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i mentioned by W 128, but obj in ected to oh rey g amni ish Bu of | e ai Tt "ps ow a s as much care of them as I :)ietion ab a fresh worm-cast is to be observed in any any 
g terflies,” page paa r may add, finds a real ibe iy in so doin direc } , for about the above-mentioned 
ê there being a S t Steropus, anc $ B, Jo rye a's Gardeners’ Alman ack.—Since a practical | | space The follow- 
4 JCA : 
its being the tao were; i forge 3 4 e- | pasar: a yf he attainments has mis understood m ing is xis sure indication of rou agh or severe 
i periidæ; rk Eon ous! "been ne amed Arac sear be by | | sa a a — Admit a oe Bothouse i A January ” | weather, mani ei = ve particularly noticed to take place 
species a eroa Peri obs acteris ed oe ‘Bo isduval ai impression pone shall, in, the during ev Amari colecti ng 
i Fabriciu Sin iro aan Heit. whet my Alman ack, be rendered more ex- wrens, thee, little, merry, — cheerful songste: 
j a Metho icus, gn e tionable, aiti iy P Fito ae the words objected to, I had in | which are friends to gar rdeners, suffer gps. oan 
h to a genus of p ants, is objec iona 30, airnougn | mind the rarity of the days during +a month, E which f perish weather. I have often 
. a tablished t ein 838, in | | th ake 1 be admitted to our hothouses, and c ncluded | nase 10 to 30 of migr to have bee huddl led to- 
i mology. Hh r more ber ne yh eae 3 T) bee Pw er would understand thet I intended the | ether, and take en out all dea d from the hollow of an old 
t ! a “amales de la £ ekee j- - = solosique 4 Enr zk _ vi [falt th ti a e permitting its admission, would con- Pollard or » or out of holes in 
© page 124. Argeisa < aiae P Pate ois. = 1e thermometer, both within doors and -without | dry walls, or from under thate h, &c. On obse 
ta davi, sd also by Mr. Westwoo ritish Butterflies, | mie A ape the rae — wre Be should | more than two of these little _ Songsters in win 
page | n ‘Bering from Mr. yres, di not have a gang, pra always enoted severe 
"Gooseberry Ca! ogee amie peery 5 attack | other authorities to confi my own observations. | fros. In the Prenian ot the 8th of Ff ioe in an old 
wh x the p ree ib eginning to | These all agree that, in a free open soil, of which gar- | hollow wa with high basis. ana old Ivy red stems, 
open t their age say = Tare a sy Aci mar r | boot te ooh for: hs i +. wi tn of eip aig I | obser å 10 of those Hils birds in ond poten arting 
nts over wi € r ace o eas t 
Bano method to fail, and I have practised it for many |E In a clayey soils, son which KK d nae K ang oya 8 pe 
years, with two or three exceptions; and when I have | hould be much | that the whole ten passed under an old hollow Ivy- 
thus failed to do so, bet sever oar oat invariably applied : | a d g-pipes may be a pain roost; this I set down as a sure in- 
less from outerpillars uto soot was applie good ‘sadition rt soil be clayey, but ey are not re- dication merge ere frost would fo ° in accordance 
to all | concern | quired in those open soils on l with previous eres ations.—J. B. 
I grow “Goosebe erry p lants to i a| usis d. In the ese, 6 inches of clay (not beaten solid, Acorns Da their Use. —The ie e headed as above, 
large extent, my "t stock Bh Aa being less than 50 aa or | as drt pte: s thinks I intended = > cortege be serve as | and signed ‘‘ M. D. P.,” in one of last year’s Y Chroni- 
the gladly 
sim larly sit 
60,000, and 
< ace their trees peered ch eaten up, er thus yeddetsa| 
have been vig 
re or damp, it is by no | 
means so efficacious. —J¥", May, Hore Nursery, ee 
orkshire, 
Destruction ydg Small Birds —There i is a mediom in | 
p ame 85 “ Mach is 
a: 
— 
+ and I am 
m ira ds. =| 
within 
td i (oparom, | | 
actor of the water 
bore 8) s, and shield 
prety fom interruption by roots. 
n th 
cles, contains gots useful inf formation, and I 
y testimon the truth 
wie. ed 
unsaleable my 2 = eee and | an kee ep in the more fertile soil —6. W. Joh a it, expecting the — amount of the crop 
healthy. I imagine os aiso ants to the general I B hitney’s Composition.—I see n your la wr Nakti — the adva e of sowing Acorns to raise Ok- piani 
health of the plant, as green-fly, which is almost as oad i snot r testimony, by “ assus, ” fa the utter failure of sat ack ving tnont Aly pae 
‘as the caterpillar, seldom or ever makes its appearance | Whitūey’s composition, 22 mne a otland, diti the piped 
after being dressed with it. It mu borne in mind, | e which induced a has So fer ed” to come | crop i anak: precarious niak t is in England, in conse- 
that the soot is applied in a dry state, may be kept | forward with a friendly w. arning against ai. Whitney's | poten of the still | greater severity of the Pirih: still, 
so by putting it in a dry pl il it is wanted ; if it has | pr pena particularly when we find him advertising | however ears when 
| hi 
are plentiful, and hardly any when enough do not ae 
with the utmost nonchalance, his invaluable discovery, 
in zm midst, I will venture to say, of th carry on the purposes of Providence, In the 
arked ‘failure whic ch e r awaited aa ae se 1818, a field of about 22 acres 
so various with Acoras, under the idea that ab nior 
calico, all of which t hes po me a _ The est, of | would become oon trees than pla ants from a nursery, 
course, was the last whi ch yielded its etag not, and would be bette bbits, 
portrete- er, before it had become equally i oa 
which I had been accustomed oat 
I ations, and also in the s were obtained 
boiled linseed oil, All pains were taken 
crops. 
in the spi from En gland on the Supposition thst. Acorns ripened 
an English sun were the finest. The field 
s more than my share. ere is no 1 he ligt g 817, was ploughed that autumn, and 
to help to rr the birds d the | bei i i bei 1 d | left fall till the spring of 1818. Ridges, or drills, of 
try, C r upon b » were then formed with a small 
he fra 
lng g forari Ba paren with a disinterested desire to plough, and the Acorns sown in them some distance 
ch 
ed | further the 
nd 
iy over which may in terest him; ed Lange s did 
d wage war 
tribe, or 1 shall lose my Bere la 
obliged to your correspondent who suggests ‘the double | 
every 
discomfiture w case ure has attended his scheme. 
ed that the one 
inw hich I have a difficulty. ee am I to catch 
fai ilur 
Mr. Whitney aaa quiet, your 
" Se as w te s the host of other sufferers, would | 
ha eb ; but 
3: 
ker ich it appears is essential to your corre 
t's 
borne the’ f li e Ibe th 
plan? W out Atarra, key- — I fear I must 
to the suet and nu | 
re Rilstone Pi pias Oniaeiier ‘ta hast year’s 
me remarks on a Sibson mi Pippin, 
uestion is ny gr to the origi 
valle f Sarnen, in 
liesa, yii ¥ 
; the plantation 
big now been for some years in a regular course of 
their char ity 
an scene up in xt style of the tion, oint- | 
ment, no longer so easy to point out what are — 
Rabbits. à which are not. Where the soil is good, 
rabbits will not pk Tahi of reer size ; acd j reumférence of the trees, at 6 feet from the 
that a tarred rope will keep them of. ppily, I grounds is shout 15 tached’ and their height about 20 
know by experience that these are fallacies. 1 live = a whole is a fáir illustration of the truth 
de pent 3 where rabbits abound, 
stone 
3 
i ep spot 
md 4 village called Kerns, in cro: crossing orchards 
Path which leads from that place towards the ae ot 
E Sarnen; and afterwards in the orchards along the sout 
side of that lake, going to 
Probably, not conf d 
h | is no fence 
that it is my firm belief m Aas "will g 
has rabbi a hard season 
ge 
the “trait ‘af which could not disti uish | vinced that the only wa to rid of them is to dectrey in question having 
pin. : y fon sree gam pe em Sn will lok oe | not, ay renee in the best state for receiving the 
the fruit was then nearly | do it, if be i alni to oi Gea rg ve you and favoured too much the h of weeds, which 
all character of | p I bave seen rabbits wee ea | sprung up in overwhelming abundance; and sufficient 
were rather more vigorous in growth. | and 5 feet in height. They will burrow under anything, | care, as I understand, no clean the ground 
was jæ and the little ones will wattling-net ; a | when the lings ae a a oes i is very probable, 
bya string are afraid of at firs e t ves when that n defiance, 
they touch it; but they soon los owever, of all o atack “and whether arising fro fro m defects of 
this fear, and then it 
In one coal r they will ihe Ver- 
bena, and leave Carnations ; in anot or 
are devoured, and the Verbena iss 
r,the C esa gr 
nee edhe n; so j| their competitors.— 
d yo 
ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL! 
SOCIETY. 
t wh uch commu- | in diameter, hee arreghje by being peeled by the rab- 
try.—J, e bits, since which time we our y ; 
m Snpra koa tae civilised being, with soot, bullock’s blood, and brimstone.— Tizy. : Dec. 12.—At the late Ann is Society, 
ter of a Christian feel so cruelly Saher ie vice ae a ited with white | held at the Horns Tavern nyren n, ee 60 mem- 
rds ye mere og harm less b f | ribands pended hall. It was cut, with | bers were present, and m Iit, the Vice-President, w as 
h less how he can uran S er Drea! elem to ay Yale an oe og a mee "am y elected to on the occasion, The 
ennibilation, aad by po too ! Acacia gga Chairm n coniinal “th proceeding by a = 
aon thug Bt ng There Societ which the Repor 
ard us solr e opt at ar for Mistletoe fermerin gon a Service-tree (as it is cle), on | The Society, it em, bas ugg egy ing pu ine . 
d i contiguous to my residence. —B. D. Gr cial s for some t r. Cumi 
cing rset p iring Arahe i ja, rd for sn ‘The E Frat —Here the frost penetrated 10 par erie signed hi SAT A Bes last at ‘the Coma ee 
melody of ices ; I do| B. D. oun: to form a 
of Peewee Samael and T do Sure Si or — ions of Frost and — and, under the management 
hestra, by concealing poison i Weather. =I have riably noticed for several weeks proceedings from the first form 
Such a triumph is inglorious as it previous to severe frost setting in—du wien very severe | minute-book, and to 
prap most cordi aliy, A 
ure passed at “u e Taju 
idual mo his and Gooseberries by 
ll lovers of Nature, 
of whieh I can well recollect—that the earth-worms are | action, and enabling the S 
unusually industrious x casting e detik out ae Report stated that in ten y 
drains, This they do, I suppose, in order to admit air, | 30002, arising from s 
and prevent obstruction ote 
earth og bere Ss I | par ionlariy misi 
ony hie, = = te the wren, and 
ffensive choristers of the grove—we are sae oe indus’ month, eae the p 
—William Kidd. in Aa aghen > tae “dirt on de 
be condemning | crane pleasure-grounds and 
death by poison I p in many i 
ay I ig a fallow field, 
remain in my garden, where I am industri 
liy their tte reste in keeping pg sere t 
siik on old trees ns po 
