[April 





. ■■.-.!. I thu.k 



■ v^caE be. The 

 ; a few Turnip* 

 borders ; every 



Kith of June, and following up this process in 



part* of my ground until the end of July. ^J^jjjj 



• i„ mm to .how itself in vai 



method. Thus i 



I »Ol half abuthel toth« 



.-h-«. ;imi..ii,' t'm-.- which \v< I I 



lii.iH. an.l I .i.l l.v. :i«v-.i 

 t had not extended to an individual tuber 



nt .lie^intr-. as th..« plan's ripene.l, produced the 

 ii.it as the season advanced a 



ober, proving perfectly 



r , ;;i; 



same gound. Some later soifcs that were laid down 



the disease from reaching the root. I c is immaterial 

 whether the haulm of the Potato becomes blighted or 

 u^nwrn^'rocelTi 1 *. ddo " rn and Properly covered 



7 '" Xui'it-UMrinu tVrf H ,-. — Thi8 is an old and 

 . when well grown, really beautiful 



It dim .<nd. Good Friday was so line and so bright thiil 

 could distinctly, with the naked eye, see the flag %tiiu u 

 the breeze on the top of the bight st turret J \V iL »VJ 

 Castle ; not the storm flag, but the IumTuA 

 finest. In the valley several of the trees «« n fo^ 



were not bursting. ' The views from Richmond tovufc 



to remedy which the only way now would be to f«J 



love to leave the city, its cares and buBtle.behind Asm ' 

 Jaw* C^iaU, CamberweU. 



Vurn'Jong Sheet Glass to prevent hnrniny.-Wrs... 



burnt, from their houses being glazed with sheet glaa, 

 the prubabiliy of tho evil being prevented by costing 



as a mixture of Canada balsam and oil of turpentine) 

 put on rough, to imitate rough plate. After the gissj 

 is well cleaned and painted with a coat of the vanish 

 by pecking it with a dry clean dusting brush just u it 

 begins to dry, a fine roughened surface would be pro- 

 duced, sufficient, I think, to disperse the rays, which 



Whitney's composition might be a good varnish, 1 think 

 it should be as transparent as possible. Whether suc- 

 cessful or not, the plan is worth trying. G. W. il . , 

 Reading. [The idea is good ; but Canada balsam will 

 not carry it out. The varnish must be of some kind 

 which dries quickly, and does not soften by solar heat] 

 Keeptng Properties of Snow exposed to Air.-On I 

 former occasion, when I sent you my opinion of the 

 inutility of deep pit « icehouses " (so called), for pro- 

 serving ice, I then, by way of corroborating such an 



■ ■f the Uchil hills till near Midsummer, and took the 



U, did not say directly that my a 



le. This I felt to be unfair, and subsequently calW 



id to mine, fn a late Number (page 181), Mr. 

 ickenzie says he never found snow on the Ochtfs, 

 nigh he had traversed them at various periods of the 

 nmer, &c, and wishes to be informed whether i 

 Mr. Beaton basked, &c. Then he jumps off to Tonne- 

 tort and Mount, Ararat, to tell us how that botanist was 

 refreshed by the snow-water of that celebrated momj 

 ion to point out on what spot, or peak of to 

 Ochils, botanical wanderers may find snow at M • 



m ue OchjMJ 

 my life, and that I have only seen them on twooew- 

 sions for these last 40 years. The South Dow* , of 

 Sussex are far more familiar to me now than tw Ucuj 



. g InThfchasml oVInVoJnlto, "fiK &*«* J* 

 not on the heights or peaks, in the early part of*« 



on the plainT, not ""hundred miles from West Ptojj 

 were sweltering with heat. Now, 

 me whether Mr. Mackenzie believes this or no*, 

 snow I allude to lay not far from Alva House, 

 whether it was designated her ladyship's webs or J" 

 cannot say ; the fact is, it had drifted from the Mj£ 

 ' i great depth, consequently it "^J^'J grf 



oy SHarSi^ » ** ^ 



friend how he gets on in growing 



Quercus. P-S. May I *££ 



df aiT being 1 dw- "' - !,t> f ^ard° S in *«*? Ufavour ' ^ScoUM ** 



