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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
85 
I found that 50 of these ova 3 70 grains; 
5 lbs. 1 ir- 
ts an e well as other enemies of which 
we know nothing, d 0 ge 99 in every 
100, we should ill have 250 salmon produced from one 
fish ; if 10 pawned in a r, this wouid 
give a progeny of 25,000 salmon—an ample stock for a 
— Iti e, the fish I have been 
a large one; but we can afford to vom 
them by — and still have something to loo 
I said that estimates like the — are a 
e, and of course m can 
in the - but, . 
t I can learn of “the — of salm 
from w. 
ing in in upper — of the Ribble, and of the a quan- 
tity of — and smelts which make their ap 
in the pools of the river in a drough 
a considerably larger proportion than one in 100 goes 
down to the sea as salm 
— —— of the abundance of salmon, pro- 
vided the fish could efficiently * whilst 
pa t this is more easily said than do In 
saw, a few days ago, copied — ie 
— it was stated that the destruction of salmon 
is bodes no 5 to the 
of salmon, but I will repeat a question which I 
have asked before 
assistance in protecting — . ning 
when iiey are seldom allowed“ to s en in 
season they to furnish 5 foe helpers, 
at great expense ge personal mes for the sake of 
—— the revenues of the o h 
at the m 
tainly not the profit, for they are 5 
(at least in this Senn ood) to take all the trouble 
and be p — the expense of protection, and receive no 
re i for 
ter 
it. t the pleasure, 
aimoyed b + thre i 
ty May, I think th that | i 
fa 
Cuthill, Camberwell. 
BL 
I BEG tos 
2 3 cloth might 
linen would be ee 5 
of 1 a shading foe 5 
a respects, be m 
at an * — ea 
its durabilit 
B 
INDS FOR GLASS HOUSES. 
he annexed sketch of a = 
ubmit to you t 
for working the blinds for covering a te ouse, 
prevent radiation during the night. For -= ee 
ht be desired; but if coarse 
3 ad 
weight to the back wall. The liren blind should be tanned, 
nothing | to in ility. 
ay relation to the scorching of 6 2 dryness of str 
ve 
Polmai 
temperature equal throughout, the e of fuel 
small, and noxious insects entirely absen 
| esteemed by the higher classes in all countries. James | 
would afford ag convenience 
The a 
ould be necessary to carry the 
that the 
difie 
— * satisfactorily y, the 
c 
blackbird sus R in peny situauou out of doo 
his is do one, with a v “harden ” the birds! 
h without an over-coat, and let him sit * 
entire 47 on the top of a high pee in a epee street. 
The “air” would do him good—at this 
t were vain for us to wield our 
ird ed’ be 
h 
ano part, we ar 
saluted on we pass under, or within sight of their cages. 
The force of our remar its naked truth 
ab 
asons, with 
— to — gg ene pCR y-larks, ae &e., &e., 
n every vari They tremble in the wind ! 
KE PPY ter 2 !” have 
often davies ej pun pt this 
publie thoroughfare. , These birds kave been 8 nay birds 
well chop en in the first instance ; arene 
ney 
wiry, i ious, 
oes sud u “painful” 
hav eir 
musical hae : ce 
would we care to call 
as setting = vc 
tical — Ta Ta 
OTHERS. 
The proper food 
is— 
N 
interfering with the poachers ; it may be the honour ! 
the hono ch Mr. A. B., at Peebles, egg. The 
at Whitewell, or Mr. . F., in the Welch moun tains, o A, the blind, fixed upon upon B, the rulers t a pre Well on a as general food. A ps of chee 
Mr. T. G., at Clitheroe, will derive from protecting "the o which run on iron supports fixed to the r: It and butter, a snail, an ear-wig, or a spider, varied wi 
salmon whilst spawning in the Tweed, t er, the is worked b he grooved pulley C, 5 or 91 — | in rH meal-orms—wvil kee 5 hearty for very many 
Severn, or the Ribble, that the owners sheries diameter The ord D D, one end of which is fixed to{ years. in ear in nmin th at your birds Should be 
the mouths of these care (except the Hodder), may | the pulley, d then descents rendered and f if possible. Attend to 
let them at an incre ren repea a ough an o jee ae made at the upper corner of the | them yours and e them s see that you are inter 
I know — that until ae “pper. proprietors have an | adjoining sash, pulley E, 24 3 inches u in their Careful observers are they of all per- 
interest in the preservation of the fish, it will be un- A which is ge the moving power, sonal 3 and never 3 to reciprocate the feeling. 
reasonable to expect that Fo shoud take great pains 
to tages e them. 
Now only way to give them an 2 in the 
5 of = fish is to allow 
n the rth 
fishing might a day for 
re 
antity of salmon 
have the bret 5 — of catching 
va iis The late Chapman, of 
may be es among — — growers 
herb. e first to cultiv 
suttings, and strikes 
= ge se dividing 
forcing, 
tinue in 
n 
strong = ey soil. This herb is paik 
a 
its b ee ge — Hcy * an apt 2 8 
the fish that m Beana esate Dan . 
* Thela 
just met wie 
— hena 
o have some sas 
8 
drawn down a e weight F 
more slowly), i 
e rod to hoo 8 
ct, 
= 
the rafter. The escape 
cord may be 
ese raw ee t 
light roof of ai zine or galvan 
the whole length of the 
interfere with the blind 3 k whole widi th o 
he blind, in the lower end of w 
i co 
; W 
wire e, 4 0 
preva the rot roms cesta ae glass, The blind being 
of a weight F tol it stretched and prevents the action 
nhook the Ai s, when the weight a 
he 
rackets, batted into the ae of, the wall, ought to 
hou 
sagen? 
hich is 3 
res e 
© 
J 
ecessary, a 8 
es from the rafter. „ will 
at the same e ascending 
2 ch end 4 
the pressure 
a looped cord a 
rame, II, rook 
oved, it is 
Bots thi 
n, K, supported = iron 
that the placing the pulley 
sash, ma . * it necess 
na ately, 3 inches higher 
and low 
if the breadth of the side piece 5 
sufficient se T 5 the p 
ash. 
escend in 
b — spac 
n for — duplication of the 1 — vordi is, tha 
ce for f the w 
of a blind over the ices 
ary > ee the rollers alter- 
= the rafter. But 
ile) of the sash be 
“each cord may 
pad then 
mark tha = 
usually k wmi than m hig. 
act with greate: 
pers and a smaller co 
fewer convolutions of the 
r power 
; J. Stewart Hepburn, Colquhalzie, near 
et 2 No. LXV.—We can 
35 this 
rd wea then be sufficien 
BRITISH SONG BIRDS. 
(Cace Braps, No, 48) e musi 
can scarcely pass through any of the | of the 
season, without observing a | also 
weight is 
of the roo’ vered 
A lighter 
t, 
cord 5 the pulley. 
rief. 
t can tame anything ; ay 
aH before it. 
The 
| consider that 7 85 
| splashin 
a 
noticing it— 
cov 
But if for zi reception of arly 
the 3 to allow it to Pei d just far enough to roll | sistin 
1 | UP the blind, it pes t be hung directly -e a ply, 
and fricti upo 
i 
A 
y- 
Fyrst of arepa was eber yet known to fail, in our 
ory, in any one instance where the heart 
csi into i eee to please. We must all fall 
Try it. 
reason why many te ed Loot Com oe 
come subject to “ cramp,’ 
ith 
clea Stas 
— 
w 
remain brace EA 
damp from causes sufficie 
greg are ashing and 
this operation ae — 5 their sand 
We have said that these birds are the best. 
note will never 
kept 
ive; 
3 wild ” 
y are 
ange, 
with Foes easing of parr 
the sooner thei neck 
Barth af ria them, = 
lackbird, of whom 
0 
