errr 
802 THE caste as se CHRONICLE. (Nor. 29, 
from these facts is obvious, but | give you another of a | the same for each El- | from having seen Peafowl stand a whole 
different kind. A farmer at Biggar, a a p fote | white as was pt far s superior in regard to nk sy being window as if admiring prs vadly and ER a vf 
Lan arkshi ire, sent my brother some Po tato wr i Shall I confess my weaknes s, and | pas shig against and pecking the SaDo wad s 
t his no importance 
nima bas been affected by a severe recep: “vi for st ait a issen I had Fe feeling one to sain Seedsmen.—Perhaps the fi rn 
think about the beginning of Octo ber); ue “touched profer r the native to the foreigner, i di id 80, ando rdered |'may es some useful hints to the wg eiar 
hy tu $ SE <kia community ; perhaps, aiso, it may tend to pave the» 
eases a order executed. t apitia, tn y 
I have heard of two 
ea t from Chili, es Bie the Potatoes have 
escaped, whilst others g eae s w biro were jr 
affected by the 
isease. urse, 
cited by the supporters of the gate oy ‘hat te stable 
old ag 
I know Lo 
to have y ae aia, but the sudden y del 
id fi 
culture than at present obta 
f 
sa a 
ma anded anede priachon a an i paid for my folly |1 
to the said Cogan Walion. [The 
An 
We have, for the four last seasons, fort ned a 
j ain one of 
f Flora, sri aes deputed > be 
= ji 
akap 
p 
ee out by o e, like Knig get) Golden Pippin. i supplied. J and froni apparently respectable advertising 3 parti 
have also been t tld FN Pota to ¢ led the * « Forty! yfold, fairy Rings.— —Many opinions have been adva | almost all the s of flower-seeds said to be niai 
which is said tive to the formation of these. Ina late Nanitiek from the very seis varieties of their kinds in 
placed among some of the most Ha Ta roots * An Enquirer” has laid down a theory of their sti vation; and at I am now about to state isa 
sisted the coi ntagion. I am, convinced that here vat Moian philosophical, perhaps, than -his predeces- which ean be corroborated by the evidence of ver 
least, 3 yety I think, inadmissible : for ‘cee that if| besides the parties more immediately concerned, y 
a the |that in no one single instance have any of 
I ame very “day hearing of eases where 
were stored ny ae sound, but, on bong ieren] 
afterwards, v 
penip les they so lately nourish ied 
oa oe at "e is wit heat saps alle Lin vegeta ble 
ome a:tention to this cari pee \ 
çi Pot atves 
Storing Po olalues. fp y 
| partie: 
merit ‘whitey 
éewhat different conclusi 
atoes coy very 
= Au Potatoes may be had. +) Pohs 
a bn a deal floor, 
Sally ee were aati . a T teh pitted Pos 
care isi eontinually increasing diame eter “al, ‘he 
and ordinary characters, and a indeed, ft none of 
common | 
£17 3s. 6 AE the sum 
Spe I 
the fungi was due to the simple cireumstance of the 
prior plants having absorbed, during their gro wth, 
y of pre 
Phlox €: shee 
ntil 
shaking ee qe a litile slaked lime coa 
and n e as good Potatoes 
gH of a 
haika that t 
an by. person 
tl are 
ean arish r 
of their species, en es me to institute the Pol. 
tA, | 
i S: 
other nove seins Ine ced no 
bee 
yo which is niapi of the efficacy o of your ence ani 2 rad oy 
Altho up B, was inserted, in the ,/ \ OB 
a fable, I I ean only say hat if p vacaney made by a portion of / y 
is there state d, ld t rem a similar port ion r iy ` 
bad Potatoes. There i is no ei of manganese ÈT oil oie the ring 3 wes succeeding 3 $e, H 
of vitriol; well drying is the main thing. — ie season ‘no plants red. X = J 
then pit them 2 a Ajin another ae. ee ss Z 
situation, dusting each = with well-slak of earth was taken out and re- ` e 
then seeme them, and it will jeh ouga that te Seas: placed by fresh soil, from‘a dif- 
i ped, and the Pota ffectually preserved. pice art of the a piece of fear from B, 
S attract attention F ‘some 
nually. 
— affords ge ‘better account of success 
„It 
sai get ray the remot. | 
of all thi 
and a 
the plants growing on it, inserted i 
= Z 
=J, Ca s Wein Lodge, Hordh am. 
Wooden Roller —I I do not know anything more an- this roduced a rin ng priit sucéeèdin Arig 8. 'Pre- 
rine planted theréin, equally 
in good o order, than that of eves a lawn an ci (of the new |5 
en worm- casts, and, at the same time, weather | goal, | om a next tay p roduced t one ex: 
tas to render it erage a nee them off with-| 
Grass i 
dec 
we 
ors 
? 
would he iG in some measure our 
res 
eved ; but we o fn 1da all are doomed to ERS 
since the evil seems so general, and as, in our in 
four full seasons, ‘with all the attendant cares, annie 
troub bles, 
ings— 
ante 1, the dog ee the ta planted 
early bar _ From exper ime ents I draw the fol 
ii 
pointment and vexation, surely 
e the rem than the Bhisanee. To the: g 
ad, x ut hag p T th 
‘te pnka tie eae at Poe same time (viz, nanag the | form ty a single plant $ and second, hat th d | feeli ags of the floral public, the di t en 
Grass and the are nj we oparo been in re foo li made nianifest ; at 
ooden rollers » Which, if ternally ‘being already appr opriat oh This naib ex ote a some re ieee ial measures might be prop 
of using for some time past 
hy 
and ae 
Gmi is, neither too rag nor yet too dry), a pick them 
as clean as'could be desired, and, at the same time, 
leave = _—— ooth and pe These rollers are 
one ring does not cross another 
iby of 
mse- 
quent ae f outline assum med wher, s be. 
for the purpose of securing us from the 
such r esults as I have now detailed. That po 
ssess on the 
come contiguous 
iakat niay be d aud cireumse 
yariol es, es, from WR idth, 
and generally a cont 9. inches in poet ki Ta some 
also of opinion that hs Fa fuigiare not preset y te 
duce ed by sporaies (or congo de but t by e extensions of their 
eco 
D 
spawn, for 
fiha fall I } $} 
weight Ol tae tals 
1 } } FETI 
it was a maa a and if the Worm-easts were nume- 
di 1i ie and produce scattered instead of 
reles. — W na Horticultural Society's 
Certene Thi is s been very favourable to 
dulge t E: in, oi bad o 
igitan occupation of flow 
the gine: erdien 
their bo urs, but who 
Eh been, an 
n has 
the ma of some Tangi ; 3 not, indeed, of eg common 
US; Mie roller soon bask i mea nal fo rm, So Tw was e 
obli n tv the common fox a t of 
nid Si a 1 of a 3 l g od name (to judge tħem by their 
gasts:as four m brooms ; and even if the ground season ; but = rings of Agaricus ¢ d p l fluence as 
requires aie agi 9 ig, to c it of leaves or branches, I |n: bounded tucl vili comè forward and be our champion, in t 
find the work facilitated by letting the roller. precede | tl at i it seems as if it were designed by to I we must utterly despair of e s 
the sweepers. On dewy mornings, in l which th nee honestly or honourably. T ilo fadi 
time, the rollers are eae as useful as in a winter and | Its large fairy rings are made ponte ig vile e : chewed. are hard sayings, but “qu ui s it, $A Sac 
‘spring ; indeed, comparatively speaking, as eee eat distance es the € Grea at Taxurianee the Giass ; The hor nest few need no d them. You ‘are | 
they enable us to got ax grounds clêared ta A iy the t grow larger year r after year, | ur general advice to us, aa 
Ao is about, a so ner t ò be desired in all whether “they ate BE by spo anf or by the time wi any who ise served us badly, 
fibr a matter of cou 
TEA ae may, however, re- 
in order to enable i rollers to perform | g 
their work Ta the Grass 
should be kept as be kept 
2 mowing every week, or, where this is Sea 
should be cat ë well into the: Large in ‘the autuma. 
a Rigs ots roots which form their Sem the 
without you bidding, 
maxim ; butsin 2o 
i in the “soil whieh it has alreaily ‘exhau! 
therefore i to ti 
a The exterior cir is generally bare 
e time before their paein when the fu ungi 
sted, a m 
outside of = 
ye 
revani = the parties pind isin 
season and Í f well Ito reach of atience ando 
‘ae ways, on sutcessi Aia Bea zi á ; of patie ere 
taking Aa eieh F we save a gs ‘so | they app I gt fir is i a 
a jon the principle, I Rea Ma ao a shat tained i in the soil 5 3 but their iceman restores to | out 75 the qoo when it aken i 
don wice done.” Let ine, mie 
dening ie erally, sad ore 
they Sil give satisfaetion.— W. T been qeta ia them may analy he peal parsulis gon T thiak it becomes 
Miidness of the Seson—t Shen AIR = the | monia by distillation. ence, soon as pee lave —which you, I am sure, ught to 
hea able to resolve than oursely 
articles which appear under this d might qu 
te as 
gora (whieh they do pe EFAN /) the bare ri = 
the 
th 
=, a majority wy the plants, while where ten det | 
ere is little novelty in the | 
again wit rass, which wears t cu- 
iay blue colour usually imparted to it by kain ed 
are ao pe Bare ty towards whom 
press scam home, an 
w in its infancy 
=, 
Taed how miach time elapses before this df | want of ot t bas grown to 
more to local ieee than to any actual mildness | fertility is exhausted. I should imagine, homer it | stalks threnghow the country ¢ 
xa the season. For all really decorative purposes beg pews t be several years ; ently: to, house- mame =i 
ower- ere were destr re ed ce the 24th | increases by degress from the inner'rim o th k-pocket io far purer hane® 
or paa ma plants in several of the gardens till it reaches i its maximum close to, the ahi Aa A f srl P good one. The public over W 
have cared away, and the ty —— d = culiar public, 2 
Pil ~ ‘he! he ast si sis W ran yet, £ ank wh ot t the kar of janetion in an extraordinary degree dre gc redress a recap a, and ; 
ered, ld h other, unless one of thew: | hand, if you will it. _ Greater further to 
up a oe ral score ‘of varieties now in 8, and | anriot gain, ak N i = ook F. Maleolm, Be 
though we nn had the tl theme low as pae the soil ea cong cae condition 3 for, = ae = Ta M 
a few mise. rable flor urrounded by dead | course these Agaries, like other plants, meet someti ings, a"i 
foliage i bl WP. A. im thtele o a urgoniums : Time of taking Ey Eire, acto 3 Be 
tear great ; smash i in my —_ two years! growth, and therefore their rings are often not true A ege fio m 9 eel not 
iuduced m: this scarcely lated cireles; but swell ont here ae there and describe | from Mr. Be ak ite ea 
ar reduc- | all sorts of ra te Vernon Harco: an efor D: of the yea. o 
glass induced me to robe e| Ornithology.—The little b ird intentioned at p: 785, as | a ea PAE es 
nts Elphick and —- fying at the window, is probably attracted | s d you 
reflection in the glass, w which es it con- 
attack, Is not this the ‘only pro- 
was | bable reason ? It would not have oveurred t to me but | 
wer 
