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Oct. 16.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
685 
half-hard bh conservatory, and for and oa year or two had be- Substitute Turf Edgi 
suas. ina old aoe meng a! wintel hav g i ng of th d J others that the grass Ghadled ils 
these last 7 years to keep a aries of auihe ri lied the roots, Pevhich seldom thrive wells " ends srednn cx: kly nama a — 
out.a greenhouse, I take the liberty of informing oa ar had the effect, not of im proving vnc ge appearance | time dies away, As a substitute for ~ ant ta such si 
ers of my management and success. eep them in | of the plant, bat of causing it to produce an abundance of | tions I would TT yaaa 
29-inch brick pit,.of5 common-sized lights; it is , where it was completely des- | Sorrel. 
bac’ 
titute of either leaves or branches, and 
diameter; for the space tt’ 7 gta eight inches it was as 
densely d as the inflores 
e on Seen it tried upon a Smiall scale, wad it it 
— cutting, 
pears to do very well. ew 
cas cipiap ota in vad ah 
wera , and'T 
] iron will I keep it in due mrad her beautiful leaves and 
a spade or edging- 
soon as I get the plants o w worst nse! ered wit rescence of the 
1 bad to deal with, although I kept my plants in the | Melaleuca, of which it ars y pr in places where other 
health,,or I should say they were so in May last. | 7. “i mate Swinton Park. lowly plants would languish and die. rae Mackenzie 
Pelargoni - i we couldn ca nme or blow — you allow me. through the medium of Wet Plean. E 
better ; but quire a deal o very severe | your Peake a to ask advice on the subj ect of Bees? 27 pera iting Soils. —In p. 517 there i is an article about 
frost: aul be‘likely. te get through, or “dap ‘will destro oy the “ Con ant Pp N Tam ob to 
not properly treated. “I avoid usin ng any | and a good swarm hiv a question full of interest both'to 
litter, as'steam from it would ‘cause dhe. italy ae centre one. ; "the next sean, when eee anpeared | agrict culture oa = i. . did hope that some of 
es to swarm, e — in! ou 
notte pe when all tl pana eens ta soge side box, and they z Seeoneane” wou ald hy taken up t the _ Subject. 
The evilwould be in mating = pit warm, which would They were very stro filled anaes own yt tens. with 
beep them m. as ee = ssible ; 
they stand on shelve: r the glass, when it 
does not metuallyf freeze I give them all the air Te can, by = 
ing top and bottom, which m a free circulation = 
throughout. es 18, 1940. we naked a very severe and w 
a oan remarks. _ Our pacten: tee of soils and 
beautiful large edu which I could see Rage sl 
indow), but stored no honey fo: a 
lh as far as making t mbs in the si box, and this 
ed one and ha sb 
t the dif- 
ferent kinds ty various ‘writers or pesethbooee are of so 
aw: ie from ho 
Sept., it 
7 A 1 
was gone. pe m I to go on letting them 
P for themselve: eee va nothing for me, or how 
hall I I proceed ? > “a should d say I have generally f fed them 
frozen to recover ; I got them in the pit “as 5 
sible, and shut them down close, and peti the, pi al 
I ve this year put poe good swarm ina box, which 
ge ir by degrees, and in a few days they ane re- 
covered; “although those I left out Pree killed. Pm eld, 
1841, a several da ays” —_ sev had a 
fo aad 
I thought of pra) in the manner described in ba 
Chronicle, but 
valley at the foot of 
garde ening subject which refers to soils may be, and often 
construed in a different ways. We want a gene- 
“a language soils, as well asa ge ular knowledge of 
their contittoaihe eos d on analysis; and here is shown 
the necessity of an extended in vests 
percnge is confin oy to the close 
am glad to perceive, ~~ by ‘armers’ 
Se gasine, and other wo rks devoted to all 
Back 
it with safety ; or wou ald it answer as well to place them 
and Avante od we hort 
light ? honey ‘collected by the bees in this parish i is, 
urists hav 
nee oft war twin sister, it appeai 
that we shall be glad to — from her 
in 
‘Brown with tol 
the plants covered with frost; I shut m down close, | ge oles beautiful, but ‘this year there seems to be very especially regard to oils. In Gardeni we 
and covered with single mats; all the t day I gave | little. it zel another 
air by degrees, and in a few days they quite tre sa be as good food vr — and sugar? for the poor | sound loam, and a third ri loam. Whois to understand 
did not lose a plant. ae am satisfied that i ao - account of the | all this? It is obvious that texture and quality are con- 
them light and air sudde 0 avoid the a founded. Again, Mr. A. says that such a plant likes peat, 
should ha 5 re have ge: of covering ; ce elt ty of ‘ities ther 98 uy anaes oe “TE your pla Mr. soil,—and Mr. C., heath or ¥ 
sides mats, a large old carpet, and o' alla a tarpaulin, answers rs bet tter, ma’am, T may, perhaps, try; the’ wate mould. Now these soils, it is well known, are ali vege 
that keeps everything dry, which I in endeavouring to make it do so. ee substances, and possess great simi — as bs their 
ee ReleiteMiterponiches ; another “Pelargoniums, ‘Ver- 2M. W. [We tru some of our apiarian-corre- tuents, - yet their pare al text nm many 
benas; Fuchsias, Plumbago ca AP &c.; a third, roy pang art te! an ousutet om thi en . ] spect different. By mechanical pao 7 wees the rela~ 
arborea, Daphne indica, ae splendens, Azalea Fruit Room.—In Seen y t th ls or manures possess, of absorbing, 
striatum, Salvias, F ae &e.; a paiatyy i construction of a fruit-ro Il ie igh gZ, or r retaining heat and moisture 3 circum 
» in large pots low in pans of water | be laid i in the hollow walls with soo effect. T ke th i 
in summer, Morea fimbriata, Ammaryin, Cactu i be double | and on ope - a s Basie I should think a prope 
simus, Jenkinsoni, and Neapolitan ~ Violets, which blow | plastered, the first coat of plaster bel fication o ught b be founded. With plinn ‘to 
beautifully. The other light is the winter quarter for my — p he rafters in the | 1 it is a question argilla- 
Auriculas.— George Mast. ardener to Lady usu ceous matte nd, ee vegetable remains, ” Other mat- 
Finch, Bowley Abbey, near Mai poets ahs ki communicate with the hollow part of the ters there may but these are the chief 5 _an nd on n the 
New Fly opts er anal nsec Physian- wall ; by this ee ment you would have circulation 
albi ‘oliage warm air betwee the walls Bereta |e hed the old p in thi 
not fail to att ie ted t- | vain for al like the N i} an apap 
itwill cover many yards of wall in a short time, should | room uch the better—the ceiling betwee wing to of sand 
‘mots 1 think, be left ape in yout paper, if only for | rooms reps ot be pugged. The pipe may be sone Pants they contain, me the compurative abnence of fine vegetable 
its remarkable ble property of catching moths. I send you | the closet joining the fruit-room, which you intend for matter. iw m of in ion that t d. loam is an 
‘one of many specime h may be. | i "The e “anctuoos character 
house under my care; they are held by the proboscis per- this ; the -only precaution necessary ‘in such an arrange- hich it possesses is t! Ne sane 
fectly secure, and: give the flowers qu nite an G tog Ps, 
pearance for many days together. culation from the hollow walls, so that the h Pp I once endeavi voured to i ad Pag 
‘tum purpureum v beautiful in flower this year in a | might be used absent —— there was no gion or | character re wa bending a one nm proportion 
a more than 20 blossoms: fully expanded — now | damp to be excluded. Another plan, which T ave found ey fine ar gee and sphagnum, in a = cit te raed 
a _ seed-pods ‘on it; can you giv fal ae et i cod e 
perv ruit-shelves ; on these I han the finest was g Whe ther the geological chi of Norwood 
“ever” raised «the i dl : eB it? 2 Hew a know pa be Pe ; ‘x cra ing a double aeclores in the form a warrant the assumption that it j e = alluvial ait 
‘Mackett, Sittin, s as is held fast by the | of the letter S, one ed of the hook to — wit ae pos sit, some of your correspondents. can no doubt so 
‘pressure of ‘the cartilaginows anther Acer the ——_ footstalk of the fruit, and the other end er Lam a out ma aking anew border to by ‘vigery, 
which is inserted between_it and the No varieti I , aud I could 
‘of Com m purpureum are in pa on on.) e third more fruit may be c d wo distinct kinds, pte 2 _ 
* Campanula pyrami idali¢. —This Seite which I have anes pace ; besides, your finest specimens | may be cas obtain—the one is a ios ats ergs - 448 = ar} 
‘ectly 80; it is hurt _by severe frosts, 
the the ey have 
on 
ew oeE ere Ch 
Beaton. 
eeisgre Patens.—I! observ ve Ris leave the hardiness of 
ns doubifal, wit pabes. : 
] one to 
sand than the are “Since I slur ea soils, I have 
a respectable 
—_ its hardiness, because in 
as to. the merits of the 
this so 
ined in England, all my plants re killed, 
ful ulgen: cis 
) remained upinjured. 
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crown of the ens was xillod, so that nothing 
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not, but they would have been very 
‘odo — — = who have nota 
stock, no wo tia 
‘Harmony "of Colours.—tti 2 Saad yn md who have 
rhe Erringlan, Oulton Gardens. 
ee oni rast of C o ania eee is 
ental planting is of importance, rarely cou- 
sidered j in the formation of shrubberies and belts. Near 
made the colour of natural o! ects thei r stu oh 
r is prea made ciate ise with ano! nother. To 
ment is given a 2 beantifa azure tint, to the earth 
with Ivy which hangs over the top. Amongst the Ivy at 
intervals. the Virginian Creeper is planted ; and | ata dis- 
Itseif & vartel: eg 
: agreeable green of plants. This 
statem! hink, ‘at be d denied by any who have 
— the —. any yA of their study at all; but is it 
ee ory ee of vegetation, that 
to be fou in the flowers or im the 
id they would 
“Peter Mackenzie. peeked: om 
fruits of sty teens 
ar with the ane 
nuclear jaiucum: tree. 
drapery of scarlet 
A few plants of the 
added to the 
produced otherwise than by hanging 
cloth amongst the masses of - Hess Ivy. 
white Clematis now in bloom would have 
ffi observe that the Virginian Creeper appears more 
enti irely red on chalk soils, and only sen hy ile in clay. 
Is it the nature of the soil, or the dryness alone, that is 
the cause of the ditfe ren vce? [The soil, no do abt. t.] A 
tree, the Ceanothus 
ae 
— Peter 
acts upon the ete as aor 
correspondents. 
Dog-wood rai Lara d, and in = ter at a Siaance = 
ri 
jum this autumn re Se aheuthe aR for the 
| | of fihe autum acl ti 
1 was oF eal front ‘nt ar Saye) 
thoes ‘sinall cloud. there was 
| dark cloud, beyond that 
