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than placing a hand-glass over them when pricked out. 
excellent esculent. I tried it myself dressed in the sam 
‘acter. 
ses gto ren 
It 
= ving fixed upon the — a which Marne mean en way as spinach, and found i it sustain its char, 
aw the Piping, | ta - — rin your ft hand, a 
Ine _=4 +} 
te is acquired for 
scribed 
owes be refered t05 Pe 
a arrangement of ——— oxi pal 
in the works before reece ed will o 
the new species will hav 
2 
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tas 
Can n you tell me > why Comfrey i is not more in use as 
n esculent ? 
are mentio' 
poe cae ; the stem will give 
able for its making roots. | 
“Then, 8 a _—s border, where | 
seded b spinach ? It has this advantage for cottagers, 
e the h Py 
cuttings “to the depth of 
inches, end filled with pure sand een: mane but ey 
the surface equal ‘to the f th n end 
Hoehte a 
ys 
that it is pe yr yw 
greater crop of lea 
tin, gc it must be ae le. 
the root, ai a wate mo ne ‘a ok ear. I carried 
he 
t 
If these works are expensive, rare, py Ran 
to or a of booksellers —as for example, Boissier’s 
“ Elenchus Plantarum,”’ the 
we added ; the best ate Ww 
r. Wal Ani believes that the utility o 
hg doubted ; and he begs for oe, pails in the 
nd g x 
pressed ttings may | soil fro: a broken den, that dates itself from t communication of books and noti 
ted, and settled “ww » a ‘eal " waite: and | time of "Elizabeth, i in n which this Comfrey grew; an fine Hi ide 
the Thang Pat 0 over them nm that way, a soil was afterwards removed twice: but notwithstand ble i itted 
may safely calculate upon > setae ee thea taking ro every . wig 98 ce, and diggings without any att tention whether the punt i is erovetions or solit itary ; 3 one ‘of 
Plants so obta nal will flower till the winter sets in.— | paid to ards their ee Ay diatribe 
John Halliday, for ite, pee in consequence this year attracted n 1 habit Fo x instance, all the Salvias I am 
Cockroaches.s-As. the destruction of t hl nd I had it ked.— sate Content Header oF th psec, with in this country, especially Salvia plebeja 
animal has been made a question by some of our friends, | Old School, Carnarvon. —{Co s Sym m offi- | and nubicola, are gregarious, like Mentha and S cutellaria 
_ I think, fu re thon with a satisf cindle, a plant belonging nad tk e all | scandens; while by i 
l believe most houses in London | others of that natural assem ee age, is perfectly free son | more Tighten in their habit. It is a point << throws 
are, infested to a most : diengfean reeable extent with this crea- Veacholeeens me estes t was formerly regarded as 
ture, which in warm weather de yea ascended from | vuln pee that is s, 8 ‘plant ca pable of ie aunching ses ik tai where for mike & 
the kitchen to the upper floors of the house. I tried all | a merit as probably gone 
the usual remedies in vain, ah at length determined to on of -ealtivation because its leaves. ecom e harsh and sometimes :"Balsams pemeeee Gidhenin or ‘Sai 
pity — bull by the horns : I sunk into | the hearth, peas coarse unless very young. , they usion of other plants.—R. P. £. 
side, th y a good perennial Substitute for cso and ee 
wa alkene It was let into the stone like a yd the young shoots, blanched by being forced to Ra PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
x sath nearly in the middle of what through nee of e arth, are aie n like asparagu! rs HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
had appeared to be the great thoroughfare of the cock- a cottage garden, provided th April 20th.—Dr. Henderson, V. P.,in the Chair. _R. Davis, Esq., 
roaches. fiect was surprising. nega ee: ‘eaak we must never let it was elected was annouiced vee for those exhibit oo 
they tumbled in by hundreds, and i grow "more than a foot high, if he means to eat t it. The were des é distinction, but yet not of sufficient im. 
kitchen, which had been li y ‘entenl ps nigh po a B ian medal; and that these certificates 
wit ey winged Peatig the removal of the lights, was = ‘stems.] ‘a5 come LB eR %. Doge a ernie ena a Silver 
nearly free from th w stragglers were alone left. Ree iE ET Cob umasinden te emediowtad the last, yet, B areoen J 
Abou eek saaelis ah since ee basin was broken, and EIGN CORRESPONDENCE. les of cultivation, they were peace tage w The 
d. sell, ‘oll fr Park > ual, of th 
oe reste g ion of “ pan aga pape vere og at Prenton, a 13, 1841. —I must not eg to sb 2 active; it ineiuded a mnlaieos ted men of anor = 3 tose 5 
hilling, ¥ which, w z ts of Hi ‘ 
and they are again rapidly on the decline. Although the tion at the Easter fair this year, as you ¢ | medal was : : The other pl t of + were: h ieee 
basin has been used without ; a bait, Ihave little doubt pres communication on the subject. The s sock ants coll tel Heaths, including E. aristéta major; Fabidna imbri- 
th the show w amellias, Jeas, and Austra Pa ped cov with Byer white tubular flowers; Oxylébium 
wecit pai nec the ef.” I end the pln | Cnt sous kanome hosdenions ver Sar Aura, | iti at earl ui’ ee ied 
cones by ri some get *P. P.”’ of pointing Cinerarias, and a few plants o ms, Dracena, rising shove: oe a 5 poset ecimen of E’chium c4ndicans, a plant 
: A ie e Viper’s Bugloss > 2 
crevices, ge  erommeniton to | Cacti, &e., but not im flower ; very few curious or rare | 2. eral P ia rok ok oF tine bE BLS Bag LM yen | 
eg BS Th or » of Ex exhibited a handsome plant of Acrophjlium 
PP.’ is 01 ‘ould grown floral v Am g the Camellias were some vendaxim, co with feathery umes Of white fi deli. 
va aca Inhoable both pink nthe white, more ‘perfectly resembling Roses in | cately th pink ; a hybrid Rhododendron, called tan 
Bh of ie po owt unless b 
Lord Mayor of the last century, of Spe the City w: 
ised that ‘‘the Mansion-house cat hi opal 
—A. =a 
kittened in the oe -range.”” 
Ga tors.—If your correspondent t Mr. Saul 
bud, flower, petals, and expansion, than any I ev 
be : 
might have taken for an o 
pink or light crimson, with rene the loose, large, ¢ 
sa a * Galvanie Protector 
2 enpese mistaken, and is 
ignorant | of the princi iples of the conditions to 
There must be ene: olan ae. 
oxidizable metals,—iron and co 
well as zine and copper.—J. Mn 
Magnesian Limestone.—In a 
poe, ae _— a yonerving 
wood ani 
ferred 
destructive ape vegetation. 
seeds 
ese experi- 
ares - found that of 
Donkelaéri, rege pe 3. 
Bourbon Rose. There were also some fine emma 
Camellias, full of small petals, paler and paler,  deeeeeiinn 
the centre; for one of these Baron Pronay got the best 
gold medal ; also the large, fiat-flowered white, very fine, 
called Candidissima ; some fine Reticulatas from Baron 
Rothschild, and loured A fi ] 
as large; very fine pI eo the marbled Chandleri, 
The aap = 
pear to flower abundantly here as the gardeners 
pull off any 0 of the tw rs so common in "Cadeelins 
aron Founa Biv 
tained a silver medal; the ‘Engh i t pink, and so 
double, also the Praga roved ay eh very seins an 
ve Stein 8 5" sscariet Rhod. Ar rbé reum, 
rbonate 
a equally we pernclerahene esrapee me eae 
to het Jameson of  Bainburgh, he Pome ar me that { 
the farmers near Kelso from time immemorial, em- 
mended an 
with ‘beautiful heals of purple, and said to be quite h 
dwarf habit, and the pence with which it flowers, pA it 
: i i if we 
wild 5 
rs jowers. arded a fi Ren snedal 
ion of ate vt ngs which i ants ded Oliver’s Lovely ey Posen ‘3 
Belipse Taylor's Ploaghboy, and Grimes’s Privateer. Mr. Youell, 
of wich, seedling Azalea apparently but little different 
fro hi dian Azalea. Mr. Green, gardener to Sir Ed- 
mt = oes of the white 
cipal table, a 
ed BY 
Pengo we pink and crimson Rhodeden 
large and —— Bove a Rinta’s a 
= Riippellidnam. There riati one song 
I do ane know their origin. eg 
seutner s Cael n arborescent ve arte an 
beset with long white spines othe any I have seen. Cereus 
of Zam 
pears to me by no means suited the , inasmuch 
as I believe that the heating apparatus — plant-strue- 
control, in order to meet 
the variations of a climate where heat is often nm required 
To effect this wi apparatus cir» dn to he it 
and three to cout is “impossible. Th with sien 
ngland. om fine plant of 
horrida, with a a large cone on it, w air the ~~ - 
Tiosities. T 1 pla ft i of Mad 
+, te 
expressed. arrangem ae the sag cole 
Ina long tent came so as oye inelude two pollard trees, 
were r ranged stands of ‘plants, from — the ground te the 
ste 
formed a page 
at ; the end round the two trees above alluded to which 
have been better if nag had been hung with po ies 
climbers, Kenn nnedias, ‘1 ‘Tamsenion, &e. Between the two 
of granite 
fuliy borne in mind td var 
nhouses ; and i 
se of bricks — bs flues 
him fi — he aid o 
10 growing er building 
T. N.” will only take a oo of 
I feel half an to ay 
m the subject—M. 7. [ 
passat behalf of our correspondent “TLN. ° 
that he ena not roller his apparatus very good one, 
bat as the best re en angen de: 
= notwithstand vont the criticism of ML T.,” we think 
2. Na” com’ done. Anything rather 
than common is “i 
samumetee Wages. Ps — cordially assent to the 
r in your Leader arch 27, regarding th b- 
ject of Gardeners’ } and the ees Soret 
tempted in the printed correspondence 
I think ill advised indeed, for Pit cawed th 
of under-gardeners as a — of discontented growling 
upers ion ry spirited i 
Gtioner i “Ey _ 
Comfrey —In Bailey’ aero this plant 
called su 2 excellent wound herb. I comsulted this old 
porcatey in preference to any other, because this 
table was considered by people im former days as 
+h. 
te rocks, over 
pp OME oi Cir = en 
ks were very naturally fringed wi 
Pon ard ‘Cacti, Moss, ie and richly Pik ry Fan. 
poles; Dracsenas, Cerei » Musa, _ Canna, a —* 
ned hy 
die astately 
The middle of fhe tent was — ~ a double _ = 
Orange trees 
boxes alternately, “oh pyramids of Comins, s, Euphorbia, 
. Berlin has. pit <a in- 
work ae Re ne ag 
—Dr. Welpers 
oaaten a bringing o 
Botanices Specialis, ve is ill ¢ of all 
the species of plants which have hon  pabied since the 
ee an of once e Prodro a 
jpecies Plantarum, and the w 
and einai Kunth; &e. Al 
daily increasing, all lovers of wel ha ve fel felt 
te wat of new plants hare ro described. It is the 
abject of Dr. Walpers to sa tisfy this want bythe work 
Ge- 
question, which will be a companion te Endlich 
Plantarum. Many distinguished German 
blotch white leas and the Caleeolarias a 
Knigh medal. Messrs. Brown, of Slough, sent a good speci- 
men of ya glial which, however, from the dey learner 
of its flowers, did not attract much attention eitch, of 
Exeter, sent two large plants of the 
Messrs. 
beautiful cochoamaills eee 
with lilac flowers, and ¢ ate 
a pany “kind of Stylidium at flowers 
Marianthus arp idge 
exrtl 
exhibited eut flowers of his new Perpetual Rose, Prince Albert ; 
it is a handsome deep purp ish variety, not unlike Comte de Paris. 
Some seedling males of great beauty, anda 
cidium sanguineum. 
genus, its flowers being of green, Ww 
M Henderson, of tind Place. Cut flowers of 
ais 
vigorous spike se Epidéndrum Stamfe 
its usual habit, had begun to throw 
hibited by J. Bateman, Esq., and gained 
— » Of 
ae anit’ 
. . gardener to ter Sinan Clarke, Bart, a aed: 
 O panket of welt forced Kien’s See 
a handsome blood-red Pine er Grapes 
Da Hendra, SAN wroduced ot te top of he 2 
= 
