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es OF THE BIBLE, AND CON- 
i RED HISTORY, Arne the Monu- 
aD Taxton iD. 
: Eie Pie Garbeners eres 
q SATURDAY, DECEMBER. 31, 1842, 
MEETINGS — en — mt re a gra — 
Monday, Jan, 2 Entomological . 
ae pega em r + ~Floricultural ° oy a be 
Wednesday, Jan, 4 ++ Geological 84 P.M £ 
mers em CS Beagle yee 8 py. a. 
Tuesd + « « . Zoological + + Shem 
ae — i whe xd Medico. Botanical, - Berm 
Saturday, Jan. 14 . . « Royal Botanic . 3g Pm 
' Ovrp friends across the Tweed may well be more 
successful than their neighbours in undertakings 
re honour or pro e to be-w 
tant, — of Apricul- 
not sur nine that cotch we 
at arent o 
stan 
a charge successfully fr 
Bein away in despair. The ee are better educated ; 
' there is the whole se Th 
"enterprise than ot her people the not soberer ; 
4 bey are probably not more persevering: but the na- 
e of thet eir educati en es them skill, imparts a 
mre to their — and Sie les them 
s in th 
fore and true “divect 
to concer.trate such energy a wes Bs 
manner most likely to tell sist the cuent 
Of this national characteristic we have, at this mo- 
It is certain that, among 
the aids which cultivators must now loo with most 
ry. It is ieident to all who 
. This is as plain as the sun at noonda 
q _ Circumstances; what is it that 
q English ‘do? ? Why, our Agricultural Associations talk 
- mittee eat ing the expense of inquiries into the 
i Photaistry of genening; butin two aes - is notjoined 
/ d rep 
ee of. 10s. Sane no 
the sug ae eager sup- 
and 
he kd of 
rt time will suffice to produce a sum suffi- 
mplishm ent of Mr. Finnie "s object ; 
net 
before, 
MAwNEAY Wasilla 
the Aanaiptiony for the sake of the best interests of 
their country. 
T fearful scarlet fever,” says a clever lady 
of our cagunintenien “kk one in hot water about 
We have done our quarantine 
back into the boson’ of 
to mingle in society, 
i unt L., who is so 
afraid of infection, that I believe she wouldn’t look 
at it through Doctor apr prea if one had it in 
the same street, baa.5 her a little girl 
throug * bat no F abes manage 
catch it oclug 3 in Fton can Windsor ? The 
and think so 
precio or us to par 
our readers of the Chr onicle. 
ome ima acts 
dream of Windso 
ary danger at Brighton, but she 
r itself bein 
se into 
Up- 
is la 7 oe such as she, “ but know = true 
source of the ers that surrou 
would the ioc fahtare ers be pieitiletel? And 
at is certain that there is not a stagnant pool, 
n 
rnatter, that may not bear the — of some one on 
its exhalations—that one may yal infant at 
Windsor, or a nie . Fring at Eton, ‘i well as a ragged 
urchin in St. 
Srens of good are gathering fast, and promise a 
mour, ner Ait a a toast “The | t 
— This event, although we do not 
of the dail 
olittle Sanheatan, and deserves to 
anently eae rd are ear — ma 4 
what farther took place on this “ée 
were present wil att é rit ay a 
timents conveye a in Mr. Goring’s toast. 
: the utmost importance to society to put 
e agricultural labourer in a better position, to in- 
crease his comforts, and to ed him a stake in the 
eter ; a consideration whi 
posed pe: pang pad Iti Lah a fads Serre 
mistake to suppose that one sort of labo S as 
o | as another, or to regard a man as a mere e machine, ta 
of whic! 
a certain amount of brute force m 
ected, if an equivalent 
ut in 
ex- 
amount of -c is 
E 
must te — foundation of agricultural 
prosperity : we canno’ st Se peal or feed 
cattle, or do any of t she main opanetions of tivation, 
by dri dri ving a steam-engine, We must trust er han 
for their very serious 
difference whether those hands are willing or 
we stri a bears of goals, s or Peru of nitrate of 
soda, or Im sal OF the fe of 
Surrey for the phosphate. moxnds of | shall 
have done just nothing at all without labour ; ae if 
ut enough hal sa we Inay even leave these 
where God has placed them. 
she following case, seat in a country ~ er, is 
pre ae, good rai ea of this :—* In the village of 
atevhill, n ea -on- Trent, i 
ie tapedieneee might say, unparalleled—cro 
«© Wheat ae ea wn righ the present aoe 
“in his garden, by an 1 industrious cottager 
“of Stanley. ‘The quantity of ground sown was faiehy. 
H 
| working of the alten 5 ayatems 5 and shall be 
eaders 
“more than 6 5 bushels per acre! It should be under. 
— ~_ rd ground was not in first-rate condition.” 
y be very true eerste apn case, 
ae thine ade-husbandry will not do the same else- 
where. That may be; but it at any rie shows that 
abundant labour will produce abundant 
“xT. ; £ 4. 
obliged to those of ou o may favour vd 
with a full detail of the facts within their ae 
as to ie sas = eae as hether beneficial o: sadvan 
of ments should in al 
Such information as w 
io 
may not hereafter, when we take up the subject form- 
ally, ee false colouring to the statements we may 
ON MANURING WITH GREEN CROPS.—No. III. 
(By Proressorn Cuar.es vans hig Translated from 
ba — 
2. White Lupine{ Lupinus ‘aibes). pai oa Lupines 
are much used in and the South of Fran nee as green 
of = ulffen, of Pitzpubl, 
Magdeburg, has acquired some celebrity by } proving, ‘on 
* The effects 
0 LHe 
are capaple of i improving sal, sandy soils. 
of this practice are indeed so striking at Pitzpuhl, that 
even th all farmers have followed his example for 
some time past. Wulffen has published an interest- 
llowi 
$ 
5 
° 
ng are 
my own experiments, which I also have made with great 
success :—— 
If Lu 
formed, 
gr nes are = when the first goa are already 
e Magde 
15-16, cotib. green vast 
800-0lb 
ry acre will yi n an average 
1000lb, of wick consist of 
orm, 
nitrogen patency in the organic matter), 
potas: 
° lime 
a 
tir Bh ne si 
Batons acid, 
one acid. 
chlo 
7 
| stSez: 
| shdeeuszasze: 
$ 
aiken contained in the 
ec and oxygen ? organic matters. 
ilica, alumina anese, and iron. 
» mang 
a 
> 
1000°01 Olb. 
- 0001b. of n-Lupines alr ostisagues ntly + ogee into 
e furrow thes ot one ae Ton at nitro eo potash 
soda, 40]b. lime, 16)b. magnesia,- Sib. phos- 
phorie tae aN swelenge seid Zihs chlorine, and 17601, 
h substances must bh ect on 
ently grown. Iti. is € 
gen, potash, pe Pte sain and carbon 
Whilst b, of green a. will 
afford the soil Re of, n sSseeat 16, of Lupine 
o the soil—which is the best induce- 
row Lis ine, alls 
nitrogen are essenti 
e of the most valuable prope 
in the roots pee Bd to ee dep 
Lupines consists 
24 or 26 inches, 
apes are as good 
as lost dinary circum- 
tances do not poacti idee ae eng te 12 or, rib inthes. Lupines 
suffer also little from heat, partly u deep 
= they attract much moisture from 
pee and partly beca 
the a here, uccess, m 
pat because they ane never laid, and do not suffer frot 
insects. _ They, , however, do not grow very fast, and if we 
tt 16,000Ib, 
acre and more), they must be sown in the beginning 
of May. It -seage after three and a half or four months’ 
growth e fit to be ploughed in—this being 
Stilo when th + forte — second blossom 
ntended to seed, they mu 
middl e of on Lu 
burning soil to the height of 7 feet, but Searles. — 
are not more then 3 or 33 feet high, But 
Uy) succeed in loamy, s iron obit, poy 
marley or calcareous get are not at all edt abe 
led to ab- 
e 
cla 
a them, probably owing to their 
more lime and magnesia than they ant—their roo 
i 2 batths very soluble 
Sek with a subsoil con- 
taining much iron, which i "eapiinad by the fact that 
1000ib. of the thea ‘4 “eared nearly 1\b. of iron for 
its chemical constituti Lu special 
herbage is 2 large, that it acts (as I know from experi- 
ence) in th is 
after the first “year 
ng in ily. 
“was an effectual one, they i improved 
oe mig 
of 8 imperial strikes, 
On rapt De re ma fad re Be equ 
