
fruit is set, dockins sprin a little 
Bescon the ar to prevent insects infesting them. After the 
‘ anything to do with the abnormal appearance 
: It could not have affected 
wing so for ae 
tanis 
of 
the Cotoneaster, as that has 
beg Buckland. [These 
named 
al waterings afterwar ds, until the frnit be ne 
at full size, when they get no more; as by no means pve! 
they have water within the _ at fortnight before ripening, 
295, 
» as is bap shar ache geal in other parts be- 
hscake sk gle prete me ; Strawberry, and in 
Ty, in} 1 i 
rharey be eres ons not ig sine that she i 
different stages ti “gronth po by different plants ; one 
fruit being set, as it were, now on one plant, another some 
in | kind 
the union of co’ contiguous ches, om, papa each 
perme at F the sides, form 
y present us, indeed, as Dr. 
sy i 
natural grafts, 
is doubtless the fects but bei one, that we know of, 
ht showing what 
Loti 2 bill of fare. These works 2r© 
says, with a yery. ese 
ok peri a with useless speculations on on the — 
ta, 
