The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

MISCELLANEA

We extract the following respecting the high rents of
Scotch farms from an article on Scotch farmine- in the
Agricultural Gazette :—" About fifty years ago, Sir
John Sinclair, who had penetrated so deep into the pro-
cesses of farming improvements, gave the following de-
scription of these farms : 22 cart-loads [of kelp] per Eng-
lish acre, he says, were applied to the tui hip land, whereas
only twelve such cart-loads are commonly given by the
generality of farmers. The same quantity was also ap-
plied to the grass land before ploughing. Yet, notwith-
standing all these advantages, it was found that wheat
could not be grown with success on light lands every other
year for any length of time. Mr. Grey estimates the
average amount of produce on the Scotch farms as follows :
5 quarters of wheat are reckoned a good average, and
some fields turn out 6 to the acre ; 10 or 11 quarters of
oats. eight or ten tons of potatoes, and twenty to thirty
tons of turnips, are a good crop. This is a high standard,
and so long as this is maintained, there need be no fear of
a reduction of English rents from the reduction of Eng-
lish prices ; as a proof of this, let the profits be calcu-
lated on Mr. Caird's farm, and it win be found not only
that the high rent of £3 or £4 the acre may be main-
tained, but that in addition there will be a fair and hand-
some profit to accrue to the tenant. A few shillings per
acre more or less in rent is of little consequence, com-
pared with the immense difference that may be made be-
twixt a bad crop and a really good one.
In speaking of the advantages likely to result from the
present discussion on the subject of bedding plants, a cor-
respondent says—" Has any of your correspondents tried
a bed of British ferns for the autumn flower garden ?"
We commend to the notice of our readers this somewhat
novel hint, as worthy of consideration. The idea of
British terns forming an ornamental bed in the parterre
is, to us at least, new. In a bed of ferns there is certainly
not much to gratify the eye, if colour be the main object
sought for ; but it has often occurred to us that the po-
pular taste, which in these matters passes by everything
but colour, deprives itself of many of the deepest, and by
far the most substantial, sources of pleasure, which the
boundless variety of structure in the vegetable world is
calculated to supply. Of late years, the taste for studying
ferns, seaweeds, lichens, moss, and similar objects, have,
it is true, begun to manifest itself in a more decided form
than in previous years; and as intelligence widens and
deepens among the masses of our population, so in pro-
portion will the study of the more minute objects of the
creation become investigated, understood, and appreciated.
We could almost envy the person who may have the cou-
rage and ability to bring such plants as ferns into public
esteem as flower-garden phints.—Gardeners' Journal.
Potatoes and Salt.—Last spring I took a bushel of
yellow potatoes from among the diseased ones which had
still a few good buds left. I put them into water saturated
with salt. A pound was used; a larger quantity of water
might have been saturated with the same quantity of salt.
These tubers were set near other potatoes, not diseased.
When taken up I had three bushels of good potatoes, and
half a bushel diseased. This is a satisfactory result ; in-
asmuch as the good potatoes set in the vicinity were half
diseased. In two previous years I have had the same
result ; and I therefore think myself entitled to assert that
the potato disease may be stopped by soaking the sets in
brine. A pound of salt to two bushels is enough ; the
salt must be dissolved before the potatoes are put in, and
the soaking must iast for half an hour.lbeumann in Gar-
deners' Chronicle.

OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK.
Stove, Conservat•,ry, Brc.--The plant department
requires nice discrimination during the dull wet weather
now prevalent, care must be taken that the temperature
is not too high, especially at night ; high temperature and
want of light will weaken any plants ; besides, the majo-
rity of plants now require rest, and any stimulus is inju-
rious.

In the Flower and Kitchen Gardens nothing particular
can be done, though the active gardener will always find
some routine work which will occupy his time.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

"H. Johnston, Chester." You should have sent for
the Horticultural Magazine, published by Mr. C. Cox.
It is better known by that name than that of " The An-
nals of Horticulture."
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HOLLOWAY'S PILLS A SURE REMEDY FOR COUGHS,
COLDS, AND OPPRESSIONS OF THE CHEST.—Theso com-
plaints being accompanied more or less by fever, the most
prompt measures should be adopted to reduce the febrile
action of the system, and allay the irritation of the affect-
ed parts, for which purposes nothing can equal Holloway's
Pills. Let the sufferer have immediate recourse to a few
doses of this inestimable medicine, which will speedily
remove all weight or pain in the head and chest, when the
most troublesome cough or cold will immedi 31/4, 44, (
the influence of this wonderful medicine.
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