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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[N° 48. 
dung than is required for doing it Sea-kale fashion, 
with aes fcc of obtaining it at a particular time. 
The fi uses is one in which Cuc amber aha ave been 
h 
and front, ‘and hollow underneath, similar sade that de- 
seribed ii n Mr. Smith’s ° 3 part 
in the tops, and eal ca 
tra erp. to the height of the other two 
ay ed. This sis so much 
> le ¢ 
= out. The Rhubarb plants having been two years 
planted oa ie png soil, a single eyes, they are oo up 
vith the as entire as possible, and with all the earth 
at ang The ey are closely pac acked i 
earthed up about an inch over thei 
same time we ll watered. A good ining ot hot dung is 
the ret Aap a greenhouse.—Johin Caie, Gardener to the 
els ess uv. rips 
n of Thrips 3 and aes is.—I have read in 
Bore ral method mended for ridding 
which, from the 
r perf this time ae » 
unfailing one, is fum 
£3 = 
3 
Ss 
a2 
between 50° and 60°, which is allowed sd rise to bo AO" 
ith 
oe 
6.5 
< 
oe 
a 
o 
- B 
na 
Fe 
a 
a an er 
with mats, advantage being ta whenever i 
ciently. m mild to admit a Hittle tight “tor an hour. o 
ich it wou old not — 
if gr own in act ness The us nts 
in the last eee in November; x aaa, Mr. Watson says he 
ha d Rhu bar t. for use on e 7th of —s last. year. 
at y ut of doors was 10° Fa 
~ Rha ba was of excell ars quality aw extremely ten. 
r; and from —_ frame being hollow undern: a was 
a uite cae on meen ve wrt Ge heat of the lini and 
continued - ae ! 
Jaen a sreitlys: te of Mr. Paxton’s plan. of 
an icehous *. dda cribed im your last Number ; but as it i 
no! berery citeation rag will admit of his mode of filing, 
I beg to suggest that the alge e should be at, or near, 
the top o of the dome Whe artage is necessary, it is 
then turned i hi It is often 
observed relative to many a ney that one fact is worth 
a great many arguments; and a popular poet has well 
said, that 
“« Facts are-chiels that winna ding, 
And downa be disputed.” 
Take then the following relative to ice, as it will in some 
ree realise Mr. Paxton’s idea that ice may be SN 
“ much less expense than is usual. Last winter—I 
tell hy I had the upper termination 
small ravine or ‘‘gill’” sscoacs out, somethin, 
in the mene ofa wahole as that barnipet to be 
F wo hae and in the severe 
bloom two or three years foul for one clean. W: ith such 
a flo wer ‘Te cou uld hav ve given no proof that manure, in its 
Dr. Hor. 
ner says, "I ae iy Pe re to A: 0 of his 
ere ae from my having state 
Tu a 
g3 55 5s 
oS 
ming c 7 ntioned the oy riment in order 
prove that anure in a itm reduced state had lost all power a 
flushing 7 dca and [ feel convinced tha t the constan 
ie permane 
e from 
y spring, a Geecinoubes not not var 
oy Dr. Horner, dere to whi gc ill, at om 
more fully allude.— 
ce S. Filo 
y a combination of the cold 
ghey matter is. the cause.—S 
on t p 
weather pat or 
n Flo —Dr. Ho orner considers that I have been 
frosty weather eart-loals 0 Peer Ge ase well 
poke: together, bageks piled up in the shape of a blunt | 
his ** “ Brief Essay on the Causes of Foulness of Colour in 
aes aa covered over wi! ith old seach and any | 
T merely wished it to be understood Ma 
an over rich manure wo ul Id 8’ flow 
other coarse litter we could get, to the 
15 to.18 inches. . This do 3 : ‘lary rf 
dicted to last ae ' 
Septem 
for ri 
our | twenty growers, in differ: ent parts of the ees: ‘eove't 
“The | use it in the like state, the same results w ane < low. 
iber, | Not so with manure in its reduced state , for is 
tion with t tobacco as for atihides ; and i find a lighter —James Dickson, Acre- ache e, Brixton. 
dose than it takes to. destr roy the latt tter will suffice The rists are eg ced divided in opinion upon t this 
power of th i ti ubject, fi 
of nicotine varies a good i “That of the Chinese communi ication 
ger application | in the count a gerne coincide in 
than those of the Pelargonium and Rose to killit. This this subject. a : : to damn spon 
in of this squat species, Rf oeaanaarrn &c.—Sweet Sir,—Will you allow one 
and the fact that the individual insects sit so close toge- i Ethemnlacctt 1 } : 
gether as to aye each other from the ip a’ the | on yo t th 1 rae ac 
smoke. I fi t very Son are all wror ng. You say it is derived from ard 
t ecoction of tobacco in a smail | Fuchs. This wor thy I presume to have been T ic of 
vessel, into pla can y': ip the flower-buds which have | origin; andif his name should be pronounced Foohhs 
any insects on them, previously to the opening of the | or with a guttural which is known to Scots, Irish, W elsh, 
blossoms, without being obliged to fumigate the whole | and Spaniards (besides Germa Dutch), but not 
ouse. It matters not, indeed, in what wa icotine | to the English. The Spanish g before e andi; the j be 
is applied, but it is ve desirable that the insects should all vowels; the Scotch loch, Buchan; Welsh words 
be destroyed before the fi ¢> show themselves; for | having weh in them, as wehi (you); and the Tuscan 
the habit of this species is to creep into the flowers, and is, wherein c is pronounced guttural A, as 
especially into the tubular fictets of the quilled varieties ; | hhamisa for cam re hhavalo for cavallo, &c. ;—these all 
and a distortion | of the : flo wer is the natural bey ar give the idea of what Fuchsia should be, if it b Ger- 
man derivation ; “put x or are y far fro —Now 
bi + aly bus, f } &e j What is the vegetable the quickest 
the most | in gro wth? Is it not the op? ave one that has 
of the f: meee presence is en Rita’ wt thi al an raed mace this _ year. 33 feet or more (for I cannot stretch it 
of solid y-dew around it. Probably there is somethin g ); the curls in it wo ive, perhaps 
peculiar in ae juices of the plant which causes the ‘etre. fe re t was very beautiful, terminating in a 
tion to a e that form, for I never Lectin that the | bunch of flowers; a single strobile bei e very end 
honey-de “of ‘ other Plant. in the AA en We have Roses planted in the spring a ante from 1 ft 
t 16 inches a week all through the mer, and made 
the teary area dowirg: 3 and yet ing of 18 ft. of s + They ar hae ies vith every mild day. 
— I cannot remember to have et the Tarfétale Your admirer,— Wood not for a moment 
lant. Most likel dispute the correctness of our correspondent’s criticism ; 
intelligibl e ti ae 
but how is the sound of 0 i age 4 io s to be made 
— cept by x? whic hough 
exact, is as ip 
» whi 
known to grow from a mere eck to t the size of a large 
; 7 
Twitchet’s Don John Carnation.—This splendid scar- 
a 
fort it held out till the e nd of of 
although eee = ct cae daily, and 
ofter m two or three 
Phe 
let bizarre when shown at the ag ath Lo ndon Floricultural 
manne was, early in the ay, 
it'was difficult to form 
times a vey; = the summer. p cause a flower to colour; nor ‘wil | 
very large t A Mr. Ta Se r | cover one when foul; an “though ‘lta ear oe frist properties ; since that time our ideas of its superior qua- 
has found fa It with | your correspon oes for net, giving | flowers when properly mixed wi ith loa 1, Se. “3 t be | lities he ave. been confir rme ed by a a flor ink fend, who had 
boars names; I think in all cases they ought to g ore considered as over nutritious upon whose 
u, Mr. Edit tor: but ther re may be many ci oh i j dition. Dr. Horner co mplains of my_ taking par + two judgment we place the a pic aot _ , flower in 
pie to deter others Ir f hi t nd grant | its general form is se “* nite pritimets iy “ss plenty 
. from: having their weet blazo: oe Tear the public. to any grower the substance of it, V "of the pro: of peta ls, and i up i nthe the es are 
However crane ip s to the.c ru, eer be in the Pet apatity a quantity,’ “ie and Hvoured ye kindly sea- | clear, ted, tl gi te is free from 
mation 0 must beg to nt myself in | sons; an aia that there wil — d of great purity, oe flower is very attractive — 
rit iu my lene 8 ‘ 
Stak 
bea as many osu ers 
‘3 
o 
a 
b=] 
me Rose trees and evergreens, has he a “ight to at 
pa away — he leaves it2—4. ey ded 
The Cedar of Lebanon.—In,an article “signed. D. P., 
Nov. 6, the merits = of this et the writer a ie 
ea on of that wood 
nd will so continue Aa ru Poa 
pendent of the soil. In ue 
same Carastion (a flower perfectly clean 
| ant from the 
en in bl planted in the same Pred Piiiee in the 
the estvaboiinary. brilliancy of the scarlet ateipes and i 
this respect is superior to any Carnation we seen. 
It is in this peculiar quality, that the. ‘representation of it 
in the F ut it is proper 
a 
a 
P 
pa state that Me, ad phahing: has fees. all that his | materials 
anid. pith. of 
half will T a ¥ ¢} } 1 
f the skil- 
ful cultivator 7 cates him to "detect the dlference. Ina 
its ¢ In your note to the article, you sy 
that. th ape jo dis first that. has rs, without 
your kne dg of C of on sir ena of im- | any care or attention, I — often witne or tha return 
portant —. “it I mistake not po d of Cedar used o thei eir Roo state. . Suppose, 
(and Lam sure you will correct me if Iam wrong), . Horner planted 
know of a specimen of aa carved work in ee run ee shy in the "nutritious soil (ri cow 
Cedar, and 1 presume Cedar of Lelanzs, far more in six years 0 ch, 
teresting than that mentioned. by. D. ia nay 
ing In ie old 
Mansion-house, near Camberw el, and o the London 
yi wi ep a ae oe = Sm myth, Bart... and now use ed. as 
ool, 
manur 
in my estimation, is a very near approach t oa poo 
that the plants were in Lape Bair «. state ; : in that case 
o the ground. 
his pasa y falls t 
0 1 that that recommended by 
a neat a Coben i a round the mene. Bert 
which w wreaths of frui t - fom and in 
carved of Cc 
pi all | 
his usual skill and cw ag gt the 
Dr. Hor: 
condition of fear I fie "Hoimes's $ King with ; it there- 
fore fo! Lows, that the pas cultivators have 
zine 
ears 
himself. = is said that formed bh ee in this | 
house for his famed carvings in the py of St. ey I's. 
B. W_{The wood here alluded to can hardly be Cedar 
a ntity, for 
| run flowers, which confirms me in = former Gai 97% 
opinion, that the cause of foulness of colour ot de- 
y! 
past, and y yet every “season we ay a large proportion of 
: of Lebanon, because the tree was not introdaoed pte beg on the soil.—Dr. Horner Sa ers that o a 2 ol 
aah ene r than 1630, and poet have been very rar season, whic fs cramps the energies of t 
iy aevtiaed Sache rand prevents the ue elaboration of its that 
iis rio d degenerate and its colour 
po and therefore cannot 4 seers \ to run; an untoward. season tantamount if 3 a poor 
wor dese of homage but they are true followers of it: | soil in its meee effects ape ne plant. a i can a8 C= 
im proportion te the distance they are from it, so is know ledge this to be the. as 
leaves..and branches, or d 
ae Reker varies ie the na- | injuring the petals, and with an inconstant one it is im- 
uch greater |. possi 
suis to prove ange ne 260g and ungenial seaso 
use of fo ovine As. far pions to ci 
ertain flow 
38 ee: bet an Uni 
e apn to prove anything ;. = experiment 
been: searses. if, me! of oe 
 Florum,,one of the m 
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ROYAL AGRICULT TY. 
Noo. 17th. epee i 
Society d pea aring the Smith fiel 
of the Society, on some topics of agricultural i 
lecture which Prof. Henslow delivered before the fost ty 0 
f last 
ciety; from Sir R. Pri 
mated of ramp ce 
2 of Soda an > cosa a 
ar Da i mo =e 
had recently taken place betw: ag ne yer for 
Prank n, Esq 
Sais g fear ir res Mae yn, the Society that hat be 
Toe Society a ore eee a ae - 
