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GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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old gigantic Walnut has grown for a couple of centuries 
Borrom Heat,—T. A. N.—We wi 
System of Tank-heating, lately published. 
Vin EB. S.—We ha’ 
would be exhausted of the nntriment required by Firs. At all 
events, if the Walnut-roots were grubbed up and burnt, and the 
ashes restored to the soil, any loss would be compensated for. 
WAN. ill give you some information 
on this subject shortly; in the meanwhile consult Rendle’s 
vi never heard of the effect of Wine 
jJees as a manure; but it is probable that they will be very 
useful. Do not, however, be rash, but try them on one or two 
plants first, and in small quantity at a time. 
Grarxs.—Vitis.—You say that your Hamburgh Grapes are 
grown in a house heated by brick flues, and that from being 
placed in a very low situation, surrounded by water, the stoke- 
up his borders, apply a hot-water apparatus, and thus cure the 
evilat once. Your half-ripe bunch of Grapes shows you to be 
a good gardener ; and it will bea yeal misfortune to both you 
and your employer if things are allow 
Vicrorta Vine.—N. B. G.—It has been before explained in this 
Paper that the above is not a new variety, as you will find by 
referring to p. 787 of our 2d volume. 
Frrtinization.—D.—When one plant is to be fertilised by 
another, you should proceed thus: From the plant to be ferti- 
lised, just before the flowers are ready to expand, cut out the 
little threads which produce the powder (or pollen), and leave 
untouched the pointed body (stigma) in the centre; then from 
a flower which is to fertilize take some of the powdery heads 
Amurican Cress.—F. @ 
Cress, or Barbarea preecox, It can bi 
broadcast on a small bed, and may be cut like the common or 
Curled Cress, but not too close to the ground. 
P,—This plant and its varieties are com- 
monly placed out of doors in a rather shaded situation, after 
t it is probably the better plan 
exposed to 
too cold in winter. Give it warmth and bright light when 
growing, anda g i i 
scarcely fail to flower. 
Rnopant#e MANaixsu.—Wellensis—The seeds of Rhodanthe 
Manglesii should be sown at two scasons + the first about the 
beginning of September ; the second about the end of February, 
The soil the seeds are sown in should be rather strong, but not 
rich, for the first sowing; consisting of a mixture of sandy 
in a cold pit or frame, (if sown in the autumn,) which should 
danger of frost, re 
for the winter, taking care that they are not over-watered ; for 
much depends on the manner in which they are treated during 
0 little water will destroy the 
In the spring (February) 
repot them into a richer but light sandy soil, and place them in 
inch off all the first 
Crrysantuemums.— Wellensis,— Your young plants of Chrysan- 
themums, raised from pieces of the old stools, with a 
well unless you reduce the young shoots to three or four; and 
either reduce the old ball of roots and fresh pot th in 1i 
soil, or freely supply the plants, when growing, with manure- 
water frequently during summer. qj % 
Cuiantuus puniceus.—F. G.—You can easily propagate this 
species by cuttings, which, if now taken from the ends of the 
young shoots, will strike in any close frame or greenhouse, 
where they can be kept in a rather moist atmosphere and be 
.—Coxcombs, Balsams, &c., 
Booxs.—Dried Plants.—George Don’s edition of Miller’s Dic- 
MiscELLANEOU: 
them off gradually. 
Pansius.—Curnation.—If you refer to pp. 73 and 105, you will 
find lists of first-rate Pansies, *—— Olneida.—A mixture of 
sandy loam and rotten manure, in the proportion of two- 
thirds of the former to one of the latter, is a good compost for 
.—We are unacquainted with the rules of 
ty. 
Wiip Tawans.- Dried Planis —We do not conceive that collec- 
tions of wild flowers are at all suitable for the Exhibitions at 
Chiswick ; they come w hin the province of the Royal Botanic 
Society in the Regent’s Park, who, we presume, would be glad 
to receive them next Wednesday. 
Tux Inpico PLaNnT.—Can any correspondent oblige the Editor 
with a few ounces of the leaves of the Indigo Plant, fresh or 
dried? the communication of them would be esteemed a great 
fay 
Seepuine Cacrus.—R. G.— Your seedling is a very magnificent 
one, but a good deal like Conway’s Giant Cactus, which we 
Noticed last year. The flower has the character of Acker- 
Manni, but is much larger, being fully 8 inches across, andits 
colour is a deeper red, with narrow petals, and a beautiful tint 
‘The stigma, untike that of Conway’s Giant, 
Scarlet and violet petals. It is nearest a seedling raised by 
Sir Philip Egerton, but distinct, and perhaps a finer colour.t 
—~T. Johnson.—Your flower was too much shrivelled ant 
crushed to enable us to forma just opinion of it. 1t seems 
i much too like C. speciosissimus. - 
Nsrors.—Coleoptera.—The small brown beetle injuring your 
Raspberry trees by eating the young Wood about half-way 
e small green beetle which nearly stripped 
Poplars of their leaves last year, is the Chry- 
fomela (Phsedon) Vitelline. Good Entomological Pins can 
ite obtained at J. Hill’s, 22, Fish-street-hill, and at R. Plump- 
‘on’s, 19, Newgate-street. S.——G. B.—The beetle which has 
S0 much injured your Rose-trees is the Otiorhynchus above- 
mentioned, This troublesome insect hides under stones, clods } P: 
of earth, dead leaves, &c. during the day, and in such place: 
it might be advantageously sought after. We know of no 
better method of getting rid of such pests than by hand-picking 
during the night—their feeding time — which you already 
practise. 
SCALE on Pine Puants.—Judew is desirous of trying ammo- | 
niacal liquor for the destruction of the above pest, but is 
‘undecided as to the best method of applying it. He asks if it 
would be best to syringe the plants with it in a diluted state 
twice or thrice a week? or to soak the tan with it, in which 
state it would be given off by fermentation, as it is from 
fermenting dung? and whether a liberal sprinkling of the tan 
would not promote fermentation, and therefore be a good 
method of renewing the heat in exhausted beds ? As we have 
no experience in this application of gas-water, we refer the 
question to our readers, some of whom may be able to answer 
jt. We last week gave our reasons for doubting the advantage 
sing it witha syringe; and we equally fear that if ammonia 
énd@ugh to kill insects is introduced into the atmosphere of a 
house, it will be very likely to kill the foliage also. Experi- 
ments are much wanted on these subjects: 
tionary is not of use to agardener. There is no book in which 
all known plants are described ; the most complete works of 
the kind are in Latin, and consist of many octavo volumes. 
Loudon’s Encyclopedia of Plants, with the Supplement, is the 
pest book for you. Your plant is E. grandinosa.——R. B.— 
The last is the best edition of M‘Intosh’s Practical Gardener. 
——Hadaffum.—You can get Roberts’s Treatise on the Vine 
through any bookseller. It is advertised at p. 586 of the 2d 
vol. of this Paper. 
'AGER: izks.—W. R. M.—Your suggestion about giving 
plants, seeds, or books, to Cottagers for prizes at exhibitions, 
instead of money, is perfectly in accordance with recommend- 
ations that have more than once been given in this Paper. 
Doubtless the plan is a most desirable one. 
PG. Gs specimens are, 1, Polygala grandi- 
YOZ. 
flora; and 2, Gnidia simplex.— .—The leaves you have 
sent are those of Pyrus tormina Dee.—Your plants are, 
1, Dillwynia juniperina; 2, Cliffértia tridentata; 3, Lavan- 
dula deutata; 4, Véstia lycioides; 5, Di 
1. E. G.—Your Orchis isa light variety of O. morio,— Holens. 
—As the Circa you have i 
name it n precision, but it appears to be C. lutetiana.. 
We really cannot undertake toname 
shed to pieces by the Post-office., 
Teaeyos.— t is apparently Zephyranthes atamasco, 
but so crushed, that it cannot be determined witl inty: 
folia, but too young for determination with certainty. — M. C. 
—The disease of your Acacia armata is dirtiness ; it swarms 
with white scale insects: we i 
with your yellow China Roses; the green 
of them are subject to, and there is noremedy for it: the plants 
are Hardenbergia monophylla, Anemone Pulsatilla, and Orni- 
thégalum umbellatum ; your Camellia seems right.— Original. 
—The following are the names of such of your plants as are 
determinable; may we beg your attention to a paragraph at 
the head of these notices? 1. Saxifraga hypnoides var.; 
; 4, Fumaria litea; 5. Vinca major, 
Cytisus elongatus; 9. Hesperis matronalis 
10, Pronia peregrina; 11. Paonia double red officinalis; 12. 
Veronica gentianoides.—C. M. — Carices are not Hort 
cultural plants, nor economical, nor Agricultural, Besides, 
who can name Carices that are not in flower? No. 1, how- 
ever, is C. preecox.t—M, W.K.——Pierce your she 
—A Subseribi 
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detect, however 
powerful as you represent 
novelty. Your grubs will assuredly travel over your ground 
from a heap in the centre where they exist 
allin that, your best plan will be to burn it——dn Unknown 
Intruder.—¥ our plant, which is a parasite, is a species of Cus- 
cuta, probably chilensis. We see no Coccus in your letter.—— 
wl 
meda calyculata; 4, Cornus suecica; 5,5 
‘Andrémeda acuminata; 7, Capri ium’ 
Anthemum formosum; 9, Clématis montana; 10, Atragene ans- 
triaca; 11,Halésia tetraptera ; 12, Leiophyllum thymifolium ; 13, 
Iberis sempervirens ; Ledum palustre; 15, Pernettya 
16, Vaccinium nitidum ; 17, Fothergilla alnifolia ; 
18, Kalmia glauca.——H. W.— Your Stanhopea looks as if it 
were a hybrid, between S$. oculata and S. insignis; but it is 
evidently a dark and handsome variety of the former.——N. P. 
<"The blue flower is Camassia esculenta, the other Hypoca~ 
lymma robustum,——T. R Your specimens are, Gentiana 
The seed is that of the 
Ross.— 
acanlis and Tormentilla reptans, 
‘Water Melon. 
SEEDLING FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
Pansins.—F, B.—No. 3, will make a showy border variety; it 
No. 6, a flower of good 
form and substance, with a fine eye; the upper petals are too 
in the upper petals of this fiower, from its having colour on the 
pack, which showing through, makes it look likea stain. No. 
4, Large and rather thin; this appears uncertain, as there is a 
slight tinge of blue on the upper part of the side petals, and 
the upper petals are stained and mottled; it wants substance, 
and is not so good in form as 2 and 6 A,—Your Pansy 
is a very fine one, round, flat, having well-proportioned petals, 
the yellow centre is pure and brillant, eye fine, deep bronzy 
lum-coloured upper petals, with broad belt of the same colour 
surrounding the lower petals ; a flower of good substance.*— 
1, F.—A large and well-formed seedling, eye fine and rich, the 
upper petals are of a deep rich blue purple, and a broad belt of 
the same colour surrounds the bottom petals; the ground 
colour of the lip is yellow, that of the side-petals a delicate 
Jemon ; this difference in the ground colour is the principal 
defect in the flower, which lies flat, is of good substance, and 
the petals are well-proportioned.*—— A. C.—Your seedlings 
are worthless, they possess none of the qualities of goo 
paarers 
owers.*——J. and W. F.—Your Auricula, in its present state, 
is pretty, but not of any value, The Pansy is a very good one 
in size, form, and substance; the belting is broad and fine, and 
e very good; the ground colour wants purity, it has 
streaks of yellow in it below the eye; and the belting is not 
snfficiently clean and abrupt where it joins the ground colour.* 
—Tivy-Side Subscriber.-We are not acquainted with the name of 
tried, and therefore cannot speak to the result ; the specimen 
sent is worthless, from the running of the colour.* 
CineRanias.— R. Oakley.— Your seedling Cineraria is a very good 
blue, but it does not differ from several already out.’ 
CALCEOLARIAS.—S. y.—Your Calceolaria is pretty, but too 
others deficient in this property, they are generally clear and 
fine in colour, a small one (Pym’s Favorite?) is a very clear 
‘This variety is rich, brilliant, and attractive.——Ceres—The 
upper petals are covered with a rich spot, lower petals delicate 
yose-colour; this variety does not appear to differ sufficiently 
from several we have seen to make it desirable; the petals 
had fallen. *——A. 1,—The lower petals of this Seedling 
petals are thin on the edge and 
Fine showy flower in colour, but 
5 are too long, narrow, and flimsy. 
This variety is not worth keeping. —~+ ma.—The petals of this 
variety had fallen, they appear to be individually well-formed ; 
they are, however, too full on the edge, which cause them to 
The colour is common.——Miranda,—Colour 
clear, spot intense, but the colour beyond the spot not so 
clear as itis in the Sylph or Lady Douro, which latter flower 
jt resembles more than the Sylph. *——Quorn.—1. is a 
of good form, delicately coloured under petals ; the upper ones 
are rather cloudy; 2, light lilac; the petals are thin and the 
3, white with plum-coloured spot, rather 
4, bad form, 
under petals too thin and narrow; 5, in form tolerably good; 
i wer it much 
too narrow and thin; 7, white, 
ared spot, upper petals too long and thin on 
the margin; 8, pink, under petals flimsy. Nos. | and3 are the 
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NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Tun adjourned debate on the Corn-laws, which occupied 
the greater part of last week, was brought to a conclusion 
on Monday night, when Mr. Villiers’ motion in favour 
of a total repeal was negatived by a majority of 256. On 
Tuesday Mr. Cumming Bruce moved for leave to bring 
in a bill to amend Lord Ashley’s Act of last session, for 
regulating the employment of young persons in mines and 
collieries, so far as its provisions applied to Scotland. 
The object of the motion was to allow widows und unmar- 
ried females above 18 years of age to return to under- 
ground labour in the Scotch collieries. The motion was 
opposed by Lord Ashley and Sir J. Graham, and nega- 
tived on a division by a majority of 113. On Wednesday 
Mr. Sharman Crawford’s motion for a pill, authorizing 
annual Parliaments, universal Suffrage, and other changes 
analogous to what are called “ the five points of the 
Charter,” was negatived by a majority of 69; and on the 
same night, Mr. Roebuck’s resolution in favour of a 
system of education in which no attempt should be made 
to inculcate peculiar religious opinions, was negatived by 
a majority of 96. Last night Lord Stanley brought 
forward his resolutions relative to Canadian Corn, pro- 
posing that Canadian produce may be introduced at a 
fixed duty of ls., which, with the addition of 3s. levied 
by the Canadian legislature, will enable the grain of the 
United States to be brought into this country, through 
Canada, at a fixed duty of 4s. These resolutions gave rise 
toa long debate, which was ultimately adjourned to Monday. 
From France, our news is mostly of domestic interest, 
the Papers being occupied with an adjourned debate on a 
bill introduced by Ministers for abolishing the home 
manufacture of beet-root sugar in favour of the produce of 
the sugar-cane cultivated in French colonies. Another 
topic of national interest is a contest which has arisen 
between the clergy and the Professors of the University 
on the subject of Education, and which appears to have 
revived all the bitterness that characterized the religious 
controversies of the last century.—From Spain, we learn 
that S. Lopez, the new Prime Minister, bas submitted his 
programme to the Cortes. Among its professions and 
intentions the most important are the announcement of a 
general amnesty for all political offences, the prohibition 
of all future declarations of the state of siege, and various 
financial reforms, which will no doubt Jead to strong party 
struggles.—From Portugal we have accounts of the 
disastrous condition of the commercial and trading 
interests at Lisbon and Oporto, in consequence of the 
interruption of the tariff negotiations. ‘The alarm pro- 
duced by the general spread of distress throughout 
the wine districts had excited the attention of Govern- 
ment, and had induced the belief that the 
rupted negotiations will very shortly be renewed 
with better prospects of success.—By the Levant Mail 
we learn that a new complication has arisen in the Servian 
question, the reigning Prince having announced his reso- 
Jution neither to resign his throne nor to submit to ejec- 
tion: the grounds on which the Prince justifies this 
refusal are the alleged coercion of the Sultan by the 
Russian Cabinet, and the legality of his election in strict 
accordance with the Servian constitution, and with the 
sanction of the Porte.—From the United States we have 
accounts to a recent date, but their interest is chiefly local. 
erties constituting perfection in this class you 
Will find in Vol. i. p. 844, of the Gardeners’ Chronicle ; you ha 
better P few first-rate hich cd 
small; the pro 5 
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The expected retirement of Mr. Webster from the Cabinet, 
and the changes which his resignation would render 
