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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
Notember is. 
of wliieli she was apt to complain hittorlj to nil who came 
within ear-siiot. Sometimes sho was in such a sea of 
trouhles, that she would hardly admit a visitor. 
“ We were, however, admitted. 
“ ‘ How do you do, IMadamc-? ’ 
“‘Oh! very middling! Will you sit down, Mayoress ?’ 
(Hero the foreigner was introduced, .and made sadly 
; welcome.) ‘ J have just heen in Copenliagcn ; returned on 
! Frid.ay. I. ought to 'have staid longer for my health, for I 
have been sullering dreadfully from rheumatism; hut the 
' weather became so cold after I liad been away two days. 
1 anil as 1 had left no word here for lighting the stoves, I 
I knew—’ (here she mentioned her husband), ‘must be 
j sitting in the cold, for they could not get the stoves heated 
; without me, and 1 was obliged to come hack to see it done. 
I I was-so vexed when I thought of his sitting without tiro; 
' I assure you when 1 thought of him sitting in a cold room, 
I I grew so angry—I was so enraged—1 could have—I don’t 
know what I could have done.’ 
“ Here the good woman wrought herself into a frenzy, 
and rolled about on Iter chair, while wo thought she might 
have spared herself much of the .sulfering by allowing the 
servant (or her husband) control enough over domestic 
matters even to light :i stove on por.soual responsibility. 
Rut the pastoress did not suiter any one, to rule or even 
advise in the liousc,—certainly not her goodman. 
“We tried to load her from the painful theme of tlie 
stove, and talked, of course, of the weather, as a gentle 
change, and other cognate things. 
“ ‘ It lias been .an oxcellont harvest,’ said some one; 
‘ tliei’o i.s a remarkable plenty of fruit.’ 
“‘Fruit!’ ciied Mailamo-- ‘oh, such an un- 
he,ard-of (luantity of fruit! Did you ever know such a 
plague ? I never saw anything like it. I am sure, before I 
went to Copenhagen, I did nothing for days together but 
I get the apples and pears taken into the house and put up in 
I tlie attics ; I was so sick of them ! And while I was away 
I the peai-s all rotted, and wlu'U I c.ame hack the juice had 
I run down through the scams of the iloor, and stained all 
the roof of the room Ixdow, and raised such a smell! AVo 
have three great pear-trees in the garilen, and they bore i 
such a quantity this year. I wish they were cut down;—I ; 
wish they were intlled up by the roots. Those wretched i 
pears have spoiled all the ceiling of my room ; I wisli I had ; 
never seen one of them! And .all when I was away from 
] home !’ ” 
The following is a list of tho Ilortieultural and 
PouUrij Shows of which we are at present aware. We 
sliall he obliged by any pf our readers sending us ad¬ 
ditions to the list, and giving the address of tho Se¬ 
cretaries. 
HORTICTU.TURAT. SHOWS. 
Bury St. F-mtunds, Nov. 20 (Chrysanthemums). (Sec. 
G. r. Clay, Esq.) 
C.VLnnoNi.vN (Inverlcith Row), Edinburgh, Dec. 2. 
HAMrsHiRE, Nov. 20 (AAbnehester). (Nec. Rev. E. AA’ick- 
ham, AVinchestor.) 
London Eboriculturat. (Exeter Hall, Strand), Nov. 23, 
Deo. lit. 
North London, Nov. 23, Chrysanthemum. 
South London (Royai.), Dec. O-i-, 16. 
POULTRY snows. 
Birahnuhah and Midland Counties, 11th, LAth, lOth, 
and 17th December. 
Bristol Aoricultur.al, December 7th, 8th, and flth. 
(Sec. .Tames Marmont.) 
Cornwall (Penzance), Tanuary 10th, and 11th. (Secs. 
Rev. AV. AY. AA'ingfleld, Gulval A'icarage, and E. 11. 
Rodd, Esq.) 
Dorchester, Nov. 24th. (Ncc. G. J. Andrews, Esq., Dor¬ 
chester.) 
Hitcuin, Nov. 2nth, 22nd, and 23rd. (See. S. Gooilwin.) 
Honiton, January 12th. (Sec. H. K. A''enn.) 
WiNeiiRSTER, December 1st. (,S'cc.s. G. AV. Johnson and 
.1. Colson.) 
t For seedlings only. 
PINE-CTTRTURE. 
(Continvcd from pnije a!).) 
It will now ho necessary to pursue tho subject of 
after-culture: w'o will then, if time and space ])ermit, 
rec.ajhtulate tho chief features. Before offering any com¬ 
ment of our own, it will be well to take a leaf out of , 
Mr. Hamilton’s book, and wo may at once turn to ]mge | 
31 of bis truly practical work. He says, as to planting- j 
out Pines; “On Eebinary 2(i, 1828,1 planted forty-eight | 
pine plants in tho tan-bed, all of which, except one, 
fruited the same year. The process which 1 adopted 
was as follows :—Tlie pit in which they were grown was 
twenty-seven feet long by ten feet wide inside ; two feet 
of which were occupied by the flues and cavities, which 
left a width of eight feet for the tan-bed. After all the 
plants were taken ont of the bed, the old tan was levelled, 
well trodden down, and smoothed with the rake; the 
whole bed was then covered with fresh tan to the depth 
of ten inches, the plants were immediatclj' turned out of 
their pots, with their l/tlls as entire as jmsihle, and 
planted in the bed ; they wore then heaten tii/hlJi/ about 
tho ball, and covered to tho depth of one inch only, it 
will be necessary here to observe, that if tho ball, with 
the roots, be covered too deep, they will he in danger of 
being hnrned. The tan used for this mode of culture 
must be from British bark, as it undergoes a slower fer¬ 
mentation than foreign tan; and I have always i'ound 
that as it decays it is rendered less fit for supjdying the 
plants with food. I have tried planting in old decayed 
tan, but the plants made vciy little progress; the fruit, 
also, was of inferior size. Foreign tan is objectionable, 
as it soon decays. I have been informed that it is mixed 
with the bark of some of the pine trees; if so, the 
resinous matter contained in such trees may be injurious 
to the roots of jilants. 1 am of that opinion; for 1 have 
never found foreign tan answer for the above system. 
Plants tui’iied out into fresh British tan, as described, 
will grow more in four months than in six by any other 
treatment. The jilants, when turned out of their pots 
into the tan, were about eleven months old. The sorts 
were principally Montserrats, Black Jaraaicas, and a 
few old Queens; tho progress they made during the first 
throe months was really astonishing, and all, exee])t one, 
ripened their fruit from September to the 1st Janu.ary. 
The year following, January (5, 182!), I tried tho follow¬ 
ing experiment. The tan-bed was managed, as I have 
stated, for those planted out in February, 1828; the 
sorts were Montserrats, Black Jamaicas, and three or 
four Queens ; and stronger than those of the preceding 
year, being about thirteen months old when planted in 
tho tan. The same care was taken when turned out of 
their jiots to preserve the ball of earth with its roots nn- 
disturbed. They were also planted the same depth, and 
the tan beat tightly about their roots with tho hand 
when planted. In this state they were allowed to remain 
until the last week in March, at which time every jdant 
was carefully lifted out of the tan with a long pronged 
fork, by which means the primitive ball was jireservcd. 
The roots of some had extended nearly two feet along 
the surface of tho fresh tan, from which they were care¬ 
fully disentangled, and immediately planted in pots one 
size larger than those they were turned out of in the 
January preceding. After the tan was watered and 
forked over to the depth of two feet, they were again 
plunged up to tho rims of the pots. The check tho plants 
received by being disturbed whilst growing so vigorously 
may be easily conceived; and they, consequently, ail 
showed fruit in the three following months, and ripened I 
in July, August, and September. Not at all satisfied, j 
on account of the fruit being smaller than that of tho j 
former year, I tried a third experiment, which indeed i 
varied very little from the first. In tho latter end of i 
October, 182!), tho same pit was again prepared, by I 
