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THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[Sepr. 12, 
2 
latter will make a suitable compost. It is far better to 
give them a strong top-dressing in the spring than to 
have it of too forcing a nature for their winter food. 
Tulips.—In consequence of the general weakness of 
the bulbs, it will be advisable to put a small portion of 
decayed manure and leaf soil, about 2 or 3 inches 
beneath the offsets. It is argued that manure fouls the 
cups, and with some show of. propriety. But as there 
are always exceptions to every rule, we would recom- 
mend a stronger diet, at all events, for the offsets in the 
coming season, Carnations and Picotees.—The layers 
may be taken off and potted without delay, using the 
compost as directed last week. Many seedlings ‘have 
missed blooming, and if not convenient to let them 
stand over the winter in their present situation, in con- 
sequence of the large spaces on the beds from whence 
the single ones have been removed, it will be advisable 
io prepare another bed of suitable compost, and eare- 
fully remove thera, with balls of soil, into regular rows. 
Here they may stand the winter, and will bloom pro- 
fusely next season. Look well to your composts, espe- 
cially that for the blooming bed of Tulips, frequently 
turning it and picking out wire-worms and other 
noxious insects. 
KITCHEN GARDEN AND ORCHAR. 
All herbs, if not gathered, should be cut Fainedintely. 
Quick drying i is proved to be the best mode, for the same 
reasons that quick haymaking exeeeds a lingering pro- 
e The Sweet Basil should be bunched and | hung 
a hot kitchen ; also the Sweet Marjoram. When 
thoroughly dry, let them be immediately packed close 
in boxes, so as to exclude all air ; indeed, bottled herbs, 
CUM up after such a course of treatment, are very 
superior. If any of the Asparagus beds are withering, 
and ground is searce, cut them over if quite yellow, and 
plant a row or two of Endive and Lettuce for late work. 
Young Cabbages just through the ground should have 
a little soil thrown through ‘their stems, if intended to 
remain where sown. Stop all Figs directly, and per- 
Severe in rubbing off all late made breast-wood from 
trained trees in general. 
GOTTAGERS " GARDENS 
I ean only repeat this week the substance of former 
Calendars, viz , to follow up cleanly and high cultiva- 
tion in all grow ing crops. If any leisure time, employ 
it in collecting materials for manure ; remembering that 
all decaying v vegetable refuse is valuable in this respect, 
especially after | aying a while amongst the fluids of the 
dung-heap. 
Stetbiotithe’ Wenther near London, fox the week ending Sept. 10, 1846, as 
arden, Chisw| 
clear at night 
i slight dry haze; clear and five 
5, wind, higher current we 
d. 3 thu Tx epee 
du! zy h 
; lower dlreeily opposite; 
IF E 
8- Uni orinly ov 
Foggy ; very fir 
verc 
ne at night 
ne; slighly clouded. 
7 dey. above the average. 
New. 
wrecral | 
e highest temperature during the above period occurred on the 17th, 
10/9 therm. 84? ; and the lowest on the 17th, 1840— Š 
Notice es to Correspondents, 
-In order to obviate the inconveniences 
hich are now constantly being experienced by peren who 
wish to remi all sums to the office of the Ga: ns" 
CHRONICLE for ER ng, we hz to request that ys Post- 
office orders may in be addressed to Mr. James MAT- 
EWS, 5, pper W Tollington-sret vent Garden, and made 
ole at the Post-office, 180, S ed London. Post-office 
Subscribers for the Paper, should be 
respective Agents who supply them. 
— Vi On no account admit coid air into your 
warming it in the first in- 
n which will do that will be advantageous. 
marks at p. s of this volume. 
ASPARAGUS BEDs— ux ULIS ground for Asparagus, 
you may allow at the ate of 201 of salt for a bed 20 feet 
31 feet, takiny care to diffuse 2 properly throughout. || 
f A—Commence bee keeping about Michaelmas or early 
spr the latter is, perhaps, preferable, as there is less 
Tui ot the bees dying. Obtain a strong stock—a first swarm 
of the past season—and have a bar-hive or two in readiness 
to mis ipe fresh swarms at the proper season. Direc- 
taining honey have been given at p. 104 of 
lume, “Bevan on the Honey-bee” will give 
lvi 
T E Yo ur first letter came last, and your 
TE Kade on “Familiar Botany” will give you 
the mareto you seek. 
Booxs—ZH C—No one can un 1 the “ Vegetable King- 
dom" without a BRevimis ide Gef with botany. The 
UE of the numbers are exactly the same as that of the 
olume. The SEIRA of the work will not undertake to 
Mm them Vous The article on the Drainage of Flower Pots 
appeared on the 13th and27th of June, 1846. —— Dido—There 
is no such book ; nor is it likely that there will be. Plants 
are too numerous, The only single work that we know of, 
at all like what, you seek for, is Sweet’s “Hothouse and 
k.——F. Montague 
Z Supplements toi Loudon’ s “ Hortus Britannicus " have 
55 1 —Your plants are attacked by a .singular 
Du. Quite analogos to that of the Potato ; that is to say, 
the sides of the cells of the succulent tissue become OU 
the lining of the cell-walls acquiring that colour. Ther 
ungi. The skin is attacked first, in small Greater 
patches, NE still think that it may PDT arise from damp 
and want of due sunning and ventilati 
DOUBLE CoNvOLYULUS— e Su remember to have 
before seen a double Conyolvulus major. Yours certainly is 
f variety, not to be compared with the 
beautiful double Calystegia pubesce 
Fieas—a Lover of them— e no book on Italian Figs at 
nd, on which we can rely, but will make inquiries and let 
know hereafter. What the Italians call the King of 
"Figs is the Brogietto bianco or B. genoese. 
FORCING GRAPES AND PEACHES IN ONE ÜOMPARTMENT—An 
Old Subscriber—1n a house or large pit, 40 feet by 10 feet, and 
height 4 fees in front and 10 feet at back, you might grow 
either Peaches or Grapes to good perfection. But having 
seipso to try both together, you must plant the Peach-. 
their roots may feed in a border in front, and 
, extending from thesrong eno 
aot the AER inside, train 
They are both, nrc Leguminous plant: Daa 
Vernonia preealta,——— “Canavalia ensiformis——Z G— 
Setaria italica. CELO Lycium barbarum; 2, Euonymus 
europemus ; 3, Ulmus campestris. —-P K W—I, 2, and 4 are 
all varieties of ed gallons ; 3 is Gnaphalium sylvaticum, 
var. rectum, things are subject to much diversity of 
EX EEN omes—We really must beg you to send ex- 
aminable specimens if you wish a plant to be named. Bo- 
tanists cannot commit themselves d opinions founded upon 
miserable fragments; you send a few leaves and one 
withered wretched flower of a supposed new species of 
dEschynantbus, a very difficalt genus, and ask us to name 
it; we can do nothing with dus materials.. Em er E 
Pinus halepensis. T- Á ton—The shrub is Rham: 
catharticus. The fruit is not Sod hous but a powerful uud 
gative, 
PR M—Three late bearing Pears for a west wall may De 
e Glout Morceau, Beurré Rance, and Easter Beurró. Late 
Pears for a north aspect cannot be recommended, unless 
such as are adapted for stewing. Better plant Marie’ Louise, 
Hacon’s Incomparable, and Thompson’s.||. 
v Hazard, W F G F, next week. You both take 
them up the back wall, andthei nd 
under the glass as far as not to shade the BE If the 
footpath AC the middle be formed of paving tiles laid on. 
the made border, the Eid of the Vines will thrive as wel 
nder them as elsewhere.|| 
Froir Tare T Hh ee T Blossom—No ; you are not right. 
Why do anything to entice the roots of your trees away from 
the warm sunny border you have provided for them ?——X— 
For Peach and other trees you ma; 1 mix a little dung 
with the fresh loam, unless the latter be very rich.|| 
FvcnusiAs—C Stuart— Remove your Fuchsias i to a dry 
where they will bp, tree from ane or d e NS of 
which are aon In this situation they may remain 
until February. ad better, however, examine the 
nts once or Evic during winter, andif they appear to get 
ks y, sprinkle t] with water; if too damp remove 
up uuo DOE come ine dry day for a few hours. 
ar or r plaée, tie them up tightly in 
W heat-straw Goparately), and pit them like Potatoes. 
Grares—G C—Your oval, greenish, thin-skinned seedling 
Grape, stated to be earlier than the Royal ADONIS seems 
worthy of further trial. 
rd AE etd are broken by frost in consequence 
expansion of water drawn into the laps by capillary 
ree it 35 E VERA better to Dn laps when a green- 
house is to be in winter. But i e squares are wi 
enough (12 inches), sheet Blass will a easily break from 
frost, because of its elastic’ 
Heatine—An Old Sub—In d aM for Pines the heating appa- 
ratus, whether tanks or pipes, the latter indeed preferable to 
the former, should be under the slate which supports the 
oil.|| 
a eis rist—Your specimen was too much damaged 
to allow of the points y yon mention perg seen to advantage. 
Your Ap shall be attended ti 
Brie 20 E Srdan ANEO cheap pit given 
at p. 116, 1845 5, one 3 you may not have the number we re- 
roduce the pers As to heating, Polmaise 
would be quite RODISAUISS nisu did you might consult 
Mr. Davis, of Wavertree, (See his adv. p. 610.) 
here is no skilli in ripening this corn 
If a prize Should be given for it at 
d ue to the sun. Neither is there any object 
in offering prizes 4 r the crop, for cui Tono ? It cannot be 
cultivated pr ofitably i in this country, and to offer 
it would only have the effect of misleading ignorant SUIS 
The M. BET Gourd has enough t feed one of its 
Doa brood; more could not be maintained by its roots 
and leav 
Ivskors Shropshire The larva supposed to be injuring the 
Jeans lives upon the aphides which infest them, and 
changes to a ay galed n eva. Your beetle is a little bug 
named Tyo phila, whic so feeds upon smaller ins ects. R 
—We fear there i is no remedy. i igue destroy 
Ves vast hiumbers by covering the trunks of the 1 trees with can- 
natting, and tarring it over. By bru: rushing « or shaking 
the ‘foliage the Hupteryx would be x dnd and alight upon 
the adhesive tar. £.—— Ulswatei r—Many than ni- 
gratory E S appears to be the Tootafi a Christii, figured 
t. Ent," pl. 608, of which I had only a 
single alien “he 
Maneors—M Mangusteen—We know of no work that will give 
you the information you seek—nor can it be done. Mangoes 
will never thrive in the society of Pines and ere puo 
the latter are spoiled. Either may be grown b; n 
curate, without a gardener, but not both descr fp HON 
toget! inar "The management of the Mango is described by 
pep i E in the “Journal of the Horticultural Society,” 
vo 
Names OF dune iene of your Apples appears to be the 
Summer Calville; the other Apple, taped exactly like a 
EUER Windsor Eear is unknown ; is this the general form of 
all on the tree I|- — P B—2, umn Perg aitor li 
NAMES OF shat leer i vulgaris, a common wild 
plent, in the state of ‘‘Peloria,” or of change iom ires 
larity to regularity.—— P L P—Plantago major, 
strous state ; the bracts all developed as leaves, at the ex- 
pense of the flowers, which are shrivelled up.—C M— 
Convolvulus farinosus. Je do not recognise the Lupine 
dd ; perhaps pubescens—. '—Your pinaeh is a varii 
of the Garden Orach, VESH horten 
1, Trifolium striatum ; 2, Sedum aoei, 
colmia maritima ; 4, Cineraria RP nds called Senecio 
Cineraria.——4An "Old Subscriber—It is any one's paner 
o name seedling plants which are ion in flower. We c 
form no opinion upon the beauty of those you have dE t 
the same view. 
Porarors—We by no means dispute the possibility of aphides 
doing as much mischief as is now experienced from the Po- 
tato rot; we only Glan the fact, Ifinsects did the mischief 
they must be ee ut who has seen them ? Not we, most 
certainly. Our Spru ice MN trees md this year suffering enor- 
mously from some disease, accon ied by Eu of Aphides 
—but what of that ?——@ R—Dr. Semp 
preparation of the preservative quality of renioritie gas. We 
could P t make it succeed, 
Sea Ka _.X—Salt as above recommended for Asparagus. || 
Ep Trowzns—J P S—Y larkia flowers are so shri- 
velled that it is aron to form any opinion about them. 
TOMATOES — d J L—The fruit of the Tomatoes is uni- 
ly B odi is) a rottenness M p if not identi- 
with, the rot of the Potato “apple.” unconnected 
with fungi; atleast we can find none in iin “Of this more 
hereafter. 
TRAILERS rog Rockwonk—A4 G—V S to poser and 
finer bI Sedum Le la eds White ine ; Cotone- 
aster microphylla ; Coronilla glauca $ ara "OYA DRIEME 
4 hymes oe Pact sorts ; the small growing varieties of Ivy ; 
tae 
SM We. HY i4 that you believe that what you say 
true. But we also that your belief is founded upon 
observations ill made, imu “false reasoning dependant upon 
them. 
Es—A Country V MUT Ie i is impossible to say what has 
caused the scorched appearance of some of your Vine leaves. 
If you employ fuss it may be owing to the escape of sul- 
phurous acid gas.|| 
PY e have no experience: of the burnt loam of the 
ut if it really is loam or clay, and nothing 
else, it is iaveltatis asa material for soaking with urine, 
or the drainage of dung-hills, or the contents of cesspoole. 
It then forms a compost as good as guano, especially. if 
gypsum, iu powder, is added from time eo M O H- 
one P last Numbers mentioned in your letter are out of 
Corycius — Want of colour in your Black Hamburgh 
p" Mus E proceed from various cau ldom occurs 
here a healthy wall exposed foliage is maintained.}— 
Constant Sub—We not understand your question. 
Cucumis—Y¥ our leaf i s covered with oe common Cucumber 
mildew; but from what cause it s| vs we cannot say. 
Your other Sine is sent to the ADAE ORA Ed itor.$B—— 
Quer an pes mention, none are hardy, except 
Delphinium g gr Pa fos e others will, how: 
bedded out in rumim Ta afford, trai 
Plain recipes for One Indian corn have been raven at pe 
253 of the current volume, 
See FLOWE 
ANTIRREHINUM—O M G—Many of your specimens are repeti- 
tions of the fine old garden varieties, with slight differences 
of shades of colour, and the mn aus yel ellow predominate 
too much amongst them ; for in: the resemblance be- 
tween 2 and 14 is too slight ; ag: m EN 24 and 30; and 
too slight aj , a 
Tis a fine dark; Šis a fine lively flow 
and 14 are delicate ME Ub 16 is good, 
and forms à ien spike of bloom; 17 is bold and attractive. 
The intermediate tints are not worth keeping. 
CALCEOLARIAS— T M—Y our seedlings contain a most pleas- 
y selection of Gena and the mark ae: 
should reject No. 17 on account 
d colour. 2, 12, 14, and ^o. e bold and fine 
is beautiful in form, and the colour is novel and 
sees ace B—Your seedlings are inferior to the flowers at 
present cultivated in size and distinctness, at colour,*—— 
A—Your flower makes a handsome variety—white tube 
and sepals with vermilion corolla ; the flower is ae) rather 
large, and a very profuse bloome IL r dark 
varieties are superior to the lighter sorts. No. 3 ea be ight 
looking flower, but there appears rather too much colour: ntho 
tube and sep als; colour to 3. Your dark 
varii all good flowers. with. p particular nov T MER 
iocur inate foliage, which is. jar and rich gre 
well adapted for PIU the bi ipt colours of the jm] 
off to the best advantage ; 5 and re the best, but they 
wy Stout, smooth in texture, and. bright in colour. 
‘Bonnie Dundee appears to be a very pretty 
om description of its habit, Ge UE 
; we think the flow ue inferior to TU artonii, 
Mle deep rin ue RAE f that vani ety, nor do the Sepals ex- 
li. 
wants contr AUR of co! our ; D D eodd 
as Lig the superior flower the former 
are too drooping ; 5 is too weak in colour ; 7, too sh 
wanting contrast; 6, bright and a S m p 10, ll,want con- 
tr: 
ag 
flower is rather large.*—— seedling is 2 
clear, and handsome variety, light tube aud “sepals, with 
scarlet corolla; the sepals droop y rath ier too much.*—— Cee 
— Your seedling is a pretty flower, but there i is nothing fo dis- 
tinguish it from: any other similar coloured varieties." —— 
| No. 2 is a pretty flower, but there is too much colour 
inthe tube, and the sepals do not appear to expand suffi- 
ciently ; 1 is inferior to 2.* 
Panstes—W A P—The smaller flower is the better of the two, 
but neither of them are equal in form and substance to the 
flowers of the present tim: E 
PzrUNIAS—S B—No. 1, a richly veined and. handsome Yarn 
No. 2, very similar in colour, but inferior to NO. l. N 
mottled and veined of a peculiar foe E h blue colour, very 
with veined e 
o 
A J—No. 
7 and 8 are pi much alike ; 
a very pleasin; Vigo 
two, we prefer No, 7.* t da 
M ESL eed Your seedling i i of no use int the VEA d A 
—Harlequin forms a bri vis 
dd lively pink variety. Dalene a Qus cented Mure y, 
not superior in its flowers to many we ; 
approaching a white, is a large and Bande oui Pe flow one 
* AS usual, many communications 
aryinquiries 
Igence of those 
can be made., We must also beg p in ipa ü 
correspondents, the insertion of whose contributions is stil 
delayed, 
