DzcrwsER 17, 1859.] 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL- GAZEITE. 
1025 
heaps and drying the soil which may be clinging to early as the “first we in April,” although he might|the dates of ag « 
the roots, so that when at length they are to be carted | n ot deem itn necessa * “ torturing the land 2 shows for „ tI A - ball 
into store, they are readily cleaned an p dee ' and I cannot resist the im- year 1792. The first Petworth meetin spits ven 
the spot. When 9 ume in their winter | strong conviction, that if he | November 1797. at the Bath Society instituted d 
quarters, they are found to have parted with much of| tid s sow * * “ first week in April” he would wish | 1777 for the encouragement of *a 3 - cpu en en 
their heat,“ and have not to u dr one time|he had not 2 e so; but would be much more likely | oit arts and commerce, can Es ers go manu- 
the pr f discharging that moisture which it is than if he sowed them ‘the first ek in May | merg e r y 
required they — ne before they can nsidered to realise those “only advantages" viz, much 1815. given 3857“. 18s. 6d., in premiums * — rel 
safe, as ir preservation, and serviceable as less labour in storing and far less anxiety at the respective L meetings from 1777 to 1813, 
food for Edw ard Holland, Dumbleton Hall, respecting the state of the weather while the operation | both inclusive. That when the list of Medea] 
Evesha was going on.” ving been a grower of nearly | &c., for 1813 is examined, find 14 guineas allotted 
Gardener and Steward.—Your correspondent ** W.,” | 40 acres of aioe annually for several years in the | to ploughing matches, two guineas for sh ring shee 
page 955, says that my p Lab iai rem arks ar e irrele- Is le of mea and mice in — ferent years tested them | 40 guineas in premiums for cattle, 26 ege for MR 
vant. Such may be the y between the let of 2 tos ed) eight for woo iod at in May 1 3 
iddl fM Agriculture, in: uted by charter in 1799, a 
his — grs with y ag n name, bul of I 
relevancy I mus lea ead, 
a 
me to i * e of the parties 
alluded holding both offices, bat “that am gar- 
gener to a’ N baliff and a 
a | 
Lhave the greatest | 
interfere with my duties y 
too much the gentleman to permit en to do so if he 
felt disposed, but I know — such as * H. A. W. D 
describes a frequent. Your correspondent too 
ur character and ci 3 ances 
rmer Mur and doubtless he 
ge. I will suppose him 
ood 
is | injured by — frosts. 
. | tho 
subject, ns ip most gor dirs ac ebat 
sert that as ie = of 
d n 8: 
our fen land is very fickle and Ned B and p 
severely from spring frosts. 2 it is no anepi 
circumstance even for the Whea crop to be fearfu 
I believ ve it is only four years 
since e losses were Lagu and hundreds, yea 
c 2 
—— and suggesting t that, „by 
scribin 2 each 58. a 
* best 
work in "plou ghing? 
1800, 
be inted i n 
ived m 3 Saat roa stene stati 
lly societies PR already been formed. the 
ceed humble 
h 3 "the icht of the 16th 
pril (I spe wi from. 2 . My 
E from this single night's fros 
imated at no less tha n 15001. 
—— r plant 
, and if sown very ear rly on the 
rity f 
own |i 
t 
the Kendal N 
tate 
much 
injured, it not destroyed entirely, by these frosts. I 
nu 
prends in pe is omitted, and also I find it sí 
1805. farm 
e has „never 
y heavy losses i 
pem These lands are also more subjected 
not only numerous, but also i 
from fly and wireworm than most others, and conse- 
the list of premiu 
ms given at the Pos: ual mee 
of the Leicester society y for S 
1808. Fro m this list we 
quently the earlier Mangels are sown the more liabl 
e from their slow 
— w growth, arisin 
g fro * 
eniperature prevailing and the frequently pacis 
€ 
approach. ButIk 
e gentlemen have "d the means, others zd 
k fi to look a 
di em na and 
sown later they com 
jo ad sid are therefore sooner od "of |o 
— on these soils vom 5 ee an 
pA to ee when gro 
* aedi by these fruitful gue 
d grow EE 
agricultural experiments; 100 gui in premi remiums for 
sheep; 40 guineas for etie; 9 — for servants, 
tT 10 for orchards, moreland Advertiser 
t the annual meeting 
deti Soctety, held on the 
a JaSt ult., 600 —— ‘dined together, and in the 
Advertiser of 1812, a Similar number i is reported to 
~ 
4 
E Dilat 
und theoretical ee of agriculture; and 
after all is 
dening a mply an i mproved m method of 
1 or ‘the Gabor of a Ma ay; ring olg of the 
other insect dange rs to which they would be 
above all I -— e i my interest at heart. There- 
fore I will i se his salary 507. per annum, and he 
shall fulfill the dint office of gardener — —— 
frost in | But, to 
early ux m is I 
nearer home, I find, in a letter from Dr. 
an evil, and moderate ely late pe a is the first aire | 
| towards ensuring a good and full crop. Mr. | 
| Severe criticism, I conceiv e then, j just goes to o sh ow how 
3 eee Lan 
in the premiums for the — a the following 
— — at the last cope ge the p 
for mi bez ll m 2 
ee fe 
EMI. engaged a man to look at, he wou 
e 200“. a ye N so that I fed after „ 
my ny gardener’ s ger 50“. that I have a balance, of 1500. 
rP 
— rs. j^ s ww pane so narrow as to 
render that an obstacle ? 
nd their hooks in the fleshpots of 
But 2 ge never — of shoemakers be- 
i being gardener and steward, | 
na Mo one of the directors of a railway company ; he 
just say that had my Mangels been so early, 
cing € ps " 4 week in ur sigh I — not t have mi 
re secured befi rost than I h 
under existing circumsta: sive “ong te ag e 
wit Potatoes un itil. ‘the — day I commenced 
— up the eter gp Your er, 
Trish Agriculture.—I have followed with much in- 
to some of our principal noblemen, he also 
t the beris eee in your columns on the 
subject. of Irish agriculture. Might I venture, as a 
with any of the improv 
po see Judge to be an eta nci to - fleece, 
being also had to the shape and hardness Yi the 
Inthe 8 cy De 
and wel bana A 
bene, 5 exciting a 1 of poses Pov and 
very 
rewards.” In the Advertiser 
ad | distributing ho 
October 26t 
ty, 
to money iums, 
the s 
is ue 
— to 
ing taken place 
whic numerously 
eo 
furnished = pe — gl Loo of 1851, = I 
AM now the priv 1 = É 
gain ia „ Mr. * 
elevated 5 a high position by the > Duke 5 Sutherland, 
and no one dou ability to fulfil that important 
es 2 
any authorised 3 and uncertain how it may 
eath the — of a ra 
y possess. 
e upon it a few re t place, it 
i 
id three silver caps — given, On taking up 
an e volume of the Westmoreland — t, 7 
that in 1822 there nd still two shows 
arks. In the 
te mae = forgotten dat iti is dangerous pem 
lian the statistics — ‘prepared by 
e "Irish withholds, 
'ormation, — — eee 
far it 
awarded on the 11th of May. The next — was 
held on the 19th of October, when seven silver , cups 
be prudent to place be 
landlord the exact property he m 
4 
pacious 
It has 
inet Be 
enemy I shall not farther occupy your space w ith 
d and should not have dwelt ia iare on this 
h done, 
ther P 
mitable perseverance = 
— 5 I know 
gress Ireland has made. Because some of the festering | 
— have healed, the body has been thought perfectly | 
iew of the question as I have done, 
appeared a wear tore amount of i ignora 
question, and cpm and 
| upon dis 
qae than be ise wong We 
his discussi 
angel Wurzel. T your Paper lately I saw the 
ing, viz.:— 
must however discon’ 
A nox 
Perhaps if Mr. P. Mite tchell, of Rainham, Wes mfortt: 
“hate h to farm some of the light — fen 
befor icaltural progress 
wing age wee 12 surmount it; that a 
e 
3 
E 
. for long to believe that their former oppres- 
elucidation. qm 1 eal have proved to ‘he satis- 
exem of your readers tha 825 
sors have ado pted E jus ster eim cy. The old habits are | sh 
of a agric cultural societies occupied a prominent 
"ES Wi 
Sotieties. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL OF ENGLAND. 
At De General Meeting of the Society, 
from the land a proper | 
that they must fall 
extracting 
of 
the agricu unless 
situe. z 
f the 
of which they are ignorant. 
msi uid fata d the lw E: 
editos aintained an 
not enjoying end 
nding upon the exe 
Ergen en Move d him h. M., Charleville Forest, 
Dec. 8. 
Agricultu 
enoug y 
lands i sin n the Isle of Ely he would e dins Mee and 
uite so 
so 
va ee 
Dec. 
lonel Challon in the chair, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs 
| teal the follow: 
aoe OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Society consists, at the present time, of 
n Life 'ernors, 
