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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
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WAN RIVER.—Professor LINDLEY’S et 
OF THE VEGETATION OF THIS COLONY, illustrat 
with coloured figures of plants, &c., price 10s. 6d., will be found 
of interest to all persons desirous of Obtaining | eee 
cerning the Vegetable Productions of AUSTRA 
Ridgway, Piccadilly. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
fore, that one part of the supposed advantages of Mr. 
Penn’s wcibeerd mrss that of economising fuel, does not 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1841. 
MEETINGS IN THE THE ENSUING bho 
Monday ...-+.- Reee: a P.M. 
ical . i P.M. 
Mueway ¢ - + - + © {Reval t Botanic ee ts 
Wednesday. . +--+ - Medico-Botanical - 8 BM 
Sonsidrable didereoce inthe degree of 
| into 16-sized pots, allowing plenty of potsherds for drain- 
age ; the others I do net erage —— In these pots 
pong: 2 toit. An attempt to heat greenhouses in this man- they remain to flower. Abo iddle of July or the 
only t be co pared to ey at lighting streets by beginning of August Tout ‘oom ai and place them in 
d din point of fact, as a shady situation to keep the sun from drying the soil too 
, fast; water is applied very ly. As soon 
het t be expected, the ‘plan thi winter Aiba the plants have thrown ont : ch long, the soil 
failed, mnie thetandlin ng the extraordinary heating pow ken of, d they are repotted into 
hich h en ‘they have taken fresh 3 roots 
And for what is all on power wasted ? e told that fi hoots are thinned they re- 
it effects a a entilatio and circulation from “which geal main until they are removed into the coh atl 
| advantage is orbs PRG, 2nd. Treatment when in the greenhouse. The pl. 
the 
sion of the sak real or ‘imaginary, of ventilation in gar- | 
dening. 
tion tin 
and vp ei Pec ititrod 
tilation can be effected in cold weather by Mr. Penn's 
hod, without still further destro troying the efficiency of 
i i means the continu 
building ; but in this case 
same air is 
ral similar in Be pre po nih hyo There 
is, however, one exce, rules 
d upon which, as it has as pro- 
at tcugion to those who have been 
so unfortunate as to adopt it, we feel it our duty to make 
afew o 
In the Gardener’s Magasine for March 1840, there 
hothouses, fe dey Mr. Penn, » of Lewisham ; in ervinggne 
sashes should = left — 
- night, while the weather will permit. In November 
the plants are 8 stopped ; a stick is is then put to each shoot 
ve 
to allow the air to pass i ee the plants. In De- 
5 
Pres i er pe 
regard 
itself, the motion of the atmosphere will no doubt be 
agreeable to the feelings of human of no 
importance to plants; but we wonder it should never 
have occurred to Mr. Penn the 0 
then oe at to en ato the — s to root quickly, Ja 
February I commence syringing them ; this s is done early 
so that the 1} 
in the afternoon, 
March 0. 2-sized pots, 
oe a larger quantity oe garment f potsherd for 
rainage ; water is now very liberally supplied. When 
produces might have been attained without 
fat or departure from known ee 
Suppose in the annexed 
diagram, a, c, d represe! 
any loss of 
, and 
by a house- 
merits, but it : strikes us 
f the house with cheesecloth, w ich I romeo 
| than canvas, as it admits more Parsee and the tem 
| will not be higher. woh pong pole Sa be admitted yw 
the sun has powe glass; this $ precaution in 
‘3rd. In applying fire-] tea the gee care is required ; 5 
= on this, suc will in a great measure 
m I bate: sect for four successive years is to light 
Zs et at 3 or 40'clock in the afternoon, sometimes later, 
as circumstances a dictate ; the fires are allowed 
blished all roun 
that 
oe no such invention as this dis- 
covery of the far-lamed Macassar oil. 
hich Mr. Penn ar. 
+ s 
acco 
ligt, which shams the interior ra grea ouse, 
an 
an extraordinary creation of heat at f. Tt is clear, there- 
n | 28 
2 . to be 40° or 42° aot hich is am nt. 
in the direction of the again tt 3 or4 kk ning, by 
arrows. which means Sare never ov s is fi 
aes @| quently th ‘b til a lat 
what pointed File ten island cult | period in the evening. * 
out, that this mode of commu- \ per i “ly 4th. Preparing the soil.—Havin, ng obtained « quantity of of 
loam with the turf, it is ia with a 5 
in aheap. I then procure a large quan tee of fresh 
will not answer “gf pos Hay Sovtn Meety eee? | eal! litter, and shake it up- lightly into a heap, in the 
to inquire into te dag na of — aecipin which | gorm'ef’a mushroom- a. If the 
ho 
been given o wever, 
P 
and even better: any others; although we 
certainly aware, as tales was stated in in the Sonia aie 
. 9, that this has been exaggerated. 
On the contrary, in our Home igs gues of ete 
we publish extracts from the letter of a d_ practi 
gardener, who speaks in » an eee iene 
i in Mr. | 
at the time, it is well watered with stroug manure water, 
monn _ ja suns as loses ye possible, to keep 
loam one of ° a ung, 
with loam; in this =~ it remail 
weeks 3 sit is then t turne wen over three or 
that 
“1 be fe f 
ewig wfuls of this 
| compost I add one of ror gma a a peck tnd a half of 
Cock, Chiswick, 
ver sand.— Wm. Jan, 23, 
—_—_ 
xR SPE COTES Oo 
" +h 
orga 
mynd tions — in its iti iste 
, ea Sh Ma eesolaeade #2 Vi. eat % 
contrivances, - which involve no “Joss of heat, 
houses in ail walaningurachee 
no pulling | ; ‘als 
ae cegn vocanieiet short articles 
om. it would post. 
yas 
humidity. 
"We can but regard Mr, Penn’s it 
or 
oiathee te ta sre the or q 
are fatiaenced by -eir- 
changes 
sed under tw two heads. _ one kind of 
which takes place when 
which have, as ale 2 ie » attraction oF 
other. As a familia 
