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GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
249 
be planted in well-drained pots, 
of the bulbs barely above the soil. They should be watered 
sparingly until roots are formed, but when they begin to grow 
watershould be freely supplied. After the three former bulbs have 
flowered or made their annual growth, they should be removed 
toa dry part of the stove to rest. 
odorus should be kept near the g) 
and instead of allowing them to res 
gently growing bya sparing supply of water. 
cases should be to water them in proportion to the rate of 
growth, and to withhold it entirely when they are not growing.t 
Fros.—J, M.—Having room for only one Fig-tree against the 
back wall of a Peach-house, you cannot do better than plant 
the Brown Turkey. You may perhaps succeed in grafting Figs 
immediately after they have burstinto leaf, The French prefer 
Srocks.—An 0: 
is distinguished from 
chesnut-coloured shoots, and small fibrous roots, wh‘ch spread 
The English Paradise may 
you send a Stoc! 
the sort.| aes 
Gravrine.—Discipulus.—We really do_not see what objections 
can be raised to the mode of grafting Vines described 
in meeting with it, in this condition, grafting-clay is, perhaps, 
preferable.t 
Ontons.— Al. B, K.—The Globe Onion is hardy enough to stand 
our ordinary winters; and from this the variety you have 
received under the name of New White Globe is probably not 
very different. Sow in any open exposure in August or Sep- 
tember. |) 
now. It will be about 10 or 12 weeks before it arrives at per- 
RAGus.—G.—It is better to form beds of Asparagus by sow- 
There is 
and applied in a liquid state. “We should hardly suppose that 
is advanced period of the year, 
435, of last year’s Chronicle, you wil a statemen 
effect, from a correspondent, who was somewhat similarly si- 
tuated to yourself.t 
Govnns.—Junius.—The Mammoth Gourd is so much like the 
Potiron jaune, that they are probably the same thing under 
The former may be had of the principal 
t 
Ruvsare.—J. W.—The only way to prevent Rhubarb from 
flowering is to break off the flower-stalks as fast as they 
gradually to the extremity, and its flesh is reddish, witha yel- 
Tow heart. The Long Horn is an earlier variety than the pre- 
ceding ; its root is long and cylindrical, terminating abruptly ; 
flesh reddish-orange, with a small heart almost of the same 
Torwip.—An Inquirer. — The Globe Turnip is a good sort 
1 
them, and the simplest method of getting rid of them 
destroy their haunts by stopping up the chinks and holes in the 
‘walls with mortar. 
s 
‘This may be done with a brush, 
And ought to be repeated once or twice; but if the furniture 
be varnished, the spirits will probably remove the artificial 
Booxs.—John Horticola.— 
7 
Famintarn Borany.—A Subscriber.—So many persons object to 
i that we must suppose R. E. to 
Name, The worst of calling it the little Celandine, is that 
Celandine itself isso very different a plant, and has no relation 
Hounirs,—J. W.—The 
Hollies is thie spring, 
‘om severe fros 
constant removal of those portions of the tan upon which it 
Pp Makes its appearance. t 7 
ine oF GarpEns.—P. H.—No plans of the kind which you 
Was are published, except in connexion with other matters. 
‘ou will find an abundance of them in Loudon’s Encyclopedia 
of Gardening, and in the Gardeners’ Magazine. 
IANAGEMENT oF GarpENs.—Advocate—It is impossible for a 
Person who has not received a Gardener’s education 
on properly the management of an extensive garden. Books 
ee agazines are exceedingly useful aids, but it will not do to 
Fr. ‘ust to them alone,t 
Loans Wo log.—Gas-tar, cinder-ashes, and sand, if prepared 
pacts as stated at p. 379 of 1842, form an excellent floor for 
sheds and other buildings. 
street, Blackfriars. 
Brighton. 
Asusual, ahost of letters has arrived too late for answers this week. 
Tur customary adjournment of Parliament for the 
Easter Holidays took place on Tuesday, 
of Commons was adjourned to Monday the 24th, and the 
Lords to Tuesday the 25th inst. 
ment, Lord Brougham introduced his bill for the better 
prevention of the Slave Trade. 
measure are to decide, by a de 
subject residing in a foreign country, who buys slaves and 
transports them to his own plantation, is guilty of felony 
—to legislate respecting the transmission by legal means 
of foreign slave plantations—and to prohibit the nyine, the pensions granted by the Eict India Company to per® 
sons in their civil, military, marine, medical, and ecclesi- 
i astical services, for the eight years ending the 30th June, 
laid upon | 1842, has just been presented to the House of Commons, 
and which shows the following results:—The amounts 
paid at the three Presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and 
Bombay, during the aforesaid period, was, in the civil 
service 700/.; in the military 96,2697. 17s. 5d.; in the 
menor ares eae Ae pects ela on 
pole ord Clive’s fun: 3 .; Bengal pilot service, 1, a 
The Bill giving to the Wonks of Common 10s. ; Indian navy, 11,8052. ; a a steam engineers, 
he subject of disputed | 3997, 
the Court of Directors have been as follows :—Volunteers 
for the Indian navy, 99; volunteers for the pilot service, 
96; steam engineers, 141 5 cadets, 2,255 ; assistant-sur= 
geons, 415; civil service, 132. 
and selling of slaves by join Y 
in England for the purpose of carrying on the trade abroad. 
In the Commons, on Monday, Lord J. Russell 
the table:the resolutions relating to Education which he 
proposes to bring forward after Easter ; 
Graham stated that several of the points they embraced 
Fae samineey rer oatl - have already beer 
5 rgeverance.—You may sow Knight's Tall Marrow Pea | oy the modifications they 
tories Bill. 
Pleas an appellate jurisdiction on t 
votes was passed 
motion for making the juris 
subject of a separate bill was negatived by a large ma- 
jority. 
Bill was opposed by Sir Robert Inglis, on the ground that 
it was a deliberate step towards the separation of the Church 
from the State, and that the change in the probate 
and custody of wills was not justified by necessity. Sir 
J. Graham defended the bill, and refused, on the part of | 4oz. 2dwt. 
Government, to withdraw or refer it to a select com- 
mittee. An adjournment was called for, and carried, on 
a division, by a majority of 51 to 136. On Tuesday, 
Dr. Bowring brought forward a motion respecting the 
Bishopric of 
Inglis, Sir R. Peel, and Lord Palmerston, and withdrawn 
without a division. 
selec! 
mode of setting apart a p 
shall be inclosed by Act of Parliament, to be let out in 
small allotments to the labouring poor of the district. 
majority. 
‘——Lawra.—The most effectual mode of plac 
small plant is Gentiana acaulis; the other is Ribes afreum. + A P Sip 
—-D.—Yonr seedling Cinerarias are very poor specimens. As PONE ENN COR ee of the death of Sir C. B. 
you appear anxious to raise good varieties, the better plan for 
you to pursue is, to purchas: 
save seeds from them. This method willincrease your chances 
of success.*~—B. G.—Your Pansy is a pretty 
substance: but unless the side petals come more perfect in the 
marking, it will not be worth sending out.*——W. 
Pansy, named ‘‘ Werner,” is a 
properties ; the eye is 
centre, and the margin around the lower pe 
and perfect, of a deep purple.*——J. Det 
one of the many varicti 
¢ three or four fine sorts, and to 
lower, of goo 
, Barl,—Y¥ our 
high-coloured flower, of good 
fine, surrounded with a rich yellow 
tals is broad, dark, 
—Your Gesnera is 
ieties of G. Douglasii.}—— Rusticus.—No. 
lant is Corydalis bulbosa.t—— 
tolerably good, but its cultiv- 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Prior to the adjourn- 
The chief objects of this 
claratory act, that a British 
t 
and Sir J. 
n considered by Government in deciding 
have introduced into the Fac- 
, after a division in which Sir T. Wilde’s 
diction of the court of law the 
The second reading of the Ecclesiastical Courts 
Jerusalem, which was opposed by Sir R. 
t committee was appointed to inquire into the best 
ortion of all waste lands which 
From France, we learn that a new post-office treaty 
e 
has been concluded with this country, by which th 
rates at present in force will be reduced one half.— 
From Spain we have accounts of the opening of the | market, at the estimated price of 598d. per ounce, the 
Cortes on,the 3d inst. .'The royal specch alluded chiefly to | Mint obtained a pr 
the state of the national finances, to the insurrection at 
Barcelona, and to the near approach of the Queen's 
The rumours of a change of Ministry gain 
round ; but it is understood that no change will take 
e before the Chambers are regularly constituted.—In 
Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Justice.—The affairs of 
the Levant are still the source of*much uncertainty, and 
the disputes between the Porte and Russia on the recent 
revolution in Servia are likely to lead to still further em- 
barrassments in Turkish policy.—From the United States 
we Jearn that Sir C. Metcalfe, the new Governor-General 
of Canada, arrived at Boston on the 20th ult. 
Home News. 
ut.—The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince of 
Wales, and the Princess Royal, continue at Buckingham 
Palace, and are in excellent health. Her Majesty has 
taken her usual morning walk during the week in the gar- 
dens of the Palace, and took an airing in an open carriage 
on Tuesday. The Duke of Sussex has been indisposed 
for some days at Kensington Palace, and still continues 
unwell. The Crown Prince of Wurtemberg, on Sunday, 
drove as far as Hampstead, and visited the Zoological 
Gardens ; in the course of the present month his Royal 
ntends to set out ona tour in the provinces. 
tess of Mount Edgcumbe has succeeded the 
Jocelyn as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen; 
The Coun 
have succee! TO 
Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Maj 
when the House = 
Fr 
the Paris paper: 
and Calais, to which the Opposition offer a 
arquess of Ormonde and Mr. Ormsby Gore | and the Minister for 
ded Lord Byron and Captain Meynell, as the | considered satisfactory, rejected the petition.—The 
who was employed in the Euphrates expedition, and se- 
veral other important missions, has 
proceed to Hong Kong, as Commanding-ofticer of Artillery. 
1G Lord Rendlesh has 
been appointed to 
ste 
The Royal Navy.—The actual number of ships of all 
classes of the Royal Navy in commission on the lst day 
of December, 1842, was 2330 
complements 
Of the above ships there were 2 first-rates, having 1,950 
officers and men 3 
men; 7 third-rates, with 
rates, with 3,801 officers and men; 12 fifth-rates, 4,000 
officers and men; and 14 sixth-rat 
men. 
ments was 5,458. 
1,602 officers and men; and 7 packet-brigs, 
cers and men. 
ing, with 1,014 officers and men. There were 14 station- 
Hee ‘ F 3 
‘of these ships, officers and men, was 39,646. 
6 second-rates, with 4,700 officers and 
4,500 officers and men ; 8 fourth- 
es, 2,990 officers and 
There were 41 sloops, the total of whose comple- 
The gun-brigs, &c., were 39, with 
with 308 offi 
There were 14 vessels engaged in survey 
amounting to 
y or g hips, witl i 
368; and 3 yachts, with 289 officers and men. The 
number of steam-vessels in commission was 66, and these 
had 3,666 officers and men. 
of all classes laid up in ordinary on the Ist of December; 
1842, was 240. 
second-class, 46 third-class, 33 fourth-class, 64 fifth-class, 
and 10 sixth-class. The sloops were 8, 
brigs 11, cutters 6, and steam-vessels 16. The total num- 
ber of all classes in commission and in ordinary is 473. 
The total number of ships 
Of these there were 16 first-class, 15 
brigs 15, packet- 
East India Pensions and Appointments.—A return of 
During the same period the appointments made by 
Sycee Silver.—A Parliamentary paper delivered last 
week shows that the quantity of silver imported from 
China in her Majesty’s ship Conway, in January 1842, 
amounted to 2,001,200 dollars, weighing 143,639lb. 2oz. 
5dwe. gross, the standard weight of which was 148,5261b. 
This sold from the Mint, realized 440,7291. 
10s. 6d., at the respective prices of 593d., 598d., and 
594d. per ounce. T 
silver, Mr. Mathison, the Mint refiner, under the sanction 
of the Treasury, having undertaken to defray all expenses, 
in consideration of being allowed 33 grains of gold (less 
10 per cent.) on every pound weight gross of silver. The 
% ross weight of gold extracted therefrom, was 2,530 oz. 
On the motion of Mr. Cooper, a| Tdwt. 17gr- 3 ‘ilcwance to Mr. Mathison, after deducting 
10 per cent., 94002. 13dwt. 9gr., leaving 1,5890z. Sdwt. 
8gr. gross, which produced in 
Zdwt, 2lgr. 
from. Portsmouth to the Mint was 2007. 15s. 8d. 
tuities to Mint officers, clerks, porters, &c., for extra 
exertions, 4667. 15s. 8d. 
produce 
sending the silver 
here was no charge for melting the 
n standard weight 1,7290z. 
The expense of transporting the treasure 
Gra- 
The amount which the gold 
ed, at 31. 17s. 9d. per oz, was 6,7231. Os. 4d. By 
to the Mint, instead of selling it in the 
ofit of 6547. 12s. 9d. 
awce.—The principal domestic topic referred to in 
s is the projected railroad between Paris 
In the standing committees of t 
1 a partial modification of the Cabinet is also Deputies the undertaking appears to have been regarde! 
Five out of those ni 
last, by the Count de 
on the part of France, and the Earl of Aberdeen on the 
part of England. By this treaty the charge upon letters, 
under the weight of half-an-ounce, will be a uniform one 
of one franc—instead of two francs, the present rate, for 
those received in France from England, when not pre- 
paid there—or as pre-payment from France to England ; 
and tenpence under similar circumstances in England, 
instead of one shilling and eightpence, as now charged. 
The treaty is to come into operation on the 1st June next. 
A petition was presented to the Chamber of Peers on 
Monday last, praying that Don Carlos might be set at 
liberty ; : but the Chamber, after having heard the 
explanations given by the President of the Council 
elegraph brought news to 
jesty. ‘ t 
Official ‘Appointments.—Lieutenant-Colonel Chesney, | belfry tower of Valenciennes, 210 feet high, had fallen 
