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correspondent, page $4, concerning the Whitethorn, | been enough said on the question. I do not think, how- | has often been be to a well-cultivated garden ona - 
which Phe oe better by division of the ever, Mr Rhee has in mall eases had fall justice done to | barren sets according as it has received instruction or eul- 
roots bok my oaireere, I have proved to be correct ; t | him; hardly one of your correspondents quits the subject tivation. It is benwtially Berge ed by Bowring, in his 
ebruary, seca g great many Thorns to plant, I pre- without some notice, that the subject is ‘‘as old as the | poem entitl ed “ Instruct orn. Agora: a delight. 
plese @ small roots, which were cut off for the conve- | hills,” and that Mr. Rivers is “not the inventor,” &c. | ful bg vem “pe reclaimed race! a he says— 
aun planting, and set them in rows in the same way | Now Mr. Rivers never assumed e the discoverer of “An d such is man—a soil pati breeds, 
as seedling Quick, just leaving the ends an inch or two | Root-pruning; all he did was to give his own experiences, Sect evaion chen ern apres 
out of the ground ; and they had no care during | and to state the train of reasoning which led him Me adopt robe aly a ti the aconite; 
the summer. They grew from a foot to a foot and a h root-pruning oung Pear-trees. Hear what he says, Jost as his s train’d rage cr 
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a etree Arateotl ven pyramidalis, and amputation of the roots of fruit-trees too vigorous, | Certainly it aR bea dA thing to behold well. 
in the same manner.—John Hick, Scar- | is, I am aware, an old practice ; but the regular annual or | cultivated gardens in every district of our country; but if 
biennial pruning of them, so as to keep a tree full of youth | the minds of the great mass of the population remain jn 
ick ‘ences. —Having marked out with | and vigour in a station and prolific state, has not, hag ignorance, it is more melancholy to look upon than what 
th length of the intended ditch, and | I am aware of, been recommended by any known author, | was once “a paradise of mysteries, ver : 
=. ne enh ny 2. feet at mane of that breadth although it may have been practised.” And in this sen- | Hemlock and Henbane. Well-selected books given for 
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are dug out a spit deep i which is placed | tence is Shi ame 1 the merit which Mr. Rivers is | prizes might be of great benefit both to gardeners and cot- 
grass-side meenwandl Ina straight line "along the mete entitled to, and all he claims. Although he may not be an | tagers. The plan adopted by the committee of the horti- 
of the ditch on that side repent for th c hedge 3 the top | inv int in Sry aa of the word, in its true spirit he is, | cultural society of this place was, first to supply the mem- 
is levelled with the spade, ust as h (to compare small with great) as Davy was | bers with prizes, consisting of spades, rakes, drain-hoes, 
the surface behind, on which is Spliced the eka: leaning hse inventor is the safety-lamp, &c. As has been ob- | Dutch hoes, garden-lines, weeding-irons, pruning-knives, 
against the turf; the remaining breadth of is th rved on important Huta ‘a simple fact in | also small works on gardening ; also some books on gar- 
brought from the ditch afd placed neatly and firmly titre may tie for ages, which to common men means | dening were got for the circulating library, so that all the 
against it. The quick is hdaded down, and all that is | nothing, and to the eye of geniu members might have an op nity of reading them if 
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The bottom Ve the ditch i ra com- | tude of applications and deductions only brought ry when | they had a mind to do so. For some years past, the suc- 
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pleted ; the soil from which is rt ridge all along, | it comes into contact with certain others, and then be- | cessful competitors have recei ved for prizes useful house. 
and behind the last- -placed turf; ifa little of the stil falls | comes as it ed hey dand productive.” There is one | hold articles, id. » oks tre Sane on a great variety of sub- 
down over the quick, it will do it no harm, Nothing more | part of Mr. instructions whic not be for- | jects; they a o be very well pleased with them. If 
is required than to keep it free weeds, to stir the | gotten—viz. the  kaainig p the vigour of the plant by | those that receive She them reful perusal, it is 
surface-soil occasionally for three or four years, and to the’ application of strong manure, so as Ms ensure full | not to be sloubie but that they will become more enlight- 
cut back the strongest leaders every year. If the soil is ers during the meee of setting the fruit and ripening | ened members of the community. — Peter Mackenzie, 
poor, a little rotten dung may be spread on each side the | it: otherwise the result will be a mere eter unprolise West Plean. 
fedge. This was the method adopted by my employer, ak: As ved my own Btoaless I root-pruned | Forestin ng.—Your correspondent (see p. 51, 1842) who 
the Thos. Knowlton, mr of Darley Dale, Derby- | some large vigorously-growi n Pears which had | objects to your assertion. that a crowded plantation debe 
shire, whose success in this, “ie = other horticultural | been planted 15 years, and were ‘about : 20 feet high, in the | riorates the quality of the timber, as well as diminishes 
rma IT was for upeares mn years witness to. | autumn of 1840, and this year every branch is covered | its rate of formation, seems to have founded his. hy 
number of beautiful hedge 3 es estates of the Duke | from top to bottom with bloom-buds ; whereas, in former | thesis on data opposed to general experience. In Here- — 
of Devonshi in this end the Sister Kingdom, d years, some 40 or 50 bunches of bloom were all ¥ got in a | fordshire, especially on the northern and eastern sides, — 
hs dene ti ne to eason. I put in the tren n ample | Oak timber abounds; and in man y of the woods itis — 
layer of Skinner’s scutch.— Totty. saa to have felling at periods varying from sixteen to — 
é Hot Water.—Mr. Hood, in his Tre m Hea twenty years ; the straightest a and handsomest trees : 
the Buildings, has given the necessa directi son ay tes Mebebe left for timber, ‘a as it is called, groved; and they are from F 
Genus ing the quantity of pipes and eal rayetred for keeping | time to time thinned, and a regular distance kept between ; 
up any given temperature othouse; and I find, by e effect proiaees on these groved trees is, that 
comparing the results of such calculations with actual ex- | fr i d ir and s rapidity of their 
periments, that they coincide in a remarkabl . But th is increased in bulk, height, and quality ; and in 
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the rules given by Mr. Hood only apply to such houses as | sixty or eighty years they become valuable timber. O 
are not protected from the cold air by a covering. Suppose | the other hand, those woods which have been left to them- 
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a ere any protecting material, such as | selves present, at the 
boar ; sia ma’ r out te ass of weedy, drawn- up. poles ae cee length, but of no 
vening space of air ; this will prevent the escape of a great | size, with little heart, ve ph is ter 
quantity of heated air; and as nothing is mentioned about | but with so much sap a Aptorks them 
these substances in which I am acquainted, e co parger I thi 
should be obliged to you or any of your correspondents | will find that an acre of Oak trees that h 
who could furnish the necessary data for calculating the | and attended to, wi the expiration 
effect of any of the 2 era d materials. It d, produce at least four times the val 
li se ora interesting to the difference of the cool- | tion, of e size, as been su 
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ing e of glass under differ ent angles to the horizon, as | they could; also, that the timber of the groved Oak would 
a sloping ie: must Ci ate much more than upright sashes | be firmer and riper than the other. 
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in the fro te hou W, suppose that Oak trees, or timber of an 3 
Ice Ga 8 plies the foul fiend—Salt. An intense | viate from natural principles, those of seeking light and : 
degree of sold is given otft by ice in the process of thawi moisture ; the close-planted trees seek th 
a ts nails construed | ~? Produce that intense degree of cold being the object of by snaps crane the effects se at on mest Peis i 
by my intimate ‘ miishate tiende” : but to those with whom I can not confectioners, they add salt to accelerate that ess 3 an mple ro eneral an expan this 
boast the honour of acquaintance i te what Or bee to continue it, salt would be an excellent thing to add in eviden tly es ees on why the hasest, vatraightest, “a er ; 
— it should a utrict is cognito ge ary 4t packing an ice-honse, if the process of thawing could be = nditioned forest trees are those net separately in 
ie Che. othen waite a ot | Confined to such a portion only of it as would make the | hedge-rows, in avenues, or as single trees. So ‘completely 
penta any answer, except in ape 4 a at a pe entire a solid body; but as the process must continue so | was the late Sir Uvedale Price birvinebd of t the necessity 
my former paper, can be te quired or expected.—C. 4, F. pe ng as any of th n the ice, it of course be- | of giving ample room for the growth of timber, that he 
AEH. comes an ba ethee to his preservation ‘a it. pare hig resi ae Hs his ey: + ann sae? _— oa 
aah correspondents recom $ occasionally pouring boiling | taking with him pieces of car ils to mar 
oasis ra tel ar heat nib forwad : power water on the ice; this would be tr : . uc 2 hich he considered to be in the other grow- 
Nave tec comservitories « large quantity would ing timber ; and these ds will now show the hep? ie 
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ow ap: teehee b ass with a pick- Goo tite  anctsh illars.—I have been much annoyed ” : 
sontbern axe, it is a ka . Snow, if well managed as above, and “yeas ty Gooseberry caterpillars, and I destroy them 
rn house. I> hav follow made a solid body, will answer remarkably well, is much a simple manner, with little tro rg: and no expense. 
’s (of Galton B ton Park) pa a pss gen in p. 9 99 cheaper to collect than ice, and can frequently be procured take a roll of brimstone and place it in an iron 
when ice cannot. Pats used it three seasons, and found me e inches over, with a perforated ite cover to fit exactly 
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Salt,—When ice wand salt a ixed | cient quantity of hemp is mixed with it to make it thick; 
Yellow Rose grows and flowers sarin. together, ‘they unite and pass c “the. liquid state of sal when it is wanted for use, a piece of lighted paper may 
and as standards in in the g -at | Water. Solids, in becoming liquids, abstract heat from | put on the brimstone. The handle of the pot should be 
in . | Surrounding objects. ence imunaneer singe due tl fa fees So as to admit a stick about three feet in leng 
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luce t number of flowers.—Fruier. which mixtures, dissolving rapidly, radi the fiaat from pot so near as to damage the leayes ; by t 
intheum at Brighton. — 1e remarks of your cor. | the cream, &e., producing an intense degree of cold which always been successful in Tecestin the oatergillaths 
t ‘ Argus” on this subj perhaps liable to freezes the cream, but is not sufficient to freeze salt water. | out injury to the crop.—George Jennings, Shrub 
ead. It would appea r that. Sates the fall of | could possibly be more erroneous than to add | House, Bu a nd, Dovor 
at building to the "se asin of ce a whereas there can | Salt to the ice in an icehouse. Its effect is to dissolve the | Lar, arge e Pines.—At e 764 (1841), I gave some par 
be, I believe, no doubt that the catastrophe was owing to ice, and the result is so much salt water.—J. §. Henslow. lars of the ‘aanaaiihs , 
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ate did semen ever imagined | f their py on this “ve will iL ho, on 
L 2oW possibly have ben in existence —A, ingly pu able ¢ h them] mies weighed robe, “Theis, or 1275-0z.; so that if they wer 
ore Rost-pruning.— had not ‘been the first of Cottagers’ Prizes.—I ~Lbelieve mach good might be done like these, it would only uire the pit to 
dents to call attention to Mr. Rivers’s | to members of hortic tee by means of prizes, 24 plants to make t; but these being eed la 
ning, I should not trouble you onthe | if the plan recommended -by. “We Hy.M,,”’ page 813, | 8°°ts, of course he I an 24 plants in 
hing new to add, and there has already { (1841,) were more widely acted upon, The mito of man | 4 Manchester Ga 
