38 THE GARDENERS’ <a CUE. [JAN. 17, 
tending to accuracy 1 hoppon they poeg 1 the} were pulled ors and the green fruit was stripped, honestly conducted, and 3 were a a 
rate of a mile „ This ock in | and hung up in festoons over the Shale ceiling of the There may be some flagrant of a ee 
the afternoon, and I went 2 again ek 9 Kitchen where they have gradually ripened, and supplied | here and in other aie of 2 but I think these are : 
in the evening. They were still going in one unbroken | the ta undantly, almost den the fr of one, | the exceptions, and no pr willing to 
. How long they oing when I first ekeen ——— e however, I do obtain that though knowing e public gardeng fei 
saw them, and how long they continued to go after | more than two-thirds of those so tr di d; but t 1 75 Europe, I do not think there is * better conducted, op 
my second visit I don’t know, but y thousands, | though they were more than usually backward, $ plan | mo: to the students and those engaged in seien. 
perhaps millions, must h passed on that d was more successful than ever. And there is still re- tific pursuits; ** yet, L believe, there are fewer 
At this rate, th uld have required little more maining another week’s supply. I use wink even in the small German states, ith such small 3 
4 G. H's” po and not but own that it is no rest encourage, 
us 
they had to pas 
or four l and a e e ** board. 
lese wate! were covered with 
moss, they would climb them ps readily as a cat does a 
pg I have seen them in swarms at a pecpendicular 
ere, winding their way . the d 
with which the stones are coy but this was a Sa * 
was no moss, ihe little things seemed t 
haye the power of adhering to the perpendicu kray pelle 
the stones, like so many snails, 5 
although 2 seemed to choose the margin 
of the stream for the sa sapier ‘travelling, yet they 
took care to keep in Ris ia? 
tunity of remarkin 
oy ebe 
e poin nt where t first o 
p the tail 
the river, but being Sunday th 
t not omit to People 
rop by 1 o 
I say, e myself, * t once lost my e 
e last 1 saved was in 1846, fro 
what 1 bought. 
single fruit 
mye in 1851 germinated; the cause of which I 8 
e, that they the natural juice of their 
own pulp, whieh fe forms a thin — over —— sufficient 
ae ge en air. And i spay Ph ways dry the 
seed of Melons, bor tlie me reason 
Phi llips's Fire Annthilator.—It is erer, how 
strong eves ee is against new ons. 
ple always ready to “Po ooli-pooh !“ first e piat 
ments, which often lead * most eaten results. 
week or two ago to see that you had 
forward the case of Phillips’ s fire annililator, as I have 
o> 
ej 
ment to be honest and zealous, to be 
1 inched. e hea 
brought — 5 
rd that the Lord Lieutonage 
the . = this esta- 
bishment, where lectures are given the Schoo 
f Design, and, I mr Beras mene 3 
wi ecimen d there 
I hav 
2 much . in 
he ene oak em- 
a on eners, vie „however, carry on their studies 
dreary back lean Why are not these gardens 
put id Sers under che n of the Office 
i me manner as is case with tlie 
J understand applies tion has 
40 garden for a fair 
oo collected at 
e plants, seeds, 
not haret 
share 
publie cost, and I do not see mi we 
museum as well as that of Kew, or ey a 
Tora on a singls eel took pas paume up ‘the tail grit, although on some one of the aceiden 8 the 
than where they w he newspapers of late ha equently ded. 
water walor e low and rfectly clear, I could aaan their Some months back, among several large — with 
above and below the place where I stood, with- | small beginnings, chere was one at. Alde um- 
ont any dithestt Tf weallow that they travelled amile in emm s new warehouses, — f — Church, 
and that the * of the 2 and Southwark; and accordin Humphrey, jun.“s 
de requir ge all the | te sindi a very little power. judicious nig would | 
remainder of the jo ey. this would enable them to have a ~ rested i x ut some time was se rd o get 
reach “ G. H.’s” pond in four ors from the sea; and | the en ginea, An 
from what I have seen of their ab 
=] 
— 
s * e said | 
they n so in their 
I am aware it is not the 
€s Preparation for. killing Mealy Bug, Ge On 
this mixture, an confiden 
an 9 
3 “ii will y supply 
ay bea some 
49 
pilchards, J. cial 3. 
broke wi wee 
1 9 ton te Ween of sete 
7 — an rll end only 7 
arn — the olume 
I spoke ahap Ta Annihilator 8 a 
t to the annihi 
terfere ‘ aw is 1 foo Gene t from plant. will come in 17 
ps bujan ced for some piee 2 prescrip- | during tumn and ia winter months, 
tive right! But they say, two or three powe; the beginning of October, plant a row of August sown 
nihilato ould, if the t all police| Cabbage gat gl ack Beal at 1 foot apart in the 
stations), have e the flames in the first instance. Keep the d, eit with the fork or 
e read of numbers of tar and combustible- filled model | broad hoe, and Fae. it well up to the stems of tho i 
and shi ips, with roaring flames, speedily sub- planted ; the following spring take. out. every alternate 
dued 3 these apparatuses, but one application of them plant for use as Greens, leaving the remainder to Cab- 
to a real house W to test its meri ge. t the Parsnips that remain in the ground be 
than a thousand a In the late frightful loss | taken up in February, and the d 
8 0 
with her immense 
sacrifice of life and property, would two or three of i 
these apparatuses have (if applied when the fire 
first Suen, overcome the os enemy ? 
not worth a trial? Asbestos ou 
think that e com panies — the public 
believe that fires ca ffec 
out of six. ft that were paaien 
abouts. in the market would the shares of companies 
Was it, e 
found 1] 
y n following fell during the past year at cases on the same patch, where the top was quite 
U, parish of Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire 
et 
. | years, 57,50, 
i o ip fall in one year 
Least (1844); 41 
851), 25 Sept., 
15 little more t 
rhen! 1 1 gn 
8 April 21, swallows seen and 
April 28, cornraick heard, 
Kepe (ee p. i N cannot 
— 
51. 
recommen astatin 
| vita is required to work round a sheave, constitutions 
co een Si ye or drum AT | 
One bro 
where it worked. over 2 5 
ap p ag 5 
these gardens. After readin tes about 
I went, and, in thy se 3 > 
| own that you in 
an October 
Bn on the eve of which they 
that our botanical estab . In.aseuine 
ach w 
r pr er ginning, place the 
of “ year.” 
tually N in five trenched One. Near, 
so, wh aa J. — Cli 
Average fall forthe lastnine 3 the Potatoes were very much affected? "Then 
of the disease 
ge 
oe day el |B 
oa aoe 
racken (Fi bla d . 
B erns . 
) ckene by 
— 
to out a sos upon Aang ae the course of # 
VA | continue to puzzle us all 
— . its TAi spar | some 
7 = ja was ‘not Kan Pi aen Lr you 
establishments were the only pan 
a. 
cultural prod believe 
useful. Do no not pki Be 156 Gena is read by 
here. 
a Small Kitchen Garden. When the 
ne 
way. 
full stop at the end of “ way,” in 
As. it is printed, it would appear that 1 
ear, and did not plant till the fo ollomng, 
or Disease. It tis said. that the disease commences 
~~ haulm ; then how does it happen that in 
„in all the tubers showing the si 
as 
er rot are futile. Much may be 
vil, by omc obit: seed, early re 
— with qharip to strengthen 
The followi 
failure, 
—ͤ— — Potatoes after been h 
become bad. The evil has pu mpi 
st min 
—— go oar the approaching winter 
n 
Bebiews. 
Vergleichende Untersuch der Kei „Enifultus 
an Frucihitdung e Mor Cryptoromcs sat le 
Coniferen: Von W. Hofmeistel 
_ pas, 1851. Pp. vin. & 179; tab, æn. 33. 
and of Derbés and Soli 
of Spermatozoids in 50 
satis lt het) ne a gl yi ha am Bee 
