6:18 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[NOVEMBER 14, 1874, 
their blooming is bing ; a good washing with insecti- 
cide will then destroy the insects without injuring oo 
t 
y the leaves—in which case 
the plants are not wor much, it induces a hard 
stunt ies mon which they are i to 
recov A the By all thro the 
growing ý eathe: an 
favourable to the jsi of the i keep 
do but the water must be directly a) applied 
them : ectl 
to both the upper and under sides of the leaves where 
they harbour. 7. Baines. 
ma FARM. 
Tue WEATHER.—There can be no doubt that the 
climatal ATS which have prevailed during the 
e ex ed an influence 
One of the most noticeable effects of a hot, dry summer 
at crop to a state of 
suffered much from this cause, 
Beans ; and hence at the present moment we find that 
60 Ib. of Wheat is absolutely cheaper in the market 
of grain, it will be found that 60 lb, of Wheat will be 
found to yield a greater amount of flesh-forming or 
muscle-restoring matter than the like quantity of any 
er grain. 
It was, pease this knowledge, besides the =bg of 
s, however, another aspect of the question, 
weather, and it is as fol- 
failed in many districts; thus, for ourselves, we did not 
make a bit of meadow S Gung the past summer, 
and so have had to cont es with about two- 
kei of a crop of seed hay; and while we have but 
of passable Swedes where we usually have 
5o acres, unusually good both in quantity and quality, 
that some little difference in agement 
aap 
Let it then be stated that our common Turnips, 
such as Tankard Swede, really a Turnip, and Green 
Ring Turnip, are better than usual—arising from the 
wonderful autumn weather. 
Well, the mildness of the season has caused our ewe 
flock to do very well up till the last fortnight on the 
stubbles in the pastures and about on the different bits 
of feed the warm autumn has so forwarded, but now 
they are upon the roos and Rape, and in the 
Ul COLL 
pg a Sms eia that common 
Well, then, this mildness of the season makes 
Wheat sink lower and lower week by week; we must 
however, ae it, as we want eps a: 
Ka online Se PONG 
why 
not keep the Wheat at home? peran 
of valuable manurial matter than any other grain, 
though in fat-formin 
e DE seg E a 
it is proposed to 
the roots with the qeli field turnip-cutter, sprinkling 
PEENES care, and if any of our friends should 
used wheat-meal in this way, or intend 
- 
aper we have rather expressed theoretical views as 
regards its value in sheep- -feeding, yet these are much 
encouraged by the use of meal in horse and cattle- 
sone! and we doubt not that ont will confirm 
cience in this as in many other matters. 
Prejudice, however, may still s aan in the way with 
some, as it has hitherto done, or we should possess 
eid experience in the matter. The exc ceptional 
Gaa: then, leading to such exceptional pricesas w 
have adverted to, may in the end be of great advantage. 
here is an old saying that ‘' Circumstances alter 
cases,” and pe oe in the case before us we may say 
with the poe! 
‘6 Who does the best his circumstance allows, 
oes well, acts oe ; angels could no more.’ 
Young's Night Thoughts. 
oO 
Forestry. 
AT the 21st session of the Scottish ee Oe 
ČT.: 
her grouping or a 
planting was most ont as a landscape effect, the 
nani erdict wo in favour of judicious 
grouping, and that on all gn landed properties, 
from the 2 or 3 acre vil 
ledge of arkes A botany was needed, and a kn 
ledge of the wind-resisting powers of different kinds of 
trees, in iia that they might so that 
the stronger shelter the 
and u 
ouping nds, ees widely different 
n their affinities, but having a siede ance to one 
pele in eo and form of their leaves, might be 
associated in 
to solve was 
ight 
tit could be su 
in families. The first, when intended to form 
of one kind, and the other two rows of a di 
half The second, or avenue, should 
generally have the rows next to the roadway or drive 
fferent kind, 
or GANAS SiN, - propel oe L dear 
but full — sere A SS s the after develop. 
m the 
out tonching'¢ in nodes encroaching on the ania 
m it the trees in the back rows, D 
koe important item ‘in landscape arboricul. 
ture, Mr. Gorrie conclud follows :—Applying 
some of the ceding remark mples of 
isiti 
Sir Walter Sco 
Edinburgh Meadows, i ave opportunities a estimating 
and skill of ou 
and situation—the kind being c or W 
Elm, one of most capricious of ordinary forest 
rees—each with a few feet of ste nted by a 
besom-like hea num 
of n 
as if ag at a attain to sufficient size 
for the y and comfortable accom- 
modation of pg goon when ‘Vesta passing pro- 
ine the Old Borough Loch, accord- 
ing well, of Arkland, Mt. 
keillor, commencing about 1722, 
g trees rich era and pleasant 
alks whe re gen iepa esorted,” 
Campbell's Fourney through North Brittle in 1810, 
he meadows are described as ‘fa mall ly 
Hope, of Ran- 
‘t raised beautiful 
avenues, 
ees Set up to the present time, 
by their general appearance, and es = that 
of the murderously merra payor" distorted, 
ome avenue trees which cut in two "the a 
expanse cont a 
grassy m 
much kas of late been said and wri 
Mr. Dunn, Dalkeith Palace Eid said that if 
the principles laid down by Mr. Gorrie were applied 
by foresters with the ordi at hand, 
the landscape effect of ‘the country wou 
be 
A vote of thanks was aoa to Mr. Gorrie for 
his valuable paper, which it was agreed to print im 
extenso in the Society’s 77 Sanini 
THE INJURY ota TO FOREST Trees BY WILD 
s.—Mr. M‘C Coquil Scone, 
subject. was, he 
iky | in getting up young plan 
rrels were E Dively the most san 
edy was shoo! ting do 
roof against game, 
used wire netti sei 1} mesh, 3 feet hig so 
A e r such a fence, and it 
arp 
intest gee z 
the in done to young trees ief 
the cro ig of Capercailzie, which aie reckoned the chief 
olksidess, cia containing no ure 
buds. buds 
ae ne = 
year. eau 
oa Od the bullfinch were also Very destructive 
young 
Mr. James Rait, Castle e Forbes, ssid said that 
foresters t 
ee bit wh rite 
all destroyed ex! 
