THE GARDEN.

(By Hortcs).

Calendar of Operations, January 19.

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TO CORRESPOXDEXTS.

Box Tnonx (D.W., Epßom).—The best way to grow a strong fence of the above U to keep it clear of weeds the first year aftor planting. Tho second winter, cut it back to within six inches of the ground. The following summer occasionally clip it. not allowing it to grow long or stragly. Frequent clipping will cause it to produce more shoots, which is the chief consideration in growing a fence. Keep the roots free of weeds. Tho third year continue the sumo system. The fourth season oui<ht to produce a first-class cattle-proof fence. Tho above system should answer for nearly all o*n«r live fences. Jlklo.vs (R.G., Xewton).—lt is ratherlate to sow melon seed nuw; Die cold weather would bo on before you could mature and ripen your fruit. Defer sowing till next spiing. Melon seed will keep for lour or live seasons if storad . in a dry place. "Vises (J.W., Waikoukoul. — I havo had a vinery under my charge for a few years, and the same borinji insect attacked the vinos. I tried many things to kill it. but failed, except when tho insect had only commenced opera tions. Then a thin wire put into tho hole would kill it. Vines will give a fair crop of fruit for about two years, even with tho borer at, work, and I have found it the best plan to cut. down the cane below where the insect is destroying tho uld cane, or train a new shoot from the base of the plant, cutting out the old cttnc in the winter. Pay particular attention to olcaning the c.incs. and painting them in the winter, which will greatly modify the evil. Other varieties iv.c as liable to get attacked as the one named in your communi cation.

Kitchen Garden.

As soon as the fruit is all picked off the old ■or two-year planted strawberry, have the ground trenched two spits deep, putting the old plant* at the bottom of the spit, and plenty of good, rich manure between the top and bottom spit, letting this ground lie fallow for about two months. Then crop ■with some autumn crop. Don't put strawberries twice on the same piece of ground. Keep up the successional sow ings of peas and beans, also the French and running varieties. Earth up and stake "those that are advancing in growth. Make the usual fortnightly sowings of mustard, cress, radishes, &c, for small saladings,.,, sowing in moist situations. Give grow ing crops of the above plenty of water. Attend to tomatoes as directed last week. Sow a small patch of cabbage (Enfield market), also cauliflower — vetches, autumn, giant. Earth up all crops which require this system of culture. Keep the hoe constantly stirring up the surface soil, keeping weeds down and ad mitting a freer atmospheric action to the ■soil. Give copious waterings with tiquid manure to such crops as may require water. Flower Garden. In the bedding department, continue the pinching aud pegging down of the different subjects. Many of the plints •will be making rank rapid growth ; curtail s»ch as much as possible. Enccarage a short ■healthy growth such as ■will produce the most bloom.- Continue mulching, and give rfrequent watering;? with liquid manure. Pick off all dead blooms as soon as the .petals begin to fall; allowing to , form seed-pods only robs the plant of much ■ of its strength, and weakens the other flowers. In the mixed border give the dahlias frequent waterings with manure water. Stake and pinch .back so as to 12 ---crease the number of flowering shoots. AH plants such as cockscombs, balsortsa, fuschias, and other -strong growing plants ought to receive frequent supplies of liquid manure. Mulching with .half-rotted manure will mssist in keeping the moisture in the soil. Clip the edges; the strong rapid growth -Gf sprig is o%er now, and if they are clipped they not> mate much growth during the auturan. ■ Grass cut short and roll. Grecx&ocse. Continue giving^ plenty-of air and water ; ■also shade through the day while the 'Sun is strong. Coleus, ■etc.. gi^e larger pots, as •they, may require uxore pot-room. '<~ive liquid manure to all freegi owing plants. If white (er^mealy bad) 4>ppo£a-3 on any of the .plants, have those plants washed at <an-ce; .it. is easier to keep down pest by fre . quent att-ention than to . eradicate aftor it gets well-established. Wh.cn thrips s:ake :their .appearance, gire the plant frecpr-ent heavy syruigings with clean water. !The above treatment will keep fikem undeiu

Cultivation of the Grape Kne near Auck land City.

I wottd lifeo to write afdiapter oaeur experience of the grape .vine in the iHac.e diate; neighbourhood of the city of Auck land. Tfcat eiperienoe iae con vinced ijuae that-.it.will not.-succeed ac a paying s-pecsi laticn, I have seen in a. few favoutad situslijonsttropsin one year svhich, if they could ibe tontinued and produced mose universally, twould pay barc.isomely, t«± the eMcepti&r. is rthe rule. ,&s me say tibat the cfiusate ..-is nov warm enorgh, but Ids not thick that is the cause jo- the failure. I wouli-ra.tli.tr put'it down toriiie humiditj' of the •climate, and the too evsn balance oi ■, tempenature, preserved by oar*ummer om6 • printer. Here we Lave noneccf that dry, .excessive heat sin semmer, nor again, a»e .our winfcorr; ex&sssivtly cold ; Has tenapera i'ture notgLadng io eiti'.er extixaia, does not , allow th*_- vine in tte open -ay: to fully mature or capsn off its wood in ifciie winter, vine, Sherevore, -cannot nsssrete the matter in jfjve .wocd capable of ;j:<rcxlucing the fruit, or if it dots, sometiaies that fruii, instea.cS <af ripening, not unfequently bursts or jjcAh .covered with mildew (the .sporec of whids arc generated by the moist, humic air, wlich wo generally gat some time tcwards tho end of January), ..celdom producing a w^l^ripened lierry—-iiio pre .superabundance of moisture somet-ihere. , Some eaj- that it is in tlxo soil —I think it is ;in the Atmosphere. There are, -infeed, places mi;ch colder than Auckland (/for pnste.nce, -llelson, ia ilie Aliddie Island of ; N.ejw Zeai^Td), which, in favotred :sitea -^tions, .prodv.ee fair ecops of fruit in -tiae ■open ;air. 4 hey experience jnueh colder .-•vintora tlian,Auckland. Then, having tho -cines planted on a terraced slope, .enable* ■them in the iummci to .attain a greater iaeat frorc the iun's raya. 1 will hane give #n infitartce whore I saw wines, although ;near Auckland, tucceed remarkably wall ia (tho open 3ir. Tfeis was on the £slan<S of Waiheke. The viies were planted in i».rt Kif a knd-looked ba.?in with a. tidal .creek ■runuing through ti.o level portion of fche ibasin. The vices were planted about 100 ft away frota the creife on a slight elope aboij, 15ft. to SSkft. higher than the creek. The aspect »as northerly, with a slight cast to the east, and perfectly .sheltered from all winds—landlocked,hat just the place where, on one <sf thoso cold, fine winter nights, which we sometimes get, with a slight touch of fs-D-st in the sir, the frost settles down on the plants nipping back all tender shoot*, and committing havoc amongst plante which would not take any injury if planted at an higher elevation. I believe the vine? gnbjceted t<> (his influence ripen off their wood in consequence of the sharp nipaof frc.-c which they occasionally get. Then again, the situation in the summer is

well adapted for "the concentration of the sun's rays as in a focus, causing a greater degree of heat to accumulate during the day. The vine, as is well-known, lifces plenty of dry heaiiduring the summer, and a moderate degree of fro?t during the winter. TVs aspect being slightly easterly gave the vines all the benefit of the riscig sun in sumEser, and in winter, when there was a slight hoar frost on, they had ako the assistance of 'that sun and frost in Tie'rp ing them to ripen off quicker, thereby giving the vines a longer irest. Any person with a slight experience- of vegetation will Tiader stand thst the irfeing sun, striking aay deciduousjplanta with a slight hoar frost on them, it wifliconsidcrably hasten the ripening off of its foliage, if not effectually cheoUing it. Those vines, -at the time I saw them, hadaboutftwo tonsof fruithangingtotirctn. The name of the variety was Kfll 'Bill, Hamburgh. They were trained on a "trellis over the tcp of a garden wait, sndh ivtlk running north and south. I have akaost come to fhe conclueion that if vioes arc to succeed in Z\e<f Zealand in the open tar, they must %c planted in situations some what eimSar to that which I haws -tried to picture. TS-aw, I have seen vrnee plori&sd where the •configuration of t!he ground would not ■allow this frosty sst to aetttle unless on wry caltn nights, wihieih seldom occur on crae^ular or-elevated sarfiiees. On cold nights, when */c have a EfcSle fr«st down in low hollows, the air is sstneticoes two or three degree;; colder than St-is tp -on the elerated groi»nd immediaSeSy >n«air ; and as 1 k»; alrea&y observed -tmo Wcitt in the summerdo wn is the hollows is greater than on the *?«3vatod ground, thus rifiie l hct low gives the-^reater extremes of esid -jtnii Iheat.

i/Z-o be cotetinued.)

Soil Temperature.—Experimeaie >or. •the temperature, of the sail are beingesrried -in the at Hougfcton farrt, New York. The -aciil is a gravel, with a clayey subsoil anc yencropped. Thermometers are fastenad ie itiw hollow ends .of wooden rods, and these ase placed at dtlferent depths below the «uiface in closely-fitting cine tubes lSlec With water. The thermometers were plasec at^ifae following deaths :—Satrface, 3 inches, 6-inehes, 9 inches, S. foot, 3 leet, 5 feet saQ H feet, and are rea£ hourly 2rom 7 a.m. to S pus.-from tihe lstoi May to •Sic Ist Novesa bar. Houa^, daily,tnd mon&ly variations were observed. The first are confined to the upper layer of soil, andare«ften sudden and .violent. "iTbey raiiy be caa-eed by the shifting of the wind, clearing ni a cloudy sky, a-thnnder-storm, etc. Theoe is a great daily range, caueed by of heat by day and radiation by .night. The range is mutih reduced by cloudy tr rainy weather.. 'These daily variatioas take place to -the depth of a foot or more. The maxaauaa temperature at the surface is about taiddiy and the mtnimum -liiortly after midnight. These extremes are later tt successive depths, until at .one foot they ate retarded eigat to te*i hours, presenting the curious feature of the oa3-foot ■fifcer mocneter rising while •fee surface one is falling, and vice viersa. There in a, constaot rise in the temperature of fche sosl, begin ning in the spring, easily observed to s. deptii of eight feet. Storm* and cold weather check this advance temporarily.' Below three feet there was an unbroken rise from May 22nd to September Ist The mean temperatures for six months, May to October, were : Surface, 66.40 ; 3 inches, C 5.30: 5 inches, 65.30: 9 inches, 65.30 ; 1 foot, 04.20 ; 3 feet, 62.80 ; 5 feet, 58.60. At a depth of 6 feet the mean temperature was only 10.60 lower than at the surface. During the autumn there is a zone of sub soil below one foot which is warmer than ;he soil above it, and this prolongs the season.—"Chronicle."

THE TRIAL OF CAREY'S MURDERER.

Exciting Sceses in Court.- A Sensational Finale.

[From ouk London Coeeespondk>tX

Aitkr a long and patient taisl which-itstec over two days, and was OKiducted from first to last with an evident desire *Si give the prisoner full benefit of every ; p-&ssiblo doubt, Patrick O'i>onneH, the asaassin o James Carey, was, at ha!£-post -eight on Saturday evening last, dbund .guilty o wilful murder and condemned to-belhangcx by the neck till he wae -dead. ißhe case created an exitraoi'dinary sensation in London, and the small, stuffy Court at the Old Bailey wjs, on Friday (morning crowded to excess with -social ;ctd lega luminaries. In addition to the -cldermen who have a prescriptive injghfcto range their scarlet-robed forms alongside the Judge's ermine, several metnbnra of -Perliamen' were accommodated with-ssatsonithe bench whilst from the body of the 'Court Mr Howard Vinoewfc and a.-steong poo3e of de tectives " watohodtheooet" Thedtttorney- Genoral, assisted by Mr Silund prosecuted and the defen-vr-, was 'entrusted to Mr Charles Russell, <J.C.M.P_, who,;u» will be seen bye-and-bya, f ally justified sthe confi dence placed is him. s&ta une-oi the seats allotted to counsel sat '■General ft*ryor, a prominent member of tiie American bar, and a friend of ths prisoner. -He frequently conversed with *®'DonnelPs solicitors, anc finally edged uj>> near Mr liussell and the junior counsel forithe defeaoe, MrSullivan, so as to be able io whißper An icscasiona' suggestion. i O'Donnell eatesaai the dodb: witb:u,jaunty solf-satisiied air, «"Hch he refcßmedtthrough out the trial. When the jury ware called ■over he scrutinised them closely oe.if look ing for a friend, Itit neither on ibuhnlf of defence nor prosooction were any of the " twelve^ood men acid true" challenged. I don't think I need go over the-ease ,for tho Crowa at length. What occunred.on, iboard the .Melrose on ihe afternoon -of.July :29th is daibtless we3i-know^n to most .of ,your readef-. The special features of .the prosecution were (1) the evidence of a. new .witness namod Cubitt, snd (2) the shaking of .yaung Cacey's testimony in a most im portaut particular. One point told against: theiputsoner, the other for him. ; '3?heinan Ciibitt supplied the Crown with; alongmissinglirikof circumstantial evidence' fay-showilng how and whenO'Donnell found oiakthat his fellow-passenger, Power, was Cajrey, ,tl.o informer. It seems Robert Cubitt and his brother FranJk (since dead) went out io Cape Town in the Kinfairna Caetie w:ith<Carey md O'Donnell. The day after tlieir *rriv:il, whilst in a beer shop, they wete ahown A portrait of Carey, publicised in the Duiblin "Fncentan" of May sfck, whieii they at once recognised as Power. Cubitt persuaded the puiilican to give it to him., And then he and hie brother went down to tl\e Melcose and showed its O'Donnell. The latter, '-smiling,sad, "I will shoot him. Cive me tibe portrait." A quarter of an hour later the Melrose sailed.

Young Carey gave his evidence with glib confidence, but nevertheless created a most unfavourable impression.l He is a sly, cunning Irish lad of fifteen, ill-favoured, and altogether objectionable. Mr Russell pressed him to tell the jury whether 16 heard O'Donnell cay " I was sent to do t;" but though the boy had sworn posi ;ively to the fact again and again in the Police Court, he now declared himself un certain on the point. Young Carey and Mrs Carey were also confronted with a-cab

man, Walter Xoung, who had driven them frequently aboat at the Cape. Both swore they didn't know him, but Young, evidently a reliable witness, deposed to a conversa tion with yeung Carey, in the course of which he ©haffingly said, " You're a tine fel low ; why didn't you 6hoot O'Donnell when lie killed your father ?" and young Carey replied, **/ couldn't, because my father had ihepisteZ.'" The importance of this reply will be obvious when I remind you that the prisoner contends he only shot Carey after no had himself been threatened, and when he be&ved his own, life tx> bo in danger. An Able Defence. By far the most interesting part of the trial *sras the defence. According to the view put forward by Mr Charles Russell on O'Donnell's behalf, James Carey, the man who pointed out Mr Burke to Joe Brady and the rest of tho Phoenix Park asscssins, that double-eyed hypocrite, who onJy escaped the murderer's doom in Dub lin by treachery, was flying from vengeance when he met his fate. O'Donnell, an inno cent, hard-working man, who had sailed from England to the Cape in the same ship tfeat carried Carey, happened to have made friends with the informer and become in timate with him and his family, travelling under the assumed name of Power. Carey transhipped at the Cape to another vessel going on to Natal, and so did O'Donnell, because his newly-made acquaintance told him he would have a better chance of em ployment there than at Cape Town. Un fortunately, however, on the abort voyage between the Cape and_ Port Elizabeth, Carey began to think that his friend—who was an Irishman—regarded him with an altered eye, and the fact that it had sow become known that the notorious " approver " was on board could not, of course, bare tended to make Carey feel more at his eaao in the presence of other Irishmen. Atall events— euch is the story set forth by Mr Ruasell as emanating from tho criminal himself—Carey began an altercation, accusing O'Donnell of being less friendly, on which the latter bluntly said he would have nothing to do with an Irish informer. Thereupon James Carey produced a rovolver from his pocket, fcut before he could uee it O'Donnell had either made himself master of the weapon or had taken another from his own coat pocket, and had shot Carey through the neck, firing two more bullets into the unfor tunate man's back, apparently acting under an uncontrollable impulse, due to nervous ness and apprehension. With the exception of Young, the cab man, who deposed to the above-mentioned .conversation with the boy Carey, Mr Russell called no witnesses to back up this strange theory, but proceeded with mar vellous ingenuity and consummate casuistry to make the story look real and feasible. For upwards of five hours he devoted him self to) talking the jury over. Not a point was mieged, not a possibility overlooked. Tho Defence Demolished. The jury were evidently deeply impressed with Mr Russell's speech, and the Attorney- General recognised the necessity of an anti dote. What evidence, he asked, was there in support of O'Donnell's extraordinary tale ? Parish, who observed the whole scene, and who was officers' servant on board tho steamer, stated positively that Carey, O'Donnell, and the woman who accompanied the latter were sitting together on Sunday afternoon, the 28th of July, in the saloon, not quarrelling in any way, when —to quote his own words—" I saw O'Donnell draw his hand out of his pocket, hold a pistol out towards the deceased, fire it, and shoot him in the neck. Carey burned round and sang ' Oh, Maggie, I am shot!' He then staggered towards the bottom of the saloon. When he had got about ten yards, the prisoner fired two more shots, which hit

him in the back. O'Donnell never moved from his Beat while he fired tho three shots." This evidence was not in any way shaken in cross-examination. Thomas Jones, boatswain of the vessel, was also in the saloon at the time of the occurrence, und noticed the three persons sitting and drink ing together. . Ho, too, heard nothing vhatover of any quarrel. So far from that, 10 witnessed Carey and O'JJonnell raising ;heir glasses and drinking each other's lealth. A brief space after and he heard ;ho first shot fired while his back was turned, Se "slewed round," and saw tho rest of :he occurrence just as described by Parish. Young Carey had stated that O'Donnell aad sent him on deck to fetch his father, just before tho murder, and Marks corro- Dorated this by swearing that Carey had so seen called downstairs by his son. If this is true, then what bocomes of the theory jhat O'Donnell was trying to keep aloof from the "informer"? Why, if that were tho case, did he not only request his com pany at a friendly glass, but actually drink loalt lis with him ?

The Judge commenced summing up at half-paat four, and his careful review of the evidence lasted till seven o'clock. The jury were nn immense time away, and camo back twice to be instructed on points about which they wero doubtful. This looked like either a verdict of manslaughter or an acquittal, and the majority of the spectators fully anticipated the former. O'Uonnoll himself was evidently extremely hopeful, and tho verdict of "guilty " when it did come was consequently more awful than it might otherwise have been. The prisoner folded his arms and seemed to be preparing a defiant air, but was too agitated to re main in one attitude. Every two or three secondH his hands sought a new position. The Judge assumed the black cap. Wilson, the ushor, broke the silence with tho dread proclamation that precedes sentence of death. The sheritt's and. aldermen stood up in their places on the bench. Tho Judge solemnly delivered sentence. Though his words when read will appeal- but fitting to the occasion, it seemed almost cruel to tho prisoner whose incessant changes of position betrayed his mental agony, to address him with such deliberation. Tho Sentence. After reminding O Donnell that he had had full time and every opportunity allowed him for defence, the Judge said: " I cannot say I disagree with tho verdict. I must gay that I do not see any reason to disbelieve the evidence of the witness Cubitt. That evidence made it clear that you were reckless, that you were ready to use a weapon to destroy the life of "that ■wicked, that abominably dreadfully wicked man, and that you did destroy it. Tliere is no doubt about that. It would be a most lamentable thing if in a court of justico in any civilised land it could for one moment be laid down that to take tho lifo of a man—wicked though he may be , full of crime and hypocritical and abominable though.-he may be— was justifiable. There would be no civilisation, no happiness in thu world if such a doctrine as that could for one moment be laid down in a court of justice. It is not so, it is not the law. If; is a dreadful and abominablo doctrine to think of, and I fear it is only too plain that you have been induced by bad writings and bad advice from people as wicked as Caroy himself to think that you would be justified in taking the life of this man. Con tiary to the law, and because you abominated his wicked deeds, you made yourself the ex ecutioner of a fellow creature, in violation of every principle of right. It is quite cer tain that it could not be permitted in any civilised country to be for one moment sup posed that ?uch a doctrine prevailed. The jury have found in your case that you did purposely take the life of this man, and lean not doubt with what object. Ido not say this for the purpose of hurting your feelings. I trust to God that you will repent, before you die, of this act. I liojm; it will be thoroughly understood what peril and misery people who allow themselves to be led into such horrible doctrines lay them selves |open to. I have nothing further to add but to pass upon you the (Sentence of the law, which is that you be taken from hence to the place whence you came, and from thence to a place of lawful execution, there to be hanged by the neck until you be dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul. An Appalling Finale. When the Judge finished speaking the warders prepared to remove O'Donnell down stairs. Suddenly the prisoner pushed them, aside, and bending over tho front of the dock, paid, " May I speak, my lord?" "No,"' replied the Judge. O'Donnell com menced to reiterate his demand, but half a dozen warders seized him by the shoulders to take him away. Then every semblance of the mild demeanour which had always marked him since his return to England disappeared. His action now lifted the veil which had hitherto concealed his character. He shouted wildly, and waved his arms as if ho would fight the warders who had hold of him. As they dragged him towards the stairs, O'Donnell cried as loudly a* ho could, "Threo cheers for Ireland and the United States. To with tho Britishers and the British Crown." At the top of tho steps he again shouted back to the court at tho top ofbis Toiee, " You are a lot of fine , you are. It is a plot made up." By that time the warders had got him to the foot of tie stairs, but even then the sound of obscene language could be heard from him until he was locked in a cell.

Strange Lodgers.

Thb presence of animals not exactly re garded as domestic is a feature of certain poor districts of London. Fowls roost nightly in dozens of bedrooms in the> back streets, and only the other day a score of thoso miserable tortoisos that one Foes on barrows destitute of the smallest vestige of green stuff, and probably enduring the most prolonged agony, wero discovered crawling about the floor of a costermongor's attic among his progeny' only slightly inferior in point of numbers to the poor animals themselves.

In eorae of the cases where the ac commodation for ponien and donkeys may fairly be called " stabling," the entrance is through the passage of a home densely inhabited, and the animals are led in and out daily in such a manner as to be a nuisance to the occupants, while the stables, being so close to the windows of the room and kept in anything but good order, are a constant danger to health. I have been assured by an old inhabitant of the costers' quarters that he knew a donkey who went upstairs to the third floor every night to go to bed ; but old inhabit ants are not to be relied upon, and I give you this story for what it is worth.—" How the Poor Live," by G. R. Sims.

It was very careless leaving the parrot in the parlour on Sunday evening; but she never thought anything about it until Mon iay morning, when he raised the whole bouse by making a smacking noise and cry ing •• Darling Susie ! Darling Susie ! " He kept it up all day, too, and the old folk are much interested in the case

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 19, 1884.

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