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i d neatness is at an end, and it I would say, What are our eyes for but to see with! an 7 indeed 
must 8 too; for I find wherever there when we do se see what are we to do but believe? If one | all manner of nag amon 
à 3 nd drag | sees a eke laying on the ground with its young near, | nut is n uch yo 
out Grass. 1 expect they find ins ects sheltered in | and on approach finds the old one or mother to open Chestnuts I never beheld else 
my. mulchings, and that this pei the cause tpr: their perti- | her mouth and the young to enter, and if you see the | park, the he d l of H. T. H 
nacious efforts to undo my w ; ha mensions are 
These mulchings should keken 875 and this can be inside, are you to walk away and say they are not there, Pa — 
done by sprinkling a little water daily from rom the rose of when you have seen them to enter and afterwards to No, ‘eet. In 
watering. i iether 
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the driest places; hence, the wet state of the Grass see, I fear we shall not receive much instruction or re Page 
will prevent their ‘stoppin g among it. Earwigs are the n . Neal, Den marx. road, Ganr peil Barents 14 
enemies of Dahlias, feeding on the young ews __ Potato Disease, —The 1 i in the Potato decide e e. E 
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odlice hate a wet situation, and are always found in | myself ; and if 7 are taught n not to believe what we 5 angen u 
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s ae is very much a ee nee A 12 3 e 
Wee vexation. Re pug 2 best | without going into —＋ man of the sem D blac ackenel from top 4 e 
i Stake, lor At re fiel of a man of the name o h has] TS sssusa is 
trap is a — — aa at t p of hex sta — Apere Ae stem in it, and I am confident will be Planted 14 yards apart. en of the tallest cast a 
these insee Tia black throughout in a week or 10 anys ; these Ihave seen. I | yards in length on a level at 4.30 P. M. „on the 10th: Fn 
as high as — sais “roa a 0 This atic taste may | am told that Mr. Daly’s Potatoes are much diseased. The Pro- | of your 1 can 1 the he ght — 
be turned to good account wth paa the testant clergyman’s Potatoes of the adjoining parish of . Some of them are nera these dang 
pots will be found ecupied e chang “n y the | lara, Lam informed, have been for some time rasp affected ; to the height of nearly 30 feet. L cae if all 
isin search of tch 
enemi the son of a gentleman (Mr. Burris) e x rish, 
— fy" Am the movement a the told me yesterday, that not only did the stems show en but | Can ma em, and I trust they are the 
at the tube 
I put a piece of brown paper in each pot, crumpled up, Reilly, of the parish of Columb-hill, told me 10 d Aer ago that sacred: from the axe, and who will also, 1 
80 as — its place when the pot is removed. In — ena e agigi 3 bas a sre th sae par roe ene suggest, choose some locality for planting n 
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searching for 3 a board should be carried with ma — of Matthews, tells me that similar appearances prevail in | beautiful trees, to delight future generations 
or else when y old the — hrai will get a his neighbourhoo hesa aa localities — “all directions fathers of the forest have at last yi 
this is done on aie walk or the lawn. A lady not round the town of ö e tempest. The river Mole runs and 
Uking such a mode of kiling as —— with the foot, of Potatoes in which a jotche stem might no t indication beneath, and I cannot but attribute to 
2 h which, in 1845 and 1846, Wee — Ar sufficien 7 
may be allowed the more refined method of taking with | of total de ente of st eck o ment of its waters and the healthy 
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s i i i of the e pidemic i in a field are the only ones S1 know of; 
pareels 2 en in this wa ur I Serv. rea sed cases of its appearance they are only of a few ibolated ! h Pye 
thousan * em int ay.. 1n my nelgnbournoo ould the disease moses itself as —— as it uA are growing on the green-san vigoro 
earwigs usually abundant, rendering in 1885 3 1846 frorn present appearances I should think gur growth attaining 50 to 60 feet in h 
—— highly. necessary. A little diluted cow- | loss would about equal that of 1845 ; in 85 case will it have the straight as pn EOR, and (thanks. to the 
; d n totatity of ae But Iam of opinion, for reasons I — Dagens ki 3 this pla 
ying give = t will not be so quickly extended; and under the pre aking betwe P 
flowers should be cut off. These contain earwigs, which sent ap which has th . the wood 
must not be allowed to run away; H. B. fo aria l crop; and as the erop is ev pne En laxuriant, | have now room to spread, and under 
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| as the breadth of Pot tatoes is very large, generally asserted to 
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Hom —— —— have no conacred Potatoes, at adapters few), and as our con- of Chestnuts.” I allude to 
Carnations. — will th you say to iai uses | sumption will. not any way approach that of former years, for | in calling that gentleman’s partic C 
the wami. I 0 Carnation is attributable, ction than | We have but few swine, we may reasonably 2 there wil be wood, in which the Larch and Scotch Firs a 
esas of manure (su nal tabl no shortness of Sator. Our grain crops also are very g wing, suggesting the removal, i e 
freshness pposing stable dung | and where there is a diminished tillage of — the. de. are aiao gro ju — gt 9 
the kind use — 2 a nd 1845 a number of Carnations and | ficiency is generally supplied by Oats. The worst case of | of such as will i e the Chestnuts, not one 
Picotees bloomed fairly with me in the open ground, ee I eee oak that of N and from the advanced should ever be a — by its neighbour. 
except Yeomanson’s Triumphant, crimson bizarre, State ot and ghet“ digression, Your. readers, who, like myself, b s 
much run and ill-shaped. In 1846 the] a Arami on 10 0 days Ie two of the ee and . and arboriculture, were entitled re a N “on the 
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in pots, in compost of loam and leaf-mould, equal par y belief that ci N wil not so now extend itself as it ; | expands over the great vale, forming the Ti 
with the addition of a half part stable dung, and a little didi da 1845 and 1846. In my own Potatoes, in rather a close | district, where a sea of Gain enr ap è the 
sand and gypsum. They bloomed extremely well, both | $ N a few er Rae a rang ot ik id habe haf ago; | bounde d by. the South-downs.; whilst to the southwat 
: : AEREA in that period of time I should have had an in- 
in shape and colour, while many others, grown in the 4 — of tenfold at kok I scarcely find any increase, Teannot 87 p Leith- hill to the height it of 900 feet pie 
t, and — 2 pe — This year | indeed be sure of any; it certainly not a; its flanks 
1 Carnations are growi n gro — in | exceed ah a hundred stems. In a ne eighbour's garden 4 aaar gradua 
at had been a border ‘Containing ‘Principally her- saw, A Wook „ ie een ateme, and. Is cla 
aeeous plants; this he last | 2° e a Wain 
P 5 las find much 7 cf its increase among a country people, his skill o» bi strong clay: the district, 
autumn (just before the iw ae were neet in | Last year I knew of but one instance of dis e previous to the up at the e of th ply, thr Leith il The 
it), 2 feet deep, and a little fresh soil, and a | speared digging out, when I am quite sure the bal, generally view W terminates 5 “the north, 
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. prevailed, I saw no stems but were all 
one little old manure added. It was this spring, had Saini the appearance of disease than of regular ripen- |? ech-gro r. Dennison, 15 p: “fo Se * 
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—— de 1 ; aa Trine, iA — through the field, eit ex xtend t e tubers, . remained that the gates of this paradise are ningham i Oin 
from lants eomanson’ using. i 
bloomed — well last year, are this year e run (40 —— by some persons as a remedy to pall n * the pg a and Readin P 
this the — vega 8 Carnations, and | Thave a decided o pinion thatit will not tthe disease of | Dorking, are completed ; then you — 
in the very “sa pgp bed that I have just it, for the diseased j of th tamuse have pervaded ti 
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well ” Would — — 9 — ant must Nabe pervaded the breezes and fertility of this delight 
Alec a a re we discover the disease i 7 
Say at the same time fi tting pac gp of the stem, Ihave sometimes. found the tuber n. cot Cirenc 
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Carnations * — in bor bloomin 
difference such is nece | q nq 
varieties p — r “ia betwee “that for | a and every one "i —.— soun = ants unsound 8 have — mS in arom of Ph hight — 
[It is evident from our correspondent's own showing | ngen been a form of the late and present disease in 1883, the nnn pina. sempary 
that his. highly manured 
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liquid man n early | the ta the progress of the disease bet -4 th success rded 
stage of the growth. It is 4 — a es the * — — o ey tuber and that we may be mistaken perp ba connec fair chance o 4 — b 
can be ascertained to be correct by rai point of Gag, canard Sly 35. FFC 
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je tol Carnation —May I request ti 5 und n climber. 
2 feet deep, and fresh soil and old ure added at the f > following statement, at the Bristol orticniteral abe ting, i 
; showed contained eh haa e Aay pote col 1 onian. 
in following the advi wed contained more petals than belonged to them, and t yellow colour evo 
a the-advice of | very unfair means had been resorted tor 6 fon — when wild, and desery 
A most put on the cups by one of the exhibitore — 
— — — — N Eee e exhibitors, and an appea was gardeners 
.... and Pigotaoa ig | made the nina 3 Sowing Carnation Seed— en eae 
rotten horse-dung, I part sharp rive: Amed 1 Part | give up the cups than have one of his flowers examined b books and pam hiets now published | 
I M r sand; mixed and one; and this the com ed i “ 4 * 2 
1—— at least 12 months previous to using.] m ‘i vaen f 
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Pate. see 8 refuge in the stomach of the Dorking e — eR and Timber.—I se nd y 
eye re i a “yi ra cm oer 
aot n 1 Wien me this morning to “ the nower” | i full 
— —— —. m — investigate, o a hill- top not a mile from the town, the property of ie 8 thei t 
he tinge i1 om ae — it, whether | d. t indebted and they thereby become 
E ~~ non bt 8 ten for aaheltering seat on the highest point of the hill, as by the — 
E — n be nende — E an t your ascent, the views distant now mostly 10 or 12 leaves u 
— — ea — rece * e re- near are most beautiful. Dorking, nestled amid ra into fresh beds about the beginn 
—— naa is always. — Bo per ee | trees in the valley, is just as much seen as a sketcher some cool day. There is this 
deed, with: all mn w other 1 sae 2 seen it, e desire, its beautiful church and Spire rising out the se erminate in Jess than 
— — eh ar o light on of the groves that aeons the he view is 1 (while those in the open air are 2 
= om — fact and he con- | to the north; the chalk downs s comprising t ee, e hanse 
— — — it; W. E. H., — known beauties of — The hills — eit the 8 — are fine 
headed “seeing not believin ” Valley under which Dorking stands, perl) Jand therefore not 20 liable 
