ee a ee a ee ee ee Ee 
Jan. 16.] 
THE GARDENERY’ 
CHRONICLE. 
37 
hope it will prosper. But if you are lazy and negligent, 
oe then I —— = will _be soon — by a fa tter 
k do | 
breach than the observance.” 
honoured in the ‘It is 
ate the destruction 
moderate calculation, he anys, to estim 
owever, have remained nearly air-tight Jong enough t 
he ave stained the same effect as paint in — the 
man. Yo el so I th of ho olly-t trees at seve eral a s of twenty-five years’ growth | evaporation of the juices of the wood; this, a por is 
you. I shall now proc —— to =a you — your a, fo ppl y of f the metropolis. Add to this | the onl — al fas difficulty which oceurs to me.— 
for I expect yout to print this, that I do not press this upon the damage done to i A. Ainger, Dor street. 
your attention thus in the very g mistletoe, the <a of the holly in almost every [We are inclined to suspect some chemical action in 
reason for doing so. We have - not a much better book | kite hen, he c t agree w with _the writer, | who gives, this case. Hoi Be esa ascertaining whether the timber 
than Loudon’s Gardeners’ Magazine. Yet the blunders th i Mr. Ain er has not lost its nitrogen. — Payen 
in it, of which the worthy editor seems quite unconscious, | and other evergreens which people bring into the cities I d th oe 
are astounding. In one of his last numbers he allows a } make a kind of summer in w inter, jand r remind us t|h that the subst npl ny 1 prevent the 
Alexander Gordon to assert that there are e the ne — of earth is never dea dec Seapmaen of by coagulating 
ves all over East Florida, though everybody knows that ry Rot. the azotised matter = wane ebon it insoluble in water. 
em 
he orange is wild only in th perate pe of Eastern 
and Central Asia. This sa entle ven n talks of the 
“‘ wild or native” orange having been use 
the finer kinds of — fruit There is a Mr. ras who 
ea a list of ish ie arias among whieh he 
afd — be in the aan of some o 
eaders bout five years since a portion of 
the buildings = University College. » London » Was de- 
e a 
Now all growing plants consume large euadtiGies of nitre- 
gen, and this element is particularly abundant i nm fun ngi, 
Hed £, 
troyed by fire. On t 
matter. Is it not possible that fungi separate the nitrogen 
i 
rend —— brickwork, ay a ‘hight of forty feet from 
of 
can ta so, on account ng its a a oe latter 
is hardly m com nmon. The same author, who writes 
speciall tells us that our Durmast Oak is 
Quercus pubescens, a specie s only known in a wild state 
in the south of ae and he oe in his list of 
elms the con nti inen ntal Ulmus effusa, o ich he cannot 
e 
point outa 
bo ta anic garden. lf I 
for 
mple, Exa/cum alacum, <Atro’/pa ri A'tropa, 
Tri iechin: for Tri, loshin, and so on. poangprirs in 
B ne so tell us that the 
urbe, 
Pharbitis is derived on e Greek word Pha signi- 
paving oe disease commonly called dry- -rot. They were 
coated with a profusion of light feathery-looking fungus, 
troy Ants.——A question is asked in the 1 ast 
Chron icle how to get rid of ants? I beg to inform your 
correspondent that a solution of chloride of lime will 
effec tually | dri ive them away, i if pour red ae the roots of 
Bie 
E g uch tro ubled 
es ] 1 
of extremely : slender stalks —— by cluster-beaded 
eads. S 
and b 
y House, i 
ok 
ny. age w 
only a ines 
uite astonishing. 
y clay ar 
loyed ; and on referring to the specification 
bread by Mr. Wilkins, the Lares ge I found the in- 
structions for so imbeddin of the timbers in 
‘* tempered clay.’’ with the wo! ork of 
pulling down, other ti chi- 
Now _— hinge ares in the opinion of myself and 
nstances of a very slovenly way of writing, 
which poner to be guarded against; for we measure you 
bya different standard from the _illiterate -perucet to 
Yours, as you may deserve—Crito. 
Mortality among i any 
these oof Phare been deem ed 
ee = the aoe shea slen ee d porn as usual, bedded 
ortar, and wi wi x i 
s perfectly unimpaired. 
stance reflects the slightest discredit on Mr. Wilkins ; 5 ‘the 
I 
ap- 
beso of the chloride. of lime were naoure-ih et 
f 
—G. R. (From another correspondent ).—Take 2 oz. 0 
fine bread weer Ww and rust ery small; 
2 oz. loaf- , well pounded and ma ne; and 
of levigated mercury; mix the whole well t spon on 
8 A 
near their nests every day for a short period, an effectu 
] a1 i ee im 
Pea fearon anon Sr to the pe 
year is the very reverse of Mr. Rivers’s; and asa p 
I send you imagi 
g 
years old ; the soil light garde’ gra y gar- 
Seas ops the tree about "the latter cud of Ae: and- 
b: 1 of the: ie : think 
of your sarvimpardelaak inform me of ‘he cause eu pr practice was, I believe, not peculiar to him, _ and there | threw aw: a large arro wiu 
great mortality among Mayduke cherries ?_ 2 Trees of a ted i this ea earlie e later, 
ages, in a great number t parts - and particula: rly chalk-lime mortar, occasi ionally pr uced d thenI ill be € in th 
Kent, have r died; and I am not aware that any | the dry-rot. Whether the clay was hawrores: Liters as My gardener are they are finer eenthees 
_ the | 
—M, 
a shield between the timber _and in the wall, 
name of the See specim of wood? 
i i —— ribed fo be him while in Spek n, and he has 
und it most ‘ch neficial in a urinary complaint. e 
desnetin,in in “which form itis taken, is mawkish and muci- 
G— common 
s known of the medical 
3; but as its pati yields, The distil- 
lation, ‘the oil that i s employe in Russia to dress leather, 
and gives the 
ctive ee that des exami- 
Whitaker's Anti- vermis ‘Mixture.—From the flourish- 
ing account of this substance given in the advertisements 
of ii But I found it per- 
fectly ‘useless for any purpose except that of ei Sera 
and worms, which it doe with much the sami 
ine lime-water, and n ith m 
more. I cannot psec thet 
it produces any tort ne the scale or the mealy, he 
two great pests of gardeners.—V. [Our experience agrees 
with that of our correspondent. It seems, however, to 
destroy red spider ; but this is so easily killed 
sulphur, as to render any additional means troying 
ws- 
sapiens curious 
its :-—The 
A ferent of | or 
Angee that | 
Tves 
ot, garage 
eer aie | is ws atthe yaae 
age rop. The first — 
n them, because 
lead to an perch “a tiny 
ergy in the Lorene of dry-rot, 
The result would almost 
exerted some specific en 
form 
had sobre head of such a ting,” 
aad gen Bos were re tery 
worthles s, though very abu indan Ta 
and at all events, the case is, I think, interesting peed 
vegetable rane as wel as | to the “architect. It trees; so aoa objects attained by it, one raw! apple, and 
roves, if proof were ting, that tis | only one core, instead of two small ones, and two cores, 
a poe of Boy ao growth, bearing no analogy to that sort | the P sascha and yours increased, and the tree not impe- 
ecay which is produced by alternations of moisture | yerished by over-bearing. Go on and prosper.—S. 
and cm Meerey or by continual moisture in small degree, [We cosbaant the two pears, which were aka B pis 
nor to that dusty mouldering which occurs to wood evén | like Chaumontels of the growth of Jersey of 
ithin well-warmed and protected buildings, and which is | England.] 
the real dry rot. reat visible dis between 
the disease commonly called dry-rot and ecay pro- FOREIGN Sgro Bh Dd er 
duced by time and exposure to the weather is this :—I i months since an 
material to h d 
the latter, some portions of the 
0208 carried off as by maceration 
tter unco 2a “1 and unsupp: 
or a dadealy In the former the change ap 
wholly duanteal ; F fate its influence a piece of fir loses 
nearly half its weight, and nineteen-twentieths of its 
without any visible loss of seen - change 
of form, except wards the side 
most diseased, and a corresponding convexity on the pro- 
tect ted s ide. A Nor rway deal, 0 r batten, which \ when s sow nd 
of phosphoresec scence among vegetables are to be fo’ in 
short as a carrot. 
as regards strength 
acity, it exhi bi its under the ‘highest powers 0} of fe 
within a few months, as easily end os 
Yet in = state of utter purl ucti 
and ten 
und 
those curious eee called rhizomorphas, ee hen which 
mesa S seem pretty well 
They are foun =i mos 
coal. 
ny ten distance from the action of 
light or atmospheric ae ani 
most unknown, 
pl GiLy is 
qualities are are most 
re Fic 
The coniferous discs, the medullary da 
perfect and as well ee 
fect timber. 
the re request ce the A) tural Association formed th 
and beret om occupied, un the auspices of ‘ag 
principal m' eunaa in improving the practical 
Bxill - husbandry of popula a a To manage a 
crowd of coral reefs pes emerged from the ocean, is not, 
onesies so eas paso some peo oo may imagine ; 
nities ha 
owever, 
e good e effec ts of introduci cing European ski i are 
Ploughing Match. 
last Gasittt the auaing: rg et up ~ the ‘scadiass 
of the Agricultural — pout k place ck Thoreiay, 
Notwithstanding the th appearan f the wear 
= 
he ogee oe are all as 
arctic: mpact and unbroken—as in the 
eds ita a which disproves comple the idea 
ther 
hour appointed for the ¢ commencement of the et i 
tely 
paecareatoe promulgated = dry-root is a disruption of 
the parts effected by the ob penetrating force of a 
filaments of the fungus. ‘It — be more correctly com 
I a to a change somehow produced in the ma- 
ble tissue, ties a condition something 
dy 
a 
re of gossamer, and of the most 
With these they. form a sort of 
ie vegeta 
rooming the toughness of 
—_ 
ms branches create forms of the t 
sem blin ing the Seeing = unaccompanied 
hang r positi Recurring once more to the 
k sooth which almost 
view of the "subject, there can be n diene 
7 £44, 
y larg at the sce: 
petition by noon. There were on the pasa si 
the ploughs oe in ni 
feapill and the 
among which we 
mar ‘ploosh 1 sapped o Hi 
pr ears this may be sufficient for the builder, it 
interesting, — a to the — to disc hoes 
le of o} Timber is notoriously more mabjet 
p a horse 
oe = Governor, broug! that p 
do nkey t ee its pee aiateative e plou 
peeBabeelasher ttention. This Ji mach animal seeme 
very tractable, ss cha its w — bane 
persons Garner who had never give cm 
forcibly struck with the cowie that 
peration. 
to —— upon clayey soils than upon eel but h 
has been Suppo sed t 
fens 
clay would remain moist, 
corm each one it can paths be saat set the 
and therefore air -tight, long 
takes s place through the ‘pores of ordi 
in good co! His Baclleney the Gonaenst: the 
patron of the Socet, = Saye 8 cul stomary a atte nti on to alt 
ristmas mas Holly. —A correspondent writes to us that 
een eee authorised the payment of 
d by the superior close- 
matters wher n the 
ess of stone. It is un —— that locking up the } 
pickets of green wood by coatings of paint is ome very 
effectual means of producing dry. rot, although paint is a 
gard to “ min €0 r thin 
the vieiitudes of the weather. See ey cates when 
exposed was <a poe fa pos 
che aoetiens oot be given to a custom “ more 
i was reduoal to te conden of powder. ‘Tt 1 Fo 
tan’ ny way con ncerned, was amongst the fist on 
the g j 
he Chshition, evidently taking great interest in the whole 
reatoueea The affair was well got up, a and aie i infinite 
credit to the managers. m of the — 
kind ever —— in these islands, and we privet 
ust that it be marked as an important = 
