—- 
Dec. i 
nard, 
tificate was awarded. Mr. Pw gr. at Penr 
as given for them. fs 
Baa, eenibited ‘three black-spined Cucum! 
the Garden Sansist ister ie i 
sass 
been Faved ll 8 the e T. A. Kni 
being av 
Dec. 7th.— 
Clisby were Feces. 
take place a 
- i aac: 
particulars regarding the different trains from 
termediate station on bared ope = Beieypls with a statement of = 
times respectively of arri d dep: 
indy arrengel nent om t the Ci ak an pupint a case in 2 mS 
Feport to the ‘ounci a fal eeting, the result : me sho wed the value ne — 
of bis Grace’s arrangements on the subject of a sultable locality | §"Zajenfal record of facts, and. said that had this been (sn in 
Wick Cant Ti anuttes b have further to Tt, — | eve: prejudices that have so long oceupied the 
fa mbmitted for their consideration are situated—Iist. In | pin, ald have disap) Asi in 
mediate eenpowr hand « of the Victoria Rooms, on the road point uoted Gerard’s account of the Goose-tree, and the 
city of Bri 2 ve pore pees gt the jurisdiction of the pm a that the ie eens blight affects Whest, which latter, Pro- 
oe 3 and secondly, m the south side of Bristol, | fessor Henslow remarked, would, without doubt, soon be re- 
Seley OF she ee ee hear Amo’s Vale, in the | moved by the application of real scientific research. He then 
cae » beyond the city boundaries; and the com- ed that experience was the only source of scientific km 
S nee mclude this their first report, by leaving to} jeage; but this, he said, could only be obtained by a long series 
tire. Pisces in the exposition to the Council of the para- | of observations ani iments, and these carried on not by one 
the ire pees by each of these classes of sites, and person alone, but by y. The fessor then adverted to the 
lected fr ion of the question whether the sites shall be se- fo of a museum by the Society, which would, he said, be 
of Rick mm the former or the latter of these ities —The Duke | 4 record of facts. Beverml heat had 
sessed stg then stated at length the respective advantages pos- | aiready been sent in, and he had prepared tw containi 
When the oe localities submitted to them by the contmittee; | Wheat affected by all the dwenves known to attack it. The 
Within the Council unanimously de © hold their meeting ‘ed results from collecting the Wheats from all quarters, with 
inane th ¢ boundaries of city —The Duke of Rich- of the conditions unde: ry wi wn, ar 
: then laid before t Counc’ t mal report of the district | ict that anybody would be able to = his varieties ; 2d, that 
pt fd when the Council resolved, that the proposed dis- any person would be able to ascertain the relative value of the 
pectic or ag be adopted, and the suggestion of the committee re- | gifferent kinds, and by gettin chemical all the j 
Tied sand e nw © of distri ae be nominated in advance car- | pecu ies of the varieties might be registered; and the 3d, and 
Satelit Reid also decided nture ion to take into con- | mos ant alt. would be that after a certain number o! 
farms, he expediency of civing prizes for the best-managed | experiments, a knowledge of the soil and climate for which each 
Spicer, offering premiums for the skill and good conduct of | yariety is adapted would be gained. Professor Henslow then 
the autre urers. The Council then proceeded to consider plained some experiments he had been making in reproducing 
of the from which should be selected in future the places ers in Wheat. He had laid out a piece of gr in 
b toderaeta Meetings of the four 8 succeeding the Bristol | -quares, in each of which he sowed Whi egnated with the 
Chashete 3 and having inspected the districts in which the Oxford, | yarious diseases; and he found that if the was steeped in 
decided Se, and Liverpool meetings had already been held, boon sulphate of copper it effectually prevented the diseases. A ther 
lar statem, ur districts required by vote. The following 3 it obtained from the various made was, that the 
it will give the r a connected view 4 alt: ination of the seeds did not appear ed by the sulphate 
Pi van Country District MEETING: of copper. 5 t had been steeped in hot Les 
Yrs.) Places not reprodu OF except Vibrio. The Professor 
"| oF Meeti f Meeting. | then went on to show th tis ence to the rotation 
lasg. of crops; he said ry Ln otal ad hath ase 
3903 ie mt risin; _ | the favoured one, bat it failed 
= et comprising the coun | of opinion that a rotation of more than four years was advisable. 
' dle Sai a a €t- | Heeshibiteda for the rotation of crops for 1! years, obtaining 
Backing! 2 eae orthampton, Bedford, and the same anio — withent fallow ; in ar. 
Se OTRSELE, eaten ranging the rotation, he observed that the greatest care must st be 
Cambridge “|Eastern ggg ae ag haa arte Laren taken not to grow a plant of t the seme gataral femily on the 
nah 2 round for te? toca auccrtsined, though many theories 
Liverpool SF i Sipating sting it had been published. He reecmmended every agri_ 
| shire, including the Isle of Man. 4 Culturist to make himself acquainted with a small of 
aan te a Hn 
potas iatel authorise the 
orders for the y 
of Leli: 
tas Pri 
and is described as 
arer, 
FLORICU ULTURAL goer aa 
— Mr. Hickson in the Chair. ‘own and Mr. 
It was agreed tha’ ca Shut dinner soenld 
Crown and Anchor, on January 13th, 1842 
Great Western Railw: 
each clas: 
pat i 
i. 
hat it is Lage bret rigs that the Council 
0 gi 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
1842) Bristol Western District (No. 3), Cornwall, Devonshire, 
Somersetshire, and Dorsetshire. 
1843, Undecided .|North- ee District (No. 6), Derbyshire, 
Not! ctinghamsbire Leicestershire Lincoln. 
fers ire, Rutlandshire, North. Northamp- 
tonshire. 
1844)Undecided .|Middlesex District (No. 1), Middlesex, Surrey, 
Kent, Sussex, and bryreg ee “inclading 
the Isle o1 = pom bss and the Channel Islan 
of Jersey, Guer mseY. &c. 
1345|Undecided .|North W t (No. 5), Angles Car. 
atin ‘iotionethahare, Monte Shatin, 
shire, Denbighshire, ae - ag , Cheshire, 
Sear te and Staffor 
1846{ Undecided °.| Northern trict (No. 8), en Cum. 
berland, bushes, and Northumberland ; in- 
Py cluding Berwick upon-Tweed. 
194; }Undecided .|South Wales ict (No. 4), Pembrokeshire’ 
Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Breck- 
shire, Glamorganshire, Monmouth- 
revert ae rshire, Herefordshire, and Wor- 
D. aoa an then ought fi t forward his motion 
cernit e duration of amon ; when was decided that 
the present committees be continued until ‘oe end of the year 
1842; and that, in future, all panne RS. shall be appointed every 
ear at the Monthly Council in December, but gid y vega ‘pd = 
i w e ensu ng 
oe motion of or. Challoner, the following = bee ene pent ae 
mber is entitled gratuitously tor + A e parts of 
the * arse of any year, 
but 
Each m 
the Journal Bey have been publi me in 
been paid ; 0 Journals — 
for which his Ba bers ash Hye 
continue to be forwarde; dO} 
reparation O 
compressed and published (with the consent 
815 
ss botany, geology, ai my Pega sn ; it was no! 
sary to be jeer Bg but just lerstand enough pavers 
error ith regard to the pace he Therged them not to rely by 
any means on the weather T pro} their almanacs, but to 
consuit the barometer, tetomaeetee, “Sppisineted: 6 and winds. is, by 
hich perhaps the weather for the next few hours might be, in 
also recommended them to acquit 
to up a kind of A n code, by ged o 
shou ad be ot act Pe os instead of the 
being moore gy all the peculiarities of a cenate, time 
of so ould be noticed. With r regan d to the os ana 
periments 
pressed his ap pbarion of t nec ums red by the Society 
. agricultural labor 
sMiri ELD CATTLE CLUB. 
In looking over the pistes ps, oe eo Mangel Wuarzel, w 
found the collections less extensi re had anticipated, pre: 
ba produc 
er had, in addition 
, grow. 
pen well as jessrs. Skirving, of 
‘ok tat ane Mess 
besides Paea eapt of their B gat ode Swede 7 ee 
The Du Richmond then moyed for a committee on the bye- | Liv bay cton 
laws of the Society, when the following gentlemen were named of Araucaria imbricata, and several samples 
rhe e€ 0) rete H. i po: ba, es ce at 
of Downshire; Earl Spencer; Col. C er; T. ker, 
Esq.; Shaw, Esq.; H. Gibbs, Esq.; and W. F. Hobbs, Esq. MISCELLAN EOUS 
W. Shaw, ve notice of uk ces de robe e ae Des nm of the Pea ttas ( Hessker f i).—The sa 
0! w prizes were next taken into consideration for - . . 
year 1843, that two classes of prizes be giv’ for Leicester sheep; gretendr states fi oe has succeeded oe. —— i 
one class or the aye aud another for the smaller size of that | * €aS € Wi in the folloying manner :—Immediately 
kind of shee = Tee § oA Sir J. Ger abpm presented ee tl : after gathering the seed, he ena them to the action of 
Society a co! eae nication 4 ad received from ant erceval, Of | boil; ing wal es one minute: 
B Pia een ote, bye ag rey beg ae = ago pa sae nti little grubs or larve, aaa f this time are just be! low 
same subject, printed in the 3d part of the Society’s Journal, in integuments o ra Pea, without destroying the berry et 
the year» 1648, pager J to the failure of the crop arising from the | the seeds. If tl the Peas Temai in in the boi ling g water fou 
circumsta: cut ber soe Perce’ de a ; tei a ts 
of a imilert rs conside’ extent, experienced 10 
y in the Potato crop in the district where he resides, from i haw ae heated last year, three Sancta and are 
seed made of cut pate the failure being gttended, however, with — Hovey’s Magazine of Hi orticuliure. 
great peculiariti ec ts planted in the moon were ile; wr = asus de inach.—T said to bea 
found to do well, and produce a good crop; whilst tl se planted iy A dee orieinated with,.and. he Sisal 
in the afternoon were near je oy a sd ne be the ec Leary hate pa rs fone de tler, Esq 
ted the next day in the fo ure, while th . ’ : 7 > 
a Megomy Bate! bes pen ia te be: a ai Lory near Philadelphia; when properly cultivated it spe? 
Tres! wow e TO) e > 
form quality ; the same manure being used throughout, the same | ph ag i igus be Sax as » with md the aealy at 
sets being cut at the same as the others, and in every way | ¥ hich is several times larger, an mh rane ot superior, 
treated similarly to obviate this serious evil. Major Perceval | The leaf is perfectly smoo h, 
be Lian to a et ioke o,5 rime thd he ne aes of hardy, standing out the severest winters without i njury. 
is crop, and states that he foun i m . Fj 
was entirely prevented by selecting the largest Potatoes, which ar is a highly desirable wh The se sed sy be sown in 
he put into pits for seed (a plan which prevented all chanc rills, on rich, we ell-m red ee » and the plants 
their heating), and in spring, two s three ie beget meme 4 h. plant is full the size 
he cut the Potatoes into sets, as 0! ble, with one eye, t de his v 
pon inesabe to. and imme diately ii then, | Of balf a pa if pitied yas ed. T. pags bes 
(drying up the cutting wi = e), keeping them 5; 
thin on a floor. 1 Spencer, Esq Druce, sylvai ania Horticultural Society. Tt will be ph at that 
Esq., the three judges selected to cultivate and report upon the | this new variety possesses one most excellent quality, viz., 
seed ts selected Aaa Ca ors. os Meeting for tri : "the its hardiness, vies 
—T i 01 Fag pry o the ¥ 
= | eae pr f the meal ult > mation Nova Scotia; | and trying winter without dan nger This is alone will give it 
r. Kimberly presented specimens of a fineral phosphate of a high i Bg imlenensent of its ‘superior ee, great pro- 
lime, which was referr ped the Council to bt pe _spaprar4 duct, and bette x op ait It must be considered a great 
pe ag their re port; and Mr. Sheriff co acquisition Mag. of Horticiltu 
Dee. 8th.—Professor Hen delivered a lecture on the co Renovatin ve Trees.—Switzer, in hi t: 
nexion between science tas tee as bs or b heeparety ih Garde ner,” says—‘‘ A 1 n of great curiosity, and 
ng sega ”” (previ 1720) ‘* has had ac- 
fi 
went on to show how the prac' 
i its judicious aplication 
tice by if In doin: 
hitherto there had been a great want of precision in the language 
an in describing facts; and he adduced as 
whi 
tain sample of Wheat had degenerated 
cise fey kill any dog they c an 
him ai pont of pe | eet — ian it again 
men he s to try 0 m fro 
ceived ia account,” The remedy, peed applied, is is 
doubtless good; the mode of obtaining it is another 
affair oo 
Silk nufacture i the Deccan.—We 
voured = the flowed particulars of 
eccan :—Duri 
e 
, 
8548 Mal 
planted there by 71 ryots 
Koombee castes, and a few Fraheins and Bany 
by wells, some by bi 
moun » streams. Last February, M 
me silk-worms” eggs pho 
ua 3 but 
try- The eggs ie this cross — Mr. Mutti net _ 
satisfaction to see batching on the ninth day, the 
nd the cocoons, such a ic ve 
never seen onal in this country, weighing seven to a 
— and 
a the ninth day the — pierced the cocoon and isquedl 
Mr. M 
gyptian eross breed with his 
hatched at the > same "period, viz. ta 
fort 
original female, and the eggs 
© days 3 in 28 days 
i 
with the pete Sorms, pss ieee pee ones. Mr. 
Huts a in 
| quiring to be lifted on the bundles placed wi eir- 
f the baskets, ene at ae 
accord spin on them; thus saving wages of people, = 
