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much as may be necessary to kee p the ruens ioe Forsyth’s composition may be employed, - t intended to bloom. Loam of ordinary quality, with 
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them to a warm sheltered part of the plant | also, with a view to effect the cure at canker, long slits they can remain till the middle of October. "s this 
d, where they will make sufficient young wood for | or scarifications are madi in the bark with the pruning- time they will have become fine tA plants, well 
bloom in the course of the summer. Alpha. knife on the side opposite to the canker. The ulcer furnished with тр — ring shoots, and should be taken up, 
arises from the same causes as the dry canker, and is t ts d, the plants tied into shape, and 
MANAGEMENT. OF e APPLE TREES. — by the same means, but with much greater removed to the dire ics, or greenhouse, where they 
wed from pop difficulty. (Tb be continued.) will continue in flower the whole of the winter. As the 
TREATMEN qom 'RHES : Cultivation — | pots will be full of roots whem in their winter uarters, 
and Waren АС eret til leas leases of farms, which are Home Correspondence. they must have a plentiful supply of water; for if 
doubtless copies of those made 200 years ago; w which say; Ancient Temperature.—In. your impression of the neglected, in this respect they lose their leaves, and 
without an yf — explanation, that the farmer shall | 29th October, p. 694, Mr. Meehi- asks if aby of your ape y ha! still m their flowers, yet when denuded 
ir th the foot of the eve im ishing i of tly, R. Miles, 
yas 1058 
falfil this condition the farmer takes off round the foot | country in ancient pia or at various: periods, within aids "at Elji ging Pi mm d уота spike or two of 
of every tree à eirele of turf. as small, as possible, in | the last thousand years... Mr.: Mecbi, then, wants to f the ‘prettiest of кооп! shrubs, Poly Ds 
order to соора is pasture.) That is to say, round | know what уп was a the "temperature of the air in those NT Bee, its ма pink — mince vi — — 
circle not more than 44 feet in diameter, and at th thermometers being ene till the beginning of the edging shrub it à excellent. F. Rivers 
ef the, winter, when the Grass begins — 17th century of the Christian era. Surely such infor- Mr Iliaca, or Redwing — Whilst enjoying a walk 
2 nit ч 1 the 
the continuance "of “ite life and vigour: to: thi s | seems to think. it just possible that human ignonende | Y usie proceeded ; т» * astonisliment 
operation. The most that ean = — might not. fe [ E e — hent of . ays, ar йы I Г beeld perched high, up on а tree, а 
i tion of th i rature, extending at beantiful redwing chanting its marmo, little song 5 
some. insects w have their winter quarters at the 1 through an “indefinite "antiquity, is ultimately this lasted only for а minute or two, for u pon my too 
bottom of the tree. Stirring and manuring the ground | confined ne ar and incautious Y Ber , the 1578 чы fev pee 
immediately at the foot of sa: tree that has been lo Had the demand suffered a still further We ed and zin usy seemed to take its place, my 
planted and is of a large size, cannot prove beneficial to the cutting off of a cipher from the E would have approach with an eye of m which left n d ya 
it, as the. absorbent roots are no longer there. It is been all the more easily satisfied. Pieve said tha n room to doubt thut 1 
the extremities. of the branches that manure thermometers were invented about the кт ти of the plimented me with a elus whistle and darted over the 
should, be applied, because, as the roots extend about the | 17th century, but it was no doubt'a long time after this wall. I mention this because I think itis very uncom- 
same distance as the branches, it is there - the before any series of thermometrical observations were | mon for these obras to cheer us with any of 
absorbent roots are, and by them only can the nourish- | instituted in this or in other country A their melody, except & shrill wliistie or eall-note. I do 
ment be introduced into the tree. It would dt be | published Nin Glaisher, in the = Philosop cal as their usual mode 
reasona 
Tra 
that would oe de rer do dm fh і 
would occasion considerable labour, and would | the en f 1 9, or ae a period of 7 N years. al, T 1 
destroy а part of the pasture s; but between an absurd doubt Mr. Mechi will oon ор aed thi s, information thrash.’ T. G, Botanic Garden, p өү 
clause on the one hand, and an almost impossible | кутта. a Very small as well as а very recent Trout Spawn — The fishing books say that trouts 
i ther, something useful may be done period of time; but Т imagine that if he ^nm for 1 spawn in October and November; and I have been 
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nine years old ; апі м hen:he manures the e pasture, ift he Glaisber's tables, as far as they go, is of course, | any; above half à d, and they 1 7 to be 
h ld but they certainly do not prove, or excellent season; but have no appearance 
lay the manure in ни as ion узт on those parts that are rather they entirely — v ge ten Mr. Mechi's Am 1 too carly too late The Aan is ean in 
under the extremi branches of — y| assertion, that “our elim: tempera- | spring. 
this would be more reasonable. "| ture than it used to bu? | taking the shore 79 years ala plot "Fruit; by Mr. То “Receipt е 
Lopping.—Nothing shortens the life of Apple тед so | and dividing them. into two parts, we find tha veral bottles of Rhubarb and Plums Би 
much as the removal of large branches, because the temperature of the first 40 years, is 479.93, while еј way, * am sure that it was correctly done. There is 
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о eac e. Should that | 
decays and dies, water gets in and inereases the disease. | Mr. — is able by a most beautiful theory to ER done 1: Tn all other respects the fruit is excellent, J. W. 
This is the origin of those hollow, trees which fall | for a decrease of temperature, which, exists only in his | [We learn from Mr. 4 A417 A ihe mould ought not 
graduall are not. at broken own 25 ation, he will , with still greater | to be on the of „but as it is there so it 
uprooted by the wind. It should never, be necessary to | facility, be able to tell us the cause of an increase | must remain till the fruit is ; when it may be 
use the bill-hook in a properly managed tree; for after p Kimi in reality. 1 25 Mechi considers that removed like a piece of white leather without — 
having been well. trained in the nursery, it should be of te eye ге Ought | to TA sue from the fruit. He adds that the wet season is the cause 
visited when the sap is down, if not every year, at the — vai “all earth (as proved in Ho -— the mould this year; as his own fruit is in the same con- 
least once in two or three years, in order to take off Geology) is 15 wee at the rate of ie: òf dition, more, or lese, which it never was before in all the 
with th ei-chradichéedbat»á mile per I have 8s] ni his experience of the plan. . 
too. elose ; i a a other pandi ind Geology, and recta emm so Ed red 
general everything prove injurious, | puzzled to know what this means. Does Mr. Parce М 
either by. preventing the. tree access sof air — light sha to say that we are running away from the sun at Fo — тте e 1 i150 
stroying pe of the the rate e per e- : weaves. O MY CHINESE Nore Book. edido 
head, or that hangs over to prove hurtfub to the i [ distance; 
undererop, should be — To do this properly 
— lligent.. foresi ited to а sufficient 
uai with. the of | vegetat and 
sath the habit of the species or varieties Which we have 
ge. e the pruning-knife cannot ; the 
averuncator. i is a good substi itute. Iti isa very convenient 
nstrument 
1 iio. Inte nar many we 
bruises, After an abundant crop, it almost invariably | 
ens that the. branches, having been Mr, 
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down with the weight of the fruit, cannot come —— 
their former position, If they wa mes y absorbed. and 
thus they would be. within reach of , and they posed at ‘at the LN eH es appear at the south: 
would, slea;tibade thonsoil ted m o remedy this, what irruptio Pin Mr, Mechispeak of ? Туар 
the hanging branches should be eut back to one of of the ans that overthrew Rome —or t 
those ead a the. ward diction.” is tion of the Russians into Wallachia and Moldavi 
шесі his does he consider К 1 
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ge their 
сгор,! — а саа ; graceful. ym | Inno опе ease, I think, has the absorption of Ж 
tree, | п an; 
le рег of branches, and allows the eee In the first place, we have 
beneath produce better erops. If че рч accident, such to learn that any inhabited land at the north pole b 
the tree being pruned too close ; 3d, by bruises; “sh | not appee to be зю generali aowa as it should be, 
by sun strokes ph dio ite —— — To grow them for this purpose, the cutting be | 
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