attenuated at 
penniveined, acuminate, the 
copious bracts and razteolen 
aceme: 
Panicle terminal, with e 
t from the tree like t wo dead bran 
t; the tre s now very vigorous, 
e a 7 d d the accoun 
es 2 or 3 feet | 
tia all traces 0 
duloso-pilose segments. 
inches long, scarlet, bubaloso-infundibuliform, curved, 
very slender and much tapering at the base, inflated or 
ventricose in the middle, the five triangular lobes of 
the limb patent and even recurved.” 
ome Correspon 
nt of the | 
anted that if uf 
just to the pit it of the stoma ch, where t| s 
| part in an incredi y short space of le. indes that 
nation. The seed to-day, after 38 hou: germi. 
in 2t aor hur has a TR of 1 
thus have Thad seeds mish TE 
ar 
separates very rea 
Strickland, P bras ke 
I have just cut down Ax n ung E f a 
of age, e dM by a white m 
V. mentioned mod 
—— | Villetta, Emsworth, T 
24 15 he inis “ater being p ut to nurse i 
int 
and position. Thomas iie 2 
Spotted G Ih AM 
rapes.— Wr 
5 but discoloured by either ‘the Ar hir hee 
Bi in the bark. Some years ago my cows entirely 
here an y way of getting this o 
2 
Hom nden 
Cucumber Growing.— ews do mars coincide 
* of Mr. Ayres on his subject, well knowing as I 
not appear is pwe At ug 
Tag follow: 
+h 
2 
mentioned i is not quite so easy a matter as 2 e 
imagined, and I am wall assured that hundreds of men 
— ea good Lap stan ding whom I might name 
ze 
— will et the ioe: “of ‘oad pra 
s|the progress of pesca as they appea 
7 — 
ts t it 
that, viz., the "id yen. 
cannot be too warned agains 
king trees ; ringing n 
bottom, if done might pe ane however stop 
r to ascend. 
Stok init 
— end 
night temperature as many b 
ni 
below. at night and 60° by day is more than I can 
Believe me, I have worked hai rd in the 
I dim 
9 88 be of the finest 
d this "itilora tof prevent a first 
ed them ? c oes, 5 
4 Co ei nt Reader. 
d Hou ri — quite agree with corres. 
baden 0 J. D.,“ Fife, N. B, ., in reference to hi 
as to orchard houses, which, as he says, are still in 
infancy in the north. ave ere 
21 feet long by 8 feet w 
he 
the production of things i in season and out of season, 
kind of fuel and fermenting ma- 
terial e my prac ctice. I m \ 
a experience: this occurred in mid- 
n 60° at night, and 
- | ing, an 
wood yard, I a 
number every spring, abd 
eat every Melon and 
ounds are gen N 0 close 
a 
8 season 
Pimp plant I had 
d cuttings of — — Kinds cr —— d 
to them), shared the trying various 
iment. 
for advice as i [e bes x3 t vil. The blight sides that everything is spoiled by the severe frosts 
appears in black spots in the lower part of the tree, within last four or five weeks, and I am quite 
fro om which as they increase in ext dark- | that all fruit in the open air is destroyed in my nij 
gummy substance, for ing i into masses of|bourhood; but in my little orchard house I haye 
sores and Hiatt; ie = hen vue the dark to | pleasure of looking at Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots, 
a knotty, dried-u kills the tree. An Old Pears, Cherries, Plums, Figs, and Grapes, in perfec 
Subscriber heal h a vigo he fruit setting beautifully, 
Woodlice.—With these every gardener is more and in case touched by fi though almost 
less annoyed. Owing to the fact that our Melon 2 — = in the same garden is destroyed, 
to the am reh 
hou 
the notice o 
have fallen to our lot within the last month, "my 
traps for them, I hare 2 
fra tchin ceri in hundreds 
could possibly do deter than - hes but tang 
changed the fuel I found I 
mand — and that with great deal — fides 
60° in the day and y night. The 
uen t instead of the plants growing 
as they pre y had done they ely moved at all, 
ud got into a state which by some was considered to 
be not worth the keeping; being convinced however of 
e 
es by e 
every ni ight. "My 5 p an is jene to plunge a lot 
flower-pot saucers, glaz ed inside, up to hes bum fill 
them three-parts full of water, and next m will 
reveal the € t dat — the night they jtor klod 
of which I have given, is 7 feet high, and that it cost 
of something under 157. 4 Constant Reader, R., Bozburgh- 
shire, N. 
Double or Twice-fru ited Peaches.—1 quite coneur in 
your — with Fefereno ce to these in your Paper of 
nstrosities of 
oi „ W —— — uced a. in temperature H des and being t out again, got drowned. | April 1 an I a 1 observed at 15 
Ser Rust, F. similar character in a Peach 
the plants pu Wi vigorous and healthy an Zagal. —All n ot ` apoculations seem to be in- more especially this season. My ty wu is never to 
à they —.— $c — * ae, | goa as to the in past and future — — allow any of them 5 — fox d 
€ — one good a register ke at 09 3 miles due south of London, | nent crop; for a time they o 
beneath the bed in which the plants are tl m the process of s 
ing $0 as to retain Sarani dor aome | he 858 was 25 inches amd B4-hundredths of ably deop—amd if they do 
hes tors Veniam go 8 5 the pte a se * me m — to the perdit time in the years 1858 and | fruit ie a erp remaining half 
ternal tempera e su 
h th er 50? od nid fect fruit is the 
daring the night; but for my part I should not like January. | February. | March. | April. pondent has removed such 
to oceur too often. The princi ecrets in : advice he has acted rightly, 
mber culture are a open porous soil with |... Inches. Inches. Inches. Inches, to r r one 
plenty of peat in it, and well drained throughout, 12 5 bw — 2 S — your pages whether such twin- 
abundance of heat, air, and moisture. t 2.97 3.14 2.09 8.38 ones ripe. 
sens weed atek lated in proportion to that of the Sede 
y all means secure an activ ve bottom With all the rain ye ree last year and this Pru —It is stated at p. 362 
Can T jte h till low. 4 Constant Reader, Sussex. | Gle: ndinni * ME neither Prunus 
ucumbers may ‘tl jus grown | with. ease and satisfac- The Weather in in Mori th Y n 1858.— The follow- praesent ym d Peach at the first spring 
i ^ t b ti the Ro 
I —— Mr. Ayres i in more than one place in this at the Meteorological Olnesvata Mcr. at . i dn I the Society’ 
neighbo' Cucumbers and that in the 1858. The observatory is 31 feet above the level of the | Glen will perha 
greatest perfection possible, but not on the low tem- :— did exhibit on that occasion. 
z neither have I conversed with one t up by me as one of 
the subject of Cucumber who TEMPERATURE OF AIR Ram have before me an extract from the 
tions to skilful I know = ; 2 k, according to whi 
oes not entertain an opinion directly| Mostas. Vo] ced | H$ endinning exhibite 
at promulgated — Ei X" One ‘= | = 4 E 238 EE Peach, and the Carnation- 
— tira ther e ris — mR | A "od | 4 — not ae — invented ies te ei 
se at the t time) never thinks E Deg. | Deg. |'D 1 i 
at 90*. anuary 545 28. rth S 8555 14 TE ning : — pens — ke b add v 
y ee Koi. [Well but "Yd ebruary 55.5 26.5 99. 40.4 11 0.84 the third a very 2 i eeing e 
do you say to the reet obtained by Mr. Ayres? RE %%% Dmm cem o oba (Gard, Ci 
es lves determi by May . T5. 34.5 | 40.5 | 52. 3 
actual e ee There may be something wi June 79.1 | 45. i . 16 iet pp. 216, 268). They viro 
explained gp: Raper ge ns a 75.5 | 47.7 | 298 | 59.2 | 18 2.2 |Erunus for ita distinctness, 
own eyes ar August... 801| 45.7 | 34.4 | 67| 8 1.88 the best of the two dou 
V 
tions the treo b el being ty being | November 57.2 24.5 327 | 423 11 2.94 | third of these — . 
barked for birdlime. Several Holly trees here bare . 85] ee | 21 | eae ee, bjects of 
shared the same te; but there are also two or three | Means of the | ,. 2 — cial 4 “Binds ig E nd app 
instances of trees which have barked entirely Year. 68.0 | 34.3 | 31.3 | 50.9 | 172 29.34 | are no after am 
gre have not died. have saved th ves |—R. W. Cotton. - — lus "s 
y forming an entirely new over the whole of — i misa ee 
part st ; and I have no donbt if a piece » wA pot € RR EY a de ets is a to append a short and plain 
had been wrapped over that at Chevet to the w. m the ground to the heigh wind and whether of birds or animals, at t 
air, the tree would have me kept alive, and have the eu iti is 22 inches wide. 8 : Ki ren ML n E a DE 
formed for itself a new bark I suspect that the Holly | dry inside, and is fas e hoi i. uh them, interested in many — 
Rey » and is growing fast mue moment, 15 no 
and I mean t to try some ex: xperimen those | as it is x r to brick 
the opening? R. F., 
in the woods here to test this. I poi. acis Mr. | Lacey, Dorki be * 5 * trouble, uat they 
bann remembers the remarkable instance of a i rally dou 1 ERO . Walone iti went. if — 
y panish Chesnut in thé park at Nostel Priory,| New Mode o; of Causing Seeds to a hg 
> Germinate.—One of | instructiv laces W 
n “te church, which was barked some years ago by | the * that mi a Gaia Melon T vegetated in less dic 2 ps p 
4 inch wide. That narrow strip saved the life of the — eminent * — ys in a vari ariety air ier Mu P 
tree, but as new wood formed under it, the bar e par rt off w. n all „other , — have failed. Tt. — and among other thin 
the stem died, piece of Zim ecd by birds their eggs. | 
the new living stem that had formed by its side. -— 2 tio ee oxalic acid and cata pan d — 
d, like a sta e 9» Ar ; this is e loped i LT" Me 
the tren, but at last —_ rh broke i in two i int un folds of sitae 8 up and Superbi aoe s € as zi thes ioo 
then for e y Yi 
A: for the future 
the difference in plumage 
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