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d taney, not much behind what the ag wider than the grating, so that the 3 heads, till 
are 2 a 1 Tsoi — — y only, covering they have 4 be lifted about by the handle with the 8 ease. the ; rate, bat der ie parent trunk THOS bu 
e 4 Peache pea aif Nectarines did not ripen So. far it nearly corresponds with Mr. Fry’s sauce. eing "0 remarkable 1 caused it to be drawn, and an 
their wood ast sv er, through the weather pan;” but our choffer has an iron top riveted on to it, 8 0 it is published in Loudon's « Arbus 
bein eee cold and binl consequently, w e have | having a hole in the middle about 4 inches in diameter, | My men friend was frequently talking ha i 
ve vey little fruit. Some 9 id new hybrid Fuchsias left | with a flange, over which is fitted a moveable funnel | cant, an pointed out with glee Some passages in “ Park. 
the open borders all winter, wich only a mulching of 2 fee t Bad = slipping it over the outside of the flange. inson; where John Trade 
1 over their 1 are pushing strong shoots. 8 inst used thus Vent a few em of | introducer of flowers. Whien the poor ae 
ia fulgens has succeeded perfectly in the same way. | charcoal a oi aaa them on the grating, put * died, at the age of 90, he left me eas a legacy 
$ m. a nurse re a mi 80. ti the * Paradisus terrestris;” and although 1 idk “ma 
me a bed of them last spring, which he had preserved | heated, then take it off and put in the Tobacco, swith a more costly books, vet I possess few to Wine" <a 
for several years in this manner, The Betor £ 5 ae little damp moss over it; replace the- pew and the | interest attaches, It is difficult to determi 
also stood without an protec ction :—Primula sinensis, Queen's own Tobacco-pipe” of the Londo ocks | but I do bee gs . Sa of the reasons zai maia, 
in the open border trosideros 1 ; : Weigela ronid sare burn it quicker.. Should the fire t threaten | a museum anterbury is traceable. to the conver 
rosea ; Forsythia iin ; and Hydrangea horten- to break through, which, from the strong a it is | sations with Riqueburgh about the 74 Ark off 
sis; a fine old plant against a south wall of Magnolia likely to do, a little damp moss put down the funnel | Tradesca If L am the means of 
grandiflora ra has now flowers upon it: these were formed prevents it, and keeps the smoke cool. Im aa add, that attention r the objects of preserving $ the ky 111 
in the autumn, and have made some small progress this is by far the most efficient contrivance for the | so remarkable a family, and. of * trifles to 
through the winter. Figs upon a south wall are show- purpose I have either seen or heard of. G. E., Fife the fund accumulating for t É pitale; 12 0 end 15 
ing fruit well. Standard Plums. and Pears. are now in e dee Tulins.— It would be so rae novel to addressing you will be Aland William Masters s, Beatie 
blossom; and although the past winter has been much d Tulips from Canada to gardening England. The Nursery, Canterbury, 
colder than its predecessor, still I think vegetation gene: bulbs do better here e with you, though perhaps the eg 2 —It is no a thing when the small 
which yore made goodly 
Pre 
y is more forward than „ year. John Webste {womens is not so fine, as we have such a stron ng sun. The e in use, for a robin to come and pere h himsels 
Gordon Castle, N. B., April 2 is only now living us. It has been a tedious and | on aha handle of the basket isto which they are being 
Vines.— In May 1849, so tie Vines were planted inthe erkis winter, as low as 27° below zero, a degree of g ee an see often not m more than a yard from the 
border of a greenhouse, etal eren through holes in cold of which English gardeners have no conception; Gather digging. time it is just the same ; and in 
front of the house, which made very e pro- still, scarcely any of our hardy stuff is lost. Foreing is severe we ane hi is very familiar, coming into hous 
gress the first ear. In the 9 they were cut down no joke in Canada. It may be interesting to state, that | and accepting such fare as is mia is ss ag ; 
to the holes, and in 1850 made very good shoots, which, last winter, when the cold was rt 8 all the fruit. dently more satisfaction and gratitude’ than is e 
in the winter, were again cut down to the top of te buds of. the chee and Cherry w totall estroyed, by many of bee more legitimate oceupants of such 
ights ; and in 1851 ma i only a very few being saved, which « were covered with | ings. But i ther that his 
oots, particularly the leading shoot, which had Game | snow. It seems, therefore, these will not endure 27° becomes so a 
ubarb. ine le: k 
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middle of these very strong shoots? Where three or Rain at Grantham, during 1351. —As the quantity then come and 
our of these very large leaves grew, there were no buds which fell cee seems to be smaller than that mentioned | him, much i same as 
formed ; the laterals of some of them were preserved, in any statement I have seen, some of your readers member one ve er many 
which does not seem to have in any way helped to the may oe to know es tual amount registered during | some men sin regularly at work in an o 
rantham i a in one our northern coun, 
formation of bu his tint, 1852, by bending the the ally n G is P saw-pit) in 
shoots, all the buds hay: ; but, owing to the ab- neighbourhood, ech no means é came so 
f buds for three or four e joints in the aang 0 Sadie ’s, and is situated about 15 day), and eat crumbs of bread out of the h 
they have a bare and awkward. appearance. an you feet from the ground. It will be seen by the subjoined | men ; it was ce t 
account ie this! D. [No.] return that tlie greatest quantity for any one e was the pretty bird flutterin 
Seed Trade. — The question as to the seed trade, which in July; and mad — eme amount for a day was on hazardous enterprise 
has been Of Tale to Stash ee Chronicle, is, the 25th of the onth, when there was inch | the fingersof the hand held out in friendahip to- him, an 
in fact, well discussed by Mr. Babbage in that chapter | 12-20ths. (The inch i is divided into 20th parts.) — after partaking of a crumb or two, would fi crate , 
of his work on the Economy of Machinery, which he ut speedily returned to finish his meal, at the conelu- 
entitles “On the Influence of Verification, on Price.“ is Inch 20ths of | sion of which he com monly ra a song for e bounty 
The money price of an article at any given period is pr cine T haat ai inch, awarded him. The long’ e ontinuation of the my 
usually stated to depend upon the proportion between — rendered our companion 850 indee od; i and. one. ob 
the supply and the demand. The average price of an January F j 6} |us generally made it a point of duty to attend om 2 
article during a long period is said to depend ultimately — oe ee 164 Sunday, and feed our little favourite, If he was not 
on the power of producing and selling i e ordi- | April of | there at the time a little noise soon brought him fiom 
profit on capi iag these principles, although | May ; - ) 8 | some neighbouring place—yet he seemed more cheerful 
in Ck „ are ediGed gäng s : 19} when he was the guest. of whole co 1917 
by the influence of sn ey that it s ssary to 40 104 one individual ; strutting about with a Pride 
ittle into the di bing forces. It may be September 6 noted his being conscious of his importanee; he 11255 
observed that the cos any article to the purchaser | October } 13} |s d z er himself as when all were | 
includes, besides the supply and demand, another ele- — 8 g 13 | towards hav — — when he had missed # 
ment, which, though often of little importance, is in a tee e — — |__| day’s s feeding, $ flutter abou ; aH 2 
c aar ga consequenee. The cost to the pur- nee — — 15 piece of bread a P ‘held 2 bn rg 
os rice he pays for any article, added to the A 5 * but usually it was held o 3 and. ol fine 
ost of ve rif ying the faet of its having that degree o Growth a Lucombe (Evergreen) Oak lanted by | not however, forget to mention. 7 — e 
peor ae for: which he contracts. In some 4 fi Robert wif ad on, in amis (h the a rk Septal site Lor weather made our little favourite less mig vlieh : 
goodne: the article is evident on mere inspection 3, Ducie’s 3 N e er, Gloucestershire ; soil, might be attributed to his obtaining more suit aroused 
and £ i | cal e lower oolite ; measured, ! 1805, eens or, perhaps, to his jenny 1 im, 18 
at different shops. The goodness of loaf sugar, for in- | girth at breast- ast high, U 8 1820, ditto, 77 inches; by some ruthless. hand endeavouring to praks 
ance, can be diseovered almost at a glance; and the _ ito, e s. M. 8. his kn aet boldness-had rendered him. rather Boe 
nsequence is, that the price is so uni orm, and the The ts.— the appeal made to the lovers ded in the neighbourhood. H. L. 
m N 025 p psyk that Á nage sei, at all on papa Natural sel by Sir William Hooker, Dr. You 
; whi st, on the other h 8 hich it is and yourself, ought to be responded to by the ee dart 
exccedingiyi ifficult to judge, aud which can be adul- to the. natural 2 generally, and by the Dodmans, Sorletles: 
te y mix i v gardening especiall 
ts 
tisel eye, has a great variety of different Mr. Bab- | were no Ordinary persons; the fact of their bei: HORTICULTURAL denen bur Me 
bage gives many other i tions of the same subject, ere as well a travellers. and e aii pe Matras Grey Eourton, Bart., M. dito 
Seda hes to the doctoring of Clover, Trefoil, and Fi; sure the stray rig or half-crowns of those who The annual Report of the 1 and Au ! 
ch excited the attention of the House of Com- rs in that favourite ourite pursuit; whilst th those (of a more and adopted. It stated, amo spoži 
mons ; the result is, that those who Bd to ensur 3 ass f| the last annive the Council had * e c 
good quality, eee or other articles easily adul- natural 1 onl who acknowledge tha Vahe of debt of the te ates had been incre vements. in the: 
‘ated, mu ‘Day in the price for the verification of the | museu have received j s from them 1112. 6s. 7d., in consequences of i ori is nom their 
Eg Ran i ome their own producers, as in the case | (and whe who has not ) should join in | perpetu ating the garden, which had cost 10447. 2e 24. It Een 
tile oF that oe e e found it n to names sake — of the first founders of museums pleasing 5 to announce that ebt no 
mills of their own, to avoid the falsification of an article in England. I possess a c rkinson’s “Garden of epin the year b imsi . 
whose adulte 4 is always difficult and costly to de- Pleasant Flowers,” 
re Messrs, | ri 
tect. u be content to go f less fav 
This or Mr. That, o kno character, aud pa, od fe he pava ap ry nd . e at ; or i i, ani : 
bater ips x good ae but th b X be Sometimes | descendant of one of the Wallo ho took refuge in believe that this has been effected 
went ike e . Age oe: SS seed, our city, after ving been driven _ * own the progressive improvement * 
T puspest ic e th p el, which | country by religious intolerance an These | or vie N pjece for which i 
sapa 5 autliy, honir f 1 1 * price for good seed; good men, as is well known, brought their s meae trade | The new regulations under which Fe 
The; great facility in "the pire rene of drugs, ‘and th the ia ae 1 in fact the teache eee Of Our Kenti sh | and friends we admitted an i 
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` notoriety of the practice, led, I believe, to the establish- | My friend’. i ; 
j 1870 ; “ pin sige y friend’s name was tis ee an 
ment of Apothecaries’-hall, w gs e sath silk weaver he was 4 a ay : iginal . ae a 
i ; fall asea as far 1 b d its origi 5 
1 phar tion 22 3 n “eq 3333 pin was concerne Fu . — — sy F ilove of the 140 a cket a ut „ 
nstitution as seeds might be died at che f9 piae -i 
e y es taht lished. Dodman. i - his fat father ‘had told hi hi and. he often related to me that 12, and introduce one friend wi dang 
im that a tae ta Seele lege may be transferred to a 2 
. 
oot fath 
f Eli „ T 3 whom 
gn of Queen Elizabeth He moreover told me that house, pan vith a tie — cket í iaei by 
ery | the a Y 
Black Bigarroon, 8 brought by him from Russia. | That is a sa, of free 
obtained from Circassia. Whils? largely tran say the pri but not the 1 25 5 the de . 
ing at Canterbury he planted sion. During the autumn the Po site permanent Ait i 
or his lo d immedi exhibition has been converted in 
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