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tiny Plunt-houses—Experience of some three the poles to grow Palins and Pine Apples ? sua y 10 to 1b fi 
. ani d aeaa iir anihan — to speak well of the things happen, i it will be time enough to place Polmaise | although, like the English Thor 2 
plan of fumigating, recommended a short time since by | heating upon the sick list. ig 
Mr. Ayres. Indeed, for large houses I consider it the | conveying the air with more or. less velocity from one | Its gee a hedge-plant, is no ware an e 
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I thus far eed of N I do a n are also in orme P am Se mig r noinnati, go Si gora — e and 
dispensed with as Mr. es Wi —— us to osc <> r | the — of the equilibrium of the atmosphere by | Missouri ; and, in short, in all the middle and southern 
instance, while I adm : the sieve mode of fumigating the unequal distr bution of heat. The general tendency | states. Sonn of these hedges have been 8 ding 
to be excellent on a large scale, yet a minor pur- in such eireumstances is for the heavier columns to for 10 or 12 years; they were planted by gentlemen of 
poses it is — peng Fi aS a ; and I would advise displace the 3 ay fins the air at the surface to wealth and taste around their favourite w ks 
no one to- introduce it into their pits or frames of| move from the pol ards the equator. The only | grounds, at a time when the plants sold at the rate of 
Cucumbers, —— aed for if they do they will most supply for the air ar EN abstracted past the | 50 dollars per thousand. Among all who hay 
assuredly burn (if not their fingers) their plants. I had higher latitudes, must be produced by a counter- | on the subject, no unfavourable account has ever come 
ocular demonstration of this about two years ago, and | current in the upper ede of the atm nae nt g to my knowledge. The plant and the hedge are uni. 
have no hesitation in saying that I think Brown’s Patent back the air from the one ur ards the poles. The | versally admired and commende 5 and it is confidently 
be arpian as been sufficiently long before the public, to pesei of air ee ted by these opposite — believed by the 8 judges that it will double the rea} 
establish ae one of the most useful contri- is so nearly equal, that — average weight of the value of any farm it surrounds. But the community 
vances gd mer can possess. As applied to 88 it 8 by = barometer is the same in all ster of must first learn that there is as much. difference in the 
be said to be, in fact, a famigator for the million ; for, | the earth. I ag now ask =n who understand the | qu ality and comparative value of hedges, and h 
in this 3 improving age, where are they who do not secure | system, is there any mode heating buildings or | plants, as in houses, or dry goods, or pe ing else * 
from harm their it frame, or little plant-house, and | houses for plants that approac Bi so- near the natural | sale. “Recent w riters — merate its man 
standard — &e., where insect life is sure to (more system of heating the world as Polmaise? It would be tages: Ist. Its i tenacity of life i is — ualled, Ite 
or less), a bound under — circumstances? This honest if the opponents of the system would point it a native of the prairies, and will si on any soil where 
machine can be used with the most perfect safety and | out. If they would stand fire, we would giv pe em | common prairie Grass will grow. Overflowing the 
success, while the other contrivance cannot ; by it plants | 3 sch nearly all the * winds of the * —.— 5 es not harm it; it will live for weeks and 
can be subjected to the — of tobacco (aye, and Cap- such as Sirocco, which i sre 5 ag and relasings « mon entirely under water. The dead wood jg 
sicum), — or individually, without the operator the hot and pie d Simoom Arabi , or the Kamsin of excoedingiy hard and foma and fresh shoots from 
(however sensitive), suffering the least inconvenience. | robe or the Harmattan of ee ‘down to gt om ntle | the mp soon supply the place of all w 
1 Wee the comparative value of the one to be equi- eze, Or if they would stand smoke pares n hot have oa killed by fire or cutting. 2d. Its protection 
to that of the other, and both to be alike indis- a we would instantly turn the system into a i is perfect. It is armed with a very stout sharp thom 
— G. Fry bon n please or convince e them. If they | under each leaf, Its iron branches soon become sọ 
i Locher in Kew 8 How naughty it remai the house, they would have the interlocked that no domestic animal, and not even 
is of you, Mr. Editor, to set your influential face against hoor i of ‘ie clothed with one ton cloud of | common bird, can pass through it; both its us 
people —— allowed to recruit their —— entities | tobacco smoke, while the operator would scarcely ever | its bitter acrid juice prevent all animals and insects from 
in Kew w Gardens, especially as they have such an advo- — a smell of it. If any doubter or green-fly escaped | feeding on its branches, Its seed is like the 
ee m their side as the eloquent, — yet with their lives, they would remember the Polmaise and its roots like the Hickory; consequently it can 
practical 1 aren the great eat St. George of every | system of heating and fumigating e their dying day, | never spread into the field, either from the seed or from 
You are a bold | Peter Mackenzie, West Plean, Stirlin, the root, but 3 its own p ce, War dene 
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man, rn ervey but you are tilting in the dark, for — The following amoun unt tik fallen at Bognor thicker, year by year perfectly secures 
surely your scientific friend cannot be the mere cham- | during the last seven years :— orchards, fruit-yarde, aie sheep-blds, and pasture 
pion of the bodies of the visitors to Kew. No, depend gr ounds, from all thieves, dogs, wolves, &c. ; and one 
upon it, sir, he knows English peculiarities well ; he 1845. | 1946. 1847. | 1848, 1849. | 1950. | 1851, | good gate, hao} locked, makes a whole farm secure 
knows that. with the majority of our compatriots, ideas from all intruders of whateve er r a 3d, Its 
and —— enter the brain by the mouth, and he , ht salini abd den is a ans d. Its dense mass of dark green 
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ke reg — Siini of their palates. Do not sur- | March J 0.89 | 2.57 1.04 3.42 9.48 1.47 3.62 | Orange fruit, aii the hedge the most* beautiful we 
prised, sir, if, when he fully expresses his wishes, he | April ... | 1.32 Pact oct bend ceed ee beg ever beheld.” Thomas Lang, Kilmarnock, [It neither 
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H Great Britain. But it is quite 
2 The Seed Trade: 
4 | seed business is in the hands of druggists, who get their 
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shall be 33 vide in the various compartments | August 2 
f the gar certain viands that shall have some asso- October my Fi ia 
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2 How interesting it will be to December ...| 2.90| 1.80 3.88 3.73 290 2.10 07 iage into the Prineipality, and 
note,asone walks i ace 0.70 3 ag r paying sarriago into the p 15 
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27.20 | 32.64 | 20.38 | 37.20 28.31 27.73 21. 72 
sin —— — eek, to the Botanical Gar- It is perhaps worthy of mention that this ore is within what London retail pin eehh charge :—the different 
— Kew.” 0 Oh! that — of tea, singer eg | 250 ren, of Araka sea, and that this part of Sussex is varieties of Peas i 6d. per cust ; Beans, 7 
p cassee e me think II very being about 10 ps * rs Do rt; B li, 3d. .; Cabbages, 3d. do.; 
was in China, Tam sure I shall never forget those | James Graham Ber: 775 Lodge, B sale 3 3d. 8 ; Onio 5 84 de. è liom 
loves of Camellias, SAh, giris ! that was nothing to aa Press for Drying Plants —A friend informs me that | Radishes, 4d. per pint; Carrots, 6d. per Ib.; and all other 
turtle soup an 2 pun ey gave us in the big in the last number of the Chronicle, which I have not vegetable seeds are similarly low. I, as well as neigh 
ouse. By Jove! I shall zana dine at Guildhall with- nipin credit is given to me for a contrivance for bours who have pur eee seeds at Pree shops, have 
= ee up for those large Palm leaves, those tre- drying plants, which was described in the“ Botanical found them to produce good crops 0 
rns, and superb Musas.— vernor, I was | Gazette.” I hasten to reetify the oversight, and to refer name. How are chess facts to be Pcounted for Henry 
Botanical Gazette Bundy, Dynevor Castle, Llandilo. 
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what with the kangaroo-tail soup among the crises, | will see was from my valued cor 
bison-hump sandwiches, and sherry subband the jun., Esq., of Twi os ham. Alter Hasen e e e, 
middle = 3 Rhododendrons, Azalens, paba Magno-| Acacia dealbata ee * ther er Spring-flowering Plants.— = orieties 7 
lias, = : ry ge to the Cactus I bolted bang | Having seen, at p. 133, a notice of Acacia penran 
through it for fear I should = e obliged to top up with growing against a ay at Enfield, I am induced to m Horticutturat, March 16.— Sir CHARLES 
Aae 2 =, 2 rel“ — Fie; sir ! let people | tion one in my own garden, which was planted ee Bart., M. P., in the chair. nt, Esq., was 
earn. — vs 3 can there be if folks 20 years since, away from any wall; a severe winter, a a Fellow.—Am of exhibition Mr. ie “some 
should 3 ee gardens that are set aside for few seasons after it was put out, cut down the main gr. to the Among an arrr e 05 8 sent * 
scientifi tie mental pleasure ; and even stem, which induced it to send up three stron m sam admirab ecimens of Begonia manicata y ; 
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—— eae! i ance a lively nan be called) ; each of these shoots is about 23 feet It had the general aspect of hydrocotylifolia, but ac 
the scene be to eye of a painter or 3 igh, and eee elegantly grown. Should a little genial the constitutional vigour and som other Į more 
thief in the mouth sh eet a poet! Or if che weather succeed the present cold it will be a picture in | belonging to manicata ; while alee it ee aa 
nt swain anj k ape somes Sew days „ On the south of eacia | desirable er than either of its pran A 
9 „ ran specie, ho ike, become somnolent | stands a plant of Lucombe Oak, which takes away some | Medal P awarded The same exhibitor * 
would be to sie inom = “sie : tory that | mid-day sun from it. I can recommend e uet, with a view to to ith te a pool 
n of classic: lore to contemplate !| (Corbularia) tenuifolius as an earl q for travelling. * 
y and very hardy mode f packing such things ‘ 
— daam to be better paralle I The nes of string, about an inch of a square 
— ——— a 5 eeds the ye — fastened between the four opposite sides in the 
drink! Horrible! They do — thin on d re hardy, and ‘tke it is is well fitted for wooden box so a to intersect each other of the 
r is gs tler i in e gings of borderi en bulbs are now beautifully in middle ; “ey at different levels. e shank inter- 
peter ower here. In ano garden I have a bouquet down where the Int ai 
eating.—It t iswith pleasure wehave read Cyel 5 . pe thos pa d 
— on heating by wae aise, or circulating the a lake er aggre — on = te honders of the sect, embedded up to the flowers in damp ‘his af od 
use round surface. t out last year ; it flowered firmly to th ttom of the box. In į 
— in 1849, 60 2 ~~ and a 208. ot up sin antumn, and yes terday I observed a flower-stalk bou aoe is ke x pea aae position and ere 1 45 L 
heated it a manner viating — ae The an is ligh an effort to form its seed-vessel | Wat ust add P hat the interest of such exhibi 
little — the old brick — but on — prinei iple of ad heen a ee esc, a valuable this would enhanced: if they 
Polmaise, of bringing the hot air 
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r, appear quite | dissima : rious little deep ye rocesses in 
y as C. Titra, ai Young, Elm Cottage, called: s te with needle-lik * 
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khamste lace fof | four plants © 
hing whe on a question is put b u aa Sue Orange ——— — — oe eee 3 car and a good 2 — 
ardy in | bilis, whose flowers were, however 
a im a answer it by askin ving 
ng another. England. The followi i 
Pol N ing is a — tion of the pl heir ha was 
0 2 nega piens. scar =$ — pass e Turner, of Tacksonvi — Illo — vee 3 ye ifion : — of apar ; 
bs mein d dead or dying? | idéal of a wth i i 22 — — 
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n ws that! thvcenite Pp Osage Orange, the | Camellias named Duchess of oleae, Ma 15 
os te hedge-plant — — ee States, has already | | The petal 
tio: latter is a promising deep tre of each 
ion of the tion. It grows in “a * wilds of peage with a w ipe down sent a fine © 
: North America „ Mrs, Lawrence sent a ” 
it at e regions farther north than New York,and further south | of the Hone on i n kinnthus reticuatus te 1 
