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instances in which they have been unsuccessful ; and this 
in a number of cases will 7 — owing to the: operation 
pe thaaad season, or to the 
or Cu ap het i n, mid-winter, or spring; a 
it may matter little at which of these buriods the operation 
Not so, ren with all plants, t 
here asic as 7 the other theory of pruning de- 
pends upon a reyes of primes techn and if one of these 
a be taken ey. rought pice while the others are dis 
rded, the results will y be unsatisfactory. But 
the ule, ion if we have taken the 
I might thus go on and point ont various rege: examples 
which have come under my own observation, but I think 
Ihave stated enough to —— — eye: theorists 
who profess to be so, and t scarcely fair to ee 
it i 
theory the scapegoat for bad ncaa gardeners,—a, ¢€ 
AMAT Bue i GARDEN -—No. 
who are an 
ta 
nting them singly in a ola pots (60’s), taking care 
to nace the base of each with a little sand; if the 
young shoots have no roots, they will soon form th 
of lime ; each Laas Sbevatore, in the first 10 rows re- 
ceived in the of two months about half-an-ounce of 
e usual 
Cobbeces were weighed on the 31st of December. 
Row Ib. 
1 Gas-liquor epee recy with sate wee bal pes with 
phosphate of lim enmie 103 
2 | Do 0. with cababeiti acid, do 99 
3 Do. . with muriatic acid, d i 73 
4 | Do. do. with nitric acid, do. 65 
5 | Do. do, with carbonic acid, ‘do. 58 
6 | Do. do. with phosphoric acid, no earthy Salk, 
25 plants 62 
7: A-D6. do. with ‘sulphuric acid, no earthy salts, 
Ps par 
8 do. with | muriatic’ acid, no earthy salts, 
eer plants 29 
9 | Do. = with nitric acid, no earthy salts, 25 plants |} 23 
10 | Do. with carbonic aci oO. 12 
11 Average weight = 25 caieare which were diced 
12 ived water alone 
13 = cs “which received — of Poittevin’s 3 ma- 
nur 
orm 
» Eclipse, D e, Queen eaiee h 
liath : the last named aabaiies very large flo ; dae Sub- 
sequently, r. Salte er sen t from | rance some fine’ dark 
varieties, 
and sdbate ae contrast bee ihe smyth —— 
best of these are Duc de Can 
“The 
olden 
a 
it ie very well a Hantng out o 
nnuals, 
ante flowers, will ke the be ready oy transplanting i 
beds or b 
been 
ial to all beds which contain 
lowers. uriculas which 
pane mi into —— should be slightly shaded, to preserve 
~ — of the flowers. 
grass cigogs the wal will al 
Geinudoes tare best if the edge is not deep; nothing. 
looks worse than deep aties at the nem of walks. —R.F 
HOME ager cits gon 
Ammoni anure.— 203 a communi- 
cation respecting the compounds of Ammonia, I beg 
offer you an int periments which were 
tried with care, my immediate su - 
ence. A of : ng of heavy loam, w: 
sown with Tares, which were mown and carried a ay as 
fi horses during the June and July ; 
field was ghed and well dunged, excepting a 
portion left without man the following experi- 
as are commonly e, were planted on ridges, 
each Cabbage square yard. It was found by 
experiment that it required 54lbs. phuric acid, con- 
taining 65 per of dry acid, to neutralise 87}1bs. of 
ammoniacal the gas-works; this was taken as 
4 standard, and quantities of ni muriatic, and phos- 
Phoric acid added to moni- 
were to other onent 
acal liquor, so that aps contained equal quantities of am- 
monia ; ammonia was the solid carbonate 
of commerce dicodtesd | in water, a 
in quanti- 
ties to contain an equal proportion of ammonia with th 
others; the soluti re then y diluted with wa- 
ter, and to each iven every other day, 
ths, pint of the solutions. Each 
leased to see 
ssed in iclocliapliadl oe hoped it would have 
Gaseous eek one poi reat impo i 
vators, namely, what is rm largest acreable produce that 
i it is ible, by any ii 
ti 
eh. .d 
_Potatoe s.—I was 
o increas 
Béattely ror crop is liable to such variations in the pro- 
fro 
duct. Some growers have been cont rom five to 
eight tons acre, whilst Mr. Seat No o= of Ash- 
leaved Kidneys, mentioned in 10, p. 155, 
amounts to 24 to ewts. ; this i is fe ‘esipe se differ- 
sa: n your extract from Mr. ight’s paper to the 
Horticultural Society, Ce have omitted one very chdtdetal 
anki tity of seed he used. In t per he 
states, that he planted the Kidney in rows two feet dis- 
tant, with whole Pot , touching each other in the 
rows; thus planting a crop ins of for, if we 
suppose each set to weigh only four ounces, and plante: 
three inches fr entre to centre, the quantity of see 
planted Stet eigh 9 tons, 14 ewts., 1 qr., 23lbs.! leav- 
tons, 12 cwts., I qr. net 
is was 
never saw reason to in- 
cre I always cut my sets from the finest 
Pota ore in each ay rev 
and the Fiapls very equal. an unusually small pro- 
portion of small Potatoes. 
you in opinion as 
laced a 
nce 
four io asunder pik ep he and ne: — the crop very 
good, 16 or 17 to acre (I am y I have last the 
ofl 
e seed, as in 
cated unusually gre at pi 
of a it will, I think, be a — desirable e acquisition 
subject. I should 
09 
SE 
ei 
3 
to the season.— 
prehend that Mr. Ka ight did not intend to say that the 
tubers of his Ash-leaved ge when planed, Sar 2 
each other, but that would do n full- 
rown. We can state, =) our own ‘seibetesien : gcse Mr. 
coarse varisties 5. apd te the 
: possible that «yan wi apart. souk ental 
ee ee 
Potato-planting dis- 
e produced | 0 
Hort. Trans. vol. I., N. S., p. 155, will be found a a 
Di 
had stems fully four oe Tong. 
although such sorts as 
about two feet long, fe 
only produced at the rate of 3 tons, 
although 
7 Ibs. fro rom ‘an 
ep, and saidisos with 
° 
3+ tons, 'g cwts. 10 
rete variety, planted nine inches dee 
ed a 
n I lived near Bristol, I one year 
l 1:—Having the bot n old 
oh 
unfair.’’—3. He denies that his Potatoes are produced by 
rding t nting much later than 
rdinary.—4. He says that the ‘diference between his Po- 
and and those grown by othe 
s that they are much better 5. That 
riety these apvéih years s 
where he obtained it.—6. That he has no particular mode 
of greening, has tried ‘no ih pis ratesrard and 
finally, tha 
be expo sed to the air as soot as they: are secure from rag 
ting-time. is is as far as we 
and to he kept so till pla 
th 
han we do; they now 
m such evidence as has 
in offering any opinion of our own. We can 
that be they what nd may, pre are of vb Soe: auatty, 
A man takes a house and 
his 
‘There is ne ¢ one less Huey than myself 
to be an accuser in the matter of birds. srw rg 
of mind been ouin seats to divide the rediles of my 
berry-beds with the blackbirds and thrushes, the 
were welcome As plrs 
sown Peas. th 1 
any harm they do, Saas favourites ; Sig 
must be a lim 
along wi 
song, in beautiful plumage, ie I at give up to scsi 
and public ni nares the bullfinch. I had often heard 
rant and 
ost sceptical as to the mischief 
0 take effectual means of ridding themselves 
of this proce oo —Totty. - 
Poot et was not to do anything with 
moniacal rig until your salt about three weeks 
‘ge: where quantities are stated and the 
mgt I en ninevtlr that eerie te eT 1 in fot 
was ted what quantity was d per rod. 
Sonitee one ‘najuivea, however, baftito“t me, 
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