11.—1845. ] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
167 
RDEN oe amet 
ANDSCAPE GARDENING AnD GA p Mr. Goopirr, of G a, fo 
GLENDINNING, since his residence near the 3 ranar und guano and stable the leaves of the plants. I h tato- 
B- etropolis, has had honour are a | dung equal i effect, the former applied at the | a co ts tee put oa t 
ITRE in the improvement of | Of between and 4 cwt. to the acre. In 
A) art tian and heating if n exper imen nt by our friend +f en the fol- 
thauiealk DONORI well nt ut not uninteresting experiment wit = lowing were ae relative values of pr obtained 
s now ma ate such arrangements as | guano s sm entioned in the fo a ing note from per acre from experiments sagt ch tat 184. 
enable him to ASRA his particular attention to these i W. v 2 Berkshire ¢ entlem ke se oes, z= 4, 
ant subjects; and Noblemen and Gentlemen desirous of A lab b 8 rec oning the Brice an 56s. per 
Seine bin, Me respectfally requéated to dnei Hint the ir! ourer brought m T mea eeansckably fine Potato i in A. s 2 feet hf inches a apart ; the sets 
Chiswick Nursery. p near Loni ndon. RS iei ring; 4 was much struck with it 1 plac in se row 
EERO E BUFF into eight sets, and planted them in ha l ni tre, leav e bi “en 5 inches fro om 
ERS ie. some ae eee Plants of this | Manured—each se foot apart Jhen the vine was | between the sets; >, 
t 
RIVE 
F » interesting hardy Fruit-bearing Shrub to offer, at 2s. 6d. 
f ch. 
wil cation. 
*,* Stout perialis, 5 feet in height, 
h well-ripened wo: 58. eah: 
| Sawbridgeworth, Herts, 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
ATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1845. 
MEETINGS = THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS, 
Torspay, Mar. Horticultural 
Microscopical T A i p t . 
f Wamnssay, Mar. Mi Society of Are ri 8 rm 
" Sarvapay, tMar. 22 Royal Bota: 5 4 Pm 
the: 
to | 61 lbs. —considerably 
but th 
about a foo t above 
ʻa 
2 
the summer most iturin ntly. 
g 
sets—the moe grew through- Ai Ete 
the o 
Sla 
ag at 
er day, and had the very 
more than 2 “hushed pa one | 
Potato ; e mös interes 
ment is the fennos, betmeen E produce of the : sets 
gua 
h 
nexed wd. agit 
ing a depression TERP 
A p, for the pem of rain, V 
alue per. acre, 
T a whieh mere not manured mag uano. B. Planted in rows 2 feet 3 inches 
Produ ced z 4 Mibe inches deep, wad oe asunder in the fife se? 
t were, produced nF, Not $Y Fe 
Pavia Fain i ey 
anted in single sets 2 feet 10 i 
The latter pn aeaa all large and fine, whilst T ih far : bE A ee TNE 
| former were mall, and in rompers son inferio Not earthed W ede se ia e P 5s. T 
I erber cae e, § »” residing near ats an- Earpiad S $ pas 
more, tried guano against -yard manure thus rom this Perte thatB, ot earitedup, alae 
Forty poles of light gravelly land in a high situation | B earthed up, at the rate of 5l. 6s. aes. In th 
re taken for experi he sets were dibbled lni » where the sets plan 
n oes rows, and 8 or 9 inches apart. little | Widel rt, the value of the crop not earthed up 
o was dropped pon the sets in the holes, the exceeded that earthed up by 1l. 4s. It was probably 
ematsidae $ in all 3 cwt. an acre, was scattered broad- | WiD to the excessively dry season that the kai 
[esto over the land previous to the holes bang a ee 
in. Another part of the field was plan n the |in portions g seasons. The crop throughou 
same manner, but manured xi am a ui of firii- greatly affected the drought, but iced in tthe 
ard dung and decayed leaves which had formed | ‘idges to the greatest extent. uch a season, how- 
the bottom of a pigstye Little rein fal | during the | ever, EAI ridges, as p Sav sm msn t 
first 6 weeks’ In this instance no antage. was | 4 are es med, have an advantage over those that are 
| apparently derived from th 1e use of gua nthe the DaRTOW, 
ia both P ee must, howe Finalin — to ime to a close that which we 
ser 
guano "nto the 
well hav 
| nure is sapt to inj 
n 
it deer a are sprouting; on which a 
| pm it should always k „used as a top- dressing, 0 
i 
S W hen 
» let us 
tet us 
gl 1 
be previousi 
foals lowance no ‘fuel, and a house free of rent, 
i, sand repairs 
Ta HE slowly Seaton season warns us to bring 
y assemble all th 
sprea ‘am out singly on 
oor, is always, by this means, sure of a 
pahe fo oving is the result of an experiment : 
lat 5 eae 1843. aken up Nov. 11, 1843. 
s 5 sets no gypsum = 6 lbs. 0 oz. | The so 
i do. with =6 7 light loam. 
: do. without = 52 0 
ith =s5! 
lichen e 
meei preference is given to the Potatoes ma- 
i remarks on the A a to aclose; we therefore grou 
ce AY 
y much weakened by mixing it with 5 or 
6 times its bulk of ap 
pah that the subject of manure is before us, it will | K 
ay ‘Gad’ 2B all eas ad cease, 
as productive a s they once 2 wens. en 
Nignt’s seedlings were originally tried, 
yielded, in one case, at the e rates of 68 hors 70 ee 
obtained from them. 
be as well to cere a all a koss show the 
| Abvantage of placing the man up 
a to pa n 
| Mr. 
some seedlings from a 
Guruare, of Tay Banks, by Dundee, raised 
Lake 
e top, 
geou! end of RES in Donel who has this 
ae applied s titte apona manure on the top, con- 
ne s his mproved by it. 
a e variety cultivated near 
ith the accuracy that is to be desired, and therefore | Ontario; and some of the varieties so p 
we cannot make that use of their peda artes | yielded as many as 120 Potatoes from one stem. In 
| which we could hay abe ishe d. As men or two | One of “Jaut’s” cases, a se ing, raised by Dr. 
page veret, por ible y striking point | MACLEAN, of © ter, planted in single eyes, pro- 
ran re thus ;— | duced at the rate of nearly 14 tons per acre of Fine 
Sere ö eon tatoes, on land which suffered uch from the 
om a patch of g on which. the. (short drought of t 
stable dang) had been left uncovered. — before. yer in in the same way, ip that common sets 
COUNTRY WALKS. ` 
_ GENTLE Reapers—Under the above title we propose 
PAi “ivi wt near pan are m, found his crop = 
which was manur 
ar country pee Ant and which we too frequent y ia, 
ured an we g Manure over 7 the 
3 bett noti ona and unheeded. It is, perhaps, this frequency 
has been the subject of several experiments. nina wore is 
Sree Geo. Rous, of "pe ton, used i ri with the quite free fete “from ne attacks em what is called the lor the eee 
Sans “smother-fly.” He, however, gave the ground a| surrounded by objects Sapable: “ot exciting in ua the 
ras lanted in a ® 45 feet long, and | top-dressing « of sulphate of soda A cwt. to the sre), oar a and day after day we = re pn if 
rt red Sen ne ly,Mr. Warr sed, a $ le ast uninstruc ted., Our ct will be 
To ev ery iour rows 
t not miad :— 
"Potter’ 8 gu ano ; 
’s) 
of Uxbridge, i is clearly of ATSA that if dung w 
he | Ta in í jatka to settle the ques 
ut ce, h 
x | always used moist, aud placed on the sets, covering | 
them with a tolerably ie Sarion; we should h 
little of the failures now — 
the ntrary, have each their 
of Nature which lie so thickly scattered around you; to 
ear | direct your attention to the birds which build their nests 
and sin z their varied songs of love and joy in the hedge- 
rows; the flowe ts which de ck with thei r tho 
+ e parchi 
The 
owever, seems to turn in favour ‘of ombieg 
> 
7 
mes: a 
28 5 
1 
heath a the rippling water-course ; and above all, to 
teach your thoughts to ascend from the admiration of 
the creature to the gis arenes of the Creator, and in 
all your observations of the works of Nature “to look 
anures u: 
= perce of <a operation ; sod s so: is aiia i pasa 
s.;| Of Granard. The latter says 
3 
20 tons to the acre, by deeply —s Potatoes in tn 
ened by the 
I have had several very aaavy t crops of Potatoes, even 
2 feet asunder—the drills were 
digging them a Ler! = 15 inches dow, throwing up w. hat 
the s spa ade (a na e, 6 i inches 1 wi ide) brought up, but 
a Nature up to Nature’s God. 
Let us address a few words to those fair dames, for 
whom t this series of or Spray > more especially intended. 
ed speedy approach o will soon oad the whole ; 
‘ace of Nature; that wien i Bi now wrap 
d sleep of winter will soon awake to onawd a 
Sikour, and all this will take p = E irni erom 
gradually. Now, then, i is the ti 
objects ips tetracte 
but the be may 4 
guano; 2. do. 
S. 
opened, the ear att of ia a 
in them, sets ie manure were put in each drill as it was 
e drill filling up the one 
the „Potatoes _ were about 
pre her hig for 
your attention and bewilders your thee You must 
acquire a habit of ee ae 
of see ing, but of intimately, n r be 
is solitary 
Prince Willia 
uctive than the red Kidneys, 
experiment which I made 
2 perches of ve 
ied 4 lbs. of that -guano which | 
er th red Kidn 
us 1 peck, 
a Dutch hoe from st appearance of the Potatoes ; | 
| there was no clay drawn up to the stalks, a: my expe- | 
| rience leads me to think thi Uthat I 
the s Pa trv and broken a he plants, 
the koina DEWE the rows —_ sae: hoed with | 
the fir 
on spot aite required is a a moving of the ground, so 
rd a continuous supply of gases to! 
and regular 
eye, obtains far more i intormation in one doy than an 
unobservant Argus with his hundred eyes a whole 
month. It is al dort hh how your interest i in "your daily 
walks will be ia 
aa braire 
ess amd the be . s of the various 
‘ou meet gel o wal pi lta no ae 
cts which you me of interest to a mind desiro 
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