THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
449 
1843.] 
VEGETABLES. 
Cabbage-plants, per doz. bun.,1sto2s |Peas, per sieve, 9s todas 
Cabbages, per doz., 9d to 28 — per sack, 5s 6d to 7s 
Caulifiowers, per dozen, 1s 6d to 5s _—_| Asparagus, large, per 100, 2s to 58 
eans, Kidney, forced, p-100,2sto3s | — Sprue, or Small, p.bun.ls to 28 
Potatoes, per ton, GOs to1008_ Lettuce, Cubb., p. sieve, 6d to 1s 
— Cos, per acore, 4d to 1s 
Celery p.bd., (12 to15) Isto 3s 
Rhubarb Stalks, per bdle, 4d to 1s, 
Smill Salads, per punnet, 2 to 3d 
Green B: er bi 
» per doz. 1s to 4s | Watercress, per doz. sm. 
» per bunch, 8d to 8d_| Parsley, per.12 bunches, 1s 6d to 3s 
per dozen, 9d to ls ‘Tarragon, per doz. bunches, 2s to 3¢ 
sper bundle, 1s to Gs Fennel, per doz. bun., 25 to 8¢ 
, doz» hands, Gd tols |Mint, per doz. bunches, 1s 6d to 3s 
j h dd to Gd 
aid to 2 
id 
ng, 
— Turnip, p. do: 
Carrots, Young Horn., 
— Spring per bunch, 4d to 
Garlic, per lb. 6d to 8d 
Shallots, per th., is to 1s 6¢ 
green, per bunch, 2d to 6d 
o 6s 
Onions, Spring per bunch, ad to 4d 
— Large, per bun , 6d to 1s 
otices to Correspondents. 
Insrcrs:—It would be very desirable if our Correspondents 
would take some little pains in forwarding the various grubs 
and insects which they wish to gain information about. More 
an half we receive are in such a state that were they not well 
known it would be impossible to determine them. Those for- 
warded in a quill generally come to hand quite safely, and that 
8 to be the only good plan of inclosure for the 
Manurus. 
The nitric acid is only a speculation, and may not succeed. It 
o try it on a small scale first. 
eneed give you about your dung-pit is that the floor 
Should be high enough to be thoroughly drained, and that all 
the fluid that soaks or runs from it should be caught in a hole 
and poured back continually over the heap. Ifa dung-pit is 
much below the level of the ground, it is apt to be filled with 
d manure will not rot in ene The rule is to keep 
-drained.—-X. Z.—Bleachi 
articles in this Paper, will give you all the information you 
For a penny you may get an excellent article, Grave, 
in the “ Penny Cyclopzdia.?>——No Vote.—We cannot meddle 
with matters out of our sphere. All we can say about Mr. Cox’s 
Edition of the Act to amend the Law for the Registration of 
Voters is that it is what you appear to want. ‘There is a new 
edition of the book containing an incorporation of the Reform 
Act and other Election Statutes, with the recent act, as directed 
by sec. 2 of the latter. 
Brirtsn Wines.— Tody.—-The best mode of making these cannot 
be told in a short answer in a Newspaper. You should consult 
“Macculloch or 
i insects without 
injuring the plants. Your best way will be to try it on some- 
thing you do not value. All we can say is that a strong 
Solution of corrosive sublimate may be poured on grass without 
doing injury to anything except. worms. Remem er, however, 
that if you syringe fruit trees with this material you may 
poison yourself afterwards. It is certainly worth a trial on 
Plants like Roses infested with green. fly, but do not add it to 
jime-water.— 7. 
k 
washes that 
have been used disfigure the plants so much that it is a pity to 
@ noted murderer of a small green moth, common on the Oak, 
iX Vi T.—Your, Myrtle-leaves are 
attacked by a scale insect, belonging to the genus Coceus of 
Ent ii , method for removing these scale 
water 
the dung-hill wet and wel . owder 
with water will remove the smell. Probably it would 
he greatly diminished if a large pan of sawdust moistened with 
oil of vitriol were placed in the closet, 
Borrom-ngeat.—B.— must refer you to the chapter on this 
Subject in the ‘Theory of Horticulture.” In such a climate 
s this, where we have so little light, it is never desirable to 
elevate the temperature of a Pine-bed permanently above 84° 
5 M'Phail’s practice is bad. 
Ventinatio: 
for time, you had better wait 
results of some experiments now in progress, P. Watson.— 
Thanks. The plans are in the wood-engraver’s hands, and will 
€ppear short] 
Darr 
the 
e seed, or rather 
sooner, and when full grown are from 60 to 90 feet high. 
Fruirs.—Diosma.—Your Grapes have been chilled by a rush of 
Ferns cannot be bought in the regular course of business. A 
Nurseryman may not keep Ferns himself, but he can always 
buy them of those who do. Why at Messrs. Loddiges there 
ae thousands on sale, as all Nurserymen know. 
OBEROsES,—L, P.—Your Tuberose roots will probably flower if 
you keep them warm, well watered, and fully exposed to light, 
Provided their rocts are thoroughly drained, and in good soil, 
on’t turn them out of doors. When the leaves are quite 
dead take up the roots; put them in a dry place, and force 
pitem next year in a good bottom-heat. 
Vensras, — Inquiries are made as to the probability of the 
Fuchsias described under the signature ‘ Mowbray,” in last 
Week’s paper, becoming purchasable. In reply, we have to 
State that we are not in a position to give any further informa- 
tion about them than that they were sent under the signature 
Of Mowbra; 
horoughly as early as you can, so as to give them a good long 
ices. —J, B.—Almost all Roses 
Aving a hand-glass 
Nee when some of them are generally found to have struck 
spring. 
A Uricunas.—d Subscriber.—There is an excellent Paper on the 
% Culture of the Auricula,” by Dr. Horner, at p. 396 of the 
syoltme for 1841. m 
EXT-SMELLING FLowers.— B.—The following are a few 
Tagrant stove and hanotis floribun- 
sinevlaria odoratissima, Gardenia radicans, and Cymbidium 
Ode wse—for the stove; with Luculia gratissima, Trymalium 
moratissimum, Erica a, Aloysia citriodora, Mimulus 
singe es Daphne indica rosea, the Tree Violet, and Gnidia 
?, ex, = 
ME Cary Jasmine.—H. C.—This plant is not so hardy as the 
Atvrtle, and cannot be kept in health without some warmth in 
me The Myrtle will bear several degrees of frost if kept in 
B oN Atmosphere and soil. 
Per 
insects is by brushing them off with a sufficiently-stiff brush, 
or by washing the leaves with a mixture of lime, sulphur, and 
water, as recommended in the Gardeners’ Chronicle for 184), 
Pp. 131, under the head of Mealy Bug, or Scale Insect. 
destroy the green-fl as you find the 
Hellebore-powder a failure, to try fumigation with tobacco, or 
Syringing with tobacco-water. A brush similar to the brush 
commonly used in shaving, has also been found of much use 
im removing the green-fly, particularly from Roses, by brushing 
the insects off the leaves and buds into a pan of water; but 
this is a laborious operation, and only applicable to the protec- 
tion of a few choice plants. The “Worm, and two small 
insects from the joints of the woodwork 
MZ. — Stigmaphyllon jatrophefolium,— 
ci 7.— Onopordon acanthium.— M. A —Mimulus glu- 
tinosus, Andrémeda pulverulenta.— Ovo: Cyclégyne canes- 
cens, or a new species of that genus.— Russelliana.—Pro- 
bably your Fasciolus is Phaseolus caracalla, a beautiful but old- 
fashioned annual, requiring an Italian climate. It is often 
called the Snail-flower. i 
information upon the subject. Observer.Your plant is 
sometimes cultivated in flower-gardens as the White Myosotis 
vensis; and a very thing it is. et-me-not i 
applicable to all the ddwe species of Myosotis, but principally 
o M. palustris, becanse it is the most beautiful,—— 
All varicties of R, canina; No. 1 is th 
J. B.—Eruca 
—6.—We 
3, 
J.B. K. L.— 
Apparently a small state of Carex pendula.——A Constant Sub- 
He did not mention 
r iron as anything new; 
what we understand him to say is, that the particular mode of 
uu know that the 
iron cap, neither of 
which answer very well.——,, B, H.—FEriobotrya japonica. 
Robert's plants, are—Spireea aruncus, Crategus tanacetifdlia, 
Dianthus deltoides, Campanula persicifolia (blue and white), 
Lindria repens, 
ee earn eae ee 
SEEDLING FLORISTS’ FLOWERS, 
PansiEs.—J. Baillie—Your Pansies are too small; they are 
suitable only for border varieties.—— 1. Hall,—No. 7 is de- 
cidedly the best seedling in your collection, and will, we donbt 
not, prove a first.rate show flower. i 
round, the petals large and well-formed, clean creamy white 
theeye; the petals are smooth on the edge, of good substance, 
flower. 2, 3, 4, 5, are 
PELARGONIUMS.—J, Baillie.—The seedlings you have sent up do 
not possess the properties of the sorts which are now cultivated, 
‘phe petals are pointed; they are long, narrow, flimsy in sub- 
stance and deficient in colour, having small spots, with lines 
extending beyond, and with an abundance of feathering. 
H. B.—The large seedling is a ver 
; very like the larger one; 
alee petals——G. W. Hoyle.—On opening your box it ap- 
peared a complete mass 
perfect was Mulberry; the others had been shaken from the 
stems on their passage I OReGae “SOVErS 
varieties in the way of Mulberry, with larger flowers, of a 
better form, and pure white under petals. The upper petals of 
Rosalie are very beautiful; dark, with a bright rose-coloured 
margin; and the feathering in this flower must be quite oblite- 
rated when perfect. The petals are broad and clear in several 
of the flowers, for instance, The Duchess of Inverness, Floar, 
and Gen, W, Napier, but from their form they appear to curl 
back too much. General Pollock is high-coloured, but too 
crumpled. Unique, bright and clear, but the petals appear to 
be too long. We are sorry they did not arrive in better con- 
dition.—-W. J. E.—Your seedling Fairy Queen is so like, that 
it may be called a repetition of, Foster’s Matilda; the difference 
is very slight, and consists in the bottom petals being a little 
longer, and rather more feathering seen at the base of thi 
upper petals ; it is a fine flower, and with the difference in the 
foliage which you mention (that of Erectum), it mus 
striking object.—J. W.—It is not necessary to notice your 
seedlings individually, as they are all of the same character ; they 
are deficient in form, the lower petals being too narrow; the 
lowers are also too small, aud wanting substance. The present 
race of Pelargoniums are much in advance of your seedlings. 
C. D.—The size of your flower is its only recommendation ; it 
is coarse and wants ccmpactness; the petals all curl back, and 
what should be a dark spot in.the upper petals consists entirely 
of feathering.—- Anonymous (no letter received).—The 
No. 1 had been shaken from the calyx, so that we cannot 
tell what the form cf the 
centre is white lower petals terminating in a 
clear and beautiful pink, with a large dark blotch in the upper 
i the edges of 
flower, of a good 
the petals are a little rumpled; 4, of no use, the ground-ccolour 
form, but it opens quite flat, and 
impure; 2, under petals narrow and thin; all your flowers are 
deficient in substance.—J. ne of your seedlings are 
they want substance of petal; they are very deficient in 
m, having long, narrow petals, and they are also very com- 
mon in colour, W,_ C.—Y s ing wants substance; it 
is very Common in appearance.——.James Curtis.—Prince Arthur 
is a Pelargonium with gocd 
C.—Non 
terminate 
oes not 
yet there is a quality in 
the upper petals of your flowers that should encourage you to 
persevere; the colour generally is fine and evenly distributed, 
excepting in Emma, which is poor and the flower ill-formed. 
—Formosa, Princess Mary, Duke of Brunswick, Nos. 1 and 2 
are good in colour, but the flowers want substance, and are 
generally thin at the edge in the upper petals; a large purple- 
crimson flower, with broad under-petals and light centre, is the 
best in your collection. W. EB. R.— Rosebud is furnished with 
better upper petals than the Nymph; but the lower petals are 
neither so well formed, nor do they possess the firmness of the 
petals of that variety. 
Fucnsias.—J. W.—Fuchsia Browneii is a pretty little bright- 
coloured flower, having violet-purple petals; but the only 
novelty we can perceive is in the peculiar form of the tube.—— 
G. S.—Your seedling No. 26 i y variety, having the 
tube, sepals, and petals of a uniform bright rosy vermilion 
colour, with large foliage; it isa good flower, but not equal to 
the best sorts that are o mms.—The flower of your 
seedling is shorter and brighter than corymbifiora, but the 
sepals reflex in corymbiflora in the same way as your seedling ; 
it depends upon its habit whether it is worth possessing.—— 
F. B.—tThe seedling you propose naming Lindleyana is a large 
and stout flower, with long sepals, very much expanded ; the 
Heike is altogether of a rich crimson vermilion, with dark 
Oliage, 
Pansies —2f, A, G.—Your Pansy is not a flower of good pro- 
portions ; it wants roundness in its general form; the lower 
separate; the eye is very rking.—— 
F. B.—The yellow tinge which emanates from the blotch in 
the bottom petal-destroys the purity of the ground-colour of 
your flower. 
Carcrorarias.—Robert Miller.—Pirate; large bronzy self, not 
good in form, and the outline too indented.——Mrs. Bently : 
yellow, with large brown blotches; good and distinct.—— 
Jehu; bad ground-colour; very po Incomparable ; bust 
ground, with large and small spots; we have larger flowers 
Superior to this variety of the same character.——A. Godwin.— 
Champion ; a pleasing variety, of good form ; front of the flower 
covered with spots. 7’. in thesame way, but smaller and not 
© good as Champion. F.; small, and the outline too much 
indented. X., @., and V.; bad and indistinct ground-colour. 
M.; clear yellow ground-colou: vi few spots; a good 
ety .; small and not sufficiently distinct from others. 
Hull.—No. 200 is the only desirable flower in 
all the others are very inferior in size and 
variety. Z. L. 
A Subscribe 
your collecti 
; . 
quality to the varieties grown near London. 200 is a rich 
yellow flower, curiously marked with dark-brown blotches and 
spots in front.——T'airy Queen is the best of your scedlings, 
and the only one worth preserving ; 2, is common in colour, 
and too indented at the bottom ; 3, is i, and | 
4, is small, and of a bad form.—— J. Plant.—Alice Maud Mary 
is singular in colour, and covered entirely with very minute 
spots, it is too small. ‘ 
As usual, a host of letters have arrived too late for answers this week. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Tir debate in the French Chambers on the proposed 
reduction of the army terminated on Friday, in a large 
majority for Ministers. Marshal Soult strongly resisted 
the reduction, and hinted that he would resign rather than 
carry into execution so dangerous a measure. This threat, 
added to a favourable statement from the Finance 
Minister on the finances of the country, produced a strong 
effect upon the Chamber, and upwards of 200 out of 380 
members rose against the reduction. Notwithstanding 
this triumph, the Ministers have found it necessary to 
give way on some other matters of expenditure, and have 
consented to reductions to the amount of 7,000,000 francs. 
The spirit of economy, however, is so predominant in the 
Chambers that they haye refused to entertain for another 
year the Paris and Belgian Railway Law, though urged to 
do so by the Cabinet—The accounts from Spain, though 
im some respects satisfactory, are calculated to give rise 
to apprehension. The Regent left Madrid for Valencia 
on the 21st ult., amidst the warmest manifestations of 
enthusiasm and attachment from the National Guard and 
