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.. .... being the third season snc, dhrow an ounce of powdered sulphur ios wal pa 
from ro in mild weather the straw is taken off. he plants were set, they are stronger and promise better 
Under oe Saa management, Endive is plentifully a at first. The fact of ‘the slugs attacking them of Read's) repeatedly squirted the w. upon 
supplied to the markets all the winter. Owing to the v piaz i is no ba proof of their ripeness and Kohi | sulphur till it was properly mixed ; ay while thus held 
dryness of the weather, and this king of 9 J. Abell, L in suspension, immediately syringed the Vines in every 
straw, it was had in good condition this year up to the; New Hardy Datious Plant. — Will you oblige me with | direction, using considerable force. This was within 
20th of March. Late planted Globe Avis might | the name of the enclosed bulb? I received it, with two or three days of their coming into bloom. When 
also be preserved by a handful of straw being laid | many other rare thin ngs from Pr. Drayton, 75 pe Royal I examined the Vines next day, I rejoiced greatly, for 
round them in autumn ; and in fact it is one of the very | Hospital, Greenwich, in the s shape of seed, 1 rs ago, not a particle of living mildew was visible even under 
t protecting materials with which I am acquainted. | and this is the first time of its flowering. 12 as been my microscope, but merely the dark spots, where the 
Iti is not only valuable for covering vegetables with, but | exposed to all Sac ge * these six years, in as unsheltered W forests had recently luxuriated, covered with heaps 
t. 
ere seasons, like that we hara ajo experienced, it | a e as could well be conceived, and treated like of their demolished stems, thrown together and glued 
often saves the crop of fruit wall trees, James Scillas, Hyaein ths, and Narcissi. I believe that it was into a paste by means of their own viscous covering, 
Cuthill, Denmark Hill, Camberwe U. collected in India, on high mountains, above 16,000 feet incrusted with the fine particles of sulphur, so as 
— oes are the sea. John H. Thomas, 16, John-street, Green- | resemble rocks of yellowish coral. If the mixture be 
wich, [This is Habranthus intermedius, razilian | applied properly, e 2 portion of the Vines will 
Home Correspondence. ga a . is a very unexpected discovery. ] sprinkled with the sulphur; for, by using sufficient 
Hardiness of the recently introduced nkfornian —Perhaps the porns ae section of Desh, j will fall like a mist or fine > Spray, and Tae, 
Ceanothes.—Believing that a few observations relative my Fange sler mae the best r to “ Delta’s” | it falls no mildew can live. I hav 
to the hardiness of Ceanothus papillosus, dentatus, and respecting it, Sa re a to illustrate | that t it is not killed sf ves A oy NON of dry ping 
rigidus might prove interesting, I have sent you the a 5 description. I consider that | but continues to thrive rvals of the particles 
following facts eting them :—In May, last year, having the top riveted on gives strength | of sulphur, which, in a 1 orm, do not come into 
I was requested to plant out one of each sort against a and steadiness to the apparatus, the only | immediate contact with it. Another eee of 
wail having a west aspect; I prepared a compost of moveable part being the funnel. Of course | the dry application is, that it does not adhere to the 
peat and loam in about eq in which I planted the contrivance admits of various modi- smooth upright petioles and ag parts, as will be found 
them ; they grew rapidly until late in the autumn, when fications ; for example, the top might be to be the case, when applied in the manner I have above 
began to entertain some doubts as to their safety made moveable, so as to slip over the sides described. Should the ak he appear again on the new 
during winter without protection, but as they were of the cylinder, like a lid; or the funnel | foliage, which I think very probable, the operation must 
planted for the purpose of testing their hardiness, they might be made “ funnel — 21 to slip | be repeated until the berries begin to colour, after which 
were left 1 and my great satisfaction they 
ha ainni th e nte 244 
as been covered with flowers si nee the 
> Kagera of others, and the Pipes gad ere i k 
„ rd party, that studies of this 
and is equally full of pretty blue flowers, which are n time, it will be some eaire air earn "that 
somewhat darker than those of papillosus, but not the t has been as successful wi 
oad, 2 eac ar and other ee 
atin and other plants i in which are commonly 
infested with the same species of mildew, which for this 
reason I have named “ Oidium commune.” I have 
w 
where pee! ot re , these fine Ceanothes 
cannot 3 too extensively plan ted; their beautiful 
shining foliage, ar exquisite blue flowers, render th 
objects of universal admiration. G. W. Mason, Foreman, rents of ughts | stopping the Potato mildew, at least in pits and small 
Northgate Nursery, Chichester. a choffer as that now represented will draw, and | plots, but 415 this * K have not yet tried it. 
Climate of the Jar North of Scotland. —Being particu- | that even in a close house. In se it can be kept F. J. Graham, C 3 
larly interested in subjects relating to climate, I beg burning in any house of ordinary construction, for} Poison for Ar eee, e potass, 1 drachm ; 
to offer a few observations suggested by reading “J. H.'s” | any length of time, with neither dose nor ventilator raspings of come 1 drachm together, and add 
reply (see p. 325) to your correspondent Mr. Webster open. And as a house, 40 feet long by A ro wide, | sugar to make a syrup. The pide vil eat this greedily, 
(see p.293). But as I have a few remarks to make on each | can be filled with hake in five minutes, “ need | and repent when too la 
of the 1 just * a I shall notice them in the | not be anxious about the 9 or hing of the Ligu vid Manure made “fro om "Poultry Dung. —I have 
i : as tobacco can be put in the apparatus fi articles on adulte- 
is com — vely uniform I have 1 time to time, as necessary, a long range of houses may rated guano, and my reason for writing is to call atten- 
pei — of observing but I must 2 be fumigated without re-lighting, and in a very short | tion to a home-made manure as if at beter tan 
Mr. Webster’s opini time. It is not necessary that the operator should any guano ever imported—I m dung. 
which influence the temper i 
constantly in the house with the apparatus, as he can | have used it for a considerable t tine, ay I now come 
- | ascertain from the Ee war whether or not it burns too | to the conclusion that opan ways to be employed in 
e fast; or, if preferred, the fumigator itself can be kept | a liquid state. I find excellent manure for 
ed outside ; for a knee’d or bent tube mi ight be fitted on to | almost all sorts of . pia, as well as vege- 
; which opera the top of the funnel, to turn in any direction, or be | tables, which it is desirable to grow quickly ; hard- 
beneficially in promoting a uniformity of climate in the | carried any distance. The experiment made by “A. B.” 2 nt plane do not form an exception, but for them 
Northern a of Scotland, are by no means is a 8 inconclusive ; hanging fire in te und to be used with greater caution. I put one 
indetermi In fact, it would be more difficult | a funnel is a very different affair oat naam itin a — ot 25 manure to fifty gallons of water, stirring it 
to apply a a heor that would account for the climate | cylinder, and causing 8 to pass through it. G. E., — pee: it is fit for use; half that quantit, "of dung is 
* ber than iform, as a reference to Fife. ent for plants in pots. J. Rust, 
the 8 = distinguished men, who have made Cure for Mildew on the Vine and other Plants.—The 72785 Brown Turkey Fig. — There are 8 
such matters their study, will show. The great first spot of mildew which has been gabi recorded a Prise Is growing here against a west aspect wall ; 
current of the Atlantic, to which you have already | to have been seen on the Grape Vine in this country, was rom one extremity to me “othe 58 ket 
1 and which has, at its commencement, its surface- | noticed by myself in the gardens of the Horticultural height. 17 foe, being 8 feet above the top of the wall 
water heated ich i it i i is i ing |b 
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islands do. Although we cannot account for the mild | it should break out so generally o on the Vine, both ‘inthis branches, eee Ter oat 2 er in the 
winters enjoyed by the inhabitants of those islands, | country and on the Continent, at the same time that the centre. The contrast be the bright fio 
without having recourse to this warm current, I cannot Botrytis infestans was 3 the Potato crop. the beautiful ee foli der * i Fig," viel forms 4 
tale leave of it without expressing my belief that it is not Various remedies have at times been suggested for both | lining to the er, has a very pleasing e 
to this ca ae sone that the uniformit ity o of temperature | species of mildew, although not the slightest encourage- trees are loaded “with fruit, and are swelling nicely, 
h seldom fail 
is Sa attributable ; for islands only | ment, by way of reward, has been hitherto offered, either many being as large as pigeons’ eggs. We 
a small note evaporation takes place during winter, by our Government or our great national societies,| having a good er yir = Ties: * this I partly Seagate io 
in conseq notwithstanding produce to the amount of millions was | leaving the trees e on natural course, never 
with clouds, ger not only prevent the earth „from every year falling a sacrifice beneath their insidious applying the knife to 88 any chance; if they grow 
being cooled, but radiates heat to it — heat ich | attacks. Why matters of such great importance to the uriant the haat plan, Thad, is to lay in as man: 
may have been pa d in the formation of le landed interest sho treated with such apathy the 8 hes as is convenient, which soon throws 
in the tropical seas. yey causes, combined with the | while palatial Schools of Design can be erected and | into bearing. J. J., Bodrhyddan, North Wales. 
* eurrents, 5585 pI believe, sufficient to accou nt | supported for the benefit chiefly of those c ed in 33 
for the climate < “in the turn my trade, I am at to ` t it is certain that, ih 
‘ aurion io e ten cad notice the information | but for the discoveries of men who have devoted the best 20 rie ties. 
a 2 to us by “J. H.“ in respect to the altitudes | part of their lives to the study of these fungi, with no 
Md t ripens on 8 and the Himalaya. other hope than that of increasing the stock of natural Royat Boranic, ERENG Park, May 29.— 
Cannot be accounted for more science, we might still have been in ignorance of sequence of an exhibition a: American 
pee H.’s” 3 does? At all events the cause of the destruction both of the Potato and the been announced to take place this te a 
iien f j : 
5 have been parti : I sa ce ht 0 i 
ripen at a greater altitude than at that I have at length hit upon a very simple method of | sufferi ring much from the wet, = poured in between 
i i 1 * * 2 S 
2 > Notwithstanding its being nearer the equator | applying sulphur, which has in a short time accomplished | the ri ridges of the canvas ¢ 
nae its summit ts a h | all that I could desire, namely, the total extirpation of — — — f i 
heat. ve and communicate radiant | the mildew from every part of my Vines. In the first] Linnean, May 24: ANNIVERSARY. — The fol owing ` 
Early Sty place, I had the stems and old branches painted with | gentlemen were elected offi e 
„ .—Cuthill’s “ Black 5 ” appears | sulphur and train oil; but in * of this, a 3 R. — Esq., President; W. Yarre 
ea dat place in every collection ; if I was 3 ago, 2 mildew any 0 J. J. Bennett, yg 8 
should like ¢ to send you i for fruit ga aod | petioles, and young wood. My vexhtion ‘at the enen ez, ‘Under-Secretary. 
sol pen Seer! 8 plants near 8 of N my crop for the third time drove me almost were 
ipened w any artificial appliance. Peai, to the regions of despair but after a little 5 | HD, Weil Fio, LD, G. R. Gray, ia. J. Re 
