anti adi THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 41 
the prin- 
SS SEED S, f asse that an — — aa of Tu urnips ammonia in the manure ; here, however, pri 
S QUTI FOR ns el i PASTURE, Ke. can —.—— with am ure. No less ciple is modified by, as well as j subo rdinate ` to, an 
There are now ew counties ngland wherein | an ee y than Dr. o Dioki Y 15 an counte- almost endless variety of conditions arising from 
pastures may not be seen which have been fi formed with our nance to this opinion in his late elegant and well- the arrangements of heat and moisture, and the 
Mixtures of Grass Seeds dt may therefore appear super- timed Hrd e, where he says—“ Turnips, which | physiological structure of the plants. In many plants 
Huus publi ay of co more nitrogen in proportion than the this functional resource can beturned to good —— 
moniar. Grasses (?), can 1 with ammoniacal manures, while in others it cannot. At present we s 
er I —— mpeg ge aee y yin sufficient superphosphate be ad- merely point out this rinciple in a few of our 
** . the Counci ka the —— 8 rad ed to them in an early stage of their growth.” | agricultural plants, without going into details. 
ro Mesene, Sor hich I 1 loyed b itself for — ng down some | He thus, so far, coincides with Mr. Lawes, and refers, Rye, like the Turnip, seems to acquire a second 
fresh broken-up Land ag 4 = 1 s ward by August. n. — property in the Turnips, to a difference nature when sown in summer. This property is 
have now about 30 of land to 8 Zune Se, ir“ ”? from the Grasses. But we very marked in some of its varieties: but all are well 
I kth <0.” n their organisation from y bu 
at ben — W 8 Park, near — that it arises chiefly from the totally known to develope an enormous quantity 8 forage, 
—‘‘ All the kinds of Grasses sown separately, grow opposite ar Soo in which they are grown. . the n rp 1 = r, w D C what 
wW ticipating a | if Dr. Dav ould only view a atmospheric | they yield in early spring. e,” says COLMAN, 
eee chee oF an 9 — 25 tha various habits and | conditions aidit pary h Wheat and Turnips are |“ which I described as the St John’s Day Rye, is 
successional growths of the several kinds, es lagen 8 Itural rotations, and compare the — known in France, as the multicaulis, or many- 
ra e Bay is cut. 2 ae or ae 5 Foà à rl spring, nr a the | stalked Rye. It is sown in June, an will bear 
The Clovers, too, I see, are plentiful. vivify t : h f en for e, and 
We can supply eet fe r Sai natural aud oat Wheat developes its primary organs, with those | cutting two ot ree times for gre age, an 
Grass Seed, at the lowest market prices, either separate o ” | which exist when the a unfolds and expands | yield a oe t 
mixed, pra to suit the wil. — its leaves, he would at once perceive that this is from Pe. root y very y gi O thoug ; it ~ main- 
JRE FOI f di Merini for it must be borne | tained that other kinds of Rye, managed in the same 
RENOVATING MIXTURA FOG: IMPROVING OLD ee ia e 1 — hate is almost as useless à a way, would show the same properties. T Bi: seine 
M ld Upland Pastures, Parks, and Meadows are nearly ly vernal | caulis Rye sown late in the autumn 8 pro- 
destitute of clover, — the'Sner sid more nutritious sort of manure *. si ons 3 erty.” Thus we see the Rye is less 8 of 
Grasses, in case we the practice of farnishing months as it is for ea e, eee ee, 
T een. literal interpretation on the [t "een — 5 pr 
n 
siderable, and at a small expense. ntity of Seed required, Walde N ents made othamstead, in re- gi The 
WA Priced List of Grasses, with instructions, may be | Sard to the quantity of ammonia that retires | vay iy swore; Frou” eee 
Sad, post free, in return for one penny stamp. ali Ain al strange dec indeed. In the first in many engl Ge is alities ; as much so as the capa- 
Address, Joun Sutton and Sons, Seed Growers, Reading, Birks, E Us Taw city of different kinds of metals for ea or as other 
PE GUANO. 3 gyi uh se gi * e any oP ae 18 substances 5 i 7 7 to their hygroscopic 
AUTION TO “AGRICULTURISTS — 2 F EDN roperties: still iple is as 
It being notorious thas extensive adulterations of this | Nitrogen from the atmosphere; and further, with the atin netly pons A en Wheat 15 sown in 
MANURE are still o carried o latter, that every bushel of Wheat requires 5 lbs. of hl a 
in "AND SONS, AS 0 mmonia to raise it, it must then be obvious that an it nd a avon ut eo Ist of A ric a Tet ae 
7 tle or 
Consider it to be their duty to the Peruvian G Wo and the yearly or natural — of 17 bushels. must a 
te the Publio — bois fhe Mp Vanes ean d all oth others who have required 6 5 lbs. ammonia. This quantity to We believe the Wheat plant 1 
to be carefully on their guar of Tar- similar qualities in France, at a ce peri 
he character of the parties ‘fom whom they purchase will | Of ammonia . ae produced 1 75 — 20 it ar: in spring. is sown at — same time 
of ae be — e best e in addition to particul ar pips; although they had got no more of t ry ni 1 ig Dos — Upper Cina da, i the doen it 
well to remind ps p ai which s 85 mba 128 ev vield of Turnipe — only will mature its seeds in eases? like ths * 
The lowest wholesale price ound Peruvian eaves ; u : spri but in the latter it will not do so 
A pring c 8 latter 
Guano has been sold by r Si during the last two years is 84 tons, containing about 45 lbs. of 8 5 until thé e siceceding y year. (Surnirr.) The influence 
91. 58. per ton, less 24 on would, surely, be a deduction y; e wit : of season may thus, in combinati tion with a ce 
A ales made by dealers at a1 ri t theref i inci icult 0 5 5 
8 aa toe gg fe tet eitione tense bsid Aria ia yi arin ei rea ria e amo oat of manure in the soil, overpower the 
ANURES.—The following Manures are manu- — 3 2 U of 138 available quantity of plant with superabundance of the cer of 9 
5 a 
2 1 Bare, ein W iar 0 nitrogen in 95 5 kenit ai 3 a N n op agg e it to grow like the Grasses in 
Superph sphate — 10 0. difference betw the ral and our artificia 5 
Pap Dare Acid and Ooprolitos” T City, Lo fes pon 8 should * a 5 — — to 1 our confi- F orbs cig ia gat ipa d ies egg this 
N. B. Peruvian Guano, guaranteed p Sii, iea 10 toe cent. of | dence in the dict a, that Wheat and the other cereals | de id tan differ — the Rye Barley, however 
Ammonia, 91. 10s. per ton; and for 5 tons or more, 91. 5s. per ore 3 have so so 8 a quantity fs am- —— aout, — in — — 4 tóen 
i monia as 5 Ibs. in the manure to raise every , h committed to the 
"e ea pe E r of grain; we ought rather ‘tel ok to the imperfec- . s of Britain, thoug 1 aged: Se 
Int Peat Charcoal 1675 . l tia rated Urate te, ne in our art of culture, and endeavour to dis- at a 
‘eat trate ti- — 
acy eh Gn eng apy e nenn F. which demand so large A expendi. : ae 
Salt for Agricult — Purposes, at a low rate, English ure ot mea when sown on the Ist March would be positively 
3 Cake, Rape Cake, ne RTS results. The theory of thin-seeding is really worthy destructive to iha crop. when sow at tie PORE 
EDwaap Ponsen, Secretary, Bridge-strest, Blackfriars, - z of discussion, but we are compelled to proceed. estructive P, E 
Turni 
FOSSIL pee non — e eee COPROLITES But, then, if the Turnips at Rothamstead had been 2 . e The — pereen peas. 
SUFFOLK G), . 
allowed to remain on the same ground till J at five n 
E — ben be months of extra growth would have been i ined, al — vente ape ay re ganS * f 5 rop 
ing these Phosphatic Nodules to a fine Powder, and being in and very probably a considerable quantity ot pi mete — 3 h ee Fae 
82 — rere. ow pre- gen would have disappeared in the flowering and 48 ee — Powe . : 
qa —— Whole, or Dissolved in oie “They seeding. There is, no doubt, a large quantity of March in 
m iven off in the aro: i 
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of sprin 
4 39 — Bone. ower ; Wi 
e ne in conjunctio fi — connected with their use for- lent matters of the leaves and bulbs into cone It | phates from the soil as Bat feih w fame ped 
— on application to EDWARD — and Co., Artificial z be altogether out of place compare the of the plants requires. But 9 2 5 wn Wheat, 
12 te near Sani: maa eeded produce of any plant with the bent pro- h 
the NEW an 1 Nr 2 NERS e AA ducis of 7 f in regard to the quantity of. nitro- 515i even — A Sa will. 
impregnated by pressure with the fertilising matter of the gen they contain. Turnips and Rape are quite as P ying superp 15 on 
E pe y bu shela ye E Barley by an 
Lonpon Sewace, the Ammonia, Phosphates, and Fzces being 3 crops as the cereals, when they are on, í hun tht 
: 2 1 2 anure when it is sown i 
Charcoal and fem — — Bdge, Pal am, ade seeded, and the latter are diametrically opposita in — — the same — otratherinthe mes 
sex, at 603. per ton, 4s, per cwt., and 2s, 6d. pe wt. this respect with the fine Grasses of our pastures, ti PES = 2 so et n alee eek bene 
SEHEN SON AND Co., 61, racecar h-street, — they belong to the same class. _— — dh Liles hy of Barley being less 
London, and 17, New Park-stree Inventors | Turnips, as = formerly pointed out, require a to understand the p P dent of nitrogenous 
and Manufacturers of the Tapera CONICAL ana DOUBLE a hen | exhausting or more independent of nitr 5 
CYLINDRICAL BO BOILERS, respectfully solicit the attention of pri large amount of ammoniacal manures when manures than the Wheat (or Barley) which is grown ` 
aas ts to their muck Improved method of | sown in the eur part of March; superphosphate ial months of spring? We 
k System to Pineries, Propagating Houses, 1 then no virtue in it, for it is quite powerless at through the cold, ungenial mo 415 . 
‘me ‘atmospheric heat as well as bottom heat is | mas Men: bth aed » | should think not. But w. e trust tha y . : 
— * N egree, without the aid of pipes or flues, | that 1 But under 1 vivilying influences oa e ee sg most sceptical on a 
— . pinra- moria ee e request of numerous of the m nth of Jun works onders and i ye t We would, however, be as little Behne ted. ey 
„by which the cost ie reduced. These Per hice effects in ‘promoting the . — Tarnips at thi at pus point g theOat 
Aro now 0 well í cel uire description ; b magical, an ence woul 
those who hay nos seed’ thes in. in operation, “prospectuses wil called thei thet n e > Ths dtm hate or ped y crops k Sae piar manire 2e with 
2 ma, arded, as well aas most of the re Nobility’ lanes auth — Aer ipal | conditions, it will be peil are quite as essen- to re eee te, growi tthe 
Nurseries throughout th ia for producing rapidity of gro . hick both ee Da 
u, N. wert ache Rec to inform form the Trado — eke oh omen with this mineral substance. The same quantity of PORE = mis che ith Sona: Mae 
of} 1 r heating them, may ammoniacal manure which would be required to |810 f ni y 3 
be obtained upon the most advan een eee Turnips at one season 5 0 dee in r 9 
ornamental d ores, čo We op Wood, ere erected on A Gaidon wold be — at another rtant cit Se in. the 
and * 
Fences, Wire-work, ke. It 5 a singular fact, but which seems a 19 progress ss of their agric keg 
almost escaped observation, that the principle jus ae 38 
The titural Gasette noticed, which is so broadly and beautifully ot in THE METHODS OF DETECTING ADULTERA- 
* | the e Turnip, can be very distinctly rec in the TIONS IN GUANO. 
SATURDA Y, JANUARY 17, 1852. | greater number of our cultivated plants. One is thus 
FOLLO è ed alm 5 to — 772 that there is some an ss Bo 
— . Fele rientru Kerker mp. Soe. of ent the requiremen animals and plants in regard t 
food. - In the 8 warmth is equivalent to a 
Pxnnars one of the greatest discrepancies at the | certain amount of food. In the plant we can as 
nt moment, between A a 4 2 and distinctly see that heat and moisture in the atmo- 
” of agriculture is found in the theoretical sphere are equivalent to a certain amount of 
