THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
69 
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* ei pamen cultivation ; 3 and we 
whether it would not reat while to pomage 
autumn to = were plants of 
chee nurseri ere they are likely to be obtained true 
to their. names. 
4 ipl. 
the ple, oa emer age Space will admit of only fou 
trees, the oe — in, Kine 
Feria Ribston =n pin aa! Dutch Mig ms 
with the addition ‘of the Altreston end Old 
ight, the W 
ton ng, 
een oe Belleflewr, and 
Scarlet No gf ag: 3; where fen, the same sorts, with the 
addition of the Downton Nonpareil, and Pennington’s 
sr ing 
—Marie Louise, Beurré de Capiaumont, Beurré 
Dicl, ‘Glout Morceau, Easter Beurré, — Beurré Rance. 
uld be — renee ee sortsthan these. They 
be of first-rat and os enough for 
standards. Sev eral ioe srs "be grafted on the same tree 
he best are the Green-gage, Washington, 
Coe’ 8 “Golden Drop, and Early Orleans. 
Cherries.—Ma: ay e, Late Duke, and Morello. These 
may either be train iT against a Lig ang Se walt or pt yt 
building ; and where this be done, they m 
grown as standards. eee sand a be ented in 
the same way. 
Go Ove «he 
but the following may be : sated as the very bet sorts for 
Yellow Champagne, pa: Bary Sulphur Pitmaston Green- 
gage, Masses. s Heart of Oak, and ce arly Green ape 
Woodward’s Whit ae Taylor's r Ven d 
Crysta’ 
Currants.—Red Dutch, Knight’s Sweet Red, White 
Dutch, and Black Naples. The latter is far superior to 
see ge 
right 
Raspberries.—Red Antwerp, Double-bearing Red, and 
tele Antwerp. 
wherries. —These are as variable as Gooseberries, 
the fall, 
ja d Scarlet, ( Old Pine, and the Red aud White Alpine. 
fs = dia ae will be found | very ar The ey m may 
be confidently relied on as by far the best selections et | 
M.E.H. 
HOME CORRE CORRESPONDS NCE. 
Pears.—I quite a wit h Mr. peti that much use- 
ful knowled t be made general 
% Ceres cultivator ed publish the i that experience 
aches hii im as to the peculiarities of different variation; 
thor 
} led lyk By 
€ 
f particular sorts to b parca 
ee 
the “aaliy BY fae pears es pecially, thant 24 ec 
supp: osed ;. ear has got a bad character 
in an unsuitable locality. I once 
Yorks a at a place where there is 
a capital collection of pte including many of the most 
approved aaa some of these I found o 
raat bedi sa am 
Lonc of the highest merit in 
the Cates of vow Horticoleral Society, were not eatable. 
Fo or example, th ‘asse Colmar and the White Doyenné 
spaces of 
eee Gakias “Sens 
possess, when favourably situated, never became melting ; 
neither did t The Glout Mor- 
ae from walls and standards was only second-rate ; 
e 
from an east 
The aa is the best pear I ine tasted this season. 
D 
will all ripen about May. 
For the last two years our 
Ms tsh 
, and the 
, haa 
The practice of a entioned by a corre 
sat be too strongly re- 
mmended ; I always 4 it it necessary, and find it 
pean beneficial both to fruit and trees.—J. B? Whiting, 
Deepd 
rocoli.—In your second number, I per- 
ceive a paragraph treating on this Pespogrr er poe 
the remedies recommen ded in which a 0 doubt 
T beg to communicate a san I have apie’ ‘for some 
years, and which I have never found to fail,—which is 
attain able by ey ery man, in alm ost every situation —and 
hick 
cess he - 
stove = ixty 
twenty “} 0 thirty —s high, to accommodate Musas, &c.— 
A. S., eigh Par. fe, Hanis, Jan. 25, 1841. [We shall 
sf feta nalioe ect excellent pape’ 
betsy I should mention od you that Mr. 
uggested rag Ines grafting the filbert al the ag k of the 
Span 
is none, 
the trouble not worth naming, and, if properly 
spplices 
the result in every way satisfactory. In the 
mh newer omit to ridge up the grou nd I intend for 
nish n hich —_ a t throw up suck TS, Wi ill 
of this kind, which years likely to answer his ae Ina a 
large filbert-hedge which I have, 1 ym e that a oe 
plants have female flowers, and only a few "male ca 
prin 
Frost ‘to pulverise it; when ~ Ue is arrived for sowing, 
rad yi" a only take place when both are on ee same 
ig it over regularly, and ould it be worth while to tie branches with male 
fo ‘orm it into beds; I burn pranings of shr a par thins a ap trees which have none, or to shake them 
and hate that may ‘an ve ton por etl during woe and over the whole wild bezel ?—K. [Take t the catkin-covered 
spread the | ashes son the beds to the depth | of two the filbert 
inches. Then — the little pink females are 
the earth to the depth ‘of four or five inches, sow a oo just formate iy 
rake all in sm nd the opera Chalk.—You 4 us that carbonic acid gas is the great 
tion is finished. I have only father i ‘add, that the | source of food to ts. What, tone in ee best sub- 
fresher the ashes are. used the better, and those from green stance to spread ie poor ch soil, so ‘0 induce it 
d are preferabl hose fi dry.— Brassica.—[{It i 0 gi acid so gradually fat “it can 
lat that in these cases the alkaline bases found i db H.S., Bedham ynpton.—{ Carboni 
‘ood gresk are what produce the effect. It is worth | acid cai pA malled from chalk by the agency of 
tryi ng n of soda, which would probably be equally | acids, or F other substances, w uced into 
efficaciou init. The air 
far 
s. 
mut in Corn, and a Cure for it.—Take as much dung- 
hill water as will make your quantity of corn swim ; add 
nd 
to obtain it 
as muchr salt, big a pound of Lastaniga fir saltpetre, or in 
nee ag ct pbs unds of c compares as will cause the 
gait ae new vinery bay cs pine Pet at _Elm- 
hall . 
er to bg 
theaaing of the light corn, " strain it out and dry it wi 
me nrg lime or dry turf ashes. Be careful to sow it the 
xt day or the e day following ; for if wet weather pears 
Grapes fit to send to table 
36: gi of ee 
in months from the time the 
were about se enteen 
th le of December. 
pass and will ‘not grow. As the pickle decrease, it may 
ag all 
cellent plan in keeping os ~t is to give a little fire in 
the morni 4 that may be 
the seed intended to be sown is pickled. a3 ae 
ering pri Plants.—I have often seen 77 old 
b se th ot 
ie 
ing 
ao tes tees: then give air, Aomrad SNe ase all 
night ; the air inside by such treatment becomes cooled 
, SO that 
F 
“4 7 rc 7. 
the chance of 'y dS 
d, the fruit kept dry, and mouldiness 
a tl 
eee yee 
easing ually raising the 
ponntsts in the spring. I think anil abe neglected 
Fl might be flowered in the same manner.—Richar 
oinsettia Pulcherrima.—As additional means of 
mprovi ce the size of the flowers, ri would recommend 
that a a ik healthy plant, not less than two years old, 
Mr. Tillery in the Chronicle (p. - 36). “This plant should 
all summ during its 
growth by all safe still ag have ee two or three 
of its strongest shoots ed to remain. When these 
shoots have nearl pang th ei 
a 
in ‘part | 
Be Pate round.—About ae 
oy. yan 
Targontuns in the o, 
gran 
Pare 3 n diatinet “beds.. When the plants are well esta- 
| eer the open ground, we propagate by cuttings from 
em goes we fin 
aes 
ge arden, so tie 
les, of pe oe rai 
peer is one of the most 
ie ecoctiny ta 
effect ee i as Pelargoniums i in open beds.] 
scare ition by Leaves. —Iti is well known, that man: 
wood ripens, allow the plant to go 0 gradually to 
ever, is 
of “te stove. Should it offer to goes too soon in 
he most “pa art the resul ult of art, an 
wie peculiar circumstances. 
a“; fes 
it hak. Peat t the beginning or middle of April will be 
quite tim: h to begin to pro pagate it. At that ti time 
take the cant women eyes from t 
yo 
way. Another 
in a “species of "Meksons plan 
had attracted a stouioa by the entvineinaéy 
aq 
branches, and treat them as recommended by Mr. 
Pied 
iced of the leaves which clothe i its wiih an The 
This 
e fra- 
and 
on to the 
¥ er dry soil, were flavourless as a besa 3 Tillery. Cut the old leat down for — 
: , Shake off all the soil from ii away all | gility 
aisenn soil, ee their usual exoellence, and also lecayed roots og! ruses art strongest nies. Gopal it) 1 laid some io the fallen leaves on the ay in ae pot. 
pened about their usual time; the Beurré Diel from ie as small a pot as you t its roots into, and place 
south and west, s, and in dry soil, i never found . in bottom heat ; treat it = hollow in less 
3 Meither was re Swan’s Ese from t wall at | season, and for pur scp Beaton, ace an three weeks the base of the or mide “i = nume- 
all equal in our to some I have eaten "fon standard ie Sr Ww. Middleton, Bart. pan small roots. Every single leaf, some bs) half an 
on the strong clays of Herefords hire. The Beurr nes > border, t to be 30 inches inch i snared 
Rance, = 1 from w: wall and standard trees, was generally Pes Th t for it helf, ha 
preg but it it would not keep pained than January. This | shall a a certain portion of vate ground t ‘bones. Will 
di appears to be ea deteriorated ml ungenial con- | any o} Ht 
ine ms than ont 50 of bowen I ought to add—say to every ten square feet 2— just as Belocs on the margin ae the leaf 
S.P. 
ewise 
all the af we ore Trew 
aes suited to the soil and oe 
ality. The C 
¢-Criataan, and was sweet and insipi 
d@’Angouléme from 
Was quite worthless, but from open 
an much smaller and much fanals beter 
and it is evident that om is one 
mg ; if allowed to become gare pati ‘they 
more troublesome, ery seldom make such saga 
pero Pot them in two t 
vegetable soil or well -rotted manure from the i having been nO: 
beds, and as mall porti n of sand, and plunge them i in the pea eee a. : 
bark- F a small pin’s he 
tarts issn fr ira , age Le ping: We | reco ae tae cteion 
use plenty of drainage, nh keep t the moist. They | Cure for Scale on Peach-trees.—Get 
t will Bei improved by bettom-thest. but ery is rer tenacious clay and dilute it with water till it comes to the 
after the suckers Pte become established in the pots. “A | consistency of paint. To every ¢ of ¢ 
Pp ‘0 60° will keep the plants from re- | add halfa pound of sulphur; mix them 
ceiving a deity! ths “winter months, and the trees ail over. It will be bet 
from 60° 'to 75°, or even 90°, with sun-heat, will not be , and the seco —: awd not 
too much in , although ‘will do very well in a thoroughly dry. 
‘lower tem We havea p How in fruit which | to swell. To p Pini w 
wad removed from t parent plant about months | tazeous to nail mats over the trees, taking 
| ewe rota he my ith tater of 156 ras, mi kill the scale the 
