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Tar FARDENERS SHRON-CLE, 
en s are perfectly well ripened 
contain within themselves the elements of preser- 
ion in a variable degree. Fleshy sweet ber- 
Muscats, have vs greatest tendency 
bacid sorts, like 
Fhris r 
Eara lady is to 
wal But 
in itr country like Raginh’, wit ith t 
taining so much water suspended in the 
pate of “ravisible vapour, some preca autions must 
be taken Ae = eptive the air of its moisture as far 
as practi e question is, what are those | \ 
rrntions to shut up a Vinery is to do nothing, 
or worse than nothing. Air is not the less damp 
when y gp bese brick walls and a glass 
roof, As it m shut up so it rem 
changed b nothing aripi the pae ba mone 
damp air by in "E through doo and 
ventilators. oes in for shelter contri- 
bute Bah to aya ess; on the contrary, the 
ee aa osphere | perf 
or very cold weather. 
covers are lifted off and placed aside, an opera; 
he | o 
also | pr wh ny 
et was alread 
e 
[SerTen 
similar conditions of climate in 
ore aggray: vated results. on 
y impaired by the ein 
mpd, “for for fg is e! Sines 
al 
tack. It should’ se 
agents were em 
occupie ed 
tion which their e erene and portability 
Of course these kaa ai aed be 
service also 
guar cold 
rain or melted s 
di Fe ; ands 
| provided RORE fine Grapes a are a 
wes 
pap deb 
th 
ting was not ite 
esr that the proud 
| and instructive case Vegetable Patinloy ‘ok 
ted to us from | 
large | roy ee of Larches, some 60,000, 
which has failed, exhibiting a most earn 
Saito of the bark while say? as paruy 
thy, though a 
of 
What t ought to aS “done is Phin. The Grapes 
Vi should be ea | 6 
2a 
4 
eating | 
e ventilators for a ae 
heat aaae maintained at the sametime. In this 
er the floor, walls, and other objects mit be 
few batin brisk |. 
t the 
e aes $ piraten as to the 
e of the plantation. The specim 
eae Zs a an exceed seven years in ind 
me are r three eg younger, but it is 
t e bark is of two years’ 
sing a that the ~“oonaltion of the wood 
nly be so with an 
| plete ae moval of the ota sel aud à 
Eae for st: tunnet water is 9 
short supply. pas ir 
ground fallow for fs we or two wi ir 
or rather it may increase the eyil, Mw 
Sen will then be decayed, and hare 
fungi ees to seize upon those of ther 
tion, M. 
We congratulate the ene 
African plants on the a 
| BOTANIST at s =y e OE ot He e i Tea 
3 
was not always healthy even in the second 
ge We have traced no scars in the bark of an 
arlier date than one year previous to the present 
senson. Besides the old scars, which are shallow 
arly defined cavities with a tole re — 
=r i hor are i Spal s of more mi 
rate to 
circula! 
wdery from the decomp 
| in many case 
the subjacent tis: =i ETE in uence 
bark, and 
5 sufficient! deprived of tt their moisture by the rapid 
passage of ai f the inequality of | g, 
Mcaerhinire between ‘the interior and atarice of 
= “i eee under any pretence, ought 
an to be ad 
table conseq' 
<£ which hàs been the deat, Sonat k wo Jnter 
cording to a urgency of the symptoms, of the 
affected nies 
The hist ony of the plantation is sce this: 
Bef ore the Larch, nowin such a diseased 1 condition, 
pre es si, ded Grapes in the 
re it is foun experience > that | 
ittle dew falls on the re 
ough they are sweet flesh 
to hen pac 
ace ait e contrary, | G 
imbibe sa 
from 
the | per acre, a 
‘ which 
at} i oes effect es ee old roots on n 
ripe. On 
ao long as Seas sare alive, i aa, 20 ad om 
as 
ears’ 
ecules consisting of Ash, “Beech, Oak, Syca- 
more, and Larch. Some of the Larch w. ‘ood, 
~| but the produce did not on an oe exce on 45l. 
r so 
t planted and nursin 
> soil 
re a condition 
antation, me one | 
yey ter a time to produce 
ungi generated upon them 
to decay. TE fact E = 
all of livin 
very u unfavourable i a = new a 
n the end wa 
| the Baek rot, from th 
| as soon as they began 
' the 
eon ia poe out from tn 
many years ess 
oe Bee a: the ie Cae alat a reatie on $ 
tthe Fi “be aes meandi not only of re 
ne curious 
m Dr. 
oah of the Cape lia ak 
THE NATURAL HISTORY CO 
THE BRITISH ruse 
Many and various as are th 
the articles rg ig the we P 
M 
Tega aiil 
| that thor i0) 
Basell Street, n its immediate 
History 
a the Natural is 
space alone. The addi ditions € 
i detail led n 
cessible to all, 
DON’ s Arboretum, were it not true that instead 
ery it 
the for himself, would have acted as a check against 
fiting DY one buy S 
r some i individual 
r The presen 
different ki kind, ee probably ks some measure 
vil, howe ever, is of a 
ue to the presence of the old roots in t the soil, 
ing tl the extension of the r 
e two causes teatro has 
e 
, the subjacent iron clay and ore for- 
ts downwards. four o 
has been 
nes might be 
sup) 
noe, i 
site for an extensive 
ta oa at a 
would be 
ficial, The itor: | 
the chimneys 
ee ie keh ene ae 2 Oe ere one ea Ol 
