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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[October 17. 
plot. Tlxe herbage produced by this mode is not only 
exceedingly luxuriant, but the pony and some goats we 
notice decidedly prefer it to either lucern or meadow grass, 
produced without irrigation ; and the same remark is made 
by one of my neighbours, who has a field irrigated with the 
water of the river Wandel, which contains occasionally a 
notable portion of the drainage of the town of Croydon. 
It is perhaps of little use (as our turf was only laid in 
March) to report one season’s produce of grass ; still, as we 
have kept an account of it, it may be cheering to the reader 
to have the account. The grass was not ready to cut the 
first time until May 25, since the turf had to establish 
itself, and to contend with dry weather. The weight and 
the days of cutting were as follows :— 
. . 05 lbs. 
. . 50 „ 
. . 50 „ 
. . 50 „ 
May 
25 . 
. 28 lbs. 
June 
8 
99 
27 . 
. . 40 „ 
99 
10 
9) 
30 . 
• 42 „ 
99 
12 
June 
1 . 
• 50 „ 
91 
15 
99 
3 . 
• oo „ 
Total 435 lbs. 
The ground was then irrigated, as I before described, only 
once. It began to grow again immediately, and kept on in 
spite of a very dry season, which parched up all the surroundim/ 
grass lands. By July 27 it was ready to cut again—the 
produce being evidently better than before. The days of 
cutting and the weight of this second crop were then— 
July 27 . . 
75 
lbs. 
„ 30 . . 
05 
99 
August 1 . . 
55 
99 
„ 3 . . 
40 
91 
5 . . 
00 
„ 
August 7 
„ 8 
„ 10 
50 lhs. 
40 „ 
75 „ 
Total 400 lbs. 
The same plan was a third time carried on of cutting and 
irrigating, the same dry weather still attended us, and the 
same growth of the grass. On the 1st of October, our third 
crop of grass was commenced cutting, and is now going on; 
it is in every respect equal to either of the preceding ; the 
same irrigating is taking place, the same early shooting of 
the grass is visible. The reader will remark that we have 
thus secured three crops, and lost the time (in February and 
March) sufficient for the growth of a fourth; but omitting 
that from our calculation, we have (taking the average weight 
of the crops to be equal to 450 lbs.) we have, I say, mown 
1850 lbs. of grass off 208 square yards of laud since the turf 
was laid in March, or at the rate of about fourteen tons of 
grass per acre. The sewer irrigated meads of Edinburgh 
always produce four or five crops annually, and I see no 
reason why we cannot do the same in future seasons, for the 
soil is evidently improved as well as its produce by the irri¬ 
gation. By the house sewage, I mean the term to compre¬ 
hend the entire house drainage in its most extensive sense. 
— Waldronhyrst, Oct, 4, 1850. 
CATALOGUE OF PRIZE GOOSEBERRY-TREES. 
Red, —Alderman, Poison’s ; Companion, Hopley’s ; Con¬ 
quering Hero ; Flixtonia, Barlow’s ; Guido, Rotliwell’s ; 
Highlander, Bank’s; King Cole, Poison’s ; London, Bank’s; 
Lincoln, Finney’s ; Lumper, Fairclougli ; Lion’s Provider, 
Fish’s ; Magnet, Bratherton’s ; Ricardo, Poison’s ; Slaugh¬ 
terman, Pigott’s ; Top Gallant, Bratherton’s ; Useful, 
Baker’s; Wonderful, Saunders’. 
Yellow. —Broom Girl; Catherina, Travis's; Comet,Filde’s; 
Captain Cooke, Cooke’s ; Drill, Cranshaw’s ; Game Cock, 
Fairclough's; Goldfinder, Bell's; Hue and Cry, Leicester’s 
{new) ; Gunner, Hardcastle’s ; Leader, Pigott’s; Light¬ 
ning* Fairclough’s; Lord Rancliffe, Ellis’s ; Moreton Hero, 
Pigott’s ; Oldham, Rhodes’s ; Peru, Cooke’s ; Pilot; Rail¬ 
way, Livesey’s. 
j Green.—General, Thewlis’s ; Gretna Green, Horrack’s ; 
Green Prince, Summer’s ; Green Wonderful, Sanders’ ; 
Keepsake, Banks’; Little Wonder, Heath’s; Overall, Fos¬ 
ter s ; Queen I ictoria, Swift’s ; Rough Green, Dutton's ; 
Thumper, Riley’s; Tom Joiner, Goodier’s ; Turnout, Baker's; 
Thunder, Fairclough’s ; Telegraph, Poison ’s ( quite new) ; 
Weathercock, Bratherton’s. 
White. —Ardsley Beauty, Thewlis’s; Coppice Lass; Cos- 
j sack, Chapman's ; Eagle, Cooke's ; Freedom, Moor’s ; Flora, 
, Chapman’s; Jenny Lind, Lockett’s; Lady Stanley; Lady 
Leicester, Bell’s; Mary Yates, Sandiford’s; Queen of Trumps, 
Leigh’s ; Snowball, Robinson’s ; Snowdrop, Bratherton’s ; 
Tally-lio, Riley’s ; White Hare, Mosely’s. 
Mr. Turner, of Neepsend, Sheffield, has sent us the above 
list as the best that can be grown. 
EXTRACTS EROM CORRESPONDENCE. 
Stove Without Chimney. —The stove mentioned in my 
former letter (page 303 of vol. iv.), and referred to by your 
correspondent (W. W. B.), is not intended for a chimney. 
The manufacturer prepares fuel which he warrants to pro¬ 
duce no disagreeable smell; but I confess I did not find it 
free—not more so, I think, than nice clean small common 
charcoal—from a kind of suffocating effect, especially when 
first lighted. The management of the stove is exceedingly 
simple, yet requires great attention, so that I think none but 
a principal would find it serviceable. The manufacturer 
furnishes the purchaser with an instrument for igniting some 
few pieces of coal over the kitchen fire; these, when red 
hot, are thrown into the stove, and after burning up for a 
few minutes, the stove is filled with the common or prepared 
charcoal, the cover placed on the top, and the register left 
wide open to draw it up a little. It is then placed in the 
greenhouse; and the thermometer will soon tell whether the 
register requires adjustment. As you have invited me to 
make any other observations relative to the working of the 
stove, I will describe the latest improvement I made in the 
management of it, and also the use I made of it during the 
time I had it at work.—1st. I was always careful to let the 
fire burn up a little before placing it in the house.—2ndly. I 
never uncovered the stove on any account in the house. By 
these means I found it created little or no dust. Suppose I 
shut up all close at night, say nine o’clock, aud at eight 
o’clock the next morning I visit my house ; my first move¬ 
ment would be to lift the stove up and carry it outside, take 
off the top, raise up by the handle the inner case which 
holds the fire, carry it to some place removed from the door 
so that the dust may not blow in, and then give the case a 
good jerking, to shake all the consumed coal through the 
grating at the bottom (this ash I found of essential service 
in the spring)—the live coal remained, much or little. This, 
by means of the handle, I flung about, up and down, in the 
air to give it fresh life aud vigour; and having filled up the 
stove with coal, removed it inside the house, where it re¬ 
mained untouched (except to regulate the register) until the 
ovening. If the day was mild, the register would be nearly 
turned off, and little consumption took place; yet in the 
evening I always took my stove outside to remove, by means 
of shaking, the dust that might be made, and without adding 
any more fuel returned it to its place. Many times once 
filling has served me for twenty-four hours. My wife could 
manage all this just as well as myself, without soiling the 
hands. Now as to the use I made of the heat during the 
winter, besides warming the house : under the front w ide 
shelf at the end nearest the door, I built a kind of oven 
with brick not mortared, covered this with slates, and left in 
the wall of the oven just room enough to admit my stove. 
Upon the slates I placed rough cinders) above that gravel, 
and lastly, three inches of nice earth or sand, according as 
I had need. This produced a continual very gentle bottom- 
heat, either with or without small pots. This enabled me 
in the depth of winter to continue my little experiments,—to 
strike slips, and especially to bring forward mignonette, 
sweet peas, phloxes, cinerarias, and a host of other things. 
Almost all my early annuals were strong vigorous plants, 
ready to plant out in beds before the 1st of May; and my 
nemophila bed, formed of those transplanted early seedlings, 
was really splendid,—great strong plants and flowers, half as 
large again as those afterwards sown and flowered in the 
open ground. ’When I bought my stove, I contemplated 
making use of it for bottom heat by means of the tin pan 
before described, and to enable me to use the register, which 
usually is placed in the cover, I had it removed to the back, 
and a plain cover fitted. "When, therefore, my stove was 
placed in the oven, it stood with the register towards the 
opening, so that I could regulate the temperature without 
the necessity of lifting it out. I may add, that until I used 
the means here described for obviating the dust, I found it 
