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"2 4 SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1842. 
MERTEAGR IN THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Wednesday . + Geological Str. ~ 
Friday . . + + ©. Botanical » + - + + 6 
3 Sateaies Sade: —May 31, Hammersmith Heartsease. 5 2, Wingham 
oricultural—Hoddesdon, Broxbourne, and Amwell Cottagers. 3, Louth. 
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> SINOR last week we have learned two a, respect- 
s: one, that the qu 
ing 
ere just n 
the fact, no one should be eae by it, for 
dhe reason can be explained and_ the cle to suc- 
tess remov ved. The cause of failure, if failure there 
will be the want of sufficient papian Beats which 
is 
is always small> in. thi country, and ‘i e present 
n, owing to the cold nights w hoes fave n so lon 
b ences aU deficient compared wi coun 
during the spring; the rays yt 
“pak is thus * gradual Heated: sti- 
fo 
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z 
_. and the ground, 
_ mulates all vege nto ana tite S igi wn Pt ith 
us, ante ofa fas under ar rtificial circumstan e the 
ir correspondent, now ‘pric Soin, tage 
uteous, or ri ol 
t on closer inspection, and Goneflention | of 
_ books, ke have fun they were known and already fi- 
—in small ‘size sn dim colour, such 
us.” — 
or advantages. like ‘this the warmth of our 
aed days in spring offers little co m pensation, and, 
! incessantly succeeded by frosty nights, none at, all. 
warm- 
ice ae eet ot the Asparagus-beds artificially, the 
ot push rial ete eh nor branch 
acquire t 
cacy. ta ates ae a 
y aaoitier $ season, to line th 
beds with stable litter, made up in the: deep al a that 
c ussia and else- 
will be sure to grow with.all | ; 
mean while, as some compensation for the 
ible disappointment that may have attended the 
let us 
itis of no | 
use to su 
‘that plan 
eles 
substan 
able; a 
aver 
men 
cted wu 
wean 
eon 
at ttentive 8 
that 
when charealischanged into theair called carboni 
it i weche hat the aoa 
thu: us eae in came 
they will be cai 
die roots of she one n-bush, be dissolved i 
and presented to the plant as food, whic h, as soo 
has i te its stem and leaves, adds to their size pet 
0 
the former case, the food 
orme 
Pr be dissolved Py se: supposing a. to 
nd if that ot the 
ground until it on nwo ed so rer asite ote aimoly: 
able, — — ie poets some time, and may require’ 
eB 
uch co 
of hsandry sabre that it is well u 
e also 
gartenehed ‘a "En 
s of this sort sige ruipert 
a future occasion 
these pare ar a un cae 
bu 
inthe Seeiahtine, and thr 
tends been hatched in oon 
present small, consisting of about 30 Rn birds and 
about the same number of oung ones; but the 
re been gain form 
e sure our cratic friends who have the power 
will gia An add. 
and trees-are in themselves de 
bosoms vice has not alate x sepyed 
; roves 
li , term 
and in the middle of theta i is enfolded a 
rround them with that substance ; it is only 
icacid 
n water 
nor change a air ; it is only when it ate that its 
elements, that i 
me once more t they wee at Pek and are ena- 
pate to enter into he composition of aoe other or- 
sed being, w whether animal or Let them 
lan 
remains of | the dog, and 
pin the water that surrounds 
in a 
This is is one of the reasons why fluid manure is so 
rapid in its action than such as is dry : in 
of plants i ily 
,and can be mares Seige e€ moment it 
e roots ; but when manure is to bed it must 
res 
un e sire practices 
erstood. W. 
e that, Re man icligent farmers and 
tail to eal tao 
wos. 
shall endea 
tood, ia are not only not 
nm, but are iscicirigally lost sight of in the 
most ordinary operations. 
Ir may be interesting to our readers to know that 
the Ornithological Society of London, to esc oe. 
For on isso greatly indebted 3 A ee r= 
n lake ee 
a ere is at 
point 
ing a nucleus, to sphiieks we 
eat object to render these A apc of public 
ghbon. he lo d ibl 
resort interesting to the lower = ers by every possible 
means, for it is thus that nic gradually 
ed from beer-sho 
and pac hoases reen 
tful to all in whose 
ed the natural ek: 
easurable em 
are very much height- 
ally such as. 
y : “gare 
St. James’s Park itself the collection is increasing | 
i ich I geese 
observed, except 
Beth will have a corolla 
-s the keel. yo five 
: but why this odd 
such flo 
An 
ay of Ep ese flowers will, ‘Sawever’ tell you, 
they ar er are some 
d| then crumble about a _— of it eee oe: right at Riot 
| about the kitchen t will be all eaten up, 
The creature is 
in the Bem eg ote order; to which belong, for the 
same ri the Bean, the Kidney Bean, and the Vetch, 
tBigethier wh Lucerne, Clover, Sainfoin, and similar 
ere 
ow, as all these species just named are the food of 
nae man or sia it has been supposed that ez! other 
ee flower would are ge a ae net eatable 
P 
e , gid Furze 
wit od, the intoxication of fish is one of the most “ 
mon; this is effected by bruising the leaves of poisonous 
plan in: em into t ee whi fish, 
becoming stupified, rise to the surface, as if di are 
easily caught. any of the most ar ak brat trae: 
are obtained from gg Tigreageel plants. species 
are active medicines mon ise and the 
owe this quality to the me deleterious sub- 
stance which in small quantities is f weiticlod in a state of 
concentration i 4 poiso 
It has for many Seats been found that the mortality 
among the cattle 1 in the Swan River colony is caused by 
ee ing pe Fes one! dangerous herbage. Many attempts 
er the en , and for some time a 
beautiful vobeliageain | plant called Isotoma Brownii was 
strongly suspected of being it. ri however, it has 
een oe out that the prey 
by Gompholébiums, whose 
be mais by us without a euapcion of the danger ‘that 
urks beneath their glittering fo 
a book wit th ‘such ¢ cases, but enough has been 
a 50, why should we be sur- 
eng at hor are 
It is 
se " whicks 
of star ch contained 3 
capability of wikia? 
con 
cases tease stiffness that the knee- joint cannot | mov 
ile 
ieee a an ee Rey called E 
e bad fi metas fe 
the grain, in consequence of the wetness of 
d thus its seeds were mixed with Wheat and 
) rodu great 
nd could not walk without the aid of a ae even the 
ses: almost paralytic when their corn was mixed 
there is nothing to wonder at in finding 
also 
jonaceous cing its 
poisoning the children whom heed- 
less nurses amuse with its seeds. So common ne yard be 
do tisk hia a in w 
less serious, e not occurred pores we zo 
benefit of the vesdies of the  Chroniold: “ast hen children 
are thus poe they may — be recovered by 
ach with a ose of mustard 
amr ‘on it may prods unnecessary alarm 
to ieniion, that by such means life has been saved when 
the child has become insensible, and the, features livid.— 
COCKROACHES. 
I wov.tp good-humo 
salee proces whether most of the 
these very troublesome in- 
do not simply amount to the rated Sena for 
h your 
hes in a tra 
entleman, a: ‘ein facilis descens verns, 
ot to be so easi eigled into a pot, although many 
discreet progeny ead doubtless be _ en- 
gulphed. By persevera in trap-setting, an 
catchings, the colony may at sonnet thinned, but ‘not 
eradicated. If _— rrespondents will pike the fol 
simp varia them that : 
Cockroach will yrs disappear, and ‘that, 
will not again be infested. Add about a ra thea 
pow arsenic to a tr ea Be fal of mashed 
boiled Potatoes; rub and mix them w ether, sie 
