THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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 J£$3&ti**y to seo ™:^ B JL^iutit ™o« e th»o 



STd^rThV reply was, they got Turnips without 

 Jlbis ve«r the fly has been very strong, and in the 

 lLiJ« parish in which I live, all the Turnips, except 



Bad Cabbages alternately with the 

 SzL. . «„d should the latter be injured the land 



ide, and where no superphospha 

 s 5 and if used, plenty of plants, a 



but none are yet Bealed up. The district is agricultural. 



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 Jane. He sends this account hoping to hear what the 



Roses.— I beg to send you a Sophie de Marsilly 



■; *,■ ; t: Ins, therefore, expanded from the bottom. 

 1 find that on removing the outer petals from buds not 

 5 fir :, :v;nc:J, they expand into full bloom at once.— 

 W. K., Hampslead, July 12. 

 Poutoes.— There was dug up from the garden of Mr. 



the committee would be glad if the principal advocates 

 *>d opponents cf the system would attend the meeting. 

 The subject will be opened bv myself, an advocate.— 

 ; 

 Gmno.— The following account of guano, from Dr. 

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guano, brought from the islands of Chaucha and Pisco. I 

 The price of the bushel of coloured guano is one dollar ! 



-■>}. 1 i.otuvd tin.- srwral }i:u- i.irtt in Loudon's 



■\ :ir- f n- ■ jU ntU |,->sr 





Supposing a bed of soil were watered from 





I seudvou a sketch i 



Travels. [It is not creditable to Dr. T. that he should 

 tJoned 1 by htore a alh- are! ] * "* *" 



Foreign Correspondence. 



■ran io to 40 feet thick. The upper strata 

 «*Jish brown colour, which lower dowr 



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^yplu'ngin 



"J™*, which they find ii 



*»e islands. Much h 



preventing the fruit being crushed by their own weight. 



Fads Connected with the Potato Disease of last 



to be dug up and spread u 





guano ; but the manner in 



Nation"' * T tf ? eruvians use it" principally in the 

 »Her th» j aize and Potatoes. A few weeks 

 «s dn B '"?" be 8 iu to ^oot a little hollow 

 |B »<>i which i s eaC ? r ° 0t ' and ia fille . d up W ' th 

 •£^ ld f ter . the hpM lf C °l2 T or \T* hours , al lTe 

 •*?if£ °Ts* TuaaoTllnco^a feVquanti£ 



^^ttwil'il^ 8 the S row 'h of a Dlant ^"doubled. 



^^t'uumltd^ 

 *°nually from 33.000 1 



and are looking 1 



The whole three spots were prepared in the usual way 



of which came up where the Potatoes had been lying, 

 although the plants on each side the spot came up 

 strong* thick, and are healthy. Mr. Beattie made 

 another trial of the same spot, by sowing it with Tur- 

 nips, Lettuces, and Spinach ; and the result of these 

 experiments is that the Turnips and Spinach have 

 come up, and are doing well ; but the Lettuces have 



,uch inferior to Potat 



ede Turnips have been highly 



!H. Will Still 1 V 



thrated ground. 





this neighbourhood. The climate is particularly f; 



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• Mm.rs not only the art of irrigation, 

 mportant aqueducts and water elian- 







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foVmedMTs said to be bo abundant as com P .«e. 



forms^deed, in many' parts ^ Sidl*^™ ^"J^ 

 • Napltt. 



The Sumach ( .Rhus ciriaria), is another very 



It has the advantage of thriving in the most arid burnt 



