The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-14 00:00:00

HARDY TRIAT GARDEN.

The shoots which are retained on wall-fruit-trees will
now require attention in nailing or tying, as the frightful-
ness of the trees very much depends upon the shoots
not being allowed to crowd or interfere one with another;
and if their ornamental appearance, in an artistieal point
of view, is any object, the shoots should be laid in at
proper angles while they are young. Continue pinch-
ing the points of gooseberry and currant shoots, and
especially where they are blighted; it is a very quick
way of destroying myriads of insects, while at the same
time it forms a necessary part of the cultivation of the
plant. Continue the exterminating process wherever in-
sect, make their appearance, as well upon the smaller bash
fruits as upon the wall trees. The garden engine should be
at work every night and lamming upon these and the walls.
Early cherries partiularly require this, as the black Hy is
making its appearance, and if not destroyed in time will
soil the fruit as well as injure the leaves. Where common
tiles have ;nen adopted as a means of keeping strawberry
fruit clean, they should occasionally be turned up, by
which a congregation of snails, beetles, and other inju-
rious insects, will be exposed to view, and may be easily
destroyed. The facility with which this may be done gives
the tiles a great advantage over grass or straw, as the latter
materials harbour insects without affording the means of
getting at theta.

KITCHEN 4ARDEN.

No crops after this time should be sown so thickly as to
require much thinning, for in hot dry weather consider-
able injury is thereby done to the plants which arc re-
tained. Plants sown now for future transplanting should be
much thinner than would have been thought necessary a
mouth or six weeks back ; this is to allow them a longer
period to grow before they will need to be removed, and in
order that they may then be carefully lifted with large balls
of earth. Make regular sowings of turnips and spinach,
and of lettuces and other salads once in two or three woeks ;
sow a bed of carrots and of onions for using iu a young state;
and as small root, of beet arc generally preferred, a late
crop of them ,hould now be sown. A sowing should be
made of the vanack, early dwarf, or sugar-loaf cabbage, for
late summer and autumn use ; and of Knight's protecting
broccoli, or some other good sort, for late spring use. Car
dome should now be tr.urphinted from the frames or pots,
choosing a moist or dull day for the purpose, and watering
them afterwards in hot weather till they arc thoroughly
established. Let the leaver of garlic be tied in knots or
twisted, to check its grew* and assist thereby the develop-
ment of the roots.

Edidilide back a writer in thu .4tArwrom, taking up
Ind= ansimidisus that had fallen from Pooch, proceeded to
*lffliff, OS hats in vague ill various ports of the world,
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*Malking that the slouched hat was graceful, and the ___
blast protective. It is to be remarked, however, that the Ghat-\O BANQUET .tT TILE MANSION-HOUSE To
ittinut MAJIMITT'd CllMMxem?,gtzhati. OFt THLOiIdAIIEXIIIIII-
Fornarentd,
busy English race of to-day require neither the flowing
feathers of dandyism, nor the protecting iron of the war. the Lady Mayoress!;ill entertain the.'Royal Commissiy
riot. Imagine a banker's clerk on his way about the city, the Foreign Commissioners, the Executive Committee, and;
darting hither and thither between serried tiles of vehicles their ladies, at dinner at the Mansion-house, in how= elt;
with a snowy plume fluttering in the breeze. Arrived at the Great Exhibition of Industry of all Nations.
his office, where can hu put his hat; not under his desk, ONE OF THE LAST REMNANTS OF THE ORDER OP
tMottersi, the Chevaliero wh,otalicetloent
the plume will be soiled. Ile is required to go through the
the illuPstrieustale tilrid.V°tuete rain to a neighbouring office ; but the thing is impossible— just died in yths.ponvent of St. lean di Cusatane in. Sietfli, to
not a vertigo of his feather will remain. If, instead of the i which the directing chapter of that celebraied order had
waving plume, ho adopt the protective helmet, his condi- ; retired. U. distinguished himself in the expedition which
tion is not materially improved. It would protect him I the last grandmaster sent against Algiers, towards the cnd of
from what ? and its weight would be somewhat oppressive. • the
sselgalion7thuralia,ustmGlneerftoßyaa see %artgelhen het took
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These, then, are clearly mistakes. It is not a helmet, it —" ' Preiceived him with marked distinction.- lie was in °tlnie'llutit
not a ;caving plume, that Englishmen want. Let the year of his age.