338 THE BB enc CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZE ITE. [Arn 16, 1859. 
is all that is required. Either of thes: e plans, wi MUN eee E 
Welle tn 
duod b the Dottom-hest | And now for we ore wen house. At "Tad 
— in th the back wall to allow the detected air r to | 1 wed action inde y 7 ne a lot of pans of X igni oes 3 chron 1 p o M ; i bn 2 
th back of a Pine e. the house stood at 49°, : 
fear of its being too cold or or west ten mede | Cucumber Lee in the oreet en A m. heat, about 98*. On 1 205 morning nh tdg out do 
for keeping late Grapes, especially in a damp climate, | others were growing in pots which were plunged in — 2 9 S 3° of frost, and my fruit w 
and as a dry atmosphere is indispensable for the plants were trained and tre gea pus 25 ass T vq 1 ed at my a undan as 
the bunches plump and good no water should then be | eve ry other respect a ve - vieni um od Reed coh 8, Ms Rari: m mias Magi. 
a eat scarce E . n mus 
kept in the air pipe. W. “Hut ss a Malgwyn. fom e ia idi of De cimier unti the middle of da nt crop and swelling ER ieee T 
— th be imagined when in spite f 
RADE MEMORANDA. ebr - pite of two 
Who is ies wii who sends large orders from | bore an en of fruit. Now, here were plants s die x | rz in a house 95 fee es 
2, Somerset Square, New Allen Street, Roc hdale Road, | that had the same night temperatus cad ie rd er i zing. Hortulan y „ descended to 3? below 
i s whi am; 7 
Manchester, a place which the ing, receive e same amount of light e 
M | only difference was, the one lot had bottom-heat, an ari osperma.— Hay. of 
2 com -— n LX iac cottages where, at No. 2, Mr. the. other none. See how different the result. If a readers in cultiv. E s Arundinaris, the 0 MT 
ardener has, we willsuppose for instance, an Orange Br ake of North jon Which, by the des be 
m in ill health, 705 does ie DEE to bring it by botanists, 5 size, beauty, and hardiness ms to 
Home Corresponden - rou oa He has all the soil removed from the roots, | rival the Pampas Grass its elf? Some time pe 
On T, ; t their Bar Tt a appears | has it carefully potted or put ina : bps on of these 
he Seren) prunes the head, dnd ^t then deiode it | right forms and spoke in favour of tbe d introducti 
iy their "x TET ich dopri wis E Leste’ acy Ti where it can Ls ave “a comfortable bottom-heat.” If the | novelties ag this class, but as yet Po: suggestion does 
injury. i amd with cons; Mee advantage, eir opera- night temperature be ed low and the e atmosphere not appea dest bee on act ed u po 5 America 
tion ten i o increase thei of vegetation.” mois t, as soon as the or tub begins to get I beli ive is Ml Gras ; why can. 
I cannot stomach this. The dle 1 is too potent. In|full of roots the tree wil push away vigorously. not we add so [end o our at ea 
times gone by, Dame Nature knew the bette But, I ask, WO ould such be the immediate re, Me thei strikingly beautiful plants 
necessity of trees being furnished with bark; for Ovi lt if there! bottom-heat ? nsider: PI pipa TI usi n. Y 
that correct field naturalist, expressly tells us ‘tnt the growth of 5 iia deny &e., ost which F 75 x el 4 that deerit possess, 
re ultr See te om-heat" is one o! mo M., Hawkehurc. c 
— * = * — — ird 25 jos ch death th = s to be attende Pire that i Dioscorea (see p. 218). —Having reat in your Paper 
| untimely death du 7 e rather & 
of Phieton, were supplied with a comfortable | secure = all other conditions be cing a ended to, the a little time since some sparaging reports of 
jacket of "er fiat Whaat their voices were heard | results are 5 satisfactory. Wi hs it, no matter the “Dioscorea japonica,” you m ay oa be 
for the last time. “Cortex,” says Ovid, “in verba | how assiduously every other n "s me -— ws to, the posed to insert the following. account, of the experi 
novissima venit." And, in our days, in the year 1811, | results will be unsatisfactory. I planted in 
three deer escaped from th frm at N ostell Priory. | autho do in practical matters, an ida as Add hole drift of February of last. year a single row of about 50 feet in 
aving int l ms, they com g producing 
Erie — 1 . of healthy Cucumbers in winte s been owing chiefl y A — about 110 lbs. weight of tubers, eus of thee ax 
Elms. Every Elm di own to the ground; Vati to his Keeping a a e low night tem very fine, the largest one measured nearly 3 feet in 
and new shoots sprung forth at the bottom where the | ture, I have been uced to offer the for mug in i | length (inclusive of the tapering upper end), and 10 
bark had ihr disti y the maranders, | order that Shots esos insuch matters m ot | inches in circumference round the thickest part, and 
“Trees, no doubt, will live for a considerable time | commit a great mistake, M. S. weighed above 3 Ibs. The per of about half the 
‘after they have lost a large ion s their bark, , Rainfa ul in Cumberland. —The following was taken crop is upwards of a foot, the other half of 
Thus, in the year 1814, 2 neighbour at Chevet ! Silloth f St. Paul's Church, Holm smaller dimensions „and more irregular shape, 
in his pleasure-grounds one of the largestand healthiest | Cultram. it nal be phy et to some of your|crop was planted in ordinary open en gr 
Variegated Hollies I der ‘tate One ing, hich has fallen | without manure, which had been trenched 18 inches 
ering v: of H i X I this year with the rainfall| deep. Many of the finest roots had forced their 
ime deprived this fine tree e M bark de ay 2 fet of e diei aep fered in the four preceding | for several inches lower down into a stiff peo 
in circum: "og f | yea ha ug 
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Ins. Ins. Ins. 8. which 
0.340 | 1.720 | 2.100 | 2.241 4.968 qu was an aecou 755 of an experi M wie 
s 0-270), 2.770: | 1-207} 0.219 | 2.979 skilfully Se There is no doubt that a good 
1.701 | 0.020 | 2.185 | 1.547 | 5.074 
0.010 | 0.470 | 0.202 | 0.334 | 2.055 crop d always be had, wligr pro roper means are 
ployed. 
[Nei stomach the Pech i story to | ——— =] i L — 1 Asar |. are nagd Peaches. — I enclose a D taken 
which our much valued 9 alludes. On the | Silloth is situated o on tree in an orchar 
m 
2m "d house, I do not know 
contrary, we have been assured that all the trees that vim berland, n t 15 rts no x: that the above will whether such erue are uncommon, but Pa neve 
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"have been barked have died. hold good for of the county, from the unex- | met with 82 fore. "The tree hich it 
Night Temperature of Forcing Houses.—I h a 5 ther which e prevailed | was taken ] [yn now score of similar j 
. Ayres's paper on thi bje t with much interest, since the 1st of 5 1859. R., Carlisle.— From | ones, and I should We i a pet ym ui 
If I understand him rightly, he attribut ou, in the P M of | | sin tell me whether I had better leave them on 
in growing Cucumbers during winter, chiefly if not London. appear apprehensive of evi I fro ant ol form part of the crop, or whether it would pen i 
entirely to keeping a comparatively 1 rain, whilst here, in Cumberland. „ W. S bor proper e take "vM off, and trust "Eu 
ture. am as full nsible as most people of the | having too muc . "You report the fall o n to bei n | single ones, W. M. [We should prefer Mà twit 
injurious effects of mai — a high night tempera- January, 0.71; in February, 1.31; in March, 0.71; the ‘single | ones, —.— should allow a few of the 
ture, and have during the whole of m my practice is dell | be pt a little 1 ws than 3; 2l inches. At tl ay of'experiment. 
on ven E ratively lo * m ure at night. pne nswo: „ Es. near Whitehaven, the Cucumbers.—I Lad som e beautifully bremen 
Impressed as fi am of the advantages of the ines e—in January, 5.41; in February, 447; ber plants with eight or md leaves, pl as ep 
i in Mare * 49; tage ap m inches At Silloth, | hand, in raised monnds in a pit heated by manure, # 
a seaport on our coast, EN e fall (see ve) during | brick-walls —— holes to admit fresh heat when 1 
ved 16 days in March was 5.074. In this putt 16 inches | quired ed by outside linings. Perceiving peri n lows in 
| have fallen mic a the pr e months. Bow 35, Post instantly “fumigated with tobacco paper and fa e ee 
es- | Office, White e usual way ; next morning by 8 o'clock, I 
The T on "e ema of the 1st inst.—The plants shrivellód, droopin g, and dying. The tobe» 11 
effects of this severe t in this e was ving used it various times * 
best .E. on, are most disastrous The thermomelet 
g 
ment, of Lond . The di d hot-water its. 
been | hea’ w showers on Wednesday, th ult., were ener Pig 
; flowed a at night by a slight wind frost, the ther- 
around | mometer registering 28°, or 4° of frost, Thursday, th ; 
o- | 31st, was dry and cold, and the frost at night terribly | Societies. 
severe, the thermometer on Friday — a standing | Hogg it E 
at A howing 12° of frost, Apricots were a most| BnrrIsH PoMoroGICAL: . March 3.—Mr. 
nt cro lls, and a 
bui T n | the m" Chase, desired 
wees unprotected, or protected ò nly with nets, every It w. at Mr. Newton, DE DUE 
fruit estroyed; on trees protected with tiffany, even food Meeting E 
double, some we are left," perhaps one in a 1 me ti get 
E these, althou gh green and apparently sound, have tl 
d dead, eaches and Nectarines under 
the. same circumstances seem all Weste th 
os had set an — I never remember them 
t EE ine y or e their fruit, be t 
re wien ues EM pd the plant be a their shoots being > well ripened by "y 
g, ra 
how tee a der vio temperature coul enses — 7 few ki ds Tx ce pee E f Tes * 
s" Th 
year they the parts o fructifie 
the chamber for dung was quite empty unti 1 Early Prolific seems to — withste h sealed the —— "pp 
Septemb At thai time several of the plants red than any other. On T yt this kind panied by the i 
showed fruit, and I have since cut several sma I Were covered with their beautiful pearly blossoms, but Fetter ror, from. Mr. Rive 
cce e E had all closed; on di "A sin sin eral 
Pine plants had “a comfortable bottom-heat * from | man blossoms br 2 1 a us don * -——: he —.— So at 
the time they were planted up to now the results " 
would be more 
cer: 
as 1 
the trees tod à wre bend with stam ti 
, satisfac tory, Had th here bee on no germ — perfect. s here had jue —— in Se marson ak San Drdgowort, 7 on hard 
ssoms, car — inn havı 
to being m — would have been t Still there er be found — — delen — on — Sito enn 
