1843.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 233 
Custanp Arrur.—An ignorant Subscriber.—This plant seldom 
succeeds well under cultivation in this country. Tt can only 
be grown in the temperature of a stove. When raised from 
seed, unless under very favourable circumstances, it is not 
likely to flower in less than 10 or 12 years. 
Paracuay Tra.—Alpha.—We are not aware that plants of the 
Paraguay Tea, or Ilex Paraguayensis, can be procured at pre- 
sent in this country. We believe that there are specimens of 
it in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and at the Botanic 
Garden, Glasgow.t 
Enrrcas.— Sanguinea.—If Ericas and Epacrises, at the time of 
potting, are in good health, their balls of earth should not be 
reduce 
and at pp. 697 and 809 of 1842.+ 
—T. P.—The sketches of trellises which have occasion- 
ally appeared in the Chronicle are adapted for a multitude of 
limbers ; more especially for Tropre‘olums, Thunbérgias, Ma- 
not too early in the season, are the principal points in its 
cultivation. All that the plants require until they are fit to 
draw, is to thin them out, if necessary, 4 inches apart, and to 
water them in dry weather. 
TRUFFLES.—A. K.— Truffics are propagated by breaking into 
pieces the old decayed tubers, and planting them two or three 
inches deep in a mixture of rotten leaves and loam.¢ 
ED Sriper.—A Sudscriber.—-If the red spider is very numerous 
upon your Calceolarias, dust the under-sides of the leaves with 
flower of sulphur; but if it is only just making its appearance, 
you may keep it under by preserving a moist atmosphere 
where the plants are grown, and by syringing them eyery fine 
mornin, 
Onton ‘Maccor.—Ficus.—It is stated that Onion-beds upon 
the ing 
materials in a diluted state to your Onions while growing, the 
S of tar are the most effectual 
are acquainted for destroying the wire- 
wo! We should therefore recommend you to saturate some 
sand with that compound, and mix it with the soil in your 
néttias, Zichyas, Kennédyas, the smaller kinds of Hardenbergia 
and Passiflora, Philibértias, and Aristoléchias. Equal parts of 
fibrous loam and heath-mould, with asmall proportion of silver- 
Sand, will suit any of the above plants.t 
Ferns. — Gallicus. Ye do not know whether any English 
Botanical collector is now in South America, of whom Ferns 
may be obtained. ‘The newly-introduced species have not been 
figured in the English Botanical periodicals, except, perhaps, in 
one or two rare instances. + 
have examined the lists of those shows where the names of 
ers are given, and we have inserted those that have 
been generally exhibited. It is to be regretted that the shows 
are not better reported; many give the names only of the suc- 
cessful exhibitors—others report only one or two stands; so 
that no correct estimate can be formed from them, The lead- 
ing favourites of those sent out in 1841 are as follows: 
Brown’s Bridemaid, Maid of Bath, Burnham Hero, Indispens« 
able, Catleugh’s Eclipse, Dowager Lady Cooper, Spary’s Ad- 
mirable, Fanny Keynes, Widnall’s Eclipse and Queen, Cat- 
leugh’s Tournament, Constancy, Conqueror of the World, and 
Euclid. Respecting the seedlings sent out last season, it is 
more difficult satisfactory conclusion, as much 
depends upon the stock a grower has to propagate from. Very 
fe the new flowers appeared at the shows during the 
Season; of those that were exhibited, Dodd’s Prince of Wales 
and Hudson’s Princess Royal appeared in most of the winning 
Stands; next to these, but greatly below them in numbers, 
Whale’s Attila, Brown’s Marquess of Lansdowne, Low's Duke 
of Cornwall, and Girling’s Ploughboy. An opinion of the 
Dahlias to be sent out this season has appeared in last year’s 
Chronicle, pp. 622, 
Rosgs.—Salopian.—Your want of success with climbing Roses 
is accounted for by your statement, that the sub-soil within a 
foot of the surface consists of har lay.t——P. J.—It is true 
that Roses in pots were exhibited at one of the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden Exhibitions some years ago; and uncommon 
bad ones they were.t—. Young Gardener.—It is not very 
Probable that your Rose grafts will take unless you cover them 
With grafting clay to exclude the air; in which case, if the ope- 
ration has been properly performed, there is no reason why they 
shonld not succeed. 
ums.—A Subscriber.—There isno remedy for the spots 
Upon the leaves of your Pelargoniums, which are caused b: 
Some mining insect, except cutting off all the infected leaves 
Which can be spared and burning them.t——Iewpyos.—you 
May discard Beauty of Ware, Lady Murray, Imogene, Isidori- 
anum, Chef d’ceuvre, Sidonia, Fosteri roseum, and Fanny 
Garth; and substitute the following sorts: Matilda, Cyrus, 
Witch, Annette, Hodge’s Emperor, Gaines’s Rising Sun, Grand 
Monarch, Madeleine, Amethyst, and Garth’s Queen 0; 
Fairies.* . 
Pvcnstas.— Sanguinea.—We are not yet sufficiently acquainted 
» With the new hybrid Fuchsias to be able to give you any advice 
Tespecting them. t 
Polyanrnus Suup.—Miss A, G.—You pad better BON your 
and Anemone beds when you turn them up in 
autumn, t 
Scate on Trers.—G@. W.—The best remedy for destroying the 
Scale on Pear and Apple-trees is, when the young insects issue 
from beneath the scales at this season of the y 
them off with lime-water. This washing should be repeated 
until the old scales are deserted 
—W. D. F.—Lindley’s “School Botany’? is the more 
exact, but the same author’s ‘“ Lady’s Botany’ is the more 
e 
have on that subject; every species is illustrated with figures. 
B.—You are quite right; the common. 
est name of Ranunculus Ficaria is Pilewort; but that is a dis- 
agreeable name, and “RE.” prefers Figwort, which is the trans- 
lation of the Latin word. plant is also called the lesser 
Celandine, but that is objectionable, because of its liability to 
% confusion with Chelidonium majus, the common Celandine. + 
HE Piqua PLANT.— Quercu: is no plant known by 
this name except to the vendors of Piqua-tea, which seems to 
e are to judge by the fragments of 
‘8, —There 
B.—The best grasses for a lawn 
are the following, with the proportion of seed requisite of each 
ber acre: Cynosurus cristatus, 6lbs.; Festuca duritscula, Sibs.; 
F. tenuifélia, 2lbs.; Ldélium perenne ténue, 201bs.; Poa nemo- 
ralis, 1¥lb.; P. nem. sempervirens, 1flb.; P. trivialis, 19ib.; 
Trifolium repens, 7lbs.; T. minus, 2ibs.t 
Mowine.— 
may mo 
Paint.— 
rough = we 
the anti-cor: e 
is diffic he best black paint we know is the blac! 
oxide of manganese. + 
Curats.—M. W. K.—We fear you have been sadly cheated ; it 
is unwise to deal with people whom nobody knows anything 
about. There are no such things as a yellow tree Peony ora 
yellow Moss Rose. To buy plants by drawings is like pur- 
chasing an estate on the faith of the description of a putting 
auctioneer. 
FLowER-Pors-—A Subscriber.—The sizes of flower-pots vary 
oil, 
ie seed, when sown, a slight covering of sifted soil, 
The pans should then be placed under hand-glasses. It is 
sun has much power, it 
freatment of these bulbs after flowering at pp. 107 and 756 of 
42.¢ 
F, 
sks our opinion as to the value of the suggestion, 
think there can be no doubt that such a plan would be disad. 
Yantageous, because more injury would be done to the blos- 
Oms in spring, by the radiation of heat from the wall in clear 
frosty nights than there could be gain by the anticipated action 
Of dews in summer. He also proposes to inclose his garden in 
Part only, by a south wall and two wings, forming an obtuse 
es by a piece of net, 2It. wide, stretched across the upper 
snes of poles resting on the top of the wall, must b 
tleht. To be at all effectual, the net should be twice or thrice 
Baggulea, and should reach at least half-way down the poles, t 
COL i 
éttumn and winter you will find it advantageous to make two 
th three different sowings between the beginning of May and 
the Middle of June. A selection of sorts, with remarks upon 
Cyc i treatment, is given at p. 300 of 1842. 
UMBERS.—N 
antiBE 100° by sun-heat, without injury; but it is not advis. 
9094.60, allow the bed in which they are grown to stand above 
Covet any length of time. It is rather early to leave off nightly 
eqn TDs for the beds, which should, however, be uncovered 
Thee? that the plants may have the benefit of the morning sun, 
Tor; beds at night should range between 65° and 70°. 
tay,2*—4nne,—There is no effectual means of stopping the 
Asp, 1 8¢S Of the Turnip-fly. 
and 4 8US.—Maritimus.—You will greatly benefit both Seakale 
Raji Asparagus beds by watering them with sea-water.t 
eNima: H.—This plant is grown on account of its 
THe Toots, wnich, after being peeled, are eaten like Radishes, 
betweees Should be sown in drills six inches apart, any time 
€en this and June, upon light, open soil; in hard or stift 
19 tHe Toots are liable to grow forked.t——A Subseriber.— 
‘OW the seed of the Rampion on light open soil, and 
in different parts of the country. The following 
of the Chronicle, Select lists of Pansies will be found at pp. 73 
and 105.t——S. F, @.—The Azalea is correctly named.t——A 
Young Beginner.—Your plants are, 1. Epidendrum ellipticum ; 
2. Acacia prostrata; 4. Pultensea subumbellata ; 6. Corydalis 
bulbosa. The remainder are not sufficiently advanced to be 
fs cia 
speciosa; 5, Westringia rosmarinifélia; 6. A species of Pitto- 
Onefdium is O. stramineum .|— 6.6. 
—Your plants are, 1. Hermannia alnifolia ; 3. Phylica ericoides ; 
4, Acmadénia pungens.t—. 4 
known in some collections as the Winter Beurré. The Apple 
is the Petworth Seedling, and probably the same as the Pet- 
worth Nonpareil. | ——Vertumnus.—Your plant is Lapeyrotsia 
anceps.t——E. M. W.—Lusor, and several others. Thanks.—— 
An Inquirer’s plant is Acer neapolitanum,—T. 0. $.—TI 
Milford Marrow Pea is a large green Marrow; those you sent 
are not. || 
Asusual, ahost of letters has arrived too late for answers this week. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Tae overland mail from India and China has brought 
advices from Bombay to the Ist March, and from 
Canton to the 2lst January. The Indian news is 
of great importance, containing the accounts of a hard- 
fought battle between the British Army under General 
Napier, and the Ameers of Scinde, in which 22,000 Be- 
loochees were totally overthrown by a corps of our Indian 
Army, amounting to no more than 2,800 men. The loss 
of the enemy is estimated at 5000 men, 1000 of whom 
were left dead on the field, together with the whole of 
their artillery, ammunition, standards, some treasure, and 
a considerable quantity of stores. The loss of the British 
amounted to upwards of 200, including several officers, 
who conspicuously distinguished themselves in the battle. 
Three days after the action, the Ameers surrendered 
themselves, unconditionally, as prisoners of war, and the 
British colours were hoisted over the city of Hyderabad. 
The Governor-General arrived at Delhi on the 5th Feb., 
and was preparing to go to Agra, where his presence was 
considered necessary to put an end to the disturb- 
ances in the Bundelkund territory. It was ru- 
moured that the Brahmins of Somnauth had de- 
clined to receive the celebrated gates, on the ground 
that they had been polluted by their application to 
a Mahommedan tomb; it was therefore necessary 
to devise some other destination for these trophies. From 
China the news is satisfactory so far as it conveys the 
assurance of continued tranquillity, but in other respects it 
is comparatively unimportant. The Emperor and his 
Commissioners had shown the strongest desire to main- 
tain friendly relations with the British Officers; and the 
prudent measures of the Municipal authorities of Canton 
had successfully repressed the angry feelings which led to 
the riot of the 7th December. The high Imperial Com- 
missioner, deputed by the Chinese Government to conduct 
he jal negotiations with Sir H. Pottinger, had 
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Pouirry.—A Constant Reader will find good information upon 
MIsceLLANEous.—Zet san 
the Chronicle for the present year.*—— Polly.—The eye of your 
lo not consider your see 
ment upon many sorts already in cultivation. The flowers are 
too smallin two of the specimens, and the white has a con- 
fused and dusty ; in the larger. d variety the 
white is very pure, but we have many in the same style.*—— 
7. W.’s weevils are the Curculio (Otiorhynchus), tenebricosus, 
The smaller specimen being the male, and the larger one the 
female. R.—J. W., Chichester,—Much obliged, but we reully 
cannot understand the plan. Canno! e us a better 
drawing ?}——A Subscriber.—it is not very likely that a Grass 
growing in Devonshire should be the same as the Tussac Grass 
of the Falklands. What you have sent consists of the flower 
of Arundo Phragmites, the common reed, the leaf of some 
other plant, and the shoot of an Equisetum. This monstrum 
triforme cost you 3d. for postage, us 2d. for extra postage, and 
our readers the loss of a few lines of readable matter. as 
such a question worth such an expense?+——4 Housekeeper's 
question is rather too absurd ; and we really cannot oblige her 
with an answer.——An Original Subscriber, — i 
Fuchsia is pretty, and bears some resemblance to F. Lanei ; it 
does not, however, equal that variety either in size or bril- 
liency of colour.t——IV. S. D.—Your plants are, 1, Semper- 
i rtuosum ; 2 appears to be Leptospermum scoparium ; 
4, Kleinia articulata; 5, Acma ign: 
énia juniperina,x— Aliquis.— 
No such plant is known in this part of the country as the 
Roman Iris. + A, K,—The Fungus is a species of Boletus, 
springing from the dead parts of trees, which it eventually 
destroys.t——Evergreen.—Your plants are 1, Ceraténia siliqua ; 
2, Solanum crispum; 3 appears to be Linum flavum t{—— 
BR. 
capitata.t— 4 : is i ; ‘i 
but Jungermannia epipbylla,t-—.Juvenis.—What can it possibly 
signify to you, me, or any other person of respectability what 
such people write, say, or do? They are muchmore dangerous to 
their friends (?) than to anybody else. +——Agricola.—Some oi 
the best Carnations have been enumerated in the late Numbers 
g 
arrived at Canton, and the first conferences were arranged 
to take place on the 21st January—Our French news is 
chiefly of domestic interest, and our intelligence from 
Madrid adds little to what was known last week on the 
constitution of the New Chamber.—The Portuguese Go- 
vernment have refused the terms offered by Lord Aber- 
deen on the tariff question, and it is expected that the 
British Cabinet will at once break off the negotiations. 
—From the Levant, we have accounts of the remarkable 
fatality which has attended the commission appointed to 
arrange the differences between Persia and Turkey. Both 
the Persian and Turkish Plenipotentiaries had died sud- 
denly; the two English Commissioners narrowly escaped 
an accidental death, and the two Tatars sent with the 
intellig, to C inople had died on their way.— 
From the United States we have the President’s mes- 
sage in reference to the disputed construction of those 
portions of Lord Ashburton’s Treaty which relate to the 
right of search. Mr. Tyler declares against any preten- 
sion on the part of Foreign Powers to visit vessels sailing 
under the American flag; and hints, in no very obscure 
terms, to the disposition of his Government to maintain 
this principle by the aid of its whole naval power. 
;. The message of President Tyler has naturally occupied 
attention in both Houses of Parliament; Lord Aberdeen 
and Sir R. Peel have declared that the difference of 
construction to which the message referred was more 
apparent than real; and the thanks of the House of 
Lords were voted last night to Lord Ashburton for the 
conclusion of the treaty. On Tuesday, Lord Asbley 
brought forward his motion condemnatory of the conti- 
nuance of the trade in opium, which he characterised as 
inconsistent with the honour and duties of a Christian 
kingdom. The motion was opposed by Ministers and 
ultimately withdrawn, on the ground that negotiations 
were now in progress on the subject of this trade, the fate 
of which might be risked by any hasty resolution of the 
House. On Thursday Mr. C. Buller moved an address 
to the Queen, for an inquiry into the best means of exten- 
