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THE 
GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[Ave. 22, 
manure to those swelling, if dry, taking care to tho- 
roughly dry the stems by abundance of air afterwards. 
Mushrooms.—Let fresh dung be got together every 
week, a little at a time ; only let “it be fresh and un- 
washed by the rain if possible, One slight fermentation 
will suffice ; afterwards, as soon as it is sufficiently dry, 
itisready. Beds, or portions of beds, should be made 
almost weekly, for the next six weeks, If plenty of 
strong loam be used, the bed will bear longer. Try to 
make some of the early beds as solid as the spawn cake, 
only do noe ee much water, 
CHEN GARDEN AND ORCHARD. 
The Galery? rand the chief of the Endive crops being 
planted, cultivation of the ground between growing 
winter crops should proceed in fair weather. This is 
a good time to plant the Hautbois Strawberry, in beds 
about 6 or 8 inches apart. Those planted earlier 
are liable to blossom in the autumn. Let all 
runners be trimmed clean away from the Alpines, 
and slates placed under them. Cut all hard or 
bursting Cabbages, in order to secure a good crop of 
early sprouts on the stools, with which to face the 
winter. Let Kidney Beans for late purposes be well 
earthed up, to protect them against storms, and “top or 
pinch all inclined to take a running character. In gather- 
ing the Kidney Beans, good cultivators pick the old 
with the young at all gatherings, whether of use or not. 
It is astonishing how a few large or ripening pods will 
exhaust the plant and hinder succession. The Onions 
which were laid a fortnight since should be removed 
forthwith to a gravel walk, the ground manured well, 
and planted with late Coleworts ; these will be very 
useful. For my own part, I have planted three times 
the breadth of such crops, in order to meet the extra 
demand occasioned by the Potato disease. Shallots 
should be got in-doors directly ; these require a warm 
and dry room, indeed, I once saw some quite sound in 
May which had been’ Suspended in a Cabbage net in a 
kitchen for a Ung po 
LORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
Auriculas Mes now bere-potted. All decayed leaves 
should beremoved ; but this must be done carefully, or 
more injury will be sustained by the plant than many 
people imagine. In potting, should the plant appear 
at all unhealthy, carefully remove the soil without 
breaking the ball, and examine the tap-root. Should 
this be decayed or cankered (which is sometimes the 
ease), it must be cut completely away. Avoid all eom- 
plicated, stimulating composts; for however fine the 
plants may grow, the health of the stock will be jeopar- 
dised. Well-rotten leaves, with turfy loam, will form 
a good compost for wintering the plants in. Tulips.— 
Many bulbs, from the serious check they experienced 
last blooming season, and which reduced (in numberless 
instances) their ball: one-half, will require to be moved 
from the situation they held in the best bed (as they 
will not bloom satisfactorily), and their places to be filled 
from thereserve beds, or other quarters, with bulbs, 
which will bloom in similar charaeter; so that the uni- 
formity and harmony of the collection may be main- 
tained. Pay strict attention to the soil for the ensuing 
planting season, turning it over occasionally, in order 
to sweeten it, &e. &c. Continue to put out Pink pipings, 
and attend to the directions given last week relative to 
potting the layers of Carnations and Picotees. Pansies 
will now strike very freely; and when the weather is 
suitable, plant out seedlings in beds of richly prepared 
compost. Examine Ranunculus roots, being careful 
that they do not contraet damp ; and pay strict atten- 
tion to Dahlias, whieh now require much care ; youn 
shoots may be struck in brisk heat, and the regular 
routine of tying, disbudding, &e. &c., must be perse- 
vered in, not forgetting unvarying and determinedshos- 
tility poe earwigs, and all destructive insects. 
OWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES. 
Those whe are fond of early annuals, whether in pots 
in the mixed greenhouse or in the flower bor der, should 
sow soon ; some useful sorts are enumerated under the 
head “Mixed Greenhcuse.” Stocks and Mignonette 
should be sown forthwith ; the latter may be sown in a 
warm border, and transplanted into well drained pots, 
treating them with much care for a week afterwards, 
The Moss and Provins Roses for forcing, should now 
be all turned round, if plunged, in order to break the 
roots through the bottom of the pots ; at the same time, 
let all gross sucker shoots be cut away. The filling up 
of blanks, staking and tying up, xong cleaning, and 
rolling, will, of course, go on as usual Lose not a 
moment's time in getting out abundnnee ‘of cuttings of 
flowers for next year's masse: 
TTAGERS* GARDENS. 
Let the Scarlet Runners be topped once more, and 
late Peas, if overrunning their sticks, be dubbed at 
top. A few Cabbage plants got in now will be very 
useful. Green-kale may still be got in where blanks 
exist, and a few Dutch Turnips might be sown, a little 
of the Bath Cos Lettuce, a little of the American Cress, 
and a few Turnip Radishes. Ifa cow is kept, it is, as 
I observed in a former Calendar, an excellent plan to 
sow Rye and Winter Vetches on spare ground intended 
for green crops next year. This, at cutting, will leave 
a fibre in the ground almost amounting to turf, and, 
moreover, will keep down the weeds. 
ESTING. 
It will soon be time to think of autumn planting. If 
I were a proprietor, I should never plant at any other 
period. Indeed, evergreen planting may “commence 
forthwith ; I would, however, rather defer it until the 
middle of September, unless the specimens have good 
balls of earth. The main business is to plant while the 
ground is warm, and to avoid perspiration in the leaf. 
State of the Weather near London, for the week ending Aug. 20, 1846, as 
observed at the Horticultural Garden, Chiswick. 
fine; densely overvas 33 
(Mea eet gura tus Lo the Week H deg. below the average. 
Srato of sha Woathor at Chiswick during the last 20 years, for the 
x Week ending Aug 29, 1846. 
of 
] 
Tm Mean vus in | Gresten 
e 
Ang. Highs torent s i 
Hy d of Raia. 
Mon. 24| 7-4 10 
Tues 25| 750 9 
ed. 28| 728 6 
Thur. 27 72.7 6 
Fri. 98 7*1 50. E 9 
Sat. 929 7.5 50.0 60.8 i) 
AL EA must again draw the attention of our correspond- 
ents to the importance of not coming to hasty conem 
E WEG this important matter. e worst kind of 
trifling to pretend that this that or ‘the other little experiment 
has secured a crop, when we are only just at the beginning of 
the end, We must therefore decline to give insertion to a 
large number of representations which can have no value, and 
which their writers would regret to see on record hereafter. 
To imagine that planting shallow, or planting deep, earthing 
up or letting it alone, and fifty more such crotchets, can have 
any effect, is worse than Aene itis mischievous, forit tends 
to mislead unreasoning minds.——. E Insects have 
nothing to do with the disease. Sensible men will have fancies. 
If your Potatoes kept so well you are very fortunate, and 
could have had little discnse to encounter.— Craufor. rd—If 
you will loo! underground portion of the stem 
which you have sent us ES Ei find the very symptoms we 
described. In fact, your own specimens prove exactly what 
Your underground stem pe iris by 
en oi 
Srini— d Iti is S doubéful if seeds oa IM ER at all if 
the sun were always shining on them. 
Roots were never intended by nature for SURE nor wi 
they bear it willingly. 
— The T t Chiswick, by 
TE the pert le te xD RDUM in the suada is registered, 
i attached to a post in the lawn ana; protected from th: 'un's 
rays by a sort of oil- EN umbre! dications cate 
The highest CITAS pauring the above pi gu cosutred on the 25th, 
1826—therm. 90 ; and the lo’ h 289. 
Notices to oiiresponieuté E 
Post-orrice OrpErs—In order to obviate the inconveniences 
which are now constantly being experienced by parties who 
wish to remit sm: 
Orts for ARGUS M we have to ae that all Post- 
office orders may in future be addressed to Mr. James MAT- 
ENDA 5, Upper Wellington- en Covent Garden, ud made 
payabl at the Post-office, trand, London. Post-office 
KON remitted by Sahocribees for the GO should be 
sent to the respective ACER ua supply tl 
The Fourth Reprint of Mr. PA N'S CO TTAGERS? CALEN- 
is now Hendys price ine A copy. An index has been 
added. arties wishing have copies for distribution 
among their "tenantry can have them at the rate of 25 for 5s. 
AMELLIAS— —You will never make your plants blossom 
in such a place. NUS require plenty of light to form 
their flower buds, and a free exposure to air. Can you not 
take them up, pot them, and give them a good sunning in the 
m une oe 
T—0 ionall flo wers which have run, will 
plants. If yours are al 
teres to be planted in soil of poor quality, without the addi- 
tion of any manure, when some may in their right 
colours next season, We intend giving the information re- 
quired during the present autumn, in the interim, we 
recommend you to qure our Calendar of Operations, W. 
CyPniPEDIUM— rapeanum is a yellow-flowered species 
of gt panty with exactly the habit of C. spectabile, but 
it is ten 
Dannras—Liphin gums ms his Dahlias haveturned red both 
were originally white, yellow, pale 
, the roots were kept in "sand 
have grown well, in general good flowers, but all red. ' 
Heatinc—S M B—Earthen pipes not answer for hot water 
circulation. They are so porous em there is no possibility 
of keeping the air r dry when neces 
HOoNEYSUCKLES-X Y Z— r Honeysuckle is a handsome 
variety oft the Scarlet "Trümpet, and a decided i oO DAN ade 
but we doubt its having anything to do with L. g 
Insects—H W C P—The leaf. you ee sentis Ecce with Oak 
sponsis ius yu ya been given at p. 52 of our volume 
r 1843 t, C—Y. r Apples are covered with the M: vum 
" Mc wasted ‘Aspidiotas ed is, described in the 
Gard. Chron., p. 735, 1843; also pp. 
—J H—Itis probable the vAphices may cause the Roses to be- 
come mildewed, and the only remedy is to PII the insects 
as ker as they appear in the Spring, belied an 
e 
hoped your insects were connected with 
some an our Crops. are aware that the larva live on 
If you can send me any of the RM eggs 
e very acceptable. R— Llandilo— a tumbler 
ux thirds full of sugar or treacle and water, S it with a 
piece of writing-paper and cut a small hole in the centre for 
the flies to creep in at. R.——F B—It is the Caterpillar of a 
Noctua which you must poeren for at night, when you will 
find the eus feedin 
LILY OF THE LEY—Sub— “This will succeed in almost any 
shaded WitCation ; but perhaps the very best place for it is a 
p behind a north wall. The only treatment it requires 
is to keep it free from weeds, and occasionally to top dress in 
ae with half rotten leaves. This gives EUER to the 
ts and m them to bloom more abundan: 
NAMES or Pr. i—L f—Clethra ATIS we a whether 
the small Tares are those of any species of Clethra. Your 
pines are wron s not damp enough, and get exposed to the 
dern m plant is dieptodermis lan- 
T not Hamiltonia suaveolens.——.4 P— 
ronaria ; A Sisyrinchium, WU Silene Soie a alvia 
eim me miserable Silene ; 6, Cuphea aconse 
; your specimens are little better chan riddles. —C Scott— 
Galeandra Baueri.——Lady M— 
plant not in flower can- 
not be named ; ts OR is Bignonia capreolata.——4 B C 
Holcus lanatus, one of the most worthless of Grasses ; it isa 
ied. — —Mormodes aromaticum, Ifwe have 
ever received any Gongora, we have Rod EN en you its 
name.——B A Opa bunt Dictamnu: L N—A para- 
sitical fungal plant called Uredo c; PEUT rica, Your Pears 
grow too fast; they are probably ill pruned. See what was 
said of summer pruning a week or two since.——W Lucas— 
A parasitical fungal plant called Penicillium glaucum, very 
ecaying fruit, It is analogous to that which 
attacks rotting Potatoes. It is possible ms all such cases of 
fruit rotting prematurely on the tree may be caused by that 
which produces the Potato rot; and if. 30 To must refer it to 
the atmosphere. ut what is the nature of the active matter 
floating therein ? Rae—Stanhopea Bucephalus. —— 
FE C Ceanothus a azureus, we imagine ; but a poly leaf 
is aus Ore Carnea—1l, Myoporum parvifolium ; 
2, 8, not in flower. 
NAMES oF RUIN — Your Peach is the Madeleine de Cour- 
son, tbe Red Magdalen of ene al 
PL A ete of Bury St Edmunds has 
sent us cimens of ‘this ES with he fruit upon it, and 
enquires Sohethér the specimens a 
have ever produced perfect seeds 
cu T ” that they only come to maturity in the South 
of Frai 
Euterets Penntes—The Daily News reports that many cases 
of poisoning have lately occurred in London, in consequence 
of berries, Be iag sloes, haying been "purchased from 
a man having the appearance of a dpt) labourer. Does 
any one know what these berries wer 
spond with those of others in the vi nity. || 
Misc—K C^ Nothing was enclosed in your letter; if you 
send a specimen pray repeat your ques stion.—Paul Jones— 
Few plants will suffer clipping and trimming better than 
Furze ; in order to make a broad low hedge you had better 
trim up the sides to the required height in a nearly perpendi- 
cular deri leaving the top horizontal and rather narrower 
than the base. t —— Mal» werniensis — Torenia Asiatica is a 
The bad state of the 
fruit crop or this ye year is mainly to be ascribed to the hea 
crop of last year, and the unripened condition of the wood of 
all trees, consequent upon the sunless cheerless season of 
1845. A second crop usually DUREE where heavy rains fol- 
low very dry hot weather.— 7 G—Iron pipes should always 
be pains otherwise, how are you to prevent their rusting * 
o attention to such notions. Dion—A Yucca will 
m: 
—Lightning rods may be of either aon or copper; if of the 
below it. 
—MW WK—Iti is not es i to m gold fishes ; Re. 
however, eat worms an into o 
er. Your pone nos not be protected in winter, but 
when frozen you m take care to break the ice every day to 
give the fish air. ipe your old turf for potting up in a narrow 
ridge in the copon? yar it over or onson: 
——@ G—To bloom AE speciosa, w 
lowed too mi 
ich. Judiciously withholding EAM ata ux season may 
also have the effect of causing it to form flower buds instead 
ofmaking wood, You are not more unfortunate than your 
neighbours; we have hardly seen a well bloomed plant of it 
this season. i—H landilo—P urrows E Thoms' chemical ink 
is advertised in our columns mor 
hibited at Chiswick by Mr. P 
Blackheath, Kent. r ifs rum next week.]—— 
wur—We have not the least reason to recommend lime 
water ; ake etter is gent to Mr. P,——. 
ere 
your pe eh on to make us doubt that the 
will go very rail to Mal 
modern a science that it furnishes no da 
whether species have disappeared or not; the pro ity 
that they have. See the remarks upon the “Vestiges,” at 
p. 462 of this volume. 
SEEDLING FLOWERS. 
a A—Your seedling variety is pretty, but not 
VERDE J—The flowers of your seedling were too far gone ; 
we were unable to distinguish the colours.*- M HN- 
Your specimen named Purity is a very elegant flower, white 
with crimson corolla, sepals do mar expand suf- 
ficiently, but of this point we cannot Dy we! 11 judge, as the 
packing may have kept rate dow: oliage is small, and 
it flowers freely.* — There is E great want of novelty 
among your ' seedlings ; 5 Frani is too faint in colour to be oí 
gh a large and showy flower, is too 
Gauntlet is no impr rovement upon 
others of the same mou our; Favourite is pretty in colour, but 
the sepals do not appear to eA and there are several 
VAS in the same way ; Plato is good in form and colour, 
anda novelty. Favourite d Plato are the best.*—= 
mong your seedlings is No. 7, a large 
ut deficient in novelty of colour; there is a 
uM in the corollas of most of the specimens, "which is & 
great drawback to their , 10, and 7 also have 
this defect; 9, 3, and 11 are pretty, but we have seen many 
PUR of the same colour Superior to the hi: 
flower, wn 
flower renders useless 4, 5, 3 is also = good’ stout 
flower, having a bright scarlet OU 2, 8, and 12 are 
not better than many we have s gn b, and K e distinct 
in colour, See ud only specimens worth (HM EL por 
F B—Among y r dark varie t, though not 
equal in Ste is 9; ; the corolla i is well RUE. which in the 
ower is nearly hi 
sepals ; 8 is coarse, and there i is no novelty in 10, the foliage 
of which is too large. Ofthe lighter kinds, 2, 4, and 1 are 
the best; they are decided in colour, and less Ec than 
3, 5, and 6, which have rather too much colour in the tubes 
and sepals.*——A Modern Athenian—Y our seedling is ex- 
tremely pretty—white and violet ; it is very small, but bloom- 
ing as profusely as you describe’ it, the plants must form 2 
most Blending: object.* 
GLADIOLI —The seedling Gladiolus you propose naming 
E REO T ? is a fin ne variety, beautiful in colour ; being 
a bright rosy vermilion, it AS ake a desirable addition to 
this improving class of flow: 
ANSI xs— JFinclster None o Modos cu worth preserv 
ing: they are deficient in the qualities that constitute show 
flowers, pari ticularly i in size and substance, Save your see 
from first-r. ate varieties only.* 
TS 
EnnATUM,—In the article on “Mr. Crosse's Acarus,” at p. 550, 
line 14 from top of col. a, for ‘ingenious philosopher,” read 
“‘ingenuous philosopher.” 
