THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLI 



[March 



favour; vet 1*47 was a very dry year when the 

 effects of lalt might have been expected to be most 



Sbree w'eks VfoTplanting time ; planted 4th May j 

 the crop had verv few diseased. The haulm was pulled 

 about the 7th August.— The Earl of Leicester, at 

 Holkham, in Norfolk, used 1 ton of salt per acre on 

 light sandy land ; planted from the beginning of March 

 to the end of April ; the crop of early varieties was sound. 

 —On the other hand, Mr. Ladds, of Passenham, in 



niif.-d i:; March and dug in July v 



3 have two good cases on light 1 



it salt proved &i 

 hat the light sandy soils of all 

 es suffered very little, although not 

 i next look to the effect of. adding 



leous plants, in which no regard can possibly be had 

 .. anything approaching mediocrity. This gives me an 

 opportunity of saying afew words upon a subject in which 

 most gardeners have an interest ; and I hope that those 

 for whom they are intended will see the propriety of 

 H. I allude to the practice, so prevalent with ladies 

 gentlemen having but limited plant accommodation, 

 of constantly inundating their gardener with packets of 

 tropical seeds, nine-tenths of which can be of no possible 

 them. Because they imagine it yields pleasure to 

 ipients, friends in India or the colonies transmit 



utility. From tropical forests, timber trees that would 

 ippropriate a dozen hothouses ; creepers without 

 imits to their rambling propensities ; shrubs of no 



':.■■'.-■ ■:•-.!;. . !. :". 

 n the county of Lancaster, used 10 tons of 



3 tons of Bait per acre, ImI 

 es; but a coarse kind, called the « Farmers' " 



• /.>'■"•- lb. W. Jackson, 



me and salt. Planted and manured with 



in the third week of May. This suffered 



KW, the gardener at Nostell 



.I. Saltnnd Decayed Roots of Couch-grass—Mr. T. 

 ■ I i . 



land escaped except at Hay wood-park, manured with salt 

 and decayed roots of Couch-grass ; there the crop was 



4. Salt, Nitrate of Soda, Sulphate of Magnesia, and 

 Guano.— Mr. J. C. Morton, of Cromball, Gloucester- 

 shire, reports that a crop was planted in March on a 

 siliceous sandy soil, manured with 1 cwt. each of salt, ni- 

 trate of soda, snlph. of magnesia, and guano, mixed, and 

 sown on the young plants as they appeared in April. The 

 Sca^e entire? rotterT"' 1 " 1 ^ *******> and afte ™ards 

 „J^ ffc? 4 '?°'\- Mr - J-Cuthill, Florist, Camberwell, 

 used 30 cwt. of salt and 30 bushels of soot per acre on 

 SlyrcaJed and,Planted * * thn * T *' Tn ° "open- 



!£.. i V? V ctober » man «r*d with salt, soot, and 

 SS Porto ™ eXC6llent CK)I> ' without one »»"« 



no d»«?£ P . Car "? lf ' "P°rts from Cumberland that 



^e fuSows JfSelim^? bnUn aDted Potat0e8 ' ^ hen 



x ore o soot, salt, charcoal, wood-ashes, and gas-tar. 



in fav^nrTii 18 !.?" u^f c sta < eme ."ts anything 



ubstances. In al! 



■•<! *>» li-ht land. 



ny power to mitig 



ndicate a better effect. Of 



against its employmei 

 ON THE 



objects to u7w?n °fi* ****!?»*>** tw ° P rin >"y 



the greatest i'moor^^f • tho ^ ld Write agents, are of 

 "Judged Som^/ I ** c <"° 

 toCUSS * B0t the mod * <* applying" theTad 



affording every facility 'to vegetable development 

 » by which we are enabled to employ the natural 



and the spa< 



appropriated 



all a gardener's ; 



trouble (alas ! how un- 

 worthily bestowed) is the dunghill. Permit me, ladies 



before you insist upon packetsof seeds from abroad having 





building should indicate a cardinal point, 

 But I have great faith in the theory of the rough plate 

 glass noticed. I would give— no matter what — to be 



[lass. I only wish every one 



I the management of a small 



, during the equinoctial gales of 



anied with a bright sun, or in the 



: April. I think I have arrived at a 



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st with the leaves of the plants. I may be wronsb 

 f conclusions, but I believe that an uniform temper* 

 l\Z?7 r *7 ■ ° f ' w ^ eing a PP ,ied t0 P lant * has 



king of an 

 mght temp 



rersally acknowledged^ 



For my own pjoi 1 



why should it not b 



not see (I say it with great deference),^ I— 

 nay the utility of heating the air before introd^' 

 into plant structures, for I conceive that the » ^ * 

 of temperature has something of beneficial infl "^ 

 plants ; aud causes we are apt to attribute tn tlT"** 

 of fresh air arises often, I believe, from a lac! 7? ** 

 tion in temperature. It will be readily seen tha ^ 

 two effects may be easily confounded in their aowa 

 as arising from the same cause, when such tnav^ 

 the case. For the admission of external air vw 

 risking the welfare of plants, I would have » s 

 window inside a moveable one, as in the accompaS 

 sketch. I rom such an arrangement no A\rL '^ 



LECTURE ON ECONOMICAL COOKERY; 



l of the art of cookery, considered! 

 is the baking of bread. ThlJJ 



the Oak or of the Chestnut was used without ai 

 preparation than that of a slight heat, just as th 



Moses, as may be inferred from the prohibition agin 

 the use of unleavened bread by the Israelites during & 

 Passover, and probably sc~ *-"■ 



E carbonic acid during that process of fe 

 )hol a; 



ever, it is feared, greater than the saving resulting, it 



than 17.6 per cent, of the whole, and certainly, accordist. 

 to the lowest calculation, amounts to as much aslOpe 

 cent. Now a method has lately been proposed,* 

 which the necessity for employing yeast is altogetas 

 superseded, and the whole of this waste of nutrias 

 matter prevented. This consists in mixing witi * 



mixed. The expense, it is true, of the muriaticij 

 and of the soda employed may be somewhat greatertw 

 that of the common salt which it takes the plM"*** 



only 3d. and the aci dStf* 

 of each of these mgwwf 

 on 96 lbs. of flour, it.™ * 



I bread, from a portion ol 



:nce, acidity, and 



s stomacn , "="-> ' 

 other uneasy sv °^ 



deserves the Vreference,noV istt lesTadvantageojjg 

 the saving of labour consequent upon its » J ^ 

 inasmuch as the flour requires less kneading, — 



With respect to its flavc 



•£££% 



tS™n«t°t' pl ?° M ' R Be e™» '"chsioides, should l„, e °„ 

 that has strolled out in the 



d inquiry of a vendor on wh om me/ ;«]?&* 

 sliance, that the muriatic acid used is entoW 



"mode'of manufacturing this substancej ^ 

 of sulphuric acid upon common °* ^ 

 iric acid is obtained by the combustion ott^ 

 nr supply of the latter is derived at P/f^y 



! grateful change 



— "«u we eopfM "try. '~~h,0" 



y tree from arsenic, and may, th^S, * * 

 'i a cool i employed in the production of sulphuric ■* 



