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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
ist.’ triumphantly reminded of | Potato. Itis generally found that Corn and Potatoes, &c., 
aataciest . her ecqeashaaion as poe of the most ae spring much quicker and more vigorously when not fully | a 
were at last beginning to grow, and having survive toes from id obrlaind districts have been 
rough of their youth, were struggling into cleat always found to produce the best crops of Potatoes ; a 
You have two du perform: advise plant ; as been said that it is bec e these cts e late, 
trene ply, to -weed neem tt oe young and | and the Potatoes do not eee so well: there is, however, 
healt ce earest spot; to plant with = found to be a vigour in Potatoes grown in a peat-soil or 
still, to plant so fa make edo for eran 
a mere hah and last of all, never to plant after 
Prizes * for Seedling Florists? F lowers. wc cannot allow 
“§ 
of «Di? tee pe , in to my 
letter on 2 subject of prizes for seedling poe to pass 
ticed, as he has nders e 
e 
or two sorts of in ar. M 
subscription uld be simultaneously opened 
for every kind of flower usually shown for seed-prizes, and 
considering that such prizes open to the compe 
tition of the whole kingdom, I did not think it was un- 
reasonable to expect that each flower would find sufficien 
rove ‘‘ a grea 
é 
ount of prem 
the unprincipled one. I agree 
efinite ‘okie ects should be m 
I may have overra e number and t 
society. 
liberality of the lovers of flowers 
bd 
caine of its votaries above the senders revel, as to make 
them not only regardless of pelf, se actually ny pepe to 
rece Let 
— auela that unripe Potatoes from clay soil seldom pos- 
; here the stock is gener ually remov 
toda the upland peat-soil. Unripeness h m als 
found often to arried to excess, and from the food 
ap m place. It will also 
lace 
mo a n 
intended for domestic use, however, this L em 
bitter. It has also been found that dusting the sets with 
g them - 
quicklime and waterin 
o 
where deficiency is apprehended, as at the a, end of the 
Potato, substances containing nitrogen e useful, 
The rot has also 
mpt the | grees, and w 
honourable man, whilst a trifle raald awl rh cupidity | year as com 
with ** S, to the | the 
and th 
uncertain phon those couttibaved for nae general pu rpons failures have been very few as wooed once with ts pars be- 
fore. 
will not 50 on witk out t mois- 
es believed this w: 
ast year a and: the year Before the 
droughts were not fie: 
As cofroborative of — being the cause, we 
may mention that in 3) re, where our 
th the spade, and the ground well 
broken, we neverhad any failures ; whereas, from the s 
Potatoes planted at the same time in Mr. Fowlds’s park 
with the plough, the whole was a complete failure one 
year. It will be obvious from the above that many differ 
ent c e at different times in operation ; but the 
the ipt a m for pulverising of the ground well, exposing the drillsas short 
bear pac: d, however, that the rs and th ua ime ble to the d sing well-rotted: m: 
of flowers are not all ‘+ ntlemen,” but that | nure i eather, should at of preventing 
there is a large class essedly cultivate for profit page In wet seasons in spring; ay 
as well as for h our 1 ere may be & the Potatoes are once germinated and grown a 
some difficulty, 1 admit, in carrying out my plan ; and I little, Airs will rec a good deal of dry weather.—R, 
do not think it right to py the columns of the Chro- rn, Kilma 
mittee prefer it.— Samu » Glou 
_Potato Planting.—I always plant Potaties ong & in 
November, choosing a dry day, and have fou nd Nate c- 
he Fras 
‘dieu he dil about tio feet asun- 
then ra in some 
sets about one 
y this m 
famines of September, and ha 
the above ag 
—As yi est information m the 
rot in the Potato for the benef of the people in St. He- 
lena, it may be of advantage hem ow. what has 
j he Ww years 
in Scotland ry to attract: q 
fete airs A good many 
was created about the curl in the leaf 
had caused great deficiency i in the 
ercp.. Mr. Dickson pointed out that. this 
j ed.. In grains and a age 
stetls, The foods when just srrvened, is aad to 
milky  satuble state, which ‘ripens 
§ proceeds ; and-the — ripe. 
but réquires pores action again to 
ape ed, it kee 
e it to 
in a | to 
o starch as Ee ripen- 
ock. 
"Prunig Fineibtives Senter oo (allow me to’ give the 
ublic, through ur pages, a short and 
aaiiis receipt for pruning, ill be better understood 
than.if I wrote a treatise of one hundred pagesion the sub- 
ject, and treated it learned] It is this : always look at 
the t at to be pru ma 
ee every eight orten years at leas 
ouble or 
€ greatest impo —* ; tho 
for er first co years, 
thinning must be gradual and judicious, 
There i is nothing which proves ae advantages of, thinning 
so clearly as segments of trees of the e age a 
a 
= 
s 
than ork other 
Britia 
the Salubh lé state, When 
the fi0dis found tobe eres to th 
e seed is =vpone the ste und, 
e same milky soluble 
state, andthe same thing takes place in the tuber. of the | section of.a hedge, pr wnedia the on 
bottom. is. made appare: ure. } is 
here a 
[Fes. 19, 
er 
The. simple sn ai oe the two is that oe —_ Fis 
_ ways cut s to ume when viewed from the 
ton 
° 
co 
a 
fe:} 
oak 
i=] 
a. 
- 
occur, 
The plan carries with it 
commendation, and need not be further lauded, 
that Oak timber shrank in drying 
Shrinkage of Timber, Having eben ie we 
in t 
direction of the circumference o 
that the ek a contains speculation on e 
asceat of the aes ges subsequent investigations have 
shitter Mr. Knight’s paper, while it 
describes the fact, ‘a, fives the relative quantities of the 
shrinkage inthe two dir aay viz., 14 and 34 per ce 
does not allude to the probable cause of the difference 
w st 5 ci 
y cae tae the 
be explained by the’ in dentation which the ves- 
f ir having — 
Re din e s in ribs Mut alters its ge imen little — 
= nothing, 1s Open to various useful a a ration in the 
. are drawing-boards, ma ek r ang 
Surveying instruments, and numerous others, together with 
the cases j ch wood is united with 1 or with | 
veneers. It nks cut in the 
f 
his si 
sips by Mr. Tredgold i 
well t “the pri ou have alread raid down 
=. not at last bring ee to cy ds of thos 
) hold-an Svrensite thocgf The heey me it pat 
