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THE GARDE NERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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Tie Waveney Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1842, 
MEETINGS IN pe ENSUING Me ye 
Tr 1esday Pee oe ee OT Zoolégical -: 0 eG P. or. 
Wednesday .. . Ge soar Enea &. M. 
Satay cs Hoyal Botanic . 2. i BM. 
a FE . weeks since, we reported briefly the sub- 
a paper upon the Saat bee of Asparagus in 
ene North of Spain, which w unicated to the 
Hes nee General 
profited oh nef lau as his wilitary 
oe just alluded to: but in our 
oo important to be passed by with 
ragus is probably the vegetable most generall 
adttifed and most seldom well cu Itiva ted ; it_ is otily 
¢ 
able Asparagus, and 
Pend a of the 
able. Covent Gar- 
den Asparagus is siete the worst in Burope For 
really fine Asparagus is met with, 
people think it aie pope eculiar a obtain the 
‘00 i i Hi: ersea, Or 
d them ee in 
what » he ey had before, lay the 
soil, or the Cisaate, or 
ing rather lan —_ own want t of skill. There 
wart air eee be i ao. 
ayes no room oubt. 
ragus is a rat found natal on the beach 
of vatious parts of the coast of Europe; where it is co- 
vere 
row sip of land, iBoat three feet ‘hive oa 
about two inches deep,* and 18 
alleys, _ leaving a space of two 
§ more than a foot apart. “Water is con- 
ducted once a day among the alle over the 
0 give these seedlings an abundant and 
constant supply of fluid during the season of thei 
growth s is the cultivation during the first year. 
Th nd year, in the month of March, the beds 
are fron ch with three or pid soon ks —_ Bongo 
the r 
— 0 
them e summer, and isk re 
the succeeding autumn ; ; Bc Al dug in 
tinued as 
ated wit + Hitt 
manner of preparing manure in Alsace, 
mend to 
contact with a soil of inexhaustible fe Previ- 
aTeRA each bed is 
5 
ing. 
in order that the finest only may be cut, whic 
rendered whit e by their leafy covering, rm pms 
© | by the excessive richness of the soil. 
In the autumn 3 the third yea ~~ the first cut- 
ds a 
ting, the leaves are removed, an are again 
henge with fresh night-so soil as before and these ope- 
ations are repeated year after year. In addition 4 
this, the beds are half under salt wie annually at 
i ay 
et one compare this mode of culture with 
ours, gad here will be no room for wonderin 
n 
we take no me 
the oe powerfa of all 
orce 
them onward by the warmth collected from toe sun by 
such beds of leaves ; we, on the other hand, compel 
ae Asparagus to struggle through solid earth, ome 
n the smallest ee —_ . oe “warmth 
ay- , on 
athe ng d, ready to part 
with i t hight to aie: igreatedt possible 
ae - 
any one won then, at the poor results ob- 
tained by our manner of tailtivation ’—or that some 
gence | lane oA now and ne astonish his neighbours 
spar which we c iant, but 
oth Be at St. i PRA Saild be called second-rate? 
Iv another column will be found an account of the 
ss ak we re- 
the consideration 
principle upon which t 
peareONDS the loss of the eee ores 
which is the most valuable, 
flava possessing no volatility: ""Tewill sachs be 
fod that gypsum is the “ — t of the materials 
ecommended for this purpos 
ee 
* Seasons of abundance 0 tae usually-recur 
in cycles of several success rs.” Such is the 
eyege i: an observation lately made by Sir Robert 
ead in Sie if true, is a 
Is it true? 
of o Th 
€ practice is founded is that of | 
pa 
world, may pring this © tebe} to tet or refute 
it if it be not well founded.” 
culations of an inge- 
anees connected with the physical constitution of that 
luminary, and also to cause inerease or d n of 
heat, that then seasons of hea ld m fore- 
een, and will necessarily be periodical. But this 
retail to be proved. 
CHATSWORTH. —(Coneluded.) 
Tue Chatsworth pilgrim is apt to bets on e has 
‘* seen everything worthy of notice ’’. when 
Edensor ieee 
orm te near the Edensor gates, and the bou 
ries of the park as << which th ere, in truth, a 
ost unseem ee append » however, as if = 
nd 
is a peculiarly 
gables when carefully adju ested ; tiie lodge on the oppo- 
site side is a plain building in ian srsles intended, 
aps; by way of contrast ee osite and m 
ye neighbour ; but, to my tgs it might be dispensed 
ith, In t Jag te being nea aotor otel, 
heard as in duty 4 ur pb the sm 
as at present condu eted. d disag 
ments therein encountered in days of ee re, had left ¢ ‘a 
unfavourable impression not easily rem 
pelled, mevaars to seek a harb 
of some half-dozen years, I was deli 
PE oe * sbntintee Bc ae yer = oe improved 
its arrangeme n fac untry inns (a 
degeberete pr it Diane now be difficult find a better. 
w t may_well be asked, has become of the vil- 
‘or ?—a question this which, as I have already 
hinted, it might puzzle the majority of Chatsworth visit« 
fo abo a few a yards 
stery ; for it has reappeared in a beau- 
uld solve 
tifal little dell wer a hundred 
a de Stee opens as it desc gently toe 
e park, fro ich it is prevtiy. pe se ited wavy 
re of pasation, aa is as profusely stdidded fe archis 
8 inbad’s famous ¥ with 
ards es rom ts ‘original sites 
another The. buildings embrace houses of almost 
every calibre, from the Pret farmhouse to the humble 
y to iehtioe his name, defer, 
William Herschel's paper pe ‘the spots in 
il. Trans., 1801), there are some compa- 
risons of these spots with seasons o 
scarcity, are from 
Adam Smith (which will be found 
Ist Vol. of his Wealth of Ronse of pre: Be oa 
1ich I suppose is all 
farther than 
tern as oft 
bock has published a table arra 
which are comprehended the va of ‘Wheat 
to years, but or three toge-. 
ther. This, Toweter I rather Aborted as an effect of 
the laws of human han of 
wh 
ws . 
3 and on | ¥ 
cottage, and the roe d with admirable skill; 
some grou mouth of the dell, aad 
others on gentle edits; white not a few overhang the 
brow precipice or occupy position that has been 
excavated out of the solid rock. The buildings are en- 
tirely of stone, xcept where entiched wooden ga or 
eottage architecture, from the st 
sprightly Italian. The variety ins produced is hetning, 
preferable to the monotony which prevails 
‘one or two garner villages w hich 
* e 
is quite incongruous where a number of different habita- 
ions rought into juxta-position; and although w 
have a right to éxpect that an individual when he builds a 
house moby confine gag age rather than in- 
dulge in country where there 
is ay ddiindae style, other alice os are not nd to 
walk in his steps, nor is it desirable or likely they should. 
Hence a Gothie village, or a and tim illage, = 
an Italian village, is y true to nature, and, 
this account, w f 0 please even mae it lost nothing 
on the score which the 
hum than 
the whole I see in it nothing 
cycle or periodicity, mo: 
torm taken consecut 
Mer Sir J. L’s A 
ercantile Chart. iagrams, the 
tions of the Prices of various Articles +B Lang the 
Years aig and 1839 inclusive! a eR by J. ie 
9, Castle-street, Holborn. Probably 
these authorities are good, and to the pelcasae svg : 
on | price is an indi of , they may answer th 
te cs Paces who he to know on what evidence | 
Peel 
‘In the paper above 
sums up his observations ae mr opern 
am tes inclined to believ 
wit h dared ws, Seok 
tions, m xpect a copious peo of 
heat, rik therefore mild seasons; and that, 
olen in il 
are € ly t 
too ical and 
this ro ; for > 
play > B Vile 
lage fountain, latter is, I think, uni in its — 
design, and must be seen si ; it is eee 
the ry of a r : 
e word t the church ot Phit 
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