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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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Notices to Correspondents. 
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Froristrs’ Frowrrs.—Now that the season for florists 
flowers has arrived, we beg to state that we are ready 
to give our opinion of all novelties that may be sent 
us; not with a view to please the growers, nor for the 
sake of indulging any vanity of our own, but in order 
to satisfy the public. It is alleged that there is but 
one society in London which can be trusted upon this 
subject ; that this society only meets occasionally, and 
then by candle-light, when it is impossible to judge 
correctly of the merits of the flowers that are examined. 
We are not of the same opinion; we believe that no 
better decisions than those of the Floricultural Society 
will ever be arrived at, and we wish it to be supported, 
because wé know its decisions to be those of honest 
men, and skilful men. Nevertheless, in order to gratify 
those who look to some other tribunal, we take this 
opportunity of announcing that all florists’ flowers that 
are addressed to our Office, 3, Charles-street, postage 
or carriage paid, will be examined, and their qualities 
declared under a separate heading in these ‘‘ Notices to 
Correspondents.’? ‘The opinion will be given by a gen- 
tleman entirely unconnected with the trade, thoroughly 
acquainted with the subject, but having no interest 
whatever to serve, except the truth. As all these 
judgments will be indexed at the end of the year, the 
buyers of new flowers will have a ready means of 
testing the value of the seedlings advertised. If they 
are found in our columns, their true character can be 
ascertained; if they are not found there it will be 
understood that the growers dare not submit them to 
such an ordeal. i 
Errava.+In consequence of an accidental transposition of type, 
in our last Number, the following answers, Stove Pianrs, 
PELARGoNIUMs, and CAMELLIAS, (Rhodon) are unintelligible, 
and are now reprinted. 
Stove Prawrs.— H.R.M.—The following are showy stove plants, 
Ofeasy cultivation: Euphérbia jacquinifiora and splendens, Poin- 
séttia pulchérrima, Franciscea uniflora, Eranthemum pulchel- 
lum, Justicia coccinea and flavicoma, Ixora coccinea, Gesnera 
Suttoni, splendens, elongata, mollis, and zebrina; Gloxinia 
rubra, céndida, caulescens, speciosa, and sp. alba; Goldftssia 
Zlomerata, Ardisia crenulata, Pancrétium amoenum, Aphelan- 
dra cristata, Phaius grandifGlius, Russclia jimeea, Plumbag 
capensis, Epiphyllum truncatum, Allamanda cathartica, Be- 
g6nia insignis, parviflora, and coccinea, Asschynanthus grandi- 
florus, Coltimnea Schiedeana, Geissoméria longiflora, Strepto- 
carpus Rhexii, Vinca alba and résea. For climbers you may 
take Passiflora Kermesina and pheenicea, Manéttia cordifolia 
Camevis1as.—Rhodon.—The following are about the best for form 
and colour combined, and are also good free-flowering kinds : 
Bealeii, crimson; Chandleri, deep crimson ; 
buff; Fringed White; Franco-furtensis, red; Palmeri, rose. 
The Reticulata will not do out, although protected during the 
‘winter, unless wit f requires to be kept close 
and warm during the growing season, to form the young shoots ; 
any dry situation will suit them where the soii is not too stiff.4] 
Grass Lanno.—W, M.— 
f laying your land down to grass. You can 
scarcely expect a crop of hay this year ; you had better consult 
some experienced farmer near you as to the best grasses to suit 
your soil. If it is loose, dry, and deep, nothing is more profit- 
able than Lucerne. Whatever you sow, let it be sown in 
August, in a well-pulverised surface; put in plenty of sced, 
‘bush-harrow, and roll it well. The weeds which may be in 
us to give minute directions where we have only an imperfect 
kr ge of all the ci we can only give general 
hints. af 
hereafter by a detailed account of the whole, including every 
expense, 
ld be very doubtful 
wv Such an expensive plan, because the light and warmth of 
€ Sun are as essential to the roots of fruit-trees as to their 
th 
th, ne Te A A pit three feet deep, with a surface of 
hance feet six inches by two fect nine inches, will, if filled with 
rk, certainly retain its heat long enough for raising tender 
most in Despair.— {t appears evident 
Seald nes, &c., which you have sent, have been 
led by the quantity of hot vapour which you have suffered 
ft zi j ‘The exhalations from water kept 
ne cisterns could never injure plants; but the sudden 
g of an atmosphere loaded with vapour certainly would, 
ares Orchidacez having, mostly, leaves of a very firm 
foliage y a not so easily harmed as plants with more tender 
hotsagay BO, for the advantage of its genial moisture, 
in the € to be steamed, it is best to admit the yapour early 
evening, and, having done so sufficiently, at once to 
shut off the supply, and not leave it to diffuse itself all the 
night. A night temperature of 71° is certainly too high, at 
this season, for Vines and Pines ; 65° would be ample 
Rusr on Grares.—J. W. 
pollen to the fruit. Such specimen 
ruined by the pressure of the post-bags. 
Pinres.— Hoppiana.— Your Pine-plants have been over-heated by 
bottom-heat some time ago, the Bark-bed being previously to 
that time allowed to get exhausted of heat, and the plants 
starved for want of heat and water. 
u-TrEES.—A Subscriber writes that his Peach and Necta- 
s on a south aspect, which were last year perfectly 
‘e Trom blight and curled leaves, are at this time in a very 
unhealthy state, although tobacco-water has been applied as 
usual. Healso remarks that Peach-trees on an adjoining west 
aspect show no symptoms of blight. [Tobacco-water will only 
prove a remedy for the evils arising from the attacks of insects, 
and not for those occasioned by the varia e of the 
weather—hot days alternating with frosty nights, such as have 
been lately experienced are particularly unfavourable for the 
early vegetation of the Peach; and the trees on the south 
aspect, from being farthest advanced, will be the most suscep- 
tible. Coping-boards would have proved very useful in this 
case. More healthy foliage will be produced when the weather 
becomes warmer, and all curled and blistered leaves may then 
be picked off. Ail that can be done in the meantime is to pro- 
tect from cold as far as may be practicable, and keep the insects 
in check, either by means of tobacco-water, or sprinkling with 
tobacco-dust.] | 
Cnicory.—Jerse n order to cultivate Chicory for its roots to 
be used as a Substitute for Coffee, seeds of the variety should 
be obtained which the French call Chicorée-A.Café, the roots of 
which are large and fleshy, like a White Carrot. As they will 
grow to two or three feet in length, the soil should be deep, 
rich, and rather light or sandy. The seed should be sown in 
April, in diills from 12 to 15 inches apart, according to the 
richness of the soil; and when the plants come up they should 
be thinned to 6 inches apart in the rows. Ye sown 
in a bed for the purpose of being transplanted into any blanks 
hat may occur. The roots are taken up in the autumn or 
winter of the same season; for, although they will live and 
continue increasing in size for many years, yet they become too 
woody for use.|| 
Asparacus.—W. V.—The Giant Asparagus is the same as the 
common Asparagus, only it is well grown. re is but one 
sort of Asparagus, and all the statements to the contrary are 
Turnirs.—Thirsty.—No doubt your land is thoroughly run out; 
give it a good dressing of rotten dung, and guano applied quite 
wet, and you will have plenty of good ips. 
TreE-Pmonies.—Flora.—These are increased in several ways : 
t the best way, when the plant is large, is to take it 
up about the end of October, and shake all the soil fiom the 
roots; then with a sharp knife separate each stem that has 
any roots attached ; then shorten their tops, and pot them in 
i min a cold pit for the winter. 
from the very young shoots, like Dahlias, but not with much 
certainty. 4 
Warxr-Livies.—A Lady.—The best time for planting Water- 
lilies is in the autumn; they only require to be sunk, which 
is best done by putting the piece of rootin a pot filled with 
any rich loamy soil, and dropping it into the water. 1 
sorts are—the White Water-lily (Nympheea alba), the small 
Yellow do. (Nuphar minima), the common Yellow do. (Nuphar 
. (Nuphar advena), the Yellow 
The latter requires some 
m-heat, or it will not flower. 
M.—Very few of the Dahlias sent out in 1842 were 
exhibited in the neighbourhood of London, with the exception 
Dodd’s Prince of Wales son’s Princess 
Royal (light buff, tipped with crimson); these, with Brown’s 
Marquess of Lansdowne, Bedford Surprise, Lady Ann Murray, 
and Lady nd, maintained their characters. Low’s Duke 
of Cornwall and Winterton Rival and Horwood’s Princess Royal 
(primrose), promised wel 
ZALEAS.—Rhodon.—A. Herberti is a very fine kind, but there 
are many as beautiful. It is quite hardy, and will do in the 
open peat border; but like all the hardy Azaleas, the flowers 
are often killed by late spring frost, The soil best suited for 
growing it in is fibry peat, to which should be added a small 
portion of well-rotted cow-dung and a little fine loam; the 
proper time to shift your Azalea is as soon as it has done 
flowering. Give your plant a good shift if it is healthy and 
strong; if weakly it probably does not want one. 
Ross Trees.—T7. A. N.—It is quite possible that the curling in 
the foliage of your Rose-trees may have been due to liquid 
manure, if you have applied it too largely or in too strong a 
State, Cold winds will, however, produce a similar effect, and 
have done so in several instances this season. 
YANUM.—A Subscriber.—This plant would 
Mot, we should think, be regarded as a climber, however it 
ided shrub. 
HOoLLyHock SeED.—A Constant Reader,—The present is the best 
cut off the previous season too scon; they may have been kept 
too dry, and too long before planting ; or the soil you planted 
di 
Crvurarias.—A. B.—When the Cinerarias have done flowering, 
ut off all the flower-stems and old leaves, and place them in 
rs i er close for two 
into small pots, led with a mixture of 
ee ‘@ small portion of well 
When potted return them to the pit or frame, 
tnd keep them close; afterwards, as they grow, shift them into 
larger pots, and use & little manure-water, and finally as the 
danger of frost approaches remove them to the greenhouse, 
Gwnere they will bloom well all the winter and spring, if kept 
insects. The following are some of the best:— 
quite mistaken in your conjecture that it has been 
crossed with a Mallow. Do you think a crow would cross 
E g.—A Well-Wisher says thathe has two Pineries, 
-beds isa brick partition, 2 feet 
m, 
They will do in the 
same situation as the other seeds, ¢—vF. m7. W’ is very 
now, if you can procure them. 
Booxs.—M. G, will find Reichenbach’s Flora Excursoria or 
Koch’s Flora Germanica most useful books for reference during 
a tour on the Continent. 
Nerrine.—D. must give us his name before we publish his 
statement. 
SEEDLING FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
Crvsrantas.—J. D. Parks.—There are several whites superior to 
. the specimen you sent, which is small, and the petals very 
narrow.*—~Seedling.—Yours is large and rich in colour, and 
if a free bloomer makes a showy variety. The single flower sent 
was imperfect, from the petals being irregularly placed round 
the disk; if this defect is common to the flower it is useless.* 
—. Whitbread. —Your quilled sort is larger and superior to 
any variety of the kind we have seen; the construction of the 
flower is perfectly regular, and the ends of the petals uniformly 
expanded,* . 
Potyanruvs.—A Young Grower.—Yours are nothing more than 
common border varicties. 4 - aah 
Hearrseasr.—A Young Grower.—No. 5is deficient in the centre, 
and the colour is very common. N is a superior flower, it 
is round, flat, of good substance, and the petals are finely pro-~ 
portioned ; the border round the lower petals is uniform, and 
the eye bold and neatly defined.*——T. Cross.—Your Lan- 
cashire Lass is a fine flower, of good substance, fine form, with 
large, well-proportioned petals, white ground, deep mulberry 
upper petals, with broad band of the same colour round the 
lower petals, eye large, dark, and fine. 
MisceLtancous.—Queya.— Your inquiry should be addressed 
urseryman. We cannot give prices, or do the work of 
dealers. Phytolacca decandra is a hardy herbaceous plant that 
will grow on any rubbish-heap.— E. S.—None of your seeds 
are worth raising, except Verbascum tomentosum, Symplocos 
racemosus, Clématis anemonef6lia, and Viburnum malayanum. 
e attended to.—— Phen 
(very bad specimen); i$ 
grandiflora; 4, Justicia flavicoma; 5, Erdnthemum puichel- 
Jum; 7, Pavetta indica.§——A Lady.—What Musk-plant do 
you mean? The Musk-plant (Mimulus is easily 
propagated, either by seeds or by portions of the underground 
stems, any timein thespring or autumn. You have nothing 
to do but throw the seeds down in a damp place, and they will 
spring up and take care of themselves. Aster argophyllus 
(the Musk-shrub), is increased by cuttings of the young woo 
put in sand and placed in a x or Melon-frame, and 
covered with a bell-glass any time when young wood can be 
procured from off the old plant. . Lonicera tata- 
rica rubra; 2, Pimélea résea; 3, Murdltia Heistéria; 4, Rubus 
i Caragana arborescens; 6, Helichrysum sesa- 
moides ; 7, Phoenocoma prolifera ; pacris grandiflora ; 9, 
Cytisus rathénicus; 10, Clianthus puniceus; 11, Kérria japén- 
ica. J—A Young Gardener.—1, Edwardsia microphylla; 2, 
Podaljria calyptrata; 3, Indigéfera australis; 4, an Acacia, 
Subserib Your seed belongs to Arau~ 
ceeding with it, see our Index for 1842. Me 
quite different from Convolvulus major; it is a erennial, with 
a great tuberous root.—J. Grifin.—Your plant is Leptotes 
bicolor, and not a Brassavola.—— Shropshire.—We have your 
proposition under consideration ; our opinion is the same as 
your own, but there are difficulties. 
Asusual, ahostof letters has arrived too late for answers this week. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Her Maszsty’s Accovcurmenr and the birth of 
another Princess must be already known in all parts of 
the kingdom ; we have, therefore, only to congratulate 
our readers on the occurrence, and to express our satis- 
faction that the daily bulletins give the most favourable 
reports of her Majesty and the infant Princess.—The 
funeral of the Duke of Sussex is understood to be fixed 
for Thursday next: it will take place, in accordance with 
the express desire of his Royal Highness, in the cemetery 
at Kensal Green. The ceremony of lying in state is at 
present fixed for Wednesday, but the order of the funeral 
procession does not appear to be finally settled. The 
Lord Chamberlain has given orders for the Court to go 
into mourning for three weeks, and the Earl Marshal has 
issued the usual notice for a general mourning for ten 
days, commencing from Sunday last,—In Parliament, the 
congratulations of both Houses on the birth of a Princess, 
and addresses of condolence on the death of the Duke of 
Sussex, have been unanimously voted to her Majesty. 
The leading Members of both Houses took advantage of 
the opportunity to bear testimony to the domestic virtues 
and example of the Queen, and to the memory of the 
Duke of Sussex, who during a long life had been the 
patron of science, literature, and the arts, and the 
warm supporter of every charitable institution. The 
proceedings in the House of Commons during the 
week have been chiefly of a routine character. Sir R. 
Peel announced on Tuesday, that the long-protracted nego- 
tiations with Portugal have been ‘‘interrupted’’ by the 
Portuguese Government; and that the mission of Mr. 
Ellis to the Court of Brazil for the re-adjustment of com- 
mercial relations has hitherto been unsuccessful. On the 
same night, Mr. Ricardo’s motion for an address to the 
Queen, on the remission of the import duties, was nega- 
tived by a majority of 74. On Wednesday, Lord J. Rus- 
sell moved the second reading of his Municipal Corpora- 
tions’ Bill, which was opposed by Sir J. Graham, and lost 
on a division, by a minority of 53. _The second reading 
of the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill was carried last night by 
a majority of 82. 
From France, we have the particulars of the marriage 
of the Princess Clementine to Prince Augustus of Saxe 
Coburg, and an announcement that the French Court will 
go into mourning next week for the Duke of Sussex.— 
In Spain, great uncertainty still prevails in regard to the 
organisation of the Cabinet, and nothing of a decisive 
character is yet known.—The German papers give long 
