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readily tied together. The points of the ribs of the work are 

 made to project a few inches at the bottom, and thus serve as 

 feet by which the protectors are fixed in the earth." 



Celery has been grown successfully, late in the autumn, from 

 the seedling plants which had remained in the spring seed-bed 

 till they grew to a considerable size. The progress of the 

 plants was proportionately more rapid than if they had been 

 transplanted at an earlier period. The general idea is that 

 plants under such circumstances are liable to run to seed ; 

 but, if the repetition of this experiment should be attended 

 with similar success, it would be attended with some saving of 

 labour and of ground, in the economy of the kitchen-garden. 



An old Garden Wall, painted with seal oil and Rogers's (of 

 Robert Street, Hoxton,) anticorrosion powder, was supposed 

 by W. Cotton, Esq. of Wellwood House near Leytonstone, 

 to lessen the tendency to blight in the trees planted against it. 

 The smell of seal oil is particularly offensive ; cod oil is less 

 so, and a wall painted with it and anticorrosion powder " did 

 not appear to be so great a preservative against blight." The 

 anticorrosion powder has nothing to do with the blight-repel- 

 ling quality of the mixture, which obviously depends on the 

 smell. It is formed of powdered green glass bottles, scoria of 

 lead, or other vitrified materials, which are found to adhere 

 more firmly than the usual metallic oxides or ^earths ; which 

 are employed in common painting. 



A strong Autumnal Crop of Red and WJiite Antwerp Rasp- 

 berries has been obtained by Mr. John Mearns, gardener to 

 W. Hanbury, Esq. at Shobden Court in Herefordshire, by 

 the following management : — "In May he removes the young 

 fruit-bearing shoots from the canes, leaving in some cases one 

 or two eyes, in others cutting them clean off. Under either 

 plan, they soon show an abundance of vigorous shoots, fre- 

 quently three or four from each eye, which produce plenty of 

 blossoms in the beginning of July, and on these a good crop 

 of fine raspberries is borne in August, when all the regular 

 produce on the plants not thus treated is consumed." 



The Crop of Onions at Thirkleby Hall in Yorkshire was 

 continually lost, in consequence of their being attacked by the 

 grub when half grown. Mr. Elias Hildyard, knowing that 

 spontaneous production can only take place on the surface of 

 the earth, and consequently that the seeds and eggs of insects 

 will remain dormant when buried to a certain depth, trenched 

 his ground so as to effect that object. It is almost unne- 

 cessary to observe that he found the same plan equally effec- 

 tive in reducing to a dormant state the larvae that used to 



