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b thi k | of an inch wide, down each side of the square ; when dry, | —— the summer months increases the evil tenfold, bod 
is + dene, but “of course it is in win er.] s will be fo und to fix the glass securely. I have ] prac- | exposing the young roots, the very = tin to 
s of Tar a Manure fer "nak: —Most prac- pat the plan extensively, and hav ve found i it answer in all | scorching rays of the ae sun. How aan 
J cases, either for In the month | shrub’ rders ern until they wife dee four 
waka only in old garden-soils, but in many cases in those | of October 1838, T thus “glazed a ‘Hetchra, thirty feet | or five inches lower than the Yonge —— which divide 
which have been for r years in an roma nea wih long, fourteen feet wide, ten feet oo in re: centre, with | them from the ee Thus ideas o nm the 
out a span roof, and upright sashes I have never | subject ‘‘ jump,” but y di 
ron 
and are, T believe, confined to the soil, "situation, T think, had a broken square in it from fro: st ee that time to eve rot, borders at all > When fea leaves fall off trees, and 
this; and what is remarkable, ae bead “pane I have | cover the ground at their feet, why not let them remain 
> Chu nk s h ans : 
a very a yet effectual remedy, lately pian for heatin git is one ‘* whic rs the there to encourage their growth, instead of having them 
to by Mr. Duncan, of the firm of Duncan ‘and Flo- | purpose of bins accor keeping oat ‘the frost. Whi vile 7 am | dug in, thus cutting and mutilating the roots? We all 
prise p Edinburgh. pon Mr. | writing, th ip oheuane: ef is i pha open air 7° Fahr., and | know Med the — i aes of a plant are generally 
Dunean’s estate n ne Laswale, carrots were been found | in this house the mean tempera re is 38°. The metho 2 nearest the surfac shrubberies, in my gegen should 
for years to fail. gg ae year: o, he prepared a piece of ll be so thick and dense 4 in foliage as entirely er the 
ground, by manuring and di ae over in October in the andes he house hin “more secure from drip, if pein: and this is easily ed, by oof este of 
Mt rig anner, to one-half of which he applied spirits of —_ seinted. than the old a of penied tt appar mmon Laurel, Box, Holly, or Rhododendron. _ 
tar, at the rate of about one on to every sixty or | sides ofthe squares. It produces a great saving of reaped deciduous and ornamental trees, flowering shrubs, and 
poche’ square yards. The result was, that upon the rata so | and plang and is much neater pene more secure than evergreens, may be so disposed overhead, - to 
Pr epared, an | excellent crop of clean, well-formed roo old method. In nine cases out of ten, where ms is giv ve the true ME roe esque’? effect, as was shown 
which was not so pre, mately was | troublesome, it ari at ey emont, while se the 
as usual a complete —— This last ern, by way of | wood-work nd letting in the water, which ultimately rots pcm oa oe Me, Me Into and on a ase er scale at 
e prepared the und in | the putty and wood, and finds it the Earl of Stair’s, rea Castle, N. this 
the usual manner, but Mid not apply che porta of tar William May, Hope Nursery, Leeming Lane, Ripon, | mode eeping shrubberies were towed, all leaves, 
The er reg was, a total failure over the whole piece. January 7, 1841. cuttings, or prunings, of which there { quan- 
Thi s that the Qld Decayed Fruit Trees—In the Gardeners’ Chro- | tities every season, would be left on Pasig seal “to 
fc and that they nicle I observe some experiments by Dr. Ingram on a decay gradually,” and become vegetable mould, yielding 
are canta efficacious when applied. Mr. Duncan’s hollow ——— Plum-tree. I have frequently met |.grateful nourishment to the young roots of the parent 
mode of using the ase of tars simple ond excellent. He | with such in ees, expecially. where at some previous | plant. Where there is sufficient to work upon, I have 
1 f fine sand, which he saturates wit ed down, branches | never found difficulty in forming vistas, recesses, on 
the s un Sis co mpletly mixed ; this he scatters had been pd wl a ot Dr. 5 itoring that cata- | effective openings among the eens with the knife, 
upon the rr sscaitciaily o digging, in about the ig cure ; but I have found it useful | but great difficulty and labour with the spade, where a 
gare grunt above. S ae gh pet about one quai to fill th with pure. sand, shrubbery has been thinly planted, long ill-treated, and 
ws na _ y; the —_ : shall ei of dry sand ep Ag! pow thee quicklime, with a view to starved. The effect of such. Shrubberi ies as I have thus 
bai n com sar bs a= ae tosh, Dal- <oene the vermin Dr. feck complains of Tote i in se oka to describe has’ | pr 
keith “Palace ‘Gardens 6th Dec., 1840. cavity and eluding the search. my mind. The striking contrast between the Golden- 
hibiti ve Plum-| wreathed and waving Laburnum, the Snow-white Thorn 
Gardens of t he “Horticultural Society last por ar Twn trees as lon; “~ as they bear; for, pach weds. 8 they | and Gueldres Rose, the Crimson Hawthorn and the 
surprised and delighted by the great size produce fruit of a much finer flavour than trees more | delicate Lilac, are heightened and “ brought out,” when 
— of the Pelerginthand: i er cheiveechinioed by | healthy and better-looking.—C. well backed by the dark and shining green of the Holly, 
rs. Cock, Catleugh, and which, to a person| Fruit-Trecs in North dea live in one of the | Portugal Laurel, Alaternus, and Evergreen Oak.—W. H., 
frost froit the coun! unacquainted with the vast | coldest parts of North Wales, and some distance from og Liverpool, 12th January, 1841. 
improvements | effected within the last few years in the | sea. Would you furnish me with a list of Suckers of Gooseberries and Currants.—We have se- 
iful plant, Apple, and Plum trees, that would be most peso pac veral letters on this subject. The original inquiry by H.S. 
The sight of those noble specimens has incited me to try | well, and also ripen m here? My orchard is composed of (see Gardeners’ Chronicle, p. 21) was as to the manner of 
1 ne eter de Aaeeercesrcran ose light rich ge" ae ting his bushes producing suckers ; Seen 
ng t li of apple-tree: Ber fap ra they are planted two years. | be no doubt that the only method of stopping them, when 
Isl li I have never tried or trees there; the kinds of | there is a tendency to them, is to remove them 
favour me, sr hy caniad Chronii cai with a 4 apples that do not canker hear well. Would you recom- | continually as they appear. As, however, we find the 
tailed account of the vnoet approved speek from | mend raising the surface of the soil into mounds, and question interesting to many of our readers, we shall go 
pl g h all the various stages | planting inthem? Ihavea arboreum | into it rather more fully. A gooseberry or currant tree is 
of growth to the perfect ———— of “the lant, and | that is looking very well here, notwithstanding the late | raised from a cutting, which is a fie covered with 
explaining likewise the proper of dressing a ‘plant very severe frosts; it is under a single mat; this is now | buds; that part of the cutting wi which is above ground 
for exhibition. What I want Pa ibe a few general rules, | its third winter.—A Subscriber.—[The pears mustconsist | formsgoung branches covered with foliage, and the portion 
such as Mr. Cock has given, Nemec te tell nothing more than | of Flemish, and oth ieties; for the old French sorts | price ground emits roots; but the latter does not lose the 
everybody knew before, but e detail of those minor | will not succeed in North Wales as standards, and on a | powe of a its buds into branches at the time 
oak which induces canker, a — which they = hen it acquires the property of roots: on the 
b 6 for example, the eo rng constitution of the compost naturally subject to under com parativ ely | favou rable contrary, ra a a continual tendency on the part of the 
used at the different shiftings; the proper times for re. acs Pom We recommend the fi | under-ground buds to become ; and these are 
‘potting, stopping, heading down ee ge pe eh by Pears: Dunmore, Fondante cf ete 34 Comte de Lamy, | the suckers y 
_ fire-heat during the winter months ; greater or less quan- | Aston Town, Beurré de Capiaumont, Marie Louise, 
tity of water requisite at different periods of growth, | Beurré Bosc, Althorp Crassane, Winter Crassane, Hacon’: 
; syringing, and atmospheric moisture in the | Incomparable, Winter Nelis, Glout Morceau, Passe Col- 
4 pee ; with various other minutie. A it list of | mar, Rouse Lench, Knight’s Monarch, Fondante 
very best corte would be highly acceptable to—4 Gar- | Ne plus Meuris, Beurré Rance. Apples : 
7 donee —Janu wary 1 4th. Summer Golden Pippin, Oslin, Kerry Pippin, 
; Si it reviously | Pippins, Herefordshire Pearmain, Hubbard's P. 
to his me Downton, unf fara str never to stags it | Hughes’s Golden Pippin, Golden Harvey, aoe ce 
occurred Ke Mr. a a iavenies mind, that plants | Braddick’s Nonpareil, Scarlet Nonpareil, Di on- 
might be propagated from i buds and aces only. | pareil, Court-pendu Plat. Also for kitchen use 
Aceordingly, a mo several pots filled with a fine sandy | Codlin, Wormsley Pippin, Blenheim Pippin, Dumelow’s 
4 ire oam 3 ~— e inches in diameter, to | Seedling, Bedfordshire Foundling, Alfreston. Plums 
j eceive bagetieniteh which he sinc himself. The Royale Hative, Orleans, Nectarine, Green-gage, Reine 
a baie a ror were ost aa as hen in- | Claude Violett irke’s, i se i 
” tended for ion in stocks, with but a very small por- pode Golden _ Ickworth Impératrice. ! 
tion of the elburnum to ona The kinds he operated on | mstances our correspondent describes, planting on Ei - 
were double aumeiant pba a , Metrosideros, Acacias, | taiod mounds wil prove advantageous ; but he must also ahi 
Neriums, and many others. The soil in | endeavo 
tao pues haslig: bons feetusaaty pecuad Grialy anen. dal soil, by introdu Sn ey cea 
the surface ectly smooth, the cuttings were in- sintes, throaght-whie they canaak peustréd Z 
serted with a dibber, so as just to cover the bud, when the | pave the bottom | of the holes, at the dept the bush; pe cgsieepen ese ee inches a all 
il was rmly against it. The back of the leaf | , to pre. around the plant, t 
lying on the surface of the mould, was fed by absorbing | se: rve perfect drainage, he would find his canker much ae 
moisture from it. The surface of the at i co | imine, or perhaps s altogether prevented. With regard | Satoyer Tinie I do svete pose im ic ica and as 
d that they did not‘overl: y p ise hi k as the soil is taken out, I spread some cowdung over 
each other ;—they were then gently sprinkled with | them up carefully, if not too large, in the autumn, pre- | the roots, "as shown at 8; after which I replace the earth — 
covered" with bell-glasses, and placed on the dine af | ering ey rot cpa of be extend in orn ‘the rance of the plan’ 
-house. The sprinkling was afterwards | tal position, and cutting away all that tend perpendicularly | and n 
repeated, and the glasses shaded from the sun, by hanging | d The id should then be 0 
_ over them. pethcnouhl, vad vy the aot ovale: | met avons ar The reason for this p1 | 
‘king the surface of the mould, and by the end of that the roots, being much longer than when first planted, 
mer some of them had made shoots six and eight inch position near the | to pro 
long, es the Camellias, which were then potted off. | surface, poy sero goo acquired that direction, they 
The others that had not made equal progress remained as cannot strike downwards —s the noxious subsoil. 
they were until the following spring, when they likewi brought with Pas 
potted, and found to be firmly rooted. Since that | within the influence of omchels and among the 
time, I sorts with equal success, but per- | pared for them. pSrtlengnes trnetgrern feat 2 
haps plants that have large leaves are best adapted for this | proceed downwards; but they cannot acquire great 
1 ee , Downton Castle, January | ,nor do so much injury to the tree w 
| Benes ee | reach the bad subsoil, as the main roots of a 
} Glazing.—As my neatness should | when they take a similar direct 
ea desideratum in all I beg to , Digging the Borders .—I am glad 
— a of the Gar-| see this subject ; it has been too long neglected, 
wer’ a declmngeee de gt I houses, | and the treatment you complain of has been too long 
; ie ~ an aay roti a some | tolerated, to the detriment of the shrubs, and with great 
with success. n ‘ to the. ‘ 
E _Pared for receiving the T mercly lay © PGE Rett peters tices tet the ete aan 
Se a and place the being doomed to linger out their existence as sickly ; 
upon it, leaving the square as narrow as pos- | dwarfs, for want of sufficient food. The ‘ robbing’’ you it; then to pare 
q sible to be safe (say one-eighth ofan inch) ; afte sher wile complain of does not end in sweeping up and earrying | to pick out the lowest of all, 
: tun @ little white paint with a small brush, almost a quarter | away the leaves; the continued scratching and raking | a horizontal clean cut. He says 
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