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‘On this soil the kitchen garden i is situated, fret 
which, up tó {are taken for the 
pr mate ory paie annaia Giai 
THE GARDENERS’ caron. 
sm for toads d erare 
ak 
[FEB: 
whether ia th 
€ wish to ask “J.J. F”? 
of heme test were eaten from the tree, or whe 
were fr om branches sat had ith en off previoa 
as 
tu had ot le drain, properly so ca! 
eer canis th of om that, oa nisk, fie ground in stagnant waters, having completely caged 
owas ancle deep i in mud, with vegetables rotting upon it, thelr colour, ina ‘resembling toads*at t the-fi 
‘while after a week’s dry weather in summer, it was so hard | The female then dep 
vas to require a mattock to break the surface before dig- bles r black beads on worsted, whilst the male, 
ging it... Now, although drains at od — apart might be [by a minute a ds eaitted® the be: seen gliding over a 
sufficient on the sandy subs oih it is spa tt spawn eventual lly becom 
-the kitchen garden they 
ng that n 
aan so certain was 1 of this, that at the time’ of poe 
ne the spaces for r the drain s—14 feet apart when putting 
a crane to visit my father’s pond,’ well knowin 
fishés were to be found there, the pond having bela 
us year. I's 
drain between every two, if I found those al dy made 
sheep, 
from the pte but a malig withered they 
speedy death.— W. D. F 
_ For reign Corresponden 
Paris, 1845,—The incoustancy of EAP rid 
ier gh flowers is is egg aon the be 
natio Tulip i 
ar ia so 
out on the Alisa 921 atis sfie d myself, 
however, ‘beyond a oubt; 
I f usands of tad- 
rea 
rere insufficient t to drain the ground tants com 2 at that, 
pate 
rains in that space. Between the rhe 
I found tho 
in bine “ag the pond, 
Jab 
poles. following we 
the Dahlia; Aai no flower has attain na 
popular ity or been ig aha with e a er Ae 
To fac mpre 
<A I se 
but cay a ote of — latter were t 
w 
h bas bee 
ible 
Bride, | 
chioness of ( Ormonde, aks Antrobus, ‘Adibiral Sto 
othe 19th Fe mage and 8 p.m. on the 20th, aed quantity bank and meadows were covered with little frogs, and } in this 
vofrain which fell rer pes was 59-100ths of re bran and at there is no mis shally them at that sre age. Sigg ptt er Cleopatra, ` Ess 
sthat time I had rathe è than half an of ter und | I have a great partiality for to ads 5 „and d ing t the 
drained inc vigits cit ‘feet apart an li 
and feed 
jeep—the pipes covered with a thin layer or ‘straw, a and 
them regula ko very day 
rise, as desci 
a 
Cue r-beds, 
d Pin 
oE Esou ihe year A 800; 2b 
pe 
Caie 
a 
with about 4 inches of clean rough near 7 = se For stata them beetles, and other insects i aor i et 
ASh ormed lieve. they never take ag trie) except in a rple and yellow Dahlias of that d 
of 3.inch pipes, ing), and I have been bighly amused to. ee m colours far more brilliant, 
his they were | when called, and bev the: pon y | and althoug ide 
the lowest meant tt this half ‘acre o edge elon into their mouth by means of their long tongues he fl d, as in Heyne’ k 
edrained, discharged 5000 gallons of water in 20 hours. | to; f which there is a glutinous NTA Mý father’s one thing still remains to be accom 
tis fair, I think, to assume that Mr. Jolnso draik) pond, already alladed to, is the Ned’ ** fa 
seovered with clay on this soil, would have beer at least | to bis house, and re about 500 yards oat a lawn, This has hitherto baffied the skill of th 
‘double the time, or 40 hours, in men arging the same | which is divided from the field by a7-feet w thel Why purpl 
quantity of water; so that, in the vent t of continuous measures about 60 sate ia length, at the to of h | should t nd white flowers with p 
rail, eavy fall of snow, Mr. J Johnson h led the bot 
would be little better than no drainage at mae! ligt ist; agt ee as to the cause, or 
ocate for“ E ane e,” in its full “Now, every year, when a boy, T mise pradei a Peele a era reme i Some attri 
tation, I am sure that a few extra feo so ee (oth the rest ‘of rae A AT EEA hundreds ai vine of soil, but roof i is not wanting ee p 
‘is money well inv ore and sure to be rned fori young toads, with jog or t they had n often 
folds = While on the subject; I may si ‘on or two others suppose it to be ‘ooctiou by 
im em which we have ‘effected ‘in placing the they were veir a little ‘lager than the Misapata.” N ug be, and, no 
edraining-tiles. The t is, tead of wa hi thin ie be obvious that 
v t season was p: 
are little black. things with ToS tails, 
J 
are not the eh 
n Engla 
Las 
nd, yet these aon b were there foul 
char T 
outst these tadpoles e i fi 
3 Gald 
sealed 
cter, In Paris, s 
the soil is poor, aud t d ; 
‘ool, 
ze loose pieces as they take out 'the 
of the drain is then rammed 
round pisce sh, 2 inches anà 
ad 
s there as gr 
a ate “eet wal, trudged up ai 
rap-door of the aoe which 1 er calculated woud 
a na in diameter 
boat a foot'long, fixea cn the end of a st 
m of 
ki do, and yet on their aR n 
he form aT. This tool mazes ‘the bottom of" the 
their destination thei were on ly a little larger than 
d 
adpoles. g 
a aking À to see the aiy _ | uncomfartable positión | 
tting the e pipes into | 
n L formed piece of | 
dhoit" four feet long, and 
he drains with their hands, I ‘ha d a va ey 
iron fixed into a light handle, 
A 
d some writers say toads 
ibe 
rece of tipped flowers, that not on 
at ott sneer h 
i fact, so pele s 
e single 
pi le 
of them are said to be constant, but that has onl 
size meee Together under 
ence to some pari iicular localit ity. The seif-sal 
where ; fo 
the drain with great ease and rapidity. These t Is | the cates f plants in the garden. ' If lam in error I 3 
work performed, and quite ás much gai he | proof than I sady had, before I b 1 | Oakley’s Sury Modests La Lionne, and Be 
to say not ning Sr te 1 d B.F. | England bi In Nei I planté 
fort of od dry throughout the day.— IV. P. Miras List of the more r ptt Conifere cultivated i kl ndy soil, and very ni 
Brooklan } the pl air w Bary Hill, near wh storm. g, Surrey. ach o ther ; ‘one was ropataal and, Haut 
oie ‘Negro Life in the | Pinus a? nsis Pin Apok a 4 ft. diuctiey soi 80 but the tw 
West Indies’ I recently my w sith the following passage : | cahuite asselliana purple, y single 
‘“ The Skaddock contains generally 32 seeds, two only eck, 13 fee Sabiniana, 9 feet Molite pete go er in s a Pii 
of which reproduce S cks; and t a a held fine speek Abies Smithiana, or Mo-| always of one colour. Tn “the Poteger of 
possible to EEE seme oe ae will es rinda were nine plauts of La Lionne, , Without a single 
Oranges, others bitter ones, aga’ ae KET Hed ate, Coulteri, 15 feet Menziesii petal; while in other p ding} 
ind, in short, all the Varieties p "the Orange; but, antil xcelsa Douglasii, 30 feet, | A friend of mine bought a grafted Be:uty of = 
trees are actually in bearing, no one can guess what filifolia from which we|one of the Paris markets, in June, 1843; 
he fruit is likely to prove.” -May I venture to request erardiana ve raised 100| most beautiful flower of that calie that I ha d id er 
pinio e truth of ent. An- Hamiltoniana, P. Ca- seedlings the season. T 
thi 
other passage appears to me rather problematical : ey 
t — = three kinds of Ca assava „from which tapio 
proc ay fermenti ing the juice expressed from 
‘roots, until a small worm is generated, the body of hich 
worm ‘conatieates the poison, a very small portion of 
which proves fatal. He further speaks of an arsenic 
Bean, ing in Jamaica, which I am unable to'dis- 
‘eover.—C. N these are ** travellers’ tales,” and 
“have vi R Mumb 
i 
reat Shaddocks ; s is Me ii ke ely that the seedlings will 
L iffer or re or les 
But we may vellin g for 
‘them x the ate: adas. If a Swan's: egg Pe ear is akéh 
f a Pear-orchard, you will have anything 
vate batt Swan” s-egg age oe its seeds s.] 
ee of Tenore 
Gardeners’ gg 
rs Ek “bd. each, are not i 
aye parca one oilskin closk (for 
ol 
may Niit it) at 7s. 6d.; but I rd Sae Lae ola 
roe. as thicker and strong er, rable ; 
e pu rchase 
on sho cont 
e y recommend these 
ic] to your readers.— 
add ile" R.’’ is, I suspect, 
shat tl are tadpo ed in their 
robab’ a n fro 
Bele took is food 
meands of frogs 
d it about 2 hou 
tp. 53 ; this quantity o Dr eii served to protect, and | to draw 
4 years piel nted mabilis 
Lambertiana cephalonica 
leiophyla grandis 
Llaveana nobilis 
macrophylla Pindrow 
Montezame Pinsapo 
monticola religiosa 
oocarpa ebbiana 
oocarpoides Cupressus Lamberti 
patula ligiosa 
Massoniana urifera 
Pithyusa, the same Orulosa 
as P. maritima of | Junip p 
Lambert, and only excelsa 
a vari of P. nana 
halepen recurva 
ponderosa, 9 feet tetragona 
pyrenaica or hispa- flaccida 
hen Thuja filiformis 
— W. Sco 
“Baie Sasa “W.D. F.” does not consider the 
the strain he took several cuttings ; three of t th 
al oe DEER and only one of them prol 
aas ed flow 
to the 
TS, gt 
a But there is yet enother circumstance conii 
fancy Dahlias, which is se 8 bh ae 
olou Im 
n 
Pre 
singular than Variation ofc 
of petal of a tipped flower nel 
and not unfrequently upon thie 
this for the first time 
Striata rosea, Esmeralda, and others; so 
the alteration, that no one could kno 
same sorte, except from their foliage and habit of gu 
Striata r when true, is of 
tals. 
the 
of ibs ; but w 
Dahlia 
cannot a Saij mber séei 
Dahlia, Le Lion; when eedling it w 
ace Wih &e., independently oi the filthy state i Say 
they w ould have t to be dra wn and s ent to eria 
first-rate in Soira and for reg pullatity of colour é 
be oe oped the second year, out of ten plants 
uë to form and ol r, the others were 
single srs but all around the serie &e., ae ere we 
had suffered most from rabbits. This occupied | three 
e | sing, with here and ther ei bpade h oy othe cia 
flowers. I could, if nec essary, give ma 
urs, and the result was as 
to do'so until this hour, something ey than yi ry 
of young fruit- trees, quick, &e. ss bei ey the disease m 
ie 
t, | to certain remedy, let nd m2 ied “by i 
o us, 
the rewalts —S8. & J. SORN Numeie is ere. 
L o Cou 
ae M j 
. | bat certa 
planting pieces of o 
yearly cuttings iti is true the flowers Aali not beso Ae 
iniy ry a bradan a s 
sti Il b ips 
sized pots, plunged a FO be t’ 
face ; but it is best of all (at least yar is the opi 
meer 
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