11-1848. THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 3 
ent as to stick to your feet. The month of mean of 26.56646 inches.. But as the de h of rain has your correspondents furni 
e year has been sadly trying in this respect, | been fling off for the last four yea: — the abo aha mean teal direct ions on k ars 4 pias li rece, — 
for on some Jands no days have been favourable for will be fo i und to be too little for our locality ; hence, by as kindly re ed to — appeal. I have derived 
Patience is eg ed by delay y, but the rule interpolation we obtain the following annular j ; : 1 he 
wat to be adhered to, for Peas, Be eans, Onions, &c., 26.67457 ary for Epping, and which will n 
í epth o iation for prom uragi 
same remark fully — — to ee, | rain equal to 9.2404 inches, ka ay to 3871 * 4 trious and provident habits 83 oe ma 
tengo the soil is the better the crop will be. per acre, and in the last t y 7 A 2 was a decrease | classes, and have e i 
r 1 5 we Nature we shall not sow rap | deep, for of 5.4196 inches, or 2270 hogsheads, for the same area among 
ion shows that even without any covering, | of ground. Hen 
seeds will inate r. prosper. A Nuts, eus, end of the year, may be readily accounted for 
1 
dedu 
but when we cover them with soil, Seting . above-mentioned period of 26 yea 0 f produce, 
ly. If the ground is im A proper | they are as below, in inches an rate of an inch, | Ist Class Prizes, neatest and best cultivation : ist prize, 
be trodden or rolled in. Last year) viz.: January, 1.7704; February, 1.8272; Mareh, |10s.; 2d 2 „ 78. 6d.; 3d do., 5 2 3 4th do., 3s. In 
riter in the Chronicle, and 2 April, 1.7021; May, 1.8671 ; June, 2.178 ; addition to the money a hoe z 
n sown, with a heavy garden | July, 2.364; August, 2.6017 ; September, 2,82 js mo — eee Three. judges— Mr. ——. 
a of the plan ; Mer ene 3.0539 ; November, 2.8079 ; and December gar r, and Mr. es pect the 
as certainly excellent, less disposed to 125. Now * these may be considered permanent pe in May, July, and Se and report to 
inari r n gi the apea or 1 t quantities for each month in this place and the committee on the e day of exhibition, hah is fixed 
guard at | neighbourhood, we shall, by comparing past and future | for 11th October, which four of abe nants have best 
] x aligns covering = years, readily ascertain not only the total excess or de- | manured, weede and cropped t mhe — rdens, as well 
the 5 ree e | ficiency of any year under examination, but also the as kept the main road and fences surrounding them in 
rows of Peas and Beans, s, and upon seed-bed same for the monthly divisions of the said period. For | the most perfect order. 2d Class, peeimens of vege- 
the Peas are up, 43 sticks are on the ig for their aor. let us take the last year (1847) as an example, | tables to be exhibited on the day of show. Carrots and 
i i h of 12 of each 
a, 
In reference to uals and other 55 the been plus or minus, relative to the standard mean of 2d do., 4s, ; 3d do., 3s. ; 4th do., 2s, D 
roles apply. lover seeds 0 n the open air, | the respective months. Hence January, 1847, will be | of the bens 20: Ist prize, 58.; 2d do, 48.; 3d do., 38.; 
not be put ` too early, dee inviting en anaa, Base; ied +. 002; ; February — .53 ; Mareli | 4th do., 2s, Turnips : a prize of 5s, for the best crop 
: will o 50 
t; — 1.1 35 
er Heavy and cold winds stunt the October — .942 ; November — 942; and December Thre extra prizes, to the amount of 10 
pet eels, pe teow sts sometimes destroy | + 472. Subsequently we may conclude that for a for any other e of vegetables, particularly, 
my pla i emed by the jud 
en th ` 
The soil should never be wet. It will be found that not a favourable view for the coming harvest !—7. | Our Association, I may remark, will this year confine 
small seeds will grow in mould which appears dry Squire, Epping, March 28. its attention to offering and distributing prizes, as the 
better than in that sry is 3 wet. Abundance ane on m 9 proper distribution of the en state, for the best cultivated cottage ns, 
of air must be given. — a 8 requisite to their and the finest specimens of the most serviceable vege- 
healthy nk, seg as a rabundance or . a ae but i in future years our object and 3 will 
Home C Correspondence. of this may a affect their fruitfulnese, I send re a sketch | be 
Transplantin: ny Evergreens.—It is getting rather late | of rail by which this is kept in view, which I have some- and encoura aging the comfort an 
the season for transplanting evergreens, and perhaps | time ago put up in my ‘httle spot, on pis of rape 0 character of the labouring classes, by stimulating them 
it of ‘season riting ut such operations, but | The branches are carefully trained on t e spars fr to general good conduct, sobriety, jiita ise 5 fore- 
ers when there is little hope shies two ze anh eee four being thus laid in seca thought, cleanliness, well regulated management of 
Som 35 time ago. when aes ; their families, obedience to lawful authority, and other 
a age P ortugal TARA we | commendable habits, which so essentially conduce to 
about 14 feet high 
now very cheap, but of A pear A Saiyan aa 
miserably des weg And I venture to declare my 
conviction that if proprietors of cottagers s generally had 
eee eee 
ase permitting 
a e . with children to occupy a cotiage which has not 
of two bedrooms, they would in no small legree be aiding 
in the prevention of much of the obscenity, immodesty, 
re- | pendicular, causes in my 7 a distribution of sap and unchastity which, i dr Hd many kote 80 grievously pre- 
day, the leaves | suited for productiveness in any season. Their Belton vail, is no 3 circu — mstance, as i * aie 
as ng that the labour | ance is very ornamental, and much more airy than the | elergymen, and relieving > proc site arly, can p: 2 
we ver, some consolation | old stiff rail; by being a few feet distant from each other, fully testify, to find whole families, ee, Po e 
It says— It is and a dwarf standard planted baliori them, the effect | father and mother, aie six or eight of their ¢ n of 
is heightened, They are possessed also of this advan- | Various ages, male ea pion z 0 bare 
appear well adapted for that purpose, tage, that re the trees are full 1 — — 85 ae 5 fe sr we? = ch atk ce a e . 
in bundance on the under | retained in si ee semicircular Bop of rod a Se ee : re 
ssibil rail has failed, which still original e 1 i 10 
A al F 2 a ance. The same mode of taigi is applicable to wall vine can be expected but vulg se ae immorality, 
ren almost ce trees, and enables us to have the walls covered in half and pollution of body r ee 
hought by some that leaves have n o power the time. My trees have not been long enough under | these painful facts do not evince themselves to the same 
Water 
iaf : j nsely crowded towns and manu 
even in a an elastic state, and that the | this mode of training to enable me to give you practical | exte ape ` 5 5 
a : results of the fruiting of the several parts, but I 2 are districts, for I have the in this pla of 3 
roo 
14 
83 not on ly 
ci 1 fulness, I ma aa 
y add that the proprie tors of adry 
b | T peers aviel timen üer a wede Turnips houses, and the sir son of this — 
which proved all but a total failure; and the farmer, i agr e 
lively and y inte: 
a crop, resowed the i y rue hy: imveront 
i i just in the rough leaf when an other places in our nighly faye peace- 
: pal eck or wee e e caught my able land, in promoting the e. 2 of the 
t were 
i i e pear my present 
È salere 2 i pet As t iti 4 * 
irewo it is easily domesticated. The object in writing 2 
. chet 4 ee sind fount shouid 1 a like imputation I further venture to hope ee the 
e If there must be Game-laws, as these formation of our 4 insignificant as its 
such game as 5 : me 
| nings confessedly are, may excite a universal resolution 
ie, truly e r e e field 2 “the wedes 4 — oe some me such plan 1 eite the condition o 
aded, fr 
dis i ; w well : 
N ‘ ed th man xperience of le etting out allot A though 
groun aod mgt np anki ie daily 3 they | 1 nly Years until last year distributed pia yf sg cub 
groun: 1 e g 4 C.K, March 98. ture of vegetables, that such a mode rene ar 
! .—R. A. C. contributes, in many respeets, to hap- 
Cottage Garden Allotments, rr an neighbour 
upon th 
3 manner best calcu- pretest that sel conduees to. improve e the 
the 
pears there fell | co 28 te elicit such 9 you very N asked our labourers ; 
` gives an annual | 
