THE GARDENERS’ 
PRRONICEE:. 
Mr. Parkes by no means 
On the e 
whole, we the phlet 
ilaha Wo to the —— and — nrk 
ss ground that is at 
f acres in this co , let hi 
ese essays, and he wil then be convinced that — 
this 
e coldness 
thun 
of 19°, and, on a mean of the 35 observations, 
of 10° over its 1 at = ame ites eve in the natural 
bog. 
y drainage from 
land ; the dew point, peg An “of de dew d eh 
and, finally BN peeing tion of the soil. 
beg to m his — p do not afford info wer 
mometers, — although the ey de 
I 
of heat, are cold and unproductive; they are neither natu- 
artifi ed.—||. 
cially drain 
Garden Memor. 
Mr. Rivers’ Nursery, beet Heris.— It 
he readers 
— ma 
subsoil 
surface is quickly — by the sun’s rays. 
Based on such facts the above, By author pro- 
« 
es | be em —.— 
a greater extent than could be case from casual 
observations, y long-kept eee ture | 
are of little vam, in — — of ing com- 
others 
m and mini- 
Should a “be om ited i in any. . series a 
the temperature at 2 fet deep was fo 
ean annual of the 
—— ed for at least a year, in order 
yer the ac quiet aly of the drained ex- 
— ray of the u in — 3 an 
how much the former fell below — latter in 
ect the averages of both ited on 
the whole year. But whether 
e 
winter, and plenty of heat in 
, than to have the winter less severe, but the 
— ga 
er t ina ble . — ogre 
e therefore “conclude that „the aut hor 
ted — temperat —— the soil, | 
than N its mean aunual temperature being perma 
neutly rai latter assertion is not clearly 
proven ia Rec 
“ By establishing a free pome for rain-water throu 
the soil the greater heat of the surface is conveyed | 
— by Pa water during the vegetati 
— "put it is not r a few e 
mass 
fall, the contents of x being 
a water, cold anit heavy aan mechanically 
* by the — — r and lighter ge 
must surface in quest o 
unoccupied lower level, — producing — a slight 
mae tho surface of the contents of the box. 
orze the rain, 
In n ae Article it is further remarked that “The | 
sen warm and cold soils, bearing the 
same relation to the solar heat, will be nearly done 
3 rae mer at 
" ‘at it to deprive it of its stare of gel moisture, in 
showers.” 
—.— published 1 ll years 
be fund to * the e of the autho 
Bite 
„ Will | 
“sup. 
stagnant | fi 
Horticultural 12 
und to below 
d 
inter; water oo 
is — apparent that 2 cause of the 5 er 
' | clay and surface soil 
Shale 
essentially, a true 3 
— at tetet 
The — advocates the advantages of deep drain- | 
ima and minima which can be depended upon as such eare for Ros 
n at different hours, or | see 
is quite worth the while for a any 
es to go 
in 1 
gt th o * 
e has 15 for — 1 six years. 8 5 are r ved 
an recommen 
t ought | 
ve 
ill o is neigh 
regards gg y except some of the hind nO Yor com 
n kin 
in 
3 inches, when the hole rapidly filled 
was still ham but usp of a more porous nature, 
and free water resi It was 
in defiance o 
t| has been ta 
ed Pears, er with about 300 trees, I 
not have 8 peek of fruit; and my recollection of 
0 
in columns), 
ich I mentio 
| makes me lon to be out t of the agiri ma of the cold 
| — Essex marshes, and the 
ave —— „ goes at the little “cana 
mhad hejen of the ch 
and the erect —* 
con 
shallow drains might have tine: their duty in removing 
the water of rain— e-water ; but they could in 
en made, 5 fe 
350 yards long, laid with 14-inch bore pipes. Clay w. 
pu addled i in over thi up to 2 feet 6 — 
from the surſace, and another line of similar pipes was 
h in in 
the ip water fro mixing wi 
was that the — drain discharged, fro 
| mencement, a stream a 
. a 6 ee be * equal 
en, deere be and speedily 
p drain had 
veis —— 36 feet ie © 
and on 2 side 1 the experimenta 
be found that, tak * ength 50 
breadth of 12 yards, as affording wane to the bottom 
( 
pipes answ 
he whole of the wate finali 33 off through 2 
lower an patti 6. to the above cal- 
what distance it may onan! drawn water from the other 
on which as no drain to interrupt the 
bert Peel's estates at 
roxide i 
— of the Geological Museum. 
the joints, were 1 and it will be inte 
know whether the w. is likel, cabaret a clear 
years. Instances are 
of drains by roots; a cir- 
| cumstanee which oa to be guarded against : "tor w 
know from experi ollo 
2 of a — a long way, and will i insinuate te them- 
1 
60 feet are erecte 
each ; — are little — than gigantic hot-bed 
about 2 feet high in fro 8 feet at 
rough 
and on the somes a sheet of — felt, leavi 
mee terval of 3 or phe . Le e ee aw 
act, warmer than t e rafters 
gards the glass, it is about 3d. 
the ean 2 feet by 1 foot. Th 
by sliding-doors at the front and back; and he bas a 
Poet in oe he has 
igs, 3 1 
ot culture most of them 
| front 2 back inside 
his V es, Peaches, and E 
x young Vines in in po 
ood bearing. I brought & pot with nine 
3 8 it; though (as the piant was but 18 inches 
high) I d not expect to ripen them his plants 
mus not d, 1 ume, for any length of unde he 
pres 
as divided the border, ge up the sides with 
coarse slabbing, having a walk below the surface down 
| the middle, 
lin addition to these houses of fruit, he 
same plan an 
has others on 
cost, in which he 225 his early 
> 
under 4505 although 
nt and ae — amyl nd a doo 
12 during the late hot weather my pre 
added 
to | as to obtaining a 3 er and have 
a third door at =— in n — the 3 
i 3 
re gauze 
cheap grapery, I bea a feet 5 
lights, 12 feet long, made, using the 
selves through the smallest possible crevice 
