= ae fet aw - 5 ee 2 
a ri errs er api 
Rett 
involve 
ieee cee es SRR ONCE 541 
for-and destroyed, on veers with sa ges they those™potsr ithe most o~ Ws it that 
may have deposited ; the .caterpillars | may beret Picked | tools, w, to my..own arse mich is ray pre seattetin ae ratsulécemy Fidoid ne me selina and; in- 
off the plants,or:shaken:from ane and killed, There i is ees great mass of manufac uring operatives, deed,’ all the chidaghoudd ties flowed: king 4 
another species;.very similar to this, called:the ‘‘ Scarce ast Sober of whem care eaioshainiaie is momen! s nat die, ed 
pourer,’’-* which likewise _ upons the se; Bar- 2 asap § 
d Ock, but it is tang sel- 
it has, heteenir occurredin Coomb-wood. 
XXII 
w gi ve a list and 
DIN 7% pro ill n de- 
pede ti of the differe nt taieties of Strawberry most 
worthy of cultivation, in order that the amateur may eith 
add the whole to, his aa or select those which a 
most likely to suit his po will take the older 
inds first, in their er of ripening. Old Scarlet; a 
good fruit, and valu we as one of Ke oosliens in cultiva- 
tion. .Keen’s 9; a sure and e 
eedlin ear e of 
best for a Felshe crop. gh eserer TTY very prolific, although 
not very a ssi 
oe 
5 
. 
; fruit date and high: -flayou 
t, and only yaloable. as ‘one of the 
are as e newer, wie there, fir two ait deserve 
alled Swains. 
Eat has 
may be, selected from 
ton, Downton, and 
ca £20 ie in sm — {hats Straw. 
- 
fined situ 
of this tae ig pl ie nak 
renck ee att 
he 
if en ae strongest runners should be 
on m the most oe Seaiee: if possible from 
Poe rom a = 
ces the ey will be fo ds he 
mille which feeds, the fruit of the folloming oe will be 
certain feet bi ised an 
eer Be 
Be ni 8 
“Oo 
oO 
garden, placed ina confined situation; 
the result of which is, that plenty of Strawberries are pro- 
duced avery. year, where bila! all went to leaves and 
runners.— FR, F, 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
ment of eee Manufactirors:—Ta a 
late; Nuniber! i — Chron ao a 8 that 
he unemp eieaien i 
stan the ane | by farmers residing in’ the reich 
large eserapeewe towns, for the purpose of draining 
** Wi"? eantiot t, that 
call e knowledge—on the pa 
master,of the natere of the soil, , and’ stratification of the 
Ia rocks ; an 
and on mthe ad of the eration no small 
: 7 
Bo gia ) 
3 a oals elemal 
de sery and d ines s,—they as body 
neither alien for draining la we ‘a few 
found among the hand-weavers in the count 
be madere useful in such 
hepherds or gardeners to some of our 
les, or even to Canada, than to attempt competing in 
already overstocked market with strong and hiomichean 
agricultural labourers.—A Practical Farmer. 
t. 
ne n one of roe leading articles ay have 
rned to the subject of glazed pots, and have there 
held. out that : eaners are es — by their ability to 
grow handsome plants in them. 8 is an admission, at 
glazed flower-pots is a good gardener,—and he who cannot 
sa bad one. my own part, I do not see that it is 
either difficult or impossib grow plants well in any 
pot. I can testi ‘A Gen- 
tleman’s Gardener and Foremanin a Nursery,’’ that when 
hard-burnt. or glaze e been intermixed with 
y was attended not, orsy a ‘ee 
499) instances Me M*Nab' 8 (ee tubs as a proef-th 
a answer as well as unglazed ones ; smelt i 
$S Bea! his saby that he-is well 
of counter’ ing t 
trical. -conducting Taio “by ee into 
plenty, of probes porous pots f frees 
and. 
» piece 
e white These oan a fre 
ible state to be pervaded by the atmosphere, 
or, in, ca words, by that almighty power which we 
electricity. For I imagine that we succeed in the culti- 
mae vegetables just inthe ~ that we render the 
il pervadable by that most wondrous. fluid. at else 
is the rationale of Mr. Smith’s froqnent drain oe 
s it not the extraction of 
serine the soil =~ — Pte and leay role channels through 
h the electric ach 
> 
® 
of * What i is the nies se ha irons of 
lants? Potting lightly, and + earths rendered porous 
y the introduction of fibro erial and incohesive sub- 
stances? Is it not that the Sectatcal fluid may more easily 
reach their roots? Or what reason is = so for sere] 
trees near the eripege and merely covering their r 
with a little loo arth? Is it not that the electrical 
uid may reach Gen ‘the easier? Hs y does Mr. 
= : 
ant and ‘pro- 
ced both t. and in abundanee? -Why, but 
because their roots were in immediate contact with the 
tmosphere ? ad vegetation go. on upon what i 
ermed ro hy does the Green 
n 
ut 
where all arou rocky ale 
yards over this lava so fertile— i 
electrical action? Why is it that the growers of specimen 
“0 8 fide nettes the nearer s 
ure, live and 
mposed ? Why, ‘but by electrical action? ° But I think 
I have adduced sufficient to show the wore al effects to 
plants of porosity 
; and necessity of bringing their 
roots in as close a contact _ om es bern as possible. 
thousand insta: will occ very of na- 
ture of plants thriving well or “il, poten. as their roots 
are placed in a Leann easily or not easily pervadable by 
the atm . Vide nearly every fine tree, shrub, or other 
plant that ~ erin of, are their roots ex 
derstood 
often p r-pots, but only wish to 
nt out ellow-labourers the necessity of loo gz 
for the rationale of everything before they either condem 
or approve. ere is much inconvenience attending 
€ porous mit, especially in dry weather, as b 
evaporation the soil is left in an unfit state fo vegetation. 
Nor is thi ether remedied by the glazed pot; neither 
do the gl ots in certai mospheres prevent the 
er 
and upon the whole rather to be chos re re 
ust be used to drain them properly. The drainage pr 
en 
rial of which a pot is made that w 
ook, - mete? to providing a proper medium for ants 
to grow we ope join elegance and utility, who will 
ia howev 
Ise, know n borer 
ned deventoadats t; Mr. Lymbarn, 
that the com mittee eae by 
with holes for peta cinend 
submitte pa by: them to’ the’? N ry 
r, it will be seen’ that the ue bend eee 
rture ithe 
are. inerdduted, em he 
con stankipbo covered: with: brow 
have deem 
‘is ae ture is k 
town paper. ‘Itis true that they 
a material as: 
seont 
cumulation within the vessel. would “be likely td destroy 
their vitality prematurely. - Nevertheless ‘it ‘wi t all 
times open to them to substitute some other plan, which, 
mn mature consideration, may be deemed. preferable to 
the one they have selected ; only it should be always borne 
in mind, that to multiply the methods of preserving the 
seeds of so large anum ould entail a 4 
ich se m pati ith the means placed at their 
disposal by the Association. In the manner in whiel the 
inquiry is at present ducted, we may at least hope, in 
1 
a vi : 
wth ified 
de and scatters the substance i 
uire ru rubbing, 
nthe outside of new 
e general opinion iy tha 
never 
in new bags but 
have less fo oliage an and 
