THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
Lia. 10, 
ae respire or re ject any peters | 
ammonia which they absorb 
ropriate it entirely: | 
wn sub- 
vidence il 
and in partial ins 
ntirely appropriated, and: con- 
buckets, and a chain, which, from its great le ength, is 
ery heavy. Wo uld a wire rope 8 
a as 
4 
et. 
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would rry, 
Sneu 22 My 3 
ork o d 10 me, o ui er 
ace A in diame Would any o 
ave the charity to 3 the ot of 
mrs ould be 
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that Nature has m 
an 
N in 
of anim pe e 
refuse. As e 8 e oe the first source 
is absorbed a — leaves, t 
0 n respired; ammon tin 
— is absorbed b e ty pot: the 8 
retai and the nitrogen respired, e 
isation and w 
2 
think we are equally entitled to regard the 
and not the . the essential element in the 
a, 
“Tho eel; like the viper question; 
is a ver s instance firmness with which 
many ee, opinions are maintained, although when 
the grour them av proo 
of their cman be. 8 In this view, I think 
the discussion of both ints. in your 
n ver an i 
the 5 
m it, as Pg as _— proof goes 
those who hold that r bred i 
they ought t be eia pa poesia that eels are 
found there in spawn—2nd, that such Scat 3 
been hat ched there. It is no proof to say that small 
$ 
he 2 on retained and the J 
in fresh water, (raging e pent and w 
Rain.— ea 
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one 
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ity? 
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n Dixon, ‘Dorwards Hall, Witham, Essex, Jan 
How to Crop u Smal K itchen Garden.—The spaced 
10 wing . so as oe 
he nality, an 
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The 
2.00 construct a 
process annually ever 3 began i abe m en 
8 
might 
ood 1 in or pile 
no artificial underdrainage ‘whatever, ae is laid on hs 
earth bottom, and the oak off as th 
a deseriptio 
Fortune, the 5 of whie 
with perhaps some 
2 adopted in . pete all, om 
e in keeping ice is, to get it pure, and te 
put ee ofi it together. 8. 
ik ye cs 
buses. —Y our late leading artidem 
= a —— of eee. &e.,” was a * 
remarks concerning the 8 for Vineri¢s, 
i e to trouble 
aie — a but the 
Strawberries * inches apart; 
d three 
38 &. 
inde 
ay lọw- 
le 
and dig th 
iti — proof — meai is ab ovo.” There 
also room fi a rather curious subject, cts 
awn- 
asks 
the size of crow’s ve cull We 
— 
m 3 to 4 inches i Our surplus water 
flows indireetly into se saber Nene, from our sluice. It 
— some stews > we have been in the habit of 
keepi mes mst ; and, passing over several water- 
diteh, which is about 3 quarters of — 
m 
with us, provid hick and muddy, and the 
weather rather h, of course, only occurs 
during very heavy rains. If I were to draw all the water 
out of the pond in a el I should not catch a fish. 
The variety is the silver eel. Our pond is upwards of 
iles- the Nene flows into the sea 3 
fore, how is it ittle eels had got n 
ae during their long journey, interrupted - it is b 
insurmoun 
ante 
Sg Pye 
Higa reference to the 
the year 1727, it i has frequently occurred os ap 
November has heen v ery dry, December 8 wet, 
ersd; but the following are the only cee 
of 8 ee during the consecutive months o 
November and December, throughout this long period. 
FALL or RAIN. IN. IN eRES. 
1756. H, 1767, ae I, 1 18. 
November = 92 
December 40 ES 7 — 
25 1.15 132 134 25 1.29 151 
l ao and Biy 2 55 also very dry months; 
ath past, we may be allowed } 
15 inches au TA Sere in the | iron 
w 
runners cutaway 
rage. ing is let down, 
eon the ir 
— 1 and, because it is more traneparents p 
nd. is kept in its poreo by two hooked » 
ben fters. e end of the roller 
t 8 
ground, to — these strips, y 
have found 4 
8 without any 
the spring, — i 
Covi 
rons at the b 
fronts and ‘ 
up, aen it not worth naming. 1 
hand at describing a thing of this kind, but I hop 
you will be able to unders and 
other corresp nt any 
ple and better, I e of 
remember readin that 8 
Burnett had patented some composition for 
canvass, &c., from d a 
8 es, before | throughout January, 1852, The city of water 
they could reach the little e this district has now become a very serious. incon 
long, that I ——— atk „last ba a) only to the farmers and millers, but the. 
of all, 38 hit dination, they would hae 4 — 100 supply for domestic purposes is ve , and 
heir —— ud have to elimb four in some of the adjoining villages it can only be 
falls a perpend board. It appears purchased by a. It is a in ing 
to me . should rene wm much larger than a subjeot fr e y the en of water should | 
common tobacco-pi from 3 be greater in 1851 than in 1847, for 
for latter ~~ m dries 
* 
only was the 
e present 9 but the fall 
a h of th : pem 1844, 1845, * was sand 
$ fand in in the rene 1848, 1849, 1 erage 
ently in fresh water, and, there can be ia i in 1647.— The fall of rain in 1647 was 17.581 
little doubt, breeds best there. G V., Fine 851, 2426 in.; the average of h years being, 26:8 ins | 
: Koordish Method of Blanehing and Hardening Honey. O: Lean Prince, Bind, Suan, J m 
This should always be done in N when the wea- ce Stacks— Among the papers which have recently 
is frosty, Put 60 or 70 Ibs. of honey, with the appeared on this — of stacking ice, I consider that 
comb, in a dron, over a ow fire; stir in about a by he most 
pint of cold wa im 
boil, until — be qui Sot remove from 
the fire. 
the wax and impuri and strain 
through a — sieve. Then the —— * a con- 
venient vessel, and it for an or so each day 
fm a fortnight, pe, a cold place. Ii the operation 
of whipping aued for a lon iod, so much 
* ee e sorta will be harder and whiter. T 
honey that is i Bitlis to in winter 
is so hard some resistance to a knife. It is 
re n this fo han in its usual 
liquid state 
ara more convenient for — 
Never having seem this prepared honey in summ am 
re- of the last nine 8 e Ary ee in 1848 e 
the quantity re than double the amount 
ou i me where this 
faney it is — e of chloride of 2 
f South Perrott It is what. 2 
and may be had of any dealers in such articles. 
Mr. Ingram t tional. My own experience 
in the matter is this: I began it several years ago, with 
view to le nent the our old ice-house, 
well 
thus f 
rregular parabolic ened hole, not very deep, into 
which 1 pe 70 cart loads of ice, when the 
i a remain solid thre roughout 
inly 
frost came 
l and e at it abe — — in the 
shape of a biunt-poin 
pa Sy E last — g the 
winter, 0 kept in 3 I. Cig J 
A tee We 1 suffer 3 the serious 
It is worked ve two 
with litter—any litter we 
nted i This was 
ered over about a foot wiel, sen — a little more, 
hardsoni, 
Baffin's Bay by Mr. Ede 
Coleoptera | aaa eee. 
d for the 
Low, intende Society's collectio 
the species g > identical with 
Coast and Assam. These iti 
discussion on geogra 
B 
4 
; also, the 
es of spider, whi 
pened to have, old thateh 
„ followed this 
frequently _ the barn- yard. We have 
speci 
‘Nice, i —— It was globular, pot oe 
diameter; but M. — informed 
