38 THE ¢ 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
hundred large wax anata, hay a otected by any glass, 
being as steady as if they w 
it 
k going through the Ho the “ hai 
n Ken i one William ‘Knell obtained 
t high, divided into five sto- 
ries, and hanjog by steam- Ge and a hot-air blast. The 
is first placed. on che top | floor, and i ismoveda 
nee, | fall 
e burnt i in a sma U sitting- ji 
„than half the following months. 
the enormous quantity of 29 092 
October, November, and 
9:713; November, 
3 and Se ptember 
en, since then 
as fallen 
10:726; December, 8'653. 
were dry m 
fell in yon 3°88 being 
ona = ait is sey 
wens shows this year onl 
ather a heavy price for our beautiful 
y of rain, but the 
ur wettest 
gr: dry, req 
of it lie es flat, most, of i 
i V bro 
ren nds, it is dried off, and ready rece ne. maskah; in 
e for 
ell 
principl ere to give our 
exotic A Aho just before. perfecting Sa or 2 a few 
days or weeks, according to eren e same 
hi seed in better 
> quality dry” 
No heat will be sufficient 
to form the N and fecundate the seed and gather 
its future ee in the stalk, but there it will stop. 
The sum asing will either 
food n much ad es sun and 5 5 
seeds and tubers it is pro 
with se 
floors heated from below * the Polmaise 
ciple. It is not improbable, b 
seeds might be thus a 
wie 
the contrast it 
Mors to bat has fallen heres, ** to the a ng. 
n their original 
would ued 
well Known that, the Wheat of hot countries keeps. much | 
bette Tull’s “ Husban 
or, in planta propagating more by seeds into the | 
ur climate the 
fallen at For 
che 12t 
cording. 
N 
consider a most im 
ö pe worked tes ha 3 _— 
3 
December 
im bensa a 17.60 
ble to the cerea 
seed put in 
d hots mer is favo 
early; and earl 
As far as my — — be 
. d * m from — crop of Wheat 2 Barley 
ow being threshed. The conditi he 
Wheat, ‘from ile hastily 8 is com — of, 
ied too after a ce fall of 
‘oper ration . 
eh al generally, |q 
ad 
crop ear 
F 
t 
the — — eultivated here to 
A dry su r suits this root, and we hee 
of ele quality, a cai it has rar 
— by t 
cake em he 
| are ihan 9 some cases 40 inches, and 
2 feet apart. I have never been able to 
Many parties 
who were induced to use I- inch pipes (so ae ge om — 
2 by some writers) have now abandone 
and even th 
ollo 8 shows the amount of rain which has 
Bury St. — 
am Hall, een 
1847. 
onths, comparatively À daning, these there 
less | 
e 
Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, and William 
Es f the. Eaş 
ont they Mey freel 
usplante 
angerous and insufficient, exeept for very. “er 3 pS a 
used were copper wires cut, in lengths, and 
poles, varying from 12 to 16 feet in length, whi 
aced about 
r The re 
2 experiment was, that in the peon of low 
“ Mill Field,” SA the d 
were grown seeds, presen 
iseas 
— 2 4 red. n pans 
~ and placed on hot-beds o on ste an Mar ia 
of the German seedli ngs was four pounds, and th 
“i ees weight 30, 
e haulm of boti 
ould not, from these facts, appear i 
seed has much effec 
2 
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8 
5 
= 
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t 
2 
z 
Z 
J TA, at which period Pee were 
me of th 
aa uate 
em near] a 
a 1 The 
- 
oe 
— — * 
September 
„„ 
5 sed 9 ee. 2 
mber 
* 
. 
.. où v 
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ae .. * 
umber o 
So bieties. 
ROYAL ena SOCIETY, 
Extracts FROM MeD. ra 
pl 
0 f wet pay — ng 9 year ae 150, and 
Zz 227 215.— John Halliday, Fornham Hall, Bury St. 
seeds | Edmund’s, Jan. 10, T 
moyed, and the tubers planted, on te, first 
of of J Sa 3, after which, they soon vegeta 
scarcely one missing, in the couple sof — ort 
vig 
was 
rons to be of fair is average qi 
fully, gro The trea 
stn to might be be sup 
lated 
ecretary,, Mr. F. 
of, Botany, to institute several e: 
m. | mittee: of 
i a the Potato erop, n — a — of: esting the 
l 2 - — ; 
Ist. s of elect 
ere planed. 
ctober very 
sigan Se 
Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Nov., 7. 
„„Kebiews. 
to English Botany. 
2 from p. 271 of weine o 1887)" 
Since a tn sh 
Peet mo hope tine he ares tiv 
from. it by a large increase of subscribers. 
