646 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Oct. 12, 
= I eare not who was the inventor, so that 
it is not; 
e is so I ha 
2. 8 
iL 
The system 
orked, and by it Potatoes may 
table or market much finer and — agon by an 
other plan I — "Bet vi with respect to the 
from my own 12 t 
Mr. Gaile plan * ie I — quite perfect. I myself 
— since I too 
owner of it informed me; h dig 
it up, as be said it was 1 worn out. Bat 1 like 
experiments upon everything nearly, so I determined 
o try my hand on the old Asparagus bed, and thus I at | ¢ 
under the an — regimen preseribed 
— result was, that 
ur K raked, an 
b yoana oid, as the aged t 
morning, to call the coolies from the r 
villages—about 1200 ot aarmt As as there 
is — Mi heat they get out the ons an iron ma hook, 
about 6 inches long, an ‘olan it i in large baskets, in 
which it is conveye ed to call 
222 are about 20 feet deep, and 
these, same day, if sufficient 
as been pains it is taken into the storing pits, where 
it is well ramm wn, but no salt used, as I hav 
seen recommended i in your Paper. On nights 1 an 
pe water becomes frozen Shati 3000 lbs. 
e made; ; sometimes as —— as 1 100 lbs. ; and this is 
the smalles wee tity it i After 
he 
and the doors close 
mad 
the receiving- The house became 
;| apparatus being 2 of order, I was unable 
May. Office 
the oe “to 
ares sen 
he pits are par Skont LAM, 
The issue occupie hou 
about two is ont 
10 be, according as each share may be. 
the ice is generally very thin, seldom half 
iHi 
my neigh 
r than they did, — — 
daily, and my grass, I think—ind 
ms 22 pats — Dee and the b bed 
lifie ards o 
an —— thick, and when r 
like sn 
the t 
Pak feet, and at 
feet; a om the sides, 
ffa brick wall 1 foot high is built, on ihe top of cae a 
0, thai 39 yeas ad A 
and so simple, any common or any gentle- 
man w Saini a tool—and one to use 
happiness— may, 
one, if he would study his 
with the gre r put it kao practice, and thus, si 
with little la ess trouble, maoh fine 
i ur and | 
As 
he takes care that his cook does not spoil it in the boil- 
ing, as most 
cooks do, and all — ee they lay 
violent hands on. 
—— ke the Chinese, 
ts proper food. By this — Mr. 
so fine, and are first 
to p 
give each plant 
Cutbill's — are 
kins. 
is fixed, into w Ta are ct 
sort of wooden copin g i 
; to ‘these 
elted 
pt, pipe to a well dee outside, by w 
at 
bles | broad is left by which roun 
6 feet high, * then built, on which a ape 
ns is placed — 
up to the Ee oa a 1 of 
5 
eaves, &e. ; 
— a 
| drainage the 
hich 
up; a it a space of a 
to get 
her space of 3 feet is then 
wall, with another thatched 
carried up, and the space between the two walls 
| filled i in in with straw or some other material. The door 
dity to try experiments 
we tried repeated smoking with tobacco with any 
Sere et wo aerarde oud tht dipping tan 
one of the ice-houses menti 
must i 
them in the — the 
tm hit eer) iacat yb — be ome 
ne to a Me. Hen n of r and told bine 
that I had see: alua “of 
ahlias 
that attached plants 
of soft water, add w. of — soft soap and 
r eee, ; this he assured m — re 
ployed, an it was in urious to any 
d that 
plant to — he had applied it. J. K. Pearson, Chil- | 
2 — eries. 
t Cawnpore in the East Indies.—I 
*. — 1 — ‘te able to induce 
com 
they may have written in your journal; some little feel- Be the par 
ing of pity may be excited by my mentio 
scarcely ever, with the appliances of — 
tatti s, know 
on in a climate like this. 
aceompanied details 
Artillery, and Secretary, Caw 
* pel Layering Roses &e.— 
The accompanying is 
Sketch of a pot I have had made for laying Roses, 82. in 
enr j ‘There 
p may 
mg that we oo on destroy 
idotes | 
articular kind ; few Rose 
requently perish, I hav 
pots, — believe the idea to be new, but it may not be 
— L Fas common pots be the same size ze, 
wi “almos t equal, at the top and bottom? It would give 
— more space — the roots of plants, without requiring 
-| mo 
Falcon. 
e not so readily turn 
— 88 ball.] 
as [Obviously for thi 
advise your correspon 
3 
hi h; this will prevent the — 
ieh he e ains i capable | 
of ref them, if he is anxious of obtaining 4508 steel 
ps, he sho uld apply to t-rate maker of traps. | 
Constant Werz. der. 
couple belo 
general level; a —— straw, 2 or 3 imehes thick, 
is spread over and 
quarters filled with water; and ice has formed] 
en in go 
ees it I shifted it into a 12ineh pot, in soil com- 
turfy loam and peat well i 
posed of 
sand and clean broken crocks to keep 
and flourished, While we had sunn 
during the night a gong is beaten about 4 o'clock in the 
the ice 
— in small tubs holding 2, 4, 6, 8, ort 
You will | the aftern 
re 
beer 8 in cellars. 
-| broken er 
the | grow on soil so 
hree- | good health w 
days no plant could sueceed * ultimately we had 
gloomy weather and cold nigh The — of 
the house fell several degrees; one day it woul 
75° te 80° by sum heat, the next from 60° to 659, 
cold amp, aod th 
fire to raise the temperature ; 
stand such irregular treatment. 8 at the ee 
one ape I — it had a strange appearance; 
shoo bited dirty white or — — 
2 A. tended ves along 
and midribs of 2 leaves. 
ttacked 
became yellow, and in about 10 days fell Vell. of, The 
p N is now —— — heathy, and is quite free 
from any year or mildew. isease appears to to 
caused by mal-treatmen W 
thy ba 
medy is weet, 
pan effectual ae ame but I do not pr placing a few 
bo 
ture, fror 
many Hg ry, 
cultivator nigi but for this cause ! 
cumstance we won 
2 ng. ones filled with 2 causing N Ko. t 
anot na eir functions; they rot, 
apis n 8 but let a plant 
vagi one-third orm one and rough then 
turf, ye — soil y 5. the erocks 5 
let the 7 45 e bro with 72 some clean 
„ and sand, well 2 but not 
sif a el ne a Np — surplus water 
to pass off) will be ngus ca 
8 ee saw a plant in 
where these existed. D. J. N. 
Sotiettes. 
ENronorosic AL, Oct. 7.—G. R. gg eats Esq, 
mongst was 
with a white waxy y secretion, like some ai 
The President announced that anew Part ofa the Trans- 
ve 
bushes, in Inverness-shire ; an 
far north for the — (by which it has poen 
| been supposed that 
found iw such 
seen any Similar | 
the plants out 8 
1 d ndent, who 
uires pon rabbits, to try galvanised wire netting, | 
pros 5 py. diere nt species of bees. 
the boney i in the flowers of the . 
hile centuneularis ereeps w 
wards into the. flower, + by which means its ventral ** 
beeomes coment polle — — 
its nest. — species of humble 
—— flower with its ane agers 
Bombus inva 1 
i 
— a 
3 Scere mie Posey age 
revisits a second time a fl 
ats ed of its sweets, was also noticeds 
| eep it open. The g have been 
Racks good e teal all went on well fora time, | ied of their sweety Tht iy of vihan 
ti 
H 
; but immer 
