THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[N° 93. 
tructure of the 
Although it 
Ehese ss thei pa ose might be ere aime | 
pant iad ay at this earth thus carried uw; 
plan' considerable, ae Me is therefore of great 
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tish and other 
nite from Bosto; U. S., _in our — 
v3 ib provide them suffici ient s supply o | ja 8 ik or 
by: glo a a Any meme ae F h Orchid = ve 
which ag earner a tee a pupz to pass pted t nin soil not containi ing silicate | will i our climate. In many gardens w cee dap 
effect ually f potash or soda he. e plants will “ah nee wy far from ren A walk aa and are told that nothing will er: 
separated, at the eebit pup flourishing When tack of h Or w has ilt make 
ais Po as Sie burnt, + il th nota quite as gay, yet fu ally 26a 5 
whereas if caine ine sown with the grains, of es been dissipated, there is “toon bree quan antty © esting as a pint arms -bed. For general purpc such 
flies will hateh m the es will be ready to take | glassy-looking substance, mich —— principally lis ea, with its white spotted 
tash previously ting in the plants, and | varieties, Epilobium angustifolium, Ornithogalum umbel- 
iti se of th hich | w unaltered by ne. aah evolved during their | Jatum, the delightful Lily of the Valley, &e wl 
bably lai the invol bur: urning, is mere’ son melte a together with ot! - substances | will all v d fiower without trouble in dam mp shady 
pec which the little maggots as soon 38 i ore emerge | contained in very | places) may be d even under the drip of trees, but 
from their shells eat into the receptacle. Th f st the best-and 
least are far more acti 
of a candle : Ssieatlont white ashes will be left which c 
most striking use to pao a border in such 
re of Ore! 
tion can be applied, is the c’ 
destroy them would be attended with great trouble, I fear, , and hich, if | plants.. As many of these are curious and eee 
bay | be laid for them ; perha| con- map the flame of a candle, melt an imper: that os e constantly taken - r po native 
i sugar, or koney and water placed the Let: t of glass, which is fahren aicakes potash. The and transferred to gardens, where they uently nak 
tuce-plants, mot attract them, as it does bine-bottle a me gant of | this substance necessary fo for the e growt th o of dif- after once fiowering, and the partons, oi the best and 
the larg: ferer est season for transplanting them, p ps the way I 
ald fall into it and be drowned. There is one pela in pas polishing, “commonly called Dutch voles contain 
the economy of the Lettuce-fiy worth noes which n more than a0 3 or straw ; f your readers ; it is = rags in the Botani 
sil om v = fet. at Oxford. The border is dug out nearly two feet deep 
a any of the females ca and alumine, (i 
fore, they ¢ oe be po ig at. once, the females pan ‘do 
eggs, it may be presumed, would prove 
abortive : the gy cece, for destroying the pupe is 
evidently most worthy the of vie gardener,.— 
poor 
attention 
Sili oie 
pal constituents of ‘olla, differ very pends: in their re- 
euses. The former is‘of importance, both chemi- 
cally and mechanically. Chemically as forming a soluble 
com) ith us g ee 
which it is fille 
maiden loam and a little leaf-mould ; a 
pereee 
bility t ‘Oo 
making the pe more trong a 2 apie ad 
sage of air and water through it, a 
nci ical, tending to 
the soil moist t from its attraction for water, 5 oa Tikewise 
air an m all — it in on 
vicinity, Ae virtue of t i which many i 
substances, and more ‘specally bere dgatenal penis of ab- 
3 of oxides 
mostly = and form with acids a very numerous series 
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ater is of great importance i in the ‘oth < plants 
anda 
or pond aiy cee to preserve a good large 9 
and to disturb the roots as ork as possible. Befo 
ual should be 
few others of far less ij importance, we eer rare, 
and only to be found in particular pla ia cot 
merous me! etallie cee several ‘of 
series of bases called 
which are of great importance, in the arts, and one of 
is almost alwa: the | 
re i vad he . Sails teak Saunt sorbing the su rfiuo falls, and recs 
to the air: the reason of this is that they have a strong | ‘Be drainage. I should like nie: ate, ate, if 
affinity for oxygen, and under these circum: cable, with your spnronpaend nt. Has Gerardia fratic 
gradually be with a film of an oxide, or com- been yet introduced into this ech A 2 It appears by the. 
i tt Tt : site: description and plate i in ** Pursh’s Ni ith dep puri 
of salts.— 
flowers, peat in the ‘pine woods about the Rocky 
Moun I should add, fost the. Orehidcton bed 
requires ns be occasionally _ ered in continued 
COTTAGE GARDENS.—No. XX. 
Fae summer pruning and managemen’ 
LGD 
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sein. be On ii of Vines cit i | alOvente d 4 
leed it rather pS aE oe Gerardia ins not bes into 
able 0 endeavour to make himself —— Were. tis the the | doce tee co ee sh 
acid. Tt i ae cpieie pafens Horde -—\ y 
: _is quite among your that ae via patens i ais tie 
Uy te air, profitably oceuted than rast at present, withoat in- | hardy, and may be cultivated with orn esr in the 
ptt bined Eig Se > ide mega = [we flower-garden with see Jari bre turned 
; are m re oraamental, an ‘ore better borders 
the he Vine for decorating ae lower part and i a cide aR : 
Pe cork d the p and windows of cottages. t 
a ore : is complete, eae oF iene inter ves. The 
= Sea HY pov at the same time lose no pes note unite the useful i |i som va te ee ten toe cr ve Tt 
and form — ares gehiacee, W hoe: ace as bepmicrst wien Nigel wre e aud in- much tat in iris the shoots: being doable : - 
Common glass al ei? son ypapliraat 1, es yee 
janx Eg olla econ of silica | success. ‘Those cottagers w xt Se fetenaealy rest, sg tacsigg oie 
ate of potash or soda. pro- pcre ear agi cramine thet Bene sad regolate the Salinanr Priacprakiagy ah begs to 
ale fe fringes are always such that | branches ung he has adopted the plan of planting at all seasons 
Senn ae OY wen fi x well-watered ground, for a long time, aud has 
but if more alkali be employed than is requisite to form a tia of pelea bringine to rioaiaieys for he found it gre es flowers. 
eee nA silstiba Ketsnadsteanly dooms so- Sweet > equally well; even Roses in blossom may be Tuer 
ater. is eauil spoked | 4 good | answer ta St 
by any acid, as the potash has comparatively but a weak Gets Siotatd oil Bare te we that depends on judi- acne as scan fee : 
core we tend vagherines : and hence that substance i cious management; end the better this is understood the | _ Striking Cuttings.—Among your readers may be som 
4 its solution, on the addition of almost any | greater will be the success that will attend their cultiva- who like myself, are fond ‘of raising cuttings with the least 
i abl granada or | to” th| tion. The fruiti s ow have: theii trouble certainty. +n 
perature in States, | pi eS gee YT bunch, and the others may | mend them the plan I have followed for the last three 
thesilicais in an exceedingly ne fine powder, the alkali is able | Ge stopped in some See they have reached | years"With damiiets success E tic vial-bottles together 
action is ps engeag — araee f necks, them windows of our sma 
and less perfect than when prods: are strongly heated ret pare t pric ula pide omni de preote soft water. I 
hi y hen put in slips of Salvia, Calceolaria, Mimulas, Myrtle 
‘is almost always an ingredient of the soil, and ik es aot pest cote med ie ehve is eben thing Tas Zagat of the’ deseription of 
not only is is solid and insoinble form of pepe sag Arye oer it break pre-| plants; in‘about two or three weeks, or a month, the 
h shoots as are barren or not likely to be | little silver-like roots ‘in a week or ten days: 
wanted for next year’s bearing wood should plant them in small pots well watered ; they never Seem 
and no more nailed in than are cover the |to flag or mind the change, and I rarely lose — 
at there may be for training them. It is always Miyrties sco Tenge Eee i —et 
keep ther Vins pen rather same varied from si six weeks to twelve months” 
ae sla é A string of bottles 
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they were sown, the yo 
inches apart in a rows, and 
the hoe. Those 
require rt ae ree exreullg sad hina repre in roots 
sag plans a lattecck| 
the space | 
