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but a a ‘very superficial ae of Botany, I ak ee fe- 
male flowers will be minutely investigated by thos 
competent to discern the presence of thai ented Thos 
Cowan. 
Water Wagtail.—A pair of Water Wagtails had 
a Yew, which, with one opposite it, 
walk from the lawn to the 
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people were passing all day lon aving brought up 
those, and no doubt affectionately consigned them to th 
ir, the s pair built their nest, abo ust in the 
same year, in the same nest, and just in the former man- 
e often 
n 
he common 
ire will destroy insects, but 
uch to the health of the garden 
a saiitidd Platte dispersed through it. No 
greenhouse or biothofase should be anme Camomile 
green or in a dried state; either the 
answer. If a pla el is s drooping and apparent y 
nine cases out ‘of te 
it 1 From the Mag.’”’ 
- Scribe hie Wooden d. [The writer in the “Trish Gar- 
en Mag.” was bo 
e 
: h ten at the 
roots by a white maggot, ground being overrun 
with slugs as well. I however soon destroyed grubs of all 
sorts, by the application of b clay, the refuse of a 
timber , or any rubbish near at han soon as the 
i bur 
1 
a barrows, I had it laid over the cleared ground, 
in ao two inches 2g Radb s ey after lightly 
pointing it in, and then put in my crops. ere was no 
eppearanc vot “clubbing sfterwerdg: and ne roots 
perfect y aes and a crops were as fine 
. The soi 
mellow 
n at hie while all t the ate were 
shtacniasiel them. But the best and 
m nto the tank, in propor- 
n to the extent of the ground requiring its application. 
Throw water over lime in such a quantity as to render 
it when settled clear and caustic. Stir all well together, 
and in a few hours it will be sufficiently clear, and then it 
should be drawn or lad use into another vessel. 
In the course of the day, lay slates, tiles, boards, or large 
leaves of any kind, over the gro where slugs or worms 
frequent, and on the following morning let one man turn 
over the slug and worm t another person with 
a small pot sprinkles the sep her ae the slugs as the 
and i me they will all be 
ured o 
g horticulturist it is well known there are 
two se sallies of slugs d ight : one comes 
out in evening, and another towards morning ; those 
irous of destroying the whole as s Os- 
sible, must have recourse to the quicklime system, and 
choose a calm night for the purpose ; let the lime be sown 
9 or 10 o’clock at night and again 
morning. It only requires a 
should escape the hand 
if so, no galvanic batteries 
ove » Mearns, FHS. 
(s.—It is very often the case that 
ies lights are taken off houses for rin 
cg in damp sheds an t 
ic 
n the contrary, i n a warm situation, 
they go on easily, which sh on ae less liable to be 
broken, W, a e. 
€ of Gladioli in ad hese Air 
On —Some of 
the remarks in the paper on the cu me of Cape Gladioli 
np. 171 sppear to differ so widely fro the experience 
of a succes ul cultivator of that beaut gen sh that I 
am ¥: think the follo owing ex Lb epta- 
much in general 
the g colours and 
of ideas, aren Dy very se Sen 
ral soil of the garden at Spofforth, wish is a good yel- 
al 
lowish light loam suitable for barley; and also in the 
artificial borders of peat and sand, ws Ati however, in 
y summer th nd more in need of water. These 
hick tuft, in whieh state the profusion 
rable, the ‘dle ster ~ nae and the old 
d. bulbs permitting the in away, 
ril. 
r tumbers 
roots taken up ees 
ted and turned ae! pra nin the spring. The bea 
tifal | eebeite with hirsutus, oe rvus, and versicolor are 
more delicate plants, an nd d ucceed well in the bor- 
= - Seedling Gladiolt wil often Suen — first 
‘th est treatm n pots, 
ian sear Pac ibis till eis sebdtingy are pretty deieeé, 
n turn out the ball unb nrg into the border, 
d no gay of th of 
es of colour.” From m n experience I 
ark that the eee sorts alluded to in the dheive 
dctriay arrive at a egree of eto if potted 
bout 12 in as small 's pot as will hold them, late in th 
autumn ted in a warm border in a May they will 
require to be shifted once in the early spring, but shoul 
not in t gd instance be : ra 5 if the 
ey ee oi plenty of nourishment, and the 
» the mo et beaut i will a aa 
One 
no ae of the clu mp wh 
st beautiful = Ate By whic wa men 
v9 or correspondent ‘* G., ” is that sold by Lom trade ci 
the name of florib mal onsta 
Nitrate da.—Connected with the ietiees of a 
plying salt nure, i nquiry as to h oon they 
worth 
rie sted that t experiments "thodia be made 
riers different earths, wer witn in tubs or other rwise, to ascer- 
tain the e salts sebodsd, &e. 
yeuur 
ristmas BuiP ahees some of your readers are not 
of the Christmas Rose 
er 
will last in wate ay from the fire, a bunch 
these will last we six weeks to two months out drop- 
ping a leaf. n in the habit of ra a nose 
of these flowers fi a i ave occasionally 
seen it et sal in the autumn, and by puttin it either ina 
cold frame or greenhouse ps t fire, you insure that 
va a penia = ae Sain red by slugs or the sinc cold 
ather. w more beaut flowers than a bunch 
of abi blown ‘Chtsenas See — Totiy. 
English Elms and Hoi y.—At the entrance-gate of 
East-end Farm th n Kings, near 
Che ltenham, is a si 
ce on 
a bea 
the ground, witha trunk, at 9 feet mpm 3 feet ss inches in 
circumfere ence, Bore extent of the branches is 18 feet, 
v 
t leafless neig Th 
ae Eafe visit Cheltenhta will find § it a pleasant ride 
to“ dri A, 
but 1 I will not require to go 
coal-pit at the Redding, and yet I think I shall be able 
to satisfy ‘‘I. H.S.” about the growth of Potatoes in 
coal-pits ae. went down the 
eee Ley at We ockburn, and received 
geological — fro: olume of Nature. Wan- 
dering throu bh the ire sworkings where the fresh currents 
of air wer ating, we met with an agreeable 
hy the ukmciietes that the heat 
an 
ra eady ‘oots oO: 
Rhubarb o ae “aes sbout 30 fathoms rai ‘the sur- 
face of the earth. Oo accompanied me was a 
r of he Stortivatreral Society in’ this toe? he 
lanted some SORA OES 8 mong the shale, in order t eee 
early Potatece ‘at. rst meeting of ‘the : 
Potatoes did not the. 
f by whic 
a be Le ae forth. "— Anti tigua 
duced long blanched se and a = small watery tubers 
cw the size of marbles 
a + to-pit is Spiaads 
ree te Pei the 
~ rete be expected, the 
a a than the first, and 
cr ess until the plants 
tora tae of = 
Yellow n the garden of Manar, ‘spardec nshire ow 
gardener said it was the largest plant of the sort in Scot- 
] ; b I can pee 
he and was annually cu 
2 the wall, which aa 9 te —: 
every season for 
Double Ye How Rose.—A grea 
about the Double Yellow oes the 
peak: having ‘tay ‘said 
wing extract 
i a work called Dicti 
1726, may not prove uninteres' O your readers. 
The Do uble Yellow Rose bears not so well when thus 
natural, no st be 
Rose put in the bud of a single Yellow Rose near the 
ground; that will quickly shoot = hog? length: then ye 
best kind a 
into it a bud of Double Yellow of the 
about a foot high in that Piste 8 uckers ne the 
roo all other inoculated Roses, and rub off all ae 
buds but of the desired eg hen big enough to 
g enou 
preceding winter, cutting off al 
prune it very 
the small shoots, only leaving say Digger, the tops 
which are also to be off a as they are ane 
When it buds for hatves't in the Ronse rub off the smallest 
them ; an nd when for flower, a too many, let the 
smallest ed off, leaving as many of the fairest as the 
strength of the tree will bring to perlebtioh hould 
be a sta d tb a pote cog Banyo 
in too much heat of es sun, and w 
re 
dry weather eans fair soe beaut Reon 
es.— Quercus, in 4 37, w ishes my 
trees i 
rovgren 
‘ha ie 
at p 
ave ‘sad pa you had r seen ‘my writings; whereas 
until 
~ _— were that * * yout had ned re lately,” 
Ia y Que or if he 
had, he w ould. have found am 1 hat ve  densbiite ated i in my 
table of experiments, by measuring the growth in girth of 
trees for several mea the utility of pruning when per- 
formed according e 7m in so far from 
vinced that if 
h 2 
system 
famteace tc to oan an 
bak on ca neces r $ that 
him, nor any o o differs atta me, but only sorry that 
t should not sity “be ‘ntaderst tood, but misrepresented, 
and m my principles and practice confounded with others k 
thoro 
le 
and ee al. I am certain, did we thorough 
arated phi 
ve : 
the same opini 
other, we should 
