THE GARDENERS' rcu: AND AGRICULTURII ME 
s Tea farms ders :—and fa 
e|of cock foi k 
them as (ende p 
e * 
of seeds as soon they ripe n the autumn. the sparrows at. Ford Abey" have 
ee foe Devote ated my visit to b formidable by their numbers. Whe Sts was a 
the same eet and everywhere found supplies | lad, the ae CREME . l was 
o slp ear n former transactions tant in gm the increase of these dcs winge 
with these Tea rs I had — treated them rad Sd , the ignorance 97 squires, 
van tl 
1 m wi rithout donde ee fs 
thrives best, but whether k 
in any essential deg 
uncertain, although this wo 
Hi 
apt 
epers 
eeds best 
eww d and Wr ‘snd I now f 
a 
But no 
of our ever basy a hen w 
tage: that resulted fro 
2 na 
laws in this 
X Eh 
aved for me in M directions ; d had -e to 
destroyed the valuable breed of sparrow 
oat, whic h 
halk 
ean [a i 
air and sun 
aty The wease too, 
vs and 
pie . — up and proceed TERN an nd w 
enabled to o get throug gh a Airs arge am 
seaport of Sha anghae with 
coll ections in excellent conditi 
** Tea seeds ae not hate their var against long y 
"" ar 
ec wies T ide th e 
wei whole of my 
brin E of o 
n the weasel, stoat, and sparrow- awk, we uit not » 
N, 
for it has 
a ew! 
ps idi notice’. th 
iow, or 
PE 
d of E years. 
n p 
an planted i in gromid which lies very 
d by v 
— 
y hig h hedges, or 
abe ine 
and Lan gardener 1 8505 vem than a a baited trap is set, 
and tt he poor victim is impaled to to form m hideous 
appendage e to the walls of the keeper's ke ken el. 
tehers 
* to m 
always raised ume 
by Mis frosts in spr ing, 
and e other 
e Lavender at Hitch in is 
or cuttings. 
size, but 
These st were conten 
t is no w the ore 
‘rancher ine i 
ee 
ps and to 
ge number 
previously prepared dand filled ‘with 
rred. 2 
these fe seeds were re id dae. trans 
first s aas ent was made 3 
days after my arrival in : Knov 
that the. vessels would probably sain in redi 
about the middle or end of March I tho aiti it 
t 
ee 
G the 
s that deserve more notic ce than they now receive 
e "s Ip 
iive s of 1 ise. g Missis on his 
| ri rma orn. o gu rd seberry trees 
[aati “ll winged | intruders, i e aquai ade: 
n our towns on pu seacoast 
superannu- 
Gooseberry tree 
las t Welnesday, on “going down 
n kille d the day before by à 
e e knave in his letter 
to form a case of British h 
I wished the rascala case of Tyburn halters. 
Waterton, Walton Hall, Nov. 27. 
awks. 
Charles | 
AQUILEGIA OR COLUMBID 
QUL NE. 
Am many neglected old favourite flowers 
pity the ra ving farmer when he a scries 
w 
ho 
ned into of a bird 
On ms fable js two eins ee —€—— | or 
may | weat] 
g piece 
eds en pr sies "trench about. 18 
deep, må vel manured, The = me re 
n Se October. Mr. Perks i 
„ of the e hi 
comm ay [^ estroyed durin 
2 
begi he signs of formis 
flow: ing summer, they pi "carefully clipped, an 
operation is re epeate two or more times as 
— in order to prevent t the 
we 
ect | Hollyh 
— pe 
e | believe 
hock, Sweet William, &c., have made rapid strides 
thing — — tow 
tha 
rfection, this once highl y priz — — is; I| about 
s 20 also 
scarcely if 2 
years ag o. I bellen n short 
fou nd at the iiis: — da; 
i ve tation — the ii» Pise n to oceur | 
zu ne tha A in ee they ee Dx seeds, 
ihe en or at its ter- 
mination d they ood have A Man to heal 
Surely 
pe of the . 
to be r ed, and It trust 
yi the 
te than in rs of greater . sions. 
this regret ong t 
rdens 
which it deserves to occupy. gm flowers make a 
better show early in the year than i — ga prices 
elengt 
for a length of time, as when th 
preserve a greater distance between tl 
thy 
np e watering closing the cases, shippin, 
and last, but not least, securing the good-will of 
oe and officers were all cmm opera- 
Meo only has the Tea plant been thus introduced | 
of time they conti i ion, Should sure ls 
recommend the th ice of all — 9f o 
gardens. It is well adapted for ordinary deco 
culture, and well-grow 
po 
charmingly. Ir emember o 
re, where the fea thered tribes 
find jc cam à protection, m «d 
have been the cradle of 
these unweleome marau- 
m CULTI 
i THE hen districts i h this 
e to that of the for 
further adds, that he a n hedge-row of 
s or 14 years 
h i 
has oa produced a 5 and good 
her rows of plants of thet same age, 
so as to touch each other 
the rows,the flowers are small, and the ldo 
reference 
egant t plants will require. Edward 
— 
TIVATION OF LAVENDER. 
| pk s country in — ge, 
| are, we believe, those of 
Mitcham and Hitchin, and the only papan ente ated 
h notice is th 
"rm sed quantity w 
in ities 
the Merengue v vera, D.C.; 
common 
to the Eastern states, but, as is mentioned in 
another column, it has found its wey to the admiration, ^ every one "who had a ee of desirable i = there yo ben 
n; and our friends on the Atlantic | inspectin of air and sun between the plants, as oth 
and Pacific. ut are with their usual energy setting r to have the Columbine in ae — not grow so strong or produ 
about growi perfection fresh Liae should be raised every fo 100 closet — P 
But bn pen remains the question whethe TERA s es t uveri id that the — gest disease, Vile is su 
ers, Pp s 
climat vil be 1 Tar their of Rey feque sp th cu ind Po reor fo aaa tk 
of Shear i Wi tal becoming quite plain. The ei [at the same time we t 
o honid sen e gathered from flowers possessing the d f 
— doubt. Bu ut merely growing Tea plants — patente that i is to say, from the largest, most E 
will not make commercial rie The difficulty | double, and most distinct and decided kinds. Flowers js ur, 8 
lies in the ion „ an operation with hese ese properties may often be found on the same to — e geri 
whioh; as co cioe A „China, A emands an agani — ee of an indifferent character, and | thus before they have arrived at such a 
ort quan of labour — the article of us is Balsam, the inferior ones should 
which: beyond all others the United States have | be Wired as they appear from such plants dE 1 is in the 
the least Ks s But ally necessary to — for seed, 3 the good ones only I — la ate being . fep 
re ea hinese fashion ?—to chop it e sown in autum Spr i 
Tode balls didit it into is p 8 nto Any common garden mould — vin bes suita is. | of distilling the pas A, oil; 
shapes with all sorts of names, in i the pl ntion except 
dietetioal value? Surely not. We havea pere them free from weeds, or if the wentheris | alien them to flow 
F wee dry giving them a slight watering until they are 
Téa ds thot. that the painted ar E me et | fit to remove. A beds 2 o bé $ed for their een = e loi 
better for — 1 iie teen tems in part of light | that when the oil is dear the 
MT n be plae 3 — . 
: — them to blossom, and the following | ‘1°, TOPS of fature 
i 8 5e ^ £| who desire a fine 
we k ded to : ways reserve the 
qued Mr. Wen Forte hire seed; e ower stems e| ‘tra year of growth. ‘This 
soon as the b e of d of the flowers is over, in order ^ Eas — = ig? 5 
Ar the 3 of the Roy: Royal So »eiety on the | EEP up a ion of bloom, Fresh seed should 
X hay one y Cus Roxar MEDAL Ls was presented | be sown every year, and if you can pane ts fill further, tos or if this 
to me BENTHAM, ove of our most relia a change of seed every two or three years, it will be f x l its ) 
c for — ee advisable to secure it, as they are less liable to spoil tlian — alent aed be E believes fs 
to systematic and scientifie Botany." bes pr Seed 14 own collect Al e 5 an also 
properties should be at once, t x i 
GOOSEBERRY BUDS AND SPARROV b en S dmn ite A — — Pa and n must be ea how 
Ir the buds . a littl in which it is l 5 
— were ren This is all the care that - pe and thus, by so 
during the mo 
