A dictionary of modern gardening - University Library

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ravagos
ries, &c.
of birds upon currants, cher-
Netting is a very effectual preventive
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others of hemp : the last does not shrink
after being wetted like the woollen. I
INeiting prefer that with about twenty-live meshes
is a very eiieuiuiii picvciiii>c |,icn,i n. 1.1. .. .v.. ..""".v »
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of coolin", for reasons which will be in a square inch, at 5(/. per scjuure yard.
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stated when considering Shelters gene NETTLE TREE. Celt is'.
rally; and in connection with that, it may NEUROLOMA arabidijlorum. Hardy
be observed that it is not altogether im- herbaceous. Division. Common soil.
material of what substance netting is NEW JERSEY TEA. Ceanothus
formed. Worsted is to be preferred Americanus.
not only because it is the most durable. NEW ZEALAND SPINACH, Tetranoi
only uecause 11 is iiic luuot uuiui^iv-, i^i^.. «>.«»»»-.-•». ^ . -• --,
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but because it is the best preventive of gonia expansa,*\s much admired as a_
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a wall-s cooling. I have found the tlier- substitute for summer spinach, being of
mometer under a hemp net sink during more delicate flavor, and not so liable
the night, from two to four degrees to run to seed. Mr. J. Anderson, garlower
Than that under a net of worsted, dener to the Earl of Essex, at Cassio-
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the meshes being small and of equal bury, Herts, gives the following direcsize
in both nets. This can only be tions for its cultivation :
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" Sow in the seed-vessel as gathered
because worsted is known to be a worse I
conductor of heat than hemp; and, not' the preceding autumn, at the latter end
absorbing moisture so easily, is not so ! of March in a pot, and placed in a meliable
to^the cold always produced by Ion frame. The seedlings to be pricked
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its drv'ing.—Principles of Gardening. while small singly into pots, to be kept
Netting will also exclude flies and under a frame without bottom heat, until
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other wmged insects from the fruit the third week in May, or until the dan-
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against walls, although the meshes arc ger of frost is past. The bed for their
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1 nu)re than large enough to permit reception is formed by digging a trench
their passage. Why this is the case is two feet wide and one deep, this being
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not very apparent, "but the netting is filled with thoroughly decayed dung,
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equally efficient in keeping similar in and Covered six inches deep with mould.
A space of at least three feet must be
sects from intruding into rooms if there
are no cross lights. If there are win- left vacant for the extension of the
dows on different sides of the room, and branches. Twenty plants will afford an
abundant supply daily for a large fa-
it is to be presumed, therefore, also in a
green or hot-house, nets would not be so mily ; they must be planted three feet
efficient.
apart.
" In dry seasons they probably require
It is not a useless scrap of knowledge . inu. j oi.»o^..o ^..^j ,- -j .-.,..to
the gardener, that one hundred square ! a large supply of water. In five or six
yardsof netting, according to some mcr-1 weeks after planting, the young leaves
chants" mode ofmeasuring, will notcover may be gathered from them, these bemore
than fifty square yards of wall, for |ing pinched off. The leading shoot
they stretch the net first longitudinally must be carefully preserved, for the
and then laterally, when making Iheir branches are productive until a late pemcasurement,
and not in both directions riod of the year, as they survive the
at once, as the gardener must when CO- frosts that kill nasturtiums and potavering
his trees. Disappointment, there- toes."
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fore, should be avoided, when ordering To obtain Seed.—For the production
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new nets, by stating the size of the sur- of seed, a plantation must be made on
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face which has to be covered. This a poorer soil, or kept stunted and dry in
may be done without any fear of impo- pots, as ice plants are when seed is resition.
quired of them. On the rich compost
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Mr. Richardson, net maker. New of the bed, the plants become so suc-
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Road, London, informs me, that one culent as to prevent the production of
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cwt. of oW mackerel net, weighed when seed. This vegetable has not proved,
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quite dry, will cover eight hundred , in the United States, worthy of its Eusquare
yards ; and one cwt. of old her- ropean reputation— probably owing to
ring net (smaller meshes) will cover six 1 the intense heat of our summers
hundred square yards. Mr. Hulme, of NEW ZEALAND TEA. Leptosper-
Knutsford, has sent me various specimurn scoparia.
mens of his nets and open canvass for NICKER TREE. Guilandina.
inspection—some made of woollen and NICOTIANA. Thirty-one species, in-