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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[N° 49, 
to lay its roots bare, so as to be able t knife P ined t posed advantage 0 
Rivers, jun. hei ght of more than 30 fet on o lcring them of the ~ rous surface” of th ung lazed. It is ae therefore, that 
Roses.—The season for forcing Roses is now com tit op I of fro m 8 feet to at lea st one kind of plant ect Rape well i glazed pot; 
on. Some recommend not shortening any of the ahodts feet j in length, w hey w Dehaeceapi no doubt, m wi il be m wets 
until it is seen whic L flower 3 this system may be | yard. In the folowing ee my attention was dra 
tolerably good if we force - t y year, but | to some small eyes or buds a jo ‘ihe rough bark, mhich are without ee Mr. Forsyt th will be en tit ed | to 
where we have (or at least hould | ) f Roses | appeared to be on the = the credit of intro oducing a much- — — into this 
in pots, t t as the season a nes of the bau Iks, of any neglected bra anc cho mportan nt a But t even if hai rd- 
eutting back to two, three, or four eyes, under suc ch cir- nsiderable diameter, etn ed forth vigorous shoots of | burnt war ti 
from 2 feet to 34 feet in length, having the foliage fully | it now is in 
OF 
cumstances, peri aw I think, be put in practice. 
What is your opinion’—W. Brown, Merevale. [We 
| the more porous material now in use, 8 
e 
theory, — we should be compelled to retein 
still Mr. F.’s other 
think so too. y ay observe that t ots in form 
Greenhouse-roofs, Hyacinths pect to the | baulks were all lying in a horizontal position. Nine ; f surface d tt ; he it would un 
directions om ms Mr. Fortune (P 76) tot the construc- | of la re dime = a nd. My | doubt hav of one uni- 
tion of a greenhouse, (I speak from experienc, ag first | memory does not s y the period of the fall of the leaf | form ps increasing in size in regular eration thus, 
consideration should be the proper angle of t e roof. | with gn re but t ithering under shift, and no more, larger 
Mine is so flat that the wet t ra and | the influence of great heat near Midsummer. _ The three —_ Ps forty-eight 5 a oe — a shift wy than a 
* the wind has longer time to e itb H I hirty-two So rare is now paid by 
know ot in the same predica whe pect to | Hence t may safely be rane that the all-wise Crea na cast of any given 
making a bed for Hyacinths, Tulips, Picotees, “Pansies a endued the sap of trees, at all events in those sees ah size we get pots of ae ‘ten dimensions, and of 
&c., I have found that by digging ou soil a foot and f, with an oawerd ascending Posey eee forms which Euclid himself would be pug: zzle “ boy define. 
a deep, and laying a foundation o - The evil of this in som 
have never suffered from worms o' match 
for the Prodigious Briar in one year *s shoot of an Azorian 
Jasmine, cut off, and at your ——s having nthe shoots 
and 
from the same plant nearly of the same length. I find 
edulis will'strike and grow and bear fruit in a 
pre eda filled with moss, ms indeed will m 
to che 
nabs as in the anima he 
may be said en ee = the torpid state uring 
months; and, he return of more genial athal in 
ie spring, again t am fluids are set in motion by the infin- 
ce of the increasing heat, which i s alwa jays 0 observ: 
parts ig is = — between the ball a t 
for half a h or m 
are in dmntact. 
small twigs by their first at themselves, and ¢ 
on thereon succes aive ely the whole of the fens are 
Thi is is onfirmed 
Pogo Sor —Being a admirer of the 
eet tars I pon eae with much panes the aaniiiie in 
r Pa ‘aper on its cultivation. They have, however, 
further c 
+ nf fant 
warm 
by 
weather at the approach nter, or even dur: 
prety per t poin n Number 20 we ha 
the Dutch amr on eee wes a Haarlem grower, in 
which we are told ** they Srp a sandy soil, not 
ve some account of 
ing m 
premature snfeldiiy’ of 
of w 
winter, Setarksbty gives rise ioe 
ds, and often of the blossoms of trees li kewise, and 
the b 
. Forsyth’s notions are at variance 
the best cultivators, who make very fi 
‘*crocks ;” and also, by way of accessory, mix a large 
proportion of an equally hice esntichabe saline Pte 
with their compost for the more e deli cate-roo! ted s species 
rar 
e wi ith the practice of 
which 
few will be hardy enough now 
be don e b 
iy 4 ‘ the rise of the sap rey he roots through 
* 
ed withany vegeta matter ; 
in Number 47, and ie write e subject I have 
us that a rere remnsideable aay of _— 
e, | apprehend, 
upon investigation it will be found that the temperature 
of the soil, on these ocea — bene ath the mere surface, 
ww 
pregency Bee itch 
ion of fact whi eu 
it 
vation ; the method generally adopted to ee po may 
“sane — <Aeygaenesiga n be devised; but m 
oO prac will vasbeaieate tha t o Mr. 
But reeceareal effectually we might provide | for the € esca 
rab 
apd 
is a questi ust ce oni pte you wad is trusted, will prove to be in i hoviedines with other known | the ror is not maaeeie Fa ted ; for ‘of all the ills 
many of er correspondents, ‘perha ps you wept be kind | facts in the physiology of plants.—J. H. S. that plants are heir to,’ ee is pon a greater (to 
to describe it. hen, in a lazing.—In looki ver my article on glazing in | those, at least, which have a oe like an Oak) 
@irect form. What is the practice t the Du ms growers | the Chronicle, p. 766, d there are one or two mis- than over-watering. Of what rnish a plant 
of Hyacinths, with See of vegetable mould? | takes. In p. 766, in line 13 and 14 from the top, “and of ecoq or i 
er car Gin on suggest another ques- | many of the panes are split up the middle,’’ add, “ sgt v h ts (whi its mouths) by exees- 
tion, which ought be desided by - ert of numerous | owing to being put in too tight when glazed.” In i answer is cho ; 
and egg ted ex It is this: Is bs and yet so little Se aee is best on this im- 
asthe, o or not? Perhaps some of your readers w 
planted their “eno will td both ai nie 
The ex 
ig lin 
= and 43 from the a “for pits 4 and $, by 3 Sere 
deep,”’ should be po ne 43, ‘for 
by 3 inches 4 
frames 4 by 23 in 
should 2b or 3 
portant matter by many e th e charg 
of houses soil, and 
young men who have 
pl: a 
inches s deep. “Panes 63 in hes tag 3 in ied: oi 3 1 like- 
ize for 
schemas a-wesla vetaie, the bulbs should in all | 
— ‘Te inch be treated alike. From my sear expe- 
all hotialaral ye 
N.B. h the bent side dow ards 
| (as th {as the gies term gl as it will fit more leve 
carefully apportioning the qu antity of water - he wants 
of the plant, they begin at one end of a house and water 
away, pouring g it like a mill- stream upon met - dry in 
has ot pactiond 
ames Seymour. 
perma ow the last t edition of ** em n’s En. 
grelopeedia of Gardening,” the foll ie is stated to 
soil used by the a ap for Hyacinths. The ne hertio 
used at Haarlem is ‘o be rotten cow-dung, rotten 
the lea rated a ae 5 Lime, and 
to those of hestnut, Waln nut, 
Sa, gles “ke. -, which do not pat es quickly. The 
eow-dung is collected in winter from no esse stall-fed upon 
or — 96 er. 
a edie ane, 
aterials :-— ae rst, oe ~ a ayer 2 
wae F duke, & 
or tea inehen thick, Those ayers ae er 
i ven feet high, a layer of dung 
being poner oe sprinkled ov over with a little sand to pre- 
vent powe! m of the sun upon it, After 
or 
Hydrangeas, Chrysanthemums.—In the last Number 
you state that Hydrangeas should be pritected a stuffing 
Now 
g very caref 
my experience for some years past proves that “the e Hy- 
drangea is pastigen hardy, having stood the win ter quite 
uninjured, and ¢ too in rath xposed situation, 
without any prowet jon 
the form 
secured, ahieh 
a well-bloomed ae 
& 
vaio is 
of 
uae if the er has ‘been 
0 this pernicious habit ; which, however, with cad young 
ter arises rather from want o 
interest in the oe ogee of the rns under their charge, 
and therefore J. B. 
heting. 
orms,—In re eference to * A Cottager’s ”* eommuni- 
cation as to the destruction o of worms, it is added,— —"We 
should expect the corrosive sublimate would kill grass as 
I 
not speak positively as to the meres T ted, bat 
coi 
pa @ Mate "Tulip. beds.—In making a Tulip-bed, I fi 
a . 
rst 
its dim mensions, and then dig out the earth to 
fade 
» 
carried porte the * gas par ne 
the in tt 
ely; in the 
Fonsi carer Crocuses, 
Trises, | +; in the same 
—— is wet, I contrive to 
drain if n ains I then put in = 
com thr nee: ine ‘follows howe turfy loam from 
pa sac en very 0 
and si 
fo ur barrowfuls of the oam to one of the cine 
¥. 
hes, then 
te oom? ion | Pent in Hort. Trans., vl riot a 165. 1 
of sand about two inches thick’ all over the 
bed, and on this I place my bulbs about 6 inches apart, 
bed This 
£ th 
baer I fill up the bed to the top with the eompost a 
To Des: arwigs.—Perhaps many 
ag red — « Acie extent to whi ich th L Saas is en 
ae ome } 
Cenlifower, retorare and rwoaete bles in a rok ffered 
apo > even the wall at ere in great part destroyed. 
uch situations they ai enerally found clustered at 
the bottom of old gees or paling, and should be killed by 
Dboiling-water poured on them ee np vagal 
Leafing o, Plants: — 
—T have 
pe with no hittle surprise at the f ninth. ore a aera 
pot 767, in which an experiment made of grafting a 
Hawthorn on a late, and vice versa, is Cited 
to show the groundlessness 2) opi 
the com: 
fore. Should v bet severe | frosts come during the Svinte; 
cover the bed all over saw-dus 
which if dry the frost néver penetrates. When the frost 
is over, : ths away the saw-dust and sift a little fresh 
soil over the surface of the bed. By this treatment I 
have fe een able to give satisfaction. I hav 
the Duchess of Wellington 1] inches in circumference, 
and in its colours as possible.— 2B tree "een 
Gr. to ater é, Esq., Aigburth, 
The Bay Tree—In Mr. Radford’s letter, 2 rp 780 
were two” “typagraphica! errors, which require correction. 
Doe 2? vin, & uarter of an ounce 
| three poo ange of pase <r 
Gloucester. 
Icehouses.—On the subject of icehouses I beg to in- 
form you that 4 in a I had the care erie an icehouse 00 
the 
the old principle is to say, an inve me in 
side of a hi pak enered oy along passage, which was re 
filled with s laude this we coul 
the air; from 
on 
never get ice map Baap e times in the seas He 
my employer was recommended to try a fresh plan. rer 
{ removed the h, h, &c., from the top © = 
, and took the arch off le groun as per “" 
were then carried up four feet above the leve =m 
thatched the same as a cart-shed or — the _— ame 
jecting enough to shade the walls ; 4 th 
— side, and a window, or smalle ver 5 ies 
The house was filled as usual, though with — —. 
tt rable to eve rt-} ice put a t Sau 
water, nearly boiling, which helped to solidify it ee aie 
put round the sides as usual, but not on the top + ae ht 
and window were opened every night, or every gored 
at most, ept in wet er, 5 at a free ci pany 
of air sar ori over it in the night wi 
the first 5 
oe seg read sanity. For not a “ true fact” re 
“tru 
* hae ved Pitheci Pots.—About the time when Mr. For 
syth’s letter, advocating the aie eh of glazed fiéier- 
pots over those of ruder manufac whi ich are in general 
use, had occasion 
to repot some plants of piri coelestinum, one of 
which, by way 
stra : oe sed vg the ice ; you open the door, there is the 
Where: “0 took two men 
they could pee: ice for u m mi a 
rance is level — ogre . = ae sol 
sage has been mite up; and the w to be bri = 
situation. 4 pom ve sides 
ta made of white, ard baked earthenware. All these 
afterward 
upon the : 
Pcbinte that should barmonive wth what re ere stated 
vulgar e 
error. , then, more 
Rascsebie eo ch fone: sm and the 
ae ee About 30 oe pyr Seon 
own hands, shortly after the fall of the leaf, three 
subjected to the same treatment, 
d@ no difference haluves could at any time be at a0 
led ¢ cient. A 
qui wired. An ih pos —s plan may be 
154. to 202. a. W., Elsenham, E. 
feetriei 
exe im thereat Horta , they ¥ | 
out of the the roots were found to be matted 
the. pot) juak We aed hah ba ha 
The p by you 
berg agate a oar aan would be more 
pit door were carried alongside of the other 
