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will the 1 stand the 8 in this open manner ? 
[W nted 
. J. C., Norwich, dug e are not acquaint 
with any such case; 3 doubt some mistake. ] 
oasa tricolor.— We fe 4 our pic to inform the 
ublie of the ill effects often produced (under our 
touch of oe mage it annual Loasa 
notice) by the 
‘tricolor, the sting yl woua nded with alarm- 
ing fai the label “ Touch 
me not” to be eonspienously placed on all plantations of 
the sa us nature are immediately 
M. A. M.“ was carrying 
loud . N 10 okod down, and s arge old 
adder, and in a few moments six or seven young ones 
appe and r jie” the old one’s mouth, whic 
not kill the E 
stronger than a snake’s, looked down, and saw 
alm ont under his Reet, he killed her, 
e same. Pustules cu 
produced on the 1 nata ming in contact 1 5 long inside. “ T. B.“ saw a large old Ander on 
‘with it; Hardy and Son, Maldo a bare sunny spot on the side of a bank. S a 
Sheet Glass.—As regards est glass burning leaves loud hissing pave stronger than a snake, and presently 
there can be no question in the matter. Orange trees, W si ung ones er open mouth; 
&c., have large white spots, from the size of half a crown | he waited till j“ thought them all in, then killed her, 
a sixpen 1 1 N parts of a house which is roofed | cut her open, and too the same number out and killed 
with sheet-glas nstead of using the roughed glass them. G. B.“ (no relation of the last) was at wor 
u re „ might not a very slight wash of very | with his father, saw an ld adder on a bare sunny spot, 
thin paint be used on the 8, or even paste, which a hissing, and saw several you es run into 
her mouth, killed her, eut her open, took out the young 
would re 3 very sli 
‘and prevent the effect of the sun peeping through 
unequ doing the mischief; and I do no 
‘think hyrt would be lost, though, as in the case 
slightly glass, it would t. And this 
might in winter be w. loff. It is a ect to devise 
some edy hose who already have used sh 
glass in large quantities; Dodman. [The objection to 
wash of thin paste ih that it gradually wears a 
—On o hornets feed? Are they car- 
Kirous Do . k fis an RE eat the honey of 
ne bees? I Sink Da fo e years, a nest on the 
of m never been able to 
h I hay 
5 oy; 1 though 2 — are in the neighbourhood of 
my bee 9 e, I have never seen them enter the hives ; 
Dodma 
: The Vi er Question.—I am 
that which has lately 
lad to see subjects like 
as that whi 
popular belief that the 
e k 4 alnem d in the 
other. mith both 
955 lieved the fact, tough they fail | A} bring forward their | 
ocular pro roof i ont. The v, however, 
I thi a 9 pr 
een yr raige sed opriety 
Now let * 
had arisen t 
ese me 
d, and will belive in s * of gs ar; 
een that thei wI i gumon: o 
to 
and pl 
ron 
ised at 
11 5 
. 
ing raise 
take refuge e old one’s mouth also? 7. H 
craft, Kempstone, Riedy Castle, Dorset. [It is quite 
evident Ta 155 other statements for which 
f 
eat numbers eople 
to be the entrance 
no that gre 
5 i seen what thay believed of 
s useless to 
young vipers into the old one’s mouth. It i 
prolong the su . The course now to follow is to 
p a viper in confinement w es er movements 
at leisure. Prof. a 5 or Mr. Bree would, we doubt 
f they were furnished with vipers 
not, willingly do so, 
in a fitting condition 5 
F 8 Pege | owt in the least disparaging 
whalebone pegs, I would suggest the employment o 
ladies’ ee pins for pegging down Verbenas, &e. They 
answer. very well, both as regards neatness and saving 
of ne 
Potato Disease : : The O. 
t when a h knew 
a peculiar taney for 
by vp recuse E mode 
a you 
r digging, 3 other 
e e iaai right 
m 
as he thought wo 
igging of them easie 
persons having gro spare would adopt foot! same 
phuric acid ; but I ue BOF urge this point no 
ow, alth : 
Į 8 of th ‘ough I 
cases, howeyer, in aces the land has 4 (gonbi an and tons ats A 
orin irren in eae es chalk abounds 
extent in the soil, the employm 
ps 
when 
caine 
w ao of fhe Faecal aoe to allow of En 
— 
its efficacy ; Kare 
times, or nti the progress of Sy dis 
bat 
os or the other, however, must a The 
, epen 
ther the poas commences in depe ha alen the n the fact d 
stem, or 8 A* proper—di er- gi 
necessary ne s to bear in min 
it will be sade ok to cut or 
the ground, 
surfaces, leavin 
f — found beneficial, tt 
on 
be e several tim 
If, howe 
ugr 
5 
BA 
Potatoes, pull stripping . aa the stem, 
that the tuber i 
on ly resource is, either to dig up the ha Posies he uffie 
anced towards Rn or other raise 
to hen “the A 
instead of ove downwards, the usual mo 
giherwise, it wil 1 2 necessary to remove aulm ins 
raisin We must be certain, however, that 
the fact, — ~ ‘Ihave endeavoured to point o 
place, the disease may not only commence in the. und 
stem, the haulm, or the root, but simultaneously in all ti 
parts of the plant. In he ana case it wows be neces 
remove the haulm and 
as all the ote a destined for ‘the . of nourishment ond 
thus be eu off, N : 
goods could arise, therefore, from leaving nas in une 
se gare —— it * to 55 J 
= — t 
rt 
for use, a ne 
doubt that exposure to 3 Pra — s 
f the tubers, 4 5 attacked with the dis 
ears to me, are 
ese remar 
psa that suc a of yo 
any of the above * will 
as it is only by the Publication of facts, au 
the ane 
of evidence, that we can arrive at the truth, 2 
tain whether we have it in Wa Ka wer to oe 
for t can be n 
abe again and again, like the — N 
creation ; J. Parkin, Lo 2 t 12. 
Storing Potatoes.—I find from past experience that the 
lan is to leave th 
p eav 
the usual as of lifting 
und t 
plan they will preservo pMa Potatoes in a wholesome | then be taken to select ral that are 
state for use ; for i 8 W. ll known that anything havi 7 be ‘i ee ea 
a tendency . when exposed to the air first will be found to be good eating, whe 
g eps | are carefully Cot 
perfect; A W an, August 5. [V À atten thin agai g 
2 of people cannot allow their land to lie idle. ] 
p 0 e e commencement of the 
r years past, covered the Vine borders 
with. HEN litter, ‘which I removed about pid middle or 
end of June, by degrees, as Y wea t warm. 
have been subject to the Grapes turning fave, wither- 
ing, a ig up, whic at I understand by 
2 . year, as usual, in the beginning of July, 
the sam urred, By chance I read“ Rober the 
e | Vine,” wai directly covered the Vine borders again with 
stable litter, and have not had another instance since I 
y xs ; A: K. 
We on 
of the eat for 1 
rof, H 
the e 
25 subject. It is indeed true 
yself pe apie « nene but as 
very common with us u3 
in . ated ” by seein Figs 85 0 
the 
our powers of observation, t sha ling them, and 
in the le mpai 
E A uch as the 
775 15 Š: 85 y as 
nslow Pig ve ot Teyi am ics ace 
the extreme difficu 
N “tel willing t b 4 ee 
‘the: willing to vouch for ka 115 f the 
following. facts, | knowing as I Be no the 
pacen as the w of the cir One da 
ee we last year, I killed a very large, old adder, 
e Curious to see what was the 
samen, 3 a Sag to open it. The opera- 
quickly out of R O west ‘eas quite bare ant 
lanted in the 
which I attribute 
of par greenhouse and 
Bu 
tha an ‘pullin 
ling the Potatoes, A “prefer eating ol — 
n m be 
y di 
rolling system I think is api 
in ands between rows of Gooseberry tre T —.— in 
gathering the berries have made several tue across the 
P —— with their f fi here t the Pota are 
quite sound, w. i 
Remedies s for — io Da The 28 
at disease, to 
rather alarming eens, has made its appearance in the Pota to 
= a a danger of address a few words o 
ing brs: more deprived of this — 
and hither — esculent. It is never too lat make 
use of the —— recommended by me for th 
l toners diseased to 
disease but there is yet time for the adoption of some of 
o that I could see 
afte: 
ani the. exit.of one reed she puih oF te Id 
young on 
ty killed * by the — ee 3 
found them Tom d inches TONG ASS Amed, 
er it has attacked the tuber, have, neverth 
— in 
— evented its further 2 i pe 
under similar circumstances, t e emp 
* The P 
and other 
numerous 
t year I advised, 
g 
88 “of chalk and sul- f 
| fo 
and Treatment of Disease in the Potato 
i 
otato 
prevention, 3 to = 
few inches of the 8 tops k 
4, InJu 
blight on an early — 2 
only one unsoun 
igging, only a “at 
German cs as net been 1 asg you 
Potatoes: Hint in Favour d sgt 
utumu I spr ad s num er of ae . 
berry 1 bed, to green ready for planting. When 
again, I left several | small ones, iso 
less, of the ground, ar os 
of them the spring I 9 11 th 
ar be 1 my 3 “a 
| growing close k the su 2 7 s 
lars. ing 1 Ib, — weighing 
hich is a greater produce than I have “had from. : 
. = at t 
rived from the Sira 
"otato 
than it has hither 0 
wn ground anything like see yo 
I the urpri 
This am t es 
to avoid dise $ 
ince me t the mu 
ency, and not by high cul 
my autumn planted beds 0 ADE Potatoes were te 
