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and appear in loose terminal imbels. They aré produced 
succession durin; 
all the months of antumn. This fine ae 
like all the others of the same genus, lately figured in this work, 
is, properly speaking, a te requirin, be kept during 
the summer in e » where it 
éonstitute its principal merit. of St pare been abun 
distributed by the Hortic nitural § ww ty.— Bot. Reg. 
ISCELLA NEOUS. 
Broccoli di tte ape.—the It: 
turnip» “Broccoli ; the leaves are eaten, a 
It does 
ordinary Broccoli, and it is cultivated like the ine 
the 
| same ground, and manured with the same Bary 
overhead as I go on, and in dry weather watered every 
ange for eight days. Not one in fifty we goo ak S or 
the 
ized with the maggot ; 
the samples. There will be no difficulty in procuring any 
of: the above varieties for seed, _s0 that what he has to 
xcept 
whereas 
Onions were almost all destroyed b 
The 
soil i in auualy oe Lectry isa trllenr 5) 
n from the seed-ball 
of Am a rae eat cine A a of which will be ac- 
perenne with the 2 tana memorandu am + al These po- 
ay seen! _having 
5 
exhausted t doi 
ed, 
m in 
alians make ane use of the 
e turnip, 
not secidiies a head like 
At 
like ‘on ag rdin 
¢. (Daiicus ane dy 
rrot ; _ nine-tenths of the seedlings pr pro 
a Car )—M. Vilmorin in ex- 
perimenting on the wild Carrot also procured seeds of the 
a Ca uced nothing 
> After egaent several experiments, in July 1839 I 
got some rich clay, and laid it down in a bye place where | 
all the ved of the honse were thrown, and where it re- 
mained till llowing. The 34 5 a na 
Onions s beg dug th 1 autumn prece! 
then I spread the “aay py "heie 
beds, three inches thic' k, ond - it in that state till re 
yes of March, when by | Pa gone, smooth 
rred up, mixing, of the eth 
with it. I then spread res the ire of t the beds a 
barrowful of opm dung, fresh from the € pigeon- “house, 
Lg ps 
t | mor nd so es aera 
| before 
ra top 
Seed was say 
and this has produced 
good roots, some having a violet tint, some 
others being ‘swo Hen nd sho 
have a pro 
ved from ny be: 
This race ars 
naturally more vigorous than the co a Corr 
f Ramp ions. 
st and most fleshy of the latter, 
a fair proportion of plants with 
yellow, = 
James’s Kee epin g, Portugal, Deptford, a and Blood-red. 
Then I pressed them nent ae the back of a spade, and 
covered them, about of an ems 2 mellbroken 
earth from the alley abou t tl the — wo 
rae ho! 
ing one 
tp 
‘oduce cy and as itis is 
rrot, it is 
Ti rdi: ;, ¥ 
3 (Algiers | Valerian. (Vlertoa corsustp i 
it is 
your, bat Asage ; its leaves a lar; 
bp e gr being they 
is sown in the spring, v he sae will 
; une = is ade and last till the frost destroys them. —. 
Jardin 
loon 
~ 
Cardoon —In managin g | this capa it is EE oak to 
ia Xe 
of the ends r as, walking up the 
alleys, to strike oy iiaaab pwd an Sochs or two above the 
bulb. I found this | process of great | benefit, as = — 
and the whole 
enderer, th 
grow “ton way: 
be fit for 
nourishment Geote into the bulb. About the Ist of Sep- 
tem) ber Lco enced lifting the Onions, and laid them 
of ground well exposed to the 
sun; some — afterwards removed them to a loft that 
asoagh were bound with pieces of bass matting to small 
bear in mind that if sown to 
0 early, o 
with water, it is apt to ru 
not duly 
The time ‘of sowing 
must be regulated by the nature of the soil; if the latter 
where they were left till the “approach of frost, when they 
were all laid ona bed of ferns, and covered with them to 
otherwieg the middle 
the general crop. 
of that month is a pro oper season for 
<7 than a sore vier taken out | of the ‘ground. 
A few for early use may be | The autumn-s nd May 
om in the end of March. autumn sowing, here the clay 
ing Siaitow trenches a foot wide and four feet. apart, | Was use! atdbore, were superior ‘both i in size and 
nizing well alittle dung with the loosened soil in the | quality to almost any that I have seen grown in this 
trenches. In these sow the seeds in patches wiles reas the ; spring-sown, in the usual way of 
‘our seeds 1 ther, with intervals of from 18 inches parents d by the m maggot; ani and 
. 4 — os the patches. Whe caped its ravages were not half the size, and 
tches. 
nly should be 
Watering lentil and arcs “ed ne ground “rN = all 
hat is requi Oct: 
e till the middle = of 
ore ao “kept near so well as the others.’ 
Galvanie Protectors.—Mr. Saul, of Lancaster, states, 
that the effect of this invention may be produ aced with @ 
common garden-pot, b th 
and fixing on the top of the outside a flang: e 0 e of zinc about 
of flanges, such as pot 
p ade of pot 
protector has, he says, a better appearance pra : the flower- 
border than the Zine 5 and also. vad be applied to pots for 
The fi 
e he s up w ith ploeed of 
natting fe e en more auady with hay- 
ds as co filetely gt row the light. In three 
weeks the stalks | will be blanched fit for use. In ee 
her frosts Be enerally — intense than is the 
sase in ordin nite! ers in this country, the ® Cardoons are 
taken u dry, and 
placed i shed bet ipemn "agers of straw. 
Thatched hardice ers vr convenient of prote 
dion both for-Cardoons and Ce " 
ae sig ~~ rons — ndle, ih, nursery: 
. Au stell, Comal, has now several 
Fpl inte of seedling R 
ing expense. e flange 
is 5 sae wine the pot with thres curved pieces of zinc. 
—Mr. Parke er, of Swi Hall, near Oswestry, 
t Salanian.Ji 7 } 
ing observations upon the varieties of Potatoes. (The 
produce 
Fao as 480Ibs. to the rood york to "34 tons ry os per 
see), 0 or rare bushels, which 
eee Tt partakes —. & the 
bur: sono a cro) etter. 
if 
good “qualitie of the 
The rose-colout of er 
Sag - he op shen Bg into the bulb a! 
pp ic a ‘or potatoes Senate ta or 
Wednesday, the 21st April. 
GA opar Reapecrempeccammg gen 
Elmham a Norfotk.— eases the 
been more leodara, 
rey iM 
Fo 
The ang sate and Douglas Pines, from Mexico 
erica, are not affected in the least; the for- 
stans, Aristoléchia trilob: this flowered on the open wail last 
antumn), and Escalld; tevidénsis. The Famin: 
Fuchsia, which offered last year to become a shrub, ves her- 
baceous this, like the others that are natives of lower latitudes.» 
Banksian Roses in some 
ound in ‘many 
peed —John Halli rh 
Messrs. Loddiges’, Hackney.—Manyhandsome plantsare in bloom 
in the Orchidaceous-house, arid their fine healthy appearance at- 
t agement. A number of P. 
rea, in baskets, suspended from the roof, were flowering abun- 
dantly; one or four racemes of utiful purple 
blossoms. A dium liridum had ced a pro- 
fusion of flowers, much brighter coloured than the common one. 
Phai color is handsome, and as easily cultivated as 
gran bs ees resembles in habit ; the flowers are brown- 
an orange 
th pi Lelia cinnal 
just expanded its Salient orange- -Seatien flowers, and seemed ta 
differ slightly in colour from Mr. ype Bye Bor exhibited — 
year at the ; Horticultural Society. <A plant of 
ers 
os: -glas: bout half filled beer and sugar 
are p) ong the pots, and make e: ent traps for cock- 
roaches. iy of the magnificent 5) aoe — wers 
in full beauty, and their be sg were literally boi down b 
unr hie Ona 
of Magnélia “was cohen i 
entrance plato this is a le plant, 
Kbéccuin) pigs ng in on open air, without 
tion, neither a | bee 
severe ret 
any protec- 
afforded them ara the fae | 
let, well 
a dozen varieties of potatoes, the manure having been 
ploughed ja _ before vend and three acres were appor- 
f di ffer 
fo foed, and the spans as raimiaigs 4 healthy. 
72 
ouble Red hI 
cio lateritia is now in blo 
bie 2 : a flow Were BEE neatly as lar Tge as a crown- -piece 
‘y dou 
This beautiful plant aa now in 
fail blossoms and proves to be a perpetual flow 
bas been key g uted ouse, the tem ee 
ture ikior from 40° to 502, — — w luxuriant! 
and —— in 
ed = flowers u 
and February, t 
fi ell off before they a age —" 
at the Suwbrdgenrth 
e ntly 
p to Chris ; but geeoim et 
here not being eficent heat, the a 
Februai wary th plant 
J? 
last here a appeared “to as 
nish 
aow in foll flowe er wee, an “y easy new y iect they caiect 
ith bl It s remarkable ments i as 
ut breadths, with pa manure 
The princi planted 
sgrents re the Blue-meals and a Pie k-eyes, 
sia ry few Farmer’ s-glory and red Hampshire Kidneys ; 
pro eae ae and of excellent quality. The late variety of 
Blue-m 
to he: “os equal to 1240 bushels per oped _ 
Lendo ae wi 
12n¢, 
acre. If, however, i in Shrop- 
shire thet pony weigh ‘9bibs., : eee Y the i eet pean 
be 52 Kai 
S een sh a wake ; 
the Blue-meals, ptm and Farmer’s-glory av 
shels e rood, equal to Ils. in value; while the 
Biue-meals and Pink-eyes grown with at in at the 
e of planting — 6 bushels t i 
once in phe that it should bloesoas freely. iF} kept i 
ie potato, said t 
d in the spring, ba ed found it goeel sory Pa 
vasted, late in February, the presen t instance. The 
= Let those who wish t 
their plants out in a light wich soil in “fry conserva- 
they will ensure its 
urn 
tor, or in 1 May i in the open border; 
dn I Inpr ‘oved Mode o a eer ng Onions.—In autumn 
ener fo St I tae a first 
= the Inverness Ho; 
rize to Mr, W. Mackensic:¢ pd 
t ¢ Roschaugh, for esc ery 
poss followi 
node of rearing his 
ably good at this time; t ioe yer — mealy as 
rather tough and fi Net dey sneuih. It 
should not be forgotten that in = year 1837 the Pink- 
eyes and Early- white were of the best € quality. Mr. 
desirous of j judgit or himself should have an 
ity of doin oing so, ian ite a probably a hundred 
either for distri For 
distribution, he proposes or yc ‘onal compen of about 
choice of a aster 4 exposes sheltered only half- “a dozen sorts, two or three bulbs of each, and labelled, 
edge, and of a sandy rich loam, wel for exchange, 
vegetable mould and pigs’ dung. A pf sor my I Open | any one may » and 
a an inch and a half deep, and twelve weggecin gee away any varieties h y be desired, and can 
-then spread a little pigeons’ dung in the drills, which had | spared, instead of them ; and for sale, particularly among 
been three months previously exp eather ; | his friends, i one, two, three, er mo: 
and on the 8th September, I sow the Strasburg kind, | for planting and the mar! or 2s. a bushel ; 
e seed with the foot, and afterwards raking | so that they may not be bought up by market gard in 
bh surface of the ground. the 6th May 1 | large quantities on speculation, or given for in- 
thin the plants from three to four inches apart ; and the | dividual and sati A variety, 
thinnings with all their roots, into a light, grea lence, been to his-stock, which he 
posed piece of ik 2 in with the | beli is well known in , and is always goo: 
Same compost as above, with the at pigeons’ | under any kind of — A th 
dung. The ‘fib | are gage the mould | kidney, and the fiesh is of a very high colour, mealy and 
2 Wi 
ona 
fine-flavoured, but a little flaky: of this he can only spare 
composed of 
pea rather deeper yellow than the last, and hay “og 
red. eyed A is doing admirably planted out; it 
um odoratissimum is fi 
‘uriance, and its sean hang about with care- 
and many other kinds, both in and out of 
produce é. 
A plant of the curious Catasétum lamellatum is just expanding its 
. whic! remarkable for the large ridge on the labellum : 
the colour is black spots. _ igerum is 
nota very species, but it diffuses delicious 
odour. The back wall of this house is now covered with F 
and Orchidacex, which are growing well. Maxillaria aromética 
was in good flower, and its fragrance that part of th 
house. A plant of Salvia Régis, deseribed in p. 198, was ucing 
Létus Albidus 
whit te flowers, and is 
* 
Roses have been forced, and in one house the =e of the eagrics 
ture of colour is as good as in a house of Cam: 
notice a few of each class, rs guide — 
forcing » HysripCara: C eg 
of this class; its flowers are large, iglo ibular, very double, and 
lilac rose colour, Presents -red mark on hie belies of each sh petal 
ewhat 
eck 
Ts, and 
mr of heads of de — 
April 12th, 
Messrs. Lane and Son’s, Berkhampstead. — 
General Allard i er variety i 
Boece 
are well adapted Pe cty nae and 
of thie ape and meat are desirable: Boug! 
