The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . ese necessities and w:ibe it remembered, are not quite so apparent to jnaked eye of the novice as they are to the keen :•scrutinising vision of the ever-anxious, and hence eiwatchful, cultivator. There is a kiud of watering very commonly pformed in many places, which cauuot, when vaUia!and choice plants are attempted to be cultivated, be iseverely censured. This is the daily afternoon pup; which is given to every plant as far as time will ;uliregardless of its requirements—at least, when iration is iutrustcd to men of inexperience, whi
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . ese necessities and w:ibe it remembered, are not quite so apparent to jnaked eye of the novice as they are to the keen :•scrutinising vision of the ever-anxious, and hence eiwatchful, cultivator. There is a kiud of watering very commonly pformed in many places, which cauuot, when vaUia!and choice plants are attempted to be cultivated, be iseverely censured. This is the daily afternoon pup; which is given to every plant as far as time will ;uliregardless of its requirements—at least, when iration is iutrustcd to men of inexperience, which istoo common ; and this kiud of gardening goes oimany ]daces for years. Pkuts die, it is true ; butis one of the unresolved mysteries in gardening, i\lito some minds, is quite satisfactory, aud enables th ito account for the loss of plants by violent merFinallv, it has been asked, how often are we to withis or that and the answer usually is, alwwhen it requires it; let us, therefore, add, aud \some earnestness, never — Home Correspondencs. Anecdotes of Natural History.—I onre had a fav(ite female blsck cat, which wasvtry fond ofgame. Wshe had a family of young grimalkins about htr,aUajslieiit them well ttocked Iih provisions; attia;ewhen she haf kittens in an old shed, I lihpjieto diECOver a nest of four young rabbits in a souih boof early Peas that was not well protected frotc game,killed three of the joung rabbiis, which, to all appance, were rot more than two or ihree days old. I (them with the live one to the old cat, tor breakfast; ,I was qciite astonished to observe ihat she at once acio|.;aHd f. protecttd, this live raibi% and cncooragtjilto suck, whicii it immediately did. She nursed it Iihtr tivo kittens, and the rabbit suckled during the vi ,time thHt the kittens were allowed to tuck ; and it jla ;d fizcd rabbit, hut it continued to be very v|lrunning out of sight behind the baskets, tools. &o. 1the of any one. When t
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