. 
asma s eaa E summers prolifi 
t E weeds with perennial root-stocks we han 
$86 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. i 
mistaken regard to he: i SAREA of their judges] Triticum repens, Cou |] appe 
they have placed — fe Sore Convolvulus mcrae) Com Bindweed. we a ach of such bird as = Oe 
the me Fin oe curing the ensuin septum, do. of our he eer, mh tities of seeds i 
PaT ine? Club, the Smithfield Club, arduus ipis, cum fie tle. öst 2, ; ani win 
the See of Arts, and the peel Society The m a goo ample of a mo of weeds | m ndibles, birds a ih bY their 
will be found at the head of this| a foot -sacks of whic ae all the bet ter protected i th ost kind really 
m being eneath the ‘surface, for frost, instea d of e n N manner, 
R T be s | piping bullfinch. eee 
“Irsa sharpish winter, this, but it seems it and thus provides for their greater sa when 5 wa te ertionte 
han’t killed all the grubs.” Our friend ae Axrr-| 2. As regards the a cat of weds, it t may be allowance of Groundsel has thes 
MAN in his ‘ Wiltshire Tales” puts t hey 1 rk ate duly eads of flowers, each of w about: 
into the mouth of a rejected aori oie thal virtue of their adaptation for it, and’ iw ny as 50 seeds, we one May 
accosts his more successful rival’ Jonas Grup | study the ter g ig following lst Wé 8 hall se S| to x 50r veda the ; 
i u ne urable to their full 
:— | that a har i. 
used to country life who have Petond year's devi mee ay seem it by x 
not often heard something like the following: ing Crowfo fool, sail tte ae it give Paes 
“Its a sharpish morning,” says the farmer. Parone hybridum, aoth. headed oy. idea o f the e numbers of w Weeds mas, 
rubbing his hands in the vain ende turn Rhæas, Red Po py: ‘ is kindi in the wild tate, destroyed 
his fingers any other rere but blue; “but it’s Consum maculatum, Hem ock and others of this B w see how this saat Po 
v ealthy, an and it will kill all the weeds and family. aintain that our small birds mo 
bs and insects Cnautia oom Field Scabiou farmer’s foremost weeders and = 
Now, the ideas snl to be conveyed by these} Sonchus arvensis, Corn Sowthistle. interfered with by winter, Frost: bi 
remarks are mmon, so universal, and so oler raceus, Common EnA | scattered seeds of tumn; snow 
unanimous, Aie ati has perhaps never heard L that have nat scattered ; and all this ts 
tient. remark upon them, and it is henc Cardes nutans, Musk GA anis Thistles. | birds are starving, and thus ‘becomes 
verywhere concluded by everybody that a hard] Centaurea nigra, Hard-head. be an easy prey to the hundreds of 
winter is destructive to insec weeds, and, scabiosa, Black-top do, mall birds who excuse their idleness, 
-indeed, that John Frost estroys more grubs Planta ago media, P estruction by felicitating themselves w 
than hosts of swallows, whilst he i s duly honoured} Rumes aeoea Meadow ther illed so f “ them thers 
as WINTER THE WEEDER, idey spread as} Plants ft s kind are either developed from __ Just tsois ith much in 
are t o ý s e upon ọurselves, | seeds whic n in winter very ; 
if need be, to be the only dissentients, in ae until spring, whe en n they germinate and so occupy | i is summer pace. the di i 
belief inions will be shared by others | one season in developing a plant from which the ae te cold, and so we hastily, 
upon due o tion. | seed is produced the following ye Er t wi weeder to whom we may: 
With regard to both insects and weeds, we must | whe in autumn may at once germinate, | but the very green of: summer is only 
take into consideration that those we have named | and the plant and seed development each occupy | to the growth of plant seed, and if" 
are indigenous, and that they are among our wild a year afterwards, whilst s ay make suffi- | season by allowing this ati 
natives j cau y can endure our climate, | r the seed is sown from which we may be quite sure that Nature has 
“and are consequently endowed with powers to re-| to form the seeds the next year. This however | provided for the continuance of her 
‘sist the col d fr ch in winter pends upon the season, bap aad which scattering seeds with so lavish a 
they are liable. -Look e snug retreats | occasionally take parts of thre parts of *the earth she. has 
o 
decided i i yet the 
life 
ov 
were it not seata ap st ses ty ies in chec 
k by insecti- 
of vari 
kinds, amongst which | 
e anata is 
he mild. 
w, on carefully Rr e e plants we 
shall find them all so pe for — that 
pice they have eere eat if a pop 
n | the ciroumstances of Æ 
ny Peele 
See 
THE STATE OF RURAL. T 
17ru CENTURY. 
„ LINCOLNSHIRE is now unive 
every soil 
owth and m 
ad. attenu. ated a see ona ff is ` little 
Cab eee and 
diness quen sodas 
| a 
| autumn planting of seed, yii in these PEE m 
process is further aided by tr nsplantation 
No fact then is better established tiin this : 
ey are 
‘wonderfully well prepared for th the nhi: and it 
c must be r all 
ter 
El 
in both insects and 
sl Those i in which the stem or 
is permanent, 
T Baraa Den i in which the 
in one year, and the s 
lant is 
pre a | 
in the followin 
Ann 
grown 
ather; so that in reality, 
lof So Sowthistles and Docks i 
~ me 
3. nual weeds aro b ouble- 
with Ried omon th 
plan 
ts 
it is an onae of the apear havin; 
their parents to s 
cies x weeds, we shall be. 
cleat pe them being destroye d; ag 
ot rec 
to a Sena 
sg 
0: 
qin soil a ib oe 
is ge jr par ar. 
of th OM see 
pa 
st ViCiSS. it udes whic! 
omer ; 
et there 
Heng varonil a 
some that are pamtveanl 
| fi John 
ee Den 
roat’ Speman 
th 
All fat Tree, 
hedges, 
Coty va hed, 
ditto, 
ong yee 
ch tend to | 
ma now mm the ‘alow 
oot 
y which £ 
y grow up so pe b Ee frequently | Char 
ost pet 
Timited Ms 
and reap it is true pte different soils 
xample 
i divai by j 
piema ara e the resources of th 
| chemi Defoe 
here | especial sub; peas 
snow, even 
a far pg greetest destruction of ail 
te that takes place is due to the voracious se 
At Rochda 
