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[Nov. 4, 
With the mong om alluded to, 2 are admirable. Vet 
Int 5 
80 it is, that rdum itat bonus Homerus’ 
someti he Homer himself may don 1 
napping; F. R. Horner, M. D., Hull, Oc 
al On old f ar ? walk, carefully swept, 
much tar as will barely 
about 3 a thick 
will tou chi it, and the 
5 with a watering p 
surface; lay new e 
ow No worm 
a k k; cinders may be us 
vel cannot be got ; . 
acity of Life i ‘the Scarlet Pelargonium.— In 
October, 1847, when preparing the old plants for storing 
part of io ol 
months have eee and they are still alive, and bid 
fair to ive a second ye This house is protected 
only by shutters, closed in extreme frost 
merely laid on a floor o 
are se 
whole. 
are n, but by so 
t year I lost half wei tne — that time 
have them carried into the fruit- room 8 
convenient ac Sine careful to exclude 
ere as much as possible. The varie on I — 
i rly Manly, 
e e grown Potatoes 
bieden. —— aie a $ maa 
whenever I have planted according to the a 
, the crop has always aco dina my e 
“ese ripe early and free fro John Toy, 
Oatlands Garden, Nov. 1. 
k some of your correspondents 
d information on the use 
m 1 
arden ean 
kinds, vegetables 
and frame plants, such as Melons, Cucumbers, &e ; J. Z 
Bee-boxes.—I should be 
give the extract from the “ Edinburgh Journal of Agri- 
eulture ” for a ng bee-boxes ; and also if = would 
me whether he ever ke ough the 
winter in his cea traw Wee what are the ev soar 
flat wooden hoop at the bottom, and whether he 
nerally j ae bees when the hone ney is taken ? 
very sorry to come — I can- 
ul 
to me —— very low. Here honey is 
straw hives, 10 3 po and 10 —— 
meter, are 2s. 6d. each; hom Oct. 28. 
Profits of Bee keeping ‘ase p. 702.)—I made a mis- 
take in the n y hives ; I ought to have said 
seven, not N e — ney certainly ought not to be 
divided am because the re but 
among the seven hives, 
four hives from which any honey could, with 
old hives and 
are wenk swarms i 
e barely live through the winter; 
he comb 
4 Era pay e extract from a letter dated Nagpore, East 
848: “I am s e 
germ 
vegetable 0 
d | liguor 
me other | sre form 
the 
obliged if A. K. would 
burning bees 1 f 
in a —— like 
eara h, , and 
0 
reason, be 
—— a strong wit 
richly manured land, 
moreover, 1 
which tends to. produce them 
etard 
not be overlooked. 
as t 
whieh should be ov ind, being of no small import- 
pais ee, Oct; 31. 
Di ee in the East Indies. —“ Este sends 
„Sept. 9, orry to that you 
have the Potato disease again gland. There was 
omething like it in this part of the country last season 
Potatoes wer ie appearance, but when 
at Nagpore. 
2 is 0 
Tin t 
come in 
the ue a pha an 
here the secon 
latter 
fallen nay 25 e — sea leaf 
a On 
ateh-glas s, in additi 
se eparated into individual cells, although a 
still remained united together. 
had Erber evaporated, the gree 
thickish a 2 5 like . fei ig it the separated 
asg of the vi 
— squ 
in paper, and 
= . subjected to gentle pr 3 was allowed to oe 
n there undisturbed, for some months. At the e 
ime, the an vegetable dublin 
was found to its edges with a white 
mouldiness, co e 
white 5 a at 
matted h 
where i up, or separa’ 
the greenish pa referred to in the —— experiment. 
his mouldines: 
í weak cast or colt of last year, which was kept | Having again more minutel 
by feeding, d which has had as much uld| I found it what 1 1 vs 
do to fill its hive this summer. The t 5 * of ma rm of be plant. I was enge 
n te the — on ti — it renders it so | the eroseop tissue e see and 
and lusci t people praise it highly ; and I 9 — g into lon ct 5 er, white te threads, roti here 
could have sold ‘much more t n I did i I had had it, mad S aw G pele it a few cells adhering t 
eads had 
comb in — A. B. og 
utum 
_ Potatoes.—The nt wet weather is unfavourable to 
— over, and the earliest „kinds lan 
’ P 
or 5 inches deep, 9 i 
e necessary tiil March, e 
th 
or Winter Planting and Manuring af threa 
e presen 
my 3 
mentioned in the first experiment, the —— of it near] 
almos 
disappeared, the 
As the water evapora greeni 
again, giving a ee and probably true rep: 
of the m which much of the greenish rems 
e visible, which is foun 8 
ssel in which 
tissue becoming 
the 
— a i and afterwards: treated 
Manu ing ee 
s their early eee 
. because 
5 body 
f 
i | urging such an “objection i is Aa ce 75 — — 
h poets anid; that 
m left the other society, s 
a of = 
n 
used to accomplish the wishes of all, and ¢ ere . 
a culture i in Ire land; 
e with the new Dublin Association.] 
es arrange these 
of which it grew, yue was formed like te the ti pet fond h in | 
f | Tus is an extremely pretty 
amiable and 
. 
© origin of parasite 
and who are 3 into 
fungi: Observator, Elgi 
Royal Horticultural Improvement & 
Society 
the 21st ult. A you alluded to. a“ Taai wiih 
ceive in afew days,” confi 
en 
owever, possess som mation u y 
that Bim hint, I would feel. obliged if you would a ve 8 i 
icity, Pub. 
$ J mee d 
9 it may be. I request this the e ; 
many friends of the ‘Society maey have been Jed 
great — can bg rd 
nnot be 
par the Cage! Society, “enile. 1 os 
. to show that. its rules were n pie — 
hier every principle of fairness and pae ma to all 
Besides, all sensible men 5 think that any Dody, or 
tely throw away an unsulli 
r the mere pey ‘of combining to sustain snotherd 
from i f 
of imputations cast upon the fair fame of that 1 0 x : 
least a part of them, at the mere bidding of any nen Be 
well Sy ree 55 might pr 
I now inclose 
— Whi ich aY 
rg. 105 — 
that this 3 with — e will 
for the true interests of horticultural science than 
other society was calculated to do, because it combines in 
management the most eminent dee, re in the 
whose knowledge of the profes 
qualifies them to assist in 8 pe 3 out 
o the Soc 8 1 with effect ; — ge igh 2 of 
ection bri and — 
with those ‘of f great e e thus fi 
bination of the 
would be the more bonoured of the two. Fert 
» 
greatness of soul, belongs ** S iiei * 
age 2 and can testify. ee | a 
one grand or noble sentiment. 
Well has one of our great 
«An honest man > — — work | 2 
— ii 
adhesion, and desiring to Ba Ensol d members 
U. nder 
over, you shall have cause to . — friends of 
John C. Hı 
Sal We te 8 to do with che 8 
A. or B., e have much to do 
the publi ie good demands the fusion of the 
Reviews. 
An 8 k Potang, Pe! John Linde, 1 
4th edition, with corrections and numerous daitio 
Botany, being a of observation, must net- 
unobservant crowd as 
The aut mie “of the work bear us has € 
consistent 
matters 
each 0 
in 
mu details, on n the authority of 
d needed and relating summarily 
of modern 
publication 5 doing which it 
volum two, a . some of 
8 enden has 
8 pni been 
mparison be 
Perera 
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1 ˖«;* —f ü ied Caer ee en ere 
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From this it will ue sues 
Reeser a G 
observers, 
Brown, 
Müller, Nägeli, Planchon, er. 
It will also be found that the matter iS migs 
clearly arranged than ban farmen dh thanks to to she 
great typographical skill of 
— 
The os 2 Forfarshire: By 
Messrs. Longm London. 
pp- Sadi and 308, tab. 2. 
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