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THE GARDENER® 
CHRONICLE. 
[May 20, 
water the same temperature nearly as the atmosphere of | 
the house, after which it should be shut up close for the 
night ; the temperature will increase frequently beyond 
100 degrees, but I never have experienced any injury from 
that heat ; in fact, as long as the atmosphere is saturated 
with moisture, the plants will not be jinjured by heat. 
When I use the term syringing, I wish it to be understood 
that Ido not mean such a process as is generally per- 
formed on other plants, where the destruction and removal 
of the green-fly is the object. Epiphytes are not a species 
of plants much infested with them ; Ihave never observed 
them on my plant s, and although tl hey may be frequently 
seen on the various creepers in the house, notwithstanding 
the great moisture, still they appear to avoid the Orchi- 
dace. My mode of syringing, therefore, is in imitation 
of a plentiful, gentle shower of rain, let fall on the plants, 
not driven against them with an upsetting force.’’ 
Mr. Lyons likewise adopts the plan, of which he claims 
the origin, of introducing steam into the house, every 
evening daring summer from the boiler. But the chief 
novelty in the work is the design for a stand for the Epi- 
phytal species ; it is called by ‘the rather un-English term 
of the ‘* Oniscamyntic stand,’’ and is thus directed to 
be made. 
“‘ Procure from the potter a pan generally known as a 
feeder, with a raised centre and a hole in it, into which 
the forked branch of a tree is to be made fast. In the 
forked part the plant is to be fastened with zinc or copper 
wire, and the roots covered with moss.’ The branches can 
be cut to any desired length, so as it does not overbalance 
the bottom. I have them from 12 to 36 inches long. The 
hottoms of the feeder should be made thick and heavy, 
which will cause it to stand steady and firm. They may 
be made of different sizes, and the branches cut to diffe- 
rent lengths. Should the plant increase in size and weight 
so as to become unsteady, a larger bottom can easily 
substituted. I have several plants of Oncidium, Papilio, 
Stanhopea, Lelia, and Catasetum, &c., growing in the 
forked branches, which succeed remarkably well; the 
foliage of all the plants so grown is much more luxuriant, 
and of a darker and richer green than those grown in 
lumps of peat, and at this moment (November) the branch 
of the tree is covered with the roots firmly attached to it, 
having in many instances penet: rated the bark. They were, 
until the idea of the stand in their present state occurred 
to me, fixed in common pots, made steady with yellow 
clay pressed hard, but those in the stands are much pre- 
ferable, as they contain a quantity of water in the 
feeder, which prevents the attacks of insects and also 
contributes to the moisture of the atmosphere by evapo- 
ration. Iam strongly of opinion they will be found an 
excellent improvement on pots for almost every Epiphyte, 
and will not occupy more space, beside they have the 
sere of allowing smaller plants to be placed between 
em. 
Of this stand, again, it is remarked that it supplies ‘A 
natural material to grow on; a perfect drainage ; a safeguard 
in a great measure against insects ; eels takes up less room 
in a house, is not more expensive than pots, and is far 
more pleasing to the eye; besides all which, it enables the 
growers to adopt a far more natural climate and system 
of treatment. The plants will be enabled to assume a 
more natural position of growth, which we know in 
many instances to be a downward position: this will pre- 
vent the wet from lodging in the young shoots and des- 
troying them.’ 
+. Mr. Lyons informs us that some cultivators have 
objected to it, because the bottom of the branch placed init 
will necessarily decay. He states, however, that this may 
be easily remedied by cutting off the decayed portion, and 
inserting it afresh: others fear that it will become too 
heavy at the top and get overbalanced; but Mr. L. says 
that this never occurs with him, though he has large and 
heavy plants on the top of some of them, provided due 
care is taken in syringing. On the whole, the plan seems 
original, and likely to prove useful to cultivators, by dis- 
pensing, toa great extent, with all kinds of pots for the 
Epiphytal species. The ‘work is, indeed, altogether cal- 
culated to be of service to inquirers, and the benevolent 
design of the Author must assuredly be appreciated. 
CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS for the ensuing week. 
I,—KITCHEN-GARDEN AND ORCHARD. 
In-door Department. 
Prvery.—After this time many good gardeners do not put 
much stress on the bottom-heat, which must now be fast declin- 
Itis, rahi, a good plan to have 
few degrees higher than the average of the 
There will soon be a good opportunity for adding a 
little fresh tan, when the young stock is being examined to 
ascertain which of them wants potting. Except those with ripe 
fruit, the whole ubets now have a very moist atmosphe 
eryY.—Now is about the right time to determine aia kind 
of grapes will Beabeuitthe family late inthe autumn and the early 
part of winter. For private families who keep little pease oe 
that time, small bunches with fine large berries ar 
economical; but for ‘‘ parties,” large bunches end Heries auOnA 
be prod uced, if only for Spy stance sake, To leave plenty of 
bunches is the way to have them small; a ae to thin out the 
bunches and the berries wille cause both ie be larger. The ex 
of thinning in either case must b ‘o him who knows the 
state of the Vines ; the greatest fault mak 8 all is leaving too 
much fruit to ripen. 
ACHES AND CHERRIES.—These houses must now be kept 
re dry till all the fruit is gathered. 
Fres.—These gross feeders will now require to have the soil 
constantly moist about their roots, whatever stage their fruit 
may be in, 
Metons.—There have been many very good hybrid varieties 
of these obtained within the last few years, by crossing our best 
ie 
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mediate quality between both parents ; still they are toolarge for 
private use, and might easily be reduced by crossing again with 
the old small green-fleshed sorts. Keep up a brisk heat and a 
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bes 
it injures the health of the plants, and a sickly plant never fees 
@ wholesome fruit. 
Sat 
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Rives CucumBers, Tomarosgs, or any other of oie oe hardy 
plants of this department not yet A ala out, 
done, and if the weather is windy or dry, a ay bowel hs or 
some other screen should be placed Paani them till ney begin to 
root freely. Capsicums are generally the last of these to be 
planted out, and they Vee do by and by. 
door Department. 
Broccont And Cancivu owen! —From the 20th to the 25th of 
May, the last sowing of autumn Penne and late Cauliflower 
should be gotin. Former sowings of these should be carefully 
looked to; see that the plants are TOE too thick. Prick out some of 
them, and plant out the strongest. 
Turnirs anbD Spinacu.—Here are two fastidious crops at this 
season. A few days of dry weather, and they are up in flower, 
unless well watered and well thinned; so that often, anda little 
at a time, is the best rule for them, 
CARDOONS AND ee NDIVE.—The last sowing of the first of these, 
and the first sowi e other, may re now got in; almost 
everybody likes planienel Endive in sallads, yet few people care 
much about Cardoons ; but if the cooks find out you have none, 
you will not forget sowing them again, if you should never see a 
Calendar. 
CxLery.—A few plants, or, if you have plenty of ground, a 
good many plants of the most forward may now be put out ; but 
many of them will run to seed. 
Summea Croprs.—One of the best rules that can be given ina 
general way for sowing these, and also for planting out after- 
wards, is to do the work often and but little at a time; it is 
always better to have something to spare, if it goes to waste, 
than to run short of anything. Every dull, damp, or wet day, to 
the end of August, some things will have to be sown or planted, 
or pricked out ae bare 
¢ have been planted rather deeper 
than the main eetbE, I thin iti is better to keep the soil well stirred 
etween the rome than to earth them up; and they will come 
in sooner that way, 
Orcnarp.—Get soapsuds from the nearest laundry ; the 
best nostrum of any that have been recommended for eeahne 
insects off trees; it is also a good liquid manure. Tobacco- 
water is better, if you do not mind the price; but then you must 
ke it yourse vi ging by 
their ‘liquor,’ belong to the anti- cruelty societ You can 
rate of sixpence a eon by 
using the coarsest tobacco, and pouring boiling-water on it. See 
that all your Strawberries have peels clean mulching, Pie ‘event 
the soil splashing on them in s! ery weather, eople 
n all reer wall-fruit as regularly as 
fruit set so thick this season, others would 
do well to follow their example. 
IL—FLOWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY. 
-door Department. 
Srove.—If you have propagated enough of these plants, the 
general management of an established collection is easy enough 
now ; all are in active motion. ee eye should have most of 
the work to do now; any one may ater, shade, and give air, if 
you tell him how and when; but it. vrequites more than this to 
plants are enjoying their existence—if you will allow the 
expression. 
er A alee Bee your best specimens into the more 
favourable plac e, by all means, that they are not too much 
crowded; half x dozen Sra grown plants are better than a score 
he ordinary ri u have good plants of the Chinese 
Azaleas you miete fred some of them now to finish their growth 
and set their flower-heads; this would enable them to flower 
earlier next spring. Almost all sorts of plants require large 
portions MA water now. AGS allow the syringe to be used till 
e house is water 
y.—The aavaneave of two or three eee of 
the 
REPORT ay COVENT-GARDEN pe 
For the Week ending May 19, 1 
In cores aii of the extreme coldness of the raat during the 
past week, the garden produce has not altered much since our last 
Report. Gries Phowey ver, are greatly on the advance, and the market 
is exceedingly well stocked with them. The major portion of them, 
too, are sa ine and well-coloured, Peaches are scarce and infe- 
rior; and there are only a very few Nectarines, which are small and 
oor. Forced Strawberries are beginning to decline. There are 
some extremely good Melons. A large supply of Apples is yet_exhi- 
hited ; Spring Carrots, Tumnips, and Lettuce, improve but slowly, 
though the last are pretty numerous. now a great variety 
of culinary and medicinal herbs. We noticed sate enormous stalks 
of Myatt’s Giant Rhubarb. “of Cut Flowers, we observed Erica 
hybri da, Hoya carnosa, several kinds of Pinks, Pergularia odora- 
tissima, some beautiful hybrid Rhododendrons, Kalmia latifolia, 
‘Tree Peonies, Crinum amabile, Astelma eximium, Scarlet Pelar- 
goniums, Carnations, and. Heliotn ropes. There were potted ee of 
Daphne eneorum, is grandiflora, Fabiana imbricata, Scarlet 
Pelargoniums, Pinks, nel varieties ca Rhododendron ponticum, that 
have not been previously named. 
PRICES, Sarorpay, May’20, 1843.—FRUITS :-— 
Pine Apple, per Ib.6s to 10s Lemons, per doz. 18 
to 
Grapes, hothouse, per Ib., 4s to 8s ar 100,55 to 14s 
= Spanish, per tb. le to 1e6d Cucumbers, per brace, 1s t0 38 
ngal, pex Ib, 1e tog ‘Walnuts, per bush., 12s to 18s 
Apples, fest ert 88 to 168 ons per peck, 4s to 8s 
Kitchen, per bush, 6s to 10s, monds, perpeck, 6s 
Poata, dessert per hi nf, sieve, 208 weet Almonds, per 
Strawberries, forced, per o7., 6d to 1s Bilters, English, per 100 he fos tof5a 
Gooseberries, per half-sieve, 6s to7s | Cob REN 100 Ibs, 60s to 
vee nts, Ber Botley fd to,ls Nuts, per bu: 
rele; ae es to 26 woh ay 
Oraaver, Bee Roe it 8 6 es, dente 18s 
— "per 100,08 to ‘ee — Barcelona, 248 
= pitter, per 100, 6s to 208 — Cob, 12¢ 
VEGETABLES. 
Cabbage-plants, per doz. 1s to 3s Shallots, per Ih., is to Ls 
Cabbages, per doz., 6d to 1s 6d spai rags, large per fanaaeeay 4s to 6s 
Caulitlowe fozen, Gs prue, or Small, p. bun. 1s 6d to 26d 
Broce oli, Wi Ss Der banish, Se) 4 eas, forced, per hall-sieve, 208 
fe, do., 1s 3d to | Lettuce, Cabb., phe. ve, 1s to 1s Gd 
Beans, iptanr aanveases 100, e680 896 , per acore,, te to 1s Gd 
Potatoes, per ton, 80s to 100s "ena ey per avore, Gd te 
— per cwt. 4s to 5s Oolorys pba, (1 018) Gato 
Small Salads, per punnet, sd to 
n Basil, per bunch, 
‘arragon, per do 
0 5s Fennel, per doz. bun., ot 
nigh, arto 3s 
cee 
nerd pipe bch vod to 22; Mint, per dos, bunches, 26 to 
sd Beet, per dozen, 91 to le a evmny greeny bar DUTEILEN tae 
bundle, 1s to Mushrooms, per pottle, 6d to 9d 
ring, p. doz. hands, 6d tole 
nips p: dow, bunoh, 940016 
Tu 
Carrots, per doz bunch. Ge to. 8 
= Young Horn., per bun, 6d to 1s 6 
i winch, 6d vos oa | 
» Gd 
neps, per 
G eee rer 
Garite! perlb. 6d to 8d - 
Spanish, den 25 to As 
Notices to Correspondents. 
Sgeeprinec Frorrsts’ Firowers.—We our cor- 
respondents under this head will bear in mind that our 
opinions are public, for public purposes ; and that we 
CANNOT GIVE PRIVATE OPINIONS ; and also that in 
future all varieties must be named, or we cannot in 
future Geers to notice them. In the words of a 
good stove planes will now be perceived in ‘S 
these keep so much longer in flower throngh the summer here 
than if left in the stove, and are more at home than greenhouse 
lants. Let the plants here have a good deal more room now; 
it fou be quite ot Gs aera ie see this house crowded in 
summer, as i 10 flow ut-of-doors, even if plants 
were aoe injured by it. resp ie ie as cool and moist as your 
means will allow, and do not turn out a fine specimen plant after 
Pre out of flower if you have not a better place for it else- 
a pum rs AND Framrs.—These are applied to so many purposes 
from this time till next Scpremvelst wee no Calendar can antici- 
pate the different treatment in all c: . Where plants are more 
an object than fruit, cold pits are ihe very best places for Heaths 
and all delicate eens plants, and to such the summer 
directions will mainly apply. 
Out-door Department. 
Planting out the flower-beds engrosses all the time and atten- 
tion of nine-tenths of the gardening world about this time. A 
good deal of the success depends on the manner of planting, 
simple though it be. If the beds re newly dug, as they ought 
to be, ua eee plant an inch or deeper than the plants 
stood ii ie pots, to new for the senha of the ground; and 
the nae. should: get watering before the surface is 
smoothed down. Mienonee to flower late in the autumn, 
is always sown at the same time as the last spring sowing of 
Cauliflower in the kitchen-garden. Nemophila insignis, Sanvi- 
talia procumbens, Virginian Stock, Sweet Allyssom, and a few 
other common low annuals, if sown now, and again three weeks 
hence, will flower till overtaken by the frost. Roses require 
particular attention now. Of all our plants in the open air, the 
Rose and the Peach suffer most fi 
ducing a good crop of flowers or fruit 
tidious about soils, and unless both are indulged with moist, 
‘jable loam, of a firm texture aati on a dry bottom, they will 
require the greatest attention that can be paid to them about 
this time, and for some weeks yet, especially in keeping them free 
from insects and well supplied with water at the roots.—D, Beaton, 
Shrubland Park Gardens, Ipswich. 
State of the Weather nex: London for the Week ending May 18, 1043, as 
served at the Horticultural Garden, Chiswi 
esday. 
Wednerday7 | 
Thursday 13 
ne at clouds ; over: ild 
light © Tae and very He, chroughout 
and fine; heavy rain at night, 
overca: rain. 
chunder in afternoon vain at night. 
a shower: weer 
asely overcast; ahowery ata 
ean a temperature of the week k equal to to tks: average. [! 
State of the Weather at 
i No, of 
2 Greate 
lage igus el Paes yin) can atity 
| Temp. which it] of Rain, 
aveieles dune erie Ty 
Week ending May 97, 1445 
‘ears, for the ensuing 
May. 
0.36 in, 
st temperature during the above period occurred on i 
GBA thd Towrest on che 26th, 1000-2 
ig 3, ‘and ‘7th, 1ekk—thermometer 82; 
ermometer 29°, 
co. opinion from us gives a 
mower a cerita value, and renders it immediately a 
marketable commodity; but it is possible that such 
opinions may be used for purposes of imposition. 
A name is some guard against this; we must therefore 
request that all flowers, before they come to us, may 
bear the name it is proposed they should eventually 
receive. If our judgment is favourable we will give the 
name at fulllength. If unfavourable, the initials only 
will be given. Numbers must in future be discontinued. 
To Cece rs. — We must again mention that it is not 
to sparetime for naming collections of common 
flowers, ill selected and worse packed; and we would bez our 
oH rrespondents not to put themselves to the expense of sending; 
s to the pain oinelectine them. Itis unreasonable to expect 
ne re give up valuable time to the examination of little fragments 
of common plants, whose names the inquirer can obtain of the 
first gardener in his neighbourhood. We are mo eady to afford 
information on such points to a reasonable Ore but there 
plants areas many asit 
time. In future, when heaps of plants are sen 
to be excused for not noticing them at all. 
mat.—B. A. B.—Your Wheat has suffered from the cold 
us, we tru! 
be more certai 
land after Potatoes. ML. 
Woop- PAVEMENT. —An we Rac —We regard this as @ 
branch of torural economy 
We shall Meo ina any eon anieaeion on the subject 
Manures.—Corycius.—There is no doubt that guano will greatly 
improve every kind of herbage, provided it be put on in rainy 
weather, or mixed with water as a liquid manure. In very 
hot weather it would probably burn the grass. You may 
safely put it on. that part ghich had gypsum. This last is very 
ve never ona ug Me tee 
may be put into nates of eonnOhee stints 
a yard with wood-ashes and other burnt rubbish ; uti i ie much 
petter first to reduce it with gas- Tar oe ich rots edilys 
and then to add it to compost hea: may be mi xed with 
earth directly after they are fades but, if they are exposed to 
the weather they are age to be washed out again. They should 
be kept dry till wanted. No addition to a compost heap is more 
useful than the fluids that can be collected in a house, and they, 
hing. Our columns are already full of Aifections relating 
to these sub; 
Liguip Ma 
throughout th spring andsummer ; it is . PS 
a Ged the weather is moist or not; only take care is 
not overdose the Roses, and make them run too usta to wi 
Ganouns, —Ovzis.—Your walls are low, but will do with 
management; your difficulty will be with Pears. PACE: 
tions for keeping the cob dry are of ae practical isdd Dot 
so far as the trees are concerned. As to thatching ot uh 
covering must not on any account enna more ia 
beyond the face of the wail. You will find in previo 
abundant information about Cree your Preders 
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are fit for nothing but Vines. t eae 
rotten grass, powdered charcoal, wood-ashes, us 
are much better than ae TAREE wee Fruit- trees NE: 
are not fond of animal 
Sorns,—Quercus.—We don not conceive that the soil in which ap 
