38—1852.] 
not being a chemist myself, I attri- 
se of charcoal ; and n 
buted the wonderful effects to its valuable antiputrescent | 
leaves, and here obtains the ‘breath of life, from the 
electricity evolved in the ex xygen for 
— therefore, the —5 Id] be nil as to its 
— the sap descends, or the blood thus unpurified 
the tuber, et rots, 
— want of life. Such is 
is used, what is 
— is supplied with more carbon (peat charcoal con- 
tains 96 per cent. of carbon.—Hera 
absorbs 
more of the latter — 
plant possesses gren! 
vitality, — — breath of life’ of the — 
h 
writer.’ Never 
ving 
as to the value 
reaso’ 
and, in fact, for any — esculents, I have . ieli 
ers. 
bit of growing 
ition 
e above might be interes te to your read 
Lilly, tonbu I 284 
—4 field Potatoes every pote 
bstance a broadcast sowing be more 
eficient, to — — 14. B. [Use the 
t plan. 
Virgilia capensis.—I age a sprig and a aane of 
this hardy and evergreen shrub ; it will 
— elimb beautifully. R have grown it Sere aa as a bush, 
ut we 
is a spp sh not often to be 
— beautiful 2 N. J. B 
capensis, a beautiful tree 
THE GARDENERS’ 
ps, bee and upset all the grow 
crpat and this, from | cated to 
a broken one-light frame over 
several ings grew up, in 
plants ; here they continued to grow well de 
when I balls of 
72 flowers are 
7 inches wide; 
. hall, 
dou flowers 
it is a einig — fari a ady room 
statuary, &e. I ha 
ion 0 
growers ‘it has 
occasio 
and males spring up where they were — ‘hooked 
wer's calculation. It is us 
2 
2 
8 
R 
— 
at. £31 
CHRONICLE. 
hot- 
2 oz. of seeds i mer besides the eed John Street, | 
ia 
n the eee * oh our | 
ten been a of a 
or to to run 
not at 
rge and wide glass, much breakage arises 
from n frost, Le.! Your correspondent at — so 
20 — Should I putty all laps and leave the 
out at bo on Mr. Rivers’ plan f and 
matters will g rently o cig 
Potato Seed.— 
Tiri 
much 
at indiscriminate manner! F. S. A. C. 
[We 1 join our ent in the hope that 
| words may be used 
at p. 5 
tat — 
corrosive sublimate, I beg to 
and in the — an 
oases an hothouse anid in no beer 
fact T mop egi = wa 
my opini 
— and which accounts for the seeds vegetating — 
nds where, to the casual observer, no 
— is to be found. To the scientific observer —— is 
o- Sex te one or two 
mal t — olin — wing 
, a male plan uces a few perfect gro 
seeds. The — sketch was made from a 
N A 2 r ~ ww, 
E 2 
N * a] 
my, 
— 
Masters, 
Sweet-Peas.—It Aan É ee e possibly be be — —— ding, that 
from one self-so have 
grown te immense number of 2 1 90 Peas 
4 
igh wall with a rn aspec 
shine on a te teig til 12 o’clock ; 33 it begins flower- 
of May and June, and 
ourish, long-re 
of 18367-8; i 8; in — —— spring of 1838 it was first taken up; 
it was a mass which I replanted a 
ws sometimes | 
other. 
2 destroyed a ; the Pp 
ounce of corrosive 
a =F ramen aeaaea to 
to larger ones, Earth-w 
lice come to — surface d 
„Soon aft 
T 
th uds nearest the ; 
shoot to break as high as it had 
hich was within a foot of its top. Seven of 
+ N + * 4 3 
> the way of pam d within 12 12 
onths from —— ek. J 
$ 8 i 
Uses of a peaa cee ee nae ae from Pershore 
was a heath, 
] 
E 
$ 
— nformation statistically and other 
collected, it is found, that as a bod 
f ge 
eners 
have received ter 
fessional of siian e r responsi- 
pm A therefore attaches to them in — ngs d es 
ing the blessing to bees account, 
ouse.—" he some of your 1 — favour 
I am abou 
3 
ʻi 
„Roses, 
the buds cut off but two at the 
a 
i 
ag 
Ẹ 
top of 
— pai rte the tw 
; 
š 
should — e 
ui 
| 
taken 
and 
planted, previously removing with the snmp 
the stem, leaving only the 
lanti ine 
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