 ————— 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
fAucust 13, 
all — 
with the imeeee nope pen“ b sane 
— 1 to have been for some time. The con 
arrears confined The t 
30. ve cut- 
up im paper only + we there eed ie 
the ground ; 
ra of the development of the buds, 
were 
= Toma roots being thrown out. The most promising 
among them-are ae Pear slip and Malo de Carlo 
: Bombay being 
mas and 
to eae put 
colonies ; 
ligneous plants, besides fruit-trees, they 
intreduce from abroad valuable and interesting ‘species at 
a cheap rate. The plan has proved to be efficien t for a 
miles, if 
“The. method. which the experience above <anere to 
t, is this :—let the slips be cut 
r—selecti 
packet. Put 
a soenenae ihe o of paper around the whole, an nd fini sh 
mp envelope. of stout silk; or even cloth, oom ares 
with India-rubber, in the liquid 
state, 80: that the-side and end folds — sick in 
ght. 
quires a knowledge of their sa age at parts and several 
at the bes 
qualities, so to mix them, th compost.,may be 
nce n fact, it is not so tisg nits be- 
lieved, to prepare a compost perfectly suited to the pur- 
poses of the cultivator. Whoever wishes to prepare th 
best possible compost, must leave nothing to chanc 
he contrary, certain fixed principles must be attended to, 
mers c ust consul 
only which c stan 
is is deficient, and what are to be applied, in whatever sored 
if the mo me abundant crops are d. 
However advantageous the preparation of ¢ompost be, 
it has, nevertheless, been stigmatised as useless; and it 
as been asserted, that it occasions unnecessary labour 
without si ng eo essential benefit. Its or peaig 
are, however, undoubted. Among the principal are the 
following :— 
1. By mixing different substances and putting them 
into heaps, their more perfect se beep taro is secured by 
the heat thus generated. If, on the contrary, these su 
stances are carried unprepared upon the mei » they ca 
not come into close contact, and there is no generation 0 
heat, ee is such a powerful aid of chemical com- 
ay tion 
2. By ‘making or ; mae of little or 
value as manures cope e verted into most 
etal fertile pr cially humus, plant in the sale of 
of acid, and vegetable Fie which, by close 
pr with Sane loam, lime, and marl, are changed into 
hg ile earth ; for in this way many Mometes are created. 
f; sesh yee in preparing compost, land be for some ee 
deprived of manure, it is to be considered, on the other 
i of wy ear, by one cart- load 
o cart-loads barren humus 
diawened | ‘ie an excellent “erie, whereby the taliour 
of makin, ng compost is fully id. 
ung and urine a ae mined in compost heaps, with 
ee ammonia disengaged 
it mes chemi- 
1. The lo therefore, 
e dunghole, the slimls aavaaangeves 
will be the preparation of the compos 
4 the seeds of be re are 
fs Garth rich in humus, as we the 
— itself, are alee ht into germination, so “that the 
crops will be afterwards ets cle 
5. If the earth used in the takin of compost con 
tains protoxide of i me. os other substances detrime tal 
to vegetation, a are decomposed by their cl ae cen 
en ashes, lim heifer ‘marl, as well as by 
ESE FS 
7 
tag 
with 
he sap has descen 
is carefully shaken from the roots, 
oh i in compo: ur or 
five times, till. they are completely coated over to the thick- 
ness of 3 to j, of an oy and. allowed 
when ' a strong box 
urpose,, layer of ary straw. 
plants Ssienantnad, a layer of dry straw ed over it, 
till the box is ap bare filled, and well presse 
. the lid is put on, th 
air-tight as poss’ 
with trea or aaeeiiia to ee fo in 
practised in nsmission of living forego : 
pe of Goodstope, by Sp rruestestion ee an 
by.improvements in the methods of o enite, 
che will no doubt be attained.—J. F. R. 
«sg eeacanmnsaraammaes eased 
Be. 
well pitched, and the 
AL MANURES.—No. Ill. 
from the 
ha 
b—in shor all these materials may 
~@ hitherto spoken of; still, it re- 
ja simon fate. mech 
| those substances ee 
deter 
facilitated), and ier cease to be 
se Gui‘lers emtequence heaps 
inchiding ait pra hast fol ohare! in a small co: 
a without cia, in ap 
that condition which vantageous to plan 
scattered upon a field, ‘ier arefoftes unable om asia the 
ey are deprived of the 
compost silinoe, 
ma wett n 
water, if the substances which have to act upon each 
ae are too fet 
. When th biesibie well-prepared onsen is used for 
Prd crops will not be laid, because the substances in 
dung, by which this is ¢ pase have stoned into combina- 
tions which will no hte plan 
8. €; Neate crops may be rapidly 
eraser because it can ve appltéd as top-dressing even 
lants have vattalsied a considerable size. Compos 
always contains much per rfect vegetable nourishment, 
saan at once received by the roots, improves 
vegetation 
organi 
co ntaining en accou unt, a ; sarcteint 
working and atineiog of the tate of compost is necessary, 
w 
Tf | ar 
nee 
ayia in their habits, often injure tender plants in pots 3s 
and) has re remmna be yearm of oct own 
stances bette 
I quicklina 
BVTOUE 
has b 
preserving the 
struction of the compost- -heap, ought never to be brought 
nto immediate contact wit th the dung 
e place so readily, 
ith carbon acid, it is retained 
ria 
th 
is advisable to add Potato. scam, Nee ta or 
coars 
ma s of asimilar kind, s 0 keep: ass more 
loo layer of earth should als0 not oo thick, 
or it will still become Lop compact. 
(To be continued.) - eer 
orien panel —No. XXXI. 
MON VAPOURER or Bao Tussock-mortu, 
Orgyia) antigua.— During the last month, the 
n seen 3 resting u 
sitting room, with its fore legs stretched out like the 
Puss-moth, and it es not oie ite ently been observed 
flitting across the streets of 0 
he naturalist this enomals insect oe rice! in- 
bias characters, and to asual observ 
his em 
October, Peneee wit ‘be Apt of th 
the males flying about in pur ho 
are n6t gifted with a seal powers for ee peri 
of wings, ont are eg! out © tomb, 
ft io an ts a the Ve ey ber in "whic 
er depositing a la aon Pda $ (fig. 2 
they fall reve exhaust ba yal ee edde ete aS 
wht ovate, Ai thee and ho 
hich is a brow 
a are fastened a 
bodies 3 “in 
po hairy cy salides, ‘frou whence the mot 
uced at various perio 7 
The caterpillar (fig. 3) i is. a beautiful creattire, of a lead 
or light-slate colour, with various black velve ce ert and 
many red tubercles round ae gs Bord y, pro- 
ducing bundles of eh The ails Soa 
most rema kable cnaae steristi cs are 
the two ey batig brushes of blackish 
aes hor each si its 
h side 0 
t e 
oft med aby th the c dderpillae 
tribute 
ocnreo 
bey 3 “whi 
T horny feet eld 
hem, and a lar, 
are short and spotted with owe se inferior wings, 9S 
a as the whole » — mp Saar eo ; the 
bade. is -is slendanyy the the (fore 
and -hairy. 
The —_-" tr rt ne esunleth _ 
a hig at wo Bat She Ot ane 
i ae 3-head small, with. 
sh 
fo no tongues 
iterpillars- of the Te someyen -moth, at 
as Roses, and, therefore, the females should_ be 
