THE Te al Bi edt aa 
[Aveust 9, 1856, 
Is. Since the months included between April | 
Institution and Ses member: 
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at Brusse 
and September are those 
most influence upon the plant, it is less necessar ary in 
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bers s oer pr m ashore the 
I sowed in the above way ; on the 15th of August i these 
I potted in Norwood loam mixed ing a little 
y 
o my inquiry b 
& that ben never eld a ant or in any = influenced 
the latitude of U tem perature | 
of the air by that of the soil than it is in the | 
of Brussels, 
inter the soil is warmer i 
During the w n proportion | n 
to the ah s Niania than at Brussels ; but d 
rotten 
eep them fro 
damping off in the winter, although a never gave fhai 
drop of water from Nov kitr i 
candidate ; that cosh aah 
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mounting to a difference of “94°, 
an A and from i cee. I have since made I have 
summer „a 
or double bh bey is docs at cre 
m obse: ere mace at Trevandrum (in the 
Peninsula of In dia), it eric br in southern sgh. ms 
his usual practice. Your 
corr: spondent’s suggestions, “if worthy of consideration, 
should be submitted to the „committee, » but I do not 
February ; they rie pii ted out tho 2d of Apri. 
New, “nearly all these are double an nd the 
nest I pa 
grew. th fi fi 
a seeds to be explained ? ? Simai peeh Temple 
ardens, August 7. 
ime ne of the species of fungus named in Mr, 
ot pe book as suitable for stupifying bees, the 
yh 
the tempe: ane but little, the te 
attacks upon the secretary, although he is the peid 
sus cellari combs ; from 
oier the Great Puff Ball, the discoloration : Bras 
servant of the Institution. H. Winfie ld Ore we, 19, Bu 
Stra nd —As the 
ceived ideas, for it might $o supposed that the rain | ingham Street, g the combs to the air, They are requ ef 
cool = me penar „by evapor eara hes Sa rom this Institution, per me to sinter attai bre Sin the bn ge ps 3 where 
t least | contai in wim, sigid “An oul Ave ais of | the combs are not required fo for usually 
namne onthe oft ' | Commitee in n your „Paper of last week, I am notin | necessary to stupify bees in sa ag ae pandas or 
tial t od g between the two causes | the h wering or acknowledging anony sts, as under these circumstances the families assi- 
whisk = the earth in summer, viz., the temperature | correspo cus, ; but as that letter materially affects | milate readily when ze perfumed with a puff or 
of the air and the power of the sun’s rays, and the|my character, I depart from my usual rule. In the | two of tobacco smoke. A family of “driven bees” 
will be treated of separately in a forthcoming | first place I am accused of being the director and not | scented in this ma: and placed i iv el 
article. J, D. H. the serv. of mittee; to this I reply, that reversed under that to which th to b d, will 
——— it y duty to put the committee | be hospitably received, if the ir hostesses have ‘been 
Hom in ‘aN Be facts of any subject under ‘eee prepared for ‘their reception. The previous 
e Correspondence and give my opinion when aske sah gt of the queen will further insure an harmonious 
Welingionia y gigantea.— ething | witout fear of offending either this or that party. 
ond m ace 
—There must 
> napaan on of your corre: 
piain th t their specimens of this ee: 
grow spindling, or ‘a in ince, or otherwise badly. 
Tt is as hardy as an and as tardy, Thi 
case ; in 1854 Eze 
o | In th 
I am accused of receiving proxies 
and po x them as I please ; the last pa: art I most empha- 
oot rf ‘Disease and Elec icity.—I earnestly request 
your readers to l ast vigilante the effect of the next 
tical] y deny. As secretary 
be transmitted to me ; T open, examine, and arrange 
them for ut as to 
tatoes. 
tion has been steadily directe: 
I now unhesita tin gly d ecla 
the wee wee plants they wer ing out. 
jin Sony I forget which, it was cots on a on 
, this is impossib le, 
very y few have not been ‘previously filled up in favour of 
actin g upon z= tubers. So contain = this have I al for 
again 
taining an inverted garden pot, and filled 
with burnt clay, bits s Aan left among the e clay 
there be time I return to the subseri a 
while burning, mii toad leaf. 
inverted flower-pot hen poeta Ti Wein were 
nicely ; arranged ; so that the 
request that ae ee id a their wanes > pee 
the $ had honour to hold | 
| office, assert 
ae {s can F E o 
t I have been o pre ret 
again the ey “of its peed 
days of a pon orm. If a weather 
tubers beco: 
omple te dr rainage, In „the winter of 
was covered with 
candidat my I never 
sat in 4 
h its smallness 
vers candidate I have n 
many subscribers will bear me 
sked which is the best 
auras ee opinion. In con- 
his 
out. Whe hen I have Shower 
clusion I 
et with their approv: 
P 
apres tT ieee always endeavoured to 1 
The haulm w 
about 50 feet tee by 
escaping injury. Two ao 
the corners of the 
journal. Supposing I am right: 
benefit will accrue ? an reply, kr 
R. Cut 
Chrysanthemums, Several gardener inte called and | 
| others have writte ten to me respe thei 
ng wi 
(at fro froth the pid source) have suffered in ina similar 
sickly an sok bad 
=| ee ee their b se lea’ 
Wy the cause of ye 
ding to ‘ihe ewe hot ie 
the erroneous theories, and the firs 
not nd w b 
the second will probal ly soon follow. 
time, dry planting, manures, and lightning o por 
atten following rules 
weather sets in the pant hi should be well mul 
Wh ony eve the ends of the lai 
ferals died, but in one 
ease the leader also. 
The soil in which they are | 
owing is a sandy loam with a little peat in it. hi ht | 
_ they not have been over potted, or forced on i the first 
= — dent | 
is a gegrale may we ecco iadaa o matter 
w provi it keeps the hot sun from drying up 
the fibres that traverse the sur face of the soll ; for I 
are all indicated as likely in some measure to 
rrest the evil. James Quilter Rumball, pao Har: 
ieden Hall, St. ‘Alban’: s, Herts. 
Garden Mechanics Mowing Machines).—The purpose 
of machinery we are told is to lessen and aid human 
labour, trarily 
find that you cannot tien ie a smallest of 
in | top-mould without meeti a these 
yg eani ka ae —— 
fi 1} sito y be 
ay whether his are in pots 
in 8-ineh pots agi “the roots us hare Seaia gh el 
bat not tha e sides, and appear in one 
lost the e 
Nursery. 
ighhonr hood (Ealing) “within a the past 
ase are 
Potato erops—the baulm having become 
rag gemma h 
ith a 
should o; 
ong the the soil and the po 
bnd tn 
rome pany their ancad 
m ornaments tọ the garden as far 
thy green is concerned, which in towns | 
a boon 
in stopping, moving, or altering their process poe 
to circumstances, they proceed in a blind routine 
called— 
| and in every or more .require wy agrare 
since of sven a beings. A machine, by being 
mposed of inanimate matter destitute of fee ling 
liaren of fatigue, proceeds unswervingly in its 
ae duty, and may be forced to accomplish tasks 
where wine pia Will 
hould be ke 
many human bier are 
kpaa A aita of water, weg A sue 
or crack ound the inside of 
if 
the pot to 
found to or less covered with gen. 
pateles, The Toots, however, do not seem sowie se 
are la W, B. p. 
ty. 
v 
Gardene: Benevolent Inst tution— 1 have just read ony p 
in vour eo), 
d yet 
sree AS om oi force of very Beohaek 
| mac epa es Bg ded to lessen and d bum 
ty. 
exerted by on E NS is compen small, and itis 
both inconvenient an nd Syer N cause a large 
old Member of Committee,” in which, amongst oiler land 
matters, the sec cretary of the Institution is charged with 
receiving “ the proxies ei subeoribers them as 
to e powers i 8 eni 
machin 
ued or pcre we of 
mechanical 
The owing 
he present day, — le e "worked 
e Prevention of faak 
a © 
labour, I conside er > to on of 
nders, 
contrivers “of these machines have 
and bent a 
thee This charge is made anonymously, and 
I hare pmb hesitation i ie n saying to your country 
x this 
that ri believe a 
has unworthy of credit. At the request of the 
paste BE, T attended the last dinner of t 
cation is a =| 
the 
plan laterals break they attack them, I 
have tried sulphur, , tobacco-water, snuff, Dea diy Night 
co 
e gardening world as play 
ladies to work with. Those who use them \ wilh. py iat 
oil, tar. 
time, scarcely knowing the objects of the 
=r 3 ut I was oT ted by my love for dowers to 
nother circum- 
stance 
learn from works on mechanics a st rision 
acts as a retarding pie ARAR in the action of 
and a due mops must in 
applications, r all l withous effect. 
appears to worth 
ased of | € 
mmeg quire assistance — the yh of = Institu 
I gave a small , and in a few days 
po bel paper from the secretary, containing 
S midas for election. A stranger 
son, at 7 mean annual 
pete epeka a eee a , and 1.49 at 2 
‘a. | grown I was obliged 
two S. 
into pots I took > up, pu 
well ees in meadow 
the pot 
y filled 
i kept them ina eal Trame oug 
winter till the fram, F n they got so over- 
to pat them pmo the orders 3 oja 
e Serene seerty al ve e Cpg Es 
= te 
mountains of “ Hooker's a ie 
portion of the same seed, the remainder of the 
- | insurmountable 
pog 
very case be made for it. 
detoa more than a half of 
seldom destroys less i; than a 
may be, it 
destruction of Betea S and therefore 
obstacle | to the lasting r: 
ies and the of motion. Fricti 
