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is easily cured by cutting out the inf ected part in the 
— I shall describe under the fourth class. 
Third species, SACCHARINE ULCERS. — 
liquor, rotting and blackening th — — and colleeting 
on t 
The oe 0 
I might 
class it among heemorrhages. 
gr 
All Jove on rural economy who have —.— of 
1 
dion 2 
Others have — 
both diseases under different names, without giving any 
indications of how the to be 
f 
on 
— 
diseases of plants, have 3 
simn 
ed. O 
e of Boucher on 
winds for ic poring mr, blow from = 
ps uth. it is certain trees ing in moist 
swampy situations, ~ in the — of torrents, are the 
— subject to ulce: I shoul d th 2. also which 
their leaves annually, and especia ose which 
are stripped of t heir foliage tw wice in the year, or of 
eT are als 
stripped or pruned are 
follows that the ab 
ages to prevent them. & Fo: 
ethods. The first i 
me dy mentioned ; 
he Rom 
urs. This p 
Romans, for it is a spoken of b. Pliny, lib, — 
ii., and by Co eee Y, cap. v vi. in 
3 xi. tit pa tha at 
e Cherry tree — super- 
abundance of ne it must be — in order to give the 
juices an issue. 
Authors, speaking of ulcers, pey 2 them- 
selves to those of the trunks o 3 but roots hav 
——— 
and mt be on ulcers res 
Insect ing them, — 
— — w wounding them 
eeds fi 
very 
ess they are cut out at the very beginnin 
_ LETTUCES, 
2 142 
1H d in t 
A. Roun Kees, spreading or CABBAGE tine 
55 . — blong, or Cos Lerruces. 
which numbers are prefixed are con- 
Class A, CABBAGE a wee Laiiues Pommées of 
sowing 
3. White Early Yello alias Early — . Green 
an forcing, Ear — Salen à bord 
exuding | so 
| cultivat 
Cabbage, 1 Royal € * oi 
s 
e | graine blanc. 
h abiy, the best of al 
th 
ks, | to ** differing chiefly in the colour of the 
seeds. 
‘be This is — * the 
th the p ves pale green, 
ga his blanching white and tender. — white. 
Alle- 
W ag and which differs only — the 
$ e noire in having white, e af from hot to cold, or Pt dry to wet, by overwateriig 
black seeds; 
n 
ts. one would suppose 
A 
- Brown Dutch. Heads large, brown, er ng 
freely, hardy, and of exellent quality 1 ose har 
hardy as some of those is con- 
sidered hos hardiest of — — “and 5 hence desirable for | 
White Cabbage Lettuce, alias by ar 
Hardy — -á is not to 
ferred to those reco 
er ee Gott ais Laitu 
eo ste Gotte 
a grain Go 
ter 
Lettuces. mre: e ou de la Passi 
Crépe , Petite Crépe, Dauphin 
ille 
rved the Laitue Jeorge 
omi for early kanin ing in Fiag — — n et ‘the 
palace of Versailles 
§ 2. See mmer cf Lettu 
Neapolitan paee e Lettuc 
s large, firm, wh . cri do 
Cabbages eariy, yet it is longer in running to see 
other. The seed white, 
Ver. pee ome Laitue 95 me les, L, de Ver. 
sailles —— ves paler green than thos e of the 
preceding; Ca — white cad groan 
qua Mee 
cesse, Fine 
pe e Mogul, graine blanche, Blonde Pares- 
seuse, Blonde d Ete “ 1 Eté 
noire, 
graine noire, Blonde de Berlin. 1 allied 
r there alias St gore 6 ear Spanish, 
Large e Si 
ges 
margins, pale . slighty tinged » a 
on the outside ; acquir — in dry 
weather. Seeds w 
6. Malta, or Taita de —— a ng, ma — 4. — of 
ing; ooth ; head flat 
erial, alias Uni 
nion, Impériale ou ros 
or Turque à 
of pat 
ful 
Large White Cabbage Lettuce, aliàs Swedish or | 2 
e Cabbage, 
win 
undulated Bing their | i 
brown | much 
Home Correspondence. 
Boronias.—Most arma of Boronia require 
great attention to om th 
of this, 
a aits 
name e different 
species in alphabetical pameni we agms. first the old 
oronia alata, whose pinnated dark green 
emits a pec eculiar odour. Its growth is dwarf and 
and it forms naturally a compact plant, the e 
N g beautifully I ‘the 
bushy, 
tome 
E 
E 
renders the plant 
es tu tlle ts from 3 
a loamy soi respects 
Bo ni polygalæfolia — =F mee iet 
— a; owing ciel to 
— as re 
ment. B. peme is still a rare 
tender —— 
ess, for it — dies su 
damp off, an 
ted atmo- 
ese 
task to 
order to ‘bring a full grown specimen 
nd dreary months of an English 
h 
| sunlight, by drought, 
a good Lettuce, of large size, but no 
equal in pe toe to the Neapolitan, Versailles — 
Mogul, aliàs “ie ona New French, Laitue de Hol- 
lande, Grosse b resseuse, Grosse. grise; the Me. 
T 
* blanche, and a grains noire are 
r Cabba 
— ts above 
Cis eae Cos LETTU 
7. White Paris Cos, or Romaine blonde Maraichére, 
be attained as regard 
early in spring, and also for autumn 
sheltered situations, it will stand the 
winter, if the latter prove mi r the argue i, 
winters, ee a hardier uired ; such is 
the followin 
Brown Cos, aliàs. Bath Cos, Brown Bath Cos, | 
seeded Brown Cos, Saen 
Cos, Wood’s Improved Bath Cos. This is the best Cos 
i it is ph and of good quality, 
3 rown outside should 
on. ine à feuilles 
cut, somewha 
pa an Artichoke, the plant fe forming 
large tuft, th po: 
tolerably well ; but "when the 
bage — Possessing less merit — the 
wi 
ine 
; giving them a 
re- 
Berkshire Brown | i 
rtions naturally blanching | h 
is 
— ns with su surprising ra pidity on its colour. 
ust, therefore — avoided. After 1 = 
g should be cut back, an 
ually withdrawing — 5 
a mo 
to 3 by crossi 
— pinnata, and indeed its karara appearance 
assertion, for ap is exa 
I have as yet onl 
to the most skilful and persevering 
eaves are very liable = curl, even on vigorous 
sickly appearance. This is a serious 
rawback to its beauty, but the bright 2 colour of 
— very in B. tri- 
— 
it requires. 
odour, and its n 
— 
foliage emits a Fe e 
— 3 t profusion 
than 
eties hk Spares og or streak: 
| with red, amongst which may be enumerated the Spotted 
Cos, alias Ale Bloody, Sanguine, ou — 
1 9 e blanche, Romaine roug ; 
process 
tender and excellent, 5 i 
the first rosts 
rouge | upon the 
| woodman 
ve taken its name from ra. Ithink the 
| question easier of solution it derived its 
name the port from which the Grapes might have 
been f 
with Barcelona 
to see the nei $ 
Nuts; 3 it was porn the 
rambles in the vicini 
ty; I never saw 
Worthlessness of Spanish Chestnut, as Timber. 
“U. Ls” condemnation — mol, that my 
experience of a couple of trees only, 
suggests that these Chestnuts may have been 
