jury ii, 1874] 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
39 
The 
sing, after obee itsa, f Asil ¢ on o 
r 
3 
u 
l e experi lient “commenced July 31, and was 
af continued till September 
€ The leaves, shoots, » An. ‘and roots of each plant 
e 
j 
t 
Were taken separately, dried 
entire plant, by composing the mixture to be analysed 
: ipeo proportional to the weights of the different 
The following is a portion of the author’s résumé of 
his experiments :— 
mmonia volatilised in the atmosphere of 
Apparatus I. from has 31 to September 14, 
7 g" 93 gt. nitrogen 
lume of air which passed into ia receiver 
ing about forty-five times 1200 litres, or 54 cubic 
“metres, we find that 9 cubic metre canals on an 
ate 25 millegrammes of ammonia, or, in round 
" numbers, z$w of amm saat to 1 of air, by weight :— 
fat weight of pe. z Krahe via SRY. 5 146.9 gr. 
x o 
Nitrogen in ae Entire Plants. 
I gi ve 66.44 mg 22 per cent 
1 had obtained the normal quantity of nitrogen 
hich gps ant of vi oi es acquires in the natural 
“conditions of vegeta 2 had remained con- 
i ‘siderably anie this aati, the parogenisni aliment 
; nting to it. he soils being identical, it is 
“reasonable to suppose that the ammoniacal gas sup- 
ebay to the first was the com inplocment of its alimenta- 
According to analysis 
The ane 146.9 g of No. 
1 contained 3.260 gr. mE, 
The entire 139.0 gr. of No. 2 emi d 2.460 
Difference b: 
this excess of n the gaseous 
sileeeay f 
ammon orm to‘No. I, we ind that of 1.093 gr. 
of nitro ered in the st Pane 
Tobacco "héd alitilia o 800 | ithe about three- 
on nitrogen 
fio “that of the nitric ach was, for No. 1, : 
i z ob $ 25-5 ces The former sum is far from the 
a 800 which represen = the nitrogen 
atei by No. o. vi in the form of am ia. 
i he author iii also if the abeceetend of 
_ ammonia by the ves had had any influence on the 
red trustworthy. 
as been carried on in this pic; (Pionir 
but not until the railway pierced the 
in a commercial point of view, the 
| were late E Potatos, O 
yei Broccoli. 
the 
of the ammonia | 
isease the chief AE sare of | 
trade of this vicinity, and ict made that world-wide 
calamity, the Potato disease, more severely felt. The 
Onion and also the Cabbage t trade, which was once 
is now merely loc 
Thé e opening up of he en pacang a ird "a 
tadually oye the 
e friend sent salhir a pE p 
early a arar Pe Mes took kaik with him 
a em “town.” After a nn a 
few Gwetickiig dears edi send by coach to 
Falmouth, and thence by steamer to Lo 
occo 
a peor 
h of other early vegeta cs, 
h 
e average quantity of Potatos er 
away is something like 3000 tons a va ey Sega Bro 
coli is sent away to the extent of fro 
tons a seaso Land favourab 
early Potato 
Sheltered pales 
was thoug or ed 
were soon Poea most valuable, and many people who 
were at other be found it profitable to take up the 
spade and become gardeners. ut the idea that 
ople can grow what they like, and as iak ast 
® 
n 
n 
- 
ike of land ‘‘ poked” an into the sea, is 
a notion which i in practice has be many to to disappoint 
few who have 
a who 
ve gone through the ordeal vot “self denial, hard and 
pad ae work, and ant submission to re — 
reverses which, in some eee amounted to loss of 
outlay and crop as well as labo 
Those who have started in oo business having 
pecuniary advantages over many who were engaged 
eh uien og) 
se o wit a as well er, 
a i ow the Value of ree the weather at 
night,” said a i frie nd to me. “Iw member on one 
occasion, when on the look-out sis bea pina some 
branches of Furze into some turves which already 
been provided, an and on the approach ed frost i in the 
morning setting fire to them all a piece of 
Potatos, and,” added he, pasesit an ip ed y 
The earliest Potatos are now brought from the Scilly 
Isles. The late Mr. Augustus Smith told me some 
years ago that he had been for. ume time piisi 
consid ced of the-impo establishing mark: 
ning amongst his Horee called them, and 
kd done all he could towards that end. The fac 
ed as a protector to the tpsa 
s he had planted oatof-doo oors led him 
would receive 
little or no pau ma even if sharp frome: occurred on the 
o 
gist 
mainland. ous opposition so encoun 
tered by Co mish growers of early esaetitetas from the 
Chad racy and Algeria. 
BROCCOLI, &c. 
In my endeavour to give an outline or a descri ption, 
sig —— 
as far as my ll allow, I a with 
the Broccoli crop, will s an arrange- 
ment of cropping the soil with other things as well. 
Broccoli a ea — m passy wn ni every 
Rowers oy are ving is all st fie field fot that t purpose 
other ae quarter, or perhaps half an acre is lefi 
ed : the bad plants, if any, are n ou 
The maie the seed is a precarious part of the busi- 
ness, early variety gro is so delicate 
plant 
been known to have been ae for 1 pint of at 
March ; 
They sow in the month o ; this sowing 
prises. both earl; e li crops, whi 
are planted out from May to July. When 
in a young state t e m 
Hail showers often destroy them: 
a Onion beds, other 
After the Broccoli are Pot planted, the 
ground being again manured for them at the rate of 
415 per acre, and Broccoli follow 
E | i Taua be rated tor «Come „$ 
each row of bushes, in the place of what was occu 
by the Broccoli and the Onion crops, and grow to an` 
extraordinary size. These Gooseberry bushes go on 
profitably on an average seven years. In 
seasons 40 to 50 gallons of fruit are amg prt cie ie 
person in one da 
planted, and Onions alone Stated this land, late 
Broccoli is s planted in the following June on each 
side of oo ee hon A to er leaves of the 
Broccoli plants gro then trimmed, to 
give light and air to Nhe Onions, until the latter EEA is 
ever, interferes with the productiveness of the ol 
wee ar 
Early rag her imeés, therefore, sown a 
i every alternate row, or rather in the 
centre ‘oft the beds Aen ich the Onion crop w 
When th ii 
t Th wberry plants 
are ‘planted i in Apri jot after tie "fist weeding of 
the Onion y Oni takin 
venie] y after the 
the ground well 
I 
pry jan a 
‘occoli, 
nd 
with late Br 
the are left on the fi or ez oe ing 
considered better than anything e The crates are 
brought into the field and the Broci rya re 
acked in them at the rate of eight or twelve dozen 
in a crate, and sen by rail the day they are 
cut. Broccoli are also ly grown on the farm. A 
lea field is ploughed n the th of May and 
ured at the rate of 40 loads of farmyard 
o the acre, an wt. of guano to the acre for 
Broccoli. That crop goes to the market in Feb- 
vop 
ruary or March lollaan when Potat 
or Mangel Wurzel sown or transplanted in t 
ges After the 
Broccoli plants valuable manure ; indeed it is found 
ert 
to answer an any other manure for Mangels 
or late Potatos, which would follow the Broccoli 
f cou pons if wanted for cattle, the leaves 
are not sa down. Two to hundred 
acres of Potatos are grown in Pag 
over acres of poeot ace) Bein eoms of 
Broccoli mo in eiae bourhood ng from 500 
ipa 800 rE of Broccoli on the farm 
with t 
ce: oie 
ing — 
EARLY POTATOS, 
Earl Potato towi still one of the leading 
tae of marke rgd ing at Pen he seeds 
or sets of early Potatos were fortnerly obtained from 
London—a kind called Early Shaws ; they, however, 
ed > r some years th 
have besi he 
e 
kinds called 
full of shelves ante top to separ 
noS the pet 
in Lis the secede in 
in ea ii top of one's little k 
otatos, as a rule, a Aawa 
after smi be tin is pony aap best aaa 
The 
"handled spades ; i 
mira with them. 
