697 
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Onions, Spring p. doz. beh., 1s 6d to 3s 
= hile v., 18 to 1s 6d 
ang per doz,, 1s to 3s 
| = pickling, phf.-sv., 3s 6d to 4s 6d 
Shallots, per Ib., 6d to 9d 
Chilis, per 100, 1s to 2s 
Lettuce, Cabb., p. score, 94 to 1 
| — ’ Cos, per score, 6d to 1s 6d 
Celery, per bun, 6d to 28 
| 6d to Be \u per pottle, Is 6d to ge 
Vs 02. 
5 
Tushrooms, 
Wallauts, per bu 
Small Salad! 
|Sweet Basi 
Waterers 
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Notices to Correspondents. 
Mr. PAXTON’S COTTAGERS’ CALENDAR.—At the earnest 
Solicitation of many of our subscribers, we have determined on 
reprinting Mr, Paxton’s ‘ Cottagers’ Calendar.” i 
ready ina da wo, in the form of a small volume, for 
general distribution, price 3d. each copy, and may be ordered 
all booksellers, entlemen wishing to distribute copies 
orders at once, that the number printed may be regulated 
accordingly. 
CorresponpEnts.—We are under the necessity of stating 
that all letters of inquiry whatsoever, addressed to us after this 
week, will be answered through our columns, and in no other 
ay. We would willingly oblige our Correspondents with pri- 
vate answers, but we are sure that they will perceive the utter 
impossibility of doing so with 5000 inquirers. ers are of 
such a nature that they cannot be answered publicly, we trust 
that the writers will not think themselves neglected if they re. 
main unanswered, 
Manvres.—T. B. H.—We have not yet sufficient experience of 
artificial manures, especially the saline, to say what their effect 
will be when often repeated. What will increase a crop on the 
first application may not do so afterwards. We must have 
patience, and in time we shall know more about it. 
them which we now see daily advertised will probably ¢isap- 
is.—By all means add the 
You will find that it 
2 
ie 
The residue of the 
It is incon. 
if the tank is made of brickwork set in cement.—J. S.—Fo: 
i it 4 7 feet wide, with gutters, the 
Second size conical boiler is best, but the small size will do, as 
0 75° 
‘he plan you want will be of little use 
S. B.—You cannot convert your fiues into 
hot-water gutters unless they are level through all the space 
mM may carry a pipe to any 
@ 
to do; however, in so small a house, this will not matter. 
b lan. Lead pipes are applied 
Stevenson’s boilers, and both answer the pur pose. 
Tanxs.—I will explain my reasons for the depth of water Irecom- 
mend as soon as I shall have an interview with a youn 
gentleman, who is said to have nearly lost his life last winter 
through his ignorance of a simple law in hydrostatics—an 
ignorance under which I laboured for a long time, and which 
was I think participated in by Mr. Rendle at the date of his last 
letter on the subject. D. Beaton. 
Vines.—Croydon.—Twelve Vines, early and late for a Vinery, 
may be the following : —3 Black Hamburgh, White Sweetwater, 
Black Prince, Royal Muscadine, Chasselas Musqué, White 
Frontignan, Grizzly Frontignan, Black Frontignan, Charles- 
worth Tokay, and Black St. Peter’s. || ——K. M.—Ifyoukeep the 
border warm and your hot-house well glazed, althongh situa- 
ted in a high cold ‘climate, you can grow any yariety of the 
Vine. The followi i i 
UAGH-TREES.—Rambler.—A wash of sulphur, soot, and lime 
applied to Peach-trees in spring does not prevent the leaves 
from blistering. This disease is occasioned by cold. Ammo- 
niacal liquor, diluted with 10 or 12 parts of water, will kill the 
Aphis which infests your Peach, Nectarine, and other Fruit 
trees, The Ants do not feed on these insects until the latter 
are either dead or sickly, and then they carry them off the tree. || 
It is understood that it is the sweet exudation from the Aphi- 
~ be 
owing to the want of moisture. Minute observation will enable 
You to find the real cause and suggest the remedy, a7, 
. I, will find no better directions for the management 
of Hyacinths than those given by us in 1841. We con dently 
Tecommend the directions there given, for they are the result 
of long and very successful practice. E 
Teomopsis spLnNDENS.—A Constant Subscriber.—This plant is 
an annual in this country, and isnot sufficiently hardy to stand 
the winter without protection. Therefore, in the event of 
Hoag, weather, you had better cover your plant with a hand- 
Blass. + 
Nirpnaa opronca.—An Old Subscriber.—This plant has a pure 
White flower, and blooms in autumn an Winter, after which 
the stems die off, and the plant remains in a dormant state 
Until the following season. 
young shoots begin to grow, it may be watered, sparingly at 
first, but as the plant advances in growth the quantity 
It should be potted in a light soil, and requires a 
Moist stove heat between 50° and 60°. } 
Bravoa GEMINniriora.—/ is a tanaee 
Greenhouse-plant with a fleshy oblong tuberous root and long 
h 
If they are 
in small pots give them larger. Scilla bifolia rests in winter. 
It would probably be the better for a ité/e sea-water whilein a 
State of growth, 
e Heaths have been advertised at 5/. a 
H P. P.—Ca v . 
hundred in the Chronicle, all of which are suited for bedding 
D.B 
out in the flower-garden. D. B. 
Pine Appies.—A Young Pine Grower.—Remove the gills from 
your Pine Apples as soon as you can discover them; they do 
not rob the fruit directly, but indirectly; they appropriate a 
portion of the nourishment which is conveyed through the 
ONS.— F, P.—I have not seen the Persian Melon, and there- 
fore cannot enter into your views. ave no doubt all these 
Syrian and Persian Melons will in time degencrate with us, 
partly from the climate, and more especially by getting inter 
mixed with our coarser varieties. D. B.——The best directions 
for the management of this plant are those by Mr. Knight, in 
the “ Horticultural Transactions,”’ and republished in his “ Phy- 
siological Papers.” There are also short but good instructions 
in “ Lindley’s Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden.” But, 
in reality, almost every treatise contains useful information 
upon the mere practical operations. There is a kind of skill 
which books cannot give, but which results from experience, 
and which just makes the difference between one grower and 
another. Excellent directions have been given from time to 
time in our columns. 
ASPARAGUS.—Seven Oaks —The principal use of trenches between 
Asparagus beds is to enable the roots of the plants to be stimu- 
Jated by sun-heat early in the season; and when it is wanted 
early that is of importance; sometimes, also, they are used 
for irrigating, or for receiving stable-litter for forcing. When, 
however, Asparagus is not wanted unseasonably, level beds 
are just as good, and in some respects fhe beds should 
consist of very rich light soil; the Asparagus should be con- 
stantly fed with rich manure, while growing, and saline matter, 
especially common salt and sulphate or muriate of magnesia. 
It likes guano excessively, and Potter’s guano still better, 
CrLery.—J. F. G.—By strict attention to your Celery crops you 
may assist in keeping the maggot under by removing the 
leaves as soon as they begin to indicate its presence, or by nip- 
ping the blisters, s estroy the inmates, 
7 reserve such early Potatoes as are 
sprouting in the same season, they should be 
family Geometridze which you found claspe 
those who are not conversant with Entomology. 
o0oKs.—Adolescens.—‘* Lindley’s Theory of Horticulture”’ is, we 
imagine, the book most likely to be useful to you.—R. G.— 
The new edition of Liebig, just advertised, is almost anew 
book, so much having been altered, omitted, and added. We 
shall notice it as soon as we can o donian 
Youth must inquire of the booksellers. It has already been 
advertised, 
New ZraLranp.—R. L.—It is true, as the writer in the Times 
says, that New Zealand Flax is of excellent quality ; but it is 
not true, as another writer in the same paper alleges, that it is 
produced from Linum usitatissimam, which is the Common 
Flax. We did not imagine any person to be ignorant that the 
New Zealand Flaxisa Phormium and not a Linum—two plants 
as different as a horse and a snake. 
Carrie Ferpine.—J. B. H,—When Beans are given to cows in 
addition to hay or other food, about 6!bs. may be given per 
to a moderately-sized cow, with hay and straw. If hay is 
it may be useful to know that 24 lbs. of Beans are about 
i] 
ule can be given. M. 
ous.—Subscriber will find an excellent receipt for 
in another column.— J. Sco r seedling 
Ipomeea, between I, Horsfallim and scabra, is remarkably 
handsome, with flowers paler than in the one and darker than 
n the other. We do not admire your double Pansy. Sy 
Girling.—The Dahlia with the paleze of its receptacle changing 
into leaves is not uncommon.——A. L. D.—The substance you 
find in Currants gathered off the wall is a portion of thin tissue 
forming a Jayer just beneath the skin. is a curious and beau- 
tiful microscopical object.——A Reader may grow Peaches on 
wood paling in clayey soil, on asouth aspect, provided he mixes 
a good deal of lime-rubbish with the soil, and thoroughly drains 
MIsceLLANn 
5 Ww 
the veins will become blue.——4. C.—We 
for Petrea volibilis, and not sumny enough. If you persevere 
in your new management of Quisqnalis indica you will make 
it flower, provided it is sufficiently exposed to light.—I. F. 
Combretum purpureum.—A. Y. wv 
da descriptive list of 
D.—Your speci- 
ion of Verbena caly- 
cina, which is Li ’, B.—Any Tronmonger 
who will take the trouble to do so, can procure for you Lyn- 
don’s spade. Ve cannot advertise the names of dealers for 
m,——A Subscriber.—1. Erica hiemalis. The others are not 
such specimens as could be named by any One erceRt an Oedipus, 
P.—Your Pears are, No. 1 ; 2, Easter 
E ise Bonne (of; Jersey); 4. illiams’s Bon 
5, Marie Louise; 6, Passe Colmar; 7, 
be Nos. 
Winter Nelis, Hacon’s Incomparable, a Zi ele 
Cartmel.—Your Apple appears to be the Borsdérffer; in this 
variety the upper side of the leaves is remarkably convex .||—— 
ill give 6s. for Nos. 2, 21, 25, 35, 36, 41, 46, and 47, 
—and 10, 13, 26, 30, 31, 32, and 53 of 1842, 
of 184 
SEEDLING FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
Fucusias.—A Young Gardener.—Your seedling is surpassed by 
many of the small varieties we have seen, both in colour and 
substance; in the latter quality it is very deficient ——J. M.— 
Both your seedlings are stout and bright flowers. No. 2 is the 
best; itis very compact, and the corolla is of a better colour 
than No. 1; they are good flowers, but not equalto many cul- 
tivated varieties of the same character.——H. M. D.—The hy- 
brid between F. globosa and tulgens differs so little from some 
of the cultivated varieties, that itis not worth sending it forth 
to the public.—— C. H.—If the habit of your seedling is good, 
it will prove very ornamental as a border variety. * 
CAmELLIA.—R.—The bloom sent, is finein colour, and the cut- 
side petals are well formed and of good substance, but the fill. 
ing up of the centre is very irregular, the petals differing so 
much in size, it is of little value ; flowers of this character are 
out of date. * 
AULIAS.—W. Deans.—As you anticipated, your blooms were so 
much shaken by the journey that but little remained to judge 
of. The dark seedling has a finely-formed petal, but the flower 
appears full of florets, and the centre thin and irregular; what 
remained of the m of the Duchess of Buccleugh was ex. 
tremely pretty in colour, the lavender edging is very regular, 
but the eye of this flower also appears to be thin; at the same 
time it must be acknowledged that a correct opinion cannct be 
formed from specimens so mutilated by a long journey, and 
after so severe a frost.——Chas. Daniels.—The rosy-purple 
seedling, named Dr. Ho. 
c ; desirable flower.—— owding.— 
Your white Dahlia, named Emma Noke, is a neat, pretty, and 
compact flower; general form good, and the centre fair and 
well up; the colour wants purity, and probably it can never 
be exhibited as a white without bleaching. * 
Versenas.—Alfred.—No. 11 is the best seedling among those 
now sent; the flower is large, and of a good and distinct colour. 
In No. 10 you have been anticipated; a variety is already out 
precisely of the same colour, with larger blossoms; 
are both good varieties, but too much like others in cultivation ; 
8 is bright in colour, but the flower is small and too much ser- 
rated.—— C. H.—Your seedling is of a very desirable colour, 
but the flower is too deeply indented, the divisions curl back, 
and present scarcely any surface to the eye; this is a great 
defect, and renders the flower not worth preserving.*—— , 
Girling.— As your Verbenas have already been noticed fully, 
we cannot insert any further description o: Fe 
PANsi“s.— Unknown.—The bloom of the Fuir Bride did not appear. 
to be fully expanded; it promises well; the eye is very fine— 
cream-coloured; ground uniform, and the flower of good 
substance. The Duke of Devonshire is a flower of 
form, colour, and substance, but the edges of the top petals 
are very much serrated, which if permanent will destroy the 
value of the flower; both blooms were very young.——H. B.— 
No. 50, Belvidere. This is a flower of good form and substance; 
eye very fine, and if the marking comes more distinct and 
regular, it will be a desirable variety ; 51, good in colour, but 
bad in form ; 52, too small and thin; 53, deficient in substance ; 
54, lower petals good, but the upper ones are too high, which 
destroys the symmetry of the flower; 55, form not good, and 
the ground-colour not uniform ; 56, fine eye, but the flower 
oo small and thin. * 
As usual, a host of letters have arrived too late for answers this week. 
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NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Tue anxiety occasioned by the non-arrival of the Over- 
land mail for July has been painfully set at rest by the 
announcement of the total loss of the Memnon steam-ship, 
with the missing mail, at the entrance of the Red Sea. 
The particulars of this accident have been received by the 
Hindostan steamer, which left Caleutta on the 11th 
August, with the mails for that month. She reached Suez 
on the 11th ult., but her advices from India and China 
have not yet arrived. We learn, however, by telegraphic 
despatch, that the Memnon, after a remarkably fine voyage 
of 10 days from Bombay to Aden, performed in the very 
height of the monsoon, left Aden on the Ist August for 
Suez, with 170 persons on board. In the evening of the 
same day, when off the African coast, she struck on a 
reef of rocks, and so speedily became a wreck, that it was 
impossible to save more than the crew, passengers, and 
five chests of treasure which were on the deck at the 
time; all the passengers’ baggage, the cargo, and the 
mails went down with the wreck. The accident fortu- 
nately occurred within reach of Aden ; the political agent 
of that place sent three steamers to their assistance, and 
no lives were lost. The Memnon was a new vessel, 
recently built in London for the East India Company, and 
was one of the finest ships employed in the service of the 
Overland Mail. 
From France we learn that considerable astonishment 
has been excited in Paris by Mr. O’Connell’s recent 
attacks on the reigning royal family of France, and by his 
offer to send an Irish Brigade to place the Duc de Bor- 
deaux upon the throne. The Ministerial journals of 
course condemn this threat as an attempt to disturb the 
tranquillity of France, while the Opposition and Republi- 
can papers denounce it as an interference with the popular 
will as expressed in the Revolution of 1830, and as an 
ungracious return for the recent sympathy of the French 
Repealers. Several of the persons arrested in connection 
with the late plot have been set at liberty, and the appre- 
hensions excited by the first announcement are beginning 
to subside.—Accounts from Madrid state that a conspiracy 
was detected in that capital on the night of the 25th, a 
few hours before the time appointed for the outbreak. 
The troops of the garrison were immediately under arms ; 
the streets were guarded by picquets of cavalry ; a num. 
ber of persons were arrested, and a large depot of fire- 
arms was seized. These precautions appear to have 
deterred the insurgents, and no attempt had been made 
at the date of the last advices. The Government 
are still in an uncertain state, but most of the 
recent Elections have been decided in their favour. 
At Barcelona the insurgents have gained no fresh 
advantage, and those at Saragossa have begun to quarrel 
among themselves ; the latter city is closely blockaded by 
the Government troops, and additional reinforcements are 
expected.—From Italy we have further accounts of the 
disturbances in Romagna, but they merely indicate a 
ORME NGHCe of disaffection, and confirm the rumour that 
Austria has offered armed assistance to suppress the move- 
ment.—In Greece everything continues tranquil, and the 
new Ministry are actively engaged in the arrangements for 
the National Assembly.—From the United States we have 
accounts to arecent date, They relate chiefly to the pro- 
gress of the state elections, and their probable influence 
on the approaching contest for the Presidency, for which 
Mr. Clay, Mr. Calhoun, and Mr. Van Buren are the cen< 
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