660 THE GARDENERS’ 
vt at 
[Ocr. 
19, 
cause, as they seldom work without that garment, hitherto we have only regarded it with con 
they are certain not to leave their knife behind them. | propertion to the effects produced. We 
But who would be so ungenteel as to carry a knife this. The rapid advance of wren 
is i ibles 2 Goo i 
of spirit, 3 e into the bar- 8 
observations, and of profiting by them 
we shall d 
ress men 
— 
g he prog 
gain, scorns such arity and old maidishness. may not inappropriately be likened to the eee 
What has been recommen ed for the pruning- accumulation of a w-ball—the more it accumulates 
knife should also b followed with other tools he more rapidly at it ace late. any one 
i btained by our b 
till it is fresh pointed. In this way labourers get a | expect of the future? G. L. 
bit of a — ere and you ers 1 time to con- 
sider well how the mattock is to be used. In like 
manner “your: rakes should always have their teeth out, I 
BRITISH SONG BIRDS. 
a umu et any 
sr the present horticultural eminence 
est 2 and what may they not : y 
abet 
are 
ntering in | trao 
accomplish this ; =i the reward of a bit of hard. 
boiled egg, or a rsel of 
be e nec ore e rd P f animal pa: a Ps 
detail on the proposed “ Treatise of British Song Birds,” | birds and other animais ex * * en in the presence. 
unset. As to scythes indeed, if they must be u sed, be | to a few preliminary observations closely con- of their masters o tresses, hose fingers I haye 
sure to have no scythe stones, and no wipers ; never | nected with the subject. It is worthy of note, that known birds to sit and sing ‘with the mest perfect 
10 roll the fore ing ; never sweep it clea e a family, high or low, rich or poor, confidence. 
of stones that chance to be there; but, on n- | whether residing in town or in country, in which so I was much struck the other evening, whilst visiting 
trary, rass, and score it well; break the | one species of our feathered songsters is not to p omy the 28 in the e ent’s- pa to o 
8 es, damn the stones, and take great care iled. From 0 ay almost from infancy, mounted on as very ferocious macaw +- 
blame every y but yourself No doubt it zs 3 there exists S 0 o us an in pae who, having been evidently subjected to a of 
shamefal that the Grass should be tough, that th sity to keep a bir ere is “co rmen „ Was ever on 
old ‘throw pire én 15 Sak 0 oe thought—a feeling of comfort, — Engish alert to wa on the 895 ope aca 5 . in his 
3 How very man s there are who ca er. Unlucky wight! e ferocity of the ani 
should at thes the ed — ry ap Mere * fact ! H ~ 5 A. ever, a matter pay pact co the subject of general remar 
erg: Iino BED Tor: eae ree tex r00G | sideration how these little prisoners are tre ted, when | through * 8 — e after part of the evening, 
provide against them if they like ; placed confinement, and comm mitted to our tender I saw the th 
manag ait in 
but you ahs mo doubt, think = all other bad | care and d kee 
, that it is mu uch easier to swear a 
em inside 
I was going to give you some Gia about digging ; aeree it be strictly lawful to o keep b irds ** al, in emal 
— — — the whole, I think you have enough for finement. The nl 
Kijroupos. pu 
man at en 
THE PHILOSOPHY op FORCING.’ pensable duty 
vIsHING feature in modern horticulture ness can do 
A i 
is the fact that principle is — — to guide practice. have ever studied to do; and, in mos 
d 
has witnessed. re is a very 8 ing fact | ™ 
century ac arbarous 
. st now happily — holt class of men, who | innocent c tog hat arising, let us hope, n 
rtieult as 
disdain, and noihin from an — 
th to imagine, w c 
of apart literature, wich the circulation and inter- | Sprightliness of their little cage 
listening to the me i 
opinions, by means of the Gardeners’ 
crutiny 
ders; its merits are tested and analysed, Rote, a note w 
í of rea diff at 
its real advantage or defects are soon ascertained, and I have known a ‘bird wart delightfully ee bs asia | 
thi 
deduction, bearing} upon their art, as mere toys for the consideration to their 
in the circumstance that ith 
ping, without he d 
eed, 
ed on us a 
to make them fo 
orget, o far as kin 
so, their geome of ghd "this I 
t instances, I 
the results become the property of all . watch the | à few minutes only before his decease. 
Į the art nin i 
g. sung most sweetl s death. As the ain 
d dissemination of 1 — ‘the peculiar | ceased, he tell lifeless from his perch. His heart had burst. | 
vi of the literature of any sci He who On looking into the cage, I have ound m i 
etice from them, to the * of that verified. F nee 
j 0 
earn pra 
— exertion n which perfection in any art or science 
ever deman 
ds asa tribute from those who would attain biter repro That “ 
question, certai . does adm 
llowing it wa lawful, there is som 
“ 9 
questi 
it o of dis- 
indis- 
to glance at the ph: — pm thinking, and I wish to 
Which ‘al ino e ere de- ont = a 8 piap — should ever 8 
by way of commencing beginning, it irds, or allow their children to do so, without 
amiss to define what really is the kartal their being what I call naturally fond of them, and 
signification of — forcing. Every plan at time, themselves of a kindly disposition. 
requiring enor heat t be considered as being | To entrust birds to the care thoughtless child, a 
** fruit ‘shold be the ultimate object. servant, or an indifferent person, in one’s absence from 
The ition of a tropical climate must not be con- home, unless under 
sidered forcing. The latter I — t be the produc- 
to 3 it cannot be considered as identical. In the former 
ag eg then th the W- as — — 
we shall eaten, falling p of the resi 
find that the whole series of o commenced | the bir ds obtaining a fresh supply; whilst, in the 
ced 
in bringing about the —— — — may = 3 the oe beco me poisoned b 
rry 
* y be oo into two distinct classes. ad a 
ornen e 
for birds are 
is a law in all „organic combination of matter, auen, devel an pair ra 
whether si simply ` organic or animal, that each process in prena ministe 
some previous process in the chain of progressive life | nursed and “ 
tice * the 
of the individual, It is evident that b tracing thi this heat 5 the rt and undue pressure on = body 
h snipe ca me ask, should we be 
adults 
the preparatory process, the other a ail be fault as children 5 this ma 
more eei Hel ty 
attention, having many 
pers 
ite unsuite 
omy. pd — io taken out of their 
—a h 
) Why, let 
At the — of human penetration — E canse thus thoughtlessly, thus continually cruel ; 
With this, th ere inquiry has nothing to The ur time ey ory morning will, in 
8 Prineiple being established I shall proceed, keeping iti in | OS. ply sufficient make our 
k View — as i bers so the subject under discussi covaforable and happy 
ts various aspects, the whole N These little pai it we we would narrowly watch 
t cin 
of Timing eam campaign is presented to us. Healthy most romantic 
— — luxuriant wood, laterals, summer master or their 
every o tion which has ote remotest | They may be — Mt exally tanght, by 
or incidental vigour of | to come out er 
heir cages when called 1 
y rar 
favourites radl 
attachments, „Sota a movement of peers 
ir o tion. 
affectionate care, | 
animal 
change of 0 h y | This satisfied him, and he prom 
Chronicle and othèr als, — = are in the enjoyment of perfect health and happiness. | w 
; Many bi 
w caressing the face of a gentleman 
with the fondest N of affection, insinuating 
entleman’s waistcoat, and giving other most 
f master 
It was his 
every morn removin 
a closely-meshed net, and tenderly replacing them when 
18 to 
n this: when I placed one of 
each graceful inhabitant swam affectionately round it ; 
rubbing his sides against it, and e idencing 
pleasure hardly credible unless witnessed. I 
nfidel, it is true ; but I shortly afterwards lost 
society of my little 3 They 
heat of t Pilliam 
mers 
the bowl was again ready for their reception. 
| to ere, how I 
d Cæsar—“ Ve ke — 
the minno 
in in the bread 
by — it 
adhesive, and 
This 
and was not an unfrequen 
e batch to another, and 
t the 
r to set on 
sis sae 
on, es finger an when requeste mp € 
In the present state of physiology—admired ment of the hand or expression oh the eye, „ vill 
ds — z 
i ex- in the field soon turns ropy. | 
the l le of p we * A few months since, while making some purchases at the 
— Prineip lants. shop of a bird fancier, a ragged urchi hed in and * the bread underg 
know nothing of its nature but by its effects. There a a “penny bird.” In ex change for his penny, b he 3 a cock 
— ion but that the study of 2 eparrow. Shortly af s Cag ear g 1 
t n to coves har was for a 
exert upon the 
nal ei peo. 
" teresting rd.” There was handed 1 a hen sparrow. 
— ef plants i 5 s/as important in the highe r branches From the 4 — feeling of delight with 
too birds were clutched by their respective purchasers, it would re- 
pure. 
; relation between oa body and the — — ns spirit of divination to enable 
F mind of man is to fat ent, aoe 
> thejmetaphysician and the human “physiologist. But | ‘foniy sparrows 
btless, and starvation ; 
one to predict 
but they were 
and 
without breaking. disease o 
it was called, ap feared expecially a 
This eondition * the nt is 
perished during the 
Kidd, New-road} 
its preparation, 
becomes tered in its cha- 
racter, and instead of being readily b broken, is tena- 
be drawn into 
accom-- 
