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moment of the 24 hours, send forth their offensive. and? ashes. If land, is so burnt the work is ill done, 
unhealthful exhalations. The principle. of the false principle. In e br 
vation of the value of the whole substances s sectires es | land the e object to attain is ex mie the reverse of a i 
g iopet effect sy Sor p brag Prime a be t pe reducing to ashes the weeds, roots, and other | w i : Bo 
reverse of expensive, ani o be much j ” two things | Preferred ; so to 
more than sltsappoting It mae Sg gual ice the — a — lege ~ Shere i The first is 5 venture upon ahei pe groun a Bie qualite "2" = 
sani sags «Reg Persits 
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perfectly istas nane and the administration destroy the cohesivenes ‘of ‘lay, a t nd to bring it it kat, o 
oi ble stem would eminently admit of a parochial o r | permanently to a e porous texture ; er VIN NE a ee AT OA 
ement, under ha strict penus m te yerat nth etable raha acta O sted in making some Ey pr i 
Ken n doing this no on, F is and much is gained. | a akhill, ‘alee East B Vine 
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harran, Me bole, N.B., Jul he combustion we ga dener there, I can s eak oi 
R =F plete a Dama in the pores = Sue charcoal | of the excellent Grapes pre {ei manipulats | 
thee da iy over some Strawberry beds the ay ira parted with to r s it is| , Your correspondent Mr. Forsyth, in his 
ked that many phan were | wanted. The burnt soil itself pein air of last 
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corresponden Examination showed that the never again can become compact, and greedily | Erow rat true {pe 
hi der the attack of detains i in its own porous structure moisture and | ,°"" at that time; but I do not qui pe net 
roo’ soma ing under of FUNG pe Eor io sht him when ses that the bord ute 
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SPAWN. 
peri fact that the fungus spawn invariably pro- into the earth. Should any one doubt this were no dead cats or dogs, carr on, Certainly tie 
i i or garbage Ha 
m now take two garden ge of a Boer Sabbah, Sa ee a 
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re broken into, “they he had 
steel by eking out peat ey ‘hea ith the anki ones = him plant a Strawberry in in narrow ridges, so that th ian i o 
apra fragments and half decayed leave: =< marii ach, and > e roots in the month of|thoroughly permeated all through y Sheep 
of them Oak leaves, from a rubbish heap. The Oct ober. the burnt earth full of| flded in the corner of the field where this “a 
was ridged, the heaps were freq Compas, 
earth smelt unmistakably of dry a; aud threads healthy vigorous roots; wh at — other will be before is bodan ae p 
but it Wi ere 
of fungus spawn were running a ong and upon ill be very | wore perfectly drained, and the pirts Vine borden 
the Rhododendron roots in every a ion. evidently inferior to the first. In this case we 
‘Thirty years since a quantity of ro na gly strong, reaching the top of th. ang gror ma, 
mixed with peat and loam in the formation m of a| if the vaperinent is varied by giving each a small | year. Mr. Do vase Reo aowa the int 
rge American ground. Nothing would ever quantity of guano water or liquid manure the | to bear a full crop till four years old. Hi hep 
thrive in s3 5 dens pad turned up ill Phe still more obvious Sian was the same as Stone’s or O 
Weva ti jies afterwards, and the) Now the t e to collect bla, hedgerow | namely, cutting quite close to the old wood; bat & 
P: ce was K yreataaliy al meee to turf, "the Ame- | trimmin ngs, ee refuse, summer prunings, and | Prodigious bunches of Hamburgh and Musats 4 
can plants having all died out or been thrown | the like, and lay them in heaps hor future use, | 87OWwn on me top of the Vines on the young ii 
avay a as hopelessly diseased. o too, may clay be =~ Beare thrown | Used to be as thick as a strong walking 
ese examples are huay connected with | in eaps, so as to become dry a Her, ee the Spurs were small and compact compan) 
some cases of root mildew mentioned last year | suited for Parii And we trust that our -l | with those on the young wood; but the berie wes 
-(p 611), where a large Portugal Laurel perished far |}. 5), fine, resembling small Plams in sige Mr, Dorh. 
MEE ai ing was a very careful and trae ane gardener is 
ne he 
vigorous Abies — (see p. 819) was saad does Hod K he will at — = himself of all | an ihe pie alingay a raya Di 
killed by the same u cted enemy. Some of our | insect enemies, and -that is somethin 
. worth aa = 
i readers may remem bar a pea ics wae taken | itis Dr eo eck <8 ean aH = eta in ouses, rey were all lean-tos, where best Grapes 
` up, its roots cleaned, and replanted in new soil of | subject. en “ Spe echley ” grew his large bunch whid 
à for the nd, in the hope—no, not in the hope— Ss eos weighed Ma 19lbs. of the Syrian at Welbeck, te 
eee ps ets shai of the New Plants. ieoa pecte ter cia oe ae 
was however | 227. ToRREYA GRANDIS, Fe : sca nes he ora bunch is 
past st retieay and the the beautiful plant died a few oe oe question was one which had been ent down and wis 
s since. “Pinetum” Mr. Gordon has the foll ‘ormed the ‘year after a very strong rod, and from 
wees of twigs, old leaves, pieces of bark, and S oats re- the ee of sap owing to the 
lawn demain, hh had er lying = and (part aen spon t s Tien x Hiet 3 wink Sa ae T, Sa borders a con gerien of eyes were formel 
s months was broken into.. wig, | unable 2 to tell, as the fraitw oe the prina inal zs lose together on “the. toned of the rod. This was the 
stoke, an ‘and bit of bark was a ‘eels, ~ wn, ere “of that genus, it not having a oc sharac cane Se theenormons bua ae e 
ich was mpa through the heap and there lay veined kernel, > what botanists call ruminat od of wide spreading should ers, each i bunch 2 
in ait ready albumen: ay e; itself. This Vine only bore this one bunch at the timg 
wait re: ize upon any living surface s it may be many years before the seed of | id « A i in raising 
A its rea ons or with which it a fe come in | ¢ ERRIA T p mtas Aeee it, So that tl freer t er 
Vine bo rders ad yet men dig sich mixtures: into suggests that the pleat a may be. a a es balot t: a n quite a mpg eer Es ge eon ae 
Doubtl th f. which ge sth it has nothing whateve = Gia ste with | a lad when this bunch was grown, and tht 
u gai Lag acts explain in ey Sad = „ The g ase: | wit cut and Nest! 22 a asa so that there is nt 
pe WAY plants thrive so ill i ompan, yi T figu tee nd, a sta of the least doubt e correctness of its ae 
, and why in new land never mre ti 9 eight. 
u grmi ant care they are so generally Mr. Bailey had a very sensible article lglg 
aon Som borders in gardens are full of bits h ae n- | columns on the frequent making hh oH 
i raj 
‘He oari the eas ofr rie tos Seas’ forts ed out by the fe frequent] y renewir ewing artes» ci a 
There they lie without rotting, breed fungus spawn e the tert are under aaa the greater 
nd “poison” the land, as the good old gardeners Herts in Mr Saran aes 
ormer days most truly said, In open pasture: Welbeck, although he had his crotchets on a 
nothing of the kind accum Grass Lon ch as coiling Vines in pol , a 
quickly rot, the re left dW the ker of Vine and Peach borders. He chami aS 
by cattl , ters leit on the ground well drain em, the subso ing very 0 
rapidly decompose, and while the soil is r. Mearns wh 3 
a €ir presence nothing remains that sa neighbour of the late Mr. Andet 
vig ona ef. For no vegetable matter Knight, of Downton Castle, and had im! Bree 
come shaengeed disintegrated by deca many of 7 i inions and practices of that 
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mould, which, if really reduced to the ate C Mr. Forsyth says, “it is surely, tine to ne 
ere one of the most har ashes, and all ashes of burnt vegetable matter 
| forms of decayed vegetable matter. So that ial par now that their effect is known onu 
the preference of gardeners for A ee reaps A sy 
be i ee is not mere fancy as amateurs ing th gence a 5i yar 
ut has be unded on Z exp criene, ab ak han wi ashes a that 
th reason for tho preferenco ay ot have eee om China, WH the ay coat îs a ard bony |C Car tng camion, Diod and every Ba 
el protecting a ernel, which’ consists of fleshy | Vin its food of the 
But it is a serious matter to s albumen broken its surfa Ti ine iA Rae whan its eee i 
turf and loam, that i is to Say ( of i te aad ond field tal ae | manner. “No sot hs i hen itn an poi nly pes at as poss ae ee te ae 
oa n order t ake algon Narsi gr ni the Spee of examin ing. king new Vine or eae 
gentlemen may we ery out 2 the o Coatbanban of the bo; 13 tan thorouchlyv Lt Y 
tion. It is like orderin ie c mery are“at a Toss to know how “the voles m EA th e that ‘all danger from fang 
a dish an ‘peacocks? hearts or z = We pire would have” hem shown not to be a a Torreya, even sup- | a ag ih anys ta Paned use here last yeat Sart 
Tt is to be observed, mae Cene a to have been ruminated. For | some of the trees did very badly, andon examinn® 
pwovens: Ti if new soil is | there is no i f ; m ien y 7, 3 
used ees will be poisoned; so that th | Sure Of Torti OR ination in hans fers roots in the winter they were fall old 
j ction of a pasture seems inevite i in his Sa detas mention a acd of a fungal ont A Sen 
= o plant. either does L. C. | leaves from a Pine pit which was mixet ™ 
would appear that we have to d oose | Richard, who examined a seed, represent any such eisa. the bia went de. William Tillery, 
a worthless garden, or ruining Structar 1 jn the see e given in his great work sur les 
Is there no escape from Coniferes. So pa is no sufficient ground for ed 
ey fare is. Burning the a that hat rumination s an tl TREE MIGNONETTE. — 
tertium qui ae vince been successful ieee some ; 
HAVIN very 
ob it is said that the o The autho af cations should have | growing fine specimens of of this, mr 
béing--roduced to — shown e rites i, mmeg all Toney have ig agent S not b pie Ea 
mere f albumen; 2, that the plant called 7, grandis has not | I generally sow in 4inch pots about tlie end 2 
