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e of charcoal as a manure, 
ds of the then exist- 
s the pot culture of 
ee 
the maty of the us 
tene 
practices Sof gardening, 2 as Sap 
ich Pea S, mentioned in 
Chronicle I a cg re iole. p Save seen the following | 
| most s simpl ea efficacious one, yi ch I practise. My 
oveaiy 
concerned. It is endo 
plants ioe ce “from ‘time to 
tailed 
is not difieal to “ie 
fiel 
ouse, whose boles it 
ragi oe sin “434 Bical have taken pla 
me in 
Hav ving fend them, take your 
a pot o naar = the ; pour 
is beneticial and that also which is hurtful. If we 
into any Grass-field in the i 
piece of ground, say a yard 
space laa iroto. of plants of different kinds, each kin 
selec ctin om the same soil that sort of va mo 
and 
è Maas sites is ones of the pier of 
op of potting How 
n my. opinion t inei importance of carbon or charcoal, 
other; 
hol he in habitante Bt at 
roth must come out, and be “disposed of byt he cat. 
It is very rt ap to see how d 
it is iat 
who have most the chem of y on their par. 
enler study, that different tribes of ‘plants rogers dif- 
Pox 
erer ’ 
eed, 
il have > tried the fects of it, I may s se aii mixed 
A Subscriber A 
f IT. 
—Ia m astonished that 
so Aka a Poon of Raced horticultural world 
roved by the analysis of their poate, ste ruits. 
Now, by what name is this process by which they. are 
with soils, and I have seen no esi ptibl 
| between plants grown in soils in which 
icio us and uncertain degree of 
adoris ed to their healthy development called? 
ther 
chare oal, and plants of the same kinds and ander the 
tances. 
of the tae! a3 ` We hear of n e flanges or 
e litt 
out an inch i in depth, oie ae it may be 
ar 
eed r ractice has taught me that to use phere al with 
oa but charcoal Was a 
portal and beneficial effect upon ioe when u 
wdered state 
to become impregnated with ither in plant-houses 
out of doors; for I believe ped under such fee a8 
— carbonic acid i is readily forme ed. Other ise why 
0 
{o bee (not saying anything about rapid piso when 
n 3 | Pm | 1 + k +h } hil ra 
hat is wanted for vegetation in panty is 
an pea from rE humidity, as en as from 
fi I am quite 
ed with the soil in which they grow. Itis 
ho! — are ae in the min utiæ of the la aws of 
arbonic acid through the 
of opinion that no invention 
will ever exc cel, for simplicity ina pier, a a cement ted 
brick trench, with the bottom pipe resting o it, a 
hat is supplied to their roots ; ; but i in my opinion, carbon 
i or 
tap to run into the trench. The bottom, or pest pipes 
or solid form, and its sole agency is through ter leaves. 
a vessel | containing water be kept i in a hou 
seldom more than from 90° to 110° in most hot 
food would at presen perhaps a step rs 
of co ourse, | st till, h are we to get aw l ? 
deems pectin, but which I consider play- things ; and Smith, n his “introduction to Seman says, ¢ that 
sed we ey ear of sudden deluges of steam being |“ the spontaneous movem of Baye are almost as 
I m a 48-pounder, into the atmosphere | readily to eiple; for in- 
of the: re which, fo or the space of balf an hour, casts stance, ae, general direction of thele branches, and 
a London f their leaves, though 
is called following. Nature, whilst both are equally un- repeatedly di 
sturbed, to light, the sufelaie maa bares | 
of their flowers to the light at stated times,” & An 
hek rs on he says, ‘ha ther 
ables are endowed with sensation, as the ey possess 
ie irritability and motion, ponn pipes, 
ns to what is natural and beneficial to the 
“flourish ing according to their success in in satisfying 
their wants ? d „May not the exercise of thei 
some degree of sensati 
water spose and this im “sedans in water, or pattially 
ever low, and ‘some e consequent share of “happiness? 
or any 
supplie ed in this way possess 
at the water be applied to roots, and no ference will 
Hou 
an a m ei exactly tedaking a venii evening in 
May, and the on nly hy, ygrometer wanted to Bg this is 
j ‘agers in the plants to which this app plied. 
gain, let cuttings having leaves be Aew | in 
r and let the surface be y 
practical man. ion to 
is, I am of opini op. that there should be apertures in 
the front v ‘all open night and day, es capa et 
thi ended 
wint this case, carbonic acid, obtained through 
Ai 
is was long since recom 
form of the Divine Creator. 
jipii a is any flowers in bringing their si 
mens se scr bi es one cannot — peers. 2 that 
ere st be g more than ere a adaptat ahs 
Mr. Knight. By means of these the : air will loi in con- | 
sta 
nt cirenlati 
interesting pat g vegetable hla his partiealar 
subjeci 
g this greenness. [Why not?] If plants in pots are put 
der a hand- eee the same effect will be produ ve bat 
no a 
and preserving a due pr portion of the constituent and 
virifging gases of the natural pore: al a rae? ie 
mae seldom 
will f the 
we M, Kitulo. 
, Stewed Pears. —My í cook was in despair some time 
A foo ty er and such like pests will be 
A ided a di er system of potting 
about 2 ince i in “er and I have ee them tak 
imme ed and to o present a dark- -green 
E. 
e Oni itik. were gaene A emama and | sphere, 
get her stewed esc of a good 
colour. After several filtres, using a 
e ebeattny of a soil to the at 
h gh 
an old-fashioned tinned ste apy ce 
was Substituted with panar ane cess. This is very 
1 
| joined with it. ‘These front wall Ae snipe aac or venti- 
at I egies to try its pow 
J poss sible ; the 
in the kitchen.—A Sub 3 
Goos: itt f Cateri Ula r. san some places the cottagers 
Tit th 
; a to end myself fully whether it kaly was s the 
n of Foxglove, Ape it over the 
What 
sulted 
eao aat in thi slw 
ro 
m, and co; 
at first ean er za 
from the a n bef 
However, istakan Py 
E that soot 3 t is mixed with salts of ammonia, and that 
vas, | Erri rington. 
Very different is the office of the front apertures. ZR. 
Labels Ss Z The following is the way in which I prepare 
my labels, to preserve the Dp sciet in Mey ground 
abie ko 
nP lants that al Bear the Spray of the Sea.—A list 
and fl may be cul- 
as I 
oars thong the whole edo of Phe house. By |t sites ‘whine sailing brus at caterpillars 
r mode (in which sudden deluges of fall “oft se collected with a coal- Vis Road-dust will 
ceding years. Last year I grew eight long beds of adhere to the fruit. The first is 
ons, and after plants ~~ raat about two immediat ir to the roof of the house, where, of course, | the cleane wat heft an nal saw pe cottage gardons, g 
ches in height, I applied soot t it is condensed, and descends in drip; and the greater | year, where it had been practised. An excellent crop 
in 10 or twelve days the ied oth in size and | the ae betes oy oute 
which had none was astoni nishing. They | th s the am of ot and ‘consequently the 
i -green colour and outstrip iall prer part 
meir neighbours in size, but they pt in advance of | if the fitful cause of steam beco: ETA short of | 
? “p to the end, to many gard I pointed out | supply. Although I advocate a constant source of pure | HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 3 
cA expla ined the aiie of the difference. As spring is } air from the front, I would h e glass of, if pos-| Mar. sires —R. W. Barcuarp, he in the chair. 
orm an eter earnestly invite gardeners to try the | sible, as close as a Ward’s Tin and now tha t the | Miss Shar and R. Gosling, W. S. Grey, and R. A. F. 
DLN Wha as curious, one-half of bed du uty i is to be removed from glass, I make no doubt we | Kingscote, E Esqs., were elected Fellows.—Not 
nest those n which soot had been applied, partook of of - weather, several fine Daaa were 
: ES olour. I may E forge the weather, hailstones. of f course, I would have ample ventilators | produce rtson, E: to Mrs. ce, sent 
nad used the very d d | at handsome apa us Wallichii, a ty ite 
ig so for mak essary sterwards, and | ever, in ge neral are mere wasters of heat and moisture. | bium Pi i 
woul 
im 
indica, called Smithii coccinea, cover red wit ith bloo 
fal + 
even in a small state. 
5 
Til 
From the same 
a handsome ever; 
buried 1 in he Sade aka ray pooh ae away to to get pe 
fectly dry nets using them. I find this plan to answer 
Gessa i labels endure for many years. I would 
this to agricu ulti urists as a preservative for | a 
&e 
st of the |t 
ood that is required 
tand lo ong in the ground, the trouble being small and 
ae pa trifling.— —J. L. Sno ow, Swinton Ga rdens, [An 
green 
jer b from Tie with shining leaves, and yellowish- 
gnen flowers ; the fruit of this is burned by the ee 
a called the 
rears, TEE 
Med al was 
Pet, was exhibited by ‘Mr. Is 
Big te 
5 mb 
Fc Trevelyan, N 
On Sunda ay they were ma 
iy 5, so a violent gale e N.E., c 
the ede i heel a flight pune over in more 
fan j serine Pea iver eens and round in the form 
om 
of the Horticultural Society. It is true that iy tarred | 
art was preserved: but the wood above the tar rotted 
ra apidly: 
Vegetable Instinct t.—Your correspondent, ‘ ‘ Walter 
in £ 
e 
occurred to me, without my being e to arr: 
Wh ich I neyer before y keapen 
nes op Started on thei 
ness-like Manaen, 
Species te Pipi 
After a series of 
r onward way in a more 
re a large but not a very 
‘ Weak 
of the words reason, instinct, and siaptaiioh, as applied 
by m odern naturalists to man, animals, and veget 
h 
s Ot Pin 
ridgeanu m, a ie auti 
India 
atta 
resemblane nce to Crys re like at Ba it 
is, I think, scarcely aot enough, 
the 
salar nature; tor as your lanai en thseres, 
e Bu Anana ai a fine species inhabiting 
the woods of Brazil, 
of its s stiff wire-like roots, to branches of trees, and dis- 
insects 
s alientos attention to the 
bles seek th 
It is opposes 1 
nj with i 
blossoms in abundance. From the same collect 
ro 
right 
o be the same as Ro nobile. 
specimen of R. rosera of a 
viceubhet e food proper fo or their nouris 
t, can for a moment doubt telligent | 
destroying mice, | 
cause must be a riora otegi sin thas rd 
A Knightlen ‘ia was awarded for the eatin 
rigida.—From Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Tietek; ae 
