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the million. Look you,” said I, seoring on the in the two n growing close to the ground without any ster 
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-book, | body that can afford such a n ves a lig É its leaf 
2 as a „schoolmaster "would à line an inch apart, Vineries, am - God fort bid they axi s per — haer graer] it throws up its sprouts in 
your cut to be, and can be obtained for that sum, and | when they x 
or such a di distance * bla ek. m is required her satisfaction given Mr. Roberts states:—“ My em- | tied in ee like Asparagus, an led. 
| ployer — to have one house forced to supply casks say that, i e 
second house soon followed." But | th: 
eee in your cuttings a same jt apart ^s itho P 
ive such a: rbenas, Lobelias, Ageratums, | Grapes town, a 4 i t s 
Cupheas, &c, — ani roe to kee ep ) them up, a and a ri ha sho nid a “ ‘second house soon follo sang Err a 8 a D however — ben ps. à 
— de ie erben — h t t thi 3 was why ae A". followed. | | Exotic Ferns hardy in the South of England. 
1 season, in a for tnight or Me weeks | W When a p " fills a g n for emolu- a Chronicle com 18 southern d 
all the plants I have me ae ne will be rooted and tl t, he * ps g^ let the sun | Fern e 1 e v d On. I have 
ready to pot off in 2j inch pots. Petunias ike to be | get up before him in a ing, and scorch his Vines | the beautifu yathea d 
shaded from —— sun when ^ comes, and they do not befo "^ is t of bed, and some e people are e so ea said à do 
require much w st only E at 
much — ether, bat al me sunshine you can give oh! this sheet glass, I wish I hadn seen it; bu 
them. e, and my lord je ‘the hono 
all day, A. wr nu 0 you no vem od if you don't ‘try. Practice | keepin ga — i aed to carry out his theories uie an 
— MGE, Tom. Try; that is A: way to get on. | endless — and nothing to show for the outlay. | Pter 
I rant a rs where - will this season plant out no In the gardens at Raby is an old Vinery recti by pen 
less t 000 plants, the greater "Jut d of them pro- p" of Mr. Roberts. the borders of which Jam live 
— i the Ihave d pex uw were u to told hav of d 
orbe RR wes : uld thi the nectar of Bacchus; how the 1 was 
it impossible to turn out as — f — ds. Now, rs I know not, nor do I i inten d to dis stu rb it, are harder 19 preserve than. an 
Tom,” said I, *I 17 I have jut told you as much|as with a little care the Vi bury, Dorset. 
I may call again in the These Vines are in a far better state than an any in aw T'rees for Lo 
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thanked m 
ily, and wishing each other a happy even here some “ irregularities occur, 
new year we parted, even better friends than w theory has failed 
An Old Showman. 
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- very regularly, and much stronger than I aere nen in jin key Oaks 
— "POM The practice, not theory, t 5 will be carried er of all—quick growers, s origi patay n. i 
Raby.—Having perused Mr. Roberts’ | out t eei the whol je range; and as many of the old | all Oaks singular in growing o nother, 
olet letter on the — Sines, and th » chapter of | Vines are useless or past t rede emption, young strong to a 1 vi ers uty iy the statement $ 
accidents connected TE I should have ae the hv vt fill th mistake, as we hint 
matter rest, as far as I am but for o and 50 or 60 others to fruit to fill the blanks. | leaves sent us were not . having i 
pre We. n Roberts says, en cannot think that hi his The nda houses P 2. — jr the MR of prac- . rr in fne Post Office. They probably belay 
e for at t th we gae are Mer of them unpruned ; and | to Ulmus glabra. 
throughout the range," meaning the replan ting of the|the bor der can be o for inspection tal such time| Dea tis Head Moth.— received a lette 
Vines. It appears that in 1842 Mr. Roberts published M. me d. of replanting | is commenced, AS THERE IS day from a most intelligent natural historian 
a work on the Vine (did he write it?), in 5 h he starts NGER OF INJURING THE ROOTS. K. Short, Raby | reliable correspondent, a passage in which exhibit 
a theory which - — unable t he abris ; he attempts Gard de Sond tenacity of life in these creatures in €— an 
to a practi others hrinl E following! Fall 1 ain in es in th ei manner that I thought it might interest your real 
Mens . He — n for rs, while he i Westdean in | Had you an unusual supply of Death's Head e 
in — MÀ ; pl A s i Chichester. the Downs. | pillars and moths this autumn? Both ha 
authority“ e " east U not fc as I do not Februar,. 1. pra 
wish to build o: 88 ptem not wishing to March r Sb es 0.06 wick arch «casi 
p, by tinkering up the April pM SUME el p 
old rotten and tr trusting to fibreless Vines. Kai cov Act aur 
Having alread e Vines in one house and July iii NO cui SEN 
part o of a second, an account of e dan and Vi eden August ese. %. 2.85 
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whole bones and large speed some of them 6 and Ne al Kensington Gore—L think Mr. Br rown | and dum I touched it it embed t the grating bo 
8 stone weight); over this eque tity of dark-coloured | refers E the Norway Maple, not to the common Mente to the insect. I of course immediately s 
soi taining stron i B desirable for avenues. He is right in his work and killed it again, by blowing the prussie 
vegetable and animal matter. S upper soil appeared | obs 8 as to the beauty of colouring of this tree, out of the tube into the chest or thorax. I ob 
in layers, as if put on at various periods. In the but the general form of the tree is rarely good. In about 30¢ y ids P men * Tater-lifting, bu 
whole C the roots were found; remains a M combining beauty of — with beauty of foliage, one became a perfect insect; about six others hat 
— Meu in — lower mea 3 e n capi i. dh "d A ce in an . state, "their wings being 
ipei peris! some time bac e | Oriental Plane. desira! ees | (some of them not more than a quarter of an inc! 
borders when first opened emitted the efluvium too | yon did not notice the TEN which ch Think thrives etl ae other chrysalids died in the earth.” 
in old erowded graveyards, I am in London, and is very handsome. I bes CY Ely. 
ve that one cause of the sour solidity of a word to say on ks about the merits of s Orange Pippin Apple e—In my cap 
the border was caused by the quantity of fer. 8 kinds of jn which I en we odes concur, judge at the exhibition of fruit in Wil 1264 Hc 
menting materials used for several months in the year; should not the is orticultural Society form a com- Tss 857, I ate of this Apple and placed it in my esti 
the drainings from this and the filling up of the inter- | mittee to investigate the hardiness and other merits of 7 as one of the most delicious I had ever tas 
stices of the broken bricks aes caused the borders | Roses ? a, 7 Ste ia doi it very well if they would do so. | was again exhibited at St. James's Hall last N 
to become an; — io — genial to of Vines. | C. V. Strickland, Hildenley. ail I took an opportunity of eating a portion of a! 
The wood in t amy ouso was bad thatthe second | The Cottager’s and Asparagus Ka n each: 3 feeling a wish to know if it sustai 
— Dd not ripe, and very poor. Mr. Roberts | lover of such tender and N apr of | reputation. I found it most decidedly inferior 
M cuc wood in — sd first and second house was | the Cabbage tribe as young Cabbages in d Quir specimens I had tasted in 1857, bei simply a 
indiferent, in the and fourth very good, and flowers in the summer, ^ um Ro at “the t be of| Apple Ao but not very juicy, and Wr 
the fruit and 3 heavy crop.” When “ greens,” suc uch as Swor sels Snt this in imd I to 
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fourth house, and very few from the third. I consider | and a ocu Ls is great liking—rather th first- essay was 
: in |t n White ARR roccoli are, to my taste strong, Orange Pippin; it was 
all conscience! But oh, ! I firmly believe | for r they ioe a ae he for with red. Te, 
: ow|mer perhaps the tuf disagreeable of all 9 5 — delicious; flesh sugary and tende 
j | 8 ing this, E advent oi ced the Cottage’ s | aroma, and so full of jui 
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larger shoulders of bunches at Welbeck than | seed from Mr. Turner. My Pues are p 3 feet nigh, the teeth. In this repas. std 
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s, and rows in 3 well, | ten t, without the least Cabbagy fla: 
what did this model range cost ? Near 2000, exclusi meri e your. | man a packet of H. rd 
hes f 5 ao | T shall most eertain ce never grow an plant of the | in a seed-pan and plac 
edish Turnips without the bulb, | double sum: 3 by myself the the 
nat aaa only "P inches wide, gans with as good} seeds of this t gard agus Ka ale. Irecei appears 
glass as I ever saw; in fact, as will be used | The plants’ 4 pe 9 en lover in Prine Wales, aks in Aer a 
