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pring, or the ripening. t Grapes | examin: ation a i S 
to ngs them “with straw to protect them from frost. | to ib; forwarded in the summer ; SA as of == ela tive ion a ore on zerie enon “ape th 
‘As soon as winter sets in, and the season for Chicory | gorse pondon has Apricots and Pe y their qualifications as practical ga un n 
ni wives, one OF mor i P ta 3 <a te o be grown as espaliers under screens of glass, I was wees with this inquiry; ar x 
er to the supposed deman as the loose straw | how easily and ch Th aE a d aring my humble testimony to the goođ 
B aa 5 wel watere red, om | giaa ve describe The simplest kinds spirit in ue the ey submitted themselves to is“ 
ae then manure ar . uestion 
cp? ‘an te re kept fr mmediate contact bs the least skilled ‘chrpenter could construct, or any Intell. turned written  anat begi Ar. Malngton and my self 
y the interposition a of a little clea an oT The | gent gardener would m make for himself, would be ve valu e Of these answers I then 
igh et the heat that would be regara if placed i in a sloping p ., respect 
‘nto the interior, sets into motion ‘the true against walls, or leaning one against the other, and pro- apts “notions aof it a bolani ic we should be 
d Anat arranged. a 
is the received name for the matter | perly secured from distarban ps by wind. If toler: 
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ry for its dilution, from | of this ki ght ans for pits and Melon-frames, | portions of the answers ts ad plas Set had been re. 
Id, causes the young leave and there would be little occasion to have sliding sashes | turned to me; and after due deliberation they 
rg pay: which t they in any iting as air a and v water might be admitt ed by announced their choice to have fi Mr. Mu par 
few re cut off, and being perfectly ) $ he Liverpool Botani n. 
orate "as s Mr, Cuthill says, E a bea uti ful or by raisin, ig the lover ends of a few by wedges. For | five adine selected s Caen he won Meat 
What heny s RS gr operations a compartment mig oh ‘be lifte rt off, or | Gibson, Moore, Hume, and Ca tling. In addition to 
in my s the a few minutes as many tiles mi ight be oe ea as to | | these Mr. Maitland was Pag aay to enter the lists, as 
» was its applica cability to afford sprees bas Gh sd fest om was nece: we 
n, on two acc poani 3 first, Siar the nya of o: tiles are ma hr the thickn 
ly a expen and was most favourably 
a distance; and, secondly, t e | quarter ‘of an AA Ey | reco ek d to ‘the notic oof the Trustees. The oppor- 
enting dug which ana on | made of votle paes tise would, I eoncei ve, , transmit tunity which I have had of testing (I think satis- 
might be grown low- | sufficient light, “and o ught to be ver cheap. If this | factorily), the extent of intelligence and general infor- 
London, and conveyed should meet the eye H any glass-manufacturer ie mation of these six candi 
da ates, bas served to impress 
rente “ef di 
thither by water, and might be bought by mar- | would be inclined to make them, he would obli lige many | me with h a very favourable opinion of What must be the 
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ck, and forced on any ye. pee of | who may wish to tr ry t them 
ound; in fact, every mews, were it t its | may be had in “Pall as 7 gA p 
proper destination would be interfered oN A be 7 rote, -glass for flower-borders d I consider the six persons above-named to have 
i rci ' Chicory ; and every one with a but I have not seen them Mee any yents 3 f may fully justified the testimonials they had received, 2i De 
house, by buying a few chi is hase been owing to some excise erino anner in 
) ich might be sold at Covent- and at Soe ae Henslow, Cambri idyo. 
den as Cabbage plants are), and a load of fermenting rai TA A Co ppan Reader, Kensington. Gravel Pits. Mii — With ee to mil Idew, espec 
panure, mi pleasure of cutting bis own sal orphology 
a of | atta 
ay in winter, and the spent manure vel serve iis ie ‘athe, entitled « os Natural His story 
ilise his garden; or, as Mr. Cuthill suggests, he | of Northamptonshire,” I cam on the following pas-| watered a numbe 
hem ina fe ew garden-pots in a warm | sage : :—“ aa ose ‘if I may “eal it so), which I found | highly concentrated liquid manure, before their r 
et or cellar. at I t is, the culti- | in Mr. Bacon’s garden, A Burton ene ip Fimi had taken a firm hold on the gro 
of Chicory so extensively carried on for the Lon- | did not come 36 iis oponer a cluster, or hea a | was, th 
de ariar, and for that of other towns, as not merely fo ots talk , in the usua i way; but dispersedly “upon 
ô supply a luxury to the upper and middle classes, | Ww hich, 
TANARA classes agrateful | and salutary addition to | upon it, omano at a transient view, the spike of 
pring, when other | some verticillated plants. There 
si fom their high price, are pony out of their la aly. husk or calyx. The middle part of some of t eeds of this I believe 
bate ouly objection that has occurred to me, in bee vers in sub sta ance, the same with the lea aves of as up piy the : e absorbing voaleis of the roots, and ‘a 
y of the general use of Chicory salad, is tha p in the aries especially in those 
t firs i r some English ake the same sort of foliaceous substance, and seemed where iy ordult happens to be ai The 
be composed, | remedy would therefor a fe carefully removing all de- 
Rat one-half of | cayed Pit of the roots, and preserving the circulation 
same | in an active state TP “H, 
oots 
und. The consequence- 
they were all mildewed toa Sveg great degree, and 
I discovered that, 
h had shown most mildew, the 
ee roots | were rotted i in many places, Ii im :agine from 
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ght excess, when compared with Endive, ter that the uckoo.— Mr. Kidd, i mmon with many 
, after twice or thrice eating it, leaves of the tree| others, appears have been unacquainted, previous — 
as it ought to do, since t consist of. At the|to his reading the letter of “Quercus II,” wi 
tonic properties.. In s x e spike | the fact, that the cuckoo sometimes deposits its eggs in. 
that some spirited London gardener (if it may so bej|the robins’-nest, and some eb ge have gone so far as_ 
a atronise and bring called) wás one} to Ae that i ever ess Bons ; the follo 
s mo reason why, as above single leaf of will, howi ony of “ Quereus 
this vegetable should not ywer—such as it | on m thi is point a is goes than 20 years since I 
as that for Rhubarb, and prove was—and opposite | was a ‘b est hunter, and very few of their 
the growers and consumers. As to it a branch of} haunts escaped my ee psn in aa : 
Chicory are now grown in Suffolk 7 the Rose-tree.” My | month of April, T discovered, in an 
Engtand, for the sake of the reason for trans- Damso n-tree, the ne: est of a robin 2 wa to the est ae 
ied and ground as a substitute eribing the above |n ony Far 
ould be very practicable, if and passage is, to in tl £ rent bir This excited my ke 
were to arise, to obtain t quire if I may look |s 
moderate price for forcing ; the My as an in- feathered 1 tribe that came within my reach ; ; and I 
e being thus subdivided, according to stance corrobora oe in order = 
o br anches, that for supplying tive ‘of the truth of | know the result. In the course of ai short period the 
Morphology, — in | egg of the robin was not to be found, and from the re- 
L sae forcing and s selling the 
don marke et-gardeners ; this subdivi- 
which the petals maining one I was surprised to Tod that my robin 
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ariig a greate nd labour, as is usual in simila AEs, 
fn ne pios to ie i ahaa: eee a eR vite wie f |p rae Pesca es os ee preserved my 
= tah a erR Den N: a a Sub., | cuckoo from fiying away, permitted the robin to enter 
Hom but els Tov dovve- whia hi for se time. My cuckoo 
Sian Yon e Correspon: dence. Ton, Vorthamipt on. | was an o Ta of great cur rios ity t o all friends who 
an inform Sie ang advice Fedagpeen glass t 
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which the axis did | One ing, ya T, on open ing the door of the 
z) A , as usual, stop | cage, pi it hung near bes old Plum-tree, my cuckoo flew ` 
ore desirable that you poe also ae growing while the petals, ke., were Tatt round ‘ot oe Baa ran alon ni m gr speed ; while 
turning to the thick ss of cro but Beas | beg age’ ‘when the metamorphos my eag not desiring t my curious” 
Ses Sarden purposes upon its surface ‘the fiend, followed i in, a basse. Cuckoo sto goat suddenly, 
i: See nr an {intermedie condition, The a 
whe a age tly ag pee use of, in es [orgun X speedy a case of a similar kind ; but iot quits ty F te expec ectation of hearing the note of the 
trength uty | bein, taken y weight. so remarkable. cuckoo sounding from my wicker cage, the following 
rficial foo, should be “lefined } by the weight Cambridge Botanic Garden.—Since you wish me to | April. As St. John’s- Wood.——The robin, the hedge- 
ran Some familiar gauge should be give » you some sort of general statement c of the manner sparro w, and particularly the titlark are mentioned as 
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í | last week took place, I do this with very great pleasure | much ee if the robin ever t Aap any part in this 
iR i Pi 4 value that i the cheapness of because I gem ider the oe. ~ were taken b; the | matter, as it is a bird which breeds ata a h 
; oe you for the inform one of the en were most disinterested and | season in the year than that at which the cu i 
be pled ication 
mation y our pa esare afford- | judicious. The appointment ‘of a Curator (as we a us, and is, therefore, likely to deposit its Stia 
7 Probat Sepie = pres at which it it we iy general superintendence over the or (as of the | now mention another bird which, I doubt Bs wee 
ly i airy eee n which it | garden) i , by the will of the founder, in the | your readers, as well as myse aie observed bringing 
TA hotGceltural: ep well as s | Vice Chaat t the masters of Trinity and St. John’s, Three os Pigs vad ago being 
E believe; known į in Eng- me. Progos f King’s, and the ius Professor of | on a visit to a friend in Dorsetshire, in the latter part 
re The first step which these gentlemen ook was bi Peter of AGAUE while sitting in a room fronting 
of the shape of those a que est the conductors of some of the principal | t n of the garden, ib nag ape teed ae of wag- 
introducing a few of | Bot i young ecuck = certainly amused me 
°S, any shed or upper floor | the office, who should possess testimon zg o their wed not a little to watch these eats birds feeding such 
thout any of the expense pene of not only condueting, but rming a new | an overgrown baby. They, however, seemed highly 
In this manner the | garden. Your havi ing made public ace nee in the heen pe with their adopted og, oe dayè Mt 
are found so useful, may | Gardeners? Chronicle induced several candidates tisfy 
nt and cheerful in | come forward from other establishments ek those w ped of his voracious | appe Ba 5e ae 
robably be adapted to | — application had been made. After a careful in- | beg to corroborate the fact of the cuckoo eais 
niera kinds of plants durin ng | spection of the testimonials of all the candidates, the | canorus) depositing its egg in the nest of the common 
Protection might be suffi- | Trustees peloctiid five from among them, whom they | titlark, During the last summer I was witness to three 
