Sept. 11.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 597 
bees bore with their proboscis through the lower part of Rhodode: ma =" —_— —We find from our cor- | is taken outward is passed through the front wall, and the 
petals | re: pondents, m our own obser bart that Rhodo- } a end into the house; thus the air passes through the 
entirely or es cut off, thereby rendering it abortiv d into flower very generally. This is } small pipe into the hamine Now it will be seen that the 
lam ni y to se believing they do more good i unfortunate, because the blooming next year will be | iar arge 4- inch Pipe which is fixed in the usual way a —— a 
ieapregnatiog yh than harm by spoiling a few crops. | inju ured. It arises, as _ have before stated, _fro ‘om the | ground, fo f heating the k dwhichis full 
pa gl _nm Manchest ter. i d will be I of he ot water, ha t ial pi pe fi th b 
; Glazed Flower-po oe the oe of Foe very pons change of Siiers into brane hes, Th ho | duced from tl 
7 seerepetn broac'! ea by are inter ested about Vegetable Mi body of het mie and ‘ysis it gains ‘such es oi 
7 genious person), is fresh in ‘the ind of th the ps seer 4g evidence aforied upon that heat that 
: mie, I beg to offer a few ene the result of expe- | subject by this = 
: ence. I ‘ras ve no do: abt that could it be proved that| Blue iuaieiees The Hydrangeas at this place are | 170% fie the = sede a air is so guickthat = ata 
lant: zg , | very beautiful ; i may see one plant covered with blue, 
4 1 their adoption, inas- } and the very next with red ccceage I send you inclosed and heated air coming in at every four feet. Ih e paid 
: ack ab n the case Pry shifting pS nts, it is evident that | two little bits of two bunches, one blue and one re 4 that ng air “9 saat and cireu- 
: pen fonder rihey are ny the material the faster they — which grew on one plant on eajoini ng shoots, alike in tisfied th will be most bene- 
ii to it; s exposure to sun and air. ere are several others of Sei this Thave no doubt vil be ‘waded, * Bat I 
a cipal =n por =o in shifting, in pact peas as | each variety on the same plant. fs this usual ?>—A Lady, 
i every plant-grower can abundantly testify. Now I pre- mae vern- we is. [By no mean s.] | a visit, at ae r manufactory, Gloucester-place, King’s-road, 
Ly sume that the glazed pots would be free from this evil, } le. | Chelsea t they will be amply repaid for 
but [ am much afraid they would be liable to a far greater. are dak ‘under the Lime trees would have seen, if he | their Sechineebn Green. 
: Pow good ees r knows full well, by a round of e expe- had a fo rtunate in his observation, the alive Myatt’s Pine Strai —Seeing your remarks thi 
me-trees, but much stupefied, and apparently | week in your paper on the Myatt’s Pine Strawberry, “ that 
i drunk. ts a few minutes after they die they become a | though a most delicious fruit, yet the great difficulty in 
‘ sons without, or shir both paar that mr ive hollow ane = have not-been able to pone t by what | fruiting it, and also in inc LFA it, makes it not a desir- 
will n — thrive. How is this? why simply because | means.  pieeees, set not all, nor were the | able plant to introduce w, Sir, will you allow me to 
a onan a = one-half the chances for the | majority, jaakbehiee but the ‘rst % ia wae give you my exper ience i ‘qrewtin it this £3 
escape o of water which open oil po ssesses. | a few working-bees among the d my It seems to me that planted two Lie. ct of it in old cow-dung mixed 
| The trit h, loamy soil, = apr s the plants abundantly in 
. permitted “to ‘pass “epi downward through excellent | attack from any other bee. Am I wrong when I ‘think | May and June. I planted them in April, and though only 
wait, if I may so term it, until it be that r » yet Ihad mo “elicons fruit, and what is, from 
transmitted d (by, T suppose, serge attraction, — distillati our statements, very w 1 shad ru nners sufficient ta 
re sides - heres pot ; and eee [As the Timees on much sugar, its fil Spey. beds, an d d me 
here, if the gl vented wits t 9 hen a spirit might be | which is very sapere to me and hse to you my 
i btained from them ; but the Bee rom 0 power of this | beds are now 
destrction of the fine evi by (as I Saga the exer iat and we have not heard of the luded to by | ther they will set or not, I very much fear.— G. Pe Eup. 
of air, which would appear to act, if I may play epson 
ogy for once plants as a Hot | Water.—Th f ltivator either of | os The following errors require to be corrected 
aie of air, when waters are frozen, does on fishes fi it: a great measure, in the “list of Roses given last wee ek by Mr. Rivers : In 
however, this is, F ri @ proper construction of the builtin ngs appli d abbrevi 
am aware that ear not do to make sport with aaa na purposes, and ce eereetly to the command of o Boula de N. Esperance should be Emerance. 
I, however, give Mr. Forsyth eredit for drawing attention hest and moisture. The superiority of hot water for pose Lelieure should ae Digestion Lelieur. Finally, 
to the subject ; but I, for one, must be content to ‘endure | heating, over any other plan, when properly applied, is Les infidélités should be L'i mfidélité. We much regre 
the evils I have, rather than fly too suddenly to those I ~_— ubted by all that least experience is kind should creep into our co- 
know not of.’ Much, or most of the moss which is en- in gardening. We are indebted ~4 the many improve- coe 3 but really the foreign rs of florists’ flowers 
= “= the sides of pots, might be prevented; Ist are extremely difficult ba understa 
by increased attention or senna: a by having trel- | t who have The G seberry Caterpillar. a never. recollect any sea 
‘ lised stages, or boards -o kind above the ground | made so sa progress in et construction of boilers 
i t th ; 3d, nme washing the | the eam of vee After the number of years | attacks upon the G seberry and C : 1 have 
clean before i — oie n them; 4th, by taking | that h r has been used for L de of 
care in 08 in-door — muc ch moisture is preserved | and ay be ch results that -“ brought it so very their progress, but this season that was una vailing ; for 
in the sphere, to ree circulation of air; and, saoeely into a one would suppose that every per- | after employing many persons to pick off and destroy ben 
lastly, om electing pots at a a degree of hardness nm abou t to improve his garden was he a with ee and looking over the trees carefully to 
from the potters. Howeve he merits a iia ms that had been found to a that the ee had been * ffectually done, in the course ae 
of glazed neve itisa mater aie rm be set at rest by ex- in contrary i is the fact ; for I have lately visited 9 a week a the grub as thick as ever. I had the 
periment; and when e determined by practical test » and in several places the houses are | picking re ith tl 1 could not think 
whence ian ms knowing they did not come, as my old 
a the regions of zara = I Id I ished Y enormous expense, with a gardener would have it, » from the blighty air. On eXa: 
that Mr. F.’s f glazed pots had = sacrifice of fuel and labour. At one of the | 
ext ther than the Tropxolum tricolo- | places, the gardener, af d been 2n picked, I ota a iS mesetee 
nos; = at they oan Se 80, it would, perhaps, have been | exertion last winter, lost most “of his Napoca hisgag a progeny, on the ore surface, of very caterpillars, 
well fi of those kinds he has | others were much i injured. The garden | hardly visible from being exactly ria sclasciat te feud t 
pro roved. As to tubs, they ar a better non-conductor of | quence, accused b ploy y and dof then bad. every = picked, on aan a caterpillar way 
heat than pots in the first seas 3 and in the second, they ny 00" _ cborieed. - I tl " Jen | found, into a — et Sieg hea » and suffered no 
are at the best but a mass of vegetable manure in some | I fou ew range of | d by the | further inconvenience erefore recommend your. cor- 
: Stage or other of decay. = “ regantht o Mr. F's anti- person joy had put up the ob at ren last-men- meat in fate, to bo a look-out for the ae 
pathy to burnt clay, as he te hi ioned place, all of er were a complete one: a c ~ ee 
wax very wroth, it is strange “that nurserymen and plant. | garden sed of being prejudiced and o f negleet 
cultivators all over Britain, by no means an insignificant ma like the owner’ although an excellent gardener, _ Rabbits There i is no dient in completely eradicat- 
body of m Lesa in point either of education in Or experience, was discharged. __ This srt of hea’ eet has been forced ing — stage a ote 3 by 
: hould y th eir ruin, by @ person — snow a e ground i in winter, with agun and 
toms of pot: ar " 1 g t practice as a es gardener gives him a claim to | i fee poate bushes, anc 
: @ good cultivat e certainly does not deserve. I make | ple and ferret ip at ig may be in earths: in the sum. 
i than ne still I jabs an ies a8 ar apesenates this statement as a reason why 1 ask you to allow me | mer, if t the garden from hedges, their track is 
> ae — made in the f draini 1} and others to one ae the readers of the Gardeners’ easly discovered. A wire placed in the run, the bottom 
; — tied s ral experiments 0 on this head, and if | useful Chro mvicle the resul of which is set three inches from the ground, is cer 
preg c Chronic, will fe ‘ail fo or in n uch eases as ae above stated, | destruction. Tf it be doubtful whence they come, it & 
me future onédlusion 1} - of m disa t they come by their scratching 
ae offend, as 3 — poor be + found Spake aula hse a = ets j g Z the soil pew some iron rabbit-trap. imi 
Fe od in such matters i: Mavic. Chea are very of a with a chain a foot long with an 
Par a, pea i potions ete up ; sci veins ay so nu. | iron pin neashedi ian Fr sufficient mould to let the trap 
Th é.—Feeling anxious to discover the true | merous, it would b the level of the —— fasten the 
- of the phenomenon which has engaged attention | the merits or demerits of each; I will, therefore, ‘confine | chain by the pin inte the ground, a: er the whole 
lately, T mesos! you another portion of the Bay. Ont the my — - what I have had the aaaaeen of for pace lightly —_ cart, 5 omeaay no part oft the trap visible. 
Sth of Aug vera y is quickly destroyed in this 
me were entire rely brown, others-w : } iterati , four years 3 |W way. “Ba ut, be t remem bered that this will eatch cats as 
te recoery aed the enter “hey npoere “8 ie tes 1 dp f I ler hi : igh t id a aE night sear sir traps are set, or they wt probaly Be : 
, and powerfu rf $s ptt ye * 
- thee stew dais! cones ee 3 ee pee ma mes a near the rabbits. One morning py ae 
th another heats three large oa <g al Ee begin the leg “of a rabbit in one of these traps; I eaghe the 
scr advanced ni tomy marking them. One | forcing the fest vinery the Ist of ‘Det = the others _ a of —- animal almost rape ~ ng ee = 
mall branch, which bei well cov with a arently | succession ; and this boiler has given sufficient comman rmly ca aoe 
deadieares, » Ithought eankt prove the oa mesatitacoly| of heat vay the late severe winte ers, and age toge son er a a dapat animal ag searaen its leg, ad 1 hesitated to 
Was. unfortunately much exposed to the s . — siti ie net 3 a it at night, 
does nok look se ‘aealthy as the 2 be f laying the pipes tz copie sp ina n to my surprise, 0} on walking ar ie he ee moe I 
Situated in ore ced a is vi the t tree. I om that | of in p. ase pen cisterns. g a '¥ : i Tack, cig en 2a bose emed a mos t 
sineion, of the | i pare ome measure be tanks of ae as Mrs. Lawrence's orchidace x ¥ pitee: 0 : 
attributed to th at Ealin park, “produce. a hamid etroephere far | pie i . 
have been 1 to that obtained by syringing, or throwing water i particular spot. The same day, my gardener fod 
Po say si for theirowa mgr . The Bein leaves are | on the walks of the house. = oe — have recently is reseeS ee ? 
taken aratus” what er a most val " 
State poner spr ‘ohn eee Soe ted, and what = pen aoe fs The pool having found the rabbit 
LWe examined the e evidence supplied by our correspondent, | Mr. Penn’s plan had some pretensions to, name ly, oer oath ay oe 
and we entertain no doubt’ that leaves, apparently quite | admission of pure a arch air, which cf apt ae g resorts 
dead, have revived, and regained their green colour. Since | troduce through their hot-water pipes, near the surface, nigh prize, was jam by — 
Writing the foregoing we have received from Mr. Collier, | in all parts of the house. The principle is pre cot the —e. / soma 
OF Leicester, some Portugal Laurel leaves, with an assur- | pipes they use are four inches in diameter in the — SSS : 
i y this PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. — o 
‘Fe that im the garden of Mr. J. Bakewell, of Castle | in which they tb BORTiC aes SOCIETY. _ : 
Donington, asimilar revival has taken place. ‘The leave Sept. 7.-—R. W. Bar the chair. 
2ppeared quite dead, but new life seemed to emanate | each end of which is turned ccs in ee hot-water | ton “Bare was yp ibeers nent ile 
from the stem aud spread gradually through them.] . | pipe, one outward and the other inward. The end that| mrs. Lawrence, ected A ioe ae 
