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Leaf mould, well reduced,. one eighth. 
Fresh sound earth, . one third. 
Your beds will now be some inches above the level of your walks, 
but in a week or ten days they will sink down considerably ; you 
might give the beds a slight fall, say one-fourth inch to a foot; but 
as the ranunculus requires a continual supply of moisture, a greater 
fall than this would be injudicious. When your beds are in a pro¬ 
per state, make impressions or drills across them with the handle of 
a hoe, by pressure, about one and one-fourth inches deep, and five 
inches asunder, and plant your roots at four inches distance from 
each other; then fill up your drills with the same compost. The 
ranunculus should never be planted deeper than one inch from the 
surface, as light and air seem to be essential to their very existence. 
By adopting the plan laid down above, your roots will be about four 
inches from the manure, at which distance sufficient nourishment 
will be obtained ; but if the roots come at all in contact with manure, 
they will be inevitably lost. It would be well to remark, that cold, 
or naturally wet ground, is unfit for this plant, for although the ra¬ 
nunculus likes moisture, it prefers partaking of it passing—for this 
reason, the bottom of the beds should have a quantity of gravel 
thrown in, if at all wet or cold; indeed, such ground ought to have 
sewers for carrying off the surplus water. An eastern aspect is the 
best; but a southern will answer very well, provided it is a distance 
from the garden wall. Ranunculuses should never be planted within 
twelve feet of a wall or hedge. Anemones may be treated in a 
similar manner. 
From these few extracts taken from the gardening portion of the 
work, our readers will be able to form a tolerably correct judgment 
of the abilities of the contributors. Our selections have been limited 
to the first three numbers. Each number contains 56 pages of let¬ 
ter-press, comprising Original Communications on Agriculture, 
Horticulture, Arboriculture, and Floriculture ; Also, Miscellaneous 
Intelligence, comprising Extracts from other periodicals, Agricultu¬ 
ral Exhibitions, and Monthly Calendars on Horticulture, Arboricul¬ 
ture, and Agriculture. Queries and Answers, and Collections of 
Useful Scraps from various sources. We think the whole well cal¬ 
culated to awaken a spirit of enquiry amongst the gardeners and 
farmers of the Sister Country, which mav eventually issue in the 
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