a a —  e 
4 
ihe 
ao #3. 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
381 
d in preparing cuts for planting, | 
a "advantage can Ase derived from my observation ° | 
this ark :—** Boiled 
Ss remar! 
potatoes ¢ are re four t s as good as raw, and roast potatoes | 
are four times as omy as boiled ; 3 ergo, rey potatoes are | 
hor: 
bee, so with the aphis, the erg oa — tion of the 
the insect fe y be bq by 
‘eeds, 
the ay jaca 
er, with the rsen 
sey times as good as keene ra 
s, I think, convinced m t this vis a saath because I 
sound 
ave 
effect. 
um | 
Oswald Monies ken reasoned well. My previous convic- 
tions are strengthened, certainly — dstrbe, by your 
J. Murr 
man 
horse for saddle or agree as long ante the 
be 
of them, and the more 
‘4 
£ 
tah fe 
d | an oak not o e third its 
| after the same manner, and with as little reason, as the 
Wh a 2 8 
kind. ¥ ehnnta wate? \eF good 
> cut ve ot 
| oak ; but wh 
a fne — 
h perhaps fo 
five times as lng, : then think the viperators are acting 
inju udiciously. obs server cannot but 
aster 
ther tree in the same plantation. It is difficult to find 
Thermometers. 
M is very fon ‘egist pl 
they are roasted the b a = likes them, and the as TB the day or maximum pert re tube contains | well in such a riety of soils, situation s, and eleva’ 
good they appear to I cook them in the sa quicksilver acting upon a fragment of a needle, and the | as the larch aia! though like most other pre 2 it likes 
way for m why 2 = thi, with equal advantage. By the tendency to derangement may occur from | the following go ‘ood grow und. ie have heal rd of g ood-siz ed fico ring deals 
term roaste! the bore 
they are put “into m pot without water, and if aes tube, which ought to be nearl y filled by it; or from | de ency to warp so much makes it inapplicab + for vay a 
remain on the fire til ay are black, and will —~ — the end . the needle being broken off rotBenels, so as to | purpose; but for ng fon gates, and Toofing-timber 
ease, they are, r think, all the be tter for it I hav pre: n angular or poin' xtremity to the sep for thatched houses, it is invaluable. When driven into 
r it e night or minimum tube the ground as a illaigspint it will 1 any 
but nothing about cooking pota atoes for a horse. If ere tains | coloured | aleohol, immersed — — floating in other w da great deal Io g , as T 
ing as I do for moh ans pig should be good, as is m ach end oo seen them repeatedly tried together with other kinds 
de cided opinion be well that the public should something like the head of a a pin. ihe ines piers the rofit is the object, the quick return of 
kn d spirit about it by capillary attraction, and the spirit so capital; “occasioned b y its being so soon a saleable tree, 
Time , fo ‘or eaermae on Manure.—I t only essential d form rmning g part of the genctal coleman, a ss must give ita decided adv vantage over all others ; while 
Lrytigih eee hemi ma lities of d it almost as freely as if the t 
of the soils diff should b lied floating i in it When Pes a is Seending: aie frictio on 
o it consequence to learn the best period inst the tu sufficiently Jr er than pot ci ash I br say but tt, its ary being sell 
its pepinendie to differ so grays ——s hich little, I <i spirit, in pas: Asad it, to keep it stati It erat wn. is, however, often Sarasa and ¢ 
lieve, is accu: no Ind the — difficulty per be pore teen} that both the day peor night 3 mae room ai ie ect a er fir, or mo ots: 
exists amon: oe "hee in seats there is great dif- | tubes may be, and frequently are, deranged by sudden quent irae mn oak. ever could pike e reason why 
ference of opin vee 2 agree for nu bere —An dr ew Ross, Regent-street. bee as should be preferred to ash ; ; it gro ch slower, 
, others the autumn, P: ted rable a timbe: ly less. 
sone —~ some ee tonto m4 thers the a 
agai others put it on after ra crop is cut. 
‘of Sw weney H all, I more attributes the success 
writing g the success ‘which Th d many years ago in raising 
the 
The —_ P= which the two Kinds are put being generally 
certain monocotyledonous plants from the leaf. In 
1809 I first tried t to raise e bulbs of a Cape Ornitho- t sl hall therefore only remark that no kind of timber 
er in the e autumn, instead o 
as is usual. As regards Apargabte itis. the « custom | ee below the surface of the earth i ly stage of its Sco both I 
lk had b i and it pro une Ash is seared se t of raprtreds 
ich the | than any other tree; ‘ei its esate ‘0 grow upright 
growing 5 neces i time for 
ld be when the mtd is growing, and 
+} 
mother plant. was growing, fit so ‘eft to its fate. The 
and slender, it should | be attended mE in ps otherwise 
_ Thes ilver fir is a favourite with 
makin ng roots for next year. 
to Sea-kale —_ &c. What is the practice as — ‘bulb was flowering) a mber of 1 
Hop- grounds Ks fibres were found ‘ahering to it. “They pect to roe 
Disea. May I beg y ini tk n formed by the return of the sap which had nou- 
ff aft k rished the lea bral two or three more leaves 
nerall ane une mip full-grown, phe the cow were taken off and placed in like situations, but th 
be t, as in the inclosed Re ? After : some | t Bel bila rod any bulbs. 
ilk be fu Th dit w ed by subsequent 
ull of holes, and drop off. 
d 50. Peevioes! sly they grew re- 
und , which is light with 
ff while he cere 
pron ewe when faltgroma Pog has a noble appearance, 
yet wth for the at 30 or 
perhaps 50 years recomme: cesta’ those onl 
| for team beauty and Tanaert pro’ Saale 
man trees of this —e and I believ rt 
also eeal to wit ot than most thie grtheroneird 
firs ; but the tardiness of its growth in spor he ese with ogo 
many misfortunes subj ject thereto, an nd the rseness of 
we 
ay bo ottom ; after the wint 
made’a fine shoot in the beginning of summer, but before 
pe autumn the ey wel re so ‘Bed as not to be fit to plant.— 
Joh n Mur ray, [Ww 
Tt makes its ae in the 
ddish-b point, which is der than the 
+h 1 
rene of 3 
part 
rink tg in ae 
leaf. This attempt was Sie successful, an g 
of the cut ahie ground, 
of its ang dead. Th s point fori a vente, abe nd: a 
the oa are like coandinal dn i » So that ai 
t t becomes a resell “lots sometimes as 
ora —_ nda 2 half i in diameter. Ite 
d 
gee 
AH 
unds it separates omen te 
t to drop out, pootirs ee bes ae it. There 
as well as belo’ 
‘insu render: 
a limited number. 
I fick ‘Scotch fir much tensor and the tim 
Scotch fir is as good ros the a tes a or P Mei 
~ iy sb so knotty a and 
gro uch quicker. I =A ware W 
Sttainin nal a certain age and size, the silver fir ac, grow 
| as fast or faster than mos sd ome and consequen ction a wes 
he time lost “in n its youth 
practice has bee 
tho my I believe it. pecs with m 
es bulbs of the mile plat wh tick has been suc- 
ces si¥ “called Massonia, Scilla, and Beets beste 
fi bell- 
mh no app © 
as if-it were produced by the ntrdution into the 
cas over them for a short rari A ‘a wi 
Fins Be 
ks 
ren of deleterious matter which accum aren here and 
t! a yma am 
specie: 
expe erim ihe "bea of 
war | eae facet a apprehend that a Bitachoiia 
ne Ibs may be thus propagated; but t! matter leshy the 
ore easily r the object will dig — 
Hen bert. 
Saltpetre as Manure.—I observe a one of your cor- 
respondents give Sa caution n respecting e indiscrimina te 
recall 
| frcented plan 
t £ 
ed, an and for Ss 
—S. NV. 
Age in Trees on a quality of the Fruit: a 
t from 
e following aes Dr. Bullar’s account of the 
relates t ing su ich has not, I 
Dr. Bullar 
w. 
Bins nae! reg Senhor 
garden sint the town. Many 0 
prized chinakinsed neat full of juice and “free from 
pi ps. The thinness of the = - x he res any ‘Orange, 
been killed by its application. ¥ shank fe possible that 
The young trees, when in “tall 
exclusive blame of f being injuri 
wan associate, wo as bo of i iron, be mt ere caatly 
chi geable with b s Grace t 
magnes m lim mestone, 
some. 
by some impure salty rd adulteration of common salt 
used 2 eaeeee cea 
ffect, particularly o 
an 
ca! i ki 
— other plant to oan it was 2 
whom I purchas rack, said it was American 
it was so much ¢ 
stone is usually of a dun or 
m lotted: with minute apes, te Ba effer- 
car the tk = mane been 
t, whom 
would not ger- 
wit 
feebly with acids. 
e 
gioty tha ' 
caper i ce, tha’ 
might be well to try i ao it magi manwes for agricultural 
I tried it, mad A ee the most earned effect 
upon vegetation.—C. Ss. 
The Management p des Pores reel —It is jo wi plea- 
saltpetre ; 
ne it was not so = so strong as as English, but that") the guarantee 
thought i 
of the plant declines, the peel voopnel thinner, 
on ea cinch in number agi they di 
= 8 that wi 
may 
presumed it is much m 
offices hesitate, only, it i is i ee oom oat 
‘onally knew, pre 
ae  eabonate = magnesia. I — Cress, Mus 
sure ¢ that 
: and found t hey -_ a 
the fact NER 
* must jerre the avestion with this simple 
ion, but not in the habit 
e to rl a “ ay 
Man: 
_ vee Platten are spoied y oie allowed ‘| 
nd others by oe ee 
this, 5 Pillude to << almost universal p of ‘iting 
everything to make room for ha oak, no_ma' 
4 ‘han 
ty, from fence, woul 
ry 24 Seay raruich” a data for 
ment'of a sep scg Insurance Office, gets 
ef 
how y sickly, crooked, or diseased it ; There is 
the many poetical 
— = aii 
a, _ materially assisted no doubt iy, 
hich i associated. I do not by 
m, it should be an invariable 
chirp pr esence. There is oftentimes hoaieg. win pr 
Festa where the aphis is not to be discovered ; and, fre- 
t of | any means int 
eo! ; 
intend vee maby ete age | 
value as an orname’ : that at 
aah 
it eve: Hienese his loss might Lond compensated by the 
- To arrive at su 
uaa 
tem of ayy sien ay = away e' 
2 stunted ill-thriven oak. sin times ha 
hsics 
tie Ae et 1%}, 
tothe numerical array of roti latter, that padre ities 
pena Sh yg cme pig apr apa The following | us 
er 
—a sickly state of the plant, 
the atmosphere, As in the 
1 
\. 
| the injuries 
be | 
sustained in that seiality for 20, 30, or 40 years; leta 
cettad locality be taken, and the same egrncs 
made; a a third, if it be n ary; and term! : 
nine let 
tha 
houses, with their crops, 
». £ . > ee Tt thiak 
2 
