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cessary to alter the soil : this prevents the admission of 
soil into os pipes. I find that the introduction of these 
causes a pikes aoe increase - heat, and nee I 
rame he m 
e made the open- 
brickwork much larger than shown, had it not 
6 rats The ircles, B, on the 
open brick-work for the admission of hea 
th. 
Stoke R TTT Siew wor 
JOO. 0 © 
© O OE 
KW swe i hie Ke Me Bei M (ej e Bee Re), 
rotecting Material oe eel mere 
is aware of the singular unfitness of the common mat for 
the use to which =e is Lepeae applied of covering frames, 
walls I he 
On Pro ery one 
doubts whether the plants were not injured by the 
of air st h the interstices of the weaving. 
Mats are heavy, easily wet, rot and decay, aa are in 
every way so perishable, and consequently expensive, 
although first cost is not much, and their realities ar 
50 1t in what they ld be, that it is surprising 
that the gardening portion of the co ity should not 
ve sooner thought of h 
he 
septic to pro a0 t taf faye 
oon cause The 
bees-wax is to give consistency to the eibée “ubvianes 
prevent their running in hot weather, and also to 
keep the canvas pliant. The expense of these ingredients 
is trifling, as common kitchen fat purified will answer the 
expensive part — the indi 
d, to 4d. per 
is rather more than the 
cost of com the Panera will be a 
ay twenty fold, if the cloths be une oe 
a coat be given at times. Paint has 
Vv 
first 
the ecint sc 
between © coverings and 
-glasseeaay 8 or 4 inches, potegupben ees ee 
enter fully into all the desc 
f 
repel 
Tt will answer ad- 
mes for tender plants in ae 
conducting power of the atmosphere. 
mirably for protecting hand fra 
borders ; and when n used for this Gee ths should be fi 
on the frame, previously to applying the composition 
From the anarwe ssc 4 of it, alates can easily be used 
on the top of frames, for uncovering durin ring the daytine; 
8 
atter end of July, 1834, I hada 
- ase 4 of small Potatoes or Chat of a kind called 
Shaw’s ; and about 60 rods of land ont being va- 
cant, of a stiff clayey soil, well known in sae neighbour- 
hood as the Low pice nds, it was ploughed and planted 
with them. They were taken up about the Ist of Nov 
a ‘and endiiae foes ith other sorts for the use 
of the family, no otged ene having been paid 
s n December, they 
alities ong flavour of excel- 
as 
ne by chan 
ne by design ar ‘talltnding one, an 
sults ere it is desirable to hav e Pota 
deseripti ion in ars they ma - abundantly sbisiand by 
planting whole s yp on aco mp subsoil, allowing 
i i i mn, before frosts set in, for the 
size texture ; and 
t ata sufficiently low tempera- 
a dark, moist situation, during the ie to pre- 
sat ithe ripe — process. do not mean to say that 
any kind of Potato will answer for this purpose; but 
such is the fact with regard to the Shaw.—James Fal- 
coner, Cheam. 
Chapman’s Potato.—In the Chronicle of March the 
5th there are a remarks by Mr. Ch geet in answer 
to an article o »  poodustion: of ioe Potatoes, by Mr. 
aarti marks are, in my ooiulina: written in 
rdon. 
such bad taste, and cast such a censure on me and some 
a gardeners, that I think it incumbent on me to reply 
them. ith the dispute as it stands between Mr. 
Chapm an and Mr. Gordon I have n pe - do, and — 
what I know of the latter he is well able 
Mr. Chapmen a, 
- Gordon’s as a “ gratuitous assumption,” 
ould beg | to. ask mer! whether a is a a “ gratuitous” 
as well as unjust “ assumptio n his part to assert 
— = ‘plan i in question is never "followed by ‘good 
Does Mr. Chapman mean to assume that be- 
cause a a pers son onde new Potatoes by a different method 
rom _ a recommended 
gn 
I have r Mr 
marcel ete = on 
yea in Lin baadtns 3 if so, I believe we can produce 
as ekg Potclnen = me ” pean ‘i ar Me Chapman’s, 
cxpens 
> 
and that wit rouble and se, The 
objection as to the se u and stalls e of covering 
&e. 1 e open grow 
away in nearly the same manner as the gener 
— — only done this to a small extent, and then 
mixed with mould. beg also to deny the 
applies to them when pane upon ground of 
man’s —— I beg also to ate that the Potatoes 
produce method, have not only 
been cai "put admired, both by ti late and my present 
— rs.— aul, 
—— 0 Salad.—In your Cottage Gardening, when you 
aires g directions as to the cooking and paths of su — 
vegetables, perhaps £9 might add amode of making a 
tato salad, much use ee ofthe Cantinent, and 
which og ar on. “e be useful to the cottager, but 
thought by y to be delicious eating, particularly with 
salmon, or fish i ig general, or, indeed, anything else. The 
mixture of wae, oil, , mustard salty h 88 is the 
as for common d,a 3 the 
rding 
Potatoes are slavish — en with Be Beet-root eye remap. 9g 
The cottager may merely use the vinegar, sal mustard, 
and add sliced Onions.—J. D ‘ 
The Martin. There is pei anything monk poets, 
or innocent in itself, more calculated to impress upon th 
Pariaeane, 
f you 
| be i impos- 
sible, in a 
escriptive minutize of the feathered 
y contributors, during a life 
tribe; still it is probable man 
what ex- 
I | tent these little depredators levy their contributions upon 
the produce . our gardens, and the 
enefits we derive 
from them return. r 
inger nm a period dea 
bits and social disposition dem 
tion—and amply will any stteation to their 
i it hg i 
ci of Hira 
velocity as the swallow, but may be seen taking a middle 
rse, and, as it w gracefully floating through the air, 
with expanded wing, in ‘sondh of food. artin ar- 
rives in this country about the end of April, and com- 
ay onthe wg oe in — middle of May, always choosing 
e eaves of how 
LS 
rm thei s truly aston 
well worthy the Pane of an individaal. 
for the habitatio 
ded,’’ num- 
observed | busily employed in the Regent’s Park 
bli 
maintaining their po 
are related of their ae in repelling the a’ ft 
sparrow, who is at all times but too willing & avail sel 
of a ready- -furnished resi eae ti Mar ys 
four to five white te eggs, a and has two b ina 
whilst in motion their note is adenine of Pear, on 
White says they “‘ twitter in a pretty inward sof 
n collecting in 
them, cama ties is a matter of doubt, but certain it is im- 
ma 
on his sattids poe school, 
other bird whose habits are er de- 
pping Vines.—Vines may be stopped close to the 
feuit athoak receiving o injury, indeed, it is the best 
system for pot cul! the 
anton upon 80) 
sruetve * x. ‘ 
the liability of portions 
of free eae to die before they ripen.—W. Brown, 
The ‘Preservation of Peas from Mice. - have rub 
S was sometime since 
ave been 
‘owred ae —This being the seed-time of 
soars, I the importance 
utility of vole eoloued glass in spats (and in 
some instances, as it would appear, as the almost neces- 
the first aap of many strik- 
ng instan its effects fence a itted to me ; 
and I now hen, en passant, to record an interesting one, 
recently communi y Smith, the 
Hull Botanic Garden. 
vegetated. nede 
rm may be papeiyens OF, ak bey sligh 
glass may be placed on the top. of the rh: dene which 
R: 
e seeds are so am anxious to dra 
x the Gelttanare of ‘Orchidee to the uous of violet- 
coloured , since of these ts, oy 
os their habits, as they are in their beau tiful an d endless 
acy and now TOaN starting into 
greatly wig 
reataainee am did we eatempt m ae 
supply, as it were, the influences turally surround 
hem? To end, were the ight oft ee Orchitnasosia 
at leas 
ow lying dor- 
their gay luxuri- 
€ our success in thei 
house ‘glazed, his glass, the core 
would, I fee content be as en ficial are item 
beautiful ; 
mitting a hight which possessen as ue rope in excit- 
ing vegetation ; and thus proving, in all re respects, an ad- 
irable auxiliary to the artificial heat and moisture ne- 
seatily pi rat in their culture. —F. R. 
M.D., 
Charcoal Dusi, a Preventive of the Grub in Onions 
Choose 1841, isa 
i t the 
experiments are ment y reasons given; 
0 
the advice, therefore, was not likely to rie generally ac 
