Jury 30, 1864.| 
wes? GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND seman GAZETTE. 
731 
. we this is not all, for when the crop is 
for ears | likely to be a good and yielding crop. Some early | than half, and » | 
Wheat crop wil] be on a iier p. Y some yes ly pasar he are now lifting. Mangels: this is a wid destroyed the place is filled with weeds, Barley is 
past, as a heavy crop is qui ption, Swedes: | looking well on the cool-bott tom ed lands, but on the 
arly sg the land in good | 
2 —€— where planted e 
arly plan ted spring 
defective crop, being thin and backward. 
- fee been 
this i is a very irregular crop. ip as vival gr ravelly and hante, soils it will ripen pr ematurely. Itis 
l 
these e 
condition; » few crops seis 
y to ^ fou ery g 
rule (rhe wil be a gre does] in these crops, 
which have for e years been planted to a ver 
t he db LER Barleys 
g Wheat, wreiehedly 
, but asa 
colour xA fast, and if rain does not come 
very ‘soon a deal of the v 
well and look promising. snnt is adi now seed ing, 
are the w 
but as the land is in good order and weather more 
suitable a fair crop may be looked for. 
seeds have yie elded but poor crops, and muc ch, difficulty 
d, and many acres 0 
imd, ploughed, and put to Rape o or r Tarnips The same 
said of Peas, and the Bea 
ay id 
d is makin slow] The weather Beans. The late-sown Beans have Aswated pot but 
n crops will also P 5 d; ets ^ "T ipee a i whether T: will form pods this ‘ome à I bg 
t ‘ H 9.—TI e is a light | tell at present. The pastures cut a sorry figure, an 
ee ate bat y. on pique demi 2 il the seeds are burnt up, but s x yd ‘stock have done 
m w 
Tn fe are entertained r respecting the px crop, | 
well up 
Nort TH Wir Urs Dessus of the 
erhaps I 
some measure d om 
| withstand the dry w 
crop. barn hed better than any voll, and perbaps we 
The d 
e spring are of the ] ms that have fallen ‘daring 
be a 2 ight 
winter Beans 
this being a most precarious time u upon tha t uncertain 
op; but 
1e Turnips | are rig partly from | that time, having or about 
Lees 
inch in each Bisse 
m i 
nplain vhich for the 
many Rundrots from. the flocks of this and yr 
eb them. d he ve [^ud or nd Mangels in this 
y ha 
neighbourho rather raw; Fron is also more 
' The cattle stock do wonderfully well, con- 
ke the apparent want of food. 7. Duckham. 
HER : Ne ar St, Alban’, » July 1 18. —Wheat: various, 
1 
early sown 
jury 
e Wheat-midge than last year, eel under 
A aholt and naf s I 
‘On. 
HIAN: Pumpher ston, Mid Calder, N.B.— |t 
in appearance is scarcely an average, Barley, | have se 
Oats after Grass, un nder hire on in 
Wheat en some white e Doel of 
fanl] 
M 
s? 
fall average. of 
th of st The Barley generally 
shels per 
crop on "deep soils, 
Oats: tar ial in straw 
bm 
€ missed i ed the be rj "ten bu 
last year. Barley: various, good 
light and I E M gravel. 
and deficient in Mr Eii : fair crop, but 
min. Beans: 
ie by br? rx in m places, Hay: When: "half a 
d Clovers g enne pe et a goo 
Mangels: ood plant, but 
viuda ied fe 
kind is scarce; the deficiency a water many 
farms is seriously felt, and if we do not ph rain soon | 
the supply of winter keep ioe bg un gx ore 
and Swedes have planted w 
the dr bi geuegh their growth [ue the! latter) i is 
butlittle of the common Turnip seed has 
very slow ; 
vegetated, and it is now quite it M to e again. | a ntm 
Clover and Grass hay has been secured 
ha ve no prospect of any secon 
$2 i ey | 
f Clov , and can 
ery goo 
by others, the settings ee affected by dry rot ; 
- | appear 
rally fied will be a deficiency of straw, particu- 
larly w - B 
Beans, 
sm promising appearance. 
me fields, very deficient in 
upon the 
whole under KM Hay considerably under average. 
Peter McLaga 
Horasana: Forres.— Site. gence ie the pe 
mising, with th of som 
pianto, bnt 3 think t ond a bod late Barley this Jed 
rops med earlier than usual 
1l of, as 
aur eye ES e 
Potatos, 
s " yon 
Barley being very ede 
will als so grow less j straw than the Jast few years; 
nin of the season, crops in l have : y 
promising appearance, The Wh Om is vi pimi speak of the produce. The root crops are qui e. as 
| has rm in en for the - eight days | Ashe a bril- promising as one can expect under the circumstances. 
liant sunshin in day the temperature in the sun is If we get is not too late for a good f 
5°. On som the ^ ae is less extensive than | but if the present drought continues much longer, w 
usual. This is what might be expected; for although | may ha si e failure; where e be 
the crop of last excellent in quality, and very | put in with the liquid drill (as nearly all our district 
abundant, that at of “the previous three years was, on irl t pl p the present 
€ nt of the cold seasons, very deficient. Barley but where not I h the different. 
ear ase is 
mises to E" a fall "p nn I gne ns The “Clover and Cas varies pele horn of some good, 
is dee inferior that last yea ats | and some light, o: hol moderate crop, and 
ery unequi r4 wisy end. ren gene w 
has succeeded Grass. 
in sed e crop eans 
Wheat tagein promises dd be Kind witho crop, 
last Yom ne tt M Mp Pompe 
ort in straw. 
n soon. 
HOAN not equal to 
thin plant, and generally sh: 
sidering the dry weather, Tooks well, and on good tiles tilths, | 
Grass, and a 
id Peas not generaly cultivated is: this milk is already Tallen mi w som 
county. Notwithstanding 22 rainy days in June, ra soe the eer ig n must soon 
days e first week become ne, anxious for t T is stock, 
vhere it has been g must t to 
be an abundant crop; on thin poor soils, s and Where it | seeure a . Turnips, including Swedes, moore. de tte beat earn 
She E y to ripen | have lly dificult to manage this season. | very much; generally a light crop. D dim. 
prematurely, and is of two or three colours, Oats ar eat extent was laid down ms the mese of | Beans are AP eA aer few days, and I 
much shorter of straw than usual, id will prove | May, the ground b e very dry to wards the middle |upper pods will not , Turnips : pros owe 
deficient in quantity and quality. Some are already | of that month, and the ravages of the fl iderabl 
cut, whi week er than their appearance | great; then fol the frost = the end of the mon th, to hoe. Hay all rook tate $ in fine condition; t oe 
indicated a fortnight sin The common Ho, rs indicating 3° of frost here on the 30th, and 4° on the |very light, and aftermath suffering greatly from 
particularly wiere punted early, are good ; last day of May, which me fatal on many ht. Thomas 
a poor crop a and an inferior es ticala in the upland districts, where resowing| S r prospects are very 
averag P, y | bi eral. Th Ko mode cof laying down the crop | fine. eT EM RN ja but y M to last 
all the Beans qe. in spring are very inferior. | the second —Ó diversified ; that most | year. Barley y fine and heavy, in places lodged 
Potatos are at present free from disense, though all the bes tig wth along the drills, | Beans and P. Oats e pite : nof 
rly sorts are very small, and rain is much wanted for and disturbing the soil; then a vem Ñe oo igre grown, but lens ve ood. d Grass 
thelate ones, Fruit of all is e th 1I Peruvian ho- very light . A com: relat genitori told me that 
— 4 solved coprolites was applied, ko the E ‘of about in his rounds he found East Suffolk a most i 
Lan ker, Newton in Cartmel, July 15. | 20s. per acre; these ures stro essful in | district. Our r Mangels are der A Lob ng. PNG 
—I think the crops of gr grain in in this neighbourhood Med 
be about an average. ere is not so much straw 
usual, but T think the grain looks well, and if the 
no es Se 
rn fm which that the Swedes ur Mei 
soils, sand-land districte wn ge las ve given a unfavourable 
Ser we analy e 
equal, the latter er being z hardly better than 
hbour made the tour 
present fine weather it will continue 
improve. The h hay crops E Cs puAny the sown Grass 2) 
are light but very well secured. For some time the 
s crops were at a stand sti Il, but they are now 
growing fast and look ve I travelled from 
Fleetwood to London, and eme ondon to E last | 
vid 
limeshells dissulved with abou 
ayed wi weeds, and at abou Em cost appearance. A nei 
nb Pupptvieg the manure | 
do drills were set | up afresh, dm oh = seeds VOTE | 
sown. Another mode was ow down the drills, 
set them up afresb, and on he seeds Without sd ie 
week, m I thought the grain crops gene 
light, and 
save Long Sutton. Y think ‘the fe following 
remarks upon our harvest and g crops will apply to 
all the marshland and Fen distri jets. Wheat: the 
ey 
crops equal if they do not excel those of any 
part of the country. are full, well grown, and 
with but a few ions possess average 
ut by to last year. In many 
nk. A few | un 
earing, b no mea: 
parts of the Fens they ar 
rse in quality. 
one; some few 
1, but as a wl whole it cannot 
splendi 1 
second manuring. "The _ weather being quite moist, eh man tee gt the e to our 
I ha beftes hi a it, but did nde 
any farther ers operation sif Rs : think: much ot the reports. To-day having heard more 
sowing ra P Athos s 2 last of them, think it right f to apprise you of it. Geo. 
the Turn wil come e h Edwards 
three wd ue by the 
d ze growth | 
most of hw "-— sowings of Turnip 
healthy we gp The 
a 
equal, 
| feeble that an average 
ere late in comin 
. Brown. 
CESTERSHIRE: Vale of Evesham—In iunt "s 
Koh st i May. 
failure Meg 
y that the Wheat on the strong 
Tage crop. Barley: the 
much more e rom one - I have ever known, and 
to al te The cold 
na 
ere aN Tp an meee A 
the recent late seasons, |3 
and rec eekoned in inferior ea! ewe in our en cultivated soils is very good, a full average crop; 
ven uj 
tar T Grigor, or shallow soils it has withered away 
s| NORFOLK : Denver, "uris July 16. athe ‘present po] satay in pud ad y irregula: h and wiil 
ance of the crops in this district is various. They are | be a poor cro ley on almost every descrip- 
looking ' well: on the lands y are well farmed, except | lassi of soil is ior pies and vcd » a full av ome 
prom The autumn- 
appointment however h en 
the Pet ero It he not yield an verage produce. . Peas: 
ie got and rale iei dg Both Beans 
and Oats ar are V weil fee from aphis,  Potatos: this is 
are very 
were an qu ‘ture: “those that 
e 
They have never overcome the cons tant nibbling they pla ted Bea ans were 
have undergone, look spiry and thin, and cannot be planted the early part of February very fine and 
more than three-quarters of a crop, and some not more! good, but the late plants are very Aid eovered with 
