Show extraordinary x n agriculture ri culture soll soil making hot water pipes in tho the soli soil and culture under glass at a certain period oththo uto alfo of the hie plant lent mill bo be essential features ot abo gardening of tho the future they will finally the iho childish fears as to the impossibility of 0 satisfying the iho needs ol of a rad I 1 daiy diy ln in creasing cro asing population and they will III permit man always to have fresh from ilia soil tho the bush or tho the tree most of what Is necessary tor ills his life that Is not a dream of futurity it la 14 becoming a tact fact of modern life indeed nothing can bo be moro more instructive on this account than a visit to thea the islands of jersey aud and guernsey lucli buchas ng I 1 recently made it gives one a idea of what tho the world is rapidly coming coining to lit in tho the way of culture under glass the island of guernsey his has to nourish 1300 souls on each square 3 mile arid and has a good deal ot of unproductive uner soil guernsey like tho suburbs of paris I 1 is a land of market gardening which ila has developed of late into greenhouse culture all over tho island especially lit in tile north wherever you look you see greenhouses they rise amid tle flie fields aud from behind ilia alio trees they are piled upon ono another on oil tho the steep slopes of the harbor the origin of tills new dop departure arturo was tho the raising ot at grapes 61 lies which was started souie some thirty years ago by a few enterprising men at present pro sopt guernsey exports every year about tons 0 of grapes which rapt rupio 0 sant a money value of c at tile the low average pi lee of IS 18 cents a pound however and that Is tho the chief point grapes are ara no ila longer tho most important crop of tho the guernsey and jersey greenhouses and when wheat I 1 walked through glass rooted roofed kitchen gardens which do not know what failure means and which yield crop after ar crop throughout tho the spring summer and au autumn I 1 could riot not but admire the recent conquests of man I 1 saw ahr thice ce fourtha of rat an acro acre covered with glass and heated tor for throe three months in tho the spring yielding about S tons of tomatoes and n about pounds of beans as a first crop tit in april and may to bo be followed by two crops more moio during tile tho summerland sum summer merand and autumn autu uin As to the results I 1 cannot better characterize ac acte them than by quoting what mr W bear the well known writer upon english agriculture wrote after a visit to tile iho same establishment na namely niely that tho the money returns from those thirteen heres acres greatly exceed those of an ordinary english forab fon n of 1300 acres the last years crops were 25 tons of grapes vili jeta are cut from tho the first of may till october SO tons of tomatoes 30 tons of potatoes six sl t tons on S of peas a and lid two tons of boons beans the last three in april to hay ay nothing of other subsidiary crops prince Krap bathe in the august forant io ruHl |