THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
228 Ara 5, 1856. 
relinquished unless, before May 1, LL has fallen on no unworthy s hardening the Ayo spade removes | the 
y shall have been subsceril e Council | cessor, a isn w worn by one who a known nt ground, but requi separa! ration to 
may thi aras e on ange i ae By | only how to bee cai it to freshness, b ut to fashion | break it UP 5 the fork is free from most of oe 
i mme of the views of the Bh it into a fo! orm s uch a s mode ern imp rovements render objections ; but like all the ot the er tools 
parties the Ban wi will be. orm and speedily | necessary. gg | 
=n ed, by t the ar means that can be r veered as | conviction to ce Agricultural — as they have heavy soils. For this purpose, “however, ney | 
appeal to the Fellows at klaps, to our own, and had they bee n Fr rance the 
wns is th show how great hor: n they would have employment of aapna n armed w e 
i at linquishment of | had the Horti ve requisites < ‘tiller of Be 
f 
r it is not atiy i the 
, have 
ment of e the Ga ena? Chronicle. Pas they are 
e 
arcely ex- 
árii: 
A kipova a of t 
mac nf 
ligent _ practical gardener 
the country ; but it is phage only publi ho oe 
tural establishment H tik United Kin For 
the gr Edinbur, gh, Dublin, 
the celebrated Word in 
T | gard 
den ners „well know the value o f deep, draining, 
er the soil, breaks it u 
e ste: 
owledge of the regui- 
t gardens o; 
the aer ones in our + payini are ail 
Botanical, ak the so-called Botanic Garden i in the 
nothing m his wi 
been the one meget object of attention ; it is there that 
crops ple enty of ‘room in parenn to grow. When a 
gardener is told that a larger crop can be had by 
working half the land within the pass of an 
acre than by Aing it folt, LA pinta” he will o nly 
reply by n he old how the result is 
have been the subject of inquiry, that the value of 
has been investigated, and | an 
been li 
that cultivation beyond this 
what i is beautiful and ornamental, Should Chiswi 
such estab blis itirent ta 
mited_ o i 
mised int in a Tu le b 
| do mer attempt to einai. 7 if ciel ts the 
mae 
| mi nute Het ion they lose thei eir value; if re 
tural Society 
oubtedly 
y 
the Coun 
as the existence of the Garde en, may be 
our crowded columns could ‘bee ar S 
S s 
e 
Patent Office Re 
we | are nip aa 
who 
o been geme 
that 
concur. 
RRESPONDENT or two bi 
a 
rts to lay befo 
in a ake 
r | that th o may 
Tobace: 
permitt ted by law, m 
ee between the climate p whee and 
tte in our 
e Cape, 
Boki 
anlami ë m "West Indios, or even 
Merely t rters of Lammas Wheat are i ne . Hernanvez acceptable to their cos- 
of dilapidation, is to do nothing. tt t e per acre on the land in questi respondents 
fourishing Ne A valuable. Oni a y already se t remembered that this land is about the| The growth ” Tobacco of excellent Rin EA 
e gene ect of the Garden the effects of | stiffest, stickiest clay we ever had the misfortune | grainy not limi ted tatha Havannah, where 
that const cra ag Seavey which failing funds have | to in wet weather. It shows, however, |a great deal is ot = inferior description, the fine 
rendered indispensable. Another six months of| that the heavy lands of England are among the iari d on that island be being yield 4, according to Ds 
| richest in the world in os ~~ agi of those who are LA yi ms ver considera 
Gardens are costly if they are maintained i 
ose who imagine ‘that 
parsimony can be advantageously applied to such 
laces, and that a niggard spirit do what can 
in a condition to moka 
The results in cise are p abtained mainly by 
the use of a fork, not of a spade, nor of a plough. 
The method of using it is this: 
area. 
ss en ioaiis e than first-class 
Havan one was Rend at the Great oe = in 
plac 
“For clean and accurate tillage, for bringing u 
tions” of ture, only heuay their igor. desupe quantities of a few inches of suboil, in 
ance of such subject estimate wh e | even layers, and placing them on the surface to be |to be aie in this is equal to 
have seen ich Chiswick i sed on by the atmosphere before mixing with the Havannah of the first elise, Ta will perhaps super- 
‘den might under an “ improved | staple, the fork is the only or oF ere any reason W 
ent,” wouid excite our laughter if|which I can depend ; T toe eaomne of the sub- | our own colonies should not also pa dm Tobacco 
“we did not know have proceeded from | soil is a pai of bit by bit. At an early teense of of excellent marketable aut, À 
good though Laces "mistaken Rea eling. In that|my farming, about 12 years ago, shain r two of| V aar RAAM "there aleo.is 
calculated 33 of | my Jand 1l th th byał field for eye Rick wes high summ mer tempe- 
estimate it acres 
ground, much of wW ae is s mown, cam h otlioudes, 
greenhouses, conserv: and endless 
its—in a public pal erg wince labour is of necessity 
rn tabli. s 
10 inches of ¢ clay was brought u up ra 
ess continuous in private estal 
that for all this a d 
eng a gateke seper 3 
with ma » loa 
too 
wW: be swept, no amend fs 
are necessary ; that there shall not be o 
shilling a ges in pens, ink, stationery, and pet ty 
Shot ik 
of 8 
lines of | and then pai tr be the staple; and the error has | es ntials, an he la re the reader 
| taught me e a less . The cl ods, coy vered wi vith mould, | now a better opportunity of knowing he: te had 
shments here, | while consulting the — ng books ch he 
e never aa effectually weat! ribs a with all my | usually seeks for inform 
stirr nthe I have been defied, and that stubborn piece Eveni in this cou: raga hehe a rod or two of ground 
Is, a oe defeated me to this day. But the fork, judi- | are occupie ed the ae it pie be found that 
ously handled, is able to effect what has notte atte gee is demande y little thought 
been beyond the power of any other implement, and | © Eien, most especial = i drying and 
to brin ng ahd degree es the heavy clay subsoil ‘mixed caring proc: oa rning which Mr. HERNANDEZ 
h b gives such aremt 2 formati. 
uiau tie materials 
multitude of buildings may be taken at 
just six-and-twent We readily 
admit th 
which 
expense: 
of sen, 
t 
when the plough can be used iik eq 
and 
depth oF me nellow, friable mould. To the fork, , then, 
I must still look for eg Kiss oh in this instance, 
as well as some others. But there are occasions 
advan 
antage 
ws of the e Society have taken the right 
w of this matter. Country p tlemen have 
pretty good | W 
h'i plough.’ 
whenever they do arise I 
The true hess to the general introduction a 
is- n method of pone ay an Eaa 
a aa Plog cages —No. CXV. 
Doreen —_The two popular 
of the drone,“ 
hi ht and lightning, 
sup p7 conveyed by the 
wind, rai s easterly, i sang shape of ——_ 
while the latter r is often as completely para nE 
= 
ry it observed gh felt in a oo 
land forked over quickly eno 
when working t the soil i is required. 
alwavs h 
i 
ei time 
Men canno *: “1 
take, and a neglect of true causes, which are plain 
where the — = not oe, ath cre 
rare fo or y 
iney tier 
put aside e all fallacio us estimates ; _they decided 
awhile, and! and ear upon this oint is mre a come. 
nevi 
vegeta 
by a flash of lightning, though it is is possible that 
should be the case in trees as well as ae 
aca which 
yet happene w. 
za pee oros ge the great Body, to which it 
ney is indis- 
EEA 
le; and load if the Fellows 7 not subscribe | W‘ 
den must be relin- 
now tone a public 
p 
felt, and an advantage pointed out, the faget 
of man has failed to the want. To use the 
ondent bil s Pgh | 
Trees, hi 
struck Ac lightning will often a vegetate 
the been sufficient pt nis i si “a 
— to ried to the base 
e bark is at once o completely i ia attendant 
oe ue of ‘ie et 
y 
s splittin of bare 
p: g getat pais baie 1 arrested 8% 
hen, but not ill k y separated for many 
feet in a tree in active vegetation. the more ET the 
and |$ 
by the posie ‘will it be decided. Should it aie to aes nish the tenacity of the mi i- ange. Cases however occur in which the bark hasben 
-tunately happen that Chiswick is to disappear, we itota p it to the air, to o mix and jones ee by lightning, and yet veg egetation goes 
ture to raked that a want will be quickly | apply fertilising agents in the most _fiicacious — ption. Such a case is reported in n 
t, unless some unforeseen opportunity should | mann d that machine which b era? Chronicle, 1846, P- 597, and Pa TH out of 
arise of establishing it ps t of th p , therefore i } “Theory of Horticulture . 
|as the most useful. The plough toye over Ti soil ar ee of cases of death which have "neen represent ren 
We are among those who venture to regard the | but does not br pas it cer the bigot, as it is called | 2S due to yee ee epee. aang tee i working of 
in cultivation carried on at Lors-| in France, turns over the ground, and when applied | O ney under ths sting Ta, be inpored Tn anal 
aiy = as forming an epoch in the history of — time ans it up; both of these instru-|_ 1 Cigars may, under the existing so supplies 
tillage, which great improvements and i 
portant results must necessarily arise, The old 
ury weeds, but are alike objectionable as | them for r private eongum 
18s. per box 
* Lois-Weedon Husbandry, Ridgway. 
quanti! understand that this E AAE 
a ee ption in boxes of 500 cigbing 
delivered i in egiand, exclusive of duty. 
$ From fgevrn lightning. 
