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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Mare 12, 
eontions, penx’ eee — a fact so useful should be 
redations of the grub being 
and disa sappointment. I wis sh, therefore, to inquire if any 
of Onions 
kod ‘the Cabbage posiyge be what were the results; and 
so whether any one can give a etatnctory explanation 
as to how the Basnsten acts. On g Mr. Smith’s 
Paper, it occurred to me that as stank: ae es ou 7 car- 
bonic acid gas in burning, it might probably be decom- 
osed when laid on the soil, an shat a 
8 
the Onions and th 
however, to Liebig, | find that ‘‘ carbon ’”’ (and 
charcoal will be included in 
common temperatures with oxygen, 
acid ;’’ but ‘* charcoal,’’ he observ “ is ee own 
d I suppose 
oal is decomp 
imagined, still it is sasbihle that ‘the heati are prevented 
from depositing their eggs by the presence of carbonic 
acid in the soil. If I b 
il by sc — with the 
1 be de- 
Twonl 
—Mr. y to be 
grown in double rows in one y suit th 
o has but a small plot of ground for that pur- 
nt in single rows, and | 
t r to each puts 
ota AS Feet combines at 
grows, always ‘ohak care to ms 
when 
for the general crop, to rem 
frequently surround the oan ate vara 
examined a second 
sw 
sold ways 
The breadth of the earthing must be 
contracted es it advances in height. The too — 
mode of e ag has a contrary effect.—A Constan 
Reader, Sheffield 
Gesnera elongat a.—The statement that Gesnera elon- 
excited several remarks 
place which suits the Ges It is an object to fill the 
partition with gay flower-plant winter, an 
ing i t of w t nny 
en He Cinerarias, Daphne ordorata, Epacris, Fuchsias, 
Gnidias, Heliotropes, Hévea Celsi, Ipomcea Le4rii, Jas- 
inum gracile, Kennédias, Lobélia certilea, Magndlia 
flia, — ; ‘Myrtle-leaved Oranges, O’lea fra- 
Primula nensis, Neapolitan Violets, with forced 
yacinths and eaae bulbs ; ares indica and pontic ay 
and some Rh ae drons. Chamerops htmilis is in high 
health in me house, but T conf oe a bapa coring 
fulgens and sp aie wy not succeed a mpe- 
rature.._-C.. 
Feeding Bees.—If “A Young Bee-keeper”’ will 
allowing th s to have admission into any of the 
Grooves of my feeding-trough, and have descri 
method of ting it. If this precaution had been 
| attended to, wid have, been dro 
ven ne might have been chilled to death in severe 
Of Dr. Dunbar’s s feeder I cannot speak from 
consequence e from the of it as you 
mentions; I attribute it elie 
been had recourse to in cold weather, and hav 
allowed : remain too long over the bee +e, Bev 
Llanferr 
W hite therm —Your correspondent “ P.” states among 
other rules for "making good hedges, a where the hedge 
has reached its full height you should tri it level at the 
ones. 
ith re rence N a correspondent’s ac- 
rm propagation by roots, which appeared 
in the Gard cnere Chronicle of 22d Feb. last, I pes to std 
hat a 
r’s plan, grow rm a Baars oe quan- 
ou up and pepsin g 
to) 
must also be duly watered. 
:H her such has been the case with me.—Crategu *, 
ya perused with great —- the ob- 
the last week’s Gardeners’ Chro- 
trees th thick upon t od 
the sites. Ahdwtcdien, if aon thinned repilesly tt: year, 
and, in an economical poin ant. 
But lest your observations 
opposite error, pannel that ‘of placing their ef Bien plants, 
just removed out of a hursery, too far apart, I ve pela 
submit the resalt ol ge my own experience, which arses 
are, of course. oi 
~_ ~ seeds or pbc 
s the 
z§ 
° 
send bed 
avi 
inaec owded sta ao otra 
m will scarcely 
at sudden hinge ° 
have been taken _ me convinced t 
shrubs. In 
ada ~ for this pu e; and in moist ones, Alders, Wil- 
lows d Pri ee The latter I have found very well 
srry for a covert for game; but if it is t to 
make the underwood Profitable, of course that sort of un- 
de d ated for which the best market can 
be fi — < a in 
vertop their 
hough the. ag thin- 
e for some time ne egle: ct But, after all, 
tai both the 
stoutest and most valuable of any.—O. Mosley, Roileston 
ating by Hot Water.—‘* A. W.,” _in p- 86 (1842), 
erent ci stances in houses hea pee 
enh 5 and lam co to _ im what information I 
From Mr, H 
possess u treatise on 
heating buildings by hot water, L fa semen with “A, W.,” 
have great advantage ; n all that is touched 
upon in it relating to this subject, I ep it surprisingly 
a not, however, find in it any ra f 
correspondent inquires about ; 
see how any — grees =— can be obtained, 
S liek The in- 
s lost = me Big the glasg 
N 
wise is pro 
aes of air eelwant the 
corre — St vu s second n, as to what 
en ‘* the cooling ie of kes yaaer sieceal angles 
gee ars to me tha 1 la bours und 
be too sma 
squars root 
= this cause, An r. Hood has show 
: oe that at c temperat 
m glass i is nearly tenths of the whole 
im the loss by i apc ig we angle 
thea 
y 18 
page of ——* 
stantly teas, there 
nequainted with heated in an 
e. 
beat 
rises fro 
hot water, which <wire not 
boiler and pipes es q 
after expense Eiewiees ’I shoul k, from the effects of 
rust on the ir ving, therefore, that hea 
pga be aoe still in — nhouses, I send y 
ave made in the con= 
count of a simple altera 
siniatine of my fireplace, which hes proved of the greatest 
benefit, consuming a smaller quantity of coals, and ot 
less trouble i in lighting and attendance, as ag 
keep in without any attention being paid to it for 2 or 
My firepl 
14 hours, ce was arigineliy: of the commen 
construction, with a n door before the fire, and ri 
open ash-pit below. It was situated outside, at one eB 
back wall, hich a flue p ~~ 
eenhouse, and terminated in a chimney by the side 0 
the fireplace. Th ration I have made is t ne 
ion of a cast-iron plate, tightly fixed into the brickwor 
in front of the grat a small r abore 
a 
und fi e ash-pit, with a hole in 
so contrived that the air may be excluded or ad I 
the fi ires, on the principle of Dr. Arnott’s stoves. ; 
have made no change i flues; but the fireplace itself 2 
is led, as in the Arnott stoves, with fire-bricks, 
no epee of burning the co I use arp = 
1s t e- 
same — as kilns and malt- 
