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to lin favour of their hardihood and longevity being | “ot ri i hap it since, | Botate’ a tho agt tion o ot positive aaa 
xe fo nsplanted kreca tting was dying years ago, stanton at Dag tore. 
i ae kroi R paar ye ns ots se OES of | There is also in a vise aade onan Hills group of vitae S SA holes ak each vi haem ty 
a á ed suckers, )Oaks .of most «striking and .surprising aspect, | other in a farge Pan. of water) C de'inielose g 
perhaps possessing only half a dozen clongat 7 ae ATE o piner in alargo. eT iii 
Atop, |all .pollards and -in - ruins; pot, and made a $ : 
thus producing a ‘healthy balance betwixt root. a p a “eu of -t of them, .at.-4 feet from -the ad two platina wires between s ons 
instead rotracted struggle for 8 ep mia = a w aitase opposite poles ora wel Ten the T 
3 t so sapscuinind FORRA nd of each wire was plunged aye } 
aA z eega Darby re. which we “will eall ibe Hucclecote Oak, in a meadow pat of each Pot, but ata distance pou Aim 
ʻ > j D; » one of these Potatoes 
s Te d Bees.—The inquiry of “ B. A., electrified cai! © Pata mand 
pater no “813 reminds sme that somem months will continue to ad to its 5 magnificent a os After k iin nS an ee in ext is 
3 di us ja tho usand years to come; as yet it isnot qui ecomposed, emitted the percio oatmeal 
ago your Correspondent, “ W. p. 6.@, informe its age above: two. centuries, but | Potato; the garden t pec fetid 
e not the produce of nor i tato; pot was filled wini a 
En anani eres of Camelina esti This means I | its noble head on staghorn Dr anehes has alr: eady reached kon infest the bine ben Omthe 
suppose that, besides the genuine article “ure is.made | a span of “9 fee Any | smell, nor yield any fetid tr z disease, 
fi tats Sesamum seed pay is imported, spur urious | more great Oa os and many great Elms, w hich ag visible within the positive i; ping 
FERAT s d no chronicle, hat to vien T shopa that | Positive Potato was m; f singular, m 
article made from the seeds of Camelina sativa is also | yet ‘have a 7 earth, ft se sos t sing roe 
e had in the pdt: ander the sam of | justice will be done by so’ esident i > eigh- | but, w ilst perfectly. solid 1 neither shot out 
cake. it be trne, as I have hea: rd repor! bourhood, or by- their oati aar for a Senis p hey sombleq a shrivelled Apple, both hee o 
N. ea electricity, adds much to the 
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th 'the ake of the Camelina has an “eo rine grow, and are so ro an ey 
tha gee o with cattle, there is .good Death Ps Head Mi e.my communication in ies pe some ene Tat bhe abm 
hy it should no spon a in the market — — this eee ae 2 YORE ages I have had } ease. Join n Malam, Hoingpton Lodge, Spe 
under its own name, but rather be mixed.off.with, or letters from caine — to pe er 
ke.  A.microseo pial wo! aula éasil salids,| but the — ress wrongly. I shall there- » 
sold as, Sesamum ca p X fore feel tha mifa l-if you will give-my proper address, Societies, 
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discover whether it was wt cake of the anions or of 
e Camelina, y f bot hich he was ex e 
It is not aalik thàt-one may be winter | left among your ane a age at the price] “BRITISH -Assocta’ mos: i 
they cost me or in exchange for.o others. The Gardener, | the “rears 3 of the Sil 
any o ents that he has found it, or | Z; Perrow, Bedale, Yorkshire. in this Cou ntry, by the Rey. 
found it fen to be =e food for bees will not help your ph Tree now in ey it not.an-unusual | cumbent -of + St. Peter’s, Walworth, 
remote readers much, a he abe o oe to | time of year fora Cedar to be in blossom? On Satur- | referred to the -many -costly 
add either which dese on of cak used or from Aana I noticed one in-the Crystal Palace Gardana been made during the last t 
what mer erchant he s procure edit t. Diss. ‘at ‘would be ‘better which w with a ss ene M = flowers, the pollen of ticate the Bombyx ‘Mori, o 
i ch was m b 
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Highnam Pinetum. ee um sempervirens, planted Potato vat isease.—The cement eather at an early period of this | hitherto from 
ear, te ing hot, and dry, was very favourable to the healthy | ¢, ? * 
when:2 feet in height in April, 1847, now » measures\33 growth of fl of the Potato plant; wet weather afterwards set in, rae He en instanced =the 
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feet in height, and its girth ‘at 3 feet is 33 feet ; dia- when the dise nifested Steck? in. vandus districts, e 
meter of branches = Sat Cryptomeria japonica, | cia pane a the esa l coast; Many horticulturists plant their sets 
planted in April of me year when onl ches | early spring, order ‘to secure sound erops of Potatoes, 
$ : : 3 te mt high, and: it th at 3 feet Goning pts! Sty that. disease is most fatal and destruc- 
-= height, is now 194 igh, and its girth a eet | tive at the latter end of July and in the months of August and 
is 1 foot inches ; diameter of branches 13} feet. | Se epte , particular]; ci pentehapie the sets are planted late 
Where these are growing the natural soil is ar ie epring. food sind Potato haspe not al na Repel.evaiie 
. strong an ea: y, bu as its cells wh ATi 
rr arl; they are shel red from the east and hence it is what is called mealy or * floury. ee ee first 
s their kind, It would be fform the wax cells of the honeycomb, in which to store its 
— pitting to know if they ~~ found to thrive well in | honey, so does Nature in a somewhat simil er first form 
i Mage arin Ei | Ser ER ps eth ea ag iea em mage 
owever, y s ay: 
5 ilighaans. Court, near Gloucester, n, soil, fo. To pursue the analogy, thé E ‘the 
ov. honeycomb, without honey in t xi s, is unpalatable ; so is 
~ sie Dr. Lyell’s description | the rato when, its cells ate D ot pafin cient], iste Peay 
Tew. is. what is genera! jtor “wax is evident, 
in your ‘Paper E 702) he large Pear treevat: New therefore, ats it is of primary importance to get the cells, after 
I accept his ‘vitae n and S: to put on | tp rmed, well filled with starch. This,as I have 
d the dimensions, > &c., of some oth e. trees | poin is best accomplished by the use of sep- 
near Gl , that have hitherto I believe remained - enoras mgr AFEN gabe a PORE, ee Te Le 
eA j å T, , &e. 
iced, at least an » Th gh tree is an increased growth of the cells and more gl , thereb’ - 
hollow, and there is no do has | creasing the bulk of the Potato and the cr As, however, 
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its heart, the sul es- much re lo oe in e riki rO! the 
k its n use of suci re is consequently a deficiency o: 
less compact ; m at i starch in the cells. "Potatoes to be health and ni rand con- 
than it did befor a tha titt to to heir 
man ib ah e5 an eggs appear uently less subject to j 11 walls 
od mo ancient than it t really i is; , there- | strong, and stored with plenty of starı ra en naib isa 
goticioney of > tugs cp matter a its place and fills m 
e ve class of manures also occasions an an- . 
The soundness of m tree that ates not been pall I Satara exces: s Sof ee anc og in im keeps leaves,.and inning . process, $ or roving about 
y the state of its top or highest | tubers which, under influence o; isture, | state, and we ding N i 
of suitable iad in which to construct thers 
branches ; the top of an unpollarded oot is always | «c., undergo aon ane whieh i is Ah the, cate where the 
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ceou: nh e fe are good conductors ; and it appears to me that ted 
an unnatural e cess of albuminous matters in the Beton and 
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highest rely is a hollow, or must be | leaves renders pte subject- to destructive ai ern a Pe apt 
taken to witho proo t kary rary, ence during thunderstorms, whilst.a due ortion of car- 
$ hata or Y: | bonic acid in them acts favourably, as a lightuing pt Ee a 
n one orchar ere are: now growing’ 10:soi d perry does to a me or — T “believe that — s highly $a 
Pear whose average ‘ircmiorae three ? | charged. with electricity, during a thunderstorm 
ago, at between 2 and 3 - fro are over Pota b wn in fo n soils, pa =i; em er 
below: the graft, was 9 wee py 
p as a =< the i divans n 33 si over the leaves an S, descend. 
cumference of the largest tree was 1 ea inches, that ing-down,to the tubers, either very slowly or rapidly, accord. 
the s I ber) eet 4inches, |128 to the dry or warm hygrometric state of the weather. Th 
tòf Y fth m ll thei 2 |tu also, whe diseased, more or less rapidly decay; 
em o e very est height and | likewise accord e di oist state of the air, and the 
span, renee an ‘of the larg t being 60 feet. Afew ago | airy or close state in which they are. stored. tis o t 
the largest’ branches of the largest trees, for asadly he tubers when taken up should be allowed to 
fal * sweat freely, and have plenty of fresh air, for when in a dry 
ous reason, were © > befi ieh -unjust 
treatment they produced an av: rage of. aiton of s it rt yaa E a pap ate ar aie cea son) cite 
Pears of the noble kind Huffcap, the flavour of | excess in the atmosphere, rapidly ro liberates the 
ks ugh h and wild is fall.of aroma ;: but ns gai at gait “om Potato ee nd no noxious: sements 
2 of putrescent matters. Ozone, however, does good where there 
aa them, and not th ee, 18 known to © } are carbonaceous manures in the soil, in berating from them 
Mm one season 2 waggon loads = s= carbonic acid, &c.; I have on former oceasions- pointed 
ushels = ns == 4 h eads of Apple t out as being mor ntial to the healthy, growth o e 
are uch smaller than’ Pear trees that it tak Potato than an excess of albuminous matters. Sounder-cro} 
Apple Of the larwestaixe-to iane gr reer sera o from unmanured than manured lands, =! $ 
= rges hogs! utrescent matters in invitin; e is e 
za ; but as will onare that size, and I was by michel being ‘dug Sth pps before, wi ir. Pe ee on 
a armer in the “Wi ; nic acii ae at d atmospher 
est of “England ‘laid a tion of oxygen, essary for the vitality of plants, 
especially such’ as a aha. Vine and Eio and I conceive 
x uri i 
dt as no about | grow, i 
erry Pear trees, their . port 
perry j enormous size and yast longevity, » | predisposition to a low state of vitality at the recurrence of 
their freedom from -canker, and where the soil is | those unstable me 
1 4! onii cal chan; the atmosphere: ese 
moe sae apparently from all disease ; the tend i in cycles mp mee an sich cause is n the 
their Manhs when - hey have reached a animal and vegetable kingdoms, especi ly.where sanitary r lawa 
height to » at’ th fi k, “ef, tl a certain are viol: I revel and Kagir where putresceni 
plit va rom the oppression of | matters aceu , and the seeds of dormant fungi are 
he chain and wooden frames | ¢ to life an pagation om there are ying nitr 
with which they a are then supported, and whieh at | genous substance es, and the ey, as scavengers of nature, are most 
useful in a het and rendering | innocuous what would, if | 
whi 
len =i deel re — e embedded i n the living trunks .that left, be fatal Now, certain plants, fromtheir peculiar 
o and 
Sues over ani, without any fr or nism, 
, fi e of digesting 
sar oi “health, or injury to their growth; -the great | putrescent atten 3 pea t ara ae are not. subject to atmo- 
= , t which are t own - nearly oe ore the same e Vine and Potato plants 
th 3 ntiseptic su’ nces, however, such as carbo. , 
e oath om mn a. unk being gen i bre unfarqurable to the growth of insects.and ng Reni 
i j on other most beneficial to the growth of the 
ich they will grow and form a second tree | Vine and Potato. ‘I consider that, as negative electrici 
g still greater dimensions, complete | Phy 'njnrtonad4o Shageowth of v le ond en the} 
ol f; city, on the contrary, a tageous, therefore whe 
obliteration of the process that they have bat sal 3 | at ved here mtinues it a ASFALTO MAI for some time wit! 
> aiem the ree is wet, to.run to ste roga ph nama hien h, vegetation will be liable to se ennt eža 
branches, sma i ri » either as prodú disease in 
PEE wigs and very i disease in the Vine. This leads me to give an important ex- 
but 
T must so their ate honours ta some | tract from the “ Memoirs of Andre Crosse, the Electrician, 
