[Jan. 20, 



0a this ntfej«et Professor Johnston, 



iod's Magazine " several useful practical suggestions. 

 e shows that every one of these vegetables is inferior 

 the Potato, m eootaiaiiHi s larger per centage of water, 

 , that weight by weight the quantity of nutritive 

 atter in thesa all most neeesurily be less. 

 In Potatoes the quantity of water is generally 75 per 

 . . .....; 



I bulk, by absorbing more water than Wheat 

 oes, yet this property may serve aa a recom- 



tion to its use.^by enabling us to obtain an equal 



weight of bread with a less consumption of flour, 

 making up the deficiency by eating more of other and 



The jr- >?■ r !. tii-i n -y :\\ u ■ 



lation ; but by combining 

 tion of Peas or Beans, tl 

 bo supplied. 



Pythagoras, the father of : 





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hence Peas or Beans ma 

 additions to a poor man's diet, if he be driven by the 

 failure of Potatoes to resort to other kinds of vegetables, 

 which, as we have seen, are more watery, and less pro- 

 Tided w.th nitrogenised principles. It has been pro- 

 flour by mixing with it certain proportions of Beet-root, 

 of Parsnips, or of other of the vegetables above enume- 

 rated. r„ this there can be no objection, provided the 

 mixture is found not to be an unpalatable one, and 

 from a calculation made by Dr. Lyon Piavfair, in the 

 Gardener*' Chronicle, it would appear that a consider- 

 able saving might be effected by an admixture of Beet- 

 root, whilst the same remark would probably apply to 

 lOJ P«r cent, of azotised principles calculated for 



to 2. Wheat contains 77 per^centl'ofmaUer adapted 

 fof the support of animal heat ; Beet only about 10 per 

 cent Hence the value of Wheat as compared to Beet 

 is nearly as 6 to 1, and as 8 to 1, according as we con- 

 sider the first or the second of these uses. It may be 

 fair therefore to state it as 7 times a< nutritious. 



Now 1 1 lbs. of Beet cost only 2<f., whilst the same 



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 ; is effected in the proportion of 11 to 7. 

 re simple way of attaining the same 



• ng tlv «<« vi •• - 



ve a few words of advice, premising that every 

 ■tton I have offered to single men is equally ap- 

 i to them. I shall presume that you hold your 

 rightful place, for 





Home Correspondence. 



ted Trellises— In one of your recent 

 among others, for accelerating the 



es simply placed leaning against a Peach wall 



. : and si.le-', in I'aef, making a 



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•at l.y its isolation.' "(iive air," freely, and you 



- ■:■ .■■ .,■-; 

 .here ; rut 1 then where is your * : 



if heat merely negatively, by N 



Gaining it when received, sashes placed on open 



«t be pushed farther than is represented in your 

 igs, if I understand them correctly. That iL ' - 

 e, 1 entertain no doubt ; to help forw? 

 *, I have taken the liberty of recording the 

 ittle experiment. J. S. A. C, Tube Hill, J\ 



inspecting the A'na9a. How can a long horn (?) capable 

 af being raised and lowered on the head of any animal, 

 be a "formidable weapon!" A weapon to be for- 

 midable must be firm. But its erection and depression 



id known by everybody to be 

 Charles Waterton, Walton 





s for finding things in a very 



different stateto 







Eneland. If you 







ralia, or New Zealand, or at the 



Cape settlements, 





houses, such roads, such con 









t behind in your 



native land, yon 



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be very seriously disappointed. 









land you, and then give you one 



word of advice 



at parting. Beware of 'long-shore 





ill find a set of idl 



!• . v- r- :• ivtc 



V ' 



Vo^oVbYn 



stranger, and to make a prey of him. 

 ade a prey of by them. Attend to the 



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ons of the properly 



t a bew°ildered P ^h 





apparently 



forlorn condition s 



far from home, 



L..-i 



all so stra 



ge; and it will 



ppear the more 







s of regularity you 



h P artedTi a £T 



held out to you no extravagant expectations, l shall 

 not therefore be the cause of any disappointment. I 

 will conclude by repeating what I learned only a few 



From a settler whose home is now at Port 

 Philip, and to which he is shortly to return ; I know 

 able gardener in a single-handed place. I. 

 questions he stated, " Work we must in Australia, and 



but we know no want amongst people that 



1 industrious. Drink and idleness are the 



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old woman had told him just as he was leaving 



but I can't hear to die and be buried any* 

 England." Rough and Ready. 



q ui , ■■:•;■ ,/wte Iru and fresh from the Kiln a 

 qf Damp in Plant Frames.— Having had 



that were damping off, I placed lumps of qu 



pans and in garden-pots among them, and found in a 



Cheek of the disease. I may 



be too sanguine, but from the apparent beneficial result 



■ 



is to absorb the damp from 



under cover will prove a great benefit to 



romeot to ascertain the absorbing power of 

 lime, but the absence of drip, and the revival of the 

 plants, were facts to be seen. Joseph Grubb, Clonmel. 



Hardener.— I am glad that you intend to 

 take this subject in hand, and I am sort } 

 your gardener or master correspondents should mis- 



there is a large class of masters like myself, fond _of their 



gardens, and who have some experience, but who can- 



b-rftte gardener, not only on 



class consists of those who keep only one gardener, or 

 one and a labourer, and the general impression seems 

 it 1 have paid, making some 

 allowances for milk and findi 



fof my class 

 ce to myself 

 i my eyes to 



the faults of masters as well as those of the servants. 

 Your correspondent, "J. R.," says that the scale 

 which would make respectable men seek for places 

 " " ' from 35i. to 40/. per annum for a single man, 

 to 7 (J/., with Louse, coals, and vegetables, if 



good sleeper, for a meddling gossiping woman on 

 oard ship is a perfect nuisance, and a Bource of con- 



uming that you have no such affliction in your partner, 



:onduct, and carefully to avoid all gossiping about your 

 ellow passengers. Make no hasty acquaintances. You 

 will not be long at sea before you will see everybody 

 beir true colours. Packed together, as people are 

 i ship, their dispositions soon show themselves, so tl 



risable. This will not prevent you from making yoi 



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s that the u 

 house. Io 



printing concape for coneasse (the bruised pepper) * 

 important, as I found a friend of mine inquiring m 

 -nknown ingredient. Dodman. _ [As soon 

 as we can spare room we shall take up this question, 

 in which we think our correspondent " Dodman" baa 

 in opened fairly. Such a discussion, if conducted wiUi 

 -* good temper and discretion, cannot fail to be highly ad- 

 vantageous to deserving men, who should be most 

 the question fairly argued.] 

 _ Gardeners' Troubles.— Yovlt excellent correspondent 

 to make it a I « Dodman's " statement is good so far as it goes, but it 

 t you, yet it appears to me now that the subject is opened that m»cn 

 obtained on more is to be said touching masters and gardeners. 1» 

 luct, and in- the first place, I must freely admit that there are 

 heir benefit, numbers brought up to the profession only to render 

 Is be indus- their own lives miserable, and themselves a plague ana 

 more, that vexation to their employers. It is disgusting to see so 

 lit down and ; many men of narrow c;inacitv. and Dossessmg so lew 

 not be long ] qualifications for tl 





: think if master-gardeners would act 





„ t to live in done ; for myself I have . 



far the stern many a one who I found would never be worth a "bat- 



• ful of crabs." To be really worthy of the name there 



| ■■■.-ies of mental is not a class requiring firmer tact, perseverance, ana 



and I heartily advise you to avoid all such study, than that of gardeners; but there are many 



Ai^LT^* 8 "? t0 , the n ^ reSt ' w a few would-be gardeners, slopshop gardeners, and potbou* 



.0 the most disi , r gardeil er B , as, indeed, is the case with all other profea- 



i port. Now I hope you will prepare your sions; with such as these « Dodman " has had to deal. 



