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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[May 23, 
thoroughly el elear liquid. manure ; and to give abund- | 
ance of air, night and day. The night air of course 
must be regulated by the temperature of the structure ; 
70? must be secured. After this is effected, give air 
freely. Vineries.—As in last Calendar. The sorts setting 
in late houses, now in blossom, may be assisted by 
applying the pollen of the Hamburgh. Peach House. 
— Persist at all times in stopping gross shoots. Liquid 
manure should be applied with freedom to those trees 
carrying a full crop; in fact it will benefit all, unless 
excessively luxuriant, provided the stopping gross 
wood is constantly attended to. If the early forced 
trees have naked limbs, some of the earliest made wood 
may be taken from the trees, and buds inserted from it 
in the barren parts. Buds inserted now may “ push” 
in the course of July, and should he stopped when about 
six inches long, in order to get the wood well ripened. 
Meions.—If the spider or thrips become troublesome, 
sprinkle the frame or pit at 9 o’clock in the morning, 
and shut up a solar heat of 95° until 3 o'clock in the 
afternoon. ‘This done for two or three sunny days in 
succession will generally defy the ravages of those de- 
structive insects. The process, however, requires care; 
it must be well performed. 
KITCHEN GARDENING AND ORCHARD. 
Asparagus-beds in full cutting, that is to say, in their 
prime, may have every shoot cut away until the middle 
of June. Spruce, or very small Asparagus, may, how- 
ever, be permitted to grow. This will hardly prevent 
the development of the dormant buds. Tomatoes, if 
hardened, may now be planted out ; the blanks on the 
walls ave most eligible. Plant them on raised mounds, 
which wiil have the effect of reducing their- grossness. 
Capsieums may also be planted under the front of 
ineries, or other warm situations. Let Celery plants 
in all their s 
watering, st 
See to sow- 
ings of Cape or other autumn Broecolies. Orchardin, 
—In spite of the cold and wet summer of 1845, and a 
climate 539 N., my Peaches and Nectarines out of 
doors were never in such high perfection. They are 
absolutely unblemished in every respect, and carry 
heavy crops of fruit. I have mulled off immense quan- 
tities. My trees are on platforms of barely a foot in 
depth, all of sound adhesive loam. Let mulchings be 
applied SERE borders are shallow, or in amy degree 
exhausted 
OWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES. 
Newly planted shrubs will require thorough water- 
ings, in periods of drought, until the beginning of June. 
Masses of American shrubs, under or near large trees, 
should Buen a top-dressing of some kind to keep them 
cool,and for the exl i i 
the para of the trees. A coating of bog-earth sphag- 
num, halfrotten leaves, or old tan, will be perfectly 
aude Conservative walls, trellises, or ornamental 
s, should have close attention. at this period. 
Sis of the remarks as applied to Conservatory 
climbers are applicable here. Continue getting out 
masses of flowers as soon as they are hardened. If they 
flag, screen them with boughs of trees stuck amongst 
them. 
COTTAGERS’ GARDENS, 
Where the cottager keepsa cow, he will find ‘the August 
sown Spinach a very good spring feed: more especially 
if his cow has been fed on Mangold or Swedes, as part 
diet for months. The Spinach’ bed will be available 
for a little Celery, or may be planted with winter 
greens of any kind. Thorough cleaning should now be 
the order of the day, in small gardens as well as large. 
If wet weather prevail, hand weeding may be resorted 
to ; if dry, the hoe should be continually in use. 
FORESTING. 
All hedges should have close attention at this period, 
more especially young or newly-planted ones, as to 
thorough freedom from weeds. Recently made planta- 
tions also, as well as those of one or two years standing, 
should be looked over, and the young plants kept from 
being choked by weeds. 
State of the Weather (hsec tpi, for the week ending May 21, 1846, as 
observedat the Horticultural Garden, Chiswick. 
Een e| Bakountan. 
Ma in. 
T'HERMOMNTER. 
s — | Wind. | Rain. 
an. mep EE 
onds, with clear intervals 
Ver whit 
16- ZUnif riy Pre dry ha aza; densely overcast; heavy rain at 
night 
l 
cady ; bolarerons, with rain at night, 
19—Very janes th Ruder dhowo; dats ely overcas 
main; heavy clouds and showers; 2» x. riim and hail; 
h-onghont 
s1—Cloudy and fine; very fine; clear. 
showery 
State of sheWeather At Chiawick during the last 20 years, for the 
g Week ending Mar 30, 184 
Prevailing Win 
aj hest Lo 
y dim P. T prem ss chit p 
ga] 68.0 45.7 mm 9 oba ar 
25| 656 | 454 | 55g 7 0-6. m 
se| 66.3 | 424 | 548 9 0,97 
? 632 | 457 | 56. n 0.44 
Thur 9?8| 68. | 458 | 569 6 0.39 
, 99 | 654 | 45.7 | 556 9 0.97 
80) 673 | 46.4 | 56.9 6 0.32 
‘The highest tem 
1843, and 97th, 1841—! 
rature during the above period ocourred on the m, 
herm. 82? ; and the lowest on the 95th, 1839—therm. 9: 
Notices to Correspondents 
OLE OnpEns—In order to obviate the ineonveniencés 
ich are now constantly being experienced by parties who 
thing. The remainder were shrivelled up, or the flowers had 
dropped off the stalks and they could not be identified. S, 1747, 
Stanhopea di 2, mar; ginata ; 
sonii. We c 
ub to remit ue sums to the offce of the G 
CHRONICLE, we e to request that all Post-office Es 
may in future of E payable to Mr. JAMES MATTHEWS, at 
the Post-office, 180, Strand, London. 
The Reprint. of Mr. PAXTON'S COTTAGERS' CALENDAR 
is now ready, price 3d. each copy. n index has been 
added to this present edition. Parties wishing to have copies 
for distributi bn among their tenantry can have them at the 
rate of 25 for 
Booxs—D kis Yet, so ie day. — Narcissus— What aro the 
exact objects of the gardener ? Alldependsonthat. For 
Orchard and Kitchen Garden we recommend Mr. Gi eee 
CE work; Loudon's ‘‘ Suburban Gardener" may suit 
‘ackintosh’s E in three small volumes. —-7— 
The vegetable E contains the most ample informa- 
tion upon every point among your very numerous inquiries, 
and we mu: a BES Sout o its pages. 
CriwsERS— T W W R—In selecting two hardy climbers, much 
depends upon what you intend to cover, whether a large or a 
small space, and the nature of the covering you want, whe- 
ther evergreen or for flowering only, and En upon the aspect. 
If you want to cover a large space, lycine sinensis 
and Clematis montana ; if email, take ORAS azurea or 
Sieboldi, and Pyrus japonica. If you prefer evergreens, 
plant Cotonea: BE rotundifolia and Crategus Meso 
all these plants do well in most aspects, if plan ood 
„Two good climbers, where there is plenty ee ida B a 
are Taesonia and Tecoma capensis; 
if the room is limite ed, Pet aL ty macrophylla and 
Brachysema latifolium wm Ld wer bette: wo good Passion- 
flowers isiflora c Tom 
P. Colvilli T. 3 
Cucumsers—J B writes thus : **Tinclose'a specimen of Cucum- 
bers which are in a very bad state, and they have been so 
many years past. I have seen them thus myself for three 
seasons, and I am disheartened in attempting to grow them, 
as I have tried all possible means without success, The 
plants grow strong as you see by iod specimen I have sent ; 
the disease appears in the stem, pee and fruit ; the fruiti is 
full of small holes, pnd the sap flows out ; the same happens 
in the leaves and stem. I have shown them to many good 
gardeners, peer appear ignorant of the cause. I have 
ied all kinds of soils. I have painted my frames through- 
ut, and removed them to various parts of the garden, without 
any better success ; the ridge Cucumbers are eet 
is impossible to say what these Cucumbers ail. 
cankered. One would have thought that the; 
watered in too low a temperati 
state of late autumn ridged Cucumbers. It may al 
ey are attacked by woodlice. But which of 
i ight, if either, it is out of our 
say without watchi operations of the gardener. 
the evil arises in AEN es from want of skill is most likely 
the n 
i—If jour correspondents are right we are to have a 
mui ra in everything. Lilacs, Laurels, Cucumbers, Larches, 
Spruces, Yams, &c. &c., are reported to be suffering. This is 
a point of so arth importance that we wish for time for 
further inquiry ; we shall pu the quater in a E 
rticle next week.—. Pu E appearance in you Vine- 
leaves is probably c: Ro ITUR EA gem with hard 
water, the lime in eld k “deposited on their surface, Em- 
loy rain water in future; indeed, Ane should ever 
use cany other. —J E G—We donot attribute the evil to guano; 
t to over-watering Ra a cold damp Som osp] 
ae EE ur e always affected. bod. 
house well, and the plants will by degrees recover ; or if you 
cannol that, be more moderate with watering. Also give 
your piens all the sun-light possi The best form of 
guano for gardens, especially potted on appears to be 
dissolved in cow's grine, fermented and diluted. A handful 
of guano to a pail o 
GnAPES—W C—The Royal Albert DS forms a large, rather 
Io -shouldered bunch, with black ponebat oval berries, 
slaterthan the Black Hamburgh. It requires to be 
rovs with the large Black Ferrar, for probably it may 
be found not different.|| 
O—Dress it copiously with the lime-rubbish 
of old buildings, and with soot or cinder-ashes, and let them 
be dug in roughly at the approach of winter. Before all these 
things, however, drain it thoroughly, or all your expense 
will be thrown away. 
HowNEYpEW—Ab—This is owing to your house being too hot and 
dry. You should syringe your plants frequently, except when 
in flower. 
mp ERA J S—We presume that it is the causticity of soda. 
at renders it useful against wire-worm ; nitrate of 
Pi is not EUM A Subscriber—Our uniform advice to 
those whose fram: infested with woodlice is to keep them. 
down by means ot totae which live upon them.——4ZI D— 
Ants are driven away by gas tar in their runs, or by turpen- 
tine. ,Aphides p killed by a weak solution of smelling 
salts in water y gas water diluted with six times z 
bulk of water. The former is the neatest.—. 
bees are a species of Andrena. Why do you not water ne 
Grass with sl See puc or liquid manure, or 
with soot and lim: The salt and water will probably 
injure the Grass. d. job Our remedy, and a never 
failing one, is to pour boiling water upon the ant's nest. 
Cannot you do the same ? R.—W B—Slugs delight in damp 
and mild weather, and there has been neither frost or iam 
to check gein increase during the past winter. R——H J— 
belong to Bs o Crane fly, figured and described 
le dive On., vol. 1, p. 612; the ‘small abe robably 
change to another gnat. ‘bacco powder over your 
wall Xe and dip the Rose shoots into Tobacco herd R. 
GE sorry you did not send more caterpillars, as 
I am unable to tell you the species from a single specimen, 
Phalena Puer 2 been Cay for the last three 
weeks ; it may he larva of that moth, in which case I 
know of n ders NACE than tana picking, «mu shaking 
the trees they will fall by a thread, 2.—— t is the 
Cinara Picie, one of the Aphides, of hich, jou will find 
winged specimens next month, Cold will not destro; them, 
but heat may. The humble-bees are only in search of the 
saecharine exudations. Ifear nothing can be done to arrest 
rogress of these Aphides, but in all probability some 
parasitic fly will shortly arrive to effect what seems to be 
bi the power of man. 
Mm Er BIO already answered your question to the 
judgment, although we particularly object to 
giving p logal opimme 
upon without the We entertain no doubt 
that the law is pc Ma tever may be the justice of 
your case. See Johnson's “Dictionary of Gardening,” no- 
ticed in another colum: 
Mapas -morama Don t add lime to soot ; it p it. Add 
soot to chamberlye, and you will do well, Dut n 
Names or PLANTS—J L S—The young stal 
a kind qd one species of which is io 
rown. Butyours has no smell, and it ma 
g be wore while 
watching to roseta ifitbe not the rare violet-scented P. 
iosmos, which has Qeon found at Lowmeston and would eevee 
fore be "likely to oceur 
pervivum px deu aie Platylobium Biden ear Min The 
Gloxinia is a v mmon form; the other is some Hy- 
drophyl not determinable without much better specimens, 
, Chysis levis, a fine 
3, And cannot wundert tane to 
name plants out of flower. The Rhododendron aA 
simum is a very fine double variety, and v rth cul- 
tivation. Its double condition is owing 1o oue ia Hewes 
being nearly quite converted into a second monopetalous 
corolla; some of the flowers are 9 inches in circumference. 
We have nothing so good in this country; we should not, 
however, have puspected it to be a cross between R, cataw- 
biense and ponticum, it having so much the habit and the 
violet tint of the eus The box was returned before your 
second note No. 557 is Notylia trisepal. E 
valensis—Asperala odonata or Woodrui ingle— 
Octomeria Baueri. ——F F—Your canary-coloured Ulex is 
+. .—Cerastium tomentosum. 
s the Brassica sinensis, cultivated as 
It resembles Rape more than it 
new to us.——Counte: 
Pax Cnori—M. M MT hi 
an oil plant by the QUIBUS 
does thecommon Cabbage.|| 
POLMAISE We are PEA n hear of your difi- 
culty, reru since we cannot removi u are in pos- 
sean of all that we BO of the matter, and that, to our 
apprehension, is very plai some working plan, 
then in that case you sure be gratified shortly. ——4J N 
We have read your note, and studied your plan with all atten- 
tion: but the detailsyou furnish are so few that we cannotadvise 
you. Ifyou want a plan for heating, you had better apply to 
Mr. Davies, ‘ee, near Liverpool, who will no doubt 
advise you Lr bark? It is beyond our power to furnish 
plans in reply to correspondents. There ought to be no diffi- 
culty in doing what sou W 
Porato CRO) Snow—We are glad to hear of your success ; 
SRI DA elm attent. OF course, some people will 
have sound Potatoes; the difficulty is to know beforehand 
who they are to be. Wait till your oun pataroserate ripe, 
before you are sure of success.——Zalcon—Much obliged : but 
the publectt is threadbare ; and has ace fully mentioned in a 
te leading artic’ 
RAT Porson—P D 2I—The. phosphorus pills have been advertised 
our columns by Mr. om whom we imagine you 
wuld do better to buy them than to make them yourself, 
you prefer the latter mode, however, we reprint, from 
tt dis, 1845, Dr. Ure's directions for your guidance :—'* Melt 
hogs'- lard in a bottle plunged in water heated to Bout 150° 
WR tema Hels an ounce of phosphorus for every 
pound of lard ; then add a pint of proof-spirit, or whiskey ; 
cork the bottle firmly after its on have been HM to 
150°, taking it at the same time out of the water. and 
agitate smartly till the BRUT ERST BY. dif- 
fused, forming a milky-looking liqu 
cooled, with occasional agitation at pare 
and lard, from 
This mixture being 
will afford a white 
which the spirit 
compound o of PEN 
be used 
may be varied with oil of Anise ed, bot 
Traininc—McC—For many reasons pick cannot "be jase 
adduced at present, the horizontal mode of training is o be 
preferred in the case of Flemish Pear- trees against 4 feet high 
iron hurdles. ou may look upon it as the happy medium 
etween the fan-shape, repr Mens in your sketch No. 1, and 
the pendulous form, sketch No. 3; the former ducurdgime 
'h luxuriance for your space, and the E inducing 
too much weakness after e frees begin to bea 
1l bulb, and well ieor ded. 
you manure them well and "os them very often; much de- 
pends on that.——7 Clericus- r something else 
must eat the foliage of your Melons than woodlice, lor the 
destruction of the latter in your frames nothing i is better than 
a toad or two.}—- H W—A gardener growing fruit, &c., for 
private use and sometimes for market, will be allowed to 
show at Chiswick as a private grower. igma—T wo strong 
healthy climbing Roses, with good folia 5 are Lam 
white, and De Lisle, pink. $—Domus—We are not in posses- 
The flavour m 
sion of the information, but will inquire.——W J D A— 
Much obliged, The information has already been given at 
p. 785, ——An Amateur—Mr. Dobson is Mr. Beck’s fore- 
man, d EBENI a nurseryman, at Isleworth, as you 
may havo seen by his — 
Inqui —Yes, Your condemned Tis wl form underwood. 
till hoy eed by the other trees, We cannot give any 
rule for thinning ; that is a practical question to be decided. 
Anglois—Y our list is yee considera- 
gus un nud 
Dn the application, or eee aaa! Sat ee ao 
above subst: 5 
the shoots e night, dust 
very early in the morning—by break of day will not be too 
art 
“SEEDLING FLOWERS. 
AunicULAS—Adom-—Your seedling has no value as a florist's 
flower, ips it TE a showy and handsome bordek variety.” 
CAeri— — Your seedling between. B ‘Jenkinsonii and Acker- 
manii nE ms a handsome flower. etals i e well formed, 
the flowers open fri SR and are of a ane colo: 
CALCEOLARIAS— he markings upon 1, 13; and 3 are 
pretty and varied, uen neither colour nor form can be deter- 
ES by the manner in which the blooms are sent,*—— 
JJ H.H—Ilt is impossible to form an opinion DU d. 
lings, as they were quite dry and shrivelled up on their 
rrival; they appear to be of the same spotted charactor, put 
smaller than those we are in the habit of seeing." 
J B—The yellow variety spotted with brown are become 
very common, ant ur seedlings are very much like those 
are in the h habit ef seeing ; they are varied and pretty: 
3 and 4 are the best ; 7 wants a better outline; 1 is too like 4^ 
——W J E—No. rather common ; 5 is imperfect in the 
outline ; 1, 2, and 4, scie grounds with maroon um 
are very pretty varieties, but not of a superior c 4 
great improvements are in EU in this class. x b Z 
—No. 1 is the best of your aediles but this is very common. 
in colour ; the others are small, rd very inferior to the sorts 
now being brought before the JJ B D—Of your 
seedlings 4 and 11 ee me best; The yellow and brown sorts 
are now very com orenat defect in your sn 
consists in the bd terminating with small specks © 
colour instead ua clean edge.* 
CINERARIAS— R—It is a great defect in the Cineraria 
when the petals agi so irregularly round the disk as in To 
1, which is a pretty coloured flower ; 2 hes the same defect, 
Duri in a less degree ; 3 is too small,*——£ C—Your seedling 
is showy in colour, but the Sue is very “deficient in pepe 
R ich fine purple, but t 
Your secdling is th 
variety of its colour we have seen ; in form itis rather 
cient, the petals being too narrow. als 
D UM RE VOUE specimen is very large, but the scp: is 
;it also wants more opposition here 
— Your seedling is a very good flo wer, tl 
are two or three varieties out very similar to it, but your 
flower is quite equal to them.* 
Prrontas H O A R R—No. 2 is your best seedling ; it i 2 
both inform and colour. 1, 3, and 4, are repetitions of co 
mon varieties, 
seed- 
