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THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jury 25, 
dener there, has ventured on this mode, and has a 
splendid lot planted in the open bed. He Says—^ They 
are as easily managed .as a crop of Turnips.” His 
largest fruit of all is on an old stool, from a sucker only 
a few months old. Mr. M. says—* Those on the old 
stools are progressing towards their third crop, whilst 
the maiden plants of the same age have not fruited at 
all.” A general earthing-up should take place in the 
early part of the summer, but more especially after the 
fruit is cut. Vines, Peaches, Figs, Melons, &c., as 
in last Ne 
CHEN GARDEN AND ORCHARD. 
A considerable breadth of Endive should be planted 
without delay; in fact, one half of the Se. High 
enemy. 
coli, and also some late Cauliflowers. 
Mushroom bed should now be made; throw the 
dung together to ferment for a few days; when 
half dry, mix one-third of loamy soil with it to "keep i in 
check any further fermentation, and tread or beat hard 
whilst building the bed, making the spawn holes imme- 
diately the bed is finished, to assist in keeping down the 
heat. Strawberry runners should be procured for new 
plantations without delay. Those who caunot spare 
ground for a new plantation may prick them out in pre- 
pared beds about 6 inches apart, and remove them with 
balls in October, or the early part of February. As 
main crops I would recommend the Keens’ seedling as 
earliest, the British Queen for the second, and the 
Elton for the last ; the latter is invaluable. 
FLOWER- GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES. 
Proceed with Rose budding without delay, some 
hints may be derived as to good Perpetuals, Bourbons, 
Chinas, and Teas, from the commencement of this day's 
Calendar. Keep down all suckers, and clear the stems 
of wild shoots. See that all hips are cut away from 
those whieh blossomed early ; these exhaust the plant 
much. Strong shoots of Chrysanthemums may now be 
layered in pots to produce dwarf and compact bushes. 
Those in pots may soon receive their final shift. 
RISTS' FLOWERS. 
Carnalions and. Picotees.—Layering must now be 
proceeded with as rapidly as possible, it being a point 
of great importance to get the plants well rooted and 
established before placing them in their winter quar- 
ters. More of the next year's success, as to fine healthy 
growth, &c., &e , depends on attention to this matter 
than many people are aware of. All seedling plants 
should be marked and layered, noting Qe various pro- 
perties, as to form, colour, texture, pod, & C., &e.; should 
any seedling, otherwise ‘fine, have serrated petals, it 
will be advisable to propagate it, as growing it in 
another situation may to a certain degree remedy this 
defect; for some of our best varieties will come occa- 
sionally (when poorly grown) very rough on the edge. 
As the blooms decay, extract the faded petals from the 
ealyxes. Amongst the best new flowers we have seen 
this year, are Matthews’s Enchantress, purple Picotee ; 
Fletcher's Ne plus Ultra, light purple ditto ; Barren- 
ger’s unique red Picotee, Gatliff's Proconsul, a very fine 
heavy-edged Kose Picotee, of extra form and substance ; 
and Easom’s Admiral Curzon, scarlet bizarre. Pinks. 
— Continue to plant out rooted pipings on beds of well 
prepared soil, but not too rich, A second crop of 
pipings may also be inserted where an increase of 
stock is required. Seed may also be gathered, retain- 
ing rather long stalks; tie half a dozen together, and 
allow them to get well dry, after which the heads or 
pods of seed may be put in small paper bags, which may 
be fastened round the stems, and then hung up in a dry 
airy situation till wanted. Seedling Auriculas which 
had been put out in pans or boxes in the spring, will 
now have attained considerable size ; they may now be 
potted in pint pots (singly) in good sound loam and 
leaf-mould, pasar parte, and placed in the shade. 
GERS’ GARDENS. 
As observed i n ima Calendars, let all spare ground 
from Potatoes or otherwise, be followed up with winter 
crops of some kind. Amongst the most valuable stands 
the old Green-kale, The Savoy also is very useful, pro- 
vided it is got in sufficiently early, and on well-manured 
ground. A sloping bank should be sown with Winter 
Spinach i in the course of a week. If any spare ground 
remain uncropped after the middle of August it is an 
excellent plan to sow it with Rye and winter Vetches ; 
they will leave a sort of turf when cut over in April, 
which is exceedingly beneficial to suet crops. 
State of the Weather ne near London, for the week ending July 23, 1840, as 
baer 
vedat the Horticultural Garden, Chiswick. 
| Max, | Min. 
T7 52 
7 
7 52 
78 | bi 
78 | 55 
76 | 54 
80 | 58 
July 17- Fine; cloudy and ne; slightly overcast 
18—Rain; white Mondo very clear intervals; cloudy at night 
—Fin egeo cloudy 
20—Fine; wp fine, with white 
ie: showery; cloudy; EGG afternoon; showery 
29 Fine; hot and dry; Partially overcast at nighe 
‘Stace of EL OA bes Chiswick during RE ir 90 years, for the 
ng Week ending Aug 1, 1846. 
£| eryaman Winds. 
Greatest| | |.) Vo) a 
July fis rmt Yen A ose ae 
f Rain. d 
z 
Snn. g8| 73.6 ECT 2 
Mon, 27 | 75.0 0.56 3 
Pnes.28 | 778 0.32 H 
Wed.29| 73.8 1,31 3 
Thur.39 | 725 0.88 1 
Fri, 31 | 751 0.66 2 
Aug 
E mj 709 51.7 | 61.8 8 0.43 
highest temperature during the above period occurred on the 28th, 
1635 chose 91? ; and the lowest on the 97th, 1829—therm. 
Notices to Corresponde; nts, 
ANNUALS—. You may sow the following, placing them 
on a shelf near the glass, and keeping them rather dry than 
otherwise throug! | winter, as they are apt to damp off, viz. 
Clintonia pulchella, Lobelia ramosa, Vis unm oculata, 
dot insignis, Collinsia bicolor, and Schizanthus 
retusus. oses we would refer you to the reports of 
the Chiswick exhibition, in all of which lists of names with 
the colours have been 
Booxs—W D— Hoare on the RO 
Ad Triptolemus—Surely your Broccoli sown in M: 
and now upwards of 48 in height, without ERE 
Set be the true Walcheren. 
e can hold out no hope of success by 
any future management. Procure seed from double or semi- 
double varieties which have poen Ore fertilised. Occasional 
first-rate double flowers are t| obtained. The EAQUE 
may think himself fortunate if "Ho gets one in a hundre: 
ood double border varieties ond second-rate Askas 
potne and place them i ie a ene fa 5 
them close and shade them during bri; TAT Ane. 2 
moving the lights by night, but der them early in the 
morning, and keeping them close all day. ater about 
once in ten days with clear soot water (that is, waterin which 
fresh soot has heen irs ito; prom "tis is a very 
with the dry elie ev iun dE uds. îs about the end of 
April. The Silver Fir from Mexico is Abies eam the 
cones of which, when fully grown, measure from 4 to 5 inches 
in length. Cuttings of Abies IY „put in al HO the end 
of August, strike freely, and m: in due time as good 
leaders as RT plants, but ems a longer time, T 
CUCUMBERS—. —Bitterness is their nature; they are only a 
zemgye from do ‘olocynth gourds, nature is subdued 
; that is to say, by growing them very fast and in shade. 
If es are too much exposed to light, and grow slowly, they 
are certain to fall back into their primitive condition ut 
bright light and hot dry weather are causing it now in ae 
SONDA hanc 
non.—It is ; only the e very small embryo fruit, formed 
oots, that will i fresh, 
immature Noon Meist p 
You may now commence oc 
point buds.|| 
FLues—H O—You are not likely to succeed in making the 
joints. of your flues smoke tight. The Po cement for the flue 
itself is made with atone lime fresh burnt and sharp well- 
Washed river sand. e fire-place iss As cement name 
atp.150. After all, the eit security for strong safe joints is 
good masonry, and. allowing the work to become thoroughly 
dry before fire is appl 
FnurT-TREE BONDENS. This subject is by no means asleep. 
Wait a little. 
Grass LABELS—W Darke—Our objection to your labels is not 
that they do not answer the purpose, for no doubt they will 
ge ps nor to their appearance gh we UE compli- 
t your neatness), but to their brittleness. Those who do 
Ho t think that an phicetion will find them useful, 
Hratine—B W— cue is so Xe small that the difficulty 
will be to keep the eatdb e have already stated we 
are about to publish practical details of f Polmaise ; if you 
not like them then use a 1l boiler, tee 3-inch iron RE 
pipes. We should use Polmáig Surrey, P, R D, &e.— 
Plans of applying Botetalse heating are in progress, and will 
bi ERR HE A oe thwit] 
—Dust ie Dahlias over with powdered To- 
(eco ier Ra leaves are damp with dew ; but the EUR 
and other i io "freeing the nts 
B PE the d R. 
nd pupa s alittle fly called TES which causes 
Aas DRA hief. E willfind its history and the best remedies 
recorded in the 5th vol. of the “ Royal Agricultural Journal 
489. 22, ——4A ef iber— slug caterpillars dre 
your Pear-tre the offspring of a saw- flys named Selandria 
The; Ds bury themselves in the ground to be- 
come pups 5 know of no better vids of parte 
than dusting the leaves with powdered lime, soot, or wood 
es. I, ——.A Constant Reader—It is not in our power to 
tell you with certainty the name of the uncourteous intruder, 
be, and in B probability is, the harvest-bug which 
infests Grass and corn-fields. Relief may be obti tained by 
moistening the inflamed pas. E ammonia, R. 
ELONS—J M—Your n the Egyptian green- fleshed 
Melon and Fish’s Cantaloupe 
liable to drop in Lisa climate, 
asionally to pinch some of the 
e 
INSE 
dent improvement. 
slower than the inside ; they have probably been overwatered, 
at the same, time exposed to the hot drying sun that we 
kare had.——4J E, Antrim—Vegetable mould, road drift, and 
rotten dung Wave proved a compost too loose for the oe of 
our Melons; the latter have probably got too dry, and 
perished accordingly. |i 
Names or Puanrs—/ /1—Pinon is a name applied in Europe to 
the Pinus Pinea, whose seeds are large and eatable. It has 
been transferred in America to any other Pine having the 
same quality ; 
roldas ; and it may be hardy 
are unacquainted with the MO Pepper-tree, 
do not recognise it by that EE TE P AS 
quetrum certainly. No. 1 requi i wW 
tell you next week,——A F INLA Vm double variety of of 
ubus fruticosus. Have you a sucker to give away 
Anagallis tenella; 2, Euthales macrophylla.§—— 
JP—, , Milium effusum in ayoung state; 2, Aira caryophyllea.$ 
S3 iI, Lobelia Erinus; 2, Gnaphalium congestum ; 
3, Lavandula dentata; 4, Aster aculeatus; 5, Mesembryan- 
themum pn es ; 8; Cineraria marii ritima ; UH OE RAS, 
too much dried um to ascertain what species ; 8, Gazania 
ra4——J C Wd: ,Ciindriea, It may be in- 
creased by cuti kd of tl ng Me) Murs 2 rs inches 
long, treated as Dahlia. MEM usually [—Salvia 
rahami.—. K— Cuscuta Aana the PARS Dod- 
—— Dick. TOT fragilis, 
NurHATOH—J W—This subject is exhausted, Can Mr, Gibson 
account for the name eee tothe Nuthatch ? 
ERE ONS oes These may be ED over winter in 
if packed with alternate layei dry soil, sand, or 
Peat and P is a situation tree os reat or damp. The 
t back freely and divested of all their 
D 
perhaps the species you mean is P. cem- 
e Mexiean Pines are. “We 
or at least 
= 
E: 
Teeved before tpa ih packed, and they should not remain 
longer than the beginning of Mareh in the pozi before they 
again potted. ORE other question next we: 
PiNz-APPLES—J C—One of your Providence Pine- dM weighed 
exactly 81bs, 10} m as stated at p, 478; the other, 7Ibs. 
avoirdupois.|| 
ORAL nd are hundreds of cases of large crops of 
Potato stems having peen s obtained from tubers Na inthe 
their produ. e not ; hal o before we are’ ut, o: 
the wood. See a Leading Article of dec Eun post 
Prinia s the most distressing intelligence, for which we 
rtily thank our kind correspondents — Irish, Welsh, 
Eum an nglii h. 
Rosrs—C— ; there i is ES objection to transplanting newly- 
budded Toses next autu 
ViNES—D —The IF CUR RARUS of the sun's i being cut 
off from the soil in which your Vines have been planted 
inside the house is of little papers but as the soil has 
been much trodden, and appears crude, you would best re- 
move all you can ofi it without i AERE theroots, andreplace 
with fresh. Treading is bad ; but you can easily obtain such 
paving aie in SOR ie boehoGd as will make excellent 
gang-ways, if placed level on the top of the fresh made soil, 
and beaten just as much as will render them steady. The 
failure of the crop this season must have been owing to some 
imperfection in the growth of the wood in the preceding year. 
All you can do is to keep the shoots sufficiently thin ; Lat 
them not too rapidly at any fie, and ES to keep t 
foliage of a dark green colour.| — — Vines in the 
open air can be successfully inarched or ANRT as well as 
under glass. || 
Varie d Subscriber—Lead is wholly unfit for, this pur- 
ose 
e purer your water the more will it act upon 
hee We have no Oaia of MET iron; WoA a 
get glass ones cast? They ought to be cheaper than 
Kad would ee E fect; the commonest green bottle glass Nd 
ve Asie 
—1f One. o "the Old erred will do us the favour to re- 
Dom the i he will see that the remarks 
do not bear Gh interpretation he puts upon them, 
an expression of opin uite the contrary. 
reviewer says i: PS are * facts ; how d ou interpret 
Are they not facts ?——Old School—We, or rather 
our printer, stand corrected. It was very wrong of him 
to use “sow” for *sew;" but you see that he is better ac- 
quainted with gardening than P ER Thanks.—— 
—A man may learn to spell correctly by studying a book 
of authority, such as the (ast edition of Donn’s Catalogue. 
But to speak correctly he must have DILE ——H L—We 
cannot advise you to turn gardener. ust serve a long 
and neU apprenticeship, for which. p prom. whose 
habits are formed, is unsuite our lawn a 
good top-dressing of fresh soot in September or. "Ma arch, Lime 
‘was a bad material to apply.{—@ M—The Lily of the Val- 
ley needs no protection. The covering of leaf-mould pro- 
bably caused the over luxuriance you mention, which is 
always unfavourable to a fine display of bloom. They do 
st in a shady place where they us not often disturbed. 
Plant Cyclamen coroner in rich 1 ‘ht soil, in a rather dry 
and warm situation,|——C—The "PRIV onii you mention 
hos fara rather dwarf bushy PETAT rue be induced 
Do not stop the: r they will not 
—Eccremocarpus ‘Seabee and Clematis 
er s Ee may possibly 
answer your purpos: tint your over luxu- 
riant Veronica EREHOeR id. ATETA CA iy withholding water, 
it may possibly have the effect of throwing them into 
bloom. cu W—Your double variety of Indian Pink is no 
novelty; it was so much withered when it reached us that 
no opinion uid be formed of it, In budding Peaches, &c-, 
only a small portion of a leaf should be left attached to t the 
BUA {——F ull price will be given for No. 2, 1846. — Quercus 
Pijuinea Alins d TEELS plant, from Nepal; peren- 
nial, or with us biennial ; it is ne’ either ornamental n r useful ; 
half-hardy, and has purple flowers. What can nu you so 
curious about a weed ?, 
S DI FLOWERS, 
ANTIRRHINUMS—A. Sub—No. 1 is the most novel among your 
seedlings ; the others too s resemble the common. garden 
varieties. 
CALCEOLARIAS— O.P Q—Y our flowers did not reach us in very 
good condition. Nos. 1 and 2 are very good. specimens, rather 
small compared with those we have been in the habit of see- 
ing during the past season ; 1 is the better form ; 2 the most 
attractive in p ; 3 and 4 are not S to the forme, h4 
DAHLIAS—. — Your seedling Dahlia is a well-p T. 
tioned and. ee AREE ; deep, circular, and with RR crown 
well up, the petals are stout and well Sly Pus velvety in. 
texture, x a rich crimson maroon colour; the centre we Tre 
not able to form an opinion upon, as the flower was damaged 
by pr mate on the top of the box. It modd novelty of colour: E 
there are many fine varieties very like i 
FucnsiAS—A A—The general form ots Sidi isgood, and 
the rosy purple corolla is extremely pretty ; the tube and 
sepals appear to possess too much colour, pad the flower being 
rather stale when it arrived, may probably incrense the ap- 
pearance,*—W A O—N a most prolific DEUM but 
we still gaat the corolla is too little seen, * — A N—The c! 
rolla of No. 2, 
, though small, is very pretty in colour, and the 
is good ; itis rather small, and will not appear strik- 
d S much, No, 3, good in form, 
wants novelty, —— JL 
ing 
mosa EAT » No. 
and Tong seal has ‘sgh contrast in the c 
pals are too lon, and narrow ; Em re NTA part tof tho 
SETS with the small dark, aud you will umen tely see the 
superiority of the Dd e your flowers are fine in texture; 
the numbers were off most of the flower: 
GrOXINIAS—A. N—Your mue is a large bold flower ; but it 
is no improvement on. nds alri at in De e $ 
NIas—T D—Your goings us and, Strong. 
coloured flowers, patra 
ety of colour is, ho etn dm "The BERAN of Suffo bik 
oarse, and the outline of the flower too indented. 
The Sylph and Ibrahim Pacha are too E alike; the latter 
is the most Peu. on account of the dark eye and supe 
rior texture of the flower. Flash, Tae and Nymph, are 
Conductor is good, but too uel like the las 
mentioned variety. The same may be f Gig: gente 
Thunder forms a d contrast between the a e and 2 e 
flowers; they mant variety in the tints ; damp moss is bette 
an cotton wool, which adheres too muc 
E sees ros: 
j] and 21 ar i varieties; 22 is goo! 
Both 20 e good veined v jotios; iem T 
the E is the best, on account o 
greater enn ‘of tl not more veined t 
than some of Girling's Oia 
VERBENAS—J F—Y our seedling DEP too nearl 
already in cultivation." 
ERRATA — In Mr. Beck's GUAE at page 474, 
“Aurora, unequalled in any colle tion,” read “unequalled 
in my collection," —— e num um of visitors to the 96 0G 9 
cultural Gardens in tae, page 477, the figures à 
ly a variety 
should be “ 23,866." 
