NOVEMBER 2, 1861.] 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
973 
he most part the етра 
рег 
come to t 
кара, Wild Rape, and Raphanus imd | plac: 
y ded truly : Charlock. be not allowed to seed, it 
oí ct 
а all but in 
low as 6s. рег 8lbs. For 
T and healthy, and is ey 
t well The following return show the tal 
M stock disposed o of in Sy А ms Metropolitan | 
e present and five 
ears: 
each ki ind of Stock Exhibited and Sold. during the first | 
52 Жом E, the Pii Years :— 
1 9 
113,373 | 114,702 | 109,812 
7 2977 2904 3005 | 
588,758 | 668,702 | 662,030 | 604,650 
| pP 
iphanist 
obtain the same names as the more comm n |wi 
species, so th all may aged the | 
farmer th: * Kerlock stuff," go 
either of the p named abound, iu EA т ens pla: 
sometimes, in separate eps they are indien 
Етти * sort of Charlock or Kerlock." 
This want of iscrimina Mon 
told +} 
іогсе wh 
ill soon 
acquires а 
fo о wing estimate of oda 
of the tribe under review :— 
"Uo 
Si карч arvensis. 
er 
alb: 
Raphanus арышты 
Bras 
of the ‚ав the Mustards 
are теа d plants, with more 
ne ow flowers. With this КОКЕ of like 
r, Ше most casual observer r may де ш 
eur 
Јев 
88 Meran vd hese mes we eod 
s, how- [iasg on outbreak of Charlo vie ne occasionally finds, for 
ke qim few allowed to seed will be mec o sto 
i should b 
7272 
14, ds 
9515 | . 65 " 
п 15,9 
Te Героі ng co MÀ 
of "og tet fallen d d the ys propos 
; but the deficiency in тли number has been 
рш - heavy condi- 
8878 
mt T 
e. pod of different species; to aid i c 
append зата of ce parts in the three com- | 
moner Mustards, of their actual в s which will be | 
understood by the йоз woodeui 
„The hree species will b 
f them , th 
this plant in a variety of ways. 
jssiribourhood of Caernarvon a drilled patch of what 
ance. In 
appear: 
pihe ОЕШ of ihe opzet m the district and 
ve been as under compared 
* District” Bullock к plies. 
1856 | 1857 | 1858 
1861 
1859 | 1560 
[ушһегп Distriets..| 900 |а 
astern Districts .. 51,700 00,500 6 800 1060, 68, 520 
parts England 1,550, 14,400 14, $60) 19,020 21, 420 
d УА 008| 8860) 5456 10,030) 5038 
4700 
64,060 
17,700 
T 
3400|. 9700| б 
78801 9938! 
and 3400 in 1856. The total portati ns 
from Ireland this year have been 
1 Las regards, number and 
с of th at 
Liverpool, Manchester, Aa Bi rmingham ma et 
ar prices of beef and mutton have been 
2 | small, dark bro s 
` Average Prices of Beef and Mutton. 
: 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 
ВЕЕР:— & d.|s.d.|s. d.| s d.| s. d. | s. d. 
Inferior .8$.0|82|3 013 2 13 6|8 4 
Midäling ..1.310 |4 0310 4 0]4 6 |4 4 
те Шы: 48|[50|46|50|56|5 0 
Inferior . m9 0181013 2/3 4 |81013 8 
Middling .. ..4 0|5 0|4 21 2.8.1 0:01 |] 5.0 
Ргіше 2100/5 2:510 6 21510 
tho oe in 
€ imagine, been (o SERA 
may have ле use 
p rates which prevailed for 
early of last year. 
vibus. taken place in Уе тара of 
€ marka ich, 
houg ot hens y 
period the 3 at 
mest mutton s. 5 и 8 в, b iyi Ше 
dme ons now, however, are 
wi 
A. 
плазшу 
paratively mo 
Аз the ae 
t 4 Ma n is ges Tus in this country are 
$ 
ra УР 
are deeply | 
e best p ETRE by a 
1). 
Tod more or less spread- | i 
o 
rnip and muc ПЕ is а rare practice, and h 
napis nigra (Fig. 2). тоа ecd pem , ар- | mixtures are not cared to be ki пей; 
Dn to ihe stem, sm with a ute beak all Turnips are drilled, mpi ге of w 
(Fig, 2. а), more or less ын in ini Seeds [ун nearly as much аз 30 ent. will be foun м 
erag e of mixture in Turni seeds, are carefully 
which end the 
ы: э 
ie. 
av 
inapis alba (Fig. 3). Pod spreading on long foot- отарга di 
Tm reino, bal ging with seeds; beak bro ie and | Charlock sels s grown by the farmér are usually saved, 
covered with long bristly ha hai: as it finds a y market at from 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. per 
arvensis is essentially an “жоК bushel ; ind: Mdh we have meets wn one funi r to 
as on 
m The 
=» edem the arable farmer almost everywhere, |as much as 30 bushels 
procur 
duly killed, во that it 
mills, in w case 
after the oil has been 
ion =“ the ргы 
io Ше c 
^ e | 
b 
2 
SEED PODS (SILIQUÆ) OF SINAPTS. 
Fig. 1. -Sinapis arvensis. ia E Ea же —] ga 3.—Sinapis bá. Natural size. 
Meise 5d iculture ture abroad, we may oil * онла! 
е i Lattention to some official statistics recently d and it would o difference of climate in| College, which was M aris subject 
Lm reference to { our own MEE logical dition, and scarcely | се с, 28 appears to have 
i any kind of crop is entirely free from it, though as a | not o pter. foreign Flax ў за 
matter of ome situations, soils, and crops, Fri op we ieot raced its spread in different 
present it i ter quantities others. Un-|ways over the rm, unti at the present 
but there is evidently а great | cleaned root and Barley crops see r Ње рез | moment the $. nigra is even more general than the 
еер returned. - Further, | to the extent, so much so, that we once heard arvensis. This is a result that we incline to think i 
a would- er exclaim ** What a pity those|not uncómmón, as a weed new to a soil ti 
Turnips are M seed," when іб was one mass of|flourishes in a most ех i way, Ж са itself 
Charlock. re gards Barley the fields on a | doing all better for of air ene, but 
bright spring ене аи sometimes se tee a complete | as it we а exte Gratin ang the 
sheet of yellow. In reference to this subject it шау hativ Species. This we lare particularly observed in 
Hinned at that rate, on a stock of ем not be out of place to quote some verses thát have | the States where the ag weeds t our fore- 
a million of s еер, the whole r race must die been put in our hands by a ipsemet d farmer, as | fath hers took over with their seeds h ave become 
e call attenti view to | if not highly polished in the of homestead 
Y and correction by the b oper : tl rhyme, they tain a la ш P reason, which | е4 ico ourselves, all these being clear examples of how 
- Robert Herbert in the Roy 1 to the point. тз have weeds Us all because they sow them, 
E Н Glostershire Zong on the Kerlock. seed, 
and 
gni but the 
reeding оны of some of the us 
: RIS hong the we f the firm. The 
EY шег into 
u adu that of 
Р а the "following agricul- 
| Beginn arvensis, Charlock, Kerlock, Кей 
\ nigra...... Black M a КЕ 
rg let t 
3. Siva; 
them grow an 
is alba.— 
** But a zays, zays he, it aint no use 
tard. 
.the first is is 1 .ge moral Charlock 
bs. the other two species, as also Brassica пбн 
Fortogotoa Ў 
For twull oo come Lii wihintevor thee doos, oí iie Wi 
Fora yearortwo vrom hence. . 
“But n j |as s Кылда and as mischievous in its operations е 
Like the Turmits and Whate we seows, the common. Charlock itself, for which indeed it 
Жи ы reri Мыны, 
т лаан S nn During the past spring we saw two fields on tho 
2 pi ius ot E EE —— Cotteswolds, where it had quite. taken possession, 
Vor if I doant let un zeed tis plane, 
Not a bil t* will be vound." we incline to think о it is making rapid ao ons as 
This digression be considered as out of a weed plant In ese cases, then it has doubtless 
* Nast is term for weeds. Picking Nas! bi 
Nast, will moan picking of Cough, dió, NEA ovdi. ms | perhaps eragi its vien by the fashion of е 
