. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. June C] THE COTTAGE GAllDENER, WEEKLY CALENDAR. 141 M W D D JUNE 6-18, 1850. Weather near London 1849. Sun Rises. Sun Sets. Moon ;S. Moon' Age. Clock Day of Year. 6Tn ;p 8S 9Scs 10 M 11 To law Landrail 6rst heard. Nightingale's song ceases. Honesuckle tloweni. 2 Sun. aft. Trinity. Dagger Moth appears. Silver Moth appears. St. Barn.\b.^s. Common Mallow (lowers. Trin. T. ends. Redbreast's second brood hatch. T. 06°—51°, T. -1°—50°. T. 66°—42°. T. 65°—43°. T. 60°—12°. T. 65°-S7°. T. 5;°—40°. Fine. Fine


. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. June C] THE COTTAGE GAllDENER, WEEKLY CALENDAR. 141 M W D D JUNE 6-18, 1850. Weather near London 1849. Sun Rises. Sun Sets. Moon ;S. Moon' Age. Clock Day of Year. 6Tn ;p 8S 9Scs 10 M 11 To law Landrail 6rst heard. Nightingale's song ceases. Honesuckle tloweni. 2 Sun. aft. Trinity. Dagger Moth appears. Silver Moth appears. St. Barn.\b.^s. Common Mallow (lowers. Trin. T. ends. Redbreast's second brood hatch. T. 06°—51°, T. -1°—50°. T. 66°—42°. T. 65°—43°. T. 60°—12°. T. 65°-S7°. T. 5;°—40°. Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. 47 a. 3 47 46 46 45 45 45 9 a. 8 10 11 12 13 14 U 2 7 2 32 3 0 3 35 sets. 10 lO 26 27 28 29 © 1 a i 1 45 1 35 1 23 1 12 1 0 0 49 0 36 .57 i 15S 159 , 160 161 162 , 163 Os the 3rd of June, 1740, died Jeturo Tull, the inventor and the , similarly cultivated. On returning to England he occupied his own farm unwearied advocate of drill-sowing and frequent hoeing—the grcntest of Prosperous, at Shalborne, in Berkshire, and commenced that warfare, improvements which have been introduced into the modern practice of to win success against adverse circumstances, from which he only ceased tillage. The saving of seed effected by this practice is no small con- when he rested on his death-bed. If any cultivator despairs over a thin sidcration; for let it be remembered, that millions of acres are annually ' and hungry soil, let him take courage, for Tull won crops from a soil of sown to grow food for man and his assistant animals, and that by drilling j the same character; nor let him be subdued though sickness enervate more than one-third of the requisite seed is saved. But this is of trivial ' him, for Tull was afflicted with agonizing diseases, yet was never cast importance when compared with the facility that drilling affords for the I down. The tradition of his neighbourhood is, that when confined to his destruction of we


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