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deeper ; and, finally, to sow a crop of early Dutch or 
Stone Turnips over them. I have some in beds, which 
were thus treated a month since, now carrying a fine 
crop of Turnips. I have examined them repeatedly, 
and although much diseased when covered, there does 
not appear to be the least advance in it. These I 
expect to keep better than if they were taken up, and 
the Turnips, independent of their use, will serve to 
keep out the soe until the spring. 
CONSERVATORIE STOVE, 
Conser: valory. —Late HORDE iy Camellias, 
well-grown Fuchsias, trellis Climbers, Brugmansias, 
Scarlet Geraniums, &c., should now be in high perfection 
here. The Veronica speciosa and the Buddlea Lindley- 
ana,where properly grown, willalso prove very interesting, 
as tending to sustain the EE: conservatory character. 
The two latter shrubs want v: similar root treatment ; 
nothing of a stimulating Geta will bloom them i in 
perfection; a plain simple loam, of a rather sound cha- 
racter, will be found to suit then best, Ge ar by 
the one-shift system of potting. Stove anl Orchid. 
The Eranthemum pulchellum, with the Justicias, 
Poinsettias, Euphorbias, Plumba the Gesnera 
zebrina, and the Achimenes pic 
every attention, in order to get them to blossom through 
November, and even December. Orchids.—Encourage 
late growths by all possible means, viz., by topping up, 
heat, atmospheric moisture, and a cireulation of fresh 
‘and sweet air day and night, if possible. Continue to 
cool down those inclined to rest, and, with a more mode- 
rate temperature, let them have plenty of sunlight on the 
leaf, and SURE aeration. 
KITCHEN GARDEN FORCING. 
Look well o the linings of Pines in dung pits at this 
period ; they will too suddenly cool if not carefully 
watched. Although these pits will soon be amongst 
the things that were, we must not despise them, whilst 
compelled to rely on them. Have an eye to Figs, 
Peaches, Vines, Cherries, &c., in pots or tubs, for early 
forcing ; if any of these have rooted through the bottom 
they must be disturbed, in order to induce repose ; at 
the same time, I would advise top- dressing all such with 
rich manure ; this will be carried down by autumnal 
rains, and will refresh the compost for the next year. 
Kidney Beans may be got forward in pots forthwith, for 
late autumn work ; and strong Cucumber plants from 
layers or otherwise got on in well prepared boxes or 
light shelves, where 70° can be secured to them, with 
much atmospheric moisture. Give strict attention to 
the Strawberries in pots for forcing, in regard to water- 
ing, trimming away runners, &e. et them have 
a sunny and airy situation, and place them a good dis- 
tance apart. 
FLOWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES. 
Most of the business here, at this period, is of a rou- 
tine character, It will be well to fill up many blanks 
in flower borders, as soon as possible, with plants of a 
biennial character ; such as Wallflowers, Sweet Wil- 
liams, Campanulas (the C. grandis is a useful thing), 
Hollyhocks, biennial Stocks, and the various Primulas. 
Most of these will be found very useful next spring, 
although somewhat old-fashioned. Those who desire to 
remove Evergreens may do it now, provided they have 
balls ; if not, October will be more suitable. 
ORISTS' FLOWERS, 
Carnations.—From the peculiarly suitable weather, 
layers are well rooted this season. In potting them off, 
either one or two plants may be placed in each pot, ac- 
cording to the convenience which the amateur may 
have for wintering them. Care must be taken not to 
have the soil too light, and manure or other stimulating 
composts must be avoided ; in fact, the soil cannot well 
be too simple or pure ; decayed turf with a little sand T 
have found to be the most suitable for their winter’s 
growth. Get varieties in from the different cultivators 
so that they may be well established before winter. 
T'ulips.—The offsets of all choice sorts may be put into 
the ground as soon as convenient, choosing fine dry 
weather for the operation. It will be found a good 
plan not to let the beds have too much moisture, hoop- 
ing them over, so that mats or other protecting material 
may be thrown over in excessive wet. Pinks.—Where 
the plants have been put out on beds, they must be kept 
free from weeds ; and old stools or stock plants which 
have been grown in pots may be planted ovt on borders, 
These will produce an immense number of flowers next 
season, from which much seed may be saved. Pansies. — 
Make up beds of rich compost in rather a cool situation, 
and dis out rooted cuttings or young plants for next 
year’s blooming. Dahlias. 2 Continue to shelter, thin 
the buds, he as before directe 
TCI IT GARDEN AND ORCHARD. 
The eme Spinach must be thiuned to about 6 
inches apart, and the hoe worked through it. If 
any strong Celery plants remain, they might. be taken 
up with balls and € heeled ” deep, for soup purposes ; 
this will save the prime stock for salads. Get out more 
Endive for the last batch, using high slopes, which may 
receive covers, or hoops and mats, when severe weather 
arrives. Plant some strong Bath Cos Lettuce for the 
latest autumn use on rich ‘soil, and sheltered. Thin 
Turnips in due time, and get the hoe through them. Let 
all the old Searlet Runner pods be picked ‘clean, except 
a few for seed ; they exhaust the crop much, and prevent 
succession. Trench and manure well for the winter 
Cabbage in due time ; and get out some more strong 
plants of the early kinds for late Coleworts. Go over 
all fruit trees once more, especially trained trees, and 
destroy all late made laterals, Disbud and stop "Figs 
forthwith ; ; and stop the points of all growing Peaches 
and Nectarines, except the lowest and weakest. 
OTTAGERS' GARDENS. | 
As before mice high cultivation amongst all 
green crops will amply repay the labour. Hoeing or 
even forking amongst growing crops, provided the 
roots are not igjured, will accomplish wonders as to the 
crop, and prove a sort of fallow for successive ones. 
Earth up Celery often, a little at a time. Look to the 
advice in the commencement of this day’s calendar 
about storing seed or other Potatoes; it may in the 
main be safely trusted, as derived from considerable 
practice and observation. Once more, I repeat, sow 
spare land with Rye and Vetches. 
FORESTING. 
The weather now is most favourable for all opera- 
tions which usually precede new planting. Those who 
intend “being in the field” this autumn, should not 
~ cannot be named unless in flower._—F W C—Your gigantic 
Spinach is not a Spinach at all, pus an Orach, We will see 
—Stachytarpheta muta- 
s.——JB B. a mere weed,—— 
H W W—No. 1, Bromus secalinus, with short awns; No. 
5 Bromus arvensis, Parnell’s ‘Grasses of Britain." — 
A B—Triglochin palustre; one of the Arrowgrass order. 
You should study the ** Vegetable Kingdom.”——£ Una 
—Atriplex patula and Tolgo onum aviculare ; 
H—Y our Ferns not being in in frutiieation 
cannot be named.——J/ L—Tecoma capens 
Stanhopea saccata, Epidendrum phceniceum.. ee B— Gom- 
phocarpus fruticosus 
Oncnrps — Ceylonicus — Dendrobium aureum and s sanguino- 
lentum, Ipsea grandiflora, Vanda spathulata, multiflora, and 
others, are good things. There is also à Oalanthe or two. 
All Cologynes are worth having, 
weeds. Saccolabium papillosum i 
i ocius EENI Orchids, but Jes pitas allied to the 
EN, and Bilberry 
Next week. 
e have no E in 
lose a moment in E all necessary preparation 
State of du lucia er near London, for TUM ending Sept 3, 1846, as 
served at the Horti altura) Garden, Chiswi 
Aug. 98 RT ry fne t) SiMe clear at night 
29—Dusky clonda; fine; shower at6 p m ; cloudy 
30. um f fine; clear at night 
3i—Ver. with hot sun; partially overcast 
Sept. Tosi and dull; fine; cloudy 
—Very fine; cloudless and hoz; clear at night 
SEVA fine, with hos sun ; clear and mes as nigh! 
an semperatureof the week 1 d oeeo tekaa 
State of the Weather at C ick during the last 20 years, for the 
utag ark ending Sept. 12, 1646. 
EE AS dz No. of | Greatest 7 
Sept. tics Lowest | lae whichit n T Els 
| x 
| 793 | 61.4 s |o s| 5] 1 
71.5. | 60.8 12 55 “Abel ia 
| 721 | 61.9 10 . 6| 2| 1 
| 66.5 | 58.1 iL 08 5| 5| 2 
69.6 | 59.4 12 27 5) 7/1 
70.8 | 60.1 8 0.46 4| 6| 2 
92 56.4 d 0.49 210— 
| 
‘The highest temperature during the above period occurred on the 12th, 
1841--therm, 84° ; and the lowest on the 10th, 1888—therm, 
Notices to DP EEEOM 
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which are now constantly being experienced by parties who 
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CHRONICLE for Sean ie have to egent that all Post. 
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THEWS, 5, Mibi ea street, Covent d and made 
payable at i Post- office, Strand, Lond Post-office 
oroen remitted by Subsesibers. for the Paper should be 
sent to the respective Agents who supply 
The Fourth Re eprint of Mr. PAXTON? S COT TAGERS" CALEN- 
DAR is now ready, price 3d. each copy. An index has been 
added. Parties wishing to have copi H 
among their tenantry can hav: 
Booxs—R G—Pr robal ably the pamphlet named in a leading article 
to-day will give you all the information you want. You are 
ERE about Polmaise.——7' § P—Gardening can no more 
be taught, by books than carpentry or music. 
however, Loudon's ** Suburban Gardener " m 
quiries, if they can be answ ?— Harrow Weald—Y ours 
isa curious case. We will pe it against Hes week. Keep 
the plants under cover and dry.—— C 4—Your Tomatoes 
appear to be seized with disease Similar to that. which affects 
the Potato Apples ; but whether it be the same as that which 
destroys the crop itis not easy tosay. Tomatoes are gene- 
pally. affected this year in the same Way; ; few sound ones can 
be found in Covent GEH Market.t 
Fnurr-TREE BORDERS— W-— Turf from bog land will not of 
itself make a fruit. AE DS But if it be laid in a hea: ap for 
a year to rot, and is then mixed with good loam, it will do 
very well. Read the late discussion of this su 
HrATING—O W and Multiplez—Employ Polmaise by all means. 
You will find dn e best as well as the most economical mode 
for your pur 
Ins: —An Tnquirer "s beetle is the Anthonomus Ulmi, which 
m its eggs in flower-buds, quae the larva feeds and be- 
comes a pupa inside. R.——A H—We have often found the 
eggs you sent, but never having succeeded in Am the 
moth; we cannot give you the name. R.— T C. 
caterpillars will change to a beautiful moth SAU Pygera 
Bucephala, figured in Curtis’s 530. 
Potatoes—The green bugs which Mr. Balkwill detected upon 
the haulm, were Pecilosoma umbellatarum and Lygus con- 
z. 
—You cannot improve your lawn unless you 
will continually persevere in ing up the weeds that 
encumber it. It is useless to trifle with ni They must 
be cut over below the nee of the leaves so ont to de: 
part of the crown of ti r ornamental purposes the 
Miller's Burgundy, or the Black Cluster Vines are best. 
should ‘plant b pom. 
E—E ou may apply salt at the rate of a pound and 
» "half to ar 
MILDEW—A ET "iber—This subject has been discussed in our 
columns over and over again. But theend of all seems to be 
that we neither know how to prevent itin Roses, nor how to 
cure it, A constantly shifting atmosphere, with moderate, 
not excessive, luxuriance, seems to be its chief enemy. Some 
persons think that plants « are kept healthy by being syringed 
with lime water ; othe: e flowers of sulphur. All re nedies 
often fail, onee i SEEEEUA an 
MONSTROSITT 7 B and J M S—The scaly bodies on the 
Oak branches E e Suds attacked by insects. "They are com- 
mon this year. We cannot tell what ails your Cattleya, un- 
iti Informa- 
tis over-watered, ornot sufficiently ventilated. 
tion can rare! e: vithout actual 
i a weak newly-imported 
'haps you are us 
plant much too fast. 
iia or Fnurrs—J M—Your Grape is the Black Hamburgh. 
Want of colour may be owing to various causes. It seldom 
occurs pene a healthy well exposed foliage is ALC tt 
M J— r Plum is worthless, and appears to be f 
the stock. | hia 
Names or Prants—W Revans—Buddlea Lindleyana.——W D 
—Common Henbane. —— Diamond—Lagerstraemia . 
| ——Subsoriber — We cannot undertake to name florists’ 
le E V—Unless plants are very common they 
flowers.}- 
ANTRRHINUM—B P B—Your seedling is 
Daw Se E 8 
s use of m jum ram; but we see no reaso why it 
Mord ah in your case, Would it not be as well to vista 
T.I 
S ud —A Constant Reader—' There is no means of answer- 
your question. Everything depends on the age and con- 
dition of the plants, ue pir and the state of the market. 
e cheapest are common 
PotmaisE—Mona— We must confess our EAD e) A cubi: 
We cannot discuss such a question. Sonne. ju Em 
that COPIE isin Asia—is that a question for discussion? 7 
—— S— The seed n gs cannot be had on this 
side of the South Mexican provi: 
e do not know pliethier the Reigate report is on 
sale. A Tetter addressed to T. Martin, Esq., Reigate, Zn 
we doubt not, receive a reply.———4 Constant Feader—Mes 
Burrows and Thoms E yan the label ERT i 
being on sale. See page 578.——. ton —Duckweed purifies 
the water in which it grow . Te feoda nee any foul matter 
that the water may SEM no means of de- 
str met it, except by w irds, whic! ich will eat it. ——. 
We do not know how du "EMStU fands will be app! 
You ion inquire of the It is neither neces- 
stable-straw is not a good material for gardens. 
always be partially Ascot ed by fermentation before being 
5 have the following Numbers p 39; 5 
40, 42, 47, 49 and 50. b others are out of print.——4 C- 
You must keep up a constant war with the weeds on your 
lawn, cutting off their iens as fast as VES appear, Cutting 
once or twice in a season is not enough ; 
tation as fast as a ME RA 4 Wi 
they will take flighi 
mi ibis RI aE Eton or beep 
due enis with a free use of the 
at bottom you wene ET some of 
s to 
do wrong in following the directions in regard to pruning 
frui t trees, given in Lindley's ** Guide to the Orchard and 
NIE Pa ? they are founded on Sri experience.f 
idal — See page 88, vol 1845.] — W e— 
a in February uS ie 
E hs. t ———- Enquire 
land with old nae has been given at p. 565 of the current 
SEEDLING FLOWERS. 
a large and g 
border flower.——.Anon—Melancthon is a odd variety, as Wi 
is not new in character.“ 
Catcronartas— Barney — Your specimens are very prettily 
spotted, their fault is in their mue being so very small. 
additional specimens sent have the same fault though in P 
TORY, are very META in size to the flowers 
O—The petals of your seedling are fine in 
form, but the centre: is defective ; itexhibited when unpacked 
a large yellow disk. 
our seedlings are not improvements upon 
in size and colour dios are gionis sur- 
flower, stout, bri ight in colour, and wel. 
with rosy purple sie rats but UI small; 13, ‘similar 
12, but not so good in colour, M S—Your seedlings 
a not sane] either in size or Menem of colour to mal 
of the flowers at present in cultivation."——4 J—No. 1 light 
tube with sorlet corolla—a good and showy flower, of which 
ral already in cultivation ; 2 is no improvement 
kt coloured varieties long since out.* 
upon simi 
e W M—102 is good in colour, but rather que 103, 
re are much finer varieties in 
der and distinctin colour and marking."——J7P—1. 
we consider the best among your seedlings, "RP Gate of 
vone A E 6 Am ned ET 
the same wa; id is 
1:2, and6 
lis 
quum and forms a good nd 
pretty ; 3, 4, I 
good veined varieties, the latte a b 
striking." ——4J B- , purple, with light throat, is à m. 
variety ; 15, bright oe "with white throat, though sma Ed 
lively and pretty ; ; 2 and 16 are both good. -veined sorts 
too dull.* 
Ses ARLET Pte US st S—Your seedling named tibt 
ge and fine truss, with flowers of th st bri 
ame Elegans 
e seedling you propose to s trues... The 
arge, forming a fin 
ive a delicate Gee) ae ae Hee, 
osure to light. —— 
ost but there is no novelty in the 
— The seedling you name Empress SE the 
certain grey, and inferior to most of the 
Whites, is an unt 
same colour in Bia ation.” 
Enrara—In the last number of ge ee pi 
B80 0; fore onmeeun jipe,” read 
580 o, for “o returning pir at Petumias,” anong 
M.” read * S, W. H.” 
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