430 
a ge root gath hered in autumn, or ¢ papa e seeds, te, will 
and ag contain the bitter principle i in the parc 
state ae ncentration. _ Te the 2 leay ves are emplo oe ed, they 
i fe d. May 
they will keep good for a . Fives aati, 
subs: “pa for hops, it has 
cannot fad y account of the 
is th the best season ; 
A 
3 but wi 
ich it is e 
—P. M. asks 
n reseed in nd coke 
YH) Ga’ 
ALAR uF RO NYC 
LE. [N° 9¥, 
moting a temperate discussion on the subject, some oa | 
sidered that every Year I lose more or less by it. It at. 
i a Bi ts, 
often Peas, Turnips, Pasture, — Say 
BR, e a: 
ese lovel a in, I trust, be “m 
ing leading ones, as florists’ geno those persons 
who may be induced iti 
directions will be compelled to mene two distinct 
classes of flow wers, unless the “reme of 7 is are 
} et 5, Ox aford. 
_ Pegging down Plants. —The 
“he dh 
vigour, as if to make up for ‘lost time, bet always too Inte 
for a good crop. Many persons in this county last Year 
lost severely by this cause _ 
| Sots 7 
4 
by means of carbonic t m: be bu t p r for hear is really an expensive one, when pegs , dale | seve’ argos me on unlimed as sie t never affects 
you to inform him the result of omy birch twigs, &c. are employed | Barley, Rye, nor Wheat. I have e ke two a 
unripe gooseberries in that am The mode oing it | for the purpose.. If Cay! send boxy to the fern brakes or | pasture (two years), and another after T 8, perfectly 
was as follows :—The fruit was put into a Fate filled to th ice fe hem, | fi ro e field after pasture and another after 
with water, inverted in a pneumatic trough; the water! and the work is too si imple t r | Barley (owing to the grass seeds having e tirely failed 
ey a Ae by 2 ace gg da asinserted, and covered | plan here is very le, pat althoug : it m from unknown cause), ingly likely to be de. 
tthe following Christ- | known to some people, deserves to be more Paint stro i It is not cau y poverty, for the land 
known. We tak handful of matting, and cut it into | after Barley (dunged after Peas) is very rich, and the 
Pao cn d freshu: ness, = that ere be desired ; but when | 4-inch lengths, then divide each piece into three or four und t of chickweed, no bad index of the soil. Soil 
cooked, ae insipidity and toughness rendered them | pieces ; double these pieces round the shoots, and | a good de » but i cks gravels and clays, though 
totally valueless.— F. D. fasten ends of . tting in the soil with a sm so frequently the latter. I Ss not ence 
Rules for Judging Florists’ Flowers.—In the dibber, or with the fore-finger. In this way a boy may | fairly over the whole field, but al ays in circumscribed 
mittee of London florists, I conceiv ve their brother | florists train a r os all the sige ina flower- garden i in less patches, which coalese: 
throughout the kingdom have a time t ald take to procure pegs for two or i , and sometimes I see a shot in my 
questions in dispute may adjudication, | beds, oad es mn is much cm ag pag 0 above two or three yards wide, while all around 
upon the same principle as sporting lierenoes are ta the | the best pegs. When the ne tied i in | is pi luxnriant, "che of my pasture-fields had Sheep 
Jockey Club. The us taser of ope ws in the} winter, what is ra off the ends, itt tied i in n litte bundles, fed off i in nets upon it, as = ~ not sure of its being in 
le lis for ms and Picotees, atanie me, | will do for this wor rth was over: c-imneed but in 
through the medion of ym Agra address you on the | pose.—D. Bea places here and ther t e disease, 
paramount necessity of fi ie gow vernin ng prin ciple, Fuchsia prvcert —tThe finest plant * rene fulgens while all around a the plants were vigorous and fresh 
whereby we po arrive at which ina ba ne 1 more broad. 
merit of these flow wers. The: extreme difference which where it acquired a: rmou ws literally Here it nie not arise from 
with flowers, ars a Sngularly vivid enlour. The | poverty. I Tieeckey Sight arise from some amen injur- 
that cultivators should agree upon what are the leading} mode a caltvaion hg neat simple. A | lant was | ing the roots, yet on pees ig very sit plants every 
characters to be attained. It is reasonable to expect | brought into vig wth in the aul manner ; it | root t seemed per fectly untouched. Yet, to try comigen 
from facilit of railways, distant growers will at- | was then — at meg ie desis a Aran lanes — oe I da, but could not 
ese shows; and also that they will — in ac-| of the pot immersed i in wat et Lo- perceive the smallest difference in anyway. I laid on the 
with th Yoga te governing thei own | belia; i i pitrate. in figures so as to catch the bg if it was ae 
opinions, which, b Id p-| the hottest part of the day it was screened pa om sun ; goo 
pointment, as t —A, ld, ‘filled u 
to si ae pero property; frequently exhibiting 
that was all. 
West Indies.—The Alligator, a talented paper devoted 
respect 
pe ag i with not more than half th 
with the colours: while, on the aabas the Northern 
florists, = ‘my opinion, lose sight of Properties eed 
intemesnebie; by relying too 
to subjects connected: with the improvement 
of our West Indian Islands, ha aving unfortunately — 
indu ced to spac 
my good fie pene ment ¢ of & very 
Saad “that delights a uch v ao = on which to 
flourish, to a horticultural agrcultriat' ( I believe I 
may call eres ray horror. — Kinellan. cw regret 
to 2° apn ear, I am 
F 
n * = 
r columns Bee 'y 
h hiict 1 tt 
J 
ow ers seldom 
ie 
in the ospalty 6 of our Cai Wore you indeed re- 
age eer in the 
y ideas are, thatthe coldur, v when 
of questions important to be “properly understood by the 
agricul turis t in the West Indies, it might convert it in to 
pear er ss 
centre of peng 
= or heavy, is to be 
the petal, and not wel fel pt 
meer 
hereto to be understood 
rscntces | and 
those | 
ices. With this view 
mend the insertion of a series o} 
ean unfounded prejud' 
enture to recom 
would v 
} —- ne of “he most rational theory of the i 
We 
only ay that the malady i is not rpaunt ge on oe the attacl 
insects or of " parasitical foneis not the slightest trace at 
tei Leberg is discoverable in the specimens that haye 
bee 
sence of s 
terious matter in the soil. The only course to take noel 
be to endeavour to ascertain by analysis i in what respect 
Ver 
older gore icaring, ‘and hich 
0" t 
possess the other requ rages gy ry those that have no 
other 5 pretension than size 0 recommend them ; enter- 
take precedence of a small good oue : bu t th d 
w.—Consid fering myselfas the correspondent 
to var your one hea in his com 
io sO a 
may be so i aetlety ‘nea to the 
yee reference given to the cultivation of the cane during a 
iccessi The injurious effects 
sized good iret dined? to. Ra 
middling one. Form, in all fancy flowers, is a point el nation oe crops ‘of a different Sen a s practically, if not 
the first importance to be obt srnapl rey as the uae » boat understood, by the —— in Hindostan 
the obtained, se 
who rare y ta ke ‘more than n two yea 
teen is the smallest kane by which a con 
ean be produced. They must be entire at the eh 
and el eerrses vo 
y erops of sugar i 
sa und ; ratooning the 
canes in the second year, ‘and cae ng up ti the roots in 
the oug! 
perp osd So “lastanty hi ine Whether or not [ 
may have disturbed his convictions o 
honey-dew, I am eiliedia ngly sorry to have disturbed his 
equanimity, which it is manifest that I have do! ne, from 
their assumption. Indeed, he ,charges me with dealing 
in ‘ nothing but assumptions.’’ Of this I think T bare 
a ra now FS roceed to exonerate 
rather inclined to cup, ‘an bid A or the third; after which a space of m haat the « char , I stated that the hop was 
pice In tents mh ; interior petals are 
e aut egal in size to the guard ‘Reena ae to the cane, wheat is one of the most mam aie with | by aphis. a ‘That the mother aphis was as anxiously 
shoulders of # istpeate nb each | other, and itis se rice and oats. In Barbadoes the en tage ‘of p ia anting looked for by the hop cultivator as the mother wasp was 
to make them retain the Position that is: desired. heat in vale - a — but in alternate-rows Lvs the ught for by the a c ajoer dene h for a different reason, 
the bloom a | > g cane, y the experiments of Mr. Young, 3d, “That Mr. Golding _ sig Bs 2 retell pe Ard 
clear white ground is the next object to b which merit careful pried to determine the’ extent to bility of las t summer’ ‘s sequence of a 
without these two qualifications, the of bein, ing carried. As a tng f ap aphid des in pe 
are of Ti little aval. beara f of coh next ales the for alt 1 ing sprin, ; and “the season proving srieibaa to its 
attention of the babili f hip dueti his prediction was verifi 4th, That leaves 0 
diffusion. The biz: classes should be m: excrementitious matter of their roots being seat identi- | situated that the aphides cannot eject their fluid upon 
every petal with the tek colour, the stronger er Salles cal, wheat will not in all probability ma “ane a a them, are found free from honey-dew. th, That os 
the better, a as they do, in the North, that the | one in immediate succession after the without us that the neuen insert their 
flowers exhibited in these ought not to contain | previous interventio e com or | suckers into the tender bien of the trees, and absorb the 
flake petals ; also if the light colour is not distinguished, crop, such as the Cassada Leet Manihot, J. ‘Loeft ingii), Bs without intermission. — That Mr., Knight once 
that petal is, in my opinion, sported; and the bloom if| Yam (Dioscoreaalata, D.a eata, D. oe D. = reeived the process of ejection going forward with con 
shown singly, in a — then coe x stand, | or Eddoes (Caladium metals tum); or of the legu- | siderable force.—These ar ‘t state of facts, all of 
5 trae ae Ne is pags on ~~ pte wai = aby prize. : = plants, such as the Pindars or Earth Nuts (A hem well, some of them pare attested, and yet 
ny flower be exhibited wi etals total w : ions. 
without scr consequently : self leak On this el yposes); eRe on abject be a cope ied for = anes your contribator sees gos orth ipa the 
ai tha nae ac- 
be settled, or there is no secu irity for the distant e ex- be caleba for me same Hehe oars Pr extract- 
hibitors aeaee ee subject. I shall eall your attention to, tanec “om ase Bem erie to fo Peter Huber, it Re ¢ Quid. as Podieated by its 
what i 1 flower. Fa for _cattle, the — Kidney B ne » in se itis 
weision; oi aes! t of F Dolichos | ser Pees which any to nh that saccliarine n putrimen: m the roots 
avi 
prercracin an + Se is cig for. ex! hibitio 
now stated my own ideas 
mities incidental ¢ te “ext ‘flo owers, I think mar ere will be | 
inion on | 
junction, as umpire, | 
ject w be to | 
: mens : th = 
at specie 8 Leihind i aie regard | 
£ bei oa tehie a: arene ae are 
‘y or in part, m 
point. My object will be attained, if in 
erein it | ‘and after a few days with 
ex- | leaves s pushing on, an 
Bai haa oem a oie | | fully developed, it commences to wither, and so on t 
ust, in n | the plant is ted (for he of ‘me to} 
wot.) | — yi Ts 
it does, 
n the integral Spread a 
must at last admit tae i + wang a 
Few people 
ng | 
eto ie _ Willen anttion MM.D., 14; Octagon, 
erin ga way 3 the centre be of 
splendid se’ 
a prietors, That es Aaron 
Plyn ree pegs bys weer. T admi one * 
| ase in Oats.—I am fairly bothered by a disease th d humidity of ir. 8 
a among my oats that puzzles me and every one I h I weather is requisite for its production. 
forit. I enclose one com- eae be withdrawn, its 
j Plete oat- -plant (potato) and several leaves. The disease Fallen Let the Lis arcypioees ee ee 
i and the qx and honey-dew cease 
Mr. 
Golding — rms = that with the he honey ew oof F 1835, that 
‘o the apia aphi 
rade cm so exhaus 
_— that it refuses to send up an ear, 
8, ae ains do not fill; and in aie instead 
of e good crop of oats of from 8 to 10qrs. ere 
will x 3 If the 
continues to i i 
a fale -erop this | 
can stand such rabs ‘when it ig com- 
