THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
193 
Marcu 21, 1857.] 
Sai tote raked in, Thon lay 
a board across the bed joints of the stove is complained of. 1 am mpe esi 
with this in a slightest degree. e 
shn raS oh common smith and a very inteligent 
eke of Sg wit 
out. | was inconvenient a 
— 
” said my mason, “ ink, sir, you 
so much trouble, for if the smoke is 
t the d He s 
ei 
h e. s Arbas ial to m 
cause Hi ventilation is valle. and as regards plant. 
houses i ro T negre iey ose the 
stoking place áli be o 
plained of was ithe liability wi ave too are theat. This 
called ‘ ama des richesses It is | 
—and i in this case ‘there is 
is what is usu ually e 
l| your fi 
chimney, by he you may m 
slo lease. 3. 
In my case hoped to — a 
the cold air from an ae 
that a high merce ing by i in 
passage makes E whe phy ih 1 the neighbourhood 
which sucks out warm ait “through the cold air gra 
unwilling to fix 
l be all th 
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seth and become 
r grating w 
j eee M.sh I sto dydi 
, and now 
u 
oan opposite 
t | length of sien: 
ge mag 
of your cor- 
ar 
economise as much | 
i perata kes pug pear will be oy to air grating o 
rop o y dig or air; but S eont 
snd plant with Black Prince Straw- ‘the’ 
abo it Aen raae. A Taly, a8 
| ventilati tion 
weep wd Aes 
you are provided with satisfi 
"independent of vise warming apparatu 
=| The most e use of this system of | 
~i 
u feel no m 
us alternate 
useful things m ay be obtain 
m J. Nicolson, Egles- | ean, 
wo plots w 
of good 
e least possible space, Willia: You mey air of ge Liisan 
fe mear Yarm, Yorkshire r 25°m w becomes capable of Gaani 
The Woodlouse a Cucumber —If any living | mu ey astail of ai jit it seeks it from the 
p thing .breeds spon ilison y surely bi is the Nerang a i parts of ome plants and the soil in which they 
alias sow bug, slater, se bug. aden y are rooted. I ca 
_ be found in almost every 
rm it 
Pea bug, cheese at alls e how this is 
hole ing but the state 
and the degree of 
and crev 
m a desire 
ere my children ar 
my ventilation is quite independen 
: Yet t its action is insensible, € continnons, 
Ai But at and when should tt be applied? a het Pee ns © phen a oe to be tampered w 
in t ye wy g Bi d has stood the experiment of em mpiying the 
18 at <a Ya Cucum pits rat room ras filled wi vith ie oa smoke iano 
houses it Rend general be ante To Sia time assigned by calculation. It is howev sone 
the bed Boiling water there- adapted to rooms than pla nal houses, and yet Finighty I 
carefully meth giar there wili kill bikti one Orford: S suit these. John Slatter, Rose Hill, 
and pits 
of them, In Cucumber frames 
may be with safety un cael rc Seii s| aining Coppice Wood.—We have a large quan 
the frame wing or Shape fous before this sapien grec: pats about here, growing upon 
T have cles my pits d that by only hy soil, which is very wet. The 
Ww Not one hiectiiess i is now | Ash, Hazel, and Willow. There has ad great differ- 
The killing of these pests in M m ence of opinion among e ced men as to the requi- 
site depth of the open ditches, whieh 1 tee being dug to 
lay the und d ave been put in some 2 
feet deep, but surely this meen ee the roo Will 
indly inform me 
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rection to be up and down the slope ? T 
opinion here in favour of directing the ditches across 
surely the water that enters the upper side |f 
of oozing out at 
em 
and even 
n Vi 
e for all destructive insects, 
series applied and at proper times, James across the ee i s p in phir Rage drains, mig 
Camberwe. eral mA own 
themselves as sh 
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Tanks.—1 shall feel much obliged to any cor- 
nopean who will “kindiy tell me what will be the 
ve | bes to adopt with an iron aara pa keep the rain 
y | water it contains fit fi ng, and at the same time | 
fit for making tea, If galvanised, will it 
a | an unpleasant taste ? An Old Subs 
Boyd's es bserve 
he | your Jasi 
heat which is prod by it, gir aa scythe, as 
banish it without erag by the | he appears unaw 
sense when once the self-adj — machinery is sve any 
incidental to it. of blades lied he same 
cost of my 
old one ; but 
new oii 
the self- | 
nd as | tional cost 
- gad the first joints myself it was rather pleasanter to 
cB : 
was | cea scythe 
er “ee com- , 
ness on the cold- | ca 
affected by | like 
ntik clod to 
plants are chiefly c 
ded 
re it rs its usual supply. 
g sores draw 
Suitable to the tastes or requirements ot ali, su that 1t 
is no longer necessary to lose either time or money in 
getting “the new a blade set ah suit me 
troke,” as quoted by a “ Gardener ; 
paren a nt can be obtained without ay addi 
ver the half-finished scythe of old, the 
(by buying the Vulean oe 
= per cent. The 
aser sai ma 
and blacksmith’s fees at least 
arain scythe has these ad ges over the 
It Eare be shut up like k p and put 
dey in pe irag and w 
o 
min 
e |The penti ain nee aa of 
b se self-ad ining scythes. 
h agricultura schools, 
| 
| within the “sg of rich an 
Ss! 
oor. James 
reply to your fgg acted as to the best mode 
ardens, I beg to 
8, 
night, the inside will be 
ugs; scrape them = A 
destroy with lime, and replace the Turnip slices. 
edgings, I may ‘add, are great BY gro, of 
Brick borders laid‘on edge are the best. R. T. 
he royer.—-Having noticed in a 
5 
R 
he will be delighted “with the 
manifest towards 
the month of Ma 
as the old, bei 
rs marshy 
over a aien 
doubt the large heoa eye is given 
b wood to collect the lie rays of light 
e gloaming ae grey nights of summer. I have 
often are the plovers behind a hedge in the day- 
they are 
vy | toe say, “ smell 
the different indivi 
w 
which it conciliates the regard of animals differing bo 
itself in nature, and generally considered as hostile to 
ini ps com of og feathered tribe. Two of these 
pick up such food as th 
Necessity soo 
nearer the house, by which it it 
pared wi very 
pepe it is only the first cost, as 
wit” to obtain 
is of the tent indignation if either of h ae 
De ai o to interrupt ki Ma He died te ; 
