1843.] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
805 
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, 
Manures.—Jack Spratt.—We do not conceive that there would 
be much advantage i 
Over a couple of pounds pour ag 
Tmuch water as will fill a watering-pot, stir it up, leave it for a 
few hours, and then use it like liquid manure. It answers al 
purposes for all ¢: 
We have not seen it 
but anticipate good effects from it. 
be done after earthing up; the rain will soon wash them 
down into 
——J. 0.U.—We 
been used as amanure ; but will inquire and let you know next 
‘eek, 
Bacon. —Discipulus poreinus.—Tf you cure and ke 
properly, it will not rust; if it does rust, there 
how of. For the mode of mai 
D A Subseriber.—The best thing you can do 
in the meantime with your clay subsoil in the place 
youintend forming a garden is to trench it, and at the same 
ime mix with it plenty of long dung, litter 
Potatoes, the surface-soil will require to be kept up; but as 
S00n as the crop is obtained, the subsoil should be exposed to 
mello 
= proportion of, say 6 inches in depth of the latter toa foot 
—. N. W.—If we understand your description, you have 
nothing to do except to puddle the bottom and sides of your 
pond, for which purpose you must procure some stiff clay, and 
ee it be applied two feet thick ; any country labourer will show 
* ter 
‘ow how to do it.+ 
Ww: J. 
€ present time, it would 
Probably have recoyered 3 especially if the bare places had had 
dressing of soot as soon as they bec 
mowing them till next spring. 
Grass Lawns.—F, 4, P.’s lawn, 
down, and is yet coarse, on account of the turf 
taken from a pasture, can only be improved by frequent mow- 
1,8 aud by often rolling it with a heavy roller, when, it te dav 
UMIGATION.—A Sub, er.—It is possible that you have injured 
your Vine-leaves by using Tobacco in too d 
it is probable that something else has 
Tobacco-paper is the safest substance to v 
Borrom-nrar.—Amatew.—The bes 
is hot water, and much the cheapest in the long run, 
ome green; and not 
which has been 
Ys fi 1 fer- 
menting materials are either expensive or uncertain, and 
7, A. N.—Your heap of turf would 
rendered more valuable by having a few pails of chamber ley 
to dis- 
ny remarks are elicited, 
We shall be glad to publish them. We thought you would be 
8lad to know that Mr. Roberts's book contains the inform. 
Bik Rry.—A. H.—The scientific name of this plant is 
'Y’salis edulis or peruviana, for both species are employed for 
though the former is commonest... It is 
cated @S an ordinary greenhouse perennial, and supported by 
pUellis, or by a few separate bushy stakes, being 
Fitrerrrtes— 
trees are 
ey are disposed to grow luxuriantly to wood, instead 
pf Moducing fruit; and if youprune them short, as is practised 
t, they will only send up vigorous shoots, not adapted 
length, or nearly so, the 
$8 they grow parallel toa west wall, they would become incon- 
Venient) 
Gahoots at Midsummer. || 
Prva Murserry-rrens.— A Subseriber.— Your scions 
off in good time, you may Succeed by 
the tree you wish to 
e, by whip-grafting; onl 
a ing care n per bud or shoot behind the 
"i 10n till such time as it may be dispensed with, when the scion 
©gins to push. 
resHES.—D, B. complains that his Radishes, 
re always hard and fibrous at al 
Ode of cultivati 
Soil, are the o: 
ftickly, whieh’ i 
» cold, and 
porder whi 
As: 
ti 
seu that the salt and manure will tell, 
antage. We p 
is no 
off 
all means 
: ea Ue M and see that 
Winter, or aNeRICn ore made t! horoughly impervious to frost 
> +2 apartment with a small sto e or fire. 
Place, to be ¢mployed in yery severe weather, : a 
+A 
thee yen eae in a dry loft, with open shelves, 
Oxiirs.—H. D.—We seen 
Currry-trERs on WA.LS.—G. B. lM.—We presume there is no 
sort of Cherry that will produce fruit only as a standard, and not 
against a wall. Yours being on the south aspect of a lone 
house, situated ona heath, doubtless suffers when in blossom 
from cold at night after being exposed to hot sun through the 
day. A thin canvass screen always kept on at night during the 
blossoming season, and when the sun is stron, through the 
day, will protect the blossoms from those vicissitudes which 
occasion failure in setting the fruit.|| 
PyARs.—A Subscriber.—The Broom Park is scarcely so desirable 
s the Monarch Pear; it partakes of the flavours of the Melon 
and Pine-Apple, and as it keeps till January, and being a hard: 
variety, it well deserves a place in a collection; but it cannot 
be said to equal the Beurré Rance, which ranks the highest 
among late-keeping Pears. Inconnue Van Mons is unknown 
tous; the Beurré Picquery has probably never been fruited in 
this country; in M. Jamin’s C: i 
Automneis as 
it does not keep so 
The portion of shoot produced under these circumstances will 
be sound and well ripened ; whereas if its growth were stinted 
i later in the season, a rapid but 
unhealthy development would take place after heavy rains 
have thoroughly moistened the border. i] 
VLowen-Szxps.—T. 4.N.— Annual seeds will generally grow 
very well the second year, if they are kept in a dry airy place.t 
Pewrsrrmons,—G. H.—Your question is too indefivite. The spe- 
cies and varieties of Pentstemons are so numerous, and of such 
different characters, that it would be impossible to give direc- 
tions for culture which would include all. 
N -€. sends us specimens of this 
plant to inquire its name, and adds that he has planted it against 
an open wall, facing the west, where it stood the frost of last 
winter uninjured, with only a single mat to protect it. 
the Saintfoin, the one being Ondébrychis coronaria; the o 
Ondébrychis sativa. ita i 
must be treated in all respects as the Saintfoin itself, and no 
doubt will require chalk. The best plant for you to grow is 
Cametiias.—Vectis.—We are quite unacquainted with any case 
possible, and yet the 
young shoots are dying near the base. Send us an exact 
description of your case, and we will publish it; when some 
AMARYLIIS LONGIFOLIA.~A Subseriber.—Al plants require a 
there is no exception to this. 
should grow in the summer and notin the winter; butif you 
have kept it growing all winter, you had better Ict it go to 
rest no 
CrMBtne PLAwns.—F. A. P.—The following climbers, of limited 
growth, w 
latifolia, ‘a Marryattac, m = 
Clematis Sicboldii, Sollya heterophylla, Kennedy a longerace. 
mosa, Lophospermum dens, and ¢ 
The latter, though not strictly a climbing plant, can be treated 
a 
E 
® 
a 
P.—These plants’ will not flourish in the 
temperature of a greenhouse, as ey require a warm and 
ist si such as is obtained from being plunged in 
fermenting bark. 
Frower-Garprn.—J. 0. R.—A flower-garden laid ont upon the 
Linnean system will be but a poor affai i 
are unimportant; for if there is room for 24 plants there will 
of Plants in the Cambridge Botanic Garden,” or any 
fashioned systematic catalogue of garden plants, you wili see 
what to procure, and your nurseryman will tell you the prices 
of them. 
SEEDLINGS ON Horneps,—7, A, 
management of seedlings on a hotbed, in order to prevent their 
i A bea layer 
* of fresh turf placed with the grassy side downwards, between 
the fermenting material: he soil. 
xuats.—A Tivy Side Subscriber—Brachycome iberidifotia, 
and kept in a greenhouse, or any similar place where they can 
A. N.—Your annuals, raised in a 
‘ht.-——T. 
seed-pans, but potted, three ina pot, into 
-sized pots; the proper stage of their growth at which 
emee rmined by the 
season, as they will not be injured by being transferred from 
a 
ay. If, 
memoranda respecting the habits of birds, and shall be happy 
to continue to do so as they are furnished to us by our corres. 
pondents, 
Snake MILiIPEepss. 
y these insects, is 
Chronicle 
are given. 
ge ae nase Ranunculnies are infested 
crerred to page 196 of txe ‘Gardeners’ 
for 1841, where the methods of destroying. them 
es 
the insects destroyed.* - 
whether spirits of tar will in, 
probably not; it is worth a tr 
us with the result. 
InsEcts.—Rhodon’s larva appears to belong to some Tipola, 
vide Gardeners’ Chronicle, vol. i., p. 612. If names are to be 
given to specimens of insects, they ought to be sent up packed 
carefully. Yours and many others werecrushed to pieces. 
quill stopped with a c 
——A Subscriber.—We do 
injure your Pinks and Carnations ; 
A 
ork is generally guard enough from the 
injury of the letter-bags. R.m—A Subscriber's insect injuring 
his Peach-trees, &c. is the Otiorhynchus (Curculio) tenebri_ 
cosus, figured and described in the second Volume of the Gar- 
deners’ Chronicle, p. 316. B 
insects for the cabinet is too . 
answered the purpose; besides, spirits of wine and corro- 
sive sublimate always leave a white deposit where they touch 
the insect. The best way of destroying Coleoptera is to plunge 
them into boiling water— Mr. Wm. Cummings’ insect is the 
daleruca lineola; the best means of destroying it is to hold a 
sieve or net under the infested Willows, and by shaking or 
striking the branches with a stick, the beetles will fall down, 
and may be killed with boiling water. R.——A Subseriber.—It 
is impossible to give any satisfactory answers relative to 
insects without seeing the specimens. If our correspondent 
will do us the favour to forward two or three of the grubs in a 
pill-box 1. Curtis, 11, Robert-street, Hampstead-road, 
without delay, he w i 
Ss 
CINERARIAS.—Surpedon.—Your Ci 
white, but there is nothing to distinguish them from many 
sorts ve i 
Sub. 
Cau — The Calccolarias are small and common 
—not worth preserving.* 
Pansius.—A, K.—Nos. 6, 7,8, good border varieties, but deficient 
0: 
in the properties of show-flowers; the upper petals are out of 
proportion, being too large in all; edges too much serrated in 
6, which, with 7, want texture; 8 is the best.*—_W, Earl. 
43, a clear well-formed flower, with good eye, but deficientin 
texture.*— p, A large dark well-formed Pansy, with good 
eye—rather too thin for its size. *. R. Pearson.— A compact 
and beautiful seedling; white ground, eye large and very dark, 
a band of dark bright blue round the lower petals, upper petals 
darker, with a purple tinge, the flowel 
and finely proportioned, lying fiat, 
eee: 
the eyeis large and good, leaving 
and softens too much into 
the white, giving carance.* 
MIscELLA. 
frutesce’ 
ile—A 
3 2. Leucdium eestivam 
J isy estroy it by cutting it down con- 
tinually, anduever allowing it toseed. Tivy.—Seville Oranges 
know of except for making marmalade 
specimen, with its folia; ——J. N.— 
e seeds were received, but wil! not be reported in this Paper 
till the discoverer has had an oppor! unity of maki 
statement respecting them. Salopian.— Grahamia aromati 
is the same as Cephaléphora ica; itis a Chilian Com- 
posite plant, of little beauty. Probably the e is short in Loni- 
cera; but custom makes it long. ‘fo us it seems that more 
courage is required to say Anemone than Anemone; for the 
quantity of that word is certain, and besides it is classical; we 
cannot forget the Ddaxpya ray avenovar, Your note was 
mislaid, or it would have been answered long ago.— An Irish 
Paddy,—It is really impossible to name plants of which only 
leaves are sent, without flowers. R, G.—A Cleiséstoma, and 
apparently C. réseum.—— Organ Mountains.—Next ek. 
Caleb.—The seedling you have sent is too much like the Yellow 
China for us to recommend your purchasing it. 
As usual, a host of letters hasarrived too late for answers this week. 
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NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Tux Overland Mail from India and China, which left 
Bombay on the Ist of April, arrived at Malta on the 29th 
ult., and the leading facts of the intelligence it brings haye 
been received by telegraphic despatch. The Governor- 
General has declared that Scinde is annexed to the English 
territory, and thus that important country has become a 
province of our Indian Empire. Slavery is henceforth to 
be abolished in Scinde, and the navigation of the Indus 
is to be opened to all nations. Considerable treasure was 
found in Hyderabad after its capture by the British army, 
the amount of which is said to exceed 1,000,002. sterling. 
The news from China comes down to the 23d February, 
and is briefly mentioned as of a favourable nature, although 
it contains no important fact.—From France, we have the 
particulars of the Postage Convention recently concluded 
between the French and English Governments, the 
result of which will be a considerable reduction in 
the rates at present in force, both on letters and 
on pamphlets. The King’s ftie was celebrated on 
Monday, with the usual rejoicings, and without the 
slightest disturbance.—In Spain, M. Cortina has been 
elected President of the Chamber of Deputies by a large 
majority, and the draft of the address drawn up by @ 
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