240 THE 
GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[APni 11, 
supplies or water. Where size and rapid growth is 
the object, be sure to use liquid manure, according to 
the directions XH down previously, viz., moderate in 
strength, and as clear as wine if possible. Imported 
Orchids should lave a mild yet constantly moist atmo- 
sphere for a few weeks, until they begin to grow. 
water should be applied to them until that period, and 
then with moderation, They will fill their pseudo- 
bulbs by atmospheric moisture alone, and all ex- 
citement otherwise will be at the expense of the energies 
of the plant. Get other Orchids into rapid growth as 
soon as possible, in order to get a long autumn to ripen 
their bulbs—a most essential point with most of them. 
Mixed Greenhouse.—The leading shoots of Epacrises 
Chorozemas, Corræas, Heaths, with many other choice 
plants, which produce the best effect in a bushy 
condition, should be frequently pinched or stopped, 
in order to form good specimens ; also those of Calceo- 
larias, Verbenas, and other young stock, intended 
either for decorating the flower-beds or for succession 
in pots. Give liberal shifts, when necessary, to 
specimen plants, and, above all things, secure effi- 
cient drainage ; with the constant use of turfy 
Soils, weak and elear liquid manure should be used 
constantly at this period. Cold Pi's or Frames.—That 
portion of the structure which is not filled with young 
stock, may now be very usefully occupied with some of 
the hard-wooded tribes of the conservatory, or mixed 
greenhouse, in order to make way for a free and healthy 
growth in the rising generation, and to afford choice 
specimens abundance of room. 
KITCHEN GARDEN FORCING. 
Pines.—Montserrats, or Jamaicas, intended for fruit- 
ing next autumn, and through the follo wing winter, will 
soon begin to show 3 these are easily injured by over- 
watering, especially if not in a very high temperature. 
They will, however, now require a little, which should 
be enriched with good but clear liquid manure, See 
that their bottom heat does not decline any at this 
period, but maintain it steadfastly at 80° or 85° ; to this 
end frequently introduce a little new tan between their 
stems, rather endeavouring to carry the bottom-heat to 
a higher level than to augment the amount in any par- 
ticular degree. Vineries.—Attend to disbudding the 
late Vines, which will be now breaking ; see that ‘all is 
right at the root as to superfluous water, &c. A tar- 
paulin would be an excellent thing to draw on the bor- 
ders during heavy rains, the pernicious consequences 
of which to the Vine are, I am sorry to say, still under- 
rated by the publie, ət least in my opinion. Peach- 
houses, as before. Cucumbers and Melons.—Do not let 
the advancing season lull you into a belief that linings 
may be neglected. In so fitful a climate as that of Bri- 
tain, they will bear slight renewals.through most of the 
summer, provided fine fruit be the object, Stop often 
the young shoots, at every second eye, of your Cucum- 
bers. But after once stopping in the seedling state, 
suffer the Melon leaders to stretch neariy to the side 
of the pit or frame before stopping them. 
KITCHEN GARDEN AND ORCHAR 
Scarlet Runners, and an early crop of (UR Beans, 
should now be sown. ‘The ground for the Runners 
should be well manured, and deeply dug ; and the shoots 
when about 5 feet high, should be constantly stopped. 
This will save the necessity of using unwieldy sticks, 
and will secure a succession. The first Kidney Beans will 
be as well raised in a hothouse or frame, and trans- 
planted. They however must be gradually hardened 
before transplanting. Nasturtiums may now be 
sown, as also an early sowing of Gherkins. These 
may be raised as recommended | for the Kidney Beans, 
Sow also a little early Red Beet, Scor: zonera, and 
Saleafy. The Globe Artichokes should now be dressed : 
remove a little soil, and pull away all the plants but about 
four or five, and fill up with a dressing of rich manure 
instead of the soil. row transplanted now in very 
rich soil will succeed the main crops, if well watered 
and attended to. Box-edgings should he clipped imme- 
diately, if not already done. Orcharding.—Attend to 
ormer directions ; I doubt this will prove a bad fruit 
year. The snow has lain here 3 inches thick for the 
last day or two. 
FLOWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES. 
If no ese bas been formed for the disposition x 
the gay mass flowers, it should be done forthwith, i 
order that sufficient stock may be got together without 
delay. Not a moment's time should be lost in propa- 
gating extra things for these purpóses. Choice Car. 
nations, if at hand, should be turned out in beds or 
borders. Three in a group, in rich soil, produce a 
bold and gay effect. The Mimulus family should be 
now transplanted in fresh patches in moist soil, not 
forgetting that popular flower, the Musk ; the latter 
should be removed in dense patches, 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS, 
Ithas been truly said, that the present season has 
hitherto been the most unpropitious known for many 
years, for the calture of this department of the amateur’s 
care. Many complaints from. various extensive Tulip 
growers attest the prevalence of canker in a serious 
degree amongst their collections. As the stems elon- 
gate, it will be necessary to support them by introducing 
ueat sticks into the bed, to which metallic wire may be 
attached in such a manner that the end of each piece of 
wire (four to every stick) may encirele the stem of a 
Tulip, thus holding it perf. ctly safe from the effect of 
wind,giving at the same time a very neat appearance 
to the bed, Protect and shelter from prevailing winds 
and hailstorms as usual. Pinks.—The beds must be 
cos thoroughly clean, and small sticks may be put to 
e plants; it is better done now than when they are 
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further advanced, 1 am growing 100 pairs, in half-peck 
pots, and when this plan becomes more generally 
adopted, it will doubtless give great satisfaction, espe- 
cially where they are bloomed for exhibition. Ranun- 
culuses, in spite of the cold weather which has lately 
occurred, are making progress. Cover the beds with 
mats from excessive rain, as well as on frosty nights. 
Carnations and Picotecs.— Examine the traps for wire- 
worm daily. Thin pieces of Potatoes ought to be in- 
serted in each pot where there is any fear of danger 
from ieee destructive insects, Pansies ought to be 
covered a: d for E ; and if the 
HUE will look his bed over about 9 or 10 o'elock 
in the evening, with a eandle and lanthorn, he will not 
lose his labour, for at this time snails and other vermin 
are hard at work with his collection. Auriculas and 
Polyanthuses, where intended for show, must not have 
water over-head ; and in this eho Wer, weather take care 
that no drip falls op. the plant: 
COTTAGERS’ GARDENS, 
The cottager ahold at all times pay considerable 
attention to mixed crops; much can be accomplished 
in this way. Many valuable artieles have appeared 
lately on that head, in the way of suggestions, but they 
have all, I think, omitted to lay stress on what I con- 
ceive to "be an impor tant point in the affair. No crop 
should, in my opinion, be allowed to shade the Potato. 
There can be little gained by this, and probably much 
lost. This plant requires, on the average of summers, 
all the light our murky skies afford. ^ Regarding 
Onions, also, the same may be safely asserted. The 
cottager should however always grow a very considerable 
quantity of bread Beans, and should never allow them 
to occupy a plot of ground by themselves. Such erops 
as Carrots, Parsnips, Swedes, Turnips, and all the Bras- 
sica, or Ca ubbage and Brcecoli family, will not only bear 
a slight shading, but, in the average of English sum- 
mers, will enjoy it, provided the mixture is judiciously 
arranged for soiling, gathering, &c. 
FORESTING. 
The barking season will be at hand soon, and it i 
time to think of marking the trees intended for this 
purpose. Sufficient labourers should also be at hand to 
carry these matters out speedily. There seems a like- 
lihood of much rain at present: it is to be hoped that 
all water-courses have received proper a attention: 
State of the Weather near London, for the week arabiy gu 9,1846, as 
obser vedas the Horticultural Garden, Chiswick 
April i mi 
E ax [M 
Prid 8 29.725 = i05 
at. 4 5 | 99.250 | 
8 5 
heavy tia; ho»vy clonda, Aic ila] cloudy 
q— Night os mà, colà; densely overcast 
B—Sig ry; fine, with clouds partially overcast 
fin nigi 
yack 8 deg. Bley the average. 
Sinve of tne Weather at Ch iswick during the last 90 years, for the 
mig Weak ending april 19, i846: 
Se [N s E 
| Greatest -TT ; 
April igi even m wh ntity E 
ftained: | Of Rais, $ 
| zZ 
Sun. 12 13 0.58 In 4 
Mon. 13 6 0.12 TE 
Tues 14 48.1 8 0-91 6 
Ww 49.8 10 0.47 4 
6.8 9 0.63 2 
47.0 9 0.32 1 
47.4 4 0.49 3 
at temperature during the aboye period occur 
Tei enia) ARA tie lowert onthe 19 
ed on the 17th, 
. 949. 
Notices to Correspondents. 
T Third Edition of PAXTON'S COTTAGERS' CALENDAR 
being exhausted, a New Edition is preparing, and will be 
ready in a few days. 
J A B—Stable manure is unnecessary, provided 
your soil is light na free ; in BU y 
Will do 2 well, Nothing can be better than guano. 
advise you to apply the latter in mixture with water, when 
the As; nning to form its summer shoots, and 
ose it at intervals through the summer— 
not clay. 
The in. cae EG yeas cy te 
s Mr. , Don's, p. 402, 18 
Seo 
, provided your soil 
e mage out 
ish Flora, ” or “ Babington's 
ews S Flora," the last edition. No 
books of the kind are intelligible till Moe Muni. of bota: any 
are mastered, and they are oen by the “ Schoo! Potany.” 
The “ Vegetable Kingdom” is a work ESOS to the classifi 
cation of plants of al countries Gardeners? Chronicle 
for 1844 and 1845 ma; » price 30s. each, „put not without 
the Newspaper. —t* School Botany 
mentary as an Ak ea e be made weit ——H F—The 
plants used to illustrate **School Botany” e very com- 
d inallplaces. It m be convenient "b you to remem- 
itsel 
e- 
ber the names; but i not indispensable, provided your 
me retain the vu —S—There is no difficulty 
in learning the system of Linnzus, if you think it worth 
while so to EE yourself. Any old introduction to 
botany will tell you how to do it ; ** ee, s Botany,” or ** Smith’s 
Botany,” which may often be. bought on bookstalls for a 
shilling or tw sn ioi neglected by men of science. For 
Catalogue take Don’s, ver 1845.——E L 
Jnless Paxton's 
Vonios like a INE ern glossar 
De Candolle's “ Théorie élémentaire," or, wee Gp “Di 
naire dela WEE gout Sh the astra 
informati ion nd that Dr. “Lindley has such. » 
vork in preparation. MH h’s “Flower Garden 
CAPRIFOLIUM— A Lady—We suspect ih. want of sun is "us 
chief cause of your Tuscan Hon flowering ; 
besides which, or in consequence of Bus it grows too deni 
and runs to wood. Hertaps the soilis too strong. The li 
soil of a wood is what it prefers. Daphne odora is BBE 
ry i in this country. 
hardy ; it will not live where Fuchsias survive, 
A of sharp sand and lime are 
the same as in p mortar with other materials ; your 
bricklayer understands tj You interpret the meaning of 
“sharp sand” correctly : is sand deprived by washing of 
allits minute muddy particles. i i 
good, The Romans are believed to pare made their mortar 
with hot water, and to have appliedit t hot. 
ConirEers—J Holmes—We are not at all surprised at your spe- 
cimens of ‘dying Deodars ; although we never happen to have 
seen Tu in the same s state. Ithas always been our opinion 
that the Larch is a very improper stock for the Deodar—the 
gie Delt deciduous, the other evergreen. eodars are to 
worked, it should be on the Cedar of Lebanon ; but why 
wor k them when seed can be so easily obtained from India ? 
Onrmicrsu Hario w—Very many thanks, We should be much 
grieved if we thought’ your remarks quite Spplicabiey but 
upon 181s back, we do not succeed in discove 
answer at p. 226 does not strike us 2A it 
seems to strike you. Since you have been so very good- 
natured as to make some general remarl ks, would you give 
yourself a little further mod and point out cases specifi- 
cally # «You coul 
Cs Ne—With sawdust d cinders ri 
AEE of a close-jointed tank, they mus sarily become 
very dry, an evil only to be overcome by cor vatering. 
It is always better to keep the plunging laS off the 
s, unless they are covered in with some porous substance, 
SH slate is not.——Alpha—As the walls of your Cucumber 
pit are of turf, you ear probably be oblige lace * your 
fermenting dung in the inside t well 
down; when firm and cooled down, put on it the rS 
depth of mould, and plant on a hillock in the middle of each 
light.—The mouse-trap rests on a box o: MERI ue or 
od, containing water ; aced on a level w: 
ground, and in the runs of the mice ; conteuenti w ee 
mousie runs on the CU it tips him ov to the watery 
abyss beneath. If properly managed it answers perfectly. 
Rae or PARES P L—bendrobium aduncum, The true 
s Roses will gu dg very well; Un tas they are all in- 
Rus to the old s so les 
coaxed into EUN ure bloo —The Umbrella 
Pine is probably the Stone Pi ine, "pi inus quite 
hardy, and will grow in any soil. It aes not, however, en 
gain its fine iru edt cm 
It is Cope pubiflora ; the first name was left by um x - 
sight. 'Th matter is di — T T— 
One of the uns varieties of Viola canina, 5 
EACH TREES—A N—Peach trees ought not to be divested of 
their foliage in autumn by force. A light ET should be 
applied as soon as the leaves will separate by its touch, in 
order to expose and form the shoots. Those eaved were 
blotehed at every eye ; and all such shoots ought to have been 
onto utin pruning, which, in e of Peach trees, in 
ses more especially, ought certainly to be done in autumn. 
Pr badly the border has been too giehly manured. 
ours appears to be the Golden Peruvian 
Potato. Itis valuable to you now, although this variety has 
not formerly found much favour in England. The bést way 
to treat it will be to raise seedlings from it, in order to im- 
prove its quality. 
RHODODENDARONS- P T O—Mix their seed with a little silver 
sand ; sow it on peat in a garden pan, and place it in shade 
in an exhausted Cucumber bed or pit slightly warmed. 
Keep away weeds, but do not disturb the Mo: 
spring up. Anti-corrosion paint will produce the appearance 
of Portland Stone. We regret our inability to answer the 
other questions ; they are not horticultura] 
STRAWBERRIES—P G—Your Strawberries sented last August in 
well-trenched and manured soil may not produce much this 
season, but by allowing them to, En there is every chance. 
of their doing well next year. Owing, probably, to the cold 
wet season, plants taken up iu forcing have, in many in- 
stances, only produced foliage. 
TixnEn—J T-—Mero immersion M lime water, on a solution of. 
me of iron, or in the pyrolignite of iron, have been used. 
to preserve timber, but with ME MUS real advantage, The 
n Kyan's process (a solu- 
tion of corrosive sublimate) has generally proved a failure, 
unless the fluid was forced into the pores of the wood. The 
ints of a fancy Calceolaria po a pointed out at p. 844, 
1 It is not found advantageous to use strong manure 
for Pelargonium, 
Mrsc— ——One man constant, and two in spring and sum- 
mer; but ous DE IE occasionally em- 
ploying such extra dd as may be required to keep the 
ork well forwarded, a less expense will be incurred than b; 
V keeping twoi in summer, ptr the cropping will 
be done ui Seasons, luem |I— All wood cut down 
8 more durable. But in your case, as the 
Oak timber is i Ja DURUM for in-door work, we would not 
advise you to sacrifice thé bark. All you will have to do 
will be to season it COND afterit is stripped, and to 
take care that it is thoroughly dried when converted into 
plank,——J C—Why write uncivil letters? Do you ds 
the cause, your cause, or any cause, will be served bys 
doing? If you think so, you are quem 
F'ern-seed on peat, place a piece glass over it SS 
touching, and keep E m ae shade, p. T they are more gene- 
rally propagated by offsets.—@ S 7—We Dux cannot 
oblige you. PEDES. uou is impossible : besides, 
such information as you ask for is furnished iM "plenty of 
cheap books. You AA study “ Bebo! Botany,” or some 
such work.———D B B—The absence of flower-buds from the 
shoots made last Seis by Rhododendrons isa waiver sal com- 
plaint. We do not attribute your failure to you ut 
the wet, gloomy autumn of 1845. If they form wood ey must 
form flowers, i if there is sunlight and warmth nougi 
O W—You had better apply to the Paay of theG Garé 
Benevolent Institution, 97, Farringdon-street, : 
Goliged, but we ate suppléae with the Numbers: 
Azaleas have, no doubt, been injured at the roots, from 
d to become too dry, and CAD over 
watered, which causes their young fibres to You must, 
therefore, reduce the soil about the roots VER freely, and 
repot them now in very light sandy n place them in a 
close pit in a gentle moist heat for about 0 days, and shade 
during bright sunshine; afterwards hari m them by gadaa 
exposure, and finally, treat them in the or dinary way. Your 
compost is too heavy, Hg not at all suitable for AD basta 
4—— Sigma—K alm: ayers 
] isimpossible 
ogive definite answers to such questions as SOR We 
mong a BU ever, that your two Asparagus beds, 5 feet 
jn width 2 in length, will not be sufficient to yield a fair 
ROON. for a amily of four during the season, You had better 
add, at least, a f the 
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OINERARIAS—J wx! Eou m d ui US flower, showy, 
and goodin colour, but it is deficient in. “form—the petals 
being long and narrow give it a 15086 and starry appear- 
f your flowers No. 1 is common, and poorin 
ions hk are both good in colour, and c compact in 
retty, t there are several better flowers in cul- 
tivation similar toi 
Epacrrs— Y— W. s like ‘the colour of your nou but the 
Nag, are too small. 
colour 
