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THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[JUNE 6, 
eve of germination, previous to its insertion in the soil, » | —8 rose or smooth leaf is absolutely necessary. Ranun- 
and if the soil is fresh dug, the young plant will in gene- 
ral establish itself in safety. My plan, and I have prae- 
tised it for some years, is to steep it in water of about 
80° for about six hours or more, according to the cha- 
racter of the seed, and to place the vessel where it will 
maintain that temperature ; then to strain the water 
clear away, and to remove the vessel to a more mode- 
rate temperature, say 65°, until the first signs of sprout- 
ing, when the seed bed should be instantly prepared ; 
the vessel, however, after pouring the water off, should 
be covered with a cloth, to prevent the surface seeds 
from drying up ; it is also necessary to turn the seeds 
once or twice. 
CONSERVATORIES, STOVE, &c. 
Conservatory.— Continue to clear away exhausted 
flowers, ia order to give. place to fine specimens of 
Fuchsias, Pelargoniums, Calceolarias, Roses, or other 
gay and popular flowers. If a canvas screen is used — 
and every one should use it in my opinion —some of the 
Orchids may be removed to this house for the sake of 
prolonging their beauty. Take al possible precaution 
to avoid insects, is better 
g th: 
than eure in this as in most ak ‘Stove and Orchids. 
—Stanhopeas will now be blooming; the baskets 
should be well examined, or fine buds will be 
lost through contact with the sides. Let the 
house have a thorough circulation of sweet air early 
in the morning, and if the atmosphere i is warm give air 
most abundantly. If the fire is pat out betimes, the 
air may be somewhat reduced by 11 o'clock, pour 
water about, and the canvas screen may be thrown over 
the roof if sunny. Slove Plants in general.—Continue to 
shift young and growing stock, and to remove early- 
grown plants for autumn or winter flowering to the 
cool shelves of the greenhouse, in order to harden their 
wood and prepare them for early excitability. This is 
a ier not sufficiently understood or acted on. 
Much of the success in obtaining winter flowers lies 
here. Mise Greenhouse.—Some of the above direc- 
tions apply equally here. See that Fuchsias have 
abundant watering, All fires should now be entirely 
dispensed with, and a canvas sereen kept at hand to 
ward off intense sunshine. Cold Piis.— Let a stock of 
young things be got forward in small pots forthwith. 
Achimenes, for late flowering, may be brought on 
geutiy here ; it is astonishing what an amount of dry- 
ness, for a great length of time, these roots will endure 
if well ripened. I ‘have some now in the course of 
potting, for late flowering, which have lain in the corner 
ofa shed for seven months, and are perfectly fresh and 
solid ; they have remained undisturbed in their pots. 
KITCHEN GARDEN FORCING. 
Pines.—Spave no pains with young stock just com- 
mencing vigorous growth. If the pots are not well 
filled with roots depend chiefly upon a great amount of 
moisture in the air of the pit. If the pots are well 
filled give free and frequent root waterings with clear 
liquid ı manure. Keep down useless suckers, gills, &e., 
Vineries.—Those ripening must have abundance of air 
every day and a circulation all night, with a dryish at- 
mosphere. In succession crops encourage. the growth 
of laterals in some degre :e, whilst the berries are stoning; 
they will assist in increasing the volume and power of 
the root fur ensuing crops. Where borders are shallow 
and well drained a “coating ot half rotten manure, 6 ins. 
in depth, may be applied ‘fort! iwith, provided the wea- 
ther continue hot and dry. When the mould has been 
spread for a couple of days, a thorough soaking of water 
muy be given ; not, however, all at once, rather two 
mornings in succession, 
KITCHEN GARDEN AND ORCHARD. 
The Gas: although a small Broccoli, is one of the 
most useful’ in a Kitchen Garden, where constant suc- 
cession is required. This is a good time to make a 
very full sowing, to supply the table through October 
and November. Caulifiowe ors sown now will head in 
November, and may then be housed in cellars, sheds, 
or outhouses, and continue in use until past Christmas. 
It is a good plan to sow some Cape in drills, prepared 
after the 1 manner of a Celery trench. The seed should 
be dropped in patches above a foot apart. to be after. 
wards thinned to about three in a patch. Sow a little 
g, and a spriokling of some 
very late spring Broccoli ; it may serve to prolong the 
succession next April and May. A few Ice plants 
should now be planted out in a warm border to garnish 
the autumn desserts, Bene attention should be paid 
to Aer plants ; SY mus ive abundance of water 
in ev d out from the seed bed 
should have well pre} paved beds, the surface of which, 
for 2 inches ¢ Xd should consist of Pet rotted manure, 
l with wate ed level previous 
f the weath er prove sunny 
with boughs. Orcharding. 
ch pieking of grubs or insects from the fruit 
trees in general should now take place, Vines on walls 
or buildings must be attended to, as to disbudding, stop- 
ping, &c.; Apricots well examined for the grub, and the 
Peaches vcn thinned oa the walls, both of wood 
and fruit. 
» 
LORISTS' FLOWERS, 
Carnations w ist, now be strictly attended to, hearing 
in mind the directions previously given. A top-dress- 
ing of rich compost will be found highly advan- 
tageous ; take care that the ligatures are not too tight 
on the stems, otherwise they ure apt to become dis- 
totted. will be blooming ; they must also re- 
ceive a due share of attention; tie some waxed thread 
round the buds to prevent them bursting. In selecting 
seedlings do not keep those which haye serrated petals 
culuses, thisjwarm weather, are making rapid advances ; 
occasionally water between the rows with soft water—a 
slight awning will be of immense advantage to them, 
Dahlias, if not already done, ought immediately to be 
planted ont ; at the same time their supports should be 
put down, so that the roots may not be injured, which 
would probably be the case if delayed to a later period. 
Water and mulch the surface of the soil round the 
stems. Pansies may be struck under hand-glasses on 
a shady border ; let the cuttings be as thin as possible. 
Auriculas and Polyanthuses should be carefully tended ; 
the latter is extremely apt to suffer from the attacks of 
red spider; during dry weather shade is absolutely 
necessary for their successful cultivation. 
FLOWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES, 
The weather here has been excessively dry for many 
days; we have an unelouded sky, and the most fervent 
glare of sunshine imaginable. I am afraid this is very 
general. Much care will now be necessary in watering 
the flowers recently planted out in masses. For my 
part I still adhere to early morning watering, as I am 
persuaded that in a period like this, the dispersion of 
ground heat is rather a benefit,the night being per- 
fectly mild and growing. All mass flowers on highly 
relieved beds should, when planted out, by all means 
have a hollow basin or concave surface reserved 
around the ‘stem, or rather on the upper side 
for a fortnight after planting; this will serve to 
retain the water, and cause it to percolate the soil in 
contact with the roots, If this is not done, the water 
on raised surfaces runs off, and in this act produces a 
glazed or puddled surface, under which no plant will 
thrive until the crust is broken. Hardy American 
shrubs, as Azaleas, Rhododendrons, &c., on high dress 
lawns, should at this period have thorough waterings in 
very dry weather. 
OTTAGERS’ GARDENS, 
Keep an eye on the other portions of the Calendar 
occasionally ; many hints may be derived which will 
save in some degree the tedium of repetition, Seed. 
beds of Swede Turnips, if in a forward state, should be 
topped with the seythe slightly. "This will harden the 
plant, if gross. As soon as spare ground presents 
itself, let winter Greens of some kind be got in. The 
ground between Peas, or Broad Beans, is frequently 
most eligible for filling in this way. Where a cow is 
kept, Mangold. Wurzel may still be sown—sprouting 
the seeds according n Giu given above. 
VG. 
During this hot raat some of the young seeds in 
the nursing department may require watering. If any 
young stuff is suffering, a slight sereen of boughs would 
be of much service 
ne 4, 1846, as 
State of the Weather near London, for the week endin 
observed at the Horticultural Garden, 
80.365 | 
30.154 d 
| 80.178 | 30.180 | 8 
| 
loti 30.153 | 79 
| 80.210 204 88 #2 
| 20.216 7 
| 3.178 
80.287 
OR SLs TEE 
30 Cloudless; hos 
fini 
Hia di estu: ie ad mi partially overcastat night, 
Mean temperatu aek 4% deg. above the average. 
State of the Wea: mmu she lai £0 years, for the 
ae Wank andini June 13. 1 
s d I STEMS winds. 
Mer | Greatest 
June aigne rowest t (Temp EE auancty | 
Temp. of Rain 
| ned. 
ATA 0.53 m 
47.2 0.10 
En 0.60 
49.0 03 
50.5 Qa; 
49.5 0.60 
50.7 0.56 
“Phe highest temperature during th 
and 13th, 1842—therin, 90' nd the lowe 
Wotices ad To iaaa 
The SU n. Rer r. PAXTON'S COTTAGERS? CALEN- 
DAR e 3d. each copy. An index has been 
Bale "PEE ing to have copies for distribution 
among their tenantry can have them at the rate "ied for s 
€ @ P— There is so much difference of opin that w 
e afraid to give our own. We will endeavour i» GM 5 
potter one befor eds + 
Buicur—J V 
hat blight is. It is a sun-stroke, or 
ps a plague of insects o or of fungi, a ARM. of the 
it it is dryness, 
tness, i 
pietho a, starvation ; ort, 
anything that des M  disfiguros foliage. E a definition 
be more perfect? W ould expunge the e lan- 
guage asa substantive ee no sud only use iti in its Pang 
That vegetation is suffering greatly from various 
causes is too certain, but we LE nothing material to add to 
what has nlready been stated. All the” 4 effects that are 
ed e hot south-east 
n our ERA ACE eld: 
may be the salvation of the Potato crop, UE is to be saved. —— 
Ganstead—The fact of the strong shoots 
ear 
cribing 
ti Seona shoots are always 
the most unripe. Tho inventor of: rangea's? hydraulic 
machine is J. Legg, 9, St. Philip’ eal Bath-road, Chel- 
tenham. 
KS— 
Boo #—Curtis’s “Flora PSOE is one of the best 
we s of plants that has ever been peus ed. Of 
its aries we know nothing ; ida ori [E Iers.—— Emilia 
—We do not sce a Aen should not under: rdi the “ Vege- 
Spe 1 firs rd the details of “School 
ig e with a little perseverance, will ca any 
with halt your an ine triumphantly through, 
a a very bad oi uti HUE ERES your 
ataxic your name and. dde gu: DUM e to us 
your appearance as evidence in a court of 1 el domes 
and we will make public the name of this MORES ; Who has 
een spared too long. 
CYCLAMEN PERSICUM—M W X—If the Cyclamen persicum had 
been turned out into raised beds before the leaves were ex- 
auste d, a new action er root will take Pan and the bulb 
their heels abundance The plant 
foula be immediately potted, and placed on a shady green- 
house shelf, or in a cool and damp frame for a month, when 
t may be introduced to a warm shelf in the greenhouse. 
This plant should be well attended to with water, D es- 
pecially when first planted out and when re-potted. R. E, 
Escurents—S R P Shelton—Y our Victoria Rhuba 
nificent —we are pot EE at your haying distanced el 
competitors, As for your Jerusalem Kail it is no doul 
M vegetable, RES we shall Ed it into notice very rd 
NGEAS—Florum E may tur CR Ru blue by 
a utem the plants a weak Ae 
Podura, Which probably quintus 
your plants, or it may feed on some Botrytis, 
Toners Scolopendra vulgaris, which does no harm,— — 
—lt seems to be iadema, a RO Which 
imes appears in large numbers a „gar iu 
rather benefit your d Be than other AUT catching the 
les. -R——M—Please to write to hes Curtis, stating 
everything relating to He Kup of the insect destroying 
the Mangold Wurze ery desirous of becoming 
acquainted with the economy. of Poe curious larva, 
Man —D—Deal with Potter’s liquid as with all other fluid 
ES Do not seek to know how sun it may be used ; 
but rather determine how to dilute it enough. All such ap- 
plications should be made frequently, each dose being vey 
eak. ou can dilute it PET warm water and apply it im- 
mediately it will act all the 
MonrnoroGy—AMorphews—In Four * Digitalis all the parts are 
much increased in number ; the stamens have 
become petaloid. But the” great a a B in the pistil, 
which has conyerted its carpe! lengthened 
its axis, over which has been peoatieed a pirum crowd of 
anomalous organs. 
Mowine Macnines—J P W—We never recommend tradesmen 
or give prices. It is the business of advertisers to announce 
what they have to sell. What is called Budding’s machine 
we cannot recommend ; we hear of another kind, but are un- 
acquainted with it. Nothing will beat a scythe skilfully used 
Names or PLANTS—A J-—Which of the half dozen different 
things of which you have sent fragments. P 
the fragments seem to belong to Festuca 
wor RH annual, which is injurious to land 
—Lasthenia. 
oides—a 
by talihe the place of better species. — C 
californica, Iris graminea ? Gilia E E M 
—Colonial and local names of plants Fou often be iden- 
tified with those of science. volvulus is perhaps 
Tpomoea, purpurea ; we cannot guess at Rho Elephant creeper. 
, Platanther a chlor: antha; 6 and 3, Orchis morio ; i 
maculata, No Orchid is poisonous ; ; theii 
us EURO 
PEAcH-TREES—J Jmnis—The swelled DEUS Ms leaves 
you sent do not indicate any constitutional dis 
Such affection of the leaves is very ci Cramgn T seasons like 
the present when the leaves are brou; mild weather 
early in spring, and frosty nights afterwards destroy their 
tender vessels, The mos fu) pene h; 
growth. 
produce no md conse dances their places will s 
plied with a ance of healthy foliage as soon as 
die nights wets warm. || 
Misc—G—Oh yes! We have seen the paragraph, and a. silly 
SEE The complaint and the mode of stating it are 
alike wrong-heade: .——4A Reader—You may cut your Box- 
must not transplant it till the month of Oc- 
tober or November, You had better t prepare them for trans- 
planting by cutting them now.—An Old Gardener will be 
certain to find the pr ‘ogress of Sir sabe Graham’ s bill, and 
all other publie bills given in our Parliamentary reports. If 
nothing has been said of it then nothing has been done. 
Now dd the Corn-biil is out of the Co! 'ommons, other things 
may be expec! 7? R—If you send a Fel- 
a post-office order s the price of the tickets, 
the latter will be sent you by pos St.—— Lucretia—Do no 
asphalte for the floor o i smell goes off too 
slowly, and is not only offensive to ourselves, but injurious to 
plants. Far better use a slate floor, or if you object to the 
expense employ conerete made “with fresh lime, lean gravel, 
and hot water, What is the “blight” in your pit 
It is very difficult to make Pomegranates blossom. ET kept for 
years trained to a south wall, and not Da loaded with wood, 
they will slower "without m making, when old enough. 
You may accelerate the event b. 
Cedar-irees is dying from WEE N 
ey RA dud As guano-water, as soon as rainy hic 
ster Gardener — The Messrs. Meer 
diras NM and other great market garden: Mis. 
Haprrencs’4s Biot Howley TherDulebot Doroneb toan U: 
Rucker's, at Wandsworth , and the Nurseries of Messrs. He 
derson, AN Glendinning, Lee, &c. — Thomas Brown. 
There is no season like November for transplanting Laurels, 
if ey are held firmly in their places by a tri: iangle-stay. 
A B— The red oxide or peroxide of iron will do no harm 
in th e soil, but it disfigures plants when poured over them, 
atid injures them by stopping up their pores 
“SEEDLING FLOWERS. C 
Cacrus—W A—If your seedling possesses the free oed 
p e SEED it will prove a desirable variety, we ower 
being handsome, high coloured, and expanding fr 
D T The wori th. of your seedlings s depends upon a fred habit 
blooming. They are bright in colour but possess no grea 
superiority in size, Pup ul appear not to expand sufficiently; 
the our seedling Cactus is a large, stout, 
and handsome f ey n formed Ern of a brilliant scarlet 
CALCEOLARIAS—4? C—1, 3, and 11 are the 
form in your collecti 
The other seedlings ge 
the outline RS gine "ent M asin E 2, 
iy T x your nd 3 are very pie 
fou Cannot eva pos 
a Ro EE 
nva ritos" 
D 
Feon: 1e ere are severa aldoni 
white tubes and: colour EE 
"TUS ation ; 
4 dm the best; tet are sob e Mut wanting in 
ovelty $ 
eater ear V—No. 2i is decidedly your Bests seedling, the vein- 
ing being strong and d 1; D ge. 
CARLET GERANIUM—4 e. Herne ds i vey br Iis 
Scarlet, but the flowers individually are small, and pud 
ss any superiority over the var ieties gei 
S 
M—Your seedling with deep rosy centre, and 
antri ach 
pencillings of iine same colour waning up the centre of eai 
division ped um attractive variety, 5— but 
S 0 J—' acing dis Ri irable:in colour, 
unless the rm s will come Henge it wall be of little use.* 
