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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
you they ao the most harm; y 
le centr 
pe ist * 10 fect OL mest from ire 
wil stan — is usually low; and 15 fee 
cr ‘height to ‘assign to it. 
will be more injuri 
reater 
111 ma 
98 857 Mice! 
he begt pay 107. a pe $. 
acre on 100 acres, to sa Ad. ! This bs ‘hd 
d pi beatin gf 
wW 
e 
e+ 
o 
from 
ana leave it to perish, 5 the farmer finds the influence 
the field, 
that 
seasons, rescuing t them 
ert F the miry 1 for which single pur 
of age sheltered bý 
taste, = an pst 
they ever will rent.— 
„Yew Poisonous. to Ca ttle. —I beg to send a two 
Yew. 
I 
wi 
ious im- p 
dis- | the solution of saltpetre. 
ore than i 
is 10s. 434. ee o ‘and paiol lost 
the wee | 
e | and hollow 
ee e 97 be mixed with the popen ora beamed 
| solut salt may be employed —F. L.— 
onfined for too great length of ‘inthe, 
at p. 173, 
Ww het hex er ang ee z this 
kind exag not nyot 
at t tobacco- smo oke ritte will "injure pereti 
if the fumigation be very 
10 wever, in sA ee, 
Fis 
a 
u 
fumigation with tobacco, aud t 
8 
is ‘ideals m, 
and Calceolaria eng young) the e sus- 
n to the most deii- 
eet gehen — with 
if uation i 
—A well 1 
th 
s of 
ily 
there a 
geg at which vegetatio 
cess of hot and dense vapout, 
vere frost, or cold 
their blos- 
e 
viz., the employm 
am an Hollow brick 11 ee sa i 6 ae de oF ik 
ed out in the 
52? 
is then evaporated in 
9 at once a excess of vapour or any heatiug to 
wie n sm 
i ene e flues I have long considered these 
of ‘the deck ae W too much water when irik 
ously. 
to have killed a valuable horse belonging to one of my 
neigh n Sa y last, which died in a few hours 
after bein pect tot cua ps small 
which the carter reels 
and thought it e 
other Yew i is 5 in our neighbourhood, not to 
7 if you will make this 
of che public, and at the 
give we an whether either or both 
and took out of veh mouth, 
hava 
rtion of it, but | D 
n cont These bricks, too, pos consider. 
able advantage over sak or other aer of pottery |i 
of t a 
Park, M 
Habits of te Yellow or Grey-headed vire 
Three mon ago I sent you some accou 
practices ¢ os a vind < oe, pee genus 
of the 
* . 
of my h ated that it was con- 
stantly in the habit ‘of fat ern w as and tapping the 
i | glass, sometimes o metimes another, 
0 
Hales. lone of the Yews is the common 
kind, the other looks like the Irish. Both uall 
. The danger pe in * leaves. 
certain lo 
preity cottage by the road 
against the walle: r several y ll and with the eer 
tion of pruning, the only care bestowed u 
upon it was not 
aecomplished by the old lady of the house, who eder 
it ocezsi: d tea after 
a 
e siz 
1} foot high, as large as A N TEN 
Railway Sleepers.— G 
in “ 
9 inehes in pte in STA ears, at-9 feet eas h 
base, he will ea ew rick, Atte = 
Fumigation. a trouble required to make tobacco 
burn induced m try the expedient of 
witha heb xpedient o Se 
eq 
The succu- 
are harmless. ot undertake to 
preseribe in galis cane, beyond emptying the stomach 
as 
rs 
object 
li hours of the day, be bank tat a 1 door on the 
1 side was its favo esort. There it . 
reh for a few n the window- 7 
peck on the glass, b ut in general it did 8 $ the 
is practice was continued up to a i Cena 
on not so cooky as the 3 prow mampi — 
the bird has een 
ae given by the 
the ga. reflection of its own ere. 
r the subject of this notice was the 
ph {Cate Motacilla flava (Ray), the 
Vaa r the B 
of a ba. ter 88 tint 
ee late 1 “of oan 188 which w ust, 
3 cogent ye: rd. Both varieties are ve: yy 
A isit be repeated ue year, I propose 
0 Baa ng o a looking-glass, to test the motive of the 
| practice shove oken * 
re for Hollies, On a trip in 
with a hedge of Hollies, 0 bes H 
prensa f bello 
My mode of ‘atte it is to to place portions os = the shane 
80 prepared in common garden rs or pans in 
the 
various pa f 
smoke, ais a ae rai house, which saon Soon fills with 
tabacco may be put into an iron 
18 para- pettieoat 
u ider the 
lay near and parallel, and ch the ts of 
Hollies had access. Soap: suds and lye, in parti- 
cular, the owner had here in another garden, 
and found equally beneficial to them. I have known 
a = to avail itself of a contiguous drain, and pro 
m x 
d| For the six finest 3 of “Ca 
; | was assigned to Mr. Foulis, gr. to 
„ e 
of s 
ticularly « dari ing the period | an 
ing t 8 
nature to per percolation.— James gr. t 
reh 10. 
were alates 
vas 
d | to 
8, in the most beautiful state of luxuriance ; and | Am 
in ed that this inly owin 
(Manon CH 18) 
the bunch weighing several = 
she —— cane = 4 Up yet pn ia 
[Bouse w in 0 7 m 
oy 18 urn — yellow, Which; k — 
z aras ae 
evered f 
7 ints a ial Recolieeiions PS earl 
now count above 60 yea 
ussia, and I 
uk resided so 8 ante d! ; 
days n 
uce the same effect in this coun try, I havealw 
unsuccessful, both as to —_ ree growth 
retenc i 
wed. Th ari 0 of — planti ai diff 
appliance causes me to ask why s erent, and 
— ad the Bose wr 0 
prop would astonish the English — — 
behold the stows period it takes to sina the pods from. 
the time of sowing.—C. P 
orieties, 
OYAL CALEDONIAN Horticunty j 
W. aes Esq., in the chairi — 
Xperimental 
gar rden exhibited a brilliant aly 2 flow and the: 
weather being propitious, there ps 
kinds were im 
a 
ae 
est varie 
Alg, 
mberti rosea; ; and a 2d bo 
and E. melanthera, the later, 
let to Mr. Reid; for 
articles of intere 
d Haig exhibited a ‘collection of very fine plants, i 
Dendrobium nob egonia manicata of very l 
size, Franciscea — — also the curious òp 
—.— s picta and Aneectochilus 2 ; for — 
silve — was e Honorary — 
— Cossar, a to Lady Hay, et 
Black — (A. orientale), 
irably 
grown Hyacin 
Dieksons and Sons, for beautiful “yaa ed ee 
seen 
d Rhodes 
bloomed — of Erica melanth 
r. Carstairs, for fine H 
Mt: J. H M 
the Intermediate S 
eam- | well- 
for 
splendidum ; to a Macnaughton, fi 
T art., fi 
ut two specimens ree rve p 
ed in 
B 
his pictures que TE beautiful — x the highest slate 
luxuria succulent trunk 10 fi 
oy 8 1 pr es the 
es long. e r. ing 0 en pods 
chat i best in es deep rich | 
y sia . bee mets — 
ter arriving at 
pen on as the teks ba atop 
balls 4 ig num 
and wholly grown in hypnum 
supplied as in the ease of the 
r the last three three years, 
— it has never failed to produet 
