THE i ial St 
Hiss] CHRONICLE. 401 
though numerous -hol k png os Pine hele ray ysis 
pigeon-holes ar gl 7 in ned dag The experiments are far from de- 
47) EN rom de- | whereas ubject of complaint was not the mode of 
agn ibook pporting y wg : ‘rabey a irar: gy as athe e question excited attention more than sending, bet the apparent wg rillingness to send at all z 
= aod ack, top-beat cou. -ien er] cee sa ) ye ears ago in Sweden, in Ho lland, : and in England, | in respect to which L have ae ap n tale, pen — 
be o 
eg ed Melo ye ma Cucum ii ap mare : z +s > te to p = a He h à ry 
state of grow or cou eat be | which are — ul, the inference from ‘his a aen ask fi acon “Wit! respect to ” pend 
SS maistaived by cinders alone, or when mixed with | appears unfavo to the doctrine of “ager apes ss or them I, be i remem ks out no 
the latter Ifi very expensiy e—and this, | —J. C. Moore, Anaran, May storie Nat one—I must say that “H, G.’s” defence is much like 
P z annoyance tom aa = fier Fie bre : hod aea curiosity ine mer = the e evidence to € ter frequently heard in a court 
ber to reple e fire, de e to | this su ect institut t have 
yet Pe Tobit a dank ; thoagh Hist | tated joc ate yea swe have sepa et) justice; where, after a fe! eee me bong at 
fawn I grew some good Cucumbers and Melons of | ex cathedrd, what is possible or ible i I nthe sp aE ipg Lda ag “I hay 
tarios kinds, American Pine-apple, Hybrid Persian, | Experimen nt alone can decide this is questio n.] th d oi Apranga i 
and Red-fleshed Bokh but they were slow in| arly Potatoes, aa have this morning forwarded by | hi — he rtainly n er cheated me.” «The er 
and rather a 4- Me no a bt alll hac a mail- train a basket of new Cornish _Kidne ey Po tatoes, | luc onas sf think, cea who him: and so 
mare pit, instead of aie à Ti 5 t e say «H. G.” To whom, however, I beg to say 
wald bave been — y of heat o n ui tection, This we ought to aad | quite e serious, that I mean towards him no disrespect 
anot imagine ogo boder ae g = n. Owing to peie ery sev: inter convinced ~~ he, I, and the 
had, ‘the are this season much later # dem sone =e pr “pm as to the pn 
par P Aok ini alteration ree the building, re are some # sere produ uced as early as April.— Wile | * honesty and in the wish to see iv 
in width, and 6 inches in liam » E. Rend | 
any 
tank 18 inches on). 
covered by roo roofin ing sl 
outs a 
prea 1 
utes, and attached to 
le, F.H. Say Nurs rsery, Ply mo uth, June 5 
a 
ide, but conical 
heating surface, 
sires i weecnnected wih Latah 3 the fuel is 
finest i in 1 Covent: -garden market. t.] > 
perma Oyster-plant. —Can it be garden Salsafy 
your near eg man for the apan It is 
son at a six ngs, has r een ae e various ob- 
which passes through the outer wall, and 
gh, 
Et: an iron door, through which the coke or 
this bird has, of course, six ee | 
nests to seek of other bins all ve which must be suited 
to her r ena and fit ve the egg, that Bein ng 
well-k of the Salsafy, when Saba 
has a strong won of Oysters. a y Bes York and 
Sait age where it is very much used, it is not 
y any other name than the Oyster-plant—_ 
Reid, Noble Thorp.——-The enclosed seeds of the 
E 
} 3 
cone from the Ist of January A top. essed b in birds, Thi rt; st tend 
at of 70° to 75°, Micrel sun, and a bottom heat of eae < ure a continua: tic tion of its speci ana 
WY to 80° has bee ined, The soil is supported | to obviate the ó difficulties it oie would hav 
whe: coverin 
oo lisse un 
The ex 
at orc: 
Ste me may cacape into the interior of the’ house. 
3 the boiler vos Ragone and disconnected from bios 
all its 
d Bb bested, which P through Bag 
Phi } a 2 4} 4} 
tiles not fitted se amt which rest upon light 
py Tag a space of 3 or 4 inches between the | eu 
g of the tank is 
der the bed, where a great volume of | 
is left. There 
the „title - Oyster-plant, as a —— © = the ve 
ordinary prop 
egg after it oe ort at gn satay a mirim not | 
as that 
tioned at p. 348; si amongst some AP recips for for 
from the 
roots called Salsafy.—, ' 
Truffies.—1I have taken much interest in the 
ppa. that = rok gear the Truffle ; but 
Utila in’ 
uck 
which ite in are deposited are those o 
weigh only. a few drams, it is supposed Po the alas 
eat be very recta Will you be kind 
in fuel, with 
her egg, but on age them into it by means of either 
whether only o 
icular kind of dog can 
employed in n hunting fo ig aaa ‘he 
em ; in what way a drr 
her claws or mouth 
’ and i het, if onl 
ly one 
and 
ek. Ts | egg has been fo und in a small hole i ina dog will do, the b breed be a common 
ig tin very cold | wall, aes the eaves >a a = and in ? in the seco: Scand shia I jasso wish to inquire, 
ir,dusty nature | wrens, into none of which could the cuckoo, whose ora there is no practicable of discovering 
masses on the | length is 14 inches, and its breadth fi witho t the assistance 
hecked. I 25 inches, by any | possibility enter. This is the opinion | of a do og. My reason for wishing . know these things 
for its pur naturalists, and some facts to | is is this ; I have several times the pleasure- 
t Eagle 9 We nn’s *‘ Feierabend ich, i rac to bai the 
found, since its 
= should add, iat the’ “ine | 
to 
| ee 
gecko never runs ct the Py of trees like the w on | 
pecker, and as w 
wo we know that 
be qni nite sure that this pe eculiar 
Home Correspondenc 
i it is 
niire 
The ran of the ete adapa to enable it to T 
take up its esa and deposit it in the nest, having its 
like f gies woodpe $ er dis two nack 
of 9 In yorit “« Saad Register ” 
in Sweden 
untryman 
wanti: ingr provender for h mes horses, | beca 
e up. 
„He 
seg in the use of Tight hi rade pose, we may ria infer that it is to enable it to place this he s vas tched out by a pheasant.” 
co and varnished ‘or the oil on its eggs in a w the em r birds. This dispo- | Now, with regard to those found by me, they did 
the net do not find so de-| sition of the mt pire very powerful grasp. | appear to have been either scratched out or eaten by 
some of your co: respondents yom done), The eggs, a ste? “ieee ny sal i in ponian i the | pheasants, the holes were dug (if I may so express 
eiio twm eya and made to $ close wert size of the bird, are thas re readily taken up. oa eimh entirely round, and the n bi 
n or iron buttons, through | also le that the ion, s ttamgh than th uadruped, not pecked by a bird’s beak ; and 
Ther ihom Pranic.) pe este of the selected foster parent, do not stand in need ota a ifthe Tru e be is it nota 
th-wester, can admission ; longer period of. incubation, It may further be men- little sin gular that I Shoal prt found several wry . 
ass in fixing and removing th 4; istrict so north as this, and 
loose mats, and the usual been satisfactorily ascertained. Having made these | locality w vias they were never before prods aT 
Emi L. marks I may mention that some jem a me) known to exist ? they a per’ too, quite 
and I make no do ubt if I uainted with 
Py wonder at, and dishi jeve, 
wap 
s should find posse 
the common course of nature, forgetting that 
tracted comprehensions and ag ree ideas are e limited | 
To de 
more ; hence the reason a of my inqu 
within a very sma! ngs m 
hence th I algo su 
your inspection, another fags hich I find in 
e roóts of some old Beech-trees, and 
bundance at 
w 
use we are able 
infallible Being, shows anal ignorance ati laisia. 
incredulous persons have doubted o r disbelieved the 
which I pe to be the “ Puff-bal 1 Truffle ” men- 
t p. 271 of the present soak volume.— 
[The fungus is Elapho- 
J. L. Snow, Swinton, Bedale. 
myce: s granulatus of aa ee Att a plant | agreeing 
possibility of some of ~ previous “facts, I had com- 
| municated to you on the atural his istory of the cuckoo. | 
with T. 
h the ns of this genus are 
itd usion, 
Le * 
we have but three 
‘ele 
jE 
the ‘harbinger of spring ct fine weather- 
otes add much to the re of vr ar ab. 
odas 1 in n Englar, “The animal 1 that had seratched up 
oat 
| is Kin O ws 
“ When Daisies 
“Wasp —The mother- wasps, W which are 
a very nawe "ind not readily got or pie by sari, 
asily be dest troy yed by | firin gat them spm 
sage cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, 
Do paint the meadows much bedight 
— Those who ar > have 10-week Stocks 
ob aiar hoe the ai 
P baghaning of July, in poor ex 
soil. Keep them i in a cold fram 4 s till rts a 
inges yim ings a them to the 
adh when ve es vym pa ga I have known 
this remedy tried zie: Agen effect ; 4 and when it is con- 
sidered that every w nov 
reer a eons te ee Gobi and attention igi given for 
r their n will sa raone annoyance 
t, Syperstein ipot ok und. 
‘sowed the e experiment, and 
find the é Oats, but I can- 
ter.” In the « in the « ual 
Wa P fo 1765, p- 100, 
fi 
the 
s 
» 
| under a north wall and keep them yp ee 
| ble all winter. 
| tents oi 
w, m, then ‘face pated 
r than we o 
until October, then stand them on the shee under 
baok shelf in the frame, and keep them as dry as 
In March turn the md 
the gt ‘until the; ey begin to 
co 
2, 
zég 
k 
5 
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p 
3 
A 
ve seh we pio ai Seiden too lat owe difficult to 
rer a eng Lo. Wood, % 
Pride ah cepa’ "Plants 
a, Ds myself, 
ge a exot 
y paih, 
"| few of f these 
?”? the writer of which | ¢ 
truth | of the 
i 
as po 
sp 
s- ink the iota hangs down 0 
of capillar 
h 
ary attraction will pate n the lis 
water over the an 
Pew, 
syphon, 
drop ; : if the quantity is 
as 
trade, st the soi-disant ‘gentler 
be’ = all lik else to live “ty. 
ee G., Elgin,” however, seems to have made the m 
of thinking I wrote about plants sent by" pont 
found 
an | and if too small, add aa or t 
little practice will soon re late he 
found ihe same plan to answer walli in sh a Beran a 
the Droseras and Pinguiculas, During periods of w 
