THE 
necessary € 
but if 02 speci are ti o as 
the branc hes rater t thin, and the divéetons for last 
boom 3 attended to, they will probably 
ring Those urpera tomed to the 
piant wl do do well, however, to affo 
especially 
about 45°, In 
rd i 
uring damp weat 
maie the specimens in a gentle growing heat 
about 55°, where air can be freely admitted whenever 
sheep cot 
y | door, two 
low tiled roof. 
was m i 
hails as some ight he oad 1 fire in the middl e, and “often 
raised ranches. 
ta sheer gs 
her. in 
of | the er ea ye that 
e fire 
the 
near but that this ‘id n he 8 —— the | 
ing as 
. 
His floor was oe ee csi one 
cave ‘han anything else 
a flame with Pin This kind of fuel 
aped through the 
re not bedded 
erature w. 
the weather tha 
moist, to induce 
commences give a liberal shift, sa; 
t 
ulation of air, ~~ avoiding = 
„which, when allowed to pass over the age 
i are the cause o 
shaded for a few hours 
Samy to thros e p 
flowering, at least large specim — ey seldom turn 
out — — when kept for f farther use. ings 
rooted early in oe and grown as rapidly as 
as easily wintered as plants that 
have not ood, — will make good specimens the 
following season. 
Rich turfy peat and sandy turfy 8 in about equal 
of sharp sand 
hou up carefully w 
8 all but the | a and tat m — with the 
wor 
plants to break freely. When 
tha 
u 
f the 
mus 
lants after worm 
with that of the atmosphere, or sapi so. 
w amp the 
mence to feed with — avidity. 
ee 
eas 
anh 
no La pete 
rm-blooded, 
ona = moist and high, 
surfaces of the 
e corresponds 
When the 
are cold and dam orpi 
they w 
will soon become dry, a 
idi This is stated fr 
naa are in eee = 
the plants are 
“ee . BD OD 3 
Sage eng re 
e rae 
SILK WORMS. 
Continued from page 484.) 
Appears to be the greatest causes . failure in 
silkworms in the United Kingdom 
Ist, Bad e in conseque 
worms become damp, diseased, = successively die 
in great numbers at each moultin 
suficient food, 
When too great a 
tree, 
e off jt 
and i 
by 
and in order to ascertain 
he took the the 9 | to visit a era bee gaa er 
small nurse of silkworms in differe eee 
. that th 
in ing the si 
used as kitchens, was owing to kindli 
nee day for cooking, and the ashy cf tree 
8 
tain t fire 
in motion, or 5 it by = 
Dur 
tion 
ery ena whether any system of 9 
ects bj well as a clear open fire, 
pot 
tate, rye water n after potting, till the roots lay | e 
ut liberally when 
It is fire-heat e applied. 
great 
nce of “which the | retarde 
se 
> j AR n A too early 
s mad 
For of food] 
of 
rm course 
were produced u 
whole co 
ererig taken to pict seeds Ban ik 
thi 
in most c 
Gons have not been pr 
begin to 
stated, medy t the great 
from 8 vill be. sufficiently obvious, 
he other namely, wan 
too early he of oe 
he trees. 
gig aurantiaca, 
f 
n observation, the course 
“the original plant with flowers 
n the first instance, a varie 
white 
was apts as follows, 
loured ty 
te; afterwards, variegations 
gave, 
entirely 
with ers 
were e e from this T variety on its returning 
wards the coloured t 
nee of eg which w 
as yet perfectly comprehend, a variety entirely |t 
d with transition, t that is to say 
to colourless or 
5 ie toe bim- 
ter o 
* with flowers r3 N of the [t 
type; ; n subseque 
cases completely fixe 
th, and so es only one-tmenti th 
ole surface ; ; but then, in in he following gen = 
peer coloured become r t 
those are variegated, the coloured ee e 
predominate. Among the first so 
8. 2 
= 
a 
| it is 
ey is evident 
are 
o | reproduce them 
t of 
qual 
- | if his Vine wili not snags pis forth 
Iti h s them ; he 
j win 
sowings there proper 
are generally a number 
the pauio disposition to 
OA 
of plants entirely white 
1 Original colou, 
en hang Maen. 
1 
ong the 8 y which I have 
already so co omplete yas fixed that it is now tn 
in the order — ey ie been natn — 
gated Gomphrena Senne An um maj 4 
var i 
This 1 sort w 
duced by a — with — pale lilac flowers in 
towards another with bright violet, from which it 
n sprung. 
Other three varieties have been but x ten 2 
urs, nt 
were mostly gao 
Jardins de l Eur 
Hot ome Correspondence. 
Melon Growing.—I pr ne Melons in boxes 
12 inches mi and 18 inches deep, placed over hot 
water pipes in fro e ee The boxes rier 
the pes of each light, 6 inches from the glass. The 
8 a light made trellis 10 age 
above dimensions takes 
ine a Helpm 
to refer their neighbours, 
pith of his weekly cale ndarial 
aul g in which 14 ip 
und an incentive to the, peras 
is gratifyin to so many broth 
following the simple system of Clement Hoar but 7 
so anxious to e ng it in words which cannot d 
i or four lines 
— bas that I 
of the „ to ask you 
of “ “ply — “for I T oonclude that we must 
e, 
pn 
to allow me, by way 
si * ; 
a — i 
cal 373) y tter w 0 
rea (page ) 2 e plied toan a maii 
aw rods from each i 
and the ng 
f, in zddition to thi 
hams want have grown from the old rods joint oon 
ast px ahe: bs Aoa une, bina at if 1 forth IF a 
18 1 state, that the 
beyond 
rods were 
he cultivator 
however, shoots ju 
trange ways. The growing wood 
any snare, provided it has enough sun 
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