The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-18 00:00:00

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR

THE WEEK.

(From the Gardeners' Gazette.)
AURLCULAS, which are showing colour, should be removed
to a warm but shady situation, under hand-glasses, then raised
by resting on bricks or pots as high as the rims of the pots in
which they are growing, so that a free current of air can be
given them, without disturbing their flowers, whenever the
weather is mild. They must be very warmly covered at
night, for if the frost set the blooms, they can never open flat.
TULIPS are now throwing up their buds, and should be care-
fully protected from frost ; the ordinary way is by hoops and
mats, but a coarse drugget is far better, and in the end
cheaper; should the foliage be by accident frozen, it will ap-
pear dark ; they should then be watered all over, and covered
up till perfectly thawed ; they will recover in an hour or two.
DAHLIAS.—Avoid putting any unstruck cuttings into hot
beds, whose heat is declining ; there is every probability of
their failing to strike in any reasonable time, and some chance
of loss altogether. If such be the state of your beds, and you
have no new ones, take away as much of the spent litter as
you can all round, and replace with a lining of fresh hot
stable manure; it will soon reinstate the proper heat.
PEAS that are high enough should be stuck. The large kinds
may be still sown for later crops ; earth up whatever are for-
ward enough ; hoe and clean between the rows.
BEANS, except sticking, require the same treatment.
VlNES.—Propagate by layers ; dig and manure the borders
in which they run.
ROSES.—In cutting Roses, regard should be had to the size
you wish them to be. To keep bushes dwarf, or the heads of
standards smaller, you may cut away all weak shoots, and
prune the strong ones to a single, or at most, twe eyes. By
cutting some now, and some in a week or a fortnight, s succes-
sion of bloom may be secured.
KITCHEN GARDEN generally, as before.
GREENHOUSE.—NearIy all the Cape plants are now advanc-
ing to bloom ; nor is it any use to attempt to check it ; Camel-
has, as soon as out of flower, should be placed in moderate beat
till they have perfected their growth.

ON GRASS SExns.--Farmers at present have paid very
little attention to the habits and properties of individual seeds
—their custom generally being to purchase a mixture at the
recommendation of their seedsmen. It would be better if
they endeavoured to ascertain the character and uses of each,
singly. As far as our experience has gone, we will endeavour
briefly to supply the desideratum—beginning with the seed
in most places called Timothy seed, which ought to be sown
at this season.

This seed is the best adapted of all for fen and marsh
meadows. No quantity of rain or duration of flood will in-
jure or destroy it. It grows thick and luxuriant, mastering
the barren grasses and weeds ; and though somewhat coarse
to the eye, is relished exceedingly by all the graminivorous
genus. It is not much known in the south, but has for
some years been a profitable growth in the Lincolnshire
fens, especially for seed. We know a sixteen acre piece
which has been cut for the latter parpose six -years running,
producing upwards of cwt. per acre, at 725. per cwt.—
a pretty good return—there being no working expenses
upon it, but getting and threshing. Moreover, the straw
is, afterwards, most excellent crew yard fodder, horses and
cattle, and even pigs eating it with aridity, and doing welt
upon it.

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DIARY OF THE TIMES OF GEORGE IV. AND
QUEEN CAROLINE.—We are requested to state that a new
and cheap edition of this work, in 2 vols., post Bvo., price only
165., will be ready for delivery ou Monday next, April 23.
Those, therefore, who desire to receive it on the day of publi-
cation should send their orders forthwith to their respective
Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlbo-
rough-street. Agents for Scotland, Bell and Bradfute, Edin-
burgh ; for Iroland, John Cumming, Dublin.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LOUIS THE FOUR-
TEENTH." BY G. P. R. JAMES, ESQ.—This is a well written
work, and exhibits a degree of rare, and pains-taking research,
highly creditable to its able author. He seems, indeed, to
have deeply studied the history of the period, and to have left
no source of information regarding the remarkable events by
which they were distinguished, unexplored. Mr. James has
here brought together a mass of curious and interesting anec-
dote and information, and he conveys them in a manner at
once lucid and satisfactory. It is certainly a valuable addition
to our historical literature. We must not omit to add that this
able work is elegantly got up with admirably executed por-
traits."—Scotsman.

CONTRADICTION OF PRO VERBS.—" The more
the merrier." Not so; one hand is tnough in a purse.—" No-
thing but what has an end." Not so; a ring has none, for it
is round.—." Money is a great comfort." Not when it brings
a thief to the gallows.—" The world is a long journey." Not
so; the sun goes round it every day.—" It is a great way to
the bottom of the sea." Not so ; it is but a stone's cast.—" A.
friend is best found in adversity." Not so ; for then there are
few to be found.—" The pride of the rich makes the labour of
the poor." Not so ; the labour of the poor makes the pride of
the rich.

A PiSTINCTION AN A DIFfRREfICF. A pont poet. wheie
parlor is next to the sky, rellt a rich friend in Broadway a few
d.ss since. •
" How do you do ?" asked the poet.
" I have a rheumatic affection," said the gentleman.
" I have a room-attic-affection too," rejoined the poet.
The Stnitrt tejoieder protaired an invitatiott td dinnet.
BANK OF U. S. DESTROTED.—We learn from Philadelphia,
that a few days since, a loferish looking Loco Foco, with
wicked intentions and malice aforethought, prepared himself
with an immense horse pistol, and walked to the front door of
the United States Bank. Here he watched the forthcoming
of old Nick's imps, but as they did not make their appearance
in due time, the swelling agrarian placed the muzzle of his
deadly weapon at the keyhole and fired away. He then turned
to walk away, and some one asking the meaning of the cruel
murder, he drew his cloak about him, and replied—,. Sir,
those institution is committed great depredations upon the
people, and lis been appynted for to kill the monster. Sir,
I have did it, and the Gin'ril kin now go to his grave in reace.
That ere monster are dead as a button, and our countrymen is
now free from her contaminating confluence. Farewell."
The hero was duly arrested and committed.
A painter this morning showed us a faucet from an oil
barrel, which the rats last night gnawed off, whereby the
owner lost thirty gallons of linseed oil. Now this is a warning
to persons who starve their rats and force them to commit
such depredations, to keep soul and body together. Rats
must live.— Cincinnee: Express.
NOTHING PERSONAL—At a recent vestry meeting in a me-
tropolitan parish, a Mr. Bushey said to a Mr. —, who was
church warden at the time :—" Sir, I mean nothing personal
to my excellent friend, Mr. —; but it is my conscientious
belief, that he has plundered the parish ever since he was
born, and is the greatest thief in the universe. Ido not wish
to be personal ; but I must say, he is a villain, an infamous
i uanees dowghnani
grand,
indictment.
will only
scoundrel and a radical. I now speak in my vestal capacity,
and I think that every hand should have a whip to lash the
rascal naked through the world."
A HINT TO CoRRESTONDENTs.—We have engaged one of
the best writers in the country to supply us with intelligence
from the capitol at Washington. Look out for something
spicy.
ZEAL IN Extrreatesnred FIRES.—Last Saturday night when
the bells announced the fire in Jersey city, one of our enter-
prising fire companies hurried off as if the d—l was after them.
On arriving at the corner of Vesey and Greenwich-streets,
they immediately began to fasten on their to the hydrant.
" Halloo, there, mister," cried a man from the top of a house
—" the fire's in Jersey city." " Mind your own business,"
cried the firemen, busily adjusting the hose. When all was
ready, the reader may guess the surprise of the firemen at find-
ing the fire in Jersey city sure enough.
There are three things which are not done. A ship canal
is not formed round the falls of Niagara. There is no passage
cut through the straits of Darien to connect the two great
oceans ; and the exploring expedition has not set out upon its
adventures.
ANOTHER SUB-TREASUREA.—The assistant postmaster at
Ellsworth (Me.), Henry M. Woods, has been examined be-
fore the Police Court at Bangor, on two charges of purloin-
ing money from letters deposited in the marl. He was com-
mitted for want of bail in the sum of 2,200 dollars, to take his
trial before the U. S. Circuit Court. This is the sixty-third
within five months. Let us have the Sub-treasury Bill passed
at once, Uncle Amos, by all manner of means, or we shan't
have any money left to spec'late with. These postmasters
will all blow themselves before we can legalize stealing for our
own benefit, if we don't hurry. —New York Whig
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Altos KENDAL—The March number of the " Democratic
Review" contains an accurate likeness of the chief cook and
.bottlewasher of the Administration. The portrait would do
graphical sketch appended, not a word is said about the mise-
ries and distress of the people; but Amos is represented like
Patience on a monument, or Nero in his palace, "smiling at
grief."
POLlTENEss.—Yesterday, a prisoner, on being arraigned,
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accused of Vandalism with such a polite officer as this, in such
a Court as that of the General Sessions.
ANOTHER PET PAID.—A postmaster in North Carolina,
about one month since, " absquatilated" with 1,000 dollars of
the people's money. His successor, after holding the office
four weeks, run after his illustrious predecessor with 800 dollars
of the public treasure. Cut and run is the doctrine of the
Sub-Treasury line, ain't it, Silas?
A Mr. Theophilus Raessle, a practical agriculturalist at
Albany, has discovered means, without the aid of hot houses,
and in the open garden, of producing vegetables during the
entire winter months. We shall non have spinach all the
year round without gammon.
HATS AND RUFFS IN 1585.—( From Stubbes' Anatomic of
Abuses.)—" Sometymes they use them aharpe on the croune,
pearking up like the spire or shaft of a steeple, standyng up a
quarter of a yards above the croune of their heads, some
mure, some lesse, as please the phantasies of their inconstant
mindes. Other sorts be fiat, and broad in the croune, like the
battlements of a house. Another sort have round crounes,
sometimes with one kind of bande, so:netymes with another ;
now blacke, now white, now russet, now red, now grene, now
yellow ; now this, now that ; never content with one colour or
fashion two daies to an ende. And thus in vanitie they spend
the Lord his treasure, consumyng their golden years and silver
daies in wickedness and sinne. And as the fashion be rare and
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strange, so is the stuffe whereof their hatter be made, divers

also for some are of silke, some of velvet, some of taffetie,
some of sarcenet, some of wooll, and which is more curious,
some of a certain kind of fine haire. These they call beaver
hattes, of twentye, thirtye, or fortye shillinges price, fetched
from beyonde the seas, from whence a great sorte of other ye.
nities do come besides ; and so common a thing it is, that
everie servyng man, contrieman, and other, even all indiffe-
rently, dooe weare of these hattes ; for he is of no account, or
estimation amongst men, if he have not a velvet or taffetie
hatte ; and that must be pincked, and cunnyngly carved of
the best fashion. And some are not content, without a grate
bunche of feathers, of divers and sundrie colours, peaking on
top of their heades."
So much for the hats. Now for the ruffs :—" They
have great and monstrous ruffes, made either of cam.
brick, holland, lawne, or els of some other the finest cloth that
can be got for money, whereof some be a quarter of a yarde
deepe ; yea, some more, very few lease; so that they stands
a full quarter of a yard. (and more) from their neckes, hang-
ing over their shoulder-points, insteade of a vaile. But if
iEolus with his blasts, or Neptune with his storms, chaunce to
hit upon the crazie barke of their bruised ruffes, then they
goeth flip-flap in the winde, like ragges that flew abroad,
lying upon their shoulders like the dish-cloute of slut. But,
wot you what ? The devil, as he, in the fullness of his malice,
first invented these great ruffes, so bath he now found out also
two great pillars to beare up and maintaine this his kyngdomo
of great ruffes (for the devil is kyng and prince over all the
children of pride). The one arche or pillar, whereby his
kyngdome of great ruffes is underpropped, is a certain kinde
of liquid matter, which they Gill STARCH, wherein the devil
hath willed them to wash and dive their ruffes well ; which
beving drie, will then stand stiff and inflexible about their
neckes. The other pillar is a certain device made of weirs,
crested for the purpose, whipped over either with gold thred,
silver, or silke ; and this he calleth a supportasse, or under-
propper."
[We would be glad to see this curious old work, with its
quaint wood. cuts, re-published. There is a very fine copy of
it in the British Museum.]
GOSLINGS.—" Hallo, mister 1" cried a passenger in a stage
coach, to a rough looking foot passenger, " can you tell me
what has become of those goslings which were hatched last
year, on the top of that rock?" " Four of them are dead,
Sir," returned Jonathan, " and the other, I perceive, is a
passenger in the stage coach." The gentleman was used up,
" John, hoist the window and let the air in," said a critic to
his servant one morning. John was about to make the fire.
" If I do, Sir, the wynd will blow the dust about too much I"
" The wynd 1" exclaimed the dictionarian ; " who taught you,
John, to say wynd?" " My father used to call it wynd, Sir."
" He was wrong, John—you must call it wind. It is poetical to
say wynd." " Beg pardon, Sir, but I prefers the natural
prunciation of words to the political." " You may make the
fire, John."

A NEW Boox.—Three degrees of Banking is the title of a
new work just published at Boston. We have not heard
whether these are-Ist, taking a banking house : 2d, issuing
irredeemable paper, and Srdly, shutting up shop.
A NEW INIARRIAGE.—The Boston News is going to repub-
lish the " Marriage of Despair," so great is the demand for it.
No wonder. Old maids read it as they despair of marriage.

MEMOIRS OF SIR NV ILLIAM KNIGHTON, BART.,
G. C. H.—This is on many accounts a very remarkable book.
If it did no more than trace the rise of an individual from com-
parative obscurity to eminence and wealth, by the unaided
force of his own prudence and perseverance, it would command
universal attention, and be invaluable as an example. But
when to this is added a history of the private life of George IV.
during the latter years of his reign, from the pen of one who
lived in unreserved intimacy with that Monarch, an attraction is
given to the volumes of the rarest kind. The extraordinary
influence which Sir William Knighton exercised over his
Sovereign is well known, and no one, we think, can read the
present development of it without being convinced that it was
honourable to both parties. A friendship such as that which
subsisted between George IV. and Sir William Knighton
never probably had a precedent between King and subject.
The King, on his visit to Ireland, wrote a Diary of the events
which arose on that occasion especially for the perusal of Sir
William Knighton. This extremely curious and interesting
document is given in full in the work, which may, indeed, be
said to comprise the most remarkable collection of Royal Let-
ters ever given to the world. Among these are found not only
the Letters we have alluded to from George IV. , but- also
from
William IV., the present King of Hanover, the late Duke of
York, the Duke of Cambridge, the Landgravine of Hesse
Homburg'', the Duchess of Gloucester, &c. In the corre-
spondence will also be found Epistles from Lords Eldon, Li-
verpool, Brougham ,Bloomfield, and Mr. Canning, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Robert Peel, and other distinguished characters. In
short the " Memoirs of Sir William Knighton" will be perused
with intense interest by the public at large, and referred to by
future historians.—Naval and Military Gazette.
A LONDON CAL—One of these vehicles was on
the Castle-street hackney-coach stand' yesterday. It is,
we believe, tho first brought down to Liverpool.4.-Liverpool
Albion.