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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Ocr. 21, 
‘Tomatoes have likewise pean less plentiful, and are Serinping, to 
show the effect of the ree cold frosty nights. 
Cabbage and Turnips are noe ood and plentiful, and there has 
been some excellent Broccoli brought to 
week, Carrots are ania! 
Die, good quality, gat from 1s. to 1s. 6d. 
score, Shallots are abundant and ot excellent quality. 
Flowers consist of Erica gra 
and incarnata; Penecemon pentiencides coccinea, Gladiolus 
psittacinus, Primula sinensis, Amaryllis belladonna, Neapolitan 
Violets, China Asters, Zinnias, Camellias, Fuchsia: as, Scariet 
Pelargoniums, Calceolarias, Verbenas, China and Perpetual Roses, 
eee Satonpas, aa 1843.— 
Tan eet 10; Beco Le 
Cucumbers, per brace, 4dto 8d 
Gherlcins, por 1000, 58°t0 7a 
Green Capsicums, pan 10,1800 0 a6 
Re 
b Bich, each, is to 24 6a Almonds, per peck 
monds, per Ihe, 266d t0 8 
ish, each, dy Sweet A 
Plus, mat panne ft letorse | Nuts, peri he 
Golden Drop, per pun., 28 | oe 
Damsors, per sy., 39 to 4s press Hive 38 to 
Apples, dessert, p. bush. 4s to a8 = Barcelona, 1 to S08 
Apples, us. 88 6d to be Gd > Gaps 
a to 88 Filbert: ali, 00k. 58 to 05s 
any er dozen, is 6d to 38 Barb per hf.-sy., 3s to 48 
Per 100,19s to 30s Tomales, Te hf-sy., 38 10 a) 
VEGETABLES. 
Cabbages, per doz., 6d to 1s Onteee. pring p. doz. beh.. a 6d to Bs 
Greens, per doz. 26 to 2x 6d — ‘Large, per bashed 0 88 
Caulifiowers, per dozen, 4 Spanish, p 
to 6s = 
Beans, per hf-sieve, 49 to Ge picklin, 
s, Kidney, ck ot av 84 6d tos 6d 
— Scarlet, per hf-sv., 2¢ to 38 [Shallocs, per Ib.» Gd to 9d 
Potatoes, per ton, 50s to 758 |Chilis, per 100, Isto 25 
cewt., 2 6d to 4s |Lettuce, os +) P-8core, Od to ls 
var bushel, Is 6d to 2s ) per score, 6d to 1s 6d 
Sidney, p-bush., 990 2 sa, Jc elery. per i to 38 
tic] es, green, per ny 1a Ge shrooms, per pottle, le 6d 
Vegetable Mazrows, per doz, Ie to ised Wallnate, per bushel, she led, ‘Tos to 28¢ 
Turnips, per doz. bunches, 1s to all Salads, pe pa ty 0 
Red ae er dozen, 9d tole Sweet Basily yer Wonsheshanvise 
‘atercress, per doze am. bun; 3d to ad 
Parsley, per doz buaches, 1s 6d to 26 
3d 
mag es 9d to ls Tarragon, per bun. 2d to 
arrots, p. doz, bun., 29 to |Bndive, per score, 1s t0 1 oa 
Spinach ‘per sieve, Od to 18 Mint per doz. bunches, 1 
Hess Der doz: bus 24 C024 Marjoram, Bis meetin 
Gri, perio. Gi to Pee Bee bu span ee 
ln per puntiet, 2d to 
otices to Cor: 
Ln ahs COTTAGER’S CALENDAR.—At the cane. 
respondents. 
itati of may, of our Sub: 
anu reprinting M Mr. Paxton’s 
Cit small volume, Mes r general di 
, 12, 16, is: 28, fa 30, pe? 32, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 
12, ag ‘4, ‘ ab oh: 49, 50, 61; 52, 
1843: 1, 5, , 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, Fe Tig 19, 20, 22, 23, 13 25, 
26, 27, 28, 59, 0, 31, 32, 38, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, and 4 
NAMES OF PLANTS.— ally must refer our ooeesbandcnts toa 
notice, which was “printed some time since, and seems to have 
been forgotten must again aeption thatit is not in our 
ower to spare ie for naming collections of co: 
ill selected, and worse packed; and ae sais ald beg our 
spondents not to put themselves to the expense of sending, or 
us to the pain of neglecting them, It is unreasonable to expect 
0 the examination of little frag- 
mmon plant jake names theinquirer can obtain 
of the first gardener in is neighbourhood. e are most ready 
to afford information on sari points to a Yaa extent, 
a limit to su ald say 
if we return to it, scrupulously. 
Little bits of weeds, Cased Rly broken, crowded, together 
in Post-office covers, and flor ’ flowers, Lae ly load our 
table. We have repeatedly denitiied naming florists’ flowers, 
which are swore sold with their names, and the latter should 
be taken care « 
Heatine,—. 
uae HS ayer find a sie on eae 
—We afraid 
are place the fire outside 
become too hot, 
, how rere, 
must it escape into the air without that terrence ! To heat 
small pit by acommon fire, the best plan, perhaps, is to wider: 
arch the whole of the soil and put a fire i 
the same as Mr. Forsyth’s Killogie plan. 
use sawdust. Spent tanner’s bark is in all 
our Jargonelle Pear-trees, trained peeinrt 
the wall ofthe Toners are about to pull dows win, may be lo} 
so a to form standai rds ; 1b 
This is also the proper season for lopping the 
pple-trees which overshadow your garden. They will soon 
foe again if you pieet their shoots in the end of June.|} 
Grartine Vines,—S, H.—The best method of grafting nee 4 
to shorten the een or shoot at the winter pruning to 
most eligible place fer inserting the graft. 
Ss have started so far as not to olen di 
Hetiornorions 8, VerBenas, &c.—An Old Subscriber. The 
usual practice is to strike cuttings of Verbenas, 
Patox Drummonnpit.—Flora, 
PALARGONIUMS.— 
Penne —E. 
Fies.—Essew. 
Insxors, 
Booxs.—Or brant a Cory. tho 
Lawn; —Pro bon 
elally ane mreeha nics way. We w 
You ma‘ ay save your plants o! of 
Phlox Drummondii, which are just coming up in a pan, if you 
think proper ; but they will not be finer nor flower mnch earlier 
than those that may be raised from seeds that shall have been 
as in 
il, which caus sed it to 
grow very luxuriantly, and favoured the formation of leaf-buds ; 
while, on the contrary, whatever tends to check luxuriance, 
without impairing the health of the Bane is more favourable 
tothe production of flower-buds. {t is worth preserving ; and 
we have seen a see under similar cir cumstances, that had its 
broken off b; 
Peels divaricatus 
not yet flowered in this country, that are aware of. Spireea 
lanceolata should flower about Tinted and §, fissa about 
this season. 
Orcarpacras.— Orchis.—All the Peristerias are pendulous except 
eS 
elata. None of the Epidendrums are pendulous except 
aloifolium and Parkinsonianum, which i is the sameas falcatum. 
piec 
C.—If you wll xefer to page 501 you will find 
that instructions nave been iy 
Further remarks were romnfasdt by Mr. Ayres, but as they 
relate principally me i btlepaaietey they will be inserted 
at the dy cae enient tim 
S.— Varieties os come in between Christmas and 
it Morceau, Fass se Colmar, Hacon’s Incompara- 
ble, Foddante du Bois, Kni onarch, meen de Witte, Ne 
Plus Meuris, Easter Bene, a Beurré Ran 
If you have sneceeded me raising as fine 
a under oiled anvaes as were ever produced under Lied 
yor what has not happened elsewhere. But w 
are atitoh fanciful about Melons, and care less for their pee 
ance than their taste. The generality of fine Melons are, in 
our opinion, uneatable. 
STRAWBERRIES.—Austen’s Scarlet Strawberry is unknown to yes 
and we should be much obliged by a few 
's Seedling, Downton, 
Elton, Roseberry, Old Pine, Myatt's British Queen, Swainstone 
Seedling, Coul Late Scarlet, Prolific Hautbois, and Large Flat 
antl i 
—Protect your Fig-trees effectually from frost, and 
more especially the ea of the shoots, for on these the 
crop that yay is produced, || 
—A. Ai pbs ‘eles hie te which defoliated 
your ones ies ue sereae aw-fly, named Tenthredo 
4&thiops, next m\ not say to what extent ee 
tree will suffer, rexel stall “teat ‘obliged by eee eae 
of the result, in the course of nex’ Original 
eee 's Potatoes have been attacked by Gn witeworn, we 
ume. If ase, it is scarcely possible to free 
ine and from them ; they may, however, 
slices of Potato or Turnip in the g: 
tao and if these be exami: in 
will 
Hee touch the wireworm, > be feared espear tree 
was killed, no doubt, by the caterpilian found aude the bark, 
70 not by the tar-painting. R.— A Suhscriber’s Ichneumon 
eee pe sea and is tae wnicoWIM Hi in gardens. 
Boy ie x contained nothing but some earth and a few 
fibrous roots aes it reached us; the box was crushed to 
ieces, which probably enabled the insects to escape; we are 
consequently unable to give the information desired. R.—- 
Peni is a solutely necessary He inclose specimens of 
insects when correct inf formation is sega and none of the 
larvee having been transmitted with the note, it is impossible 
to determine the moth whose maggots have injured the 
indeed, we cannot even say to what genus it may belong. Re 
——Italian Fire-fly.—The specimen discovered ina wrest nies 
in Norfolk had no doubt been introduced with the Orange- 
trees, as suggested by Mr. Dugmore. As we had the pleakere 
of seeing Pere exnorney little animals in their Ng 
country last summer we will shortly uaa their history. R 
od many plans 
for flower. gardens are to be found in we Loudon? 's Gardeners’ 
Magazine,” and his ‘ Encyclopaedia of Gardening.” There is 
also a great variety akan for parterred gardens in 
«© James’s Gatdentiny: ” an ol 
it ci cured.——S, B.— 
ensis” is all that has appeared specially on the Flora of Ma- 
deira. The island contains nothing except plants peo. 
well known. Its glory consists in its beautiful Ferns,—J. 
—The Cryptogamic volume of Smith’s ‘‘ English Flora” ‘con. 
tains the most ee acco! A we have of British Crypto- 
gamic plants ‘an obtain it separately. For price con- 
sult a bookseller. ut Humble Subscriber — Martin Doyle’s 
ab Sh of Practical Agric 
.—The apparent CHaINRIORE you mention are 
chiefly owing tothe ad opinions of botanists regarding 
real importance of some of the smaller groups of plants, 
and the redistribution of ss Vegetable Kingdom is ted aay 
a mere sketch, requiring a good deal of working up ugland- 
acez are near Anacardiacez ; Monotropacee and Pyrolacee 
are supposed to be included in Ericacex; as also Cuscutacese 
in Convolvulaces, Illigeraceze and Cassythaces in Lauracez. 
ze are Bex ths 
Tropeolex. Heleamidoos next Platanacez, Aquilariaceze by 
Thymelacez, Belvisiaceze uncertain, a $8 also Canelleze. Those 
orders Mt es cannot find in the old Sr a ae are newly 
separated : we cannot spare space or time answering 
such long questions. Batoraae and Cercoideae He synonymons 
or nearly re; 
ay sow your seeds TS chiy you aye 
received from the Cape of Good Hope in spring, in shal 
pans filled with light sandy soil, mixed with a little peat, ant 
place them in a gentle apy heat. 
Ema opueed, even for your re. 
ve us your address ? 
yyAlthoweh you know nothing of * Gurtvorte ayy 
Old Rags.—We see no ciicotions ‘to the appli- 
etior of dilute sulphuric acid, for the purpose of arresting the 
ammonia copiously evolved during their eteGbieaing and for 
Ss rE their fibrous texture; but w er it is 
sirable to get rid of the latter, which no doubt: a bern bene- 
uld rather mix them with 
stiperphosphate of lime, which'is veiy cheap, as you may see 
y the advertisements. 
LEN 
Do not prune'the roots of Aga- 
and Calceolarias, to be planted out in spring, ‘about the middle 
of August. They are put in thus early in order that they-may 
~ be well rooted before Vat and thereby rendered less iable 
to damp off in cold dull w, eather ; but if you wish to preserve 
your old plants of Heliotrapiany you may take them up, slightly 
prune theirroots, and cut down their one to within about six 
inches of the root, then put them into 48-sized pots, and 
place them ina ebol fame, where they may remain during the 
winter. Fuchsias, Scarlet Pelargoniums, and. Salvia: is, may be 
taken up and have their tops. slightly pruned, and then they 
re pee pieced in any cool dry situation, where they will be free 
‘ost 
panthus, but Ae them cal 
remove them carefully. 
@ cannot pices 
t is the matter with yours, unless the sdil’ is wholly 
hausted or sw: bh hp tee Your Poi 
flower when it is old enoug' probably Be too fast. Stop 
its shoots in the month of Suede every year.— Marryatte,.— 
e wonderful curiosity trom Australia, Senin you faticy isa 
the subscription, 68. 6d. per quarter, to the office, and he will 
be supplied by our own agent.——F, Ey —Much obliged, but. 
the Numbers are of no use to us. is not at all 
usual for Southernwood to pica in our short summers ; but 
it often does when autumns as the last occur.—— 
—No doubt people may F eAtnrhit frauds in exhibiting plants 
z eS; and so they may! im any other 
understand indeed, that a well-kn 
good t: 
. B.—It is Towitoo lati 
ear. Place them early in March in a gentle bottom-! neat 
keeping them in Dats Pak ey place in the meanwhile, 
your Chusan seeds w: 1 prove something better than ute 
Ke nave reached us from Hae sland, LO we have never yet suc- 
obtaining anything beyon comme si “Baropean 
a Horticdiearal Society has a 
n plants by inquiry amongst the nursery- 
r by special River tisem Ares 
for your greenhouse, and w: t by a small Stephenson’s 
boiler, wach will stand inside ania requires no setting. —— 
A Subscriber.—The best roof for a Vinery is one with wooden 
rafters ond eo sashes ; but all wood does very well.——S, W. 
—For a single specimen of a handsome deciduous shrub you 
may choose between Spirzea arieefolia, Magnolia acuminata, 
ZEsculus macrostachya, or a 
roof, and it will poison the water it mingles with, 
—— Perseverance in destroying its leaves will in the end effect~ 
ually destroy Plantain. Your Fern is the common Pol: 
e are much obliged by the paper on Wagtails, which has only 
ees omitted for want of space. We are gla 
icles.—— Great Marlow. sa ‘Winter N 
3 Daas Colmar ; a Glout 
arie Lonise ; 6, if me in, has probably been assisted in 
CE through a cate which ae in the canvass-bag.|| 
-—A and E, Beurré Diel; B, C, D, G, I, L, Passe 
Gomes: i. om Double de Guerre, astewing Pear; ea aiaee to pees 
Napoleon. Thanks for—— WwW. 
Old Pommeroy ; 16, Yorkshire Greening ; ig Mellawdtnaesties 
18, Beauty of Kent; 19, Bolden Reinette ; 20, Herefordshire 
Pearmain, Pears: ‘al, erhaps Brown Bourré ; 22, Messire 
Jean; 24, Spanish Bon Chrétien, tl The Apple grown at 
Rertram House Hiainpstead, is the Blei 
circumferenc W.—Your Apple is 
keeps till Nepainheee for mene use. || ——S. F 
. Ken 
po PT a pa. 
pureus, Tropeolum Morit rater ——D. 
Hitt Amaryllis belladonna.—— W. B.—Hippeastrum pulveru 
lentum.——yvero. — Malva fragrans.——A Subscriber. — Yo 
seedling Paha eng Anemones may be taken out of the pots, 
laced in e dry situation free from frost. If you sink 
vat MNgadoden drone 1ft. or 18ins. deeper into the soil, it will 
in all probability kill them ; you had better cut them down.¢ 
ranger is answered in the roneedings of the Horti- 
cultural Society in to-day’s Paper. . M.—Advertise- 
ments are charged on follows :— Four indy and under, 4s. Each 
adaitional line up to 20,6d, Every five lines beyond, 2s, — 
7 D. R.—No. 3, King of the Pippins; 4, Hollandbury ; 5, Kes 
wick Codlin; 6, Golden Pippm; 7, French Crab; 8, Datch 
Mignonnes 9, Mark’: s Codlins 3 10, eee de Capiaumont atl — 
CN. —A, Bearr é de Capiaumont ; B, Do yenné Gris ; D 
Beurré Bose: 2, on étien Fondant ; 
arie Louise; 4, Bezi Vaet; 6, dunatenrni Spring pepe ad 
40, Scarlet Crofton; ry Minchall Crab.|j K. 
of Wick; 4, Kirke's elson ; 10, Ribstone Pippin; 11, 
Stagg’s Nonpareil or Hicks’s Fancy ; beats 14, King 
of the Pippins; 16, Blenheim Pippin ys Loan’s Permain ; 18, 
Hollandbury ; 19, sHawthornden 21, Pantende Neige ; 22, 
Yellow Ingestrie; 23, gil; 24, Crimson Queening ; 25, 
Black Achan; 26,” Bisho thonbs ys Easter Beurré ; 28, 37, 
Beurré Diel; 29, Napoleon: 30, 82, » Glout Morceau; 33, 
Passe Colmar; 34, 36, 39, Winter Nelis; 38, Louise Bonne (of 
Jersey); 40, Beurré eg Ca Splaume |—7. L. P.—Erodium 
i AL L. account shift your Heaths 
M, — If your Bulfinch’s claws are 
long, why not cut them shorter? — J. — Your Begonia 
seems e Evansiana; we will examine 
particularly, and mention it again next wee 
ritish Champagne may be made from unripe Grapes, by the 
receipt already given : a little more sugar will be required, that 
sear 's Ege 5 
Unripe Tomatoes may be made to ripen by hanging 
them ina Winery in the sun; they are, however, very interior 
to those ripened in the open air while the plant is BLM nie 
“*Macculloch on Wine” a useful 
eae —No. 2 is Medicago lupulina, and No. 1 appears: to 
be the same thing grown more vigorously 5 
no fruit we cannot be certain.——Will M 
tunia ion the es oe the itor. forward hi: 
Office >——G, e.—Your seedling Apples are noticed, 
Pp, 721, fitter’ the initials GS. 
‘EDLING FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
DAHLIAs,. Wye Hedley.—The bloom of your purple acre 
sent on the 13th, arrived in’ better condition than those 
and a Witte conten ‘to the tube an! 
a dis- 
a much better flower i2 
e, and in contrast of colour; but the differ+ 
ence between these and many we have seen and noticed is 50 
trifling that we require a more decided character and eae 
to recommend them to favourable notice. Argo, a richly- 
coloured and well-formed flower, but differing very little from 
others we have seen; it depends much upon its habit whether 
it is worth cultivation.* 
PELARGONIUMS.—. our seedling Pelargonium is very 
pretty in colour, clear and distinct, and ihe spot in the upper 
a eta is firm, aie flower is deficient in form and substance. 
Pa Ww. $.—Your seedling m: aay d 1-45 is a show. 
e ground-colow 
Pane str Hs ‘fi the ity then ie Nate 
the petals, ae) are tor 
Ja large a flower.—— 
mall, whicks 
deficien ts 
‘m the outline should possess, ee 
destroys the cj 
ticed last week, in 
font var atc blue; the oer is yery ease and 
