1—1852. | THE GARDENERS?” CHKONiCun. — ea 
gre silent, I will at once proceed to speak of the choris- | 
ters who usually take — — part in the harmony 
— season. Every su eek will now be telling 
something new, something ng delightfal. —— first hero 
ear will be the ckbird ; at present, as I 
ha — — voice is Aube indeed, but small. It will 
however daily gain an accession of —— Whilst 
viewing “his beg happy fellow in = country, and listen- 
hi 
m the top of a lofty | a 2 
;| would, feces: i in — the desired effect in preventing | size at which they usually ascend the rivers. He says 
adiati The i 
of him as a prisoner 
mured in a dungeon, we shall also, malheureusement, have 
to write “down” to him. It is, e. a self. im 
task, and we shall not him, from We Tis I never- 
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be made as happy nae it can be under existing circum- 
3 ides I have already shown to be “th class 
cultivators of Pde and vegetables, have also a few knick- 
knack ways of managing herbs and salads, I hope that 
ae I may kirs to state in the course o of my papers | 
will be foun 
Herbs and salads are Naturen medicine ; and if man Vi 
to m 
at present does; for there is | # 
ortable way than he 
aera p however humble, that has not its medi- 
pur Peopl 
The bad effects of the latter kind of food becomes more 
especially apperat in winter, when their usual exercise 
is comparatively limited. In what ave to say on 
the subject, I A confine myself ei to a few of 
those 
of eultiva 
85 have repeatedly vi — the herb grounds of various 
indeed, are these fields, that on approaching that iaki 
mmer time, with the wind in the south-west, the 
f odours i e 
1 
Arihu ur, brother to a large grower there, showed me a 
large bottle A oil ot Lavender, whose value, he said, 
as six guine ery bit of ground in front t of the 
cottage 8 is fal 5 e which * opis universal 
attention here. In s I saw a great deal of 
e place 
tpe and ‘Chickweed Sieg idy for the s 
Hundreds of the poor of our grea 
> 
just uch i t of th 
finest fruits or vegetables. I hope gardeners 
will not thi i i matter. 
They must that all the world are not gar- 
deners, and nerally want 
to know some ton — ; and as my articles are 
likely to be Ried au in pro ere — I hope 
that some good may T — from th 
Herb management is not very well un — ; in the 
aee and salads which require particular modes i 
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as it does not exclude light, and it may be easily applied; ability. Th The expression I used was that I did not 
viz., by using double glass. Let the outside glass be — they were bred in fresh water at all; and I dis- 
made secure with putty in the usual way; but the inside | tinctly stated that my not having seen these things 
i li ves e 
ee 
leaving a cavity of an inch between. In the summer not done so; but to e question—“G. H.” says that 
months, this glass could be taken and packed away. ae he has caught them of — — yasi the thickness of 
putty would be required with it, when in the grooves, as | his little finger to five pounds; no doubt he may have 
the action of the frost would not reach it, = by — ng done so; but did he 1 them of the thickness of a 
cavity of air between the outer and inner “ glass it crow’s quill, and 3 inches long? because that is the 
ner in which I teh fix the glass his pond does not communicate with any “ag Is there 
— t this. — a sash 4 feet broad, I would | no escape of water from it at all? I m 
let the centre bar be a little deeper Hands than any of poration from its surface equal to the s supply of water:; 
the others, with a groove on an e dof an inch deep; if not, where does the surplus go oes it not 
I 
— one be made also on the inner sides of the frame; | directly or indirectly flow into a be or the sea ? 
e glass could then be put in 2 with the am more inclined to think this is the case beca 
greatest ease, or taken out, and two squares, co ee A „G. H.“ says he has taken 1 ewt. at a time from a box 
would reach across the light and look very n which the water flows through at the bottom of the 
Tomatoes.—The Tomato is generally rer in “eee This is exceedingly like what is done 
noblemen and gentlemen’s gardens; but in cold late | here and elsewhere, from July to the end of November, 
su i ot toripen befo aiit en the eels are on their downward migration, Will 
frosts set in, although strong plants are put out by the |“ G. H.“ be kind enough to say whether he does not 
m trained to a ll, This at catch the bulk of his “ye the same tim 
ill he al; 
least is my case, but probably some of your readers | say whether the eels he catches are not the silver eels ? 
can give a hint as to obtaining an early supply. I and will he also state e he does not catch them 
received three varieties in the shape of seeds late last Se, after heavy rains yin increased the flow of 
spring, from a friend who brought them direct — i out of the pond? If he answers these questions 
a s 
ast — being the best. All of them possessed in May and June, when I think he Mb bare 
fine smooth skin, without the furrow common to the | see the grigs yas epa his box into the pond. If 
old ‘sorts, and I should prefer the large red to the old | on A oe. and there escape of eae from the 
kind. It would probably not grow quite so large but | pon monde fni I 20 4 I am wrong; but at 
d 
it has uch nicer appearance. Although later in e don’t know how to reconcile this impound 
has a m 
being sown and planted out than the old sort, they beat the water so eee with what he says about the 
rg r — # ai 
known a 
habituated to early — will flower and fruit T. G. [The cer rere, from the “ Penny Cyclo- 
sooner than those on which no such treatment has been pædia” may se matter The eel is said to 
— etised. Perhaps this disposition i wt — inherent be averse to ring anid in the pad migrates down 
n plants than seeds, Seeds f climates are zy rivers to reach the warm brackish water, where 
to be preferred; fee? in — a and well it passes the winter and deposits its spawn. 
F EN 
n troyed 
wo or three years. This is a point therefore to Way up etimes in immense nu 
which nero ye should attend. W. Brown, Merevale, 3 a — * ata ou go 3 inches in 
Dee ength) appear S pime to go up the stream that their 
ering Fruit Walls with Glass. ge the attention | course is not easily stopped. The N of this has 
of thie horticultural public has b drawn to this seen a flood-gate, 6 8 feet in nme mpi covered 
subject, I send you a section of a 7 — lately adopted with them, and has 0 in pa 
by ir John Conroy, in covering 42 yards of om wall over this perpendicular Derna 2 i 9 
with glass, and which appears to me to be a very o oe the trickling water which r through 
ces of the wood-work.” We should add that it is 
8 us that eels rs from ‘ponds at 22 
travel thro men et Grass ee a 
Kew ens.— den e, 3 has 
lately shee enriched by a wonderful s ‘specimen o of a log of 
wood of Dryobalanops Camphora hich yields 
the “hard” Camphor of druggists 15 full of f — loaded 
with erystals, like those of prussiate o of potash on a small 
scale. A beautiful piece of Borneo coal accompanied 
it, it, containing a vein of crystals ve Na imilar in appear- 
The Acheron, surveying ship, from New Zea 
— brought 
the middle and southern islands, bu eve there 
rs not much ‘novelty among them, except in Sea- 
1 4 
e to Ord a small Kitchen Garden:—Let the ground 
intended to be sown with Peas in February and March 
ridge ed 
the whole drill, parting where two or more seeds 
fall — so as to leave ben 1 inch apart. This may 
case of Liquorice, for instance, writers on thi seem to be labour eae en away, as I know it is, the 
nt cuttings of the 1700 (query, which oe A, mould; B B, concrete; C C, ai samen: with many to a drill with the corner of a 
art in February ; again, as respects Mi the PER oe, and to throw the 1 into it in handfuls, which, of 
direct divisions of the roots to put in in or course, nearly all ee pce note weet it lies one on 
March, but this is not the kind of information that is d the other. But sowing! 
; there is a large number of herbs not in daily esirable system to adopt on old fruit walls. The cost Why, when the produce is, or should. be, rr for table, half 
use, to which the above may apply, and which 4 of the 42 yards is about 115/. The glass rests on the e pods are found to be flat, useless things, and so they 
— over by saying divide the roots, plant in March: 9-inch piers, as shown in the section; and at the top of remain. The oiik half contains two or three Peas ina 
in great demand, it is like saying skin a the back wall three eae of pigeon 2 are left 1 pod, and the leaves look as though a flour bag had been 
hare and cook it—but how? 11 Prep to ventilation. J. Hathaway, Gardener a rborfield-hall, | shaken over them; and all this is, of course, laid to the 
Reading. I nsture of the soil. Whereas, the true cause is not 
before winter. Mint, Yo: oy may be an excep- 
tion, for this is planted out in well ‘prepared ground in 
April, an d when the shoots have grown four inches long, 
8 
will produce by a The cultivation of Liquorice a 
and Lavender will, 1 hope, be found of interest ; but the este team - ato e ha 8 
permint for e oe: e cane Sak the | the dense covering of their own leaves es are always 
— as well as the store houses for drying the herbs, peasants preserved from frost 5 | by which means the 
More Seda in hot weather, they could not do Pheasants are able to feed, Seel 
öm 83 Sh e Kowe y ever, . — in open weather. The expense of tlie first planting would | up 
vith that of the culture of the ‘different herbs taken bee Megs f inconsidera the aad when onse sme “ap Oey 
seriatim will f Pin 
ames Quthill, Danken 
Winter Food for Pheasants.—To gentlemen fond of | allowing each plant sufficient ee of course, can 
the sports of the field, the Jerusalem Artichoke offers | only be rectified at the time of sowing. Let any one who 
peculiar claims to notice, as pheasants are excessively | has been troubled wi ildew, sow for the future as I 
fond of the Gots, pre ferring em us grain; moreover | am now rec commending, : and I doubt not e will find 
the expense of feeding pheasants with grain in winter is | their 
uld soon increase themselves to any pas: W. H. 
Propagation on of Hels. Vour aoe dent, “G. H.,” 
55 possibility of eels breeding in fresh We 
Ber 1 Hom e Correspondence. here a pond, covering three or osm svarms } 
fk hig of Loaves, 2 toe of the Air, from Con- | with eels of all sizes: I have wei t them fro size | Sprouts 
remarks on this subject the 
Plan which e 
n last of my little finger up to the wei 
“week's 0 9 in duced to direct stented This yf 0 5 p 
better than 
t of five sia sity 
t deny the 
other, of eels being bred inf Ñ water 1 oniy deny, Bin 
