‘ 
a eel ee 
a eee ee ee 
pany = 
This pit 
_ growing sisal I greenho ouse- 
= nas, 
a ol Ne 
1842.) 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
53 
stalks of the plant on which they had fed, and then 
chase =i eg deans ured chrysalis. 
these caterpillars so greatly rapes — 
that of ie on which “a them, that they pas 
i nti i v ead t i 
easily hakthi'o b 
infested es it. is not difficult to colleét and destroy 
them.—Ruricola. 
i pele GREENHOUSES, he Il. 
I EXPLAINED ina pag letter, (p. 763, 1841,) what I 
nee cived t he most proper situation in whic 
mateur’s Sntahcane "should be , and entered into 
which ought to be considered before the 
or details 
commencement of the building. I send you now 
which cannot be recommended 
mo 
garde 
ce. pases — not expens 
notice of it may probably be ee use ts those for pec 
these papers ig he te Hie written. 
_ and front shelf. ¢ Proposed tan! 
d Pro 
L k, 
5 Fees along the middle. roposed ventilat 
ie Ales a = the pit is . feet; and as the sketeh i is 
dra asurement, an may easily ascertain 
the ratecat propsidines. The two name are made of 
woo Be neve cross-bars, as seen at a, and ight 
‘upr 
n each side of 5; the small shelf j in front is sup- 
ported iy. a bracket, which also supports the hot-water 
0 receive the 
me s wandea venti- 
n it is not prude 
ving thie door in the back wall, and the 
ee sm 
‘estrdiigly useful for Piccard seeds or for 
an sak and salad such ppc i 
as Verbe Lelacbalaen! 
amines aeathe: : 
e 
shed plants 
a aire Beas ‘edegs ea with a little contriv- 
i onishing how many t th 
do in a small place like this , ne iments 
presaliiuiee which Te sa best for the amateur 
ery few words will describe them. 
nae Net Aan : atl” snureery-garde, a fact 
cient guarantee for their utilit 
common is that with the nie 
other has what is called 
&@ Span roof. In the 
ought to have upright moveable windows in front, ss 
sliding sashes the top, to admit as much air as is re- 
quired; and vale abhit to be fitted to take off and 
put on as hilly common pit or fi 
As the fines Tf het wate ter d 3 tl 
front of the Retcrmee itis ane 
ventilators 
ee Sears er the late 
when he pointed o sie 
b 
However, this objection will not be a very seri 
the house is kept in good repair, and if the laps ta 
Sane my opinion, therefore, le for 
of this kind should range from 28 
mH Bia? width ; the the pit pee Pee 
the mein by applying the sector to it, to be 
¢ minimum which J hay aid yt a | 
convenience arises from the wet; greeer’ it ought to be 
emembered that it is pn nine feet w 
roofed greenhouse is not s 
one sid 
ave a wide house, the span- 
one of its various modifications, i is the best 
e been invented and recom- 
i" gtéehboutes of this kind. 
y the “ a 
tte what 
s is ae facility with which it 
rm mon cinders, and other refuse from the kitchen- 
aes 1 i boiler, ing a flow and return pipe 
along the front, would be quite sufficient for the pit which 
I have descri ou 
and two-inch _—- al = 
ard.— R. Fortune, 
Horticultural Gar 
3s. per yar 
CULTURE OF WHEAT IN THE WEST INDIES. 
Continued from p 
Such is the report * the enlightened a aay of the 
Agriataral RET ——the more valuable from its pre- 
ing li “a a precision of pea which enables 
ments wit a ga satisfac- 
fro rom its furnishing the 
e of the sucessful cultivation of 
a level, and in so low a latitude, since the 
8; and from its exhibiting a peur’ 
days in the ripening of the crop at St. Ann’s, ré- 
sulting either from the difference of Seite or ras sealed 
f 
days of Co seane, 
as November 1835 I “6 embraced a fa avour- 
nae ed me, were made in that islan 
ste 
J sal Hamilto 
Mr. Young awe 
inch deep, and 12 
1839, at a distance of abou 
an elevation but a few el of the sea 
ich m e 1 
half his seed, as every grain appeared to have vegetated, 
and pass plants ret ugewL The s spot ‘selected for 
the roughout, in 
ted the previon $s month in the 
trenches, and the py dibbled in on the top of the 
bank pemitg ine trenches. St agpervagres. the general 
Pt ry weather, with s and calms, 
hi le “unfavourable to vegetation, ge a digoke va 
and w the see i od following April, t 
90th ae re that. of plan ears were in doer 
plump and well filled 
manure mploye und must have been 
well dress bd for ther reception of the « a this omission 
could not have been material. nce,’ as Mr. 
o 
the level of ba sea within the Loser "ana far. 
add i 
ideratio r 
and maturation, it will be found as valuable 
pagate as even the staple of sugar, and with half—nay, a 
passe part of the manual labour sae - canes. It 
e t, from — not necessar 
om or entered upon here, in an article of oe "king but which 
ble and behins to the most superficial ob- 
rerver aol oo even the pas of sugar is likely 
to retrogr and it behoves the planters thus early to 
look abroad for other .—* of cultivation, requiring the 
labour.”” Mr. since repeated his 
ithstand 
characte 
been unable wholly to resist. r. Young 
has since issued a pro viper’ igo ofa ie meas! 
pany ved the cultivation an exte 
roughout the 
of sages heat 
West Indies, in 20, 000 shares of | V. 
various elevati ions, a eI cing 
2g My sep 
aes 
which were tg on the 10th of ee 
In sath en planted in tains near the town 
of July, 1839, was wis by the Ist of November. 
these instances f success at con rep a 
it cat 
of the 16th of November, 1839, that 
ere | tempe 
i oi od ay tt rmer, | in hi; 
growing in i. sek ange before his office in the town, only 
m the sea, furnishing a farther confirmation 
of the seal previously. obtained in a amaica and Barbados. 
A s ke, I trans- 
mitted a few grains of Carac i 
788 of Grenada, by the Sheldrake Packet, ina letter of 
he date of the 30th of Deésenian = “1839, but have as yet 
ou tained no report from that quarter. 
ch, with the — of the ge ages mg lately 
received from Trinidad and Curagao, the r of which 
e mother country. 
rom the: absence | of hayes like an rset ata 
rotatio 
after year in the cultu 
for above three 
uction, or onl 
he cost of produc 
ressively increase, it will impossible for re 
mpete ores eae with the cultivators of new a 
andotorcarial soils i 
heat will probably be’ 
— an injudicious crop to alternate pcan with the 
bets the interposition of the Dioscorea or Yam , the Cala 
other labitinacoatal 
dium esculentum or Eddoe, 
plants; or the Janipha Manihot and Leeflingii, or Bitter 
and Sweet Cassada, and other fusiform-rooted pl r 
eguminous plants, as the Arachis hypogea, Earth N 
or Pinders, the Voandesia subterra or Surinam 
Nut ; the lab purpureus or meee idney Bean ; the 
Dolichos spherospermos or Calavances, with a multitude of 
other noe es to the climate, and valuable ior 
eir prod uction 
the cane to be earid on in oo succession w 
vantage to the cultivator and benefit to the cmnices 
But I have extended "this letter ie an unreasonable length, 
and mus conclusion. First, ” owever, permit 
e afer dee oremarks on the information from 
Bermuda prisciace in your Chronicle re the 10¢ 
last July. F 
eat and 
art, in place 
he ts avera,  Proidease ; aa 
with an average of 65 in he produce of 
grain when threshed out should have been 8,226,000, mea- 
suring, at 7: 0 to the b 10,474 bushels 
What the urn inform us; but 
assuming the contents of a pint and a have been 
2,301 seeds, and i. -con- 
ining an ave 2 grains, the return ot have 
ta of 5 ' 
exceeded 358, 952 gtains, measuring | but the 157031 part, 
it might, I think, have oe on ree him to have ob- 
tained by a different co  Y tardation of the 
ripening no less rig 43 days, may 3 been the re- 
sult of the greater cold winter months in that lati- 
ae peg vegetation; and it is probable that had the 
ing been deferred for six weeks, the harvest would 
ag There can be no d 
liad nature of the soil, and the 
mpete with habitants of 
nited States in the supply of flour to our West 
Tedien Islands, po uld the inhabita' 
t 
— for their accustomed staples. 
ut independently of this, as a source of domestic ee 
ply placed Sa bg reach of those cas 
attend agriculture 
as a subsidia supply for 
Sp ne and one 
sane genes to. the first 
To whom these islands are indebted for the 
on I know not, but his name deserves to be hasided 
rc to the gratitude of posterity.— William Hamilton, 
14, Octagon, Plymouth. 
THE AMATEUR’S GARDEN.—No. Iv. 
THOosrE who have not much convenience for g 
are naturally anxious to make the most of w 
sess, and hence we continually hear of an 
o grow too ARCO i one h 
greenhouse —. for example, will 
same treatment ; their natures” 
