e 
| some labou 
-: es there 
.—The 
Maron 5, 1864.] 
urers shave a wl allotment. 
of good four-roomed | Thom 
Pursuant to the 
I have p = s Tarnishing the title of the Act, vi 
of 
Drainage Compa 
The cem Engineer 0 T the R 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL begat 
229 
nner. 
rainer, « 
England and South Wales ‘tena 
” Fred. 
nd South 
T 25. 
egy icd ltural 
following additional “Tet er has been 
a co om- 
Royal diass 
ad recently 
eme to our knowledge. 
The main object of our com- 
In those Mr.  Rigden; Mr. Sanday; Mr. Shuttleworth ; 
M 
; Mr. 
mpson , nm r. Torr; Mr. Wills; Mr. Frer 
rs and many bave ves en erected in the last few | and Dr. Voe 
and have been let before they were finished at} The "brem p Members were elected : — 
is varying from 31. 10s. to 57. per annum, accordin ns, jun., Whitefield, Morpe 
to the quantity of land let con t fo ns, and Armstrong erga die M einem = —€— eli. 
ki t al urn, Coldstr um 
at that TR oo “er np cum profit to their eL George > obertson, Keavil, Nereis iden shire 
Ee: B 8, Matthew, Sen., Killingworth, Ne tle-on-Tyne 
"T forcement o, «ffl .—Referring to the letter of Paria, = tthew, Jun , Kallings js orth, Newcastle-on-Tyne 
«4 Glouces Drainer,” in your publication of | Biehl, , Crowhurs Ti Battle, Sussex 
i i f T "Th Corbrid d hag ge 
the 13th inst., and assuming that Mr. Denton’s reply crs Bais mel, Joint Con g ties Asylum, Abergavenny 
will not give the desired information, I beg permission | Chic , John, Whitwell, Yo 
to state in your next Number that e West. Je Cs i 
3. On the Growth of Clover and Grass. Seeds, eei - 
dodi sh gala Dropia of the p 
cut at c purge periods of gros ips 
4. A series of manurial experim 
n Clov 
5. The imber and dés qualities of ail: mould. 
Lzorvnrs.— The first Lecture proposed to be given 
by Professor Voelcker this year will be on “The 
P 
Nutrition of Plants from the Atmosphere," to 
delivered on the second Wednesday in May, at 
"clock. The second Lecture will be on * The Chemical 
Qualities of Wate Economieal Purposes," to 
delivered on the second Wednesday in June, at 12 
o'clock. 
he Professor Mene it to be wed E he will m 
in regular attendance at ed s House, 12, 
Hanover ire pw ^W edne 
WOA 
Cu S ; Frederick Thos iene Sandwich, Kent NE TLE MEETING. Oh Challoner reporte 
Davison, eel. Long Bank, Alnwick that the Committee peine that the sum 
gas ^ sae at, Wiltshavon WB. "Turetán of 200/. be granted to the Local Committee to 
st 
ret Am itine istin Camb ridge secure the fields marked on Ordnance plan 
Everett, Re ey. Charles Henry, Netherto: nh sek Hungerford | for the purpose of the trial of steam cultivators 
Fair, William, Aston-by-Budworth, Northwich, Cheshire in addition to e land which offe 
Fawèus, John, TEN cx athill by the Local Committee. The contractor having 
Garbutt, hohe omm Ce Gateshead id before the Committee a plan of the show 
Glanville, nald Carew, Sconnor, St. Germans, Cornwall yard, they recomme ended th at it be considered as pre- 
ine enry, NN Bri ve haan, that th f t 
Tondi JE piat dnas '|to MM ment to suit the ground, and that the con- 
Graves, Anthony Elly, Rosbereon Castle, New Ross, Wexford with the aboy 
Hansell, Thomas, North Shields for approval by the Council in April. This report was 
Harvey, v hn James, Statenboro' House, Sandwich, Kent adop 
Hill, Hen Thornt on, 
Pickering, de A 
po: of ' England upon the position of the Consulting Hodgeon, ‘a Joseph, Blyth, Horam rla 
h had 
Holmden, James, M m. 
Johnson. ted Elling’ 
K 
of machines of 
We submit that 
| 
y buy blipey T a lar 
miim, M: we consider. the former objection Pom ws mm 
onger one, w ould 
viz, that Messrs. Easton & Amos supply a a large number 
their o own sore oe = exhi rajes 
this is a graver objection to that 
that 
ea wie from the 
e 
that they had 
submit that if t 
ave acte d as e of hmi have 
ps who b 
n struck off the list of judges, 2E v case ground 
end 
paded din machinery. 
was udge, 
a valid objection to aj 
Tp 
Lethbri dge. Cha: ries, rook House, Taunton 
s ie e Oxford Str i Newcastle. ees Tyno 
Morton, H y Thom s, Biddick, e Hou 
Nash, John, | Teed Court, Roches! 
rm 
being in office, and infsencing. ‘the > adjudications, levies Ockleston, Wm. Fairhurst, peg Stratford. on-Avon 
the fact which Mess n&A mit, v 
Page, Henry, Walmer Co d Walm 
Page et, is, Queenborou b, Lelcosté? 
Pattison, J. M., Norwood, pom ad 
Ha ll, arr on-Tyne 
e, Jam ge, Leominste 
Ra rd, illinc Beeston, Nottingha 
Charles, Doddington, Wooler, Northembérland 
e, Charles Leonard, Crayford, 8.E. 
n, Bedlin ton, Morpeth 
ington, Morpeth 
croft Farm, n SH Chester 
Stat 
par Joh 
it 
ne. 
Lem de € 
and that 
a 
Price per acre 
have got, Bw 
un 
< 
Fi 3 
mi 
3 
1 
THE 
uir 
ae 
becomes a “ai, graver objection. We desire also to call | 
the attention mE Es to the fact of Mr. 
itute an inquiry into the Eome Es — brou 
. We have the honour to be, y 
"iH 
ge ee t 
Ys 
too p -— s publie rhoe what the cost 
vi 
Aint th 
ep fra ot ES T neither will they | 
Societies, 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL OF EN. 
(J 
E 
ET. 
i 
"n 
pis 
2 
P 
Amos 
erg gaged by more than one of the Web 
hi biting dms, pr and we are prepared to prove that he 
a zeal 
we shall re be t€ obtrtiive ? in 
ie he Council to 
ur lordship's 
ick Howard. 
Culture.—Your note under my 
case etd fairly so far as a 
e by myself, and if 
vh would enter such 
400 or 
he supervisi 
Society, pef, in my 
han th 
be ra 
all; a multiplication of then dedi do 
8 very M rable that we Án know 
e Ra we 
y go four and five 
now how to apply the 
e o not; datni an ud 
. per acre on an 
one; p. than that - 
ay live, and what is more, m 
and farmed double depth. William 
^, Bletchley Station, Bucks, Feb. 29. 
a 
Walker, John 1, Oxford Terrace, jum Park, London, W. 
Rob ae = Wille, Beeston, Nottingh: am 
s, John Dodd, Flotter erton, Rothbury, Northumberland | 
"am; A H. Cowperthwaite, 88, Jermyn Street, 
ondon, "g. W. 
: Wetton, Geo. Norman, Collington, Northampton 
Wilkinson, Henry Etridge, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-on- 
Wilson, Thomas, Oaklands, Neweastle-on-Tyne 
Yates, William, We Shiffnal 
FIN. —The eneral Hood, Chairman of | Re 
the Committe pesci e Report, from "which it 
appeared tha 8 s 
n 
the M on Fabrwty 29 was 17097. 1 
mittee recommended that the, Secretary 
idm aont circular to Members who have not paid 
their subscriptions tt — — rw 
URNAL.— 
n the motion of Mr. Torr, the Council resolved that 
TT. 
as Blackaced Hopon 2 
Su x V, ypt.—The Secreta 
m 
wid of her oec A Treasury requesting "their 
owledgments mig 
the "Society for the oui they had taken i in E 
h h Maj 
hich 
. Hol and, M.P., was prevented by indisposition 
from Princi eli piod SAM, for the appointm A 
of a Committee for the consideration of the measu 
which ought to be et * for the improvement of the 
education of those w epen 
the soil bd bon] support, * ” this =, grec by the 
Charter ecuted by 
the Society 
The motion was seconded by Sir Edward Kerrison 
and t by Mr. Thompson, M.P.; when the 
| Conil resolved to nominate a Committee at their next 
g to take this 
Letters inviting the authorities of Bath, Bristol, 
Exeter, Plymouth and Taunton, to offer sites for 
holding the meeting of 1865 in that district, were 
directed to be sent. 
The Council then adjourned, 
s al or The 
give | piving the Ostamittee atiority t to take such measures 
ws - 
with m pee: to 
considere 
iinet. x ot i € ate 
received ov om the Piin attending Mr. Frere which 
e Committee to postpone vilis peblieaton of 
the dran number of the Journa the 
month of February to the 
Mr. Frere yesterday at 
mittee ‘end reported himself Paces A poe pr "to | 
resume work. 
It was announced that on 
com- 
HEMICAL. 
made for rsen i of the Society during the 
pe 
Uti hits ‘and similar artificial manures ` 
cesar — ER 
fuse man ; 
Bone-dust 
EN Xe maris 
Soils 
Waters 
Oilcakes 
Feeding meals and vegetable prods 
Examinations for poisons 
T 
Voelcker by the Committee, are 
hand on 
Soi 
2. A series of experiments carried out on soils of P mont . 2o 
different, character (light and — on * The | new class for h 
f SALT to Vegetation, 
influence o: in reference 
month o! E Mare ch. The Bas 
Á eem had great mente - eating farther that 
rep 
sg Any a March 16, 
igi omar gen ae 
med by b 
dre particulars of Chemical de Tur 
m 
he o subjects which have been i proposed | = Piden and Short-ho: 
as follows 
e eg mater: of the investigations E in pee t the 
~ W. Moore, R. Overauik, & Robinson, W. Ri 
Smith, W. Sanday, H. Th 
. R. H. Ellman 
be pai warded 
ouncil having pret ak the 
he ape of animals exhibited are caleu- 
-€— eee o alteration should be made— 
e, l dent w days vin 
It was resolved that “the members of "eei Bong 
ibitors e galleries 
tors be admitted to the 
udi met to the 
to select the designs for the same. 
Directions "were given as Z advertisemen 
The Prize Sheet for Var "PEEL. wil Die 
tellowing alteration wand seine ions made, viz. : x 
in each of the following divisions, v Devons, Herefords 
rs 6 manths old, 1st prize 201, 
M eibi 4 years old, ls 
lass 
eif tiie 
prize 20l, ^ 15L, and that the other c 
