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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[JANTARY 30, 1864, 
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are others which naturally yield s such | magnificent | 
annual growth Grass that i 
eldin 
piian from which arable aleatin Tu profitably | 
a great increase of food for both man and 
e 
dairy far ta eoe the first and last of ear cases 
were well illustrated. A deep cutting of a ciate din 
runs through this farm. The blue ues in in alternate 
la 
soil over this is the poorest an 
"c cpp py pd either rimi c of Wrap or 
f horse flesh the 
poor 
Sedge, zie reip groa pE tes 
subsoil, 
eep and EU D 15 
annels 4 
yaris Pu yields natu: ry 
t is comparatively easily wale 
hent, € very eas or Beans, 
, heavy Sas 
in more ordinary good management. But the 
cenno! a ek the pode of 
the aral la arms as sa 
able land 
pue ought. ü: pan confidence to lan 
ow are being perpetually petitioned on 
all “Gowasteraie dairy farms for leave 
z littl he little es raw that 
insufficient to —— ex Seem pn 
t would be the|h 
y 
e last Tuesday over a Gloucestershire | va ad 
break | unh 
the matter turns is the object which the cultivator 
as in view. If he wants his Cole seed merely as 
green food for sheep, he looks to quite a — 
Mi from what he would do were his labour 
ected to an opere crop of seed for the We 
m extraetin ng o 
We i frst SN to the disease as ~~ d 
€ enis act M whose obser- 
à last umber of the 
Rey 9, which we 
take ‘the liberty . extr 
He selected xu of ub kinds, healthy 
nd taking the cd es Ee each 
h 
q 8 
T9855 
e been at 
equal NUM Mos Me r green) of bot 
«c ent. of nitrogen in the 
e latter are also Erud = 
the tw 
tain ‘about the same proportion of sg of ves 
of the sub- 
i oun Sometimes by another 
1} vi 
————. 
of the page aur gm ies whieh will i inevitably 
arise in the c of cultivation of the especi 
form which we cx ropaga It is clear then 
that if we wish to raise pure seed, we must 
rom 0 eed be y individ 
most approved e cas 
where there is no —— of impregnation from 
abnormal varieties, m 
to be careful where su ii erp e dreaded, 
In a former article we manm "in is question 
of reversion to the original type. As reg a the 
Cabbage tribe, M. DECAISNE, who i 
vi 
= lection 
which species o be taken, 
has pois ds pressed himself as Ay a ala ropo 
the -rn n to the original wild type: 
sider it certain that. ev ery goal 
ety o of Pea say all 
Mes Ee ice will, Ui it is impregnated by itself e 
give rise to good varieties: they n cp , and 
.| will in all “probability differ, Tomesti rity i one 
from. the same 
ariety, 
of the wilding any more than our Drumheaded Cab. 
ages or Cauliflowers will return to any of the 
wild a which are so distinct in thabit, Me 
stances contained by each leaf his paks X more | grow on the cliffs of the Atlantic or Me dite 
interesting. Thus he pro at the q an 
tity itrogen in the tainted leaves is one-fift Those who wish to see the contrary opinion well 
t | less* than that of the healthy leav 2. That the} and fairly stated, may turn to the January 
total weights of organic matter is about 50 per| Number for 1864, of the ‘‘ Natural History 
cent. less in the unhealthy le than in the same | Review,’’in an article on DECAISNE'slate memoir on 
ber of y ones. 3. That the total weight | the variability of the European shes of the 
of mineral matter in the unhealthy leaves is about J, B. 
one-sixth less than that in same number of 
healthy leaves. 4. That the ealthy leaves 
tain about one-sixth more phosphorie acid than .TALE OF A LANDLORD. 
the same number o lthy ones. 5. That the dis- [Lark-spur. 
vic a= 
z 
m 
ecimens. hattat result 
1s grown 
mea. or tidy at this time r; 
“a 
[suoi o of lime and 38 e e eria acid than 
e most 
all these. investigations is sm tly the dis 
eaves have a far greater 
the 
end beu and 
e on a give tent. 
ps were cultivated, the dair 
t 
kept | prin 
ase, 
brochure which he has kin 
e| “In loo ng 
The. C notice of — is by Mon 
chemical det 
porte to d Sgan - tion tan as ctual, 
We Uie the following from a small | 4 
arded :— 
m straw together again for pon use as 
yp ey di 
dis 9 Ae 
e re 
n the development of the 
of the grain eem of our i e iouis to » 
| impart a portion of their own perpeti 
nitrogenous and 
of v 
| others apparently more Tey and a 
IT is the happy quality of those subjects which have 
Nature, and her doings for their theme, that they never 
ual y 
n the ordinary. thingy: hat on 
vid and durable; 
“a aes tame; and 
ning alliance b cs 
* pariental? ada, 
you'll be young et Ye re old. » 
little old-fashioned, or affected, (accordingly : qu | 
iew it) in a boy, to be | 
able or bos ‘life, ge 
than Peek 
by without a look or thought. But mark th m wha 
be e but a influence on the decisio 
the q o with our clays s?a Men 
that, pesem in Phe dili, dis districts where — 
class pastures do not prevail, a larger portion 
our Grass land ought to be brought under ‘he 
And, for the large remainder of our poorest 
Em nd Where the cost of labo bour, the poverty of the 
and perhaps the inclemeney of the 
ner unite e forbid plough-land scatet 
elieve that the ich enelose 
of Grass 
nt 
is ill —— nnd. "^ seleting hem Bat 
am 
Hs Bg 
"1 
depend penty on the bad | quality of 
d 
their n and 
80 
the p pA 
ne case, e às er the charms Ye 
oie 7, ot the eyes Meg rot th ist pe 
tisw worse 
inversio 
drills but broadcast, or in other words, from very 
rowded plants, has been pem: or less impeded in 
its development. d ein and little 
expense, it would se et: bá extremely easy 
quality 
sine Ven to ied x wisdom 
ce produce of 
promising 
up a supply 
instead o vi deposi 
d. characteristic plants, and 
be a con oman Bi repeated selection, 
ou is re 
e Vielen, ced. nnl 
vi 
obtain meas T abd to augment the yield and 
em equally to the maintenance = 
whos ose hues grow more rich o 
f duc A" 
arieties of 
arie- 
ies of one speci ies, the _ int termixture of varieties 
is almost without ii 
ute is a curious fact that at the. M moment 
pis is to this tendenoy | 
terio 
a great 
AC the ornaments ed 
all the access 
tion of f their S 
, the main point on which 
ecure the puri! Teu 
vue wd: 
still have a source o veh ity in the intermixture 
* In Dr. Iustin OOM latent Mc * Cyclopzedia 
of Agriculture,” Colza is referred to Brassica campestris, Sapa 
TOM NE NNNM Daperet ut i 
to Brassica napus. 
metimes, however, as in the article 
" Colza is called Brassica 
eO ERIAN Srl Goiza i 
the text, but apparently itisa slip of the pen for 
and labour are Mencxpilahe qo 
A truant pen ei a ee rare bees Jee 
up like an old wet! at way 
in this Chronicle,— i 
accident am 
of ‘going to ask advice’ brings ?? 
