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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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not be less’ than two feet a with the finger. and thumb when twelve to eighteen 
= — ot rir less eyes should be "heft; ye es long. If too strong to be performed by pinching, 
that is no eye should be allowed to remain, but where r if equal to the one left, it might be removed altogether, 
shoot is desired in the follo s By attending to in some:cases it would leave an unsightly oar in the 
is the vine will not have to deve’ (as is usually the | pole or stem. Thes mall lateral branches should on no 
case) an immense quantity of superfluous branches ; and | account be moved ; ‘suc co goganjes, Shoe epiitvdht 
this 0 ati ay app dious one at the | the stem from acquiring thickness’ By stopping the 
time of pruning, an immense saving of labour and time will | strongest, more would duced, and the poles would 
be effected at a busier period in spring, and the zeniy of | increase’ in girth without ‘being blemished with larg 
it may be easier Souwewet inp roportion th | knots: the poles would thus be fit for c’earing, without 
ofthe vine. If thi came one useless one being found among em. se di+ 
in summer b ing the young rw de nse s shoots | rections are pursued annually, during the spring and 
to i —— and fhortening them at one joint above the | summer, until the poles are too high to be conveniently 
e fruit is set, excepting the leading | reached, there will be no occasion for the knife or bill 
ouery ‘whid h error ne be _ oppe ed until the lower part | This is the training and preventive syste f prunin 
is ripened; ot therwise, the main eyes for the next season As the Ash makes but few side shoots, it will tend much 
may be induced to gro poh ely. In autumn the | to theirvimcrease of the strongest them a 
young wood he s is shortened back to one o , at from twelve to twenty-four inches from t 
most two eyes, and the terminal shoots in proportion | stem, by breaking out the central bud: or by pinching off 
to their strength; but for the strongest wood, from 8 ; by this means the lateral branches will be in- 
12) will be found as many as will break well hen | creased, and the health and vigour of the nts ac- 
commencing to train a young vine in this manner, the | celerated.. After a few ye wth, when the weakest 
shoots have attained to one or two inches diameter and 
: to a sufficient length, they may be thin e or 
two only of the strongest-should be left to acquire 
larger size. A permanent coppice will be thus insured, 
=. r as is practised also with the Oak. One 
necessary, and that is,—if the neighbourhood is infested 
with hares and rabbits, or even mice, ss t 
e kept from them; r . —_ 
they are sure to bark the trees, and then fare o all 
profits from re Pee ttt idaaad Bi llington, U Snderbill, 
‘ Oswestry, 
7 Cart for Distri ributing Liquid Manure.—In a late Num- 
ber you requested some of your correspondents oe send 
— - se ae fa cart for the application of liquid 
ve here acart for that purpose which 
distributes fies liquid both expeditiously and with great re 
gularity ; being simply a common water-cart, which holds 
a én with a stopeock about 14 inch diameter in the 
and a trou to the end of the barrel, 
dovetailed aogether at the ends 
© prevent the e liquid 
oan is = covered at the top ; and the pase fs of the ae 
instead 0 composed of w a thin plate 
sheetiton, Yerforatd throughout with holes rather its 
inch in diameter. I consider zinc, 
The trough is 
about ten — inches bro i e, 8 eight out; and 
just so long ag not t8 0 é in contact with the wheel 
|The | is secured by aed e Bs tle of iron, 
ine = ‘two sockets in in the en frame, on which 
of | the rel rests = two = acter ea 
: mob aaah psig through the socket, tr a ae iron rod or | wi 
means they acquire strength fastet: ‘than if trained strong wire attached to the trough, and knocked aes a 
acutally at first.—Joseph Paxton. o taple in the end of the barrel. The nelaned sketch will 
Increase of Ti — wn st Trees.—My friend, Mr serve to convey an idea of the trough ; and I should say 
Billington, in one of your late Numbers, incidentally re- | your espondent Mr. Jonathan Labyrinth (page 654) 
marks on the “ True prinepl of increase of Timber in | would 8 cart to answer his purpose much better 
Forest trees,’’ as a thing very little or not generally un- | than’a skeleton- wheelbarrow anda barrel, as he proposes 
derstood. My opinion about 10) is ted | as to manure, two acres of mea pee uch a manne 
it frequently in the Chronicle, to be mutual inter- meen be a laborious task. He t purchase a good 
course or reciprocity between the root and branches ; and | second-hand cask from e spirit-merobant for a trifling sum, 
the gre he inv open the greater the incr but the size of the would to depend upon the 
I am mistaken in opt ould ‘feel —_— obliged: to | strength of his pony. We calculate 84 gallons for a horse 
B. “nl he will set right. e can state what the . As your correspondent Mr. L th a 
“* true ele is a . a entenie or two, Pte which I om -cart, it woul only necessary to remove the 
of the bes and have t 
which taken oF: ed pleasure, and the c 
G. Watson, Vecurage, North, 
you will g ; and if Fam convinced b 
it, I sill realy eet Mr. B. my warmest acknowledg. 
ments, — Quer 
Management ge Ash esata April - an 7 
ion as 
ae pletion Bs 
uestion has 
for % uit ot 
near Sigh ihcon: Tees. 
A, a stay, hooked 
the end of the’ — ay 
— ofas 
BB, iron roege on the 
? ich 
ts,and ii fix end 
=—== for the liquor to 
. through, 
nd Ee BS 
With- me 
Pa bo ‘Meiisnive Cart.—A few weeks since I sa 
in the ee ere as to the nee moo of of eplgng 
1 answer to y 
be 20 tate ‘that T saw at the York. ‘Agricultural Meet 
u -eart, invented for that 
inder 
we nd, to prevent them fro crowded 
uring the pete months, 
for 
th a copper pump, a flexible Teather 
tie eee the liquor 
care that this is done d pipe, se brass valve lever, which fi 
the first "sg » go annually oyer them in tke nd of spreading board. to which an ity 
summer, leave all the “a lateral side shoots, and keep stticha: by which soa SA dee ee 
em to one leader; but if, from spring frost or other | any requi iced wid: Os Val the of % 
causes, the leader dead be destroyed and two sh of | iron, 1 owever, to explain construc- 
early equal size should be formed, the r the | tion of this iiaeblve ‘st all cleatly without a drawing. | of 
very end of the worst-placed shoot sh ould be pinched of Not being much of a farmer myself, and never haying | 
tried it, I cannot speak of its efficiency from experience ; 
butiit socued, from a careful examination, to be admirahl 
. F. 9G. F.—fOur pengers 
is Liquid Manure. Cart,. with_s 
further ho of its use, in our advertising columns 
of to-d 
— 
Weight of Gooseberries.—The following is the alah 
of the heaviest Gooseberries grown in: 1842, being four of 
each cla 
dwt.) grs. GREEN, dwt.) ers. 
London 31 | 13: |; Thumper 26). — 
Compa 31 5 || Overall 24 [11 
Wonderful 2 5 eacock ’ 23 
Lion 25 7 Providence . af 30 
YELLOW | E. 
Leader. 25. | 10 \ Chorister : 22.) 19 
ilot 24 | 19 || Tally Ho 22 | 12 
Catharina 24 ) 15°|/ Eagle 24 “ 
Gunn 1} .16 Competition 22 
2 
The eon are much lighter this pet ehh st — 
M. Saul, Garstan 
i ha 
Ivy on Hou as ate tome, that t odif. 
ference of pind which Bad 
f Ivy m 
s to exist as mvtthere the 
arise from the parties’ hav. 
of & *y: I have reason 
t afford protection 
m that the Irish 
wal fron own 
house with i ove 20 years ago, which e 
dry, and has continued so ever since. It also Wc 
he house much w . Moreover, the Irish Ivy doe 
not harbour insects, as the com s. 
Bevan, Llanferry.——1 observe in ‘one of your late Num- 
bers a difference of opinion between anda 
a ow 
da 
fact being, that Ivy = ing on 
it reaches the roof, f r from ntene it damp, tends m 
keep it d 
over the néo the rain-water can 
eaves, but is conducted by the Fae of the I 
the walls of the house ee is “of course, 
extreme dampness.— . A. Dra hiya n. 
ur.—Your correspondent ‘© 3. Murra 
a 
° 
meén- 
id, arising from the 
have observed: the 
pai sion, while 
works, near ansea, 
troyed by the fumes of siemens aci 
calcination of the co s; but L 
Lysimdchia vulgaris flourishing in great: 
no other p! > acho visi 
Man el.—After the roots are carefully taken 
for which pé purpose a fine dry day should be chosen, 
by pulling them - wae Sears a 
sed in r aes or 
urface of the st in any-co! 
it. 
eeping out the frost. i t e 
kept Mangel Wurzel until May, as d fresh as it 
s when first put into the pile. I cannot conceive how 
your corresponde usor can keep Mangel Wurzel_effec- 
tually by only covering with stubble, as t atmospheri 
air would have o the roots, which undoubtedly 
would ‘exhaust the saccharine matter. particularly 
those whi been accidentally bruised. I have 
cultivated and us a arzel extensively for the 
last 8 years, so ot ing from . 
th 
Having Sree h for the last 7 years, 
0 to 60 bullocks, I have had ev 
these realise 
on Swedes and Cat Hay, and 32. 10s. per head more than 
ngel Wurzel. I also tried 
the first week in Mar rice in the propor- 
tion haze preriotale stated. 4 am — y faye bi 
ocks, 
be given in large 
ich would greatly 
f stock intended to be ers for mar- 
rel Wurzel is an excellent 
milk to be greater, but no ine 
butter, which is another proof that — 
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