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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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‘indicate te 33° or even 32° before sunrise, the plants will not 
sustain ag een) injury. They have even escaped un- 
as been completely frozen; but this 
hould always 
ely. 
tem oe ature in greenhouses during the winter 
the is very injurious to the healt 
The best way 
h shade the plants 
orning sun, and allow the thaw to be gentle 
intended for exhibition; but when other _— 
require it, they should be shifted without waiting u 
ring. o wish el in the cultiv sited: of 
shift all specimens at a, particu’ 
books tell ee to do so.—R. F. 
OME CO a PONDENCE. 
portance 0, cage 
ar season, even ij 
manure to escape. Still more 
fal chemic 
ents 
e mystery. There it i 
power of - instantaneously absorbing, under presssure, 
ven 1 
= er eee Ss 
are 
ca uses excessive 
g porou 
n ual and animal 
labour—with an unprofitable return of - Was 
there r a farmer who — but ld tell you 2 
paid itself principal and interest, in the very first o 
$ nd crop? there is Hel doubt ag the perfect 
drainage = e the cary and spo! ee nited 
dom w at sabe one-fourth, 
ata diminished petty and render wis longer dependen 
| fo lies. eard y persons say that 
“their land was so a it was of no use draining it ” 
_ illustrating their remark by saying, that ‘‘ water will 
__ remain in a horse’s foot-hole till it ih ome we tay 
“and convince hoc that it cannot go ess 
make a way for it.—J. rect den mford - 
a Planting Trees.—I h o doubt but the pero 
article on ‘planting in Number - wil! draw the attenti 
: dent on forest-pruning to the n- 
ag of planting, which must tore pho idered one of para- 
mount importance. Every one who has had experience 
: in management of young plantations must see t 
; truth - sito owns remarks on the effects which generally 
follow planting on the ground which has been pro- 
‘ mee prepared ty haaebiy or having eg soil otherwise 
nate rable depth. But with 
4 sae large sole of mountainous or hilly 
a ground, it i 3 on not pate to break up the whole 
» nor, in my opinion, is it always necessary where 
; < | Se irs are the only sorts of trees gene- 
rally: planted ; ill, in Aberdeen- 
y 
e say, cost lit 
sl 3 acre for planting. “In high and bleak situ- 
better ribeye en are suited rales the purpose ; for it wi 
‘| dies unmarried, in the following para, 
a large plantation of Larch on a high steep hill near 
adn h Wales. I was told that, for experiment, 
tid : 
— 
n 
o 
S 
he slit manner at 
re was no visible 
ge tvo-yeas-ld wrap pasate set in about 4 feet 
saw a 
anted, ther 
re b 
ey were al] in a trvig ate, the general height round 
se top of the hill about ten or twelve feet, which 
y Fes mene “y ts base, w rail their height was 
about 18 feet. I have seldom, in any par: sh of the country, 
rches make such ig growth as on the steep 
ta Me the samen of the ntains is South Wales, 
h, an ‘act, all o other kinds of wood mee 
ready market for.the iron-works. Mr. Dalrymple, who 
manages the Marquess of Bute’s gecng db germ gt at 
Cwm, Neath, mo shire, oe m 
or situation ; it soo 0 he market, anda 
present there is not enough in the country to supply the 
demand. Since I came I , 1 have seen som 
timber-merchants . » hundred _miles from home, hunting 
for Larch timber their English 
orders. In plantin 3g hilly gro’ saat in the sli de, there 
are two or three gs which ought to a particularly 
erba 
anti 
ng the He eat th after wards. Perhaps 
on the he abject —J. lesan, Carton Gardens 
rn uerc us’ 
” havin, 
the English Agricultural Society. 
it, perhaps I erie Be pie some oth 
before the public ** Quercus ”’ ) 
favourite term ¢ ‘reciprocity betw n the roots andbranches 
of a oa’ and the “ prun caren stem y 
which I fear will gain many converts, on requires caonae 
reflection, ogre nor expense. As it is oe rtain that 
there can but few roots without alee an 
the pa Pr ape sm with pa a 
Ef Sere if let rocity between thom, x 
that is the most intelligible i which I much doubt ; 
still prsae H ain that which I have proved in my for ak 
publication, that the increase of ti i 
a 
a 
are, 
rt 
ber in ee 
= 
“5 
E 
oO 
ae 
& 
4 
subj 
t I have mec suggest 
aimee to teach by example.—W. Bil- 
ill, Oswestry, S 
ted wit 
cut is closer, the work neater, and it is state d thata 
much more in a day than with our common eos. 
us 
Shakspeare.—Can any correspondent ~ the iam 
explain he 3 reason why Shakspeare sa 
Pheer 
* Pale Primroses 
That die unmarried, ere they can behold 
Bright Phoebus in his strength. 
inter’s Tale, Act4 
I conjecture that Pale is a fawn oat for Tall, “a that 
Shakspeare referre d to y bear s eed.— 
heophilus Forsyt 
>= 
op. or 
think it is in the ilane geese i : 
ri 
entertain yr latter apr if - gana sure that the a fe! 
eed. end qui 
Primroses the in 
to our wane friends this pea Pri rose-time 
is really true that ons ot seed, we 
shall have a new intimate ac- 
with Natural Histo Ory ; if it prove otherwise, 
hy, in that case, another explanation of his meaning 
mt 3 sought for. 
Wei —During the late summer s 
lbs. 
to H. Preston, yer 
ra s.—In Sede par tes Hastings, I was pl eased 
ranberries for sa s 
racy flavo , compared 
with the insipid of the latter emus ogy surprised that 
this agreeable fruit is not more cultiv n the south of 
d, oe are many rab 
this crepes which are fit for ‘little 
else ; the cultivation would n afford remuneration 
to the gro wers, but the, ga thering would also fur mp om 
plo weaee to many young perso e American 
Cran , alth tng inferior ry our sr English sathel, hak 
suited to cultivatio 
Asparagus t's am induced to area you with 
following successful mode of tre 
fine, and 
is 
by an rea who informs me 
uce him mo 
us, 
Preserving Potatoes.—In alate Number of the Chro- 
e 
that it never fails to a 
st plentiful crops averaging the above size 
I some 
5 
E 
psa this pile or ridge, oi are 
di $ soon observe 
of those brought in ple is morn ng, 0 
vious day. There 
ig eigen suited ® ‘the Potatoe. w 
the outside of the covering of 
g Oxen.—I once tried an expe- 
Each 
Sly s 3 > in 
est venta Fp tig see 
not their diet link chan y expe- 
that raw 2068 as worse 
than useless as ve stock.—Lusor. 
Saving Seed of Vegetables.—\ find so much difficulty 
in procuring good vegetable seed, even from don, that 
I think it would prevent “as * and d ee if a 
m. agre ongst themselve each 
to save seed of a particle vegetable, for ekrbation 
e, Ca uliflower; another,s 
su ini 
lowed to bape vc ve 
Guano.— As bee d of the poten of 
ag no upon vegetable products, Ta am induced, from my 
instance of its vole asa 
i 
field beer drilled w cers bee 
bone-dus' The a , the former pr 
Turnips ot an eats small size; bu 
bone-dust was used, were rather large ; 
difference is so great F teak from a stance, only part 0 
the hill 
rally be fo ed und that a two-y ld seedling Lar us Forsy uy +} to have any crop on it.—Fred. Chale, 
E 6in the ode, or by the planter’s hack or mattock, will tly what Sed, d that he meant the earliest of Pietiyan uton. 
Ima few years as lar; tree as one i all Pr 4 phew ag hich and vim light nd warmth| 4 sina of Soot.—This is poured on to a con- 
| planted in a pit a: its side at the . ng | are insufficient to invigorate them, perish Ep ete siderable ecm not only ~ ce ghlies . ie ber 
and that he thus distinguished the early pallid ower t y ‘T.O., but also in ae isl — ) 
in trons the latat darket-colo ured ones.—-Jael—[We should | Cam ag ase vit t, whieh, 
