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well-made conereted borders. I differ from os both their contrivances to oblivion. P. Q. S. ime an hour had e . 1 leaf was curled up and 
Fleming, as to the aye of his Grapes in one house no Cultivation of Lee. 338 answer to “ Ls” inquiry | destroyed, "Ai Mera iately admitted, and the 
colouring. We se e badly-coloured Grapes obtained (page 614), I beg to state that the practice of cutting | charcoal covered o with soil, but I fear that I have 
from Vines in the best made borders, and we see finely- 3 inches off the Leek’s — eo a year is decidedly | lost all my — he although the stems are not 
coloured ones one year, and badly-coloured ones next wrong. As L.“ very jus ves, it A contrary to | affected, nor the just-budding fruit, I have no ex- 
year out of the same house, and from the same Vines. | the principles of "vegetable st ang and it is the want pectation of recovering the plants, I simply seatte 
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see badly-coloured G on the open walls? Although | growth, not to promote it. The system adopted in this vice hereon? H. P. [The charcoal shou 
ny half ripe, they possess a fine black bloom, and that | part of the country is to sow the seed, and to let the powder, and should be buried in the soil. 
n all kinds of soils. y own experience teaches me, | young plants stand where they were sown, as thickly as Some Observations on Rearing the Silkworm in 
that a low temperature, dry and airy at the first onset | possible, the consequence of which is, they soon exhaust | _ nd.—The exertions of the late ~~ fing Whitby, of 
of colouring, is what is wanted to well colour and | the soil of all nourishment, and if dry weather set in in New ands, in Hampshire, in reference to the practica- 
vour Grapes. If once you let your 3 catch the | July they run to seed; cropping is then resorted to, in billey and profitableness of rearing the silkworm in this 
crimson} tint in a high temperature at this stage, all order to prevent this natural consequence. I have country, will no doubt form an epoch from which fu 
subsequent good management that can be refs them, | Leeks in my garden measuring 4} inches in girth, and advances in the British manufacture of silk will be 
cannot make them black again. I seldom have to com- having 9 inches in length of a fine blanched shank or dated. Her aper read before the British Association 
plain of bad colour or eee, and the only difficulty I — these have never attempted to start for seed, — for the Advancement of Science, at the Southampton 
ever had in colouring G rapes, was when the Vines were | hay e they been cropped. They were planted out in| meeting, the very beautiful specimen of manufactured 
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a great deal more air, he would have been nearer the was asked if he remembered how long it was since we the pleasure of inspecting the Mulberry plantation at 
mark. [Hear! Hear !] D. Kidd,Garnstone Park. d a really good full crop; he readily replied that Newlands, the arrangements for the worms in various 
New ntions.—It cannot have escaped the obser- | such a crop had not been produced in this neighbour- stages of their progre ress, and of conversing with the late 
vation of the thinking part of the gardening world, that | hood since 1836, the year of the annular eclipse of the — — proprietress upon the numerous matters con- 
amongst the many inventions which the ingenuity of the sun. Of course, he did not attribute the failure to the nected therewith ; 3 and having, during several successive 
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manent utility. After their novelty has been worn off, mat Si wae — r recollect perfectly well. He myself, I may perhaps be able to offer matters of in- 
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tectors,” and other contrivances for ing plants from | fact the writer has a lively impression of, in conse- rearing of the silkworm a profitable source of industry, 
— — wan became manifest that quence of the dreadful severity of {the frost of a par- | but hitherto without any good results. That the con- 
tobacco and sulphur, oe morning. In som mp places that morni ng verse of this could be effected, I am confident 
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were, after all, the — — preservatives. But the thermometer fell to 4° below zero, an and much of our | Whitby’s arrangements were, as an amateur's attempt, 
then the best way of applying them became the 10 Whins, or Furze (as you call it in England), — successful; but looking at the subject as a profitable 
question. To 3 tobacco coke ae ar killed by the excessive cold, which gave our Whin- manufacture, it cannot be said that t ere 
inders was reported to be ae to wes a desolate appearance next spring, being so so, t enough was to red fi er 
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to it must be invented, and now we have our fumi- had injured some fruit trees so seriously that, though of the silkworm a new branch of 8 could 
ators, a trial of which soon convinced the neighbour- they still continue growing, they have not carried a be opened to the enterprise of Englishmen, One of 
ood that something new was at work, for they make as single Apple since. And he further noticed the perfect | greatest di ficulties— — the letter i " the Chronicle pre- 
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As to sulphur, it was long before — 2 new was excellent health. Another p a m thus prematurely de def h en 
i or its application ; a and a basin | by the same person, which, if true, and he — it is, were also adopted of g ters a quantity of young plants 
alf full, from which it was ejected — — wall trees or will perhaps be — even to you. ere is an under glass frames, te procure early leaves ; of course, 
plants, were e ered all that were necessary; but | Apple of good appearance and excellent quality which in a profitable point of view, this could not be enter- 
Scien nce said 6 No, I can assist pame: I can contrive ia grows freely here, called “the “ Friars’” Pippin, because | tained. No such difficulties as these — be a 
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bes sent ina ‘continuous stream in any direction, like the the Franciscan friars here, but which is now fenced | control, as regards placing it in —— — 
copious harge of a fire-engine, and quite as far, pay built upon. The writer has seen what was pointed | lated to develope itas an organised being, as the egg 
8 all interstices like a London fog, or January | out to him as the gue — which was then, 30 years of an ordinary fowl. A certain amount of warmth is 
frost, 80 t mildew, red 2 bug, scale, and all 5 in full bearing, and not ver ge. A — it is indispensable for the — and, unless the 
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two, because a dispute has arisen between the two con- | to 20 miles. Grafts have been taken to various places | brought the st into light im warmth long before 
as to priority or superiority (I know not which) both in Scotland and England without success. Can = state of the Mulberry tree would eee her doing 
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the disciples of 7 rol wal to try their 3 | gardening communit ty is placed, I think that I shall | Morus multicaulis, It makes ar es ely, pro- 
