Dec. 4.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
797 
process s is to be repeated every year until the tree attains 
the height required. In cutting back the side shoots, ‘the 
little farther, care being taken that none of them extend | 
pally applied it, are suspended ones, Stanhopeas, &c.— | 
John Rogers. 
plant which flowered at the Fence being the same as that 
which he gave to Mr. Apple a Having given insertion 
ani: the e other, nor must they be suffered to bec 
crowded = oa exclude ae in admission of air an nd | Tight 
Nitrate of S Soda on Onions.—I obse 
in the last Number - the ot oe Chronicle ey contra- 
dicting, ‘‘ most decisively,” ~<a T says, former 
tement, that nitrate = . jurious to Onions. | 
Mr. Aitchison’s contradiction ; here the matter must 
rest, so far as we are concerned. We cannot one 
diseotdant assertions, and columns a! 
to discussion, th 
R 
first fact he sp ry I have no | ii ey are cl putes. 
from the body of the tree. When trained in this | way for | doubt whatever that het ar ened of his crop which was ight of Property in Plants.—Although an old 
sox ome watered by a solution was better than that which was | dener, and not for some time employed in the ptofession, 
and be furnished with fruit spurs from top to bottom. ¢ cheat destroyed” by the one but as my observa- | I love still to know what is goin ihe horticultural 
“4 ersons pas probably, _— this mode > of train i tio d to the effect of nitrate of s ‘oda upon d; and though I cannot range through houses and pits 
g: ion t apted fo Onions, t thi I used to do, I still feel a lively interest in all that con 
t “Ito occupies little ars nog upon the question. His observation is, never- | cerns the profession. It was with great pleasure I me! 
and being —— suitable for rein and Pears, we eee} theless, a valuable one. In opposition to his second fact, with the Gardeners’ Chronicle of Nov. 6th, in which isa 
its adoption in preference to beg to quote the authority upon which I made t to the rigt gardeners to lants they 
any other. The manner re ——— Espaliers is so simple rtion, viz., the experience of an intelligent farmer in | have propagated. How any gardener “ eo 
that any | Cottager may 8 cquire it, and by a little | this neighbourhood, who tried it upon half his He | could for a moment think that he had a claim, I cann 
practi his ate es with as much nicety as 
pn —_ object is to encourage only a certain 
ber of shoot: 
found the produce from the unmanured land both larger 
hi 
imagine. T hav e filled three nape in my y tine, rata 
d it m 
and heavier than that from the manured. The in uae had 
one 
dag 00 
right and Teft ee ne — stem. To do this, the 
about a foot of th 
was superadded the nitrate of soda. in nine I 
~oanton and of men caged in it, and I a aware 
I 
ontal inti Sy and dep riv ved of alli its shoots exce’ 
og 
¢ put forward t having s wen gr nig se rest 
nee 
uch opinions 
too, who 
met with a man who held s 
respecta table m: 
have, however, known som @, and re 
no withou 
— and that [a ‘ decisive aealitton’? is 
f incorrectness in the statement so contradicte ik B. 
principles of cross aaieen and I cannot but think 
there is some slight difference, after all, between such 
as befor 
at the revue -diatinoe above the. aaaentes ones, ae 
reyes cto height of 5 feet. It is then cut off and 
orm ich are 
to be supported by small prunings of any hard- wanded 
tree, and congo to throw out fruit spurs by shorten- 
Transplan ntation 0, of Hollies.—I am able by my E 
experience to parallel the history of a Holly-hedge, as | by an employer. ‘“ It is hard to work in the vineyard 
told by your correspondent, Mr. Bree, in a recent num- | me not taste of the Vine.” —- — A ane sac oc 
- Abo at _fiv ve and Seva years 08S bees strongly stood that I sho — e the impud mend a 
aoe pn ore a gen- 
in April, i athe year, I | tleman, I should certainly 
nth 
moved a oh Holly-hedge of rsvp one hundred plants. 
1 th 
J 
M. E.H. 
OME | CORRESPONDENCE. 
of six or seven years’ growth, and not vase of them -. his feelings. Sail I think peters would do well to 
farly - . do not remember that the seaso as partic allow the eir sm a moe a mde ~ kind, as a stimulus 
1 watered afte as totally divested of 
wards. The soil though was particularly 1 kin kindly, being ‘aj all possible chim. Ie ae ye ch argument I reason 
ht sandy loam. — four ee after, hus :-—Gardeners (good ones 1 me an) are perhaps less 
a thicker set of stems t botto: and a neater clip, I cut ioe for their services, i n proportion to their ac- 
them down quirements, uired in their 
e to the. ° ground, and the re 
eparation for their post, than any | other Daan a a 
H 
The Niir 
— ces ee with fuel ra ife. 
e of S 
remarks of ‘inde; rte a work purporting to ex- 
tion, more t than half my —— never shot mae As quan- 
steward himself. ne as I be ae pole 
nsiderable m oral character, 7 as well as 
be 
planatory of the natural history of the Bible, permit 
3 
a 
and i 
her brushwoo: h 
of March, ae ony male eons as the accent in me 
led t 
—see ‘Chronicle - Noy. 6th (in the commencem 
of 
Peon Gentlemen ‘should Te- 
truth may be, and has ured by an unskilful advo- 
eacy, of which I eas ment ra too many instanc ces, we garden, I was q 
should, on the other hand, be careful not to trifle I used the saw; but e ery | g 
per with records w hich 1, with a PE consider ‘as forester knows that this is nonsense ; I did n sep — 
ve sword referred to, and | than I know it is safe to do with the Hawthorn ang the 
question, is slated “ Nitr the my ord is arene evergreen shrubs ; but I am quite assured tha 
Xeon" tnd the 2 Se eptsgint con it “ Nitro ane cul tting | low was the cause of failure. The woodman’ s 
aad 
effervescence is implied (b by the thane: of vinegar 0 
eet 
I ‘ally oy agree, as it is, generally speaking, a notorious fact. 
oe repay np saa ee to the public ic taste I kn now not, but Iam 
f long experience to 
whet y conceive to be the justice of the case. he shall be 
at to 
make 
no doubt that if the. case be as I imagine it is, the a 
lous ; and not being able, on this supposition, to compre 
hend the meaning of the proverb, in the true spirit of 
_ uction, I re the experiment, and examined the 
esult. On pl ing my thermometer into a sitters of 
rand nitre, eit suddenly fell 13° of Fahrenh a 
vinégar 
fact is in itself pi te and the solution is easy. a7 has 
Teference to the 
i safe with your ticles you must sales more sem to | of tl ill be that 
athe when ae crop t them, than you need do to most | will be drawn i in those matters, and I shall Ry ae = 
other underw profession no yo tad tp erhaps good.—Fair- play. 
cut _ ae z am sure that early spring is the bes Gardeners’ Du “dake very much you seg im- 
seasi sous r that operation; for although I said that ou ; | press on garden with other 
pair ght cul tting in peace it is to be ob- | | fing te simpleart of aoe tea their hor- 
cold produced. To | s ‘sing songs to 8 
heavy heart” h 
vy a3 Ls: 
ceaconable.—J. Murray. 
"(The answer to these sachs 
J 
1 
nothing can be more vexa- 
season to the 
moss, ai ves, to p 
Wiel 
gras: and d 
ing | the re: ai weat og 
ergreens, I think we may pris it ‘for a 
glass of a Vi inery, Cone Pit, or such place, to 
be to Id by one’s s gardener that thay re sae any of his 
ture, and that the nearest glazier, 
7 in fact, soda, if we are to believe Hasselquist, 
L: 
dough rise, and in 1 washing, in which latter. circumstance 
heis 
ediate vegetation in the roots of the plant 
immediate ip era if I may use such a 
able to imm 
ate = 
en can repair the fractu 
probably three or oa males off 
risk of se tbe me to one’s crops, fro 
wi 
must be at Pg at the 
admis- 
ciduo ous s trees h ing p 
t, can afford to wait ; but an 
evergreen never ceases to make deman ds on its ‘roots to 
ply th 
agree its our seiapen ndent. 
know pies we - Sizing to be able t 
all gard 
Dh 
of these, a mole ving soap 
mcy which must be provi fied fas and in 
allow m me to say that I baseTrs repudiate 
(which it cannot part with even ‘jn its moulting season), 
d soon nace : re supply be long cut off. Now, to 
an 
paar sip a is not only — that 
‘0 art is more easy to 
gardener to be ignorant o' Tt is not, howev ver, to be 
isture in the soi 
either 
use th 
Mr. a of pacers Saeoyehiee coanttncied 
i that there should be the proper tempera- 
? 
repair all his glass himself ; 3 we only speak of accidents 
ture 
which 
deavouring to obta’ 
hoice seat Psi early autumn or the late spring seasons. If 
the summer be advanced, 
not enough m eee: : late i in the autumn ther 
or , but the is too cold; and I rash amar 
that ilies move ed i =e") winter time (sar say even o late er 
to leave until a man can be fetched from adistance.] 
Salvia a —It oe or  eieee 2 o the admirers of 
Salvi pat! ‘o know th m seeds so 
1840, I had sad oe 
the follow wing May, and 
tered 
ral pipe am En be provided for -— descent of the 
mae also be: The venti- 
wiih 
latio an iceh 
of those minute snails ato. tee in- 
aon I fin d tha t by plunging 
the driest summer Season. The commencement of the 
snails are speedily dislodged, and in the of a 
Quarter of an hour take refuge on the leaves preg one 
above water, By leavin 
rn eat immersed for twelve hours at ‘the sate: I pre 
or the latter = of September, 
obtained from cuttin ngs 
8 sor anisatry an abundant ¢ head of deta: ; the others 
were comparatively bare ; in. pots there was a like dif- 
but in d if alittle green Moss 
as strewed on the pelt ba the plants in beds were 
surrounded by tngpiasee Verbe OAS, &e., AGF — 
Laleham. 
Root-Pruning.—With silence to the method of root- 
pruning w ith a knife suggested by Mr. Crace, allow me to 
¢ operation may be easily performed 
then “ought to be th ‘signal al for the oval of Hollies, 
Laurels, Box, Ye e Alaternus, & Coy it 
be resolve d on. der sug 
stances, plants ay a have yet ee iat Sty ox to 
get up their vitality, s to resist the noxious influe 
of a hard winter, if such ensue. I, a prefer 
the spring season, with my Dor! 
that April is the best month for the purpose; a strike 
immediately takes place, root a nd branch; and if the 
s ly dry —* a litle water cor- 
cam, but in the e course of a few years, w when the 
4) fe 
= 'y dead in the water. gcse AC 
cdg ‘oie so madicos the “tmaller kind; but this 
sg 0 the surface in two or three hours. Whether 
5 winie es effectual remedy I cannot yet say ; but its | 
effect is so obvious, that if the ene- 
my would, I think, beextirpated. The only caution which 
dian is to take care that the dislodged 
: ing plants; and I hesita 
employ it, except very cautiously, to plants having young 
rg Probably if the amine ; pretty warm, 90° to 
RPA be eficacious, but must not then be | Mr. 
plants to. which I have princi- 
roots, the ball of earth should 
8 — Now to search with the fingers for the Large Ceding 
aye 
be induced, ae EMM to prefer vr po which i is 
aie ccumulate citabi ility 0 f the plant at that season : 
roots, in contra- 
diction 2 - ead and pas sir condition of au- 
serio as derange the le cian ch 
the knife, but soon caer the ‘rade, ee Lhave inva- 
riably found that the wo ounds by a sharp steel-edged 
; shennan fibres ; 
and emit 
joy Ricker ies of th a ce ia.— We are requested by} 
Mr. J. Aitchison, pa A at Crump’ 
, to —r that he "Tontletis 
was undoubtedly SER Ee 
. Aitchison pam considerable detail to arg to us 
that if was so, and he asserts that he has proof of the 
i 
the common blunt garden-spade shone never be used, as 
it never can siege clean.” _ meant oe 
trees ‘ — enouille,” dar 
singly, so e able to diga trench round them Lega 
facility, snd a “heae down” ropes its accompanying 
mass of ear — biennial or triennial root-pruning it 
would be a serious hindrance to the well-doing of the tree 
