4-1847.] 



_T HE_ GARDENER S- CHRONICLE. 



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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1847. 



Editors of Newspapers have one advantage ovei 

 «her people, that they gain a c!e ircr i. s i : !it of th- 

 amount ot ignorance in the world, and, therefore, 

 tnow better how to deal with it. Those who flatter 

 themselves with the belief that the present age is 

 ;--^ei»t, and v,ell in .rm.-d before all others, 

 wou a stare if they could see the inquiries which 

 wee ly bad our table. The following is an ex- 

 ample ot one class of them. 



A correspondent inquires if we can inform him 

 SL V* are P^Pagated ? He says that a 

 7?!T t l ° P , mion P rev ^ ls in his neighbourhood 



w wnetner the downy seeds that blow about at 

 ^ season of the year vegetate or not; and he 

 nm? n a n ] e, = hbour h as a field covered with the 



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a on the mind; 



« the copy mi , 



id be no bad t 



bears 64 heads, and therefore may produce 12,000 portion" 

 seeds, more than enough to crop an acie of 



that unless these • , _ f9fJ ^ ' JjJ 



Grass land, or gar -rows ot lion'iS 



plantations, among :,, M y '/', 



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This being so, it must be admitted that the pewm Tree" 1 

 who allows Thistles to grow I 



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good sort of ma;,. u f th p j and ' hig 



"Ins negligence produce?, ;r.;d ne\ ;■' 



■ from seeds ; he is a ,■ i 



gentleman is thus bl i 



facs, 



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 plantations to | 



a great place in thi 



rher than the young t 



gain for permi-; 



come on his land dogs and 



ds Bailing 





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 k England i' s -V , ,,crs T who has received what 



[^ne thatf &"?** thcm ' Tbe y P erha P s 

 S°*> ^ey mav Sprirt = U P nobod ^ knmvs 



sc ■ j tSr d r of itseif; " ° r sorae such 



Vdry if be th , e & u, de to their barbarous hus- 

 Popagated th^ but know how snch wecds are 

 Seated ' t ? d be somo ho P e of their bein = 



. Like all" oth! r U i try t0 CIll '? hte » th em. 



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dtt ^»tthe' j Cr >„ bo,J y k «o«s that this weed pro- 

 ?v!Weflowe« °r t ?, L,r:,,,c,,l( -' s Utt,e P lick, 3' hea,|s 

 ^% £ " PC "" S loun5 e , S o e bear'aTot 6 enfa' 

 & her the hJad! ea,hery L down ; in dr ^ 8unny 

 :* ber y down a ° pen ' the soeds ex P and their 

 ^ ni °as. ^- e n Untlv ' upheld by their buoyant 



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cable. A slovenly plantation may infect a county 



and often does. We boast of our native wolves 



* been extirpated ; but the labour of destroy' 



ing vegetable wolves remains to be performed. 



It is not merely because they are offensive to the 



d useless to animals that Thistles should be 



driven from all civilised places, but because the} 



rnicious to land. All that they take frorr 



will grow, something better might have been ob- 

 tained. To grow Thistles instead of Corn or 

 Grasses, is to keep Goats instead of*Southdowr 

 for wherever they do grow they are maintained 

 the exclusion or damage of better plants. 



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no expectation of geth i_ up an . n.i- l^i-tle lc;_- 



or we should zealously promote such a measur 



But we do hope that the disgraceful practice 



allowing such national enemies to be recruited i 



plantations, waste grounds, o 



gardeners have authority, Ul 



turned. It peep] 



not be a Thistle in Great Brit 



some of the worst of them only live tor that period, 



and must die if they do not seed ; others would 



disappear under powerful pincers, which v. ill tear 



them out of the ground in wet weather, or under 



■issa;it destruction of their leaves by children. 



order to render the process effectual there 





Funt Trees, set 



perience. By Ra. Au t 



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 the original publical 

 counts for the turn of thoughtjwd feeling 

 ^lebook 



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on: That Cod 1 o.u all Etcn.it 



La; Syir'nunl l'.aiit, iie pie..- 



correctly described 1 



other hurts, than they i 



