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closely together, then introduced into a tall | nest of a at (the hedge-sparrow b being t d be co inated to es on 
of agen Be ie Gaon sa eo eis h ad (2) bird); at t herein is prae the | tent with that whai was eos ted. Gotten 
- under this was then pla rt 2 F pe culiar instinet or not iae s th bi 
why over which a cup was fitted caran ing an | not A (and therefore oel elia nt fasten ra en, nd qaan ey a vegetable cee | eggnerate 
mce of rectified spirit, and the bag was tied moderate’ er the young of the cuc kies ‘which feed on | and such an opinion will conti long as th lo 
sse at the bottom. An air-tight box, a garden light, | insects), but her maternal affection is almost withont themselves ai trea the beaten trae md a, fe are pe - m 
or bag of cheap glazed calico, supported or suspended | ares: among ee whole feathered tribe. m lo ith wha: See iduals may assert ; but if 
over a plant would, I think, answer every ordinary | s udy, I have foun ad th a ifi breeding canarie: es, | they: com ‘and thi nk for naive and adhere | strictly 
peasion, at very little expense ; and when ssary | g natural or ra ather unnatural to Nature's _ causes, the ey will find that the Brussels 
fhe spirit may be evaporated over a small oil-lamp, pa d to its race as 
e Orts. > feed ions this office would be read ily ‘and most any other vegetable, and that it 
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g n and aa oir by. a hen robin, | natural power, nor knows any difference betwee: Phe 
as Enon ded Kar Mr "Flaming pier “ Odora” , dis- nee ten bring up the wh ole br TOO od. Tt is advisable, soil of enh, emad or that of =~ a art Judd, Southill 
sing t the wood to be c way, and leaving Ya ining therefor Gard iggleswade. [W S we received two 
> base are 3 be length, = a and mare of these useful birds. hey are ees plants of perfect moi 
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Besl fi to Vines on alia ey ram untoward’ circum- | or the finger, and they will hop about ae room a without sets are Soy certain than vinta Pota; tai The 
ances are left u in cea until too late for the wou nds any indication. of fe ear, I have, at the p time, | ordinary mode of planti the former is 
xy val sare the*sa have > power, and | eyes uppermost, but a neighbour ont jst now tag 
ibove trea art te. a few Vines here, on which wy opinion, almost that of any | me that for the last few years ars he has rsed the 
pinion was asked.— P. Walker, Bath-road, Cheltenham. | bir Th ey commence ae ay brea ak, and sin sing y planting th 
‘ E irs. at Trentham (see p. 1 87).—* Facts are | without ooeation, till near mi oe ht th d th has | 
born things,” or else I freely confess, that had I | up under fińe wood-larks, weet- | hi ines 
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ies, a and s any failures ; he says, that he has made 
nsulted as to the propriety of using concrete, I rong linnets, ther ereby Sealing: + ropa powers available | parative trial of the two pnw ds, and the potas fu 
d have instantly condemned it; however, it is a greater extension of harmony; having for many satisfied him of the super riori ity of nieri cut sets ty 
at in spite of our present much voa years Studied the red- breast, black-cap, nightingale, 
‘aid gardening, we have much, soft-b: illed” bird Potato Culture.— At the commencement of last year 
would first as sk, is the concrete bed undeniably excess that of ¢ —_ billed” birds). Imay}|I planted some early Ashrleaved Kidne 
a i f not so, it is | add, that the robin, whose ose praises have been repeatedly | which, wiek | pee red, I took u up and replanted with the 
questio degree tof principle ; ; and the | “s ‘surg a and said” in the last are volume, died from | view of getting a second se Se: s 
ole e subjeet might be apiy eompar ed to ity o -the frost, on. the 6th of F a $ y in November I found th tubers about siz 
ot, in which the drainage araplate; mil the soil He but crow’s eggs, or éuitablo for a gentleman’s table, 
“soured.” Let reek plan: ighth i the i ha en 
a Peac ho r in facta Vin ine, aed the shoot to be tn the ssn of his blood became v Amrn foot high, was car 0 
ed introduced through the a nt, of a house, and | and he was unable to se tag cg food. He came in, as | from frost, and on examining the Potatoes last month 
pot plung the avean. tem- usual, to breakfast, on the 6th of February, but was (March), I found the haulm dead and the tubers again 
e to be maini nse ie nti very feeble, e. At mid 
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ged in an average 1 me , 1} withdrew ; no “papa seeing a holo in s some tree reed deep ; but in one row covered only 6 or 8 kiekat, ie 
resume in the sg a BP ARA Se he might sake ex! it, Peace to his manes ! | roots were rata tay be ders oh st. Th 
d pre efer opening one of the front sashes, and | Willia —_ dd, Nao G _Hammersmit. e obtained in where economy is not a an 
troducing the pot within the ouse, for a greater Manure for raon ions. —I have always succeeded in object ; but it appears a that those planted in au 
ou ere However, to pursue the | the following way, being the surest and most economi- | should ‘he car thed at least 12 inches 
I better to exclude all fur-| cal :—Take x bout 4 inches of the a on the sur- | then the utility of the plan is of a doubtful character, 
expense of atmospheric exclusion, oe the length and width of you: so that the} I above insta of a l plantin moulding 
leave the soil to. be ae with the storms of | ground under be solid. Spread sabledng > aak may be indispensible, but I decidedly object to that 
n? Wh take int aba 4 inche esin thickness, cs nen e | Operation in the general culture of the Potato, conse- 
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soard ween ye average. temperature of t il q gh, and you are almost sur f bundant | viction is the result of experiments i 
tthe atmosphe re, I think it will be admitted that 1 the] i d C l seasons, together with careful com 
interchange of air between the greneng ear. Soo te Ss Wiper with the crops of my neighbours, some of 
soll and the atmosphere as as is frequently imagined ; anure Fh Oni ui the information of|by-the-bye, appear determined to earth up till 
d, in addition to this, if a Vine border be imperfectly | “ s F C” of Exeter P. zy I beg to say nse a > they are earthed up themselves. t 
ined, and consequently glutted with moisture, there | yea w; | trary, at many follow, and are quite satisfied 
uttle room for the atmosphere to penetrate ia figs geg ei } plan. I would just add, that I plant the tubers 
es lam of opinion that the Vine dra: ags o tiff l th ir ate e was sabe Rae up before | asm a little deeper when oepama d I think 
nce t cumulated sa; yi i tter | winter. In the middle of March the „ Tidges were | very important to plent: before they exhaust. x 
ofl rable unt of ic | levelle so think it important to 
oist thin t a ones aa Si roots Pua n pro- spread a and pointed in so shallow as to be only barely the blossoms “i i” the bull » 1, sneer: ps ‘i 2 
e which I have ar. been in the ees of ‘con- covered with earth. The seed was immediately afte A i 
lering as ev drills 9 apart, and between every | vinced I rea; reap- considerable benefit thereby. a Wm. 
jt fair play If it ca fi as an alley 18 i in width. Waterings | Godsall, 
1 rious to the faei hak a ae Vines can b fi s'i ly app “ae ne 
ed tohave p; an a e twice — w ith w. ater peta, 
oiiuences. what will h ved. The mpost consis E PEG of Ga 
together with phen paata ee S soils in one- thing: anced old ee dung, one-third o RA 1 = 
w. i rel main er 0 0 : 
tins of the a: eh atmos; pheric influen ce is the | n ght- soil, a nd the ood-ashes Er e age A examining the Akon last week ai that 
| sugges y “Ignotus,” p. 187, of a tarpaulin | ties; the latter oon tainod, a considerable ie of | were examined were ent Sae an routi 
ead of cone mee i, may mentior ion ie the same | oil. 4 The who le had x well mire ed together some | Bora uer of a planted, [We have 
g was suggested by me, at least 10 or 12 years ago maa plied.— e same report i make; s0 oht the frost question may 
4 ae TER iM $ sels § E A ding Dr. *Lindley’s “Theory | i mri sett 
ce, if not the whole of | of Hauna, > Chap. 17, pp. 321 and 322, I find that a agn Ae reply to eas ghlander,” I 
tion of Truffles, I. Van Mons is quoted respecting the de- ather ingeni argument has 
ener’s Magazine,” vol. | generacy o of the Brussels Sprouts pebnete At the end zh gien Tasdan LMY: doubt, nor established 4 the k that 
e hints given by the | of the laa the author ay k very doubtful | plants raised 9 seeds collected in the Highland 
marks in the Chronicle. of | whether è has been fully, if palin. stated.” | forests, Be Paa Meini equal in yee it w those 
pa tacked do maahi Nomai the one y agree with him that the case has | from which they are taken, On a little farther inquiry, 
and that we may not. yet despair of | been very: -far from bein ing c rrectly sta stated. “This s zoge: I find that the přice of plants raised from Highland 
S me e hie pee of the Truffle table, like‘all others, with strict attention, = pe, pre- | seeds aarep invariably higher in the North of Scot- 
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served true by seed, and it is not posse any ose of the common plantations. But I am 
A nt Raflesia wii habits and magic, pases one ‘dety science, as many om _have informed, by a very extensi ive kanaa] pagea san qe 
be eed in yiee I hav t for trifling as no 
; l of the sakje ect of Truffle cultiv: d sels Sprouts, bein iP mple which have been | exceed per acre, “supposing it to be 
pt one or rufo cultivation induces a A BLEN pa db pagan paca ge a y 2 
r other of th great li horti- wn by m; sank 4 this 1 lage or five years, and by my pl anted exclusively 
ae for and obtain A livin ving since H fath her er si se oras ti wa the seed, upwards locality, where the Highland mania prevails, little else | 
rdi plant, y my pe it aa Tim p ree ae so that ae Tieni Dp in price wea pa 
plants seems not to have met with | irg EE e soil in which I proc is nothing | qu ring plan m a distance. am a 
hands of horticulturists, they deserve, | beyond the panon neither do I Beis ge of any | without furthe: er inquiry, that the > Highland and Agri- — 
and I have tried in vain to get sight importance 5 a of the garden I now cultivat ey = 
i i i tratum of test tity of plants 
ented Maa poe ae d list, | is isa light and rather sandy soil, upon a tr Hie er gon ag a tat the quant y Bard er 
the exotic kinds surely might be advan- | soil upon a substratum of blue clay ; the vegetable g gors | oi the superiority of hard-w 
$ eaply effected by the recent means equally well on either soil, which fully pro 
tank system of heatin, which appears | is of no importance as reg i 
tial fo culated for Supplying the Talbi arati so kind. ith regard to its being 
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en cultivation of many of the | Brussels, I imagine, Sah as same thing 
moder Spier se coms see oor ae h the "ah sa tae ek i for 
ot seem to be method of} 1 d to Broccoli hunt ont true, viz., n e ough the subjeci 
made of wood, from oy Semana to oe thane natural o iy r grows near to contaminate | 15 years, to certain Rossi lea: we few Ys pea 
in thie now deal labels, less than half mene the idea of the degenerated seed being present men, either in n England or a u se cig Doaa 
Nearly six she in this way, which have b ack from Malines to Brusse d the ere acquiring its tention to Highland seeds ; and those who have, have 
= th apne round ws ly any ghland at the s 
Since they were so placed. | can be borne out by science; as shown in the same | price as the common, in order to get rid of them. 
h Robin I chapter of the “ Theory of H orticulture,” with isolated | I do not mean a one oe net rest = A corres- 
5] Rec esteg ve been - dent takes in y miles wou! rupp 
rg Or his kindn greatly y obliged to “ Quercus II.” | plants, the degenerated sort must ha Z Tory onip eee Londoner, bat yi ae x —_— 
already a n of, | pollen possibly might have been oo in great quan- | nary to to a Hi Iam a Highlander eer a 
ber to hav. history of of ¢ A agree aanane tities, which may account for their assuming something | 25 years’ experience management of Pine plani 
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seen le instan: f their nuine habits in the second year ; but that is | tions ; and Rg ites now in such walking phar res 
Sh acm aaan aae kn ia Triar donate, as there is reason hag ppose that the|as I have e been in my younger days, still I will walk 
