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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Aus. 10; 
re happiness would be the result of such a circu- 
Talion na a principles cannot be doubted, for 
if men with pleasure in 9 — of the 
h 
failures hele ie si their i muc 
rance, 
more 8 would they be i their pert t were 
regulated by so dge? 42 
und knowle 
= TO MISMANAGE A GARDEN. 
Cuarter I.—In this 
it is to ona feared that the art o 
—— lost ight of. * That ead, 151 it 
pas m be attended with 
e to a lar, arge body of i 
at it seems desirable cst piero on 
piat 
Obstacles 
enterprise, just iis coatvediotion isthe life e 
It is admitted on n all hands that what is 2 easily 
what is N easily is 
er lose 
er the 
ers, Which 
or forwards, yra g t 
ssed the 
; raises the young plant through 
Al the the dangerous periods of its N s pots an 
th in winter, and feeds 
mer ; 8 years 
a fruit 
e in summ 
ast in a flower or 
tor “4 probably o could buy som 
for s ee „in the san e nursery. 
— adi uying a plant for sixpence ; 
— a —— italy or trouble ; on the other 
hand, seedlin 
g was obtained wit e and 
far va and by overcoming difficulties ; te: ome 
possessor. 
For such reasons it seems advisable to yn on 
what manner the facility and certaint 
ui 
mmed with eatables. It 
must te owne that t things 1 5 looking that way. 
ra rae mind what is said | y the writer of the 
* of "oa lei <n 
mi s 
y as eatin 
ddles and puzzles 
ses wholly out of the difficulty of 
ai li e rage that 
tamped it with value in the ‘mind of its | ejaculated fluid 
on by some of our horti- F 
he is represented to have slept what the common 
people. call a dog’s sleep ; ; or, if his 2 was real, 
his wife w: as awake, an out her bus 
— 
n 
e 
depri 
in the march 
thousands of tone 1 are mentioned 
5 line, and perished by 8 
A 
shocking if the vexa ances which often | a 
| =. the possession of agardenshould apse — 
j those vexations and an 
le: 
— amount of mismanagement may hee ttaine 
ity. 
by all classes of the gardening l 
5 AND THEIR SKINS. 
G to the accounts 3 by Prof. Henslow, 
in which toads ~ 
thick sods of Grass, 
fe ro of animals, and I dared not handle on 
or ld. 
t was not long before I satisfied myself pe 8 
regard to venom, they ha 
is 
= d, that i 
and 
cons I ever discover that the 
e year could put a Se 
ut his head an A 
vere peed a 
and to 
wise that object. 
if our gardening is 
tainty, then the mar rena 
and the Jems * * ur will sin 
what s call pons but which =; be better 
1 as nothing- to- 
Encyclopædias, ming at perfection. 
But there is not, in the whole e yas Aet 
one single work ‘that ventures to point out ‘the 
an omission cann 
T 
e course 0 
defect will be remedied ; in addition towhichit will be = 
found to contain a full explanation of the famous 
— — sleeper, whose history is t 
I believ 
dee to gain 
Tivelihood be sleeping, and that ad t should procure 
a man sustenance as as indust: Yet so it is, 
ee, les I never 
On the 
that a true lover of 2 cannot do other- 
sery o of | 
t 
. 
o-do. 
ere are books Were, end shag wa or "este kó 
hav 2 
bens 
hus reported i in | 
voy nen ger it a very | whi 
me, and instead of 3 
on my approach, as they had been aceustomed to do, 
they would take the i insects which were thrown to them 
here observe 
w da 
out a step or two at sight of their game; and i 
curious to see tretching o out of his den with foot 
uae aud a right, f ax ez putting on 
pose he in the 
spitting. 
But in describing some of the 3 a — * loathed 
8 cal 1 na 
as P 
down the back, which is soon pe 
i ight tness of colour: and moistness ; 3 
e seen, 
e —.— — the defeated frog — uP a the other as 
gr 
draw it me the arm is held close to the side, 05 vilh 
means the stocking is pey slipped off. 
then seen — with their fee — 
the abdomen, up to ration 
mostly, but not always, ended in a gradual sucking d down 
of the 2 ticle. It always struck me that the 
swallowing down of the cuticle pe nded on the 
at the mue ning of the was —— 
with the outer skin, and that, ‘consequent, wh when it 
as onl 
a 
3 B hind legs projected out of his mouth for several 
er Neither do I think this r mes 
ad in marema nd on short comm may 
k er be made us as any proof that the to toad in 
a state of liberty and ature would be guilty of any 
such criminal practi 
The ewe Ser of the want of teeth in the toad was 
n large worms were given them, which 
with toa their slimness and agility, 
reminded me perds r nimble eee (Whyshould 
called crapauds 2) I have often seen 
two frogs at the * moment seize ~ of the opposite 
ends o os en wallow each a half until 
their tries met; then thy would — and tug against 
ach other wit and at last stand up 
ir hi e most 
out, 
he was of the 
writ ith hi 
a hand-glass, with a movea 
sionally turn af in two or three of th 
utterfly, which 3 would jump at and capture 
ith the 
ie 1 
ild frogs fed, I caught an 
stomach inside out under water, I obs: 
a lot of small snails and insects, a curious filmy 
ich I ere not at art wns out ; but e, ‘shaking 
in the water I foun it of it 
| fingered, like a . poi and soon after I discovered 
strange thi 
neither more nor less than the 
pais skin of a 1 May I 
if so, is not the inference Kresistible, tha 
and swallow their skins like the 
‘Marshall, Ely. 
toads ? 
Home e eee ee 
var. esima.— I send 
kno nica speciosa, 
name I have given it. is perfectly distin 
2 t, and the . is brilliant in 
ies 
e to 
f Polm 
1 
olmaised vee from Mildew.—10 
Grapes fre fi account of damag 
AL, „ n ns a drowsy | 
usband who Nie an estate by ater, but then 
to the 
8 the toad “ peels” very cleverly, 1 have 
seen them put a hind leg under the arm, and then with- 
