366 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Arner 21, 1860. 
Selenide nol monly four times, |Brcavsast, Bnooxtann, CHEVREUI, Coupes | 
t be, is not merely four times, | BECQUEREL, BROGNIART, CHEVREUL, COMBE s, | pecuniary economy of the tillage, both in hepa 
bat really mor more othan a five pea es that of the oe] Sppe “Dowas, Fria my, Passy, PéÉrreor, | operations we and the less cost of ee rip 
rehased. VALENCIENNES, Mémbers of the espe. À: annl bal with horse-power. 
rea BP EEEE T D xl kna pan DaRBLAY, RD, | [push 2a por er ae when the ita 
Š Mav E MORNAY, MOLL, POMMIER, D | plough ang ste: r are tearing away—, 
Wk fe g since agricultur Shee tai ran Kelki o of “tbe ig si egies nF erious force-giving vapour at ah me 
death of M. Lovrs VILMORIN, the head and heart IX ay ah DE NARD, piteh vf compression. y within the e. plate-and.. 
of the well-known firm of ViLMoRIN-ANDRIEUX Ma KA beer and m many y others well known or body of the boi m ] toft at 
& Co., Merchant Seedsmen, of Paris, For the n they occupy $ in the landed and agri-| tion, as Pica tai him the expense of so mush 
nearly tie cent wetna ha his + ee afera pte rests of me unt: ey draught done bylive horses, and award our rizesand 
a aps S i e he orations over the grave were made. by ae gS accordingly. But the steam-enes 
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n, | by the paare a and feeling manner in ae wey yet be pottan baci hav ving than horses, 
5 ` ; severally expressed themselves, testified to the/can scufile so deeply without trea ding down t 
with perhaps vse = Fas. sre rag ine gen high prek im eiio ca Viraronrs was held | work again; so that for every owt, of A 
, by al wil o had the happin ber: anked among | steam power performs most effect upon the gro 
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e eee a the whole community. process, there is Ta piece ef fey 0 in 
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: ; bare do tof only one ploughing an ban seufflings i 
to the Higher anels of his prolson the Me Waar a pity it ig. that the be iar od ve eee | | ‘sie sprin ng; po v cannot ge a = in the 
] rubbing done withou m-cultivat 
new esistias ofi gE AIPS ee Pike product Par too tit, Th il Northam} you cn awit ihi it j therafore the the steam sia or, ‘ee 
possession of heredit K pe. ane is- now Wor rise upon other raw 
poi which | special val ae =a ai a ight be = aterial, with great sake ‘of $ e cllected pan sriling = ploughing, ag ra Ap o Yı 
rendered more certain, and inde indeion treat- | slowly r rotti ing down around it ee oqo : 
_— eats inerea: a This was the ork o promising ‘ae work up pete str nave been 
bade his life, and the ‘most to quires and envelopes ; but we. shall a“ have expen nded i an ering tillage if you had laid out the 
pare a attended his ps hoe able lab th i tirpate as a aforesai 8s. in winter ploughing instead of autumn 
basis. of his principle of i i was in gis without falas received, and with no chance “ot Parry SF 4i o th at Ln tbs not be payin 
pee selection of the parent stock; and long even a bad market. We le might Mr: Pusey | ety tor the:s sgl id tee in autumn even 
combined with his gre eat natural enforce his recommendat ion of autumn Slowing 20s. per Ppi ; and it would be well worth acing, 
kre nas of abesik, enabled him at once di ch” | because of the advantage of such cn ou ultivation 
parregel in the seed the very quakitio which h what in shape like a centipede, ‘aad, as ie E. over! 18 inti 
wished t e offsprin el hatot fal t Yie eye of the cleanly farmer, La- erecting cheap work from the steam-engine, 
plants. These were most carefully hark Kad and | bourers roan the plant (or rather the class. of 
attended to y their growth and submitted plants not very botaniecally but for practical pur- POTATO CULTIVATION. 
aim to: his scrutiny, is nly those returne fo jPOses igih bee as “ Couch”) as a provid I HavE been very successful for several years in T 
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e ‘ha of their kind, which, according to and pro ork ; and the managers of light | erops of t} id rondon 
gment, assisted frequently by direct tenai moist oe T o it can burrow deep and | diseas da my system “of, farming for this 
ments, were considered to possessinthehighestdegree revel in mischief ever rife and thriving, are able bs Aa fi chink, Pir bi use 
those qualities which conferred the value upon the to make out a fearfully heavy: bill against it for a double fork the land. to tlhe depth of 16 to 18 inches, 
individual plant, or crop, Thus, wellnigh all the extra cost of cultivation and loss of cropping by | commonly a Wheat stubble, throwing the lower spit 
rincipal plants of French agriculture occupied direct, damage or indirect delay. Over a large uppermost, I begin as be tear. harvest as [conveniently 
Ries time A = his tatoan and none passed | portion of our country the agriculture is conducted | can, finishing the wor ae ible before Christmas, 
ugh hi aparib at Verriéres with- as much with a view to the E a s ier tis The soil is thus lett te rough cloddy state exposed 
out testifying y their id vigour and pro- imperious and exacting weed as to the of | during the winter to the frost, snow, and atmosphere 
duction to ae and treat- the fold, the stall, or ‘ha ae ee sche br influences. In the following spring so soon as, the land 
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tific farmer had aoaea She ai vpid numbers of acres in ‘ale heart are obliged | juan yapa spd will 3 bushels o pe po saa 
ans he took to secure them, were always made ‘allowed for:cleaning when th ey should be bearing | inch ite 
deep, and 1 yardapart. ith a lar’ 
known ‘to the public, every oppo arty was a good harvest of profit. On most of our friable for the se ose. wT depos? gr pe S E the ing oe ws 
p purp posit the 
any gd ded A a E visiting the ol of pra mand om silk lighter i a continual battle | 15 inches from set to set. I then si over them 
ae wre experi: n prog iA of obtaining is bein g y the farmer against this perti- | 1} cwt. of guano mixed with, 10 o. iia bw 
asta s of cultivation wi indeed, of coe cope | nacious wid oh rise able enemy, With creeping | earth or ashes to the acre, antl @ 
ep of the lessons there to. be lea and matting, roots for ever being meperten by |common hoe. I have this Ea at ch 3D) iat 
cipal crops w with whose erode ent | tho operations of tillage, and each joint starting a plan ig ee Geet: Wy das ag tity. No horse 
the name e ot Tonts VILMORIN is most as mite are. fresh met on its own ionik the ‘Cowal i is to i the | has been y r one harrowing. I TE 
ihe re a a vege sgh Alaa e fields what the new Water-weed proved im our size, neither large n mat aanita 
of w have. been spread over the choking canals; and the husbandman endeavours x taki 
eae tet surface of his country, and have | [only to. reduce rar check it by the battues and i ere ie al es 28 ‘els ot - is ag A 
also 2 icipated in by the agric ture 0 our | Tazzias of the ga se pe ailan t hopin B roots w i Eas Sev d aula tee and better 
e are indebted to him for i exterminate this. vegetab A the inea. Prony theae P zaia the stock I now 
Sividion, of, th T kg Pe 
; m of the genus Triticum, our cultivated But in bend = ‘ine for sane the scorching taste: they have been free from: disease 
‘Wheats—and were we hig Pe y the same paral autumnal months, when the stu bbles are vias pid 2 xcellent st and much in demand: inthis nei 
LA : r 7 and Mangel; in bared to the, baking su sun, the teams are p, | bokithiood. The subsoil of my land is partly t 
erence to their feeding MADOG that ri So | with vest=c pei ting, preparing = for Wheat brick earth, some, of it stony. loam, and 
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ot it 
ERA So wi recourse t winter oar hint, Dohle forki f ing 6d. per rod s ; 
tonatel On wall as producers, would be propor- that ¢ peter half sever. and. n the soil; cross- if owt ba yan te pg oe pA i 5 1 
tion i ae, nefited, M. Vinmorrn died compa- ploughing in "im Jas op by a tedious suo- Harrowlbg act = 
r ri Ly rely Fea! o aena for anise eanas cession of senftlin: lift out with tines and) Mine the manure and planting 1d. per T — 
young tə have acquired by his high’ ientifio ond cen poustin, oe t aara x 
i : is high s an of Couch fi rro ings,| .When the plants show 3:or 4 inches abo we the soll 
practical acquirements, bia thoughts ulin hi - rdias se to shake LA PAE rei P : ap dry weath they -a 
} i TE l ad ioe vi i e ie VATIO N, a oa a Mi "A 
private obar ane in ‘every elation of lifes son, antici ats hasa r ao from weeds, vi Sha about 10s.; taking up the crop 
usband, and father—the and confidence of a. delving. bus — ss by “smashing-up™ the hard | With the fork anc hove Be | T ire 
large my i; private eae on the esteem and stubble in autumn, exposing g the "Candie naka on | bushels or 9 tons) will aM bee 10s., ‘aking ~ this 
respect, of every one, whether Frenchman or the kibla and usin expense, per, acre 107, 16s. 1 I- commenced ¢ 
MM. DEcAIsNE, paa VREUL, and RoBInET, who | might haul at t a deare er rate per cwt. cf dray shee d 
"We i 
pertama 
Pee nesai 
r annual weed ; £ 
foreigner, ~ wom either personally or by corre- | grow and be. destroyed ; without simultasaoniel YEPE, dytin forking in: tha “antum of TS 
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spondence h ah: BRO urying again a large proportion o e fag Pak Merem whieh, wania, Wheel T patoss 
He was et in Paris April 16, and | root-weeds, as the Pais Pe Bo h does. And ‘aap ae ne nea Scotch 
KER! at Veriren, i es ch Se Os Oe Fa naair | practic cal experience has shown Fire several | Dons, and Flukes. I will detail the Ta ce 
ar. fun i uch ee ipl field t till the it tim 
arly marked. the stamp of the man whose | ing to the nature and tel of phe sae ee op 1855.— ~Felaoes 416 bushe bi 
i n | thus: wholly a much peso ee wit go. 
en m t P | amount of moisture: to ee in the soil in | Seed w. a thee a pio 0 tonda of a fedor vid 
science and representatives of the prac- spring and early sumwer, killing the Couch and | **Te was ploughed 
80) Sap ab united in his own | fertilising the land by the longer exposure to peas in November : 
e mospheric agencies, and amazingly forwarding YP ge bushels Pe 
oe sowing of the pas ay nt Seas a poin t acre With the of excellent res eee | 
or growing bulk and weight, and tor co a ie eng in the autumn 19 ; 
manured with 10 loads of muck 
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d all this. is in addition to the; 1853.—A large and full crop of Clover 
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die shag on before hay and harvest interfere with the the. autumn, ae F 
