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JUNE 5.] od 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
deep, 
ag ee of <etes by cuttings, and we shall do 
our correspondent, p- 342, on the 
not quite 
| patent hea 
Birch Prun ing.— 
anagement of Bir 
agrecing with his ‘caper and thinking them ae mM 
etra 1 f 7 Tr h Sri. 23 - 
of 1840, and farnished with Mr. White’s 
ting apparatus. During the — part of the 
winter, he filled the ies with a variety of greenhouse | 
the a utumn 
plants, b 
the intense perienced e vag 5 in se he had no 
difficulty in ane ig sages house at the temperature b 
eu 
a Hawthorn ee but I 
e that the same line of management which is 
ald be equally so for Birch, dif- 
tituti independent of which it 
is is extremely “probable a other circumstances, my ited 
tice. 
am not awar' 
peypes for Hawthorn wo! 
| the beatin appara 
| on cles ro 
lty 
calculated se the plants py it abt Since then 
| he has sufficiently tes' Sea to satisfaction, the * sagt of 
while 
open air, during night, ra ranged 
and 30°, ry ae = esmanon in vos 
and 80°, a 
noticed by his friend, m 
J 
=. am convine! need f h se scent er foe purpose | are 
of Hawthorn, that the difference could not possibly of Teta The sto he coke, and during | coming into leaf and red; 10 or 
have p the jometer and ene wars Se hm srry o bee 
upon them. Your correspondent i is correct with regard to 76°, the cost did not exceed 2s. 6d. per onth. The fuel lly t when 
na vine, but in inferring that a similar course of treat- | consumed during the te was 10 bush ‘We d a 
know what is the pri: of the ctr ‘bat it resembles | the leaf, it makes choir of the earliest and strongest, and 
Sri hes spring 0 1840, about a fortnight p Arnott, and stands ete the house, 
expansion of me buds, I pron nr x very dejo quantity of | long, 12 feet broad, and 13 feet high. The co! ction of ilar. Is ita fact that there are several 
young Birch, confining the m o 10 days for the — of the Vinery is explaii in the following account by tions of these i in one season? I have tried 
pletion of their work, and in antics than a week ite :—*‘ a, a, 4, c, mouths of cold-air | to prove it but did not succeed. I a number of es 
trees or shoots were in leaf: the result was, that they bled | drai d the dotted lines their continuation to the hot- | pillars with thei y changed into 
scarcely at all, and nothing co could have ‘grown more vigor- air stove ds 5&8, a few se mia steps by which it is el state; | I wate cog see an 
sho “pursued wi th Birch of 20 years’ growth, ‘and On the same level there haps some of the last pooh for’: ane “estonia ae 
your seoosoumah will find, on is a mse yi for tbr ven as rep ie T made 
dications, 5 p- 150, that I soins the Birch to be cut bj 
down immediately aft —— fall of — ae a exactly ld th 
with his state: with refere: e Vine. I about zero ; they tod: Dt hater Spa the-tnh Ste 
have found from close th prec cut at 
the t of winter has invariably made a shoot their death, I cannot tell. Th Hy-l 
eae ntly i is cut y 1C 
As thie sebaie' tb Woot Chriasioe withr tharos i d in 18. g of the 15th en f th 
of Mr. Billington, I trust he will Tae us some farther in- year th i th , that 
et. If Birch of 20 years’ growt! 
is cut off soon after it breaks into leaf, I am quite con- 
vinced, from observation, it would bleed to epee A 
of 
dotted lies I 9; is a brick casing f 
in the neighbo parhood.. a, West Pleas haha ere was 
mon red Currant; left from 
is also an abu ndant bearer 5 ¢.E on 
yy 
60: 5s., 
of peelii td deliver, 2s eving a lear post of 42. 
I have not included f falling, thinking as I d 
so this casing the 
top, and have moveable covers. 
ived, and afterwards 
is first recei' 
is addition to the heat given 
it should not be 
timber ; it oad “wil otitat ‘to about 7s. per ton “upon the 
en off 
in this way, the ie casing, from cseerer- 4 the hot-air, 
rey to its pt aa Inever head any’ ence of it. As it 
is not taken notice of by Dr. eh of apagget ar in the 
‘* Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Gard published last 
year, I am inclined to think ret ive "mst — some noe 
bark. 
as our northern brethren. We Sud hie rear the bark ityi In | Peter MW Kenzie. | [This woslly-onted Caerect is is Ribes 
arainst a rail, t 30i placing it on Pi. 1, tea of the covers mored to show = petre/um ; 
li surface of the iron Seatoe troughs fit __ Tree-guards. —A cheap, light, but strong fenee, to pro- 
mary an d “securing the top from wet ae soe hes some of g f the bri ick ‘cas casing, bet! 
the larger pieces se ncagangre Hs - sere apex, by which I i  MeeA- igen _—— are sai a8 ied Willow, 5 oF other round wood, rather straight, Gft. long 
method, should | the season or two days will | when the a air is wai id condition, and about 3in. in a aig use of the waste ends 
is dhe we immediately | other cases, me humidity fron the “ester h, which s by ¢ ing them i © in. piect 3 then take rod-iron in 
haul it to th <P o farther trouble.—A | plies water ~ bee! or rdi inary P parpo of the ho house, will b 6ft. | i d pointed at the 
‘oung Forester vr, May 31) 1841, : suffic’ ient ; i, . Thus prepared, abt holes a8 a piece of the irom 
Cytisus filipes—In your answers to correspondents, of the r less, in p hrougl fr bottom, in the 
p- 328, G ” Chronicle, you sa’ t the pl d 5 k,i i direction, and chioogh'the of the small 3in. 
‘* called Cytisus philippensis should be C. Philippi.” | flue pipe, w it ascends, crossing the house aoe the | pieces from end to end, having 10 of « of each; run the iron 
Should it not rather be C. filipes? (from its ae : door, and catering the a _ at thechimney. When through them alternately, ing with a stake, end- 
branches.) Thi 0 beauti zie | plants ¢ hota by only necessary to an 8S = ing with a 3in. piece; then bend the whole ci y 
Jackson at May Show ere fro rom oe bed acpi tegie iy Sern fer aged twisting the spare 
original plant sent home by be. Wen a be I iron rod (about lia.) round the next stake; t any 
Canaries. ‘Whether that t gentleman pres 308 published it | moar ty the cold air Soving. jens the s uae mie ves | handy labourer may in trees in a simple and durable 
at knov fg us formation of | manner. But i has taught me to drive three 
di p winding ck d sti discharges itself into Larch stakes, 3ft. long, half-way into the ground, at equa 
Histor of the Canaries d the brick roe Ig; Rik ve the fiue pipe , Within the circle of the guard, to keep it in am 
that may it deserves to be in| escapes as heretofore mentioned. When the cold ai pright position, or else will force them against the 
every collecti ST wel ob offer a vate ol its taken from ‘the extern = © soe e, the internal one e is | trees, and the bark often g ijured . he upper part of 
cultivation. It is rather difficult of multiplication by t th guard. Bamb Y I fence 
it and takes several years to make a g plant areonor the ‘superintendent of the house ; 7, the as abo d i ld Trees 
by that mode, but freely when mn the | tor in the ash-pit of the sore, baat handle of veh ia us 10ft. high, and well rooted be- 
common Laburnum, rns ee mpee that | turned so mere admit —_ less quantity of air, + by fre they are planted a singly, and —— not to be 
It must be kept in an which ie mbustion of up in rous cradles, as we often see, 
oth it is ap fuel in ie st ve - excluding rain and air.—H. Bowers, p RR ia 
and i. l te eth 3. ines Tt n- ated ; Z E d m, < ven- T at Lucan. 
not say, but 1 lating grates; n, n, rods degree I St. John’s excellent 
Situation, when the rersareiien stood at 24° Pahr. Per- of iron suspended to the 
haps it may be y Pond Penerged 
Maonospe: hich i bl good deal; but is to open and shut them; q, 
easily distinguished from p y s 
habit, its foli rc Jeg +h p yi gti m the 
are flat, and il her | inside of the get to the 
r tee 
p, cover of stove 
and readily 
water ina 
iy satisfied ‘ 
~ Mr. Dobson sa! 
pega ge metal: os ilies 
‘broad and three inches | 
the |  cilieal Citak cerety of 
stove farnace, no additional 
“Spanish Oaks. Beinn 3 wt 9h Psa 
called Q. Ballota? 
' eye 
Hag | vate letter from our correspondent at ‘Sandia —A. very. 
been | curious lusus nature of this genus ries in 1932 in the. 
dri 
_o Siaeels ee 
rare flowe at 
most remarkable are the Camations, hae “et cong the 
largest and finest perhaps in the w orld.— B.D. [This 
same 
ti manner in a pri- 
beeen 
people 2 in Abia Mina The cape only are ‘an article of 
¢ hab’ 
i a stoiec'as growing 
