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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
Nov. 11, 
In this Mr. Cree is right, and nobody knows that better 
Mr. Brown himself, — at the page referred to 
does not quote it as an instance of rapid growth, but 
— me to — when the, —.— treatment men- 
“ Forester” began. As to the trees 
being well — asr at'no great — above the 
sea, their only shelter ‘consisted in whai afforded | 
and their low lying situation was 
Mr. Cree’s ar, 
care 
thriving. It would Sot 52 Cree 
eying re and e rot into e ith à in — of 
eee 
was a complete failure; I believe from the eight sacks | 
of seed 1 Shall not have one sack of roduce. I also 
e 
ose eareful ee 
the roots are the 
3 of the previous destruction of the roots. 
age 
colour, rny coat, moving slowly about, 
ck. 
p instances rapid the d ke it was ut inch across the ba I 
growin, ——— ae fou d, but it — ren difficult caught it and broke its horny shell, = out ran from 
trees ina ies healthy state. They are at dif- its belly 6, 8, or 10 e ones, all apparently as Zag} 
— altitudes from 500 to 800 feet above the sea, on feet the large ran or 8 r i 
a naturally —— soil, — to the north, an used to do so, and cae soon —— all away. Now, it ap- 
exposed to cutting w winds f he Lammermuir hills, | peared to me that all t Her ‘ones were pi d 
but they sho of ‘áho — onsequences pre- in the body of the er e one, but how I do not know ; 
dieted by Mr. — or they were under a large shield of their own shape 
Cape Bulbs. — — 1 — the 16th Oct., 1846, | and substance, and were i ithit. Shou 
 Mieklewell” gave an accou some experiments he 
— inte, he promised som 
subject. I should be obliged ir he would now give the 
result of his experi 
Production of Eeis.—I have repeatedly inquired a 
old expert fishermen, an who 
eels alive in our markets, — 1 — bred, but 15 ean 
learn nothing sa 
tisfactory on — is v. 
ion did ee — puzzle — 
Bas ever remained a 
parts o ir skins left on stones, fell in 
— in stating “that they are vivi iviparous ; pat — if 
— must be wrong. L k Mr. Varrell m 
tions that he has found ‘roe in eels, — that n 
nót gupen * to be oviparous 
said ne „if examined before ‘ined — — 
e 
ease of 
ki 
very ‘clear ee they 
the flood, or 3 sere 
the 
urpose, 
aps contrary ti ee pr salt 2 
h-water fishes, all of ‘which 1 leave the few to lay 
their roe or eggs at the bottom of shallow 
sea. But supposing that the roe in eels 
is not formed until after they are ous in 
water, * num congregated in 
vers after baving deposited tee spawn ; 
all fry from them appears y in 
about the size of darning needles, 
little nook and | mo 
75 
e gonium 
t| blem 
ivers | 85 ui 
It 
e wow 
2 to af lev 
. 3 — e stop 
| haps ie 
Apiar 
de- 
| 8 will ons this myst 
Cultiv of the -Potat ati, so 
Fe eae — beginning of Ma 
5 or 6 inches miners digging — png obi Sag a 
trench 
require p them clear * — 
- | this way they ps a Tull crop, free aes or | 
to be most —— — vy 
ish, and were foun 
dressed. Subsequ — I planted the same sorts 
others in the same site, but I did not — sets half 
so deep se mentioned above roduce was 
not a third of that of the above in we ig —— and s 
aad a e alm ost unfit for ruse. 
idney and Early S8 
Oak eae Beech leaves also proved sound. T. Torbro 
—I would willingly have given the extract * 
tive ap * boxes from the 1 ae sore of Agri- 
culture, but on considers tion I find, that as the article 
is written entirely with reference 
would be rapon 8 me to m 
bs a the opa The w 
of the hive, allows it to be 
el on the board or stool; 
je se little madera which are between “the hoard 
t w skip; and — instead of one large 
8 in the straw, you can cut thre chalet or more 
in aig ved, just sufficiently lar age for a — 5 bee to 
completely ex exeluding mice; and any of those 
win — tried to 
take six or seven hives with eth 
ee J have ene vets failed ; 
bees, ite 
regular feedi 
ace in those cases I hav 
in the Journal abov 
; but it is the 
* I could get without U by sinale pona 
the price of the hives was w oer La 
correspondent live: 
or manufacturing town; I res on or a 
may account for the difference in the 
e ee — A. e B. C.“ have been 
more fortunate with their season than any one 
T know of in this locality. I think their information would 
have oo more satisfactory if they had stated where 
ey ee 1 2 six eam last dip pr from them I 
hav an had si: the first I got on the ‘26th 
May ; the ne on i the 21st 2lst 1 i of them died a 
mets e other two are very sakr and very — | 
3 d hive this a th | 
Burn 
who phe a he a 
burning bees is the ork profitable plan of management 
ina — like that o sk age ” may be een 
to the a y the means 
va the mey without destroying the bees, re- 
erred to in the third-eolumn of p. 488 in your Number 
He may be 3 1 28 there 
is no more necessity for burn ake their 
dn, a for ‘killing his al 0 8 oe fleece. 
Bleeding +? Plants,—Strong sueculent growing Pelar- 
may be pr 
ides as soon as the cuttings are 
| taken off, and by ceasing to water until the wounds are 
perfectly healed and young shoots emitted. They may 
ca d in a frame or on a bed until autumn. I 
a 
many plants lost during a wet season when 
headed down — not kept dry afterwards. V. S. I., 
Bury St. und’s. 
Bulbs.—I was gant pecan 
y Tulip roots, which w towed in 
al box ct ted with a bia e green 
h and apterous, i the tender beaks of ta sprout- 
ing bulbs, or regating beneath the old dry ‘skins. 
i; — i species; but the fact is | 
i — T I shall feel obliged by any Tulip | 
|| the 
r Queslion.— Once, on board a vessel, I saw | e 
hes | a kind of 832 nearly round in shape, of a light green 
and having a hor | suntan i on about half a 
f nd — 
rch, I planted Sane 
o dis- 
‘The Ash-leaved t 
gr. 
ganshire— one weighed 4 
i 2 
A Cer tific ate was | awarded to ‘the latter, and a similar 
perros a me if he has ever met via 
were 
urrence. There at similar 
| effec d, and when I stowed — ee ab. ale tha 
of last month, not an aphis was to y the ‘beginning 
They were kept in ay loft, where no it 
were; indeed, there was nothing them ba l 
straw and Apples, IJ am there confident — 
lb: j ad 
ive it asm mooth surface. j 
inch thiol, This I 
nd to answer n P., G 
S0 orteties, 
and fou 
spikes of large white flowers, which are stained | : 
: was paeit 
Pines, a them goo d fruit, were produced by 
Davis, of Oakhill aes Bar net These . ty 
tively 3 lbs. 13 oz., 4 Ibs. „4 Ibs. 12 03, and 5 tbs, 
* b Grape a. Bray, gr. to E. . Lousada, E 
pea pey 
without |, 
wet, Ik 
A but anepi in two | \P° "T 
o the 
. beautiful samp ‘Hamburgh, Gu 
n Hall Muscat, and Muscat o 1 : 
Winery at Bishop’ s Stortford, in ‘which there was se 
8 
imens f 1 w ; 
market 14 
Vegetable a 
c= he ants oi a 
Epidendru use 1 
es oins 
es Te © 
3 . 
— oe Bernie two varieties 
a beantif tifully — | 
alao distans, s 3 very p pre 
rub, which n 
2 
8 8 
e same —— produced some 
zeurré Diel Pears from a wall, and of rer 
itchen fruit which attains in rich 
| were brought under the notice (o meeting, 
Nor 1 
w evented from bleeding too much by | whi 
| layin ng the pots om their s sides 
which t 
warning 10 sciontifesindente of 
least a general acquainta 
af sei A 
es in circumference. It is € 
being a great b 
rich desert Apple 
which, like ‘the etalii. 
Syke House Russet 
i rt 
no 
of the Council, and read fo: 
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