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EXPERİENCE TEACHES FOOLS. 
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in winter. To get m d into I am picking 
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of them, and took it for granted that your system 
must be right. came I to | 
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the pot, all round, thus, as =f werg forming a basin 
round the ‘collar’ of the plant; but do not suppose | 
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we, Anes this plan, f have not lost a single plant.» 
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us, if corn is attacked by smut alone, it does 
much mischief ; but it is usually accom mpanied wee 
d the latter 
that I allow this bankment wan to remain; no, only bunt, an causes great havoc often 
for eeks, or time think the roots have | buted to th er. It is true, indeed, that smutted 
` | penetrated through pag new bed, then I take it away, | plants make fewer stems than healthy ones, and I 
leavi ace as even as I possibly can. Since 1 ee. never seen a single sound ear on a plant ones 
1 . searcely seen the disease on Barley, but it 
may have escaped me for want of a sufficiently careful 
search, for the ear is not so entirely destroyed by it in 
as i h i i 
to 
Besides O the smut on various 
n the Melica ig toe her 
iza, 
— Bo on almost all kin 
pear, when first shoot ut, to be 
caying. When freed — their sheath 
or burn, because the Enp — — as if the top were 
burnt off. Ve rel e ear before N into | i 
der preserves for a short time something of 
| sien shape, supported by the sheath of the upper- 
most leaf, but i anns 1 by e as into dust. 
Very often the known by the colour of 
— asserts 
d 
se has 
e, | cer iced that the deeper the s 
is- | gen 
— brown- 
following diseases, Ginan 
ing, in which it 
duced before Fi ear is 3 visible. No one 
more in d tail upon 
t h 
sound and the BB staan sun 
se has om * te manures 
ess of 
eral it is. It remains also geome far e this 
disease be contagious or not, o wing to to the difficulty of 
making 1 * the rapidity w with which the 
du 8 
É elai, jitea wn that the sina pro- 
has written 
essier, who says that the 
wh 
smut of Oats is not . for Rye. 
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Plant to go off at the neck first!“ BEST TWELVE CARNATIONS AND BEST TWELVE r 
kept wet enough in the centre, there would have be Compiled by J. Epwarps, Esq., F „ Wace Cottage, H 
no fear of damping off at th ave kept on From returns obtained from the following gentlemen, viz.: Messrs. Bragg and Turner, Slough ; ‘Barringer, Bedford; Creed, 
watering, and your old ball being elevated, all the water London; Ellis, Newhall, Norman, au ard, Woolwich ; odwell, Derby ; Halla —— Pope, — ni ; Holiday, 
is thro th 2 arog : rthampton ; Hollyoake and Marris, Leicester ; Hudson, Kingston, Notts; Keynes, 8 ury; May, vay 
= 5 ake * *** Ne a e eette. S Chatham ; Sealey, Bristol; Slater, Manchester; Terry, Rochester; Wood, 3 — and Matthews, — 
ere s to rb it; stagnation en | the- 
place, which, together with a dry centre, has des 3 
the vitality of the whole root, and that 1 prse the pes 5 * E : g d | 3 
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aur e shows the first symptoms o 8 5 Names, RAISERS, el e 
Well, then, if that be the ease, 1 uo think it too bad E ESS lSISiSiSiSIS ISIE Sais Ele lSis iS lEls/ 5188 
of those big people about London to lead suc me | |S J |S |e fa fo a a a a im | N Z H= E 
2 have a scrap n old paper on the cultiva- 2 pe 
8 tion ; & a Mr. Leach (and h is said SCARLET Bizannes. 
ho SE See oe oe eee in England) ; speak. N | Admiral Curzon „ 1} a} 1 110.111. af.) a} a} 3} 3} % 
in y i says, ve s „ Colcutt ak: sE 
n eee ee eee, Duke of Sutherland ie A Gee S| 
a above thi soil, in order that no water may | $ |Lord Rane = . Holliday ‘ ECR dG i Gna, Al Basics} heats 113. 
lodge round that Now, rozi is in n _— Twill} S$ Prince Albert eee’ le 1 2 
Show you.“ ell, I have se ch's 8 Splendid . Hartiin II. ee Ii. . . 1. i Leslee] S 
Heaths, d certainly they Ker Parv — but if m 3 Brzannes. ` hay 3 1 
believe all you sse in newspapers, and depend upon it $ (Count Paulae: : . ones. 10 . , 
— ae do on your own ight and common-| S$ Edgar ib „Hay 95 att 
sense, why I will say you are a simpleton, Think for k 1 ++ es i 
yourself, try 3 the field of art aud N |Lord Milx niiae pie ae Uefa) ay a) ifi ay ay ay i i il. 101i 
Science is as free to you as to any have S Hereutio . e ange’ pe e eee . 
the all the colleetions of plants about London, N Rainbow „ Fertwright ee 1 4. 1 1. . 5 
more er, from which I have N obere Burns 333 A i | 
learn an ever I did from scraps of old news-| N |Thomas Hewlett „ a se e Efeal-ofso|--[-.| 1/2 10 
papers. ve had plants die under my ell Pin = Breannes. 
as you, and exac m th cal of | S |Prince Albert „„ -we[Puxley 46 . ꝗ 1 1 1 1 10 1 1 11 1 1.1 1. . 1. 1] 1 17 
yours ; but I never had a death without making a post S (princess inl F 1.4. 7102 
mortem examination, with a view to in the 8 sarah Payne „ een iii ifi ii ii i iii iii. 1) a a} ½ 
and I frankly tell you “ai in almost every case, it URPLE FLAKES. i 
prove ought a are we the k Beauty of Woodtiouss co  o-|Mansley . . II. I 1 2) H 1 1. 1 1. 1 1 1.11 . . 1) 1% 
only growers who have lost plan ts in this way. Ihave| $ |Earl Spencer 35% e eas e 
e happen with others, even some of the N . E .. a. oe|Taylor ws | 1| 1 1 REE 
best cultivators for Chiswick exhibitions. Yes; and I 18 Pr — ee 3 > 1 y 
ł one of the jury on several inquests, too, when 8 Premier „ „„ per ze as ae aR i ; 
in case the verdict passed was, Died in conse-| 8 Queen pe bate e „„ sked aliss] 1 11 4 4 4 1 4 4 . „ 4 
quence of the heart having become too hard to admit > — dee mhall «2 se a Brat + — . 1 1 “he 
1 . : — 88 rabbin II. .. eee AE, — 17 
oisture.“ It is a g p ee with who N Squire Trow 5 „Jackson 125 ik. f z —˙r 
plants on pages to have the ‘ crown’ or‘ collar’ elevated; | SCARLET Frares, 
-eyen the late Mr. N‘Nab, of Edin 1, the father of spe- | S Bishop of Glo’ster „% 4 | Bro > H helistikes 1. . 14. . 
Heath growing, sanctioned this system ; d k — W ee s 1 AT 
many others, with the i that N |Defiance 3 Haines i a leak : IL . 
round that part,’ so as S Dr. Pattison + oe oe| Hardwick Ll. . Ea 
I wonder how long a plant would live, if the 8 fer or dd a ae — 1 161 . H I n 
its roots ere e or all N * oe * eE so 11... . .. a 
2 Jen Lind o* — .. s.j» PS e CAL "S 
that water could not filter through it ? Whatthen| N ing of Be Mi als ox 5 22 ie ie . i: i % 
beco: when repotted, if the ‘collar’ — | uo ERA 1 eae Ad brook a ee „ ; 
up to water from getting into it ? ; * 8 1 EN 
im Tom 2 2 N oe — . oe — — ig. aed: 
Why the first shift to the rubbish heap. m| B (Diyas n St Se 2:[Bucknal ss -i : E eb ait 
i 1 . s 7 and print few| 8 3 ve’ we Wilson 1. . 1. % 
—.— e suspect the evil, and even some must have their e 7 
8 Ariel . o* . oe . 1 1 i 1 II. .. ejeje 
Plants potted in in this way ; I have m If been obliged lora’ 25 1 1 : i iii i ap ar i 14% 
by my employer to do 0, Sil the «tila $ Pipra's Gagand won s. Brooks 7 — 1 1 110110101 1 101 he — Et BA 
what I was doing, but not a — inari 5 it wns N | Lady Ely „ „ er: oe i . i. . . 18 
— and there 1 en . * .. 2 yt 184 E 1 1.11 1 i ii 1 040 
7 aren p ety Ann oe oe o* oe oe velee „eee. 1 — oe * 
Nou, Sam, before we part, I will tell you how I do, N Mrs. Pickering . TPickening 33 : Feefee . . IH 
then you ean lea y F believing it. ; S Princess Royal Puzl 1 ‘ id Se 
e believing it. use y: * * ey a 9 — 2 ] 
h soil, of course varying it according to the sub- , “PICOTHES—Haayy Rep, | . I 
ó et i 8 . Read .. 3 oe 11. 9 zie is 1 iS 
„ t > ow Brooks oe š — * 4 ** tee ved gre i 
win pi 3 3 ap. +e . „. . Eb . m EA 
PaA seje sjsalpoloo|oojes soise 3 — SL — cont 
` no — ae : iva whose names they ars 
d; W ipdicates Ferner fin . : ee 
