1843.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
We cannot undertake to instruct persons so entirely ignorant 
of the rudiments of gardening. 
Vines, Peacues, &c.—Rusticus.—We do not apprehend that you 
will succeed well, in growing Vines, Peaches, and Flowering 
Plants ail in one house ; but since you are desirous of making 
the experiment, you may train the Vines along a trellis, at right 
angles with the rafters, in order to admit as much light as pos- 
sible to the plants and Peach-trees on the back wall. A li 
fire-heat will be necessary to preserve the plants from frost in 
Winter; but as this will only be applied as occasion requires it, 
and as the temperature need never be raised above 40°, it wi 
not have the effect of starting either the Peaches or Vines. t 
Pracn-rre Subscriber,— While fine weather continues it is 
quite unnecessary to apply fir to your Peach-trecs ; but 
if a change should take place, and cold damp weather ensue, 
then fire-heat will be of advantage, both for ripening fruit and 
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Lawns.—Amateur.—You may convert your bed, at present occu- 
pied by shrubs, into a grass-plot, by removing the shrubs, and 
making the ground perfectly level. Then lay it with turf if 
that can be procured, if not, yon may sow it with the following 
Grass seeds, vis.:—Crested Dogstail, Meadow Poa, Sheeps’ 
Fescue, and Meadow Fescue, mixed with a little White Clover. 
ULB the bulbs you have just received from the 
Cape have already begun to grow, they may be potted off im- 
mediately, in a rich light soil et the pots be filled rather 
full, and insert the base of the bulb only into the soil.t 
Tropaoiums.— Geo. Young.—Keep your 1 ‘ 
menes bulbs perfectly dry during Winter. When Spring arrives 
Dp. es 
Oneanpers.—H. G.—Few plants like to have their roots con- 
stantly in stagnant water, and you must not trust your Oleander 
toit. While growing, give ita great deal, however, so that it 
never is dry; when not growing give it very little. Its natural 
habit is to follow the course of streams in Barbary, where it 
glows with rosy flowers and dark green foliage when every~ 
thing else is parched. 
Foucnsta conymerriora.—An Original Subseriber.—Let the seed- 
ods of Fuchsia corymbiflora be opened, the seeds taken out, 
and sown in light rich mould in March: water yery slightly, 
until they begin to grow.t fee 
Fucustas.—M. W.K.—A good way of treating your Fuchsias is 
to allow them to go gently to rest with the natural decline of 
e season, and gradually to withdraw the waterings as the 
leaves fall off; and when the plants shall have lost their foliage, 
fting or pruning will be re- 
quired until next spring. When they begin to grow, all dead 
points should be removed, the plants turned out of their pots, 
and their balls reduced a little, taking care to injure as little as 
possible the newly-formed roots, and te repot themin the same 
sized pots in a rich light soil. t——W.—The best time to sow 
Fuchsia seeds is in spring; they ought to be put, when sown, 
in a slight bottom-heat. 
ELARGONIUMS.—A Constant Subscriber.—If you have no other 
way of keeping your Pelargoniums and half-hardy plants 
during the winter, you may possibly preserve them in your 
Melon pits, by placing the plants on some dry material, the 
wooden frame you mention will answer that purpose very well. 
You must take care in watering to scatter as little as possible ; 
give plenty of air in fine weather, and cover carefully at night 
with mats ; but to ensure the plants completely from danger, 
in case of a very severe winter, it would certainly be advisable 
to have some sort of heating apparatus, such as an Arnott 
stove.{—— J. B,—It isa disputed question what causes the spot 
in Pelargonium leaves. It is certainly not the work of an insect, 
nor is it anything in the soil, but is to all appearance produced 
by cold. The diseased leaves cannot be cured, butif they are 
removed, and the plants are put into a warm house, you will 
see no more of it. The sudden chill produced by the late hail- 
storms is very likely to have given rise to i 
Carnations.—Aliquis.—We recommend you to procure the fol- 
lowing :—Bizarres —Twitchett’s Don John, Headley’s William 
Cobbett, Puxley’s Prince Albert, and Cartwright’s Rainbow, 
Flakes (purple)—Mansley’s Beauty of Woodhouse and La- 
scelles’ Queen of Sheba. Scarlet Flakes~Chadwick’s Brilliant 
and Addenbrooke’s Lydia. Purple Picotees—Trip to Cambridge 
and Ely’s Grace Darling. Yellow Picotees—Barraud’s Euphe- 
Mia and Royal Standard.* 
Curysantarmums.—Aliquis. — Wheeler’s Changeable Yellow, 
Early Blush, Champion—lemon; Princess Marie—rosy lilac ; 
Canigli dark red; Ch Hor, ite and pink; 
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Formosum — primrose; Lucidum— white; Celestial — pink; 
Gauvion St. 
Cyr—dark orange; Campestroni—dark crimson ; 
owered.* 
liquis.— Rose — Groot Vorst, Bouguet Royal, 
Lami de Ceeur. White—Grand Vainqueur, Colossus, Prince of 
Biue— Quentin Durward, Orondates, and Gran 
Vidette. * 
PLawrrs,— 1, S.—It is now too late in the season to raise plants 
from seeds or cuttings, to flower about Christmas. Tbe follow- 
ing will furnish Bouquets, with the application of a little heat, 
Viz,: Camellias, the different kinds of Azalea, Persian Lilacs, 
Chrysanthemums, Lily of the Valley, China, Bourbon, and 
“Loss Roses, and of course the various bulbs that are used for 
forcing.¢ 
Herwackous Pranrs.—A Constant Sub — Fifty hardy 
herbaceous plants, all dissimilar and pretty :—Statice latifolia, 
8. tatarica, Hoteia japonica, Aconitum japonicum, Geranium 
ibericum, Gentiana asclepiadea, Epimedium grandifiorum, 
Dictamnus rubra, Delphinium grandiflorum, Coreopsis lanceo- 
Jata (10), Anemone vitifolia, A. palmata, Clematis integrifolia, 
Monarda didyma, Cnothera speciosa, G5. macrocarpa, Ponia 
i polyphyllus, Pentstemon ovatus, P. 
Scouleri (20), Phlox nivalis, P. Coldreyana, Rudbeckia hirta, 
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Variegata, salmon ; 21, White sweet-scented China Rose, white ; 
22. Heliotropium perayianum, deep blue ; oT 
Compacta alba, white; 26. Petunia (Beauty), rosy purple; 97. 
Boone ignea, bright scarlet; 28. Anagallis Monelli, bright 
Ue; 29. Gaillardia picta, orange and crimson; 30. Pentste- 
Psuinea, crimson; 34. Gsnothera missouriensis, yellow ; 
ae teas puniceus, orange searlet ; 36. Ni ‘gia interme- 
Touiy, bale lilac; 37. Verbena Tweediana, scarlet; 38. Lobelia 
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Puan R A Vinery.—A Beginner.—For relieving the naked- 
ness of your Vinery, we recommend you the following Pelar- 
goniums, they are very good, but not expensive varieties, and 
will answer your purpose exceedingly well:—Matilda, Sylph, 
us, Corona, Erectum, Orange Boven, Annette, Hodge’s 
Emperor, Priory Queen, Madelina, Bridesmaid, Una, Victory, 
Coronation, Comte de Paris, Gaines’s King, Alexandrina, 
Sidonia, Corinne, Grand Duke, Lady Carlisle, Jehu, Conserva- 
tive, Clarissa. Roses in pots, such sorts as Fabvier, Sanguinea, 
Devoniensis, Yellow Noisette, Old Blush China, Theresa Stra- 
vius, and La Superbe. Fuchsias—Tho formosa ele- 
gans, Venus victrix, Devoniensis, Curte: conspicua arborea, 
and Pontey’s Tricolor, A few pots of Cinerarias, the same of 
Calceolarias. Clematis azurea and C. Sieboldii are both very 
ornamental. Bulbs in pots of Polyanthus Narcissus. A col- 
lection of Hyacinths would is' uch, with the white 
and lilac varieties of the Chinese Primrose. The best annuals 
for the purpose are Nemophila insignis, Schizanthus retusus 
and pinnatus, Rhodanthe Manglesii, Alonsoa grandiflora, and 
Erysimum Perofiskyanum,and a few pots of Heliotropes, Scarlet 
Pelargoniums, Lily of the Valley, &c. &c.; as you proceed other 
objects will be suggested to you, and you can procure dupli- 
cates of such as are most agreeable to your taste.* 
Prars.—A Surrey Subscriber.— The Bon Chrétien Pear will not 
succeed well The following are proper :— 
Dunmore, Fondante d’Automne, Rondelet, Althorp Crassane, 
Beurré Bose, Thompson’s, Hacon’s Incomparable, Winter 
Nelis, Glout Morceau, Knight’s Monarch, Ne plus Meuris, and 
Beurré Rance. || 
VEGETABLE MARRow.—Constant. — This plant abhors cold. 
There is no reason why it should not be grown in the open air 
as early in the season as nights) cease to be cold and the 
mornings frosty. It may be treated exactly like a Cucumber, 
and may probably be raised under transparent cotton lights. 
NsxEcrs.—G, §. Wintle.—The small insects attached to the legs 
of the dead house fiy, which you forwarded to us, are the Mock 
Scorpion,Chelifer cancroides. These insects musthave attached 
themselves to the fly after it was dead, but for what purpose, 
except that of devouring it, we cannot inform you. The round 
whitish ball which you found attached to the Fuchsia blossoms 
is a nest of one of the smaller spiders. The exact species which 
constructed it we are unable to point out.—HE: 
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ite vegetables. Where the Caterpillars abound, we 
advise you to turn up the soil and carefully hand-pick all that 
appears; after which water the soil with a mixture of 3 gas 
liquor and $ water. This will easily get into the soil where it 
n they much resemble, from their colours, a portion of 
the tree on which they rest.——I, EH. P.—The 
effectual means of destroying it. If the weather continue as 
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slightly, and afterwards treat them as greenhouse plants. _ 
MiscunLANEous.—A Subscriber will find directions for making 
an Asphalte path at p. 593, of this year.t——Lym 
ply to some respectable Nurser, man, —— Leptostachya.— 
Angelonia salicarivefolia.——J. G@.—If water stagnates or keeps 
continually soaking through your ground, by all means drain 
it¢—W. x. Yl thea coelestis; 2, Cistus of some 
kind but without a better specimen we cannot determine the 
Jos 3, Potentilla fruticosa; 4, Bscallonia rubra.t——A. B. 
ae about the end of March.t——W. M.— 
tai 2, Scntellaria minoy; 3, S. galericulata; 
verbena officinalis; 5, Melilotus officinal 6, Lysimachia 
4 eeum.——-Sfura.—YOur Brassia is new, if its labellum is 
always narrow, as in the specimen sent.—— Melocactus.—We 
sce that the Persian Mclons have been advertised (see p. 642), 
put we know nothing of the genuineness of the seeds. Any 
ception of the Sirdar, which is in few hands as yet—— 
It is useless to send flowers packed in dry moss; no care will 
restore them to an examinable state. Your Thunbergias are 
shrivelled up till they are not larger than a cowslip blossom. 
——James Smith.—Of your seedling Gloxinias No. 2 is the best; 
but the country is full of such things.——Z. H. W.—1, 
English Codlin; 2, White Costin; 3, Beachamwell; 4, Worm- 
ley Pippin.|——H. P. J.—Pear, No. 8 is the Ambrosia; Apple, 
No. 10, isthe Duchess of Oldenburg.||—-—M. W. R.—There 
must be a place made, from three to four feet deep, for Ste- 
phenson’s boiler t 
rather below, the level of the gutters. The stone-cistern need 
not have any partition to divide the flow and return-pipes. For 
a pit 12ft. by 6ft., procure the smallest sized boiler you can get. 
—--A. D.—We should think i necessary to clean your 
boiler.t——An Original Subscriber 
book of Gardening,” reviewed at p. 271. You will find much 
information respecting border Hyacinths at p. 36 of this year. 
We know of no better way to keep mice from Crocuses than to 
trap them.t{—— 0.—Some Scorzonera, not worth the trouble of 
sending or determining. 
SEEDLING FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
Versenas.—J. Miller.—We have precisely the same colour in 
the Verbena as your seedling named Zeuwis, but the flowers of 
your variety are larger; it is very brilliant.——@.—Your seed- 
ling is a pretty flower, but it does not appear to differ from 
others we have seen. WW. C.—Verbenas travel exceedingly 
well when packed in wet Moss. Your specimens were en- 
veloped in dry cotton wool, and were shrivelled_up when we 
received them, and we could not revive them, No, 4 appears 
a curious variety, the truss being composed of rose and 
white flowers, quite distinct. Do the flowers open in this 
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greatest contrast of colours, the lightest tube, the greenest tip, 
he deepest-coloured co ; in Gregoryana the corolla is 
too dull, and in Carnea superb; the sepals do not expand suf- 
ficiently.* 
Dautias.—M, S.—Your yellow seedling is of no use; the petals 
are too ribby, and the centre indifferent. The dark variety isa 
flower of fine general form; the centre up and well formed. 1 
is a flower of good properties, but the colour is that in which 
our best flowers abonnd, and the blooms are rather undersized. 
-—E. B.—Both your seedlings are small; the darkest is de- 
cidedly the best, and from its general good properties is worth 
trying again ; the lighter flower, No. 2, doesnot promise so well. 
——W.S. of P. C.—Your named seedling of 1842 does not 
possess the improved qualities looked for in seedlings of the 
present day; the centre is sunk and bad, the petals are narrow, 
jointed, and too munch quilled, and the flower is what is techni- 
cally called starry; it is of no use.——H. B.—Your second 
bloom supports the opinion previously written on the first; it 
promises well.* 
As usual, a host of letters have arrived too late for answers this week. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
A vrnrGRrapnic despatch reached Paris on Monday, 
announcing that a revolution broke out in Greece on the 
15th inst., which has ended in the complete triumph of 
the popular cause, without compromising the personal 
safety of the King or the dignity of his crown. The 
details of this revolution present one of the most 
remarkable examples of national unanimity in the history 
of modern times. The people, the army, and even the 
principal authorities, had combined for the accomplish- 
ment of their purpose; and so secret were their move- 
ments, that neither the Foreign Ministers nor the King 
himself were aware of the approaching crisis. The people 
and the troops assembled in the middle of the night, sur- 
rounded the palace, and cut off all communication between 
the King and his Bavarian counsellors. They then in one 
voice demanded a Constitution. The King, aroused 
from his sleep, found that he was completely isolated, 
and that resistance was impossible. He had there- 
fore no alternative but to assent to the proposals 
submitted to him by the Council of State, and 
to promise that the National Assembly should be con- 
voked to draw up a new Constitution. Not a shot was 
fired, nor a voice raised against the obnoxious advisers of 
the King; and in less than 12 hours the immense multi- 
tude had quietly dispersed, without the occurrence of a 
single act of violence or aggression. This pacific revo- 
lution bas excited considerable interest on the Continent, 
more especially in reference to the disturbances in the 
Italian States, and to the possibility that the example of 
the Greeks may be followed in the South of Italy. The 
Foreign journals concur in bestowing great praise on the 
moderation with which the Greeks accomplished their 
purpose, and contrast this result with the desultory 
proceedings of the Italian insurgents, whose attacks on 
individuals have given to their rising the character rather 
of a systematic brigandage than of a 1ent for political 
redress.—In France, the clamour against the armament 
of the fortifications of Paris is still the leading topic of 
the Opposition journals; but the people as yet appear 
to regard the question with indifference. Some further 
arrests have taken place in connection with the late con- 
spiracy, but no important facts have been made known. 
—From Spain we learn that am engagement took place on 
the 2Ist, in the neighbourhood of Barcelona, between the 
contending forces which dispute the possession of that 
city. The bombardment commenced on the same day, 
and continued until the insurgents had retired from their 
