ieee eat 
392 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. — [Anus tasg 
£ ential point is to kee ders — the nautit. «c The straw, which generally 1 t of her DO 
P lig mae. poi m ku: weeds, TR : riprese Lm and stands uin d. pet rupis x pee fn rhe DAT 
nature the best of the land is covered with a a y hick the grou the berry of the grain is much | and is s; fied to the hig ghest p 
p of Ferns, which attain size, 5, 6, and larger and oe qe with us; in truth, I have in no | of 0 
7 feet in height, strong in stem and tough in roots of the United States seen such plumpness 2. The e ciens of water which EE. the 
This is the system, and its results :— eroe l as the Wheat and Oats here exhibit, and 1 face of the ground. Water ev: vaporated from the g 
Sown after Turnips fed off by sl k p and or seais taken up by the atmospher dure. 
after . sows li bushel to the acre, 8 ios yn | densed, and returns to the earth either as de 
turn to 35 bushels to the acre, according to he eim when oe latter shells receive aos pb efits snow. The quantity falling as rai 
quality of soil; but the — depends “chiefly on the|of careful husbandry.” I think this gentleman rt gauges constructed for the y, 
freedom of the soil fr om we Cleani * makes the correct in his conclusions, He has t ravelled over a|tering the amount: there is — did 
heavy erop. His o th ars th 1 ly dis istrict cts, | the quantity Vie rr gis by a 
ourse a and made good use of his time. onl other at an elevate of 
ly 
| Ẹ 
| 
be sown after 8 [is cota Oe gives the vid “cultivation of the soil is the ars Fe and high | than 20 a ed wd ie nd, being an ere, 
best cro of labour. ket fi one-fifth in favour that upon the gr m 
Iw —Sows 2 bushels, broadcast, to the acre. M exa here remark tha find from several letters variation from year Fio; year varies very — 
ch J have of late — from Hum there f years i s wonde "il at 
m t : m 
tu 
deep all. None yet made into meal. 
mill is on the way out for the use of the ase: in the | of this island, efarmer| 3. We pex. third t o consider t 
neighbourh who ose report of his farming operations I — given a into the earth, which will lead us to thea 
Barley.— 5 t 1 tells me—“ The seasons e very much the same immediate subject before us, namely, i. 
pow e with ee iu of t troops m vis 25 and |as in England as to ge eneral charac er, wet in winter, water. Co i he on 
“packing” in the adjacent mining country but decidedly milder.” _ The fact is, there is no better | sion, tha only a portion of the rain falling on tj 
22 "British Golumbia. The soil is well ada apted for ert It is just an English | surface finds its way into the lowe depths of the 
growing Barley. cli climate tempered, fewer d, and dnt i ed; the east We know how soon all trace of a summer disa 
Peas.—Sows 2 bushels to the acre. Return 30 to 40 Shops being soft and genial, * of cold and cutting | we speak of showers which scarcely lay the dos, 
bushels to the aere from the dun Pea and the 28125 in England. The only cold winds here are the | which we describe partial restoration to the s] 
(blue) Pea; seeds sent from England. They grow Wine winds, and t the ey are merely bra cing—a little water evapo orated, and which, in its turn, is (uid 
ons oily than in the old country, but he can’t give the sharp, but without the sting so trying in again. " good ground rra an ers 
weig in Scotland. They only prevail in the winter season. sion denoting’ the fall v rea a quantity as this 
~~ Lota —The ground prepared by two or thre The summer is drier and more steady, only a few | soaks the soil; and it is worthy of — EA 
rius ane walt js ed, and (such fields as hate showers of rain falling during the hot season, and the | greater seen . falling ng, very often the les à 
been a ady cropped) manured by about 20 eartloads winter milder. Tha climate, in short, is safe for the trace it leaves behind it; there is, perhaps, 
of farm AN dung to an acre; plants about delicate and invigorating for the robust in he alth. in which the common observer is more deceived E 
fon to the acre in rows, 3 feet apart. Return, 8 t to These remarks apply more strictly to the hich falls. ¢ 
O ton: large in size, mealy, and) portion of the island. „At the north, about ed 3 erm ‘ fre eu — used to qe th 
well flavoured ; the q quality of all kinds good, but the | Rupert, the climate i d rplus aa er — Are er e ‘ated has been replaced, j 
white oval shaped Kidney imm M last fact As a proof of the genial effect of the —.— I may The free water goes to te mish the MEER b 
I can vouch for. Th mention that the rains which fell occasionally during EN in permeable soils, bes. in tenacious soils, fils 
in flavour to the California. Potato. “Tn some few | the last month have caused the Grass to spring up with | up every crack, cranny, oi r fiss end o 
in nees the e produce is h vigour that at present the meadows are fresher wes grou und, when it 5 called. in mon ngu, 
pane mber 40 large-sized Potatoes, and greener than they were in June and July. In top water. 
and fi market. fact, a lawn or Grass field preserved from — is now, The e two ways in which, the quant te | 
Waking af E let a suecessor worthy of the on the 11th of November, just as green as our best pg Tie — may" bes aai —by an 
immor! rtal Soyer, ambitious of fame in culinary science, kept lawns in England are at any season. This s isseen | ment I will be, and: hy piara 
the walls of the fort at Victoria, in an enclosed | wells. Some uy since a mre a peculiar consirar 
of 8 them, carry home the art, und his fortune i is wer and in confirmation of my own assertion s I|tion was inv ented by the ce elebrated Dr. Dalton for = 
m: » (*. 1.1. Cd +} + +} 15 p purpose. 
pan nor oven, the result is marvellous. It is attained by til too - 3 of this place for a publica- deep, and = a given diameter at the to p. ‘Tie 
steam, generated by heated stones from a little ms in|tion in San Francisco, who, in speaking of. the eli imate is filled with the ne = of the 0% 
ooden box, sewed (or held R by Withes. But of Victoria, reports es “This year is made; buried to the brim, : 
me my Se story i tet to 
h 
g, 
EP. m 
"AE TRI HN HU 
rnips, which hi ge entire rainy day in 2 Tie cm thus! far in "pes covered with turf, a receiver is fi 
pey wil red eee besides several showers s keep the Grass whence it flows bya 
a € s 
ll pipe into 
sec | . — and m inds of MAE "fresh and growing | which it is measured 
a 
— amount of free water, which in porous soils finc 
derum this it ceases, — until the winter rains set in n| way into the earth. Mr. Dickenson, the well. p 
Clover well. Woe a land yet is delightfully calm, and the —— manufacturer of paper, is wont by this instrumen 
in Clover. The 1 land, when freed from growin — ao a subject to very little variation, the thermometer not | ime he has used for more than 25 years, to calc 
is laid d l y for pasture, to save the changing more than I5 or 16 degkoé night or day the amount of water t 
grea of clearing out she a ps of | during this period. From April to November it rarely | — on which his mills are p. å 
¿the trees—an ae as ub 3 haat to | ever falls below 50 or goes above 75. In this respect it | regula ates his contracts. The. quantity 
wrench en ont of the ear hine|is the mo: oi climate I have ever seen.” To this gauge is ruled not only by the quantity, 
being in use in America, id it is 1 60 be 1 it will np I will only add that Apple and Peach trees | season nat which it falls. ihe summer 
travel to Vancouver's Island at qe Aseo in blossom, after having | usually show " percolation; it is 
11 g seasons are, for Wheat, the | delivered hen of abundant crops of fruit within | from AD o March che 
ys part of October and in. Nove mber; also, in the waa I prefer this climate myself finds he lo 
way rs 
ia, simply beeause i so | 
all t te be in the ground before the end of March, With na more streams meandering through the meadows t last 10 
A get in August. Oats, Barley, and Peas sown in and_ prairies iura they have, the country could be | tity percolating Dalton’s gauge 
and April, harvested about Augus! kto middle of | cultivated, into on e grand garden n for many miles all During the year ening "December 
1 wly in n ictori | February, March, and April, w: 
On the other Here the climate of British Columbia, considerable quatit of rain doe 
the new colony, on the mainland, is hotter in summer | Ist of Ma: ay, a t, there will be ar 
a. rnips and M Va iler i = main than that of this island. pled : inre iit won 2 
5 The climate of the 
the white sorts to be sown down to S pu ts in dson Don; — ns 
however, quite health nd tainly, fi i 
The soil of th K jq I hy, an we ainly, from ar 
im of the i sand should t ig to be a fair | rience of it during the month of September Jie “the the periodical measurement of 
ach te ior 00 2 bade dido do| whole of which I in the open a is will lead me to ano 
Eno some op i a : 5 
QR de of is ui Iu baie =e canvass, nothing can be more delightful. Among the| the most —— Io the 2 " idi 
Sa 
* 25 
1 
E 8 
t 
S 
BA 
farm. £ : ied by day ax 
A writer in a Californian paper, who visited se en hed night, SEE I en I —— not —.— a supply of rivers and spring 
he. 
5 
0 
è WE mi i ver ii 
“à E E I Rev. — Clutterbuck, of [ th ils or strata into W 
777770 emcee ge le 
bere Eni depth of Airai * b oí is subject » y y him to the | stratum, or body of water alre 
10ns 18 va — 1 > 
describe the quality = «This — writer er aan aer = —— words on the element of we find it "a the e pes d 
— but s to show sign m as after a a fow ploughinge the groan the. — — - us ‘te — cc re bern ipee ci 1 
and mor d t cari — pper | condition in which it is found in the earth—and its about one-third of its bulk, am 
with she poorer material b elow ; he . 1 by pena Mp neem quiu. i h i all “thine in ure. 
four crops the yield is sensibly diminished, unless it enters into igh : | whic poe i 
e applied € ie i — — has small 
RET 
— és — n 
especially ing state P dint rarior 
— —.— of its original gegen ns. 11 "e; or ba it. will. 
3 diu cud : e de 3 water it con- that amount in che chalk whieh ds 
ei a may be correct, os exce ept oa delta. of ~ wes weight. M exists as — in cue tied of its . ‘ — 8 as Lib is k 
cni ies n Sn "A n every soil and is essential to sustain its 5 and assum es & level sarees 
Even animal d vegetable existence; it supplies owes to owe so it is general 
quality of the — pleased him better than] power to machinery, either by its weight, or 5 d Ser eger à itm fissures will 
iB 
