Novexnrr 19, 1859.] 
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pe his neighbour, and 
— 
p sm 
THE GARDENERS’ 
- aval 
^^ J W mS e eid that a few years ago | mow 
his 
OHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
stock, to mow twice, he believed t 
as a general rule, get a better crop thar 
red once, or fe a — 
937 
purpose of feedin; t 
Sir John Sinclais say sam ot as balla 
would : ave ? rendered cli ay 
tl 
to their ey would, Groundsel for the 
a if — merely aK as 
once with sheep. The root H8 
an 
nch 
8, osi of pope tillage 
2 
tha 
uld — mixing ua 
seem. 
e fr rom scene 
8 re nee ed is is 
ti 
threw out more bre; j and th 
xert len ? The 
ts independent of tliem, 
l the tw med l 
n1 
he p on cutting the Red Clover that — 
tely more d th an his own 
t tim 
— 
Rye-grass was infi ni 
wad: His |; 
the best W heat where he had cut the Clover twice. 
* hett 
turned 
ced, 
over n this respect a 
tow 
w: 4 " p vays w s 
n experience was, t Á are se in creatio 
But man vae lough, and 
2 even though | he could suci p LL AS NE 
eed i in Teller! ving his land 
d 
r known any mi isfortune | |of Sir John Sinclair need x rola the xe zealous 
common. Rye-grass at he same 
. il. "He it nev 
i 
it, ther 
tor Wheat ; and he certain pe if it were per- 
mitted to n. — EM — * it "D be the worst 
xb: s lambs throu: 2 hills x — 75 it, wl acting 
— ey invariably did, for he could not afford to | is better than e cure, 
and he foun ad that he e got as good a crop of Wheat after ** What i weed ? ? 
h | im prover from p 
ntion 
Every body in England would 
had at com 
only kne new of Rel rass, and 
hs aw if 
T Treloil, he 
called Dandy Lion, 
an merino y pest. Yet we * 1 in some 
Australian newspaper that a plant of it in full bloom 
f pleased spectators at a flower- show. 
How we shoul elion f pot, 
or 
say the same with regard | 
Pda grs he had discarded | 
mowed it; but he could not 
to the strong heavy lands. 
for several years. He tried 
it pr oved. defective, and da it grew. his hie... 
+ 
crop 
rtion 18 
IL 2 Gover, the two latter of which, although not 
to-night, were a very ind—he was 
alteri] at a loss to divine ie what the light land farmers 
vas greatly with other 
d 
at the piblication by an eminent of a 
of the land. 8 he had not grown Rye- cult. 
E garden 
m 2 on its tivation! The W have 
weed. 
have to upon for their sheep produce. 
Wheat at the a low —— of 40s. a quarter, and co 
—— ^ — with th at, — question 
mind was, 
iece of Italian e-grass wh nich was fed off i 
"Y spring See jM for hay, nifi fed off 
had now carted dun; 4 it, and as Wheat was 
oat of the question — the present price, h — 
sowing it wi at Av. 2 quarter hé despised a 
crop of Whea! And da me he 9A grow a mag- 
Silcent ero) ts upon th 
1 Mr. Nesbit, with with "n sic rk nel in Clover, said 
heri: very successful in their definitions of a 
pé calls it “A herb noxious or useless The 
vericulturist i in their definitions Jook only to practical 
T sul ts. 
ientific language, are distinct. $ When, says Stephens, 
in rr * Book of the 2 om "s p 
where it should n 
Ss 
Nee 
= Quarterly a October, 1859. J olm Murray. 
The — ar 
1 Web whieh might have appeared i the Agri 
— pe 80 + ide Siro fesstonil it is, and to 
which therefore the attention of agriculturists should 
be directed. 
, Bearing sufficient evidence in ‘the course of it that eat 
Qu example, a 
TUE 
it collates all the facts connected w wing with crop to its hindrance, is a weed. 
weed grow wth, 
most of them due e to his own — which have 
fact that Clov t gro 
han n mbe of. year the 
wesent state of our kn owled e, utterly — 
nures on land which 
e 
Th 
EF 
d 
it had something to do with the phy wor Pad 
utt e and v me come within * 8 of chem 
and habits Clover were "d 
rn — La never 
understood, until the practical ieee turned 
his attention to the — .. of ma 2 — — 1 and 
learned what their habits d how t 
Mind, aub hn ed they 
— résorted to the e 
fees. with W "Wheat; and 2 this means tl the 54 
uch better crop of the 
aaa ia vi or Wheat was taken away, it wou be 
to allow time to de Clover plant, when it t got 
a pertes light and air, to disseminate 
e | poets, but a dismal subject for E o, rs. 
| a still more dismal Len pe for fa arie 
tl th these com 
he 
Regarded in ar light, most of our 175 € 5 
ltivated „ pl take the place of wi 
per ridicula during 
the “past few yea It commences 
—. the definition of a weed, refers to its a 
periere Aie extraneous oun whic 
w crops, cos 3 es 01 
e may say, already Me and ofian 
wi appeared in 
so — 
e. Agricultural 
following are the e introductory remarks : 
4 S ON says that Ants are a pr etty subject for 
Weeds are 
Man - had 
to do battle wit petitors r the possession 
of the sil ever since the original — La "forth 
to Adam 
: Cursed i is the ground for thy sake; thou in sorrow 
Shalt eat thereof, all the days of thy li IN 
Thorns also and Thistles shall 
Unbid.* Paradise L 
Farm Memoranda. 
bn cia IN KErso. —As an instance of the high 
the Border district, we give the following interesting 
cts pon rding the ‘dra inage operations which pr "Ead 
me past t been going * apon the farm £ Hay 
e pees Kelso.. There is lying in 
and J. H. for 
it 
IK x; 201. Messrs. J. 
nt acquire s — whereas the usual | 
z 
dip 
iie 
* with sheep — me plant | in 
t and s —— ith respect vigo 
land for every 75 or 
ential operation; and when the sod , executed 
ground its first germinal life is sadly | mount has been 
its *un greater | considered one 
hat Scotland 
of this interesting 
us 1 fiar these farms lyi 
- 
IE 
o 
PA 
Ies 
B 
2 
jn 
"ih 
yore ta 
necessary inr pe wa On cem e 
in Norfolk, Mei m 7 d 
probably they co 
mp nis Segel ‘ont it ons of E Wheat 
zop; and by taking off the sharp he manure, 
Ai imparting it to € Wheat, the eB al 
that woud ehe y had everythi 
Trefoil, they 
mele 
CER 
E soils of 
E 1 which 
BRI 
* 
urses of ,especiallyon the 
ie Hants, Le ed the | 
e arrivi m the present | 
mapa eM. that the Le pha lation in | 
Ace edi quet woul 
: er T meg and Peas, or other Pulse; 
: opi op pee of proper manures 
application 
Sa d be able to grow these at alternatin, 
E "al especially hè would recommend yp id 
tribe have Creepin, naeran 
r 
he 
endowed with w 
Med q 
W pati 
— not well do: do without it, or Rye- 
Their seeds have to be s 
wen it to the grinding, w he m manage to 
d again become a etae vos mil 
d — ‘ike Coach and bv ud the lao Unt 
Thistles. Others spread along we - rface, and | been all most Judicial planned under the. immediate 
establish a scion, like the Buttercup. i aan and his able r 
yu losen % Lun 3 ade limed. Er rh ime Br park [fel 
are xs — n oa 9 c nes ol 
are laid down v yt c E 
to the indi). E Every drain is v a glance. 
soil a argo The le I iy rage A 3 4 is s ped Der che — 
nre tei — T —— 
eges 
onst es 
leading int — de 
arab 
etly view them 
liate an evil they 3 agr 
Sinclair considers ae ers im 
— wi 
antage, 
tivation except for gin — nnial crops o! “of weeds tes else c: em 
* Wha says, ‘is the inference from the fact vd extended scale, the m 
nist stles can b ns be e “pares 
* ib 
marked w parton ink 2 one colour, 
„ e roofs, and Mores - 
vien of a different tim 
cordally recommend th the — of N gees 5 
our agricultural friends, especially pro 
future The an has been very . 
. Dods, scboolmaster, 
imp. 
ined 
ncho But I say, No, M at all. 
Providence .co vid not e better contrived t that 
al 
se could 9 on ced 
say ag n, 60 So m h the 
ould 
modes of tillage. 8 ma 
better 12 : But I say, No. 
ractical men 
discover — 2 in the bal habite | 
Wm itself which 2 teach them how | 
duis nearly cus he plants which c 
why the’ 
VUE say an, Ea 
was most 
sE, 
er, or other 
e gee and 
what 
. whether E mo 
He 
= had there been no e! 
forth our labours? $ 
nemies T this 5 to € 
terility would have seized 
which only contin a 
ae 1 Monk, 
There is a great 
died ape wo onthe coe i 
terfere ibe ie lator day eveni: A AA 
erab] was 
nothing like Red Clover on 
manage, with convenience 
kitchen-gardens so i 
with erum that it was necessary to cultivate 
variety as respects When n in the weight, 
