ee 
SORE I 
Marcy 20.] 
THE erases esai 
pieces a3 dl 
181 
an n adjoining chimney ; over the fire is placed a 10-gallon 
boiler, one at the ey Sai Lipo a moveable lid, and a tap to 
wit! ie 
ch the accompany- 
of whi 
ing sketch i is a eepeamcoens . ‘it — = that is neces- 
supply i 
in t orning, 
ie ya under it, 
soon fille d with a mild sweet steam, which I generally 
boiler rs filled with water, I put a 
it to boil. The house 
ather, and it ~ 
tects them from the scorching mid- ren sun; these objec’ 
are —s without depriving the flower of | lig bt and air, 
whic! 
Y saad ake Birwis 
“| beg gin to syringe » the eaeaned about the 
—— 
and uniform heads. I 
middle of February 
sing ~ afternoon of a fine day for the purpose), 
continu operation twice a week till the plants 
months of 
beta n to pen their bloom. During the 
I 
ging ruary, March, and A —— water twice eieckts 
f the Dahli This mare is made a mes warmer. I 
rature is thus rset and shade from the 
pees ta ar ne Gu of F er guar fo which is "attached a tube made of the same material, | midday sun. ace ron Weeks > ¢ ath, 
turated ith ms I and a rome being in runing and Lopping F orest-trees A t or 
dormnenste tae and an #8) spanonphere sa 1 cas a serted between the stick and the tube, it is firmly secured | timber tree pruning occupies a prominent place in the 
thus produced w ekly, (from the 10th of fae to y height required. it measures 12 pie diameter | Gardeners icle, I offer remarks on it, and 
the present tim +9 upon a surface of 8 sauare aaa at | in “the ies part, and is 34 - se ee From its | the way in which it has been First, I observe 
an average, four large | dishes of fine: mushrooms, a me of being made of so hi ght a material > and fi its sim- at it seems taken for granted at pruning, or lopping; 
rence, and thick and y put out | or both, are ne if not indispensable, operations,— 
py in proporti t th f steam order wer not being a 3 within any- | and the questions hitherto broached r late more to the 
from my beds requiring to be agate very often ; and i in thing is ae oan to be damaged by coming in contact le, as for i ce the comparative ‘Merits of close- 
ae subs tance that wag nes the petals. It re-| cutting and ng, than to the thing itself. But pass- 
waterin g is naw quite dispensed with; the steam comi ng pee ires to be painted to preserve it from decay, and if the | ing these 'y for the present, I shoul yin the second place, 
in wise pe with the cold surface of the Nota is rapidly | con- bsg a made green, and the inside white, the appear- | inquire,—Is praning or lopping timber-trees necessary at 
de e of _them would not be ou greeable, and — insects ?—and what is the object sought to be attained by it? 
ppl oki iad it increase of So ber? Then I should feel dis- 
1 to mine have not chess oeeer without the . P € much pruning or loppi ing is more 
aid of steam, t st likely to defeat th r the follow- 
ple. That mine have far exceeded my most sanguine ex- ing reasons :-—Ist, i crease of stem can onl be attained 
rere 
without the aid of steam, is certainly true; yet, cire 
penicnion of eg ‘s oa ignorant, ned have favoured m seas 
pon mid atmosphere is a tial point 
£ h no one who 
weed Cheon in thei natural haunts will deny; but as to 
p ; artifi icially, is is 
a question not se easily solved. The old y 
roper one, fro 
ircu alate of w. 
m it ‘on 
system 0} water in close ed 
by the 
but 
same reason or some other acting v Corbett’s 
yet adopted, fro 
ture in proportion to the aan of heat, = of thi ay 
tem I E bose of pi a puvendicn miniature re A 
consi 
a 
; but steam with a free circulation of 
a 
as produced the and 
for the growth of mushrooms.—S. H. , Crumpsall, near 
Manchesie ter. 
ever saw a |. ree tha’ not at © CO} 
| siderabl d ten ad; and 3rdly; 
In whatever. propo’ at head is lessened by lopping, 
-, in like proportion you lessen the of ii 
the bulk of the stem by destroying the balance of reci- 
procity. ich for general —— iples. Is it not somes 
thing bordering on absui rdity lessen the head « of a tree 
and that all the nourishment ps up by — a mt 
required for what your yen will cail 
branches, will be laid on 
f timbe wi Yet many a 
T ry out such a principle, they should 
t the heads off shapuinees: the oe tree would be all 
oo My opinion is, that _pra ecessary; but I 
hat aa be do one e with the 
ld 
w 
knife when the trees are you! ng. Cl 
but if a all necessary, Mr. Bile 
lington’s s mode of fore-shortening. is best. of all, if kept 
Hot Water as a Bottom-heat for Pines nS 
agrees with Mr. Saul respecting the min of hot pep és 
p. 133. He dopte ted it t 
—M 
ch ; pe _ 
is an ower. of apie first principle of in 
a6 oF 28 y ears ago well got-up work Sie its “i 
orest Pruner,’ oe by, Mr. W. Pontey, 
salle 
of Haddersficid. I 
aaa r had it put into my hands d at 
1 
35 
th 1 
i 
a 
© the oceans nde directions rane 
ten down. I oe so could js udge; but tas 
ntey s called i 
Mr. Po 
M r states that a bottom-heat for pines, abou 
used this ports eve ea sepcade years, nine months ago . 
arious purposes, such as repairing the decayed parts of go Queen Pines from 21b. to 41b. we eight, and now 
window-sills, and -" “ Sp cua 3 2 has a good prospect ° cuttin i fade fruit this season. 
factory has been the result 1 t I - e hud sdasteleats the last week in 
cumber Sieg that i in hate all a e gla zed with | December, and might a cut them for a muagse times but 
it. It £ quite so cheap as poh bet far wr he required the eo xes for another Supply, which is now 
to it in ‘arabiy and in adhesiveness to the wo | and | showing fruit. noma y 
glass. er - | be i Dang Hie though he thi id will d 
seed oil, and d painted over after glazing 
= sliganias d Th mbere —Mr. Aitehison, aordines at oe 4 
sh to plunge the po pot: 
fre: tt d 
says a substitute will ‘e requ and sifted coal- nnd 
, an 
thi 
the purpose 
e him my kn sides perated, wi e agreed: | 1 had ‘Ns 
Saat and my copleay: bigest ipaahes expressed his 
satisfaction. This book, however, had as a frontispiece 
like tan or decayed lea 
3 I ry regres " oa itt A <p t oy ag as in the rah ree he ob- 
tact wil as good as those seek are not—many are | on oniums.—We have strate given the mode of 
coming ¢ sero the bottom between the spars. [This is cultivation adopted by Mr. Cock The 
not. much in favour of the preser rvative properties 
—— Such a tree 
That few could peer it, 
page ce ak sae aaron tight fight and clean, 
A rage otter tee trees just like it; and I re: 
n of a 1y baronet, the trees 
en S process, w 
2 
ng eal 41 
whose 
considered to consist chiefly i in keeping off the attacks of 
for the e greenhouse or F 
€ th 
fungi 
mbium speciosum.—When Nelumbium speci 
sum is mare sat = of its majestic leaves will acenitré 
circumference of 5 feet, and be of a beautiful rich dg ark 
lo’ maga nificent 
he Chr ve. roe the 
mode oe treatment has inary ‘en followed by the 
poe having an abundant hea the with health 
pera *s yea e plants have sles e first ti 
remove ed in othe —_ 
green colour; nth, together with its m 
flowers 
» for rm a contrast ‘not easy to be 'p ted: No 
it flower. Som may be se: wing poe 
year after year, ar ever A ae one single bloom. 
_ however, the follo owing: method be adopted, it will be 
und 
to want 
the domai 
were by hakioade "4 pramea into the prise of gi 
whip-handles. ie may be called ‘the extvtine oF wh ab- 
it @ it to yi how fo: rest-prun ing, and 
en Tae i 
am dig . a questi 
ie whol 
any paed can be d to sa aed a 
sine 
beginning of ress ; ima 2 fortnight he sl ill | 
pushed to about an _ when I proceed to repot them. 
pent nap is sto shak off all the old soil, and to prune 
Sa ea Thi 
‘ad 
fair and OS eee > iat any red cal enefit has 
d from of lopping, whatever the mode 
adopted. Should hone of your ee Aen ee conversant 
in the ee x bring out suc 
¢ rs hl 
ry easy convert, as soon as my judgment is 
vigorous oak of new wood. 
old 
‘ierinieed. Judicious thinning is another matter< 
Quercus. i 
asa lateritia.—Plants of t 
the spring, kept in aoa Parente are ee “sed 
to answer Bclinci 
for rmany years. The Nelumbiam may be easily increased The rome soon recover, and the destruction of the 
Saeetine or sales ste div ision of ‘the root; the latter r plan In muc! ch I oy 
se a pratt state. “thet best time rae ped 
yed. The following coms 
twice or ‘oftener i in the course of the autumn, 
wae L use for the winter parr piving g initia 
loam, two of leaf-mould, nr — — of peat, one — plants for this season. x managed as above 
li - _ anaes ar ‘The re placed where they € now coming into flower here, and promise ‘shortly to 
fe planted in; ‘a tubor cistern, as sian ally sh g g ¥3 | ratte Planted out (at the same time as 
it is to be flowered, ought ei to be les fr 2 fect | ing in cakes ree wee sthey —— _~ — made = — morace other -hardy ornamental things) im‘a shaded situation, 
2 feet. and: 2° eet di p- The soil pared to bea ving t opea where it also makes a good bed the , patting a 
thirds rich light loam, one-sixth leaf. ies will nec plenty of light cad 8 sy fee hey sei Gil stiff branchy pea-stake to plant for it to run upon ; 
of old rotten dung, w which > Baoan be well lend, and ~ weather becom and cold, when Sa ove them | the stakes will soon cease to become an eyesore 
tub with it to nehes of its surface. The ‘0 the greenhouse. sieais as 1 nagittos as | plants begin to pe" as the latter will soon comple 
roots may then be ie soil to t f 3'| possible dmit all the air I t heir bei cover the former, beginning to flower will conti- 
inches, and ely afterwards fill the tub to its | drawn, and water sparingly @uring the winter ination. is till the em off. But 
surf: ith y taking care that it is always lukew: at E stop the shoots to within four or five eyes of | it best prac: - its beauty here upon a north wall, planted 
and never sink far below the tub’s surface. The | the stem. In t e beginning of December I prepare . out in soil with four or more sg of li ria - 
heat by night, during the spring months, should n repot for blooming using ‘the following “soil, which is | each see one to ram upon ; iat appe 
lower than 65° . ne eee met se 80° during the day. i at Ae as tones si deeper atoms and double 
he summer ture should be about 75° by sa two barrowfuls of loam I add two of cowdung ‘one | the volume they do it ; The flow 
night, and from eri to > 90° a the day. the fo. ld (I ei il @ whole plant, ; 
liage decays, in autumn, wa should be with ; but +h Id, and bl ta ia at Hav ving in 
care must be taken not to i the: soil get too dry, becanse | one peck of si Soepne Pe —— loam be heavy and strong, eae seen it confined t 
the roots are more apt to when the moald cel: Ladd peat ; but this if the loam is of # ouse or vinery in the es g days of summ: _ where 
parched than when it is ips i e. Inthis | sandy nature. I give ont pcos ge by using plenty of a eek 3 appearance limcechen | in the extreme, T have 
manner the root should be kept until February, when it potsherds, and shift into pots a size ‘large - than the ts been led to believe that those Sizes matance ces in which it 
Should be again replanted into fresh soil, as before direct- No. 16. or Now I 
bt Wo seasons in the same soil, i p with. t 
is-almost certain not to flower the second year.—C. E,, | sed for a fo of the seeds oy ditheult to get up. 
Pas. 26, 1841. nd when I see the plants begin to root oe soil and subjected to the heat of 
Dahlia Protector otector.— Among the ere contrivances Se mber, or melon frame, the oy never 
for protecting Dahlia-blooms in Peco at here. Rhodochiio 
blooms from 
oe awe Car 
ces | freel 
which I ee 
purpose most | w 
esa 
north wall treatment; 
