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by being fermented with decaying animal matter. If the 
tannin is not destroyed, the tan will poison everything. 
Liavip Manure.—G@.—A plan of a simple machine for this pur- 
pose is given at p. 758 of 1842. 
HEATING.— G.— Water does not circulate well in very small pipes ; 
you had better use them of inch bore. It is of no consequence 
how small your boiler is; indeed you need not have one at all, 
ut may make your pipe with a bend at the fire end, and put 
thatin the fire. Arnott's stoves may be used to heat water ; but 
the boiler should be entirely independent of the stove, as you 
Propose ; your plan will work. There is no danger in it. We 
apprehend that if your plumber when he fixed his pipe B to 
Pipe; but it is extremely desirable. 
ill see a good system of heating in 
the garden of the Horticultural Society ; and we advise you to. 
inspect it. By-and-by we shall publish the necessary details. 
Crematis.—Discipulus.—C. Hendersonii is a pretty single dark 
blue variety, growing rapidly, and attaining the height of ten 
t 
M.—W. E.—Rub the berries in dry sand, 80 
as to separate the pulp, and sow immediately in peat or some 
light homous soil. Ifnotimmediately, keep the seed in sand till 
February, and sow it then; some of it will be two years 
coming up, 
Camenitas.—R. M.—There is no means of checking the second 
growth of your Camellias, but by diminishing their supply of 
water, and keeping them cool. 
the ripening of the wood.t 
au 
Carcro.artas.—J. A.—We recommend you the following twelve 
Calceolarias, as being distinct and first-rate varieties :—Stan- 
dishii, Green’s Royal Standard, Mary, Venusta, Isabella, Miss 
Antrobus, and alba coccinea maxima ; Barnes’s Perfection, 
and Bridesmaid, Well’s Brenda and Modish, and Green’s 
Prince Albert.* 
PeLarconiums.—A Subscriber, Huddersfield.—We beg to refer you 
to the list of Pelargoniums in our last week’s Paper. —C.— 
Fvcns1as.—Amatew.—An account of a good method of treating 
F. corymbiflora is given in our Number of last week.t—— 
¥. Chandleri is a mule, and like many others of its class, is 
Frurr.—J. R., having a Nectarine tree, trained horizontally in 
a small house, which regularly sheds its fruit a few days before 
it ripens, (having done this three years successively, although 
great attention has been paid to air and watering, and it has 
not been forced early,) wishes to be informed if any corres- 
pondent can assign a reason for it. 
UcumBrrs.—B.— The bitterness which you complain of in 
Cucumbers is no doubt occasioned by cold, and the consequent 
slowness of their growth.t 
Packine Frurr.—E. H, L.—A good method of packing fruit is, 
first to line the box with cotton-wool, and then to place the 
fruit, surrounded with tissue-paper, upon it. Let the whole be 
Stuffed up firmly with cotton wool, so that there is no room 
for the contents to shake about; then place the box within 
another about three inches larger every way, and fill up all 
Tound it with dry moss.t 
Musnrooms,—Bingo.—Musbroom spawn may be procured of 
any nurseryman. Mushroom beds are prepared by collecting 
® Franpers’ Spinacn.—A.—This is I 
the seedsmen sell a prickly-seeded kind for it they don’t know 
it. The Horticultural Society annually import it from Paris, 
endeavouring to save seed, pure, from the plant;—a ver 
Gifficult thing, however, in the case of a single specimen of the 
Cabbage tribe. You may plant a few of the sprouts in different 
Cottage gardens as you propose, but the more you have ina 
Lody “the better chance you will have of preserving any 
characteristic which the variety may possess. It should be 
t to prevent the access of bees to the flower is 
P, Hot sufficient to prevent their crossing the variety. | 
°TATORS.—Somerset.—We know nothing of the Potato; but it 
Wonld require better evidence than the assertion of an adver. 
tiement to make us believe that 40 tons an acre have been 
obtained, Im plain English, we don’t believe it. The advertise. 
ment js very like a puff. _We cannot recommend dealers, 
1yPply to the nearest respectable nurseryman. 
SKCTSs,— i Gardener, — Your insects are the Mealy 
Bag, Cocens adonidum. We know of no better plan of getting 
Tid of such troublesome visitors than gently brushing them 
$f the piants on which they abound, and destroying them ; or 
Tyserting to the method which has been successfully tried in 
pigland, of washing the plants well with a mixture of lime, 
‘ack sulphur, and water, as recommended in the Gardeners? 
On tronicte for 1849, page 131. S. a : 
Toaets—Verae—It is stated that by mixing arsenic with 
duri €d apple or potato, and leaving it upon a sheet of paper 
estiss the night, e Crickets will partake of it and be 
te royed. Probably, the method recommended at p. 505, for 
well Peecen of Cockroaches, would answer the purpose as 
Booxs.—A Subscriber.—Mr, Lawrence’s pamphlet is out of print. 
—— Miss K.—‘‘ Macculloch on Wine’? may be had of all book- 
sellers.——J. EF, M,—No bvok, that we know of, was taken as 
the absolute basis of the work ; but we believe that “ Sprengel’s 
Systema Vegetabilium”’ was a good deal used, and “ Willde- 
oe Species Plantarum,” The work was compiled from many 
ooks. 
GarpENn AtLorments.—An Old Surveyor.—Your idea about an 
Arboretum is not a bad one, provided you plant only handsome 
species. Those Arboreta, for popular purposes, in which all 
manner of things, good, bad, and wors 
absurdities. It is not possible to adv 
Short answer, an e not room for a long one. Better 
consult some good nurseryman who dealsin hardy trees. 
Exuteirions.—Surrey.—In exhibiting Roses at the meetings of 
the Horticultural Society next season, gentlemen’s gardeners 
will be classed amongst amateurs. 
‘AN.—A Subseriber.—We are not acquainted with any other 
method of destroying the fungus which springs up in bark. 
beds, than that of constantly removing those portions of the 
ark upon which it makes its appearance.¢ 
Fuint Pircrine.--T. P. inquires what is the best chemical 
mixture, or other means, for keeping flint pitching free from 
io not know what this is, we refer the inquiry 
to some intelligent correspondent. 
Brick Lasens.—J. H. B.—Very much obliged; but your letter 
is an advertisement. 
Larcu Ror.—(. @.S.M.—Many thanks, We hope to find room 
next week. 
‘s.—Miss K.—We shall be obliged by the receipt for the 
home-made wines you name. 
MisceLtiannous.—C. W.—Phallus impudicus.x——B.—Both are 
Cattleya Loddigesii, and very beautifully-grown specimens 
they are.—— W. C.—- Of the Ceylon plants, one is Peliosanthes 
Teta; the other, with yellow flowers, is Microstylis versicolor. 
—Gwyn.—No. 1, but like all those publications it is principall: 
useful for the prices of markets.—— Jpos,—Certainly not Convol- 
vulus arvensis, but apparently a striped variety of Pharbitis 
hispida.——Ignea.—A Gleditschia and Tamus communis.—A4 
Reader. Everlasting Pea; 2, Sedum Telephioides ; 3, Cory. 
dalis glauca. Oswald.—M: di i t+——Insig- 
nis.—1, Veronica; 2, V. spicata; 3, Sedum oppositifélium ; 4, 
S. sptirium ; 5, Potentilla astracdnica; 6, P. obscura.s—— 0. 
Escallénia rubra ani is aquifélium.t——A, Morton.— 
There is no objection to your publishing the letter about the 
Walburton Admirable Peach.——Veronica.—1, Eutoca viscida ; 
2, Schizanthus pinnatus ; 3, Campanula spéculum, which are 
annuals; 4, Verdnica spicata; 5, V. cdrnea.t——Omega,— 
Sophora velutina. The reason why buds at the extremity of 
tree open first is, that they are youngest and most excilable. 
If the terminal bud is allowed to grow, it robs those next 
below it of their food, and they cannot grow, If you pinch out 
the terminal-bud, then the others will sprout.——H. E. B.—The 
rare Delphinium vestitum and a Thalictrum, apparently from 
India, which cannot be determined in the absence of nearly ripe 
fruit.—— W. George.—The snake Cucumber is the Cucumis 
flexuosus of Botanists, an East Indian Plant, not used as food, 
and probably not safe to meddle with.—— Thos. 17.—One Latin 
Dictionary is as good for purpose as another. You may 
find one at the bookstalls very cheap ; such as schoolboys use, 
and called Ainsworth’s, may be inquired for.——A. K.— For 
Seaweeds you should study Greville’s Alge Britannice, a 
beautiful book, with plates, and Harvey’s Manual of British 
are not aware that any other means are employed 
in drying them than steeping them in fresh water till the salt 
is extracted, and then floating them over sheets of paper till 
the parts are all displayed, when the sheets are lifted up care- 
fully with the specimens, and dried in the usual way. Nocare 
will preserve the colours of some 0} The best speci- 
mens are those gathered from the rocks at low water.——J.D. 
—Ptelea trifolidita is not at all uncommon, and is regularly sold 
at the great nurseries as a hardy tree ; we therefore need not 
trespass upon your kindness for seeds. Wedo 
‘ow-root plant is. 
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machia nummularia; 5, 
F. C.—Your plants are such bad specimens that it is impossible 
to name them, with tl 
mum. Besides, you have not even numbered them.——J, Carter. 
—Your Alstrcemeria is very handsome, and quite new. We will 
again notice it next week. 
SEEDLING FLORISTS’ FLOWERS, 
Fucnsias.—W. J. 1s. —To judge from the specimen sent, your 
seedling (Eppsii) flowers freely enough, producing a pair o! 
blooms from the axil of every leaf. Monarch is a flower of good 
substance, with remarkably stout tube and sepals of a purplish 
vermilion colour, and petals of crimson purple. The sepals 
have, however, a roughness which is not agreeable; itis never- 
theless a fine globular flower, and seems to bloom even more 
freely than the preceding. ‘our two seedlings (5 and 6), 
there is nothing remarkable in the former, excepting thatsome 
of the stamens are partially metamorphosed in petals; in the 
Jatter, the flowers 
are borne upon pedicles above three inches 
, and with the tube of a 
with green, opening well and showing the bright vermilion 
corolla. It appears to be a very free bloomer.t——J. Girling. 
—No. 5 is a handsome seedling, with short crimson vermilion 
. tube and sepals of good substance, the latter expanding so as 
almost to reflex, after the manner of magnifica; petals pale 
rosy purple, stamens and pistil much exserted. 13, although 
small, is of pleasing form, having a short, almost globose, tube, 
with dark vermilion sepals and violet-coloured petals. 12 has 
dark crimson vermilion tube and sepals, and crimson purple 
14, the sepals are too long and narrow, as well as 
11, though a large flower, wants bril- 
lour. + —C, B. H., a Subscriber.—Your seedlings 
are large and fine varieties ; 1, 2, 4, 6, are the best; 2 the most 
novel, from the depth of its colour and the length of its flowers ; 
3 and 5are coarser varieties. There are na 
PeELARGONIUMS.—A young Nurseryman.—Your seedling is of a 
very desirable colour, but the upper petals are defective, from 
the weakness of the blotch and the quantity of feathering; it 
was badly packed, so that we could not judge of its general 
form, but the bottom petals are broad and well rounded.* 
verpenas.—J. Piant.—Yo r seedling is of a pretty dark lavender 
colour, but unless its habit is dwarf it will be of little value, in 
he Phlox is not. 
Ge 
to possess the habit of the old V. Aublétia, with leaves like 
Panstns.— Clericus.—Maria Lister and La plus Superbe are both 
flowers of good form and substance, but both very deficient ine 
the eye; the former variety has very rough edges to the 
‘als. Milania and Blue Beard are very inferior to the dark 
Fowers already in cultivation. The bloom of Lady Sale was 
curled up; the yellow appears uncertain, Sir W, Folleté and 
not being well marked at the top. They are none of them 
a wers.——J. R. P.-- Miranda (though 
unquestionably too small in its present state for showing) is 
one of the most perfect Pansies we have seen: form and sub- 
stance good, fine eye, good ground-colour, and the side petals 
meeting well above the eye joins the belting with great pre- 
cision—we should like to see it again when larger. 
Colbert nor Portia are sufficiently good to send out, the former 
weak, and having a washed. out appearance, it wants substance 
A Lover of Pansies.—The general failure in your 
flowers is in the want of subs 
in form and substance; 10, eye fine, yellow delicate and good, 
marking imperfect and wants substance; 11, fine eye, very 
pretty and novel, but rather deficient in substance; 12, eye 
bad; 13, colour too imperfect; 14, good substance, general 
form not good; 15, too thin; 16, thin, and eye poor; 17, wants 
substance, top petals very poor; 18, too thin, and not good in 
form ; 67, imperfect in the marking on the upper petals, notch 
in the bottom one; the best of these flowers are but second 
rate, and are surpassed by others in the same way, already out.* 
‘ALCEOLARIAS.—J. Plant.—Some of your seedlings are extremely 
pretty, and very curiously marked; thereare, however, two or 
three that want purity in the ground-colour. * 
As usual, a host of letters have arrived too late for answers this week. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
A TELEGRAPHIC despatch reached town on Monday, 
announcing that the Spanish Regent had been driven to 
seek protection on board a British ship of war. The 
siege of Seville was raised on the 27th ult. The Regent 
had heard two, days before of the surrender of Madrid, 
and of the march of General Concha to the relief of the 
gone, and immediately retired in the direction of Cadiz. 
The insurgent forces, however, so closely pursued him, 
that it was impossible to reach Cadiz; and he was com- 
pelled, almost at the point of the sword, to embark at a 
small port on the shores of the bay, and seek protection 
on board the Malabar. Thus, the power which at one 
time seemed to bid fair to consolidate the interests of 
Spain has been overthrown in less than three years after 
the abdication of Queen Christina, and only 69 days after 
the commencement of the insurrection. In the meantime, 
the new Ministers have announced various measures, 
more in accordance with the character of a military 
commission than of a Constitutional Government. They 
have issued a Decree convoking the Cortes for the 15th 
October, and have broken up the Supreme Court of Law, 
because the Judges would not recognise their authority as 
blist hy the t of the Constituti 
Great disunion and jealousy are said to exist among the 
Generals themselves, and some apprehensions are enter- 
tained that a reaction will take place before the assembly 
of the Cortes.—In France, these changes in the affairs of 
Spain are received with general satisfaction, and the 
Spanish party no longer conceal their anxiety to effect a 
marriage between Queen Isabella and the Duc d’Aumale. 
The Repeal subscription has ceased to be reported, and 
it is rumoured that the French Government have given 
orders for its suppression.—From Portugal, we learn that 
the tariff negotiatioas are on the point of being renewed, 
the Duke of Palmella having arrived in London, with fall 
powers to bring the convention to a satisfactory conclu- 
sion.—From the United States we have accounts to a 
recent date, but they contain few topics of interest. The 
Repeal agitation in the States appears to be entirely at 
an end, and some of the New York journals describe it as 
a political farce, got up for electioneering purposes. 
At home, in both Houses of Parliament, a great amount 
of routine business has been despatched during the week. 
The House of Commons has sat on some days for 13 or 
14 hours, and many supplemental votes and matters of 
detail have been disposed of. On Monday Mr. Ewart’s 
motion in favour of free trade was negatived by 52 to 25, 
and on Wednesday, after along debate, the Irish Arms 
Bill was read a third time and passed by a majority of 70. 
On Thursday the second reading of the Exportation of 
Machinery Bill was carried by a majority of 78, and an 
amendment rejecting the Church of Scotland Benefices 
Bill was negatived by a majority of 31. Both these Bills 
were passed last night. In the House of Lords on 
Monday, the Coroners Bill was thrown out in the second 
reading, by a majority of 24, and Lord Campbell’s Bill 
relative to the expulsion of the Scotch Professors who 
have joined the Free Church, was thrown out without a 
division. On Tuesday a conversation took place on the 
Repeal agitation in Ireland, in which the Duke of Welling- 
ton expressed his conviction that from the measures adopted 
the Government will be able to resist every attempt against 
the public peace, and that it would be better to employ no 
other precautions until they become absolutely necessary, 
jome News. 
\_ Courr.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of 
, Wales, and the Princesses, are at Windsor Castle, and in 
besieged. He perceived, therefore, that his last hope was © 
