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E adres l with the surface, connected by an | len is 40 feet. The diam f the tree ld 
upper pan leve aa ead kouki A i could no f the spot urished 
E o of copper wire. On one side, and touching their | ss y hate less than 7 Teet 6 inches at the bott sang ae niri ear, of which there is onl = st 
pri pane of glass 14 inches in length and o l t least 5 5 feet, or 5 feet 6 inche: es, at 40 feet high pari daiar th kihi n tie w res ae soniy abont a a 
age e | other i ature de 
1 
urta á ne use of | v ent of seedlin rchide 
sowed some common Cress seed. The seeds came up | so large a e with grent to toil, on p small a under favourable Anca go Ai giem ; oes a 
on both sides of the glass at the same time ; and at the piece of wai (not containing £ 0 acres ST nnot con- | have we your corr n 
end of 10 days there was not the slightest ee in jec ture, Ther wo i isla nds s in the rara which were | such additional matter at it suggested, and I will only 
artificial, anting | add, that I i i 
zine look ced. a little unhealthy. them about 10 years ago, The earth i pp ‘clea sas other person ae wince ee blot g pref 
le} ray A int. 1} = s . sy: rf 
3, pe on each ie of some Peas that were other. dtl f Or As plants of Orchis itae macra, and 
j : They hav Some brass Celtis cin: ring-money, ai e latter with tw o quart 
y5, “bu t T cannot perceive that "dis she between four brass swords, were found above the fra Sec; r n 
= either better or worse than the rest of the and there is another canoe, i i 
y. G. ing partly eapi and partly in the mud, in about | Since the above was written, I have ob a 
V Eleetro-Cuilure —The following extract from Féné- 6 or 7 feet water, near where the large one was found. ene pha of Spiranthes autumn alis (lady’s tresses) in 
, The modern Oak of this part of Ireland is not at all mall pot in the sand royed 
of electricity on | remarkable for size.—Cavanensis. [Wh 
etation, that ap make no tims m8 er tae ning it to | Oa k was this A Q sessi iliflora. _ We sho 
or :—“ Le Fluide gerne est, le de 8 i 
main prodi gue Pya repan ndu pa r Tera} : Patmo. Deformity of the Peaeh- leaf. sI have some Peach- | I had — ago found that Neottia nidus-ayis 
p hér t ill-d which | killed in t b d 
petille au plus léger frottement. Le soleil éclatant wa | are excessively liable to have blister ai lea and in | gree of frost, being protected in its wild state by yas 
tes de puissance que ce Pica Aiti il anime, | sòme instances it extends to an unn ral thickbuinie of hanging i i A 
fleurit les campagnes, et il vivifie le cœur de | the upper parenchymatous plate of eaten, of whic 
Phomme.” It is common to hear the remark, after a inclos se a spe cimen, Some young ne wly- plan ted t trees, | 
Eira < t How rapidly tl are 
aproved !” May not isi in a a great measure be owing affected with this- deformity. I am, therefore, i in- 
t Ee electricity conducted to, and equally dispersed clined to the A ome that this disease aris rin 
the surf i 
air. e little ed very speedily k exposure 
| to frost in a al, 5 os sa 
hat this nel it to brave the severities of winter.— WV, Herbert, Spof- 
surface of the earth, by the rain? If so, it} excess of moisture being imbibed by the vd ato H Vea rby, March 7, 1845. 
rvin 
à y t 
wou Bbo very desitáblo to produco an a thunder | effort is snl S the tree to enlarge its Aie for sis —Observing in a late Number, a few lines 
5 EF think, nay be accomplished oo elaboration of this cans, mt diluted supply of sap, nee y correspondent H the subject of Jabels, one of 
ntly follows :—A, enchyma of the leaves ex = = you describe, m 
e eG can; Bia zine one, both made same | more rapidly than ‘their ribs, “Contorti tion is thus un- au ion, not, Karsan bbs ially directed against ‘the 
and half round, so that when soldered together avOldably induced. d 
e l, but against the : mode of ‘securing it—the ' result of 
ey will form a round can, with a separate spout to |chyma of the Plum and Cherry cause their. cuticles to | sad experience! T g labels 
, alittle inclined towards each Gien so weg er burst in wet weather. There are some acari upon the | I beliey ; but bes is i rchased? I doubt 
er ma =) sae eac i i if it i 
be pu 
and t eaf in o 
ircuit,— Wm. Ellis, 109, ME, vegetable disease, not the cause. Thorough under- | means pooh ala hel t rA a Plant ce means of wire of a 
dr: iy I hope will prevent a recurrence of the evil.— | different agai an u mention, the label is 
Ridining Dire ladies—I | G. W. Jo hns son. [There | can be no doubt that these zine and the en These are precise ly go | 
ean some such bea APY hat aa as consider | | i I l 
te pa ito their domestic duties as no Bee: ion t ive influx of difficul hat my Standa = koas. but in two seasons half m my 
h or station it labels had dropped o off, and in another s scarcely 1 in 50 
; in fashionable cookery — The Bee rke shaka snipe asked y you od remained. How e these 
which peo oyt: ich 1 atitudinarian arena as ee how to preserve the Bee Ophry $ in Eh on. I wish | two metals the most familiar, because the most power- 
to pect it in i K atl’ e place | ful objects in exci iting a galy. anic current? Bethi 
ai, oe instanes as, “a Pae of salt,” “a shake ied without cultivation. Two sis I seoetved three in | yourselves, ye scientific gardeners, ere ye trust them 
a ae in Bedfordshire whic I had shut up and | together. By the way, as electricity is now being em- 
Bea a taste.” No ow, t ikes se are all sige enough, planted with Lar ches years before. I took | ployed as an agent in promoting vegetable growth, what 
ju only tend to spoil a particular dish, sauce, po Halo Yorkshire, where I | would probably be the effect of a mixture of zine an 
ding, for a day ; but when we come - toa ‘affair of a potted it it. Last summer it produced two flower-stems, | copper filings in a compost ; not in the heap, where its: 
à what concerns direct a y | effects, if a i a be lost, but at the time of potting 2 
oe ie, we really sues a somewhat higher order of | tuber: hoping Wm. Moa PP poisonous 
ination Ja co; our b s un oe they vat 5s. S eia 7 ecko for them last July, | t plant: duced posts.J 
ngenious co eg “J, Elliot, Noein Conyyirs, b y had entirely vanished, and so had a single rymen’s Ad your corres- 
forkshi tes ose letter o: n Strawbe rries, I read with Orchis bifolia which I had left and cama with the | pon at cw,” n I hay sales m; yse ret the same con- 
uch es and greate er “hope, in | your last t Number same hope. The _ dry season had made such hayoc | venient mode of pare inthe myself with plants, and for 
lay 31st), h g that in re there | that I have weekly kó he advertise- 
 descripton, which has elicited in some otherwise | had been thou an of O. morio mixed with mascula, | ments in the Chronicle, and I do not now recollect to 
llent cookery books, &e., the reprobation of the in- | not one of either as to be found, and conopsea, macu- | have seen ae Lr one Kentish nurseryman adrer- 
z e ‘allu ded to. Par exemple, sy and a were grany diminished in pE: tising the tra of plants by post. I have dealt 
e best and stron est runners, to | but I oe ony ba ation that season, viz., a| with that erty, asad H he be the person alluded to, I 
trong loam em Siite sind : me sea aid maculata, if well cul- | must in jus o him say that my experience of his 
ing, I presume, under theincipient | ti seated will produ “spiked ai flowers 9 inches long | conduct in barini is very’ different to that related by 
in less than a fortnight, he tells | at least, a nd they like a little help from liquid manure. | your correspondent “ W 
parent, are to be | Those which I keep I in pots are eE ineei in coarse sand. him twice this season, d in both instances they have 
i b 
se rom the 
ots filled with loam, and abounding | The soil should be rather strong, and m may be advanta- | been ansv ; in fact, by return of 
and slightly mixed with superphosphate of | geously mixed t pos T hive arer 700 miles s than 100 from Ramsgate. 
Now, Sir, what imaginable ideas do the Have the fine Orchis fusca both in a pot of such Wh iils t on the subject t of sending plants by post, I may 
ing in humus,” and “slightly mixed,” | post, and on a sopis bank eine ow a bushel of ‘the | serge t all I have received have arrived safe and 
: e understanding of any one who, |compost was ted, s hooting th spring very E don aS aa those who live remote from nursery- 
is in the predicament of the ladies we have Opbrys anelles which is fdentical with fucifera, is | grou ts lebted to those tradesmen who have 
f We are afterwards told to give groing very well in gt and looks more vigorous iad mo ote this forel oar of supplying their country cus- 
ings, when required,” with a ‘weak healthy t than apifera a, musc cifera, or arac chnites, O. rs, The greatest drawback to the system is the 
mmonia and sulphuric acid!” What i i very ifi ont of proper catalogues; at Hotere we must select 
ammonia and sulphuric acid ? - Is it so when well grown, but they vill be exceeded by fusca, if | plants without in the least knowing their worth or 
on ny drops o the other. girs as it now Scotia | worthlessness.— H. G; Elgin. 
er of hap-hazard, and | Three, which are together in a e pot, are vigoro EUa tbo r Pots.—l ae Rohe nm ce and amateur 5 
a of lemon, ” jand uninjured, having had no Her tection t thr Ait th e| yet little as my experience is, I have found in it the 
rato rt How many | severe winter, T3 which is still unmitigated while ‘be JA Tiitsi aea effects 2- pevfet ee where have 
iti rial that I have n seen 
uch v very periments ? altho fierar amo ong t a be men of t the oan 
aed told that t te Pn 2 frost parts ‘pti, sion it may be quit il using the r 
ing, by giv the ‘plants are started before been Foupiicly "destione y g bo on it a ee ots sae, aaa? frances ve i 
V te, , sprinkling om the surf: little ch » | I am doubtful whether the frost penetrated the ground | clean and half vitrified, and agrees with the th o 
aa ae top-dressings ! and = ata. See abe oi sil i a A akas of the pot, or whether the | plants. I first ‘ath a few crocks to keep the hole free, 
each are then placed in a Peach-house ”’— tubers were n urfa ace, or whe ther the mischief | then 1 or 2 inches of bea ese ashes—then a little M 
}—“at a temperature of 50° done b watered | and, lastly, the lumpy soil, &c. ; by which I effect in a 
day.” | We are’ fina ly told to “ water the: earth ‘to “settle it when loosened by alternations of ae bie veoh that is needed. The advantage that 
> weak solution of ammonia | frost and thaw, which often tends to throw roots out of | the sses is, ‘that no stir will go t mp 
” Again I ask, How often ? ground, It should have A merely pressed down. I | these vert er they make a most perfect drainage. < 
hi 
le 
s i ., Gosforth, 
lent.—S. J. a ny ht, and 3° during the whole day, and may have/and if so, in t proportion ? — Anon., 
d oj mber of Tretiak, —As I was passing | b a n 20 since the Rot was heaved out of the ground, Se absvater | = = much better, and not Tours a 
sl Lav avoy Strand, on the road from Cavan to the "tuber and fibres seemed to be quite uninjured. I This aid, in the * ‘ Florists ournal,” to 
ne of tl d was applied 
‘the lake, close to the road. I im ting ; the other has formed two shoots. 0.1. dry, mized bem? the sail at the time of potting. But, 
examine it, and heard th that it ad t bia kd et bans ag rkt plant, that is to say thriving | would it have injured tbem had k been made into a 
è wae, from the bottom of the lake. | where the land is wate r-logged and wants than suck | expand ta three wa onths befor ore the time of potting, and 
ght alo 7 Te Was a gunwale above a foot in | shonld of course be Ie ess exposed to 
ely broken’ Sides, whieh, when I saw it, was almost | as grow like O. pyramidalis re “ary grow It The much a eoa the other day, 
i ed ` as of very rude manufac- | markable that last summer, when Opies gine had watching the Daly vith which a large o frog seized 
io out of the Se of ‘an Oak-tree. The | disappeared from its Bo coe position on my land in | its prey, Viz., large worms. It invariably to took t hs pee 
The ttom is 4 feet | dshire, I observe a number of un- 
sat ome se end ange and about 3 feet at th a otha? othe | alors ia ty dow ato: near a brook, within a few | successful bobs and -vasaris to get hold of it in the 
