The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-30 00:00:00

X ITCH EN GARDEN.

Late crops of turnip, parsley, spinach, 6.e., should te.
thinned More the plants begin to intrude upon ach other.
The earlier sowing of eal.b.ige lettuce may be planted on
border with an east or west aspect, reserving the mot
favourable situations on the :•outh borders for endive ant
the later sowings of cabbage lettuce. Two sowings more if
the latter should be made at intervals of ten days. A maia

sowing should be made immediately of early Asiatic eau!,
flowers, for planting under the handligkts, and preservir;
during winter in frames; and at the same time a little earl
York cabbage should be sown for an early spring crop, lull
a sowing of red Dutch cabbage for main crop next. Trout.
plant lute sown cabbages in rows, eight inches Luanda
every way; of these, three-fourths will be drawn in a your;
state, and used as coleworts, and the remainder will be kit
to produce heads. Endive, lettuce, &c., should be tray--
planted as soon as the plants are large enough to be landltd.

LAND SALES IN ArSTRALIA.—The following corn.
munieation has reached us from a sure hand .—" Syds, v,
N.S.W.—lnstructions have been given to survey and ;mil
up to auction farms of 30 and 60 acres, in every elig:l2'.4
pot."

MONEY ORDERS.—There ore now nearly
Post-offices in Great Britain and Ireland which grant an
pay money orders. The number of orders issued in Look
in the course of a year is about 600,000. "hi
number is exclusive of those granted at the receiving-011c,
in the neighbourhood of London, beyond the three-an
circle. At the chief offices in Dublin anal lialinbirgh
about 120,000 arc granted at each office annually ; at Lice-
pool, 150,000; at Manchester, 100,000; at Binning
and Glasgow, about 70,000 at each office; and at Bristolan
Leeds, about 40,000 at each office. The total amou te
post-office money orders granted yearly all over the La
alum is nearly 10,000,000/. sterling, an enormous sari t•
be made up entirely by the small money transaction 0
the country. Although the gross amounts of an
and issued orders nearly balance each other at I.
end of the year, there appears to be a rennica
blo discrepancy between such amounts at indiraus
offices. Generally speaking, the balance in fro
of issued orders in any particular town is a sign of its
perky, and vice versa. The principal portion of the mine
sent through the Money-order office consists of the r .
ings of the heads of families among the working clawc
who, in migrating to the locales of capital anal entegrase
where labour is to he found, move more rapidly than Chas: do
pendent on them for support, and the latter eonsequenty
cave the means of subsistence through the Money...oh
office. In places where enterprise does not keep paccsat
the natural increase of population, the surplus of the in,
is drafted off to spots where capital is being expended at
the Money-order offices of the first-mentioned places Ply
more orders than they issue. Such places may be rs....us
dered as retrograding, or stationary, with regard to int'
perity, when compared with those towns inereastsl In -.lm-
migration. If the amounts of paid anal issued Odds
were published periodically, together with the imia
ler amounts of corresponding periods in the preeeding:A
such a publication would be of great assistance to vital
on economic subjects, in enabling them to note witl east
the state of trade in towns, with the increase and deina.4
of their population—the direction in which enterprise meal

capital :aro moving, and the various shittings iron 00
locale to another of the industrial population. A rpe
also periodically, of the local causes which affect the cap
rative amounts of issued and paid orders at the Tea
towns would be a must interesting and important docua, tt
This could be easily supplied by means of inquiries of l•si
postmasters, and by a cursory inspection of advices
the central office, which must contain the trade or ocip3
lion of remitters of a post-oflice money order throtula4
the kingdom.

THE CROPS IN SOUTH Nor
NEWARK, Aug. 27.—A correspondent writes as fol.!
" The annexed statement is from a personal survey eg
crops iu South Nottinghamshire : The quality of wit
generally fine and heavy. Barley, of good malting qu.
but yellow in colour. Outs, peas, and rye a full ave...
quantity. Beam not equal to last year. The produo
white corn is estimated at a full average ; peas and to
rather deficient; and beans one-fourth short of the vu
quantity per acre. Potatoes, one-fourth more than ..ut
planted ; quality Roc (one-twentieth part of disease,.
cepted). The weather, front the 2.1 to the 13th inst. t•
finest possible for harvest operations ; 13th and lit
thunder storms with lightning; 15th, 16th, and 17th shoso
and no progress made with harvest ; 18th to 26th itut.,
and forcing weather, and on forward soils emtk
of the wheat, three-fourth oats, and one.tuot.,
part of the barley is secured in the finest possible order
steam threshing of new wheat is going forward in r*
districts ; the weather at present is dull and tut •
pitious for maturing of corn, yet the glasses keep up
high.

MULTIPLICATION 13Y DIVISION.—An experitil
on the fertility of wheat has, during the past YcarAl
carried out in the garden of Mr. Stowe, a surgeon at ho
ingham, of which the following is a correct account, t.)
cif the 13th of July, 18.50, a single grain of wheat tasks
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in the garden; the plant came up in ten der :, and
luxuriantly till the 13th of September ; it was then tak s
and divided into slips, and replanted. Tho plaids live as
flourished till the 13th of November, when they were i'
raised, divided, and replanted, and suffered to rem t
the 16th of April of the present year. The weather 5,
becoming favourably wet, they were all taken up agi ,r
divided into no less than 114 plants ; these being p
were permitted to stand till the present month of A S:
when the were productive of the amazing number
ears of wheat, many if them of full size, containing al
than 50 grains of corn. The crop was gathered bed ',
was fully npened,as the birds attacked it in spite of n
Mg feathers and a protecting net. Whether themes '
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this trial will strengthen the opinion of those 'Alt'
for the thin sowing of wheat in ordinary field eulti .
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must be left to the judgment of more practical agn t!
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riots, hut of the amazing productiveness ef the wheat
under such treatment, any one may easily satisfy hid,
. repeating the experiment.