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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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gentleman called to see my garden last summer ; he was | Amarena, evidently from the same ad} ective 5 and the Wild treated to the oe yin mage the grate, and into, such 
near-sighted, and wore spectacles ; he meEry or 220 now 
first forcing-house he ever that the d d “69 (if not species) is called Marasca, and from | they did ¢ the Seeker and being benumbed by the 
dew his glasses. All my n eighbours’ grapes ar made midge erg th of — cold. ob ay casil y seateay yedin the morning. Labouri 
weeks every year before mine. I have ome you few pa takes its name; a om amarus, bitter. It this way two posts 
evi r 
promi you will perceive they wither up to 
sta’ » but never rot. J should like to see some ke opt 
ll fro 
ar that this c rts is known at ‘Rome by the te vl 
Soudan , both 
ishni 
ite perhaps from some stg word, the only source common 
Willia t The Morellos are larger and Sores in 
in this racked of each Saality on the 24th M ay: England than gene’ see on im bes tinent : those of the 
Luminous Insects luminous centipede noticed by | South They mentioned are —perhaps not wail so 
—The 
2 
well known to be luminous occasionally, and chiefly w when 
excited.— J. Murray. 
‘Orehidaceous Plants. —I observe that in some of your 
re 
cid. e only ro el pen Cherry I 
knor in Talys, al the Ary Whites red, and black, being 
casita om and hard-fieshe d, a nd almost oy ft a 4 
ripe unripe. Tf, _ Suspec the ey are a tural 
Lin} 
rpated the race, I lene red ery 
able 4 Beige And now, A rehiay learnt that they have 
eer 
Score for . mix! ure of beer and sugar, and 
Tena hem: pest aie I Talso 
place a zed pani den grate, and about the hearth, 
half filled with this fold, 4 oe 
T have also made an opening at the back of my chimney, 
(which is re the ‘nil of ea! age and al- 
ways too bre tes that cold air ci hind the 
gra ate, and om — to be a ack to thelr procreation. 
f wood for the plants: % to 
root into. ein 
the corgiaal, t should i suspect all our sweeter and rich- 
ring the 
this subject, t have. a some “7 vid diseen rving 
‘bits _ The 
gz zt ta ade in this line, I cannot pi 
tend to mueh a gee ce 5 2a but I will mention to 
plan 1 have adopted fo om. as 
e 
he ha of the mal. : a dsappetrane, of 
aa or pene sorts. Is it known what t the Cherry 
Po ntus s? It . dly h 
papa Preys she 
of Buasone 
(4 
ad distrust the story of 
th 
en emg bie of its pe bark, oo then 
The haa 
s fr rom the roots of trees. 
Lucull Is the 
dah 
It soon t: 
Yellow Caer 6 “of Franche-Comté known in ee: 
sitings pets wall 6 to facilitate tele escape, the ingenuity 
and agility they cree in leary the shady sides of 
be seat id the m: whi gone ey find chert way ¥ fitto 
h ) ft, moist 
(ong mee in the Orchi 
f jlants 1 nd they 
aap a vigorously, uae moss rots and ese and 
iooks foreeccas f and does not afford a regular supply of 
s that are ha aeaty "visible 1 quite )_ wonderful. 
out the aid of their wings, | and although r have never seen 
burgh, while others re fag a house.—S. 
Duration # Flower. aepmideht on the act of Feeun- 
dati —My gardener secientaly bruised the 
one of the flowers of Oncidium torale, 
in measuring 
like the winged ants ; ‘for two years - when = were 
Wey 
into 
has attended tl ploy f dark-bl € two days. The other aoe eae as on oe ditsiine fone the house. I ‘tara ‘pontine jneidental Ys 
ing tl dj of the Cl pulchélla ( 'y shy one) day? in which _they first expanded, 0 and at hope to pre- | that when they pd eared here, a good many crickets 
zg I beauty for a month longer by keeping | abode about my hearth; but they soon disappeared under 
the seeds that t are up; the re cely appearing | the plant in the shade. — J. vag B., Exeter. [The | the influ f them re active intruders. The history of 
above the earth. The pring e3 “the gl glass is reread circumstance alluded singular phenomenon | the acclimatization of the Cockroach is also curious. 
— blue; Violet-colour was recommendes Ma ai —— in the whole Cieibdateoes order. He found | When I was a boy (some 45 years ago) it had not been 
ole! that when the anther was — . Se: flower quickly rd of in illage. It is now a tro e pest 
hey never pe it of that colour, so aes re your died. Bee was not because the as removed, but | even to co rs, making free with the ba in their 
a could have got Hs 3 bo ow not. na Lone it took becaus' moving the anther 4 seid as brou a chimneys. Some years ago it was thought it would not 
about ¢ ight t days i in causing th s to ge mete hab was | into osthet t with the s! io pags and tin the act of fecun- | bear a temperature of 45°; but I have seen it lively when 
iz 15 = ion was accomplished. In general, from the absence | the air was cooled to 35° ; below that ii guishes 
_ H g just finished R i insects, 0 or of those other Leagvered causes to which | and dies, being e: a short time to frost. In con- 
ing of nearly 400 sort Iwill endeavour, as well as I to | Orchid their i He the ziawpn clusion, I doubt e efficacy of any other means o! 
answer ‘‘ Rose Amateur’s’’ que! ‘I do k I nd so long mong yourself of the pest than “catch and kill.’ 
have lost one, pr a * — “Antoinette, i me winter, this i is font the flow owers oy eans of prevention wo appear to be, to do 
Hybrids, G 
allicas, Mosses. 
Perpetuals, and Provences, are not at all prey oe Ben- | 
ni 
ma es will re 
, as if in expectation of n of aya pos 
for which they were 2 gE oy t of 
gals or Chinas and Bourbons have ae ae 
aged, 
about ge 
e neys 
I 
in which the ere are Rot con- 
but have quite enough w left after pruning ; th 
o Ar rmosa and Per) pétu elle. a Neully, whi ch I po ternbens the ‘right cla jours yaa: e dim, the ov ary we fect of Coloured Light on LA oye a —In Teference 
nd the beauty of the ieee gone. ] to Mr. R. H hen 
Després, not at all. e I speak of are budded on ‘The Span nish Plane.—I believe the common tata at Rome i in 1838, the late Dr. Morighint, whose discovery 
stocks of various heights, ; pudded Noisettes ch also little _ this rene de +9 the ic imported 
damaged, while those (as well as Bourbons) o ag r own uthern s of No rth Ameri As it i fe more | informed me that the Professor of Botany t og: had made 
roots are yery much PRO and wi abby th g Wi light on the 
summer to recover. Of Thés, Strombio is ‘live phy just | cold infe to the latter, it germination and growth of Paadly and i found hia 
beginning to bud out; Taglioni and Bardon are less hurt, | is surprising = it ees be u t 
= 4 ei = B mre ss near London. Pr 
and no doubt will flower well ; ; these two are budded. The 
Leeres 
—f 
sat, 
for I laid t t of 
a deine = par ex! shoe 17 feet in ean and 
cely touched ; 
the tips 
and I aa met somewhere 6 
thought i in the “Theory “of ticulture,’”’ but I cannot 
their g grou rserymen would soon cease 
I thei eir customers refuse it, and 
tion. —J. 
The Yad OF f Plante, —I cannot but think we are greatly 
| at fault on this question, oes is 2 baer ety s clouded 
and obscured, as well as © with the 
subject, Scien mce has been ‘poldoas 
Oo grow it if they “fou 
then we shoul wd Oriental be ee Arges in pee 
a s; ve den way, can you e rok Pl tter 
@ O0Ca- 
sion, and speculation and theory have been “onfounded 
The p 
Hor 
ide find it) a most luminous explanation of haga matter, 
p e by fr ost enters by the | I 
1838, that I almost ruined by over-covering in 1839.40, 
now at ae 6 fee 
yo 
t along a wall 8 feet high, ge bag of 
which it reaches, covered with camara pot buds ; 
had sawdust to its ts, straw up i 
jeune hich peat git” dain Blah Per. 
mire. x, X, * They 
et with au per state so rm to 
sad et 1 
[We recommend this to some of our rag aed frionde for 
an answer 
Cockroaches.—Your inquiry after ‘ the best method of 
destroying es ”? has not yet met with a satisfac- 
tory repl t say that I am able altogether to 
ply. 1 can oge 
supply the deficiency, but I will give ‘you my experience. 
These 
and the invention will oo on more subtile ckment 
than usually enter into the hue qere Food, to serve 
hae ts be assimilated, is age ng; and stimu 
me to or excite the “functions belongia 
years ago, when some alteratio 
ith “a earth himney, permanently 
eretofore. corre then to make 
their appearance, rey: in the nee fs years increased so 
tolerable nuisance, and in 
the hou: Vario 
yeu thet Mr. 
Lawes 's stock of this plant i is genuine; many 
reports to the ¢ 
gow 
ontrary having been industriously propa- 
mea eans were tried to Sastre or spel th em. Hadechors 
were introduced ; but they see! uring their stay to 
n flower, @ peerage crimson, with a 
on their es aot they tock the 
first opportunity to sf into the open air. But if these 
lime 
lows they must be supplied wi 
alkaline baer until it be e leriy oud iy expe iment, 
that the are really absorbed, and selected with rar 
ascertain 
sweet,” sugar to the sugar-cane, i ge Ea 
Ace nigrum, Capsicum m, Zt 
matters to Salic ‘ia Salséla ro arhy mein 
sealet. els pose se centre Eng the shart 3 im fact 
the true Glo ‘o Mr. Lowe, 
=i your next 
leby, Fem near. Mi Macclesfield. 
wo 
wth of the Weeping hel nai in apa and 
in most je of the Con! — In England the 
does not seem regularly 
length « of its gracefully pen h they 
as F aatoaes affinities. In } 
possess preg cay organs 2 well as absorbi 
ban fact was subsequently verifed 
explains the on of in i 
hat 
YEsa 
sels. nm 
PS, 
Se ee 
poigaie™ 
ed, y 
books ”” (a remedy, I see, much relied on by —_ of your 
subseribers) ; hae this Anes opp ea to do 0 good, as 
perfect looseness and pela 
Tat “Hstinguich 
the tree whe en in n perfection. 
ither did sulphar ns to the holes Se crevices 
ie which 2 they pokey to abit ide. Tf any saffered by these 
hile ie thee aioe ms health and oi 
On the s orl, a i principle so he 
animal wor a chapeies. goats, § heep, & what is food 
wears is pois another. {n ve; setable ‘ree 
vigour near other. ‘plan 
mm plified in 
In an Baglish autumn, too. 
tural 
the extremities of the twi 
and the lea 
them 
Mere this to be the case, and that 
were necessary, I fk out my kitchen- 
nothine 
harcoal, icone the s syrin ge, eae He &e., exter: 
sal and m echanical acts, constitute the € sum to! tial mith a 2 
and linings,” and 
attains its } perfectly 
walls and the interior of the | chimn — 
. No 
Peay ey teats tered internally to the e sickly phains “It 
growing ¢ es) 
omile will restore (as it ba ret does 
tation, then Beis 
in 
drooping character, an 
pause seh 
1, Ct 2 
decid 
Morello 
and second their « eggs. Their t 
cham 
health to rere and Prose ng vege 
of cham sad 
mile a tried, sO a iy, 
her 
3, 
In the mean time, T had 
; eafter Tm may send you 
e, hint ; 
5 * u 
mot seem rid me to sagt ae its nam , the m 
th 
e from ul. 
berry, or from Morella, the. morel, as aiae "wil _have it, 
filled or a roots, sie og and such loose 
ietiokexcoeone, io ae ee 
knewn and printed in some of the garden eect 
Germany, and which well suits the peculiar quality of 
Varieties, In the common parlance of Italy, it ig called 
= 
yer. bags 
rubbish, 
amongst which a little oatm , sugar, o r bro biseuit 
Tn these hes bags they would 
m | the vines are in bloo 
Moisture in Vin pees io a contributor to 
your 15th Number miles Mr Se give different opinions 
as respects the bed — ould be kept hilst 
ken 
congregate in 
nambers in a iddl b 
os 
ident f; a - PG ae 
light app appeared, as ag if left ail morning , they invariably re 
€ the "Tattant, 
Dyes beadite stein 
