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THE GARDENERY 
CHRONIC 
LE. [APRIL 22, 
too cold. Whenever sey poem to “draw,” they are either too 
‘warm or too much con! 
ConSERVATORY.—As vas petals fabled can be done here, on 
account of the flowers, and as lo not last so long ina 
a “de legree ae Su os must be kept up by 
pouring water on the paths or under the stages. Blinds: are now 
indispensable in the middle of the See 
—Increase, pot off, and harden your stock of flowel 
garden plants as fast as their citretent natures will permit ; thé 
d places, or w 
mats; and the touper they are here bbe finer they will look after 
being planted out in hong flower-gar 
t-door ae te 
FLowrRr-GARDEN. once nd neatness in all parts of ue 
flower. garden are pleasing at all times, and the more so now, 
anticipation of the approaching Say season Late-laid turf cha 
a cmeereet ] 
a 
30,006 
20.108 
2 
& 
29. ae Be Sasa lige 
April 14. Uniformly overcast; cloudy and fine; overcast, 
Hazy; overcast and mild; very fine 
i Eight haze ; fine with unshine; overcast at night, 
hts 
Average "301004 
have yivergine> clear den 
Ri Eee saver, ei 
19, Hazy ; fine with slight haze; leer ana, tbe, 
. Very fine throughout; cl i 
Mean hansiaithe of the week 4°. above the average. 
State of the Weathe at Chiswick diting the last 17 yea i 
saline Ave 29, 1848 Oe a a 
iene sem Yea 
Tem 
| Aver. 
April. Highest 
| Temp. 
40.4 
oa 
iod oceurred on the sath in 
e highest temperatre Guring the above 
Sth in 1827, and 26th in 1835— 
and the lowest on the 
Th 
1841—thermometer 76°; 
thermometer 2: 
REPORT ON COVENT-GARDEN MARKET. 
the Week ending April 21, 1843. 
Tue Market, this week, ins some very good Hothouse 
ie Black Tabane" ‘kind, the imported ones per 
art, penta y aed oe decayed 
Strawberries are likewise fine. O: mbers there is an ex- 
ceedingly varied assortment, many ene large and niandaanie’ 
while some, labelled at 6d. each are of a most miserable descrip- 
tion. New Potatoes, of the Ash-leaved feeble sort, are abundant, 
French Beans are tolerably good. The 
Easter Beurré Pears, the Lady SBI; fasidttie Gioucestes Pippin 
Apple have a handsome and sound appearance. There are also a 
g the flowers Chorozema cordatum, Erica 
raion and florida, are the most notice- 
are extremely beautiful. The flowers of the common Sa dyed 
of various colours, are also eee Punnets for fruit, en- 
velloped in moss, and sparingly decorated eee ae hued 
everlasting flowers, are exhibited in one or two stall 
PRICES, Saturvay, April 22, 1943.—FRUITS :— 
Pine Apple, per 1b. 61 0108 per 100 Bato Ide 
Grapes, hothouse, cee 
nish,, per Ib. 1s ioieed 
pel fe t nuts, r peck is 
Apples, dessert, Der bushey ,5rtol4 Almonds, perpeck, 6 
Kitchen, 4s Sweet Almonds, per po 
Filte: ria,English, er 00 i 560 
Strawberries, forced, pueron 08 tale Nuts, per 100 Ibs., 608, to 70 
Pomegranates, per Nuts, oa shel— 
Oranges, per doz., ie i 2s 6d anil, 108 
_ T 100, 6s to 18s 
bi ftter, per eee ie ee 308 
let 
— Cob, 12s to olde 
VEGETABLES. 
paused per doz. 6d tos )Spinach, per sieve, Is tole 6d 
Cabbuye, Red, per doz. 2 to Ge | |Leeke, per dox. buns 24 to Bs Gd 
plants, per doz. te to 3¢6d —|Onions, per bi wry Bs to Ba 
Broecoli, Whitey per bunch, 4d to 28 — Bickling, per hf-sv.,4s 6d to 5 
Purple, 4d t 
Beans, Kidney, fore 0,0. tho, Ie toe 
toes, per ton, 408 
eae, Bee 
TS Ferbushiel, 1s 6d to ae ed 
= Kidney, p. bush., 19 Gd to 2¢ 
6d 
Asparagit, foe ved te, sy ae 100, 68 to os 
e, or Sina 14 Gd t0 2s 
Sea-kale, rpanmey 
Letice, abbage 
08, 
Jerusalem Ante chokes, per half-sieve, 
©, per to 25 
a Wee »1s6d to2r6d |c: Slery hd., (12to 15) 6d to 2 
net, 2d to 3 
Saleaty, per ae dle, 1s Bd to Ie 6d ves 9 to i 
Notices to Correspondents. 
Mawure: Anthony.—Much obliged; as the letter has not 
appeared in our ee ache although in type, we have thought 
it better to cancel it. A Subscriber cae soil from a hen- 
house Mile be found A trong manure; but it should be added 
© the compost heap, not used alone, as nit is too stre 
employed in the Vine-border, it would be better to mix it 
with charcoal-dust, or cinder-sifti 
have any.t——A. U.—Nitrate of Soda, i in avery weak solution, 
will push on your young cat but putrid urine and soap- 
suds are much better.ji—4. M.—If your seeds are not in 
contact wit! ch the guano, and ae ie ve not used too much o: 
it, you will find advantage from it. You should water the beds 
‘well, so as to dilute the pia in that w 
soluble. e of lime is 
nearly insoluble ; others recommend it asa means ret rendering 
humus soluble. The great objection to adding quick-lime to 
decomposing animal matter is, that it expels the ammonia, 
a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen. such plant: 
tain as Wheat and Peas, for. aenie in notable quantity, 
Drainace.—Bucks.—We are endeavouring to obtain some go 
Burrsr. Poor Sarah Skimmer! It really is a sad thing et 
Vines.—M. W. K 
Humip ATMOSPHERE .— 
Srrrinc-Rooms.—F. T.— 
Brrcn-Hepoa 
ANNUAL ‘CLIMBY 
Laore 
pei oe 
w 
Bavtey 
Sere 
PortuLa 
Canyrso.— W.—Calypso borealis is a hardy Orchidaceous 
0 doubt require to find it in the soil. For the rest you had 
Better study Mr. Soliy’s ‘ Rural Chemistry,” in which you will 
find a information.t 
od 
“formation about burning clay, and hope to furnish it shortly. 
A Cou eae Or peduiee how to construct one of those 
"Oat: kilns used b; 
ig Only 3/., which 
“'Paxton’s Coleg 's 
of his 
subjec 
churning should make your “lines and showldars ” ache; 
we suspect your master has given you a bad churn. It ie 0 
no use going to chemistry for help; you must trust to the en- 
gine maker, or to a good donkey, if you have one, to take the: 
labour off your “ lines.’ 
Musurooms.—John 
the sides 
Hori He olire asi Cole may be grown on 
of Cucumbe: 
te ae 
oh tel ut injurious afte! 
Dg. Coal. -ashes are better, and not injurious to 
planes’ afterwards 
—You must have kept your Vinery excessively 
damp, and the me der must be very wet to cause shoots of the 
Vines to damp off half their length. Have not the ) been 
injured by the late severe frosts ?——W. B.—We recommend 
you the White Sweetwater, the Royal M uscadine, the Chater 
‘The last is the tenderest, the 
E.—If Vines were stopped at the 
length to which the shoots require to be pruned in winter, and 
preat ning that they are sufficiently vigorous, they would 
burst those eyes along the anoaelt which only ought to pone in 
the following season. Besides, the general vigour of the plant 
ould be diminished in consequence of the ve aeae of sap 
elaborated by the leaves on the leading shoot. e said 
that the leaves produced on laterals would supply the loss 
be encouraged. But at a more advayiced eHBt of ‘thelr 
growth, the shoots Wy be very prapenly stopped, pene ae 
the below will x Ma ha and, moreove ao been, 
i Ee: Knight, ore aves in a young s Beate 3 y elabo- 
rate an their own growth, or r chiefly so; therefore, a AG ter~ 
minal part of the shoot that would pot Broa eaves which. 
would never attain full size, or ben other parts of the 
plant, may be prevented from tetas produced ey stopping te 
shoots, about the time the Grapes are full grown. The force 
that would have been expended in PYoduelig. Miele (a aug 
will be directed towards invigor: vines NO as of burst- 
ing, the buds for nextseason. Stop one joint befor 
s your Vines are old and do not set dice ae yeu: your best. 
plan will Me to oot ‘hem rae ey and train up young woud. || 
AST the vapour from ammoniacal 
is ys Ito Vines in Nueces but we have no experience 
in the matter. nes should be a good deal diluted, in trying the 
experiment, or it te do injury.— Despair not, but manage 
etter in future. r Vines are not attacked by insects, but 
are ecaled by irEvoHeh syringing and over-heating. A tempe- 
of 70° at night is much too high; and if you allow the 
sun. i sbine on the foliage of your plants ina morning when 
yee 
® 
causes, Viz.: too much heat and too 
wrong way at the wrong time.t 
ae, 
much water a ald 4 tH i 
M.—The best Be oe wees 
mosphere in a stove, heated by smoke » is 
place evaporating pans, fitting close to the te, A vant 
parts of its surface. By filling these with water and increasing 
or diminishing their number, the pene may be preserved 
in any desired state of humidity 
ye ee § concur to render plants in 
sitting-rooms unhealthy: the principal is the dryness of the 
air. Your night-smelling Stock is probably affected by this 
circumstance ; its botai has verw changed. in- 
neus called it Cheiranthus tristis ; Robert Brown gee it to 
Mathiola tristis, and has probably ean named peris 
eet by ronal else, Phillips’s book is or ae aattierity Tt 
U.—It is better to : Beech plants 
alone till they he ave been one year planted Beare you clipthem. 
They ought to have Been planted in the antumn.t 
s —Light annual creepers, for running 
over wire arches in ae ar jen, may consist of—Tropze‘olum pere- 
gtinum, Convélvulus major, Lophospermum scandens and 
Hendersénii, Eceremocarpus scaber, Ipomcea rubro-cerulea 
and Quaméclit, and Scyphanthus élegans (in a warm situa- 
tion). 
er.—We fear that Fir-trees, planted four fect 
from the a soutl th. vel of a house, will, when they increase in 
size, be esa ORS to the building, in consequence of their roots 
undermining the fo' ion. 
atated by a correspondent at p. 621 of last 
year’ Chronicle, that he has observed the common garden 
snail in the act of eating Laurel penne it is therefore probable 
that whe leaves of your Laurels have been destroyed by the 
same animal. + 
.—Vishnu.—On no account syringe fruit-trees with 
il tS _ aoe “a + 
VN AK soil and situation which are suit- 
able for Paubvnic i eaenane have already been detailed at 
p tae 
LDy —Strelitzia reginge bears curious orange and 
ante flowe . In a greenhouse it may be cultivated in a 
pot, in lig y loam; butit is 
as when lanted i the ierdee of a conserva’ tory 
an abundant supply of water when \ growing. £ 
Cambrian Subse w the seeds of Por- 
tulaca splendens on a slight ae eds Tae when the young 
plants are large UT, prick them it an inch or two apart 
into shallow pots. rx they Have fi rly established them- 
selves, fetes plat them reais togatherinee 48-sized pots. 
They should be grown in sharp, gravelly soil, and do best in a 
warm gr pty 
fe 
never seen in such perfection 
It requires | 
plant, decaialy difficult to cultivate. It p Fa a shady peat 
border. The other plant we never heard o: 
TOVE;PLANTS.—H, R. M.—Thef following an how stove plants, 
ofe easy pH Ue Meio recur ialnos ndens, Poin- 
séttia pulché fie iscea uniflora, Trdatiemum pulche el- 
lum, Siiaticit eouctiiel xora coccinea, Case 
Suttoni, splendens, elon eatey mollis, and zebrina; Gloxinii 
rubra, beatae i cegens speciosa, and § sp. alba; A anissis 
glomerata, Ardisi: enulata, Pancraétium amcnum, Aphelan- 
ra cristata, apnain Ween lius, Russélia jtincea, *Plumbago 
capensis, Epiphyllum truncatum, Allamanda cathartica, Be- 
gOnia insignis, parviflora, and cocefnea, /eschynanthus gra ‘andi- 
florus, Coltimnca Schiedeana, ie Seka longiflora, Strepto- 
carpus Rhexii, Vinca alba and résea. For climbers you may 
take Passiflora Kermesina and on wenicea, Manéttia cordifélia 
and bicolor, Jasminum Sambac, Ipomoea Horsfallie, Combre- \ 
crimson; Hume’s Blush, buff; Fringed White; Franco-fru- 
teneisper ed; Palmeri, rose. ‘The Reticulata will not do out, 
although Lasley during the winter, unless with a glass- 
frame. It requires to be kept close and warm patie the 
growing season, 3 forma the young baat any dry situation 
will suit them where the eee - gals too s ff. 4] 
PELARGONIUMS.—, BpSl Eon niums, for want of 
better soil, were potted i in eat mold you cannot expect them 
to throw up strong blooms. uu may assis’ 
them alternately with rain and manure water. 
tum purpureum, PaaS, pentanthus, Bignonia venusta, 
and Cereus grandi! 
Cee —— KA mpi The best thing you can do with 
mellias which Kage, been apes by improper treatment, is to 
Sine the soil from their roots, and repot them into the same 
sized pots, in a mixture of. Tight turfy loam and heath-mould, 
Plunge the $ in gentle bottom-heat, shade the plants in 
bright sunshine, keep up a temperature between 50° and 60° 
night, with a moist eoapgephere, and then follow the directions 
given in former mbers.t——Khodon.—The following are 
about the best for JOR and colour combined, and are also Le 
free - flowering kinds:—Bealeii, crimson; Chan deri, deep 
should not be given too strong, or it will perhaps injure tie 
plants. + 
DwarF PLANTS FOR CRBS dwarf plants for 
the four divisions of a Maltes ‘oss, to range scarlet, white, 
blue, and yellow, you may tater Verbena fgnea, V. pulchella 
alba, Anegailis cerilea grandiflora, and Alyssum saxatile, 
VERBENAS. . K.—The following are arranged according to 
the various des of colour, from white to the darkest Pe 
ae "tencrioides, Queen, pulchella alba, odorata alba, Thomp- 
i, variégata, incisa, Hislopiana, teucrioides cirnea, Beg tii, 
GES purptirea, t, Barnsii, t. résea, t. Iveryana, Ingrami, 
Barnardii, Hylandsii, Burleyana, Tweediana, T. grandiflora, 
splendens, melindrés, m. major 
‘ans, scabra; triumphans, pulchella, Sabiniana, 
na, lersé 
one is the old sulphtrea, which is now nearly lost to the 
countr 
Liniss a THE VALLEY.—A, L.—If it be Pores sis eee them 
flower in the autumn, the most likely road t ccess is to 
keep ther in an ice-! house till you wart to chee thee They 
would probably one although in a‘dark place, if the tempera- 
ture rose above 2°. 
Peat.—T. R. E, i —Asyout garden consists principally of Peat, 
in addition to Phio: di, plant clumps with 
the Yohei: Went fren — Sphenégyne speci 
tonite pulchella, Neméphila insignis, Leptosiphon androsiceus 
densiflorus, Lobelia ramosa and heterophylla, Nolana 
atriplicifélia and paradoxa, Collinsia grandiflora, Sanvitdlia 
procumbens, and Kaulfissia amelloide: Campdvula pulla 
will do very well in peat + 
Fronis’s-FLowrrs.— I. H, F.—We have seen many quilled vari- 
eties of the Cineraria, and from their ragged appearance we 
think them not worth preserving. ign white variety is not 
equal to many we have seen.*- 
of the shows published in the Chr 
examined ; the result proves eheeeneni umber generally were 
understate in the list which appeared in No. 14; for instance,, 
Pickwick was shown 149 times, President of the West 123, 
Phenomenon 111, Maria 93 ; still, as a guide to purchasers (for 
Sore ee list was inser ted), it proves equally good, for it ap- 
at the order in which the flowers were inserted in Re: 
st. ee ie little gietarbed by the Ceo +——A, B 
. lL and 3 are best seedling Cinerari: colours ar © 
strong abd ete neta showy ; they are ‘worth preserving, but 
they are not equal in form or at are glreaay, im 
guitivation. ao 2 is not earl 
eediing Cinerar: 
ee 
a 
58 
8 
Clin- 
» No. 1 is the best; Duet they all alk 
else 
wi ant size ra PAByeLy to Pecommend visi. The biue variety 
oor compat 
red to many that we have.* 
ie plan of inserting the end of a scion of 
an Apple or Pear- ‘tree into a Potato, in a manner similar to 
that of placing a cutting i in the earth, so that it may strike root 
into the Potato, is not likely to ‘0 succeed, except with the Bur- 
knot and Apples of that description, which strike readily from 
cuttings in the usual way.t 
ZANTE Currant.—R. G.—We aaa Ne no doubt about this suc- 
cee at the Cape of Good Ho 
ae ed: —Those mowers which have the sta- 
ind the Js small, are males ; punien the pistil 
is large a aeotatece and the stamens dw: i, they are 
femal when the two are equally balanced ite are herma- 
Tce The Victoria Strawberry is pretty good; it may 
had of any London nurseryman. 
Fies.—Will I. NV. V. favour us with the temperature he main- 
tained in his Vineries, as mentioned in a late Number, A Cae 
Geen ae grows his in a similar manner is unsuccessfw 
tator.—The Bread~ alate ‘Potato is a good kind, and 
paiteeeeas well in the alluvial st ‘ound London.t——WNotti 
ham.—In a clayey loam you oll do well to plant the White 
Bread fruit, which will thrive in soils that does not suit many” 
others, The American Native, Regent, and Irish Cup, are also 
vigorous, productive, and of good quality.|| 
Insxcrs.—Richmond.— Yor nrenemyisakind of Beale msec notan 
aphis, and is quite different from the peeee of Pea ch ane Necta- 
angie es. We know 
viduals affected by it. We ho: e of the 
summer, eons information. Peapesbe this an seiiailar de- 
from our entomological friend ** Run 
—We presume your grub is the slugw gerne described at 
p. "602 of 1842,—C, W.—We regret to be unable ie iy any 
ae about extirpating this beetle from Peas. species 
of Cu ut we cannot say how it could be teciney ed. t 
Wee roe eR. E.—It you give your Asparagus-beds a good 
soaking with a solution of common eal it Sut not only, kill 
the wire ‘eworm, but will likewise act as a manur Repetitions- 
aes advisable in order that etiewensive petictations may not. 
casa y RRY 
Sri 
CarerpiLLArs.—Vishni ‘The best remedy with 
which we are acquainted a tesoy ile this pest is to dust the 
bushes, when wet with ith genuine white Hellebore 
powder, See also Mr. Beaton? iia? ‘Calendar of to-day. 
WwW. cannot assist you. The Dookelles are the 
oy persons ‘who supply such works.— J. W.— “ Pictoriak 
Sitters of England” is, we think, on the whole, the best work 
Praua Sune —W. F. C.—See p. 233, It is evidently an artificial 
compound, 
Borrom Hear—J, B.—We fear you will obtain too much heat 
by mixing gas-water with Willow peelings, for: ut the betas 
to which ie age liquor is added ferment violently—so far a8 
Wil experience goes: however, we have TOE actually ‘tried 
y Villow Declings, There is no doubt that you will get an excel- 
ent manure a7 the operation. + 
I, Fi ish.—This is Poppy: seed, solouied blue.t 
aan cn ¢ ffectual method of 
ring: eee fruit-trees ; the ord rete means, such as 
ae rte ee rattles, , &c., being only serviceable for a few days 
enn a - Perhaps the cheapest is to shoot them 
1sn.—A a ae 
assumetiee Cat Reader,—Gold and aver fish usually 
swith the warmth of climate. There are species 
‘ich are always brown. it is beneficial in ponds 
ere they are kept to gi 
nd, may have been the principal 
cause of he a afterwards eoeccentnert in increasing ie 
stock of fish; and it is probable that the brown ones whiclt 
w no signs of changing colour, are fish of a different kinds 
for the removal of which, as well as eels, we can recommend 
