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Home Correspondence So ial te emperature, and at the same time send do Potting “Carnations. Bear spring I had prepared a a 
Vine-Culiure at Trent tham Hall.—As my remarks Seed ap bee nd <td more or hers of a moderate | compost very weak in manure 
on Vine culture seem not to have been understood by] > greia ould remain, tt would by | wishing to keer p the Sowers bok becoming too double, 
f your correspondents, I brs to offer some ex- p means exclude rain, er that n muc a the greater por- | bat I deea tha a dry se: would be very trying to 
” For the information of ‘ -” who | 100 T the Er of the dung would t the plants. In otlag eas generally h 
“jf he understood me right, whe the er a heat of| Spher why not correct thes vils, by reife dry linter manure from the bor rders, where it had lain 
inter, an 
o 80° had been obtained in the border by the border md dung with a strong waterproof tarpaulin 
Ring a foot or two of litter yous! i ” I answer, | Thus th i 
ould be preserved, and sent ae ind to ee bes worms, 
Warde This I pa at e crocks, 
Chast hee further to add, that on the 8th of thie ee into the border, and all wet would be e uded. fee, coving the hole with an opater-hel, va is 
oat by means 0 ofa crow- bar and twine, ; “Saat 2 ther- i us, if warmth and ed are Page ra ble in a Vind. | proppe p by a A of „potsherd, We e I to pisce my pots 
' i 3 feet 6 inches, | } order Son would be att ined i Some measure and | | on the walk, I } ey are set 
‘ E l fliag the kolè with, col sa ad, it left for four me th n wates a yar hi nigh, Instead of phen however, I 
z ; when i t wae draw. the mercury was found e concrete and dung, that the taripeate ve dung can | now use either haeie, rags, or dried leaves, or the 
E wide) al 72 An ets: t thermometer, at 1 foot 6 = spell ied or removed at pleasu re; the concrete > fon haulm of Potatoes, Beans, &c ving stems af 
ees below g aki The litter over agea destroyed each time it is remov ed. To ex- | Ribbon-Grass, Phloxes, and Perennials, which had 
*¢ Las cit h t clude light and air may be disadvantageous, but v | eas gathered for the purpose in “ats rost, when no 
rious almost ia Venore” pats error in sup- equally applies to the concrete. There may be oth ame could well be stirring, and placed until re equired in 
2 pereti nta ages; a and, no E it would be ve ery usefal | a ry rsh ed, „Whe en I had t turne d ‘the ball into zy large 
s = Serada s; I wen stated what had been done in t your opinion should be made } |i where I intended the 
e case in question. I may here re ihe ‘the reason sje, and that your cochelphadents should make their | st ie to ety to filling up with cor mpost, I dropped in 
e concrete was not removed last s, that it rvations.— Ignotus. | janks of decayed spray from Ash and Alder trees, Bean- 
See +. te the new Vine be er upon it, it Statice arborea.—I am glad to find Mr. S b M 
‘a aai r pe ? j m gla - a , bits of omm, half-rotten turf, and pieces of sand- 
ing sufficiently deep to admit of this without having pa with this my favourite plant. A nega specimen of | stone, ‘pieces of half-rotten rag, and the stalks of d 
new border too high for the front of the house. It this plant will scarcely be found about ‘London ; indeed, | Fern. When potted, I left them to the ca 
; I know not wh to fin g 
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uring summer, except in t de, in | Must be mistaken about the Wisperstnts, | or it may be | withdraw the short, and put in the long sticks at the 
se of Vines to be forced early in September ; and | 8? error of the press. It reads “oT K keep it | proper time, up flower-stalks, e ] er 
ich, it must be remembered, have their summer dur- | 12 a higher temperature than from 40° to 44°, i I should | green-fly. For = months I saw no more of them. At 
oA winter. Few w DR ee appreciate more than my- rime it difficult to age it in a lower, unles it may be | the end of this p riod I found t they had suffered vo 
el esa "act rom weather as we have Baii lately epatlahcles. little f nor I the: 
dun ad afr: but ial wis hone Bek below by means | pep ouse we rar rely find the thermometer fa ll so lo ow began to fe them i weekly w with gu ano-water, The “om 
i air, and cover the bor der s with glass, T cannot = this; : rse of | did On turning them out of the blooming- 
how sun and air can be ‘ace of d ed, h Į lar is mak h, | pots 5 fk alah I bel some of the sticks, leaves, &e. 
ders where forcing is going o n dur weather nt still undecay ed; Akes had gone to a soil. I riddled 
until some better plan is inem: re rent of hont: pr rasa in a preonhouse 50° to 55° will, be. the “aati = the pie at and put the compost under corer, - 
ag by means of stable litter, I consider the allowing th indica tio on. Th e ha d Statice arborea die frequent tly mal that it at tat ree quite as gool, eas 
i J Duro. it was at first. Shall try it again: if I add any- 
veh cercant evil a Niet he eae peri To Preserve Wall-naits Fe Rusting. ien them thing to it Iw l l give it some fibrous loam, If I had 
it, which, after all, are scarcely more effectually ex- x ‘ tern So he ber charcoal “hh of the sioki, Beanstalks, &e., 
Huded by concrete than by “ Venitor’s” covering of straw, | | uld it have been bettet or worse? I lost two pairs, 
h as he states, it is sufficiently compact to keep out with Sines: Thus s pı amer they never rast; will last | which ae on po otted for see wi in a mixture of 
in. Hoare, in his Treatise, recommends paving the | fO" many years, and it is we the sie Feee fog Ps lay and sand. Tt has been said that some Pd 
borders; and if heat is supplied tothe roots during the | CEPS insects from the —_ Then ty Ms f 
0 Season, is it not a question whether t x- a féld.— 0. 
sion of air is of so much importance as we have sup-| Anecie nt Yew.—At, C aes the seat of the Earl tral from the trunk, and are supported on 
Anóther fact yee seems to prove the admis- | of Erne, in the count ‘of. digas Ireland, in the | number of wooden ‘pilars, hp agaa walks terana 
of zir to be of less importance than the keeping the — “of the old castle which was burnt down about at These branches extend over a space eons ” feet 
ER warm, i p at the Peer of which I ntury ago, stan most celeb brated Yew- -tree in in dia ee the he’ cgi f the ee fs about 2 i 
te have proved since the con has been put | Telin Il t much spoiled by a Y cr bet, rsa 
ony heat t suppli ed to the roots vie “forcing ; ; but 1| certainty as to its age. t Į Į 
of opinio their boyhood as a old yi Kri tree. of Crom. I | But the di 
0 be more discussed than our present imperfect modes | Arsh ma it to be from 200 to 250 years old at the] i h ller than that of the tr tree. The noble pro- 
ar 2 ae Vine roots. With regard to Mr. Hum-|least. The appearance of the eb gf Fel of an enor: prietor is afraid 
"s remarks, I am happy in having the Bditor’s — green Mushroom. The ll ind off Lough Erne to blow on the tree, it might 
is nothing contrary to reason und, and is not t above 8 thes in = hgh and about be injured. A A party of 200 have often dined under this 
inciples in supposing a retro- 3 jo tin diameter, Te [The wind will not hurt the tree.] | 
Fpl of the sap even to a grea xten i 
I have presumed. in summer pruning I count it 
practice to let all the you: ng the foliage 
ps a be fally e exposed to the ra ays of the sun; 
5, with the view to obtaining as great a quantity : 
borated Sap as possible, and to add y vigour to the 
me plant. In the case of a Vine 
oy Fon roa papers principle, and praned as soon as the 
ot st ear a nsiderable proportion to the whole 
hole 
bly contain a greater T PNPA 
2a 
iyo igtiye 
gie _ sap than any ep part of : Fodh bare 
case th ual loss of sap y pruning YEW-TREE oF 
3 Ebe grea o ess ite can be abstracted previous to| Lord Brougham on Instinct. — As many of pe posed, par that instinct then ceases and intelligence 
it one, I have what I think will | readers may not have read Lord Browgham’s s «Dial s to act, his lordship 
hat this can e a 
s ir Ta airite., a the lst of January last, | on Instinct,” and many also may have read them, bat sibility g a law to do a certain thing, to-obey the im 
i width oe filling a e 30 feet in length and 14 | without finding ou ot wht bn ee Sey is | pulse of the desire, until certain events shall happen, 
been d in S inativet, what fi 
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j with respec 
of being pruned, During the jkt aa of | be his opinion.. Mr. Bree, lol o follow another guide, or rather to 
served the disbudded aie to be full of | ber, certainly 1 t und The | use a piesni pine reason, pass act according as it 
Uch so, that on receiving the slightest wound | style, however, is very diets ae objections to an a meg allow, or recommend in the circum- 
or the thumb nail they bled; but by the | proposition are so numerous, end the answers to su tances.” (p. 89). With tegir i Dodit — 
h objections are Paga sa. made by. way of epee 4 his ror on the whole conceives that a rational 
oots had become dry, and | pre- | jection, that may easily conclude th rey mind cannot be denied to animals, however inferior in 
the appearance of a Vine shoot that had | without a arriv. aag eidir n the DORA at al (p: 158); But 
to hot sunshine till it had all its moisture | His lordship Tda is subject into two parts, viz er the pray e 
ich fact I seeno way of accounting for, but | animal instinct, and animal intelligence, and of each eile ration m the es pees tp rod ‘x Bree will therefore 
that the growing shoots had abstracted the | these he treats separately the facts and theory. With | perceive „a no new edition will be necessary for the 
ts draw inferences from these| respect to animal instinct, his lordship first notices | solution of t e problem y oo na erg psd the 
from what I have done, I trust I am open | Descartes’s theory; but what that is—whether that il that de ves itself into 
is a subject on which I invite dis-| brutes have no reason or mind like ours—a power | the pone of ‘aaa por bare ce, and, et, it co 
n trath, in a friendly spirit, with a view to pod P oe greta ion—or that they are mere machines, | borates this part vray lordehip’s chided . 
—G. Fleming, act. from a principle solely corporeal ea me-| Seotch Fir Timber.—The reaso enson commonly given for 
ot Trentham. My s attention has been attracted chanical, and hav ave no thinking soul—his lordship | the notorious supedaitie of the Seotch Fir tiurber im- 
Of Vina ot in the ark. His groapa: then states | ported from the Beltic, over that grown in Britain is, 
ce to arisan ham, and the various criticisms in Sie ' Isaac Newton’ s Aaea viz., that feza actions | that the tree found"in the northern forests abroad, is'a 
an i tement. The points involved are the constant, direct, ston ediate ope- variety of the Pinus sylvestris, distinct from that which’ 
pre enored temperature and dryness for the | ration of aie 2e eiai j is e videnity his lord- grown at home. The real reason, I am much 
Paratory to and during the season of forcing | ahipa opin and h t against tbe theory that | inclined to suspect, is simply, that the timber grown 
Tew means of effecting these objects has, it tions ‘of ‘brutes are the effect of an original an itain is eommonly of rapid growth, whereas that from 
d with success at rentham, viz», st design or law, 7 impressed both on} the Baltic is of extremely slow growth—as any one, 
ith concer te, to keep out t the rain, | matter a d, by whic s havea desire to do} who takes the trouble of counting the annual rings in a 
fo dang superincumbent u upon d no other savin that instinct is a foreign boards, may easily convince himself. O) 
ogee ; and an pe wala ie naded, oo operation of the Deity acting on each animal, at | examining « piece of Fir timber, by = ao 
saad upon the border, unless rain was at | each mo: tof “go rather t an the result of certain (or even of ~ —— it is ap hat it 
£ excluded, would be positively injurious such animal. His lord- sists of soft gy layers =< whites 
every d VSGEst a method by which it would seem aa ents in favour of Newton’s ry, | with hard dadoa ured ribs or sept 
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