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-— best machines for every purpose may be seen' 
d the manner in which they perform their work, 
— it be cleaning the seeds, or other operations, 
їз surprising. 
Тнк Szep Farms AT Kinver. 
Those pos see ed the establishment nt Wordsley, 
have not no п they have the faintest idea of the 
i-e well-cultivated farms in the neighbourhood 
of Kin where Webbs’ seeds — = test а 
апа — for stock purposes. It is a lovely driv 
from the head offices along these healthful pibe 
е is reached, and it being our 
first visit, ou urprise в at seeing such оц 1апа 
found „ ME questions aleo as to th 
locality were freely asked and as willingly К 
a Ж аге — a in жей ue of Kidder- 
mpanion; ‘‘yonder on the 
— is — мр бн which is said to stand 
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Messers. Webb 8 s devote i m r 
ds of the business, e m adopte 
thing like the following: All seeds are raised, tested, 
Nine rogued by competent assistants 
p farms, but the 1 1m this 
stock " seed, and e extent 
d is given vit to sivit UP iu 
mile ne м cultivate for Messrs, Webb, who 
take all th and it is this seed that is sold to 
cantons In thie way the firm estimates that they 
employ annually in the Uaited Kingdom and on the 
Continent over 18 res of land for the produc- 
varieties of the different grains or roots, 
agricultural кор. ien work is iuf don 
on the Kinver ; better varieties of each сг 
are sought, Erde results are to be seen in t the 
numerous catalogues that ebb issue, 
which we will refer dos who ek no ay 
GARDEN Serps AND TRIAL-GROUNDS, 
The little town of Kinver, lying low under the 
own 
passing а гіта the one important street the place can 
oast, or climbing the Edge.“ The farm Messrs, 
Webb possess nearest the village, and very close to 
the old but pretty country church, is called Kinver 
grounds are, and most 
as Potatos, Peas, "s other things, а 
cei n had been devoted to Peas, aed upwards 
of 230 varieties have been 
mparison 
with each other, Potatos also claim a large share 
of time and attention in e manner, and each year 
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arieties, which they believe 
possible. Webb's Карии [Spring] Cabbage 
мр —— a favourite, and some capital heads 
when these 
pr Pintoy, Onions, very garden crop is 
dealt with; but we must hasten to notice, if only 
briefly, the trial grounds, where a great variety of 
flowers were being tested, It would be usel 
doanmha th а h + ht nta 
in nursery lines or beds much as they are in any 
her trial gr remark 
ha occasi 
Poppies, 4 very 
strain pA es Чеге Poppy, Papaver somniferum, 
strong bold in 2 and mene 
various pile p^ Larksp were quite a 
failure, the extraordinary. жо Ы the early part 
the season had spoiled the pro 
Some of the plante were coming into bloom, others 
good · 
entirely, . 
were only just through the soil. The graceful but 
showy Clarkias bad fared differently, and plants of a 
good strain, both in mixed colours an ure white 
werein bloom. Delightful were = — 
blooming profusely in the differe в common 
to the flower; and by a ——.— of E. tenuifolia 
were remin nded of a very pretty зуу? -coloured 
Eschscholtzia, with dwarf good habit, a par- 
ticularly free bloomer, that, although ете is seldom 
seen, It was rather early for Godetias in ме Mid- 
lands, though they were blooming freely en 
Mignonette in quantity and йан 
ecented the air —— perceptibly, Webb's Dwarf ap- 
peared of good habit, very strong, and a free flowerer, 
A nice collection of Zinnias, single and double, in 
bloom лата енда „ that T strain is an 
excellent . There were Sweet sum, Collinsia 
bicolor, and the ife y irè SA Candytulte, of which 
Webb's Snowflake seemed far and away the beat. 
The plants were bushy, and the flowers pure white 
and good, The coloured varieties had come very 
true from seed, The strain of Gaillardias known as 
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actory. The Fre ol 
tolerably true from seed, and the 
habit encouraged ia ТУ pleasing. 
in bloom whe w them, but trials are made 
of a pt number of tne as well as other things, 
which we must leave unnoticed. Large and small 
plots of die: natural and other grasses, a breadths 
sown from Webb’s popular mixtures of Town 
2 various mixtures for alternate ,Bustándry, 
&c., в ould be mentioned, 
55 above are MTS, fel 3 a nase 
visit to Kinver, wher meet uch 
manner that the Black зајам — rim 8 
one of the greenest, most delightful landscapes 
including lovely Eaville—the Midlands can boast. P. 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE, 
STICK T Тһе the following British epecies 
are known, and described by Yarrell :—Gaste asterosteus 
the preceding; G. leiurus, smooth-tailed, aleo 
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e north of Ireland ; 
ry interesting 
accounts of the кам of the aticklebacks during 
the breeding season, by the late Mr. Warington, 
of Apothecaries Hal where I well remember seeing 
them in his aquar 
ROTATION OF — FOR THE GARDEN.—On 
carefull reading and weighing, as I always do, 
the communications of Mr. Willis of Harpenden 
in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, on was rather 
surprised to light on the "gem sentence in 
the middle column near the :— It is wel 
known that the Cabbage tribe “will thrive upon 
grow а crop of 
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powerſully-reasoned article, 
“the Ca bbage tribe will thrive ” as M iiec to the 
Hott ES crop о Carrots," 
cal growers will not acc 
ү” experience, 
. 7 that of the three 3 
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f ht richness, and dw жы Pot an 
ei the richest of all, Practically, many of the finest 
Carrots are grown without manure; Onions receive 
from 12 to 20 tons per acre, ^t лар in the esiti in 
from e to т &cre, ап 
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field, I cannot Р vai a case in whic 
ffered loss of weight 
‘Kale, bat "thie read hardly be the meaning ‘of the 
i At the other end of the + 
feed Carrots $ 
aestion. 
senfence in qu 
ow easy it is to f 
we.all know 
be glad of a little 
, &ble vegetable-food, because the 
bolting, the scale, or cosrseness, While as to Onions, 
into bullneckedness and 
the Cabbages for poor land, which few of us 
ever seen in garden or on farm. D. T. P5 
LIME-TREE MITE.—The Lime trees in this neigh- 
bourhood are, and have for some weeks, been infested 
by huge quantities of mites (evidently a species о 
the so-called *'red-spide he under-surface of 
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| became enveloped 
sue 8 The trunks 
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of hp slime pes by an 
The Lime-tree mite, 
Tétras;vinis нги, Ep «1 
CI88US FLOWERING IN SEPTEMBER. — О 
sistent for a long time, poene ‘that of all other Narcissi 
Piu to appear, which is now 10 to 14 inche 
very strong. The first — m 
seared at pd ai of the third w 
nd now (on 
either in fall Жз, or showing for flower 
warm one, but no ot 
this precocious manner (excepting three bulbs of N. 
poeticus, which have leaves 4 inches long, but no 
flowers), For the last week the sun has been very 
powerful, the thermometer in the shade at half- 
past 8 A м, ranging from 63° to 69°, W. I., Bishop's 
ont South Devon i 
RECENT SEED —An an ous letter, 
9 of our recent remet um 2. 5 —— 
appeared in the ep isene 
icle, and we ateful if е wil dod ean ' 
in the interests of den allow us brief s 
discussion of the — — in Tina. 
“ Agri-horti" (the ите under which the 
identity of the — is mealies directs — 
to “а fact that seems to have — notice,” 
namely, that the “ plaintiff registered 
ct, 
was tried and ed. 
endorse the sania — of the bench. 
From ''Agri-Horti's" letter we gather that he 
considera it desirable that the aie of a useful vege- 
table ME be confined to the man who is fortunate 
enough to notice the natural sport who is 
обе КӨУ shrewd to promptly register the variety 
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of the raiser who chose to call the variety after him- 
that we ver 
self. Wev 
s Monarch Swede, ‘Nutting’s Beet, 
ons e Imperial Cabba „а (all of which were 
mentioned in the it we = kar it will be bopeless 
to de tei o rq m the very decided difference 
between selling “ Shephard d's Kale and “ Shephard’s 
e Seed.” “ Agri-horti " 
if they would allow any one of the Cabbage tribe to 
go out for seeding again that was * one year only’ 
grown from their private stocks?” Now in this 
case our stock seed was purchased directly from the 
raiser by our grower, and“ Agri-Horti'a " misappre- 
