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Tie Gardeners’ Chronicie. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 
MEETINGS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Locar Snows —Angust 24th, eee August 27th, Everton. 
1841. 
E GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 547 
of the smoke from the new Lgminr erected near the London Horticultural Show this: last smn and at 
them. ———. Noms the buildings a! sur. g ‘ shall have 
ounded intera re and more ean — much p) sending it you | in « few weeks —John 
eaths ber so oF tin n they ever_wer Green, Gardener to to Sir us, Lower Cheam. 
e wish for this most nr = 
We las ed from a chute nurseryman Poe RES ASS RR aos eh 
a parsgraph which h See particularly ested us to in- | ON THE CAUSES OF FOULNESS OF COLOUR 
sert a communication to 0 our rt IN THE CARNATION 
d , spoke _ THERE are few circumstances which « cause so much 
- his “ very extensive “2 vellsled coll a 
para or sporting, as itis technically Sted, of his 
It might weguctees <b — cag Laat yw paid a sb 
auld 
THE ks which eves e now been made upon the ae . “ied = I 2. pai 
HE remar. « » | the first, carefully inv anh a its cause ex a 
cof unremitting care and at peg eg: : eas gated, : P 
aiepepoae of London, a ne ing pa? pone Sj 5a cubremiting cre and oc eeadore tat © bineok | 2 e manifest, in order to its being remedied. N 
will have shown our readers what the causes really - pene " aa uantit of flowers, thing, however, hi i attempted respecting it; so in- 
are to which the penalty condition of plants there tion, of the firs nt, rae 4 dis n to think for Senshbven, and so apt are 
is attributable. An exhausted and impermeable soil = ope: “3 edo. ‘aS OUF | they to follow the pared track: hence, ignorance is 
n seen to be the worst evil to contend with, labour to end a allowed t vail, and be perpetuated. 
and apart air the next The question now to consi- | ™€? n of a n seedling “totally distinct and} [tis the opinion commonl alent among florists, 
der i id f ese d antages can be guarded | cupeio in form. nd colour from any fie introduced, t the cause of sporting, or frobeese of colour, in the 
om d consi ered by the best judges to is attributed to an over-nutritious soil ; 
ndon, to suff m local | 2°We r. : and hence the pega as universally pres ribed is the 
mito le aE cpr a. eee g together _ it will, , we trust, excite no ee ag a fat mt e them 
of houses in v mbers, = i other han ee eB : pee em in, a clean state. is my 
water, means pe- this rapert, whieh; Sewerer viz.—That oat ste. —_ ing or running of the colour 
pevcsif ell adapted for alliating the inconvenience, than pt atest nor ‘i in this flower is really dependent ~s deficiency of nou- 
if not for removing it a y Fae nibs er companies age rishment, either in quality or quantity, On considering 
are able to lay on an ample supply wherever it is re- 
quired, and it is to water, in a great hat we We therefore, oe is naturally single, consisting of fi sie a 
or the 
overflowing. ‘vith Kind rrarwon cil declined giving it 
insertion 
> petal ax nt op 
self, ora flower of one colour. Nee itis by cultivation 
doub! s being 
reports upon nurseries unless they are the result of 
1 
it becomes 
converted into ati and i 
le, } sapsagie 
3 also eae inte 
ction by either 
has waxed wroth, and has 
made 
‘onstil cate the abe and the 
bizarre. And asitis exalted cultivation whi _ _ nt rm 
for his own sake we with. 
hold, as we omit the mention of his n name ; our only 
ll 
in its eta and deficiency 
cause of 
to be ‘adopted w will be most 89 
able if we su) a London square to be pla 
= der our supos for the purpose of being brought 
into astate of health. 
he step to take wo soil, 
by moving as much as ibl which exists 
i now, replacing it with fresh earth from a fertile 
what particular quality the soil 
par 
should be would be be nd little i pecans} provided it bed 
sandy, composed of Lo 
of 
on clay, the cae Sdicenoasable of all the kinds of 
cut. antes this were an impossible measure. 
we est or for ot ms, we 
manu are: pies Ho and wood-ashes, nitrate of soda, 
or some equivalent material. ‘This would restore its | 
nutritive qualities to the 
In performing this ope , we shou! 
soil to be loosened to at Jeast the depth of three feet, 
and we Should take measures to ve it in that 
preser 
condition afterwards ; so that rain might soak into is 
and pe ~ roots without obstruetion. a ae wer 
ed to, all other care would bein 
The ne next object with us would be, to irre water 
laid on in so many places ee without much labour, 
aI correspondent | has aft ter all bu 
that we will not, either for fear or hea d 
ourselyes to misstatements ; _ a puffs are such. 
The moment a ne wer ge ae ret ate ag 
personal interest of indi ale its utility and 
character are gone. We will eo add that our angry 
al C be a p 
ungenial Assan “which cramps the energi 
and prev vents the due elaboration of ~ nutrient 
ot 
— 
y 
a 
fr 
t pega to run. 
T + 
h 
pla aint ted in tue 
s 
o's 
8 
t to a poor soil 
n the manner 
advantage of the 
CACTACEOUS. PL ANTS. 
. ; desis 
it will pertirhe neta hac Fm and quotation Hedattcr, | 
to the great public. 
The ‘ake or biza rre 
state, ped 
and the running | intoa foul or oe state must be consi- 
inde ueed by 
1, 
Tus t 
kinds of Eyfpbylion and socas Cacti, I beg to give a 
outline of my gpa for ny such yeni bad the fer. 
deners’ Chronicle like myself, rs and ad- 
mire! rs fee that 
acqual: 
y require. 
I grow $e stocks, Pereski 
4 pre! latter, on aceount 
necessary ; 1 | of its hard) , lasting and robust habit. 1 grow the stocks 
= very hot summers, and a — eng’ ill the me T | BFO™ 
might be used ud odin ae purp By these grow with 5 or 6 stems, from 1 to 5 feet high; se ek | 
means the males in con with 1 stem, fro m 1 to feet; the short stems I engraft 2 
may 
od vat ' # 
be more ip haateitesetyi 
more inconsistent ih Lenin observation, and ist 
= the — wet the variegated and brilliant colours 
of pe oe a le; Hitieg, a degeneration, and weak- 
vital energies of the plant. The Pink affords 
ment 
aculeata, Cereus hexagonus, | 
is characteris’ 
oor Carceliok: beco: 
| gether bent In the case of the 
ele culture it — double, 
res the beautiful laced colour = ode es of 
the oft arm 2 a when 
nin 
ly By wish to establish: it, 
also, is >see it 
and acqu 
fis howe 
mle Sarkis. “Tike the 
stripes of 
; in un 
Ci 
if the bulb of the finest 
poraed Paoces tese by abo mi be neers con- | 
ee is of course 
should always 
the tall single | stems Ser bi , Keates. and some ee 
ft i in the ground, it becomes flushed and foul i in _ colour, 
means os dishing water eset over the ane 
of trees and among bi to knock off the 
lags sid such 
anid pete 
eA oo, part a rn ‘eauty of of ~ bleoa | is lost. The 
year after year se sending d ts roots into the same por- 
ats of pt at length mcrae it, and hence, unable to 
t with a due supply of food, it degenerates into its 
— e — I a > suceeed g 
oe inch: oe ty off the o 
rs or berk fo ut $ an rafines, at che Sele fod the gral, 
and cut what is ened, to be inserted into the stock in 
the shape o! vd a wedge; I then make an see 
of the "stock, Soler acer ~d 
the grafts 
—— 
ener, pre 
entrust it to those whose no me gardening extends 
no further than mowing gras — gravel-walks, 
I a few annual seeds into the 
porta The former would proelay strike out other 
— 
T have but one experiment to adduce on this subject, 
i. 
| of them in im poor 
six — ~ eee a due porti 
practical florist. I planted in pots ten layers ih a 
flake Carnation,—Ely’s Lady Hewley,— 
* prevent their slipping ou tite 
Leiter 
or the spine of lege 
ith a aa piece of moss, and p' 
damp house, and syringe them ae arran 
in the evening; they w: adhere to oe prearsany in ten 
days or a fortnight, and make good plants by winter. By 
peat sees beau 
remaining two still jab eatrot ee 
This, like a single experimen 
theory. 
A correspondent ¢ of the ahargied mentions the case of 
Lin colour far two. ss 
2 Rica 
methods of improvement, which ca 
to any one not actually and pesoally pet & in 
years from 4: to 10 fect Mig if gant 8 ya the size = 
superio’ 
tand and mismanage the busi prescribed 
to t him, if he did not anit le onto 
we Le nen, te 
colour of the bloom rE r to what they ever 
produce when essen thet own roots. E.trancatum by 
the above treatment becomes ane a hardy r greenhouse 
plant, 
grown in the _— on its own roots in the usual way. 
Beautiful as y of the above pea are, ay are not 
one in ten wi th growing ig as ornamental plants, ' un! less a 
than 
> - 
he return to 
we entertain no 
and varieties; which are, I clave, the most desirable 
kinds, viz. :— 
Fubram 
: majus 
Epiphyilam Jeakinsonii majus 
nuns 
coccineum 
eh variegatus 
| Should you 
the cultivation of those specimens that were were exhibited at ' 
a Carnation is thus crack ol a! nt, the flow 
above will have a greater Tatar airs and. 
ss 
hence will, in all rr heiaee clean. As thus, the 
nutritious juices by the _Foats are prope cued. 
upwards, z' 
and roots is checked a 
induc 
consider a general account of my practice in } 
planation, that when 
