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eous, considering т small space to which greenhouse | unhealthy naked branches must be cut out ; the plant| capillary attraction or from the necessity of frequenti 
: ts are necessarily limited, and the facility of regular | should then be placed in a pit, near the glass, but shaded wetting them, i in order to keep them pat 5 which msi 
arrangement emer ng to height, is, in my opinion n, the | from the sun. rise to rheumatism and other bad complaints to say 
pyramidal form. I have myself adopted it. 7 nothing of the tear of the shoes, both of the cottager's 
Certain varieties, generally those of moderate vigour, Hom — —— wife and children; blocks of any common wood, squared 
naturally take this form, Strong- growing sorts can only | Ned Ham. — Grapes.—For some w гачы past you and set on end, after the manner of the wood pavement 
be brought to it by pruning. In order to do this, we | have had communications on this subject, and I would in the streets of London, would be far better material 
must commence with the first year's shoots. Тһе | not have enlarged on it, but testimony I ean give is for floors in cottages where а good ed floor is too 
Camellia usually pushes twice in the first year of its | perhaps mcer from what ean be obtained from any 5 
growth; first in the spring, and again in the end of other epas A great-uncle roars my father’s, named New Weeping Will ow.— When a new plant i is brought 
July or beginning of August. It should be allowed to | Warner, was 2 * original te rter of the Black Ham. forward it is proper that some history of it should be 
perfect these shoots ; then, in the end of November or bum Grape, and when ei eit bears in the old cata- Ziven, for the satisfaction of the public. The Salix 
beginning of December, when the plant is in a state of | logues My father was um in Southwark, in 1751, Kaprea аты or Kilmarnock Weeping Willow, pei 
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an eye that is more prominent or more forward than | protection in the vale — Gloucestershire, There, in | ©®РТ@З, but Spee common in hedges and 
those below it, “that eye P will start away, whilst those | cold summers, they did not ripen ; but in some Ae. ditches all over 23 tt is з likely he picked it up on 
below will remain dormant, able seasons they ripen one perfectly, and when so aes = his rato. botanical expeditions. Tt does not 
In the second year the plant, treated as above | matured they had a much finer Muscadine flavour than | 5? f 
арса will | produce three or four branches, , the upper- | any Black Hamburghs I ever tasted 
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preset and when the growth is completed, in pv шн propagated from the same trees, and descended in ^ 
or December, this upright shoot is cut back to two or direct line from the originally imported trees, without rigid in its habit; its twigs are stouter than those of 
three eyes, unless it be furnished with flower buds, and | their ever being out of our own family. Whenever they the Salix babylonica, — t has large, broad, glossy 
in this ease the shoot is not cut back till after flowering. — ed out of doors they were ee are 2 "X s eaves of a deep green ¢ ; it flowers very freely on 
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appear likely to break in spring, it need not be shortened üvation Ihave fre requently had them ай э: Ву ips eid 
at all. The same rules are applicable as regards the as well coloured as those 1 my father grew n 
pruning and training of the plant in the next and fol-| doors, but never so finely flavoured. The hou 
lowing years. It must be borne in mind, that under no | whi ch I grow mine is a lofty. ag 2 15 feet “high 
cireumstances should the Camellia be pruned when its at the back and 8 feet in front. Last summer two of ** 
sap is in active circulation ; for by so doing, the sap my Vines coloured their fruit veli ^. others, some some mm ago. All who have 2 the original 
rushes to one, or two, at most, of the upper buds, and growing on the other -= of the r — mery Аа "que th here very much 
leaves the others inactive, For the same reason, the | do not know that I ever tasted e, on more delighted — it, and I pee it will be coder ^ of by 
herbaceous extremities of growing shoots should not be | rine Grapes than the sing мв, but they "T their Faack. 
pinched, amen Museadine flavour. The p^ o Vines that bore Pu. 3.— There is m a large 
Excepting in frosty weather the Camelli black fruit had grown at the bac the house, where 
heit 40 = J td 1 Wi ejin Jed credit rre for a few years p^ hey had borne d; bet latterly they situations, many of them being willing to engage on any 
two or three degrees of frost, so that, unless the winter — bore fruit wits the glass, and the frui apps Now from the last advices from f Australia we 
is very severe, heating may be dispensed with, provided the 1 ttom of the т — showed early in the find that there is the greatest demand ets ery — 
warm coverings are employed. But when fire is neces- withered a fore blossoming. These trees 
sary it must be som as to maintain uniformity of had 1 laid wien din the soil the width of the house, and | 
оправ ; for great variations in this occasion the = them up the rafters. The trees bearing the red |" тей 
р, оа d — The hot-water mode of пов сыш м еру: pi К a. е bart 8 bee. friends to turn their attention to Australia. 
їп 8 gd n they У, get to that colony, let peg turn market 
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im to o give it up, because, in the country, it is very | the sun, a sew part of the border being actually covered aT tice caeli js fully q vali 114 a We isa 
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T origi dips ll 44 opted the fem for heating 1 the — a аказ several times a week of the fruit- ls can be had for a single Cabbage or pepe 
but "anh Г, aa dearly for the apparatus, it worked trees in the pots. From the commencement of the 43. for a dozen of Turnips, 4з. for a dozen of Onions, 
whilst it ezet the ж fer fuel, it afforded Season I had supplied the whole of th ee тты: be чиир i l tee ае 
but little 1 eat, and had it taken away. For abundantly with fresh air than I had been aceustomed re again advertise, nd ask M d those who 
several years I have used small castiron'stoves, from to do, in order e good colour to the fruit. oue have wives, with or without en ener 
15 to 18 inches in height, and about 1 foot in diameter, of the gardens in which ibe Black Надія burghs grew in be not better to muster courage for a refreshing sail to 
or two of these, as may be necessary, I place inside my father’s boyish days was what w the — oe ает. where Bees sie d 
footpath. А tube of sheet-iron is | Zoologica eal Gardens, АГА “Allis, Osbaldwich, pie York. remain at home—whatever education or 
fitted to the stove and made to pass through a square abilities maybe inab abjectness, and with the: 
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tin-plate adapted to the sash, А very small 83 acing with what I have seen in print, lead me to ^£ 1 and servility “looming in the future.“ John 
some tan. ress.| believe that I have not been furnished with the true 
ings, are sufficient D 3 nhe as | kind ; and while I beg to apologise to Mr. Hunter, who - Ded. f ooshk Plant.—The plant which forms the 
heat as I require. care I am sure will acquit me y intentional wrong | subject of an article in your last two Numbers under 
plants that may be too near the stoves; and I moderate | towards him, I can only say that my case, in this this name, should be called Booky- ikni shk. The 
Ше draught of the furnace bya damper in the sheet-iron | instance, only adds another link to the chain of tricks tal зр v pl s inier e ——X ec Wiler: 8 | 
, whi completel í too ofi tised by th d is ; 
Tis pum ue House (We het in seeds 11 is авы literally Musk Willow. Perhaps if you 
off its smoke. A pan of water is placed on the fi Gardener, Cadbury me [We have 5 
in order to give moisture to the air. The sto = ve can be be | publish the name of t D who sold the rubbish shouid eset Sera ran Ere to re oe the plant again, you 
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Temoved in a few minutes, and it be uickly | Which has led to this discus n.] - : 
utes, it can as WEE о; Quedgely, ne — —The following is Orthograph. [We өре the Ree as we found them 
In nes the Camellia the temperature must be ve ry the return of my rain- i in 1852 :— the Indian 3 
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the] house should be kept warmer, by shutting | March ^ | x i 0088 Овюр i nit д to 
up early, and by covering at nights when these are cold. April |. 17 . 0.81, November — 12 
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only gore, теп at night, во as to raise the temperature soe 22 . 3933 
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508 progressively raised to| The average аг which are here during the | t 
oe by "the middle of December. Occasionally, | ¢h ree preceding years was under 24 inches. The fall of |t 
the sun is bright, it is ad- 788 in eee куы, record; in these | I ever met with. The leader, about six inches in 
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thus produced paths ; the moisture parts. In that month we had only two dry days, ће | d 
of Gate тее оп tho gium, the intensity | 9th and 30th, and on the former of these an earthquake 
rays, swells the facilitates | was i teadily 
— every , these months. earth | ) to 
ery leaf, one by one, successively. I attach much | occurred’about vox ari a быр at 8 a.m. the barometer | with ge of that sort. W. G., Lich- 
importance to this operation, which I call the toilette of | had fallen cx Lena the day was fine, I donot know 2 Weedon. [We have not before seen the 
It has not only а great influence upon | w — A. E f your readers have observed that the | A. Douglasii in such a state. 
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les twithstanding all our саге, some plants will become | several seasons found to be the ease. All agricultural that you did once publish what I have to say on the 
like healthy than others, Robust as the Camellía 10 Red fr mmy been at a standstill in this neighbour- | subject ; but as the question is asked, I will write what 
е all created beings itis subject to maladies, which | hood fo: — weeks, ly vl Larch 
neither science nor human foresight сап t. = has been so must d d upon go rotten at the heart when its branches have never 
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: he 3 or ants.—In a umber, hints on | Jan 1839, , at Boynton, near B ington, Yorkshi ан 
foliage, weak and stunted ing of the | buil beers or. From my — ex hich wer 4 t ост 
dropping ding cottages were - : pe-|w , у ant of г 
buds. When such be s the i i 
in boards or some other non-conducting material. | meeting subsoil, either full of water 
Briek and stone floors are so likewise either from sv kit Бү menting with sz eer flr wae 
