Dec. 11.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 813 
can assure your correspondent that he has still much to | them on the bank, composed d ve oe earth ; light, although 
peerten on the subject of soils and manures. i sh frame | and I then — —_ ‘ecir ae vith: ¢ pa mention is made of any such Ars it may be, that all 
, such seribed him, so far fro ig oer an | staked them firm d of agate supplied an for some omitted particulars are made up by the reference to the 
es a soil for the Carnation or Ti othing | days with abun nce e of rain _N ot one of them brick -kiln in. _ That woodlice will never enter such a cham- 
less -s us compound ; hence, i mth of the | from that time least sensible of ‘obable, but wi we plants endure 
flush of the Holm s’s King Tulip; in his experiment, removal. I wish all oe evergreen correspondents could | their abode any more * than the w og unfortu 
b et dep t see them now E. H., Nov. nate Melon plants, if hey survive py sm e, and 
the erude unsuitabl absorbed from Edgings fae pers Wallac] differ paabiy your - a their do $s in an almost “tired con 
the man ~~ wil ponder vente thie explanation ; | correspondents; the one who recommends Oxalis a the flame, will ce: sie in a paca Le oe 
it at once sweeps e has advanced on xteey ers and the other — cneorece _ ingen for I chink | he prevent sb hg running too fast to 
ots 
so-called evec-antciaets niaae’ as a cause of foulnes 
t if either of them 
mphalodes verna, 
that 
df ver would find il 
lea am 
I have so far trespa: assed upon your attention, bat fi Yelt it 
the hopes 
of 
colour. The Pre = er cy en one Tulip, I — were nae 8 aa i — — to preven of young 
poison ned and di ied, over-n01 urish So en the whole apes: and in the early spring the | beginn rs being nipped in the bud i; so untoward a me- 
towar age t be s Its beautiful little ga thod ; aad Jeaving wil ye rsyth i in the undis turbed pos- 
7D. the sania that if it a eee in ead are also am: the first harbingers of spring: | sessio e hon t 
, but few, very few, will bloo is hint may be | it — a ee carpe a and is easily keptneat. We have | ever rai: aes the coe ‘for 2 hot-bed used in korticulture 
serviceable to the cultivator of this beautiful flower, as | grown re for years in pec situations, where it has | right over an open fire.”’—A Florist.—[We were aware 
being one common cause of its failure. maintain the | been ‘be isdniration of every observer.—Philip Frost, | of the existence of this per in the Gardener’s Ma aga- 
fact that manure is not really a nutritious soil for t Dropmor. zine: but we confess aan our mary ot - took i & for 
Carnation or Tulip, untili or three yei ld—that Bind of the VF fee’ —In P 681 a a oS recom- | a hoax. However, if su mode ting has 
is, until free chemical decomposition of its crude ingre t to be grown been yen we shall beh 
dients has taken pla and so bey from its being in ‘* an sun wah gers rth S5 here; it ye » however, decline Pd ga our eapclste nai 
— condition”’ a9 an years old, and ‘‘a nk situations, and i in va arious es of t e woods, in which rpeclatons pon a subject. } 
near approac r soil” a t six, as averred, g it as pita at I offer ; ome s’ Prizes.—Seeing in alate Number of the 
wi fi weever seen grow behind a north wall, vent 9p: a glee that some of sag corresp ondents 
nutritious pesto if t kept in a dry a and sheltered vo a a border. T cans shown many people gc plants as in | would furnish lis ts of books ada apted fo for cottagers prizes, 
tion. Bu t lo pught egeresceg ae bear with your cor- | bloo who agree they never saw any so fine. 
since very unsparing ee puna treatment it gets is to keep it free from weeds, and Sacra prizes in general, as I think that prizes of 
on what he es himself prevcncs Th us in his first sere every winter to add three or four inches of | her kind might be ad geously substituted for tl 
munication he said, ‘‘ that as sure as an over- soil | leaves from trees. This, I think, is one cause of giving ly g Tt may seem presumptuous in a journey- 
will cause a nu fr , as certainl i an | the plants strength; but I find they bloom most ab d t 
over-nutritious one produce a greater quantity ;” and in | dantly, nd m ore freely than plants in the sun universal practice of societies; but at least I am influenced 
the last one observes, t! ; over: ure | have seen scapes a foot hig! mo hilip Frost. by no in nterested motive, for thoug h the ‘* flatterer, Hope,” 
would cause constant florists’ flowers to flush their co- Ice Stack.—The following method $ preserving 
lour:’”’ yet he afterwards declares in the same letter, | was adopted by the late Mr. Lewis f Malverne- peat, biibust - may bein a situation to compete for some of t 
‘that there will be a y run flowers as there have Warwickshire, who copied it fi a F through the long, 
been for years past, and will so continue, till it be oo . The spot chosen for thei d of | di gm e yea js the practice of most 
to causes ind ent of the soil.’’ Again, ‘‘that it is| a pool, quite exposed; the pact gs peace the | o' provi neil cei to pe of ey or 
his expressed opinion that the cause of foulness of colour pool ai as some feet above it et circle of about eight | plate, while th e Horticultural Society of London, whose 
ae not dependent on the soil.”” yards wide was arene out and surrounded by a shallow | prizes (as testimonials of merit) pos always the 
I have cite: » however, another grand cause of | trench, from which several slits were cut to let urd highest value of any, has iran ¥ r to give medals, 
Saleem of colour, viz., ungenial | escape. The ice was filled up within this ae m_ the t yas Now or there. are few garde: a te whom a sum of 
seasons ms, &c. and have explained their mode of action ; broke en an and’ wea ten, and formed aed a sta per t I think 
was Becca 
=o 
Pus 
‘I poi ntedly ‘appeal, however, to the experience 
with 
of the whole community of Carnation growers, whether 
r 
gots, _ with stubble, both at top and on all bia ae 
Posts wer e then a driv ven into the g round all rou nd the ice, 
t; it is soon pot and then what re- 
mains to show? Medals and pieces of plate are both 
better tha an money, 
they have not observed that in cateie in years, seasons, 
an ‘unusually large | portion of their flowers have been 
, viz., in cold, gloomy, ets and 
ungenial ones ; while in certain other years, er: bri ct, 4 
n 
warm ones 
€ monstrous rbxion?t that 
ive the whole of 
t 
n en 
f fio vaio are plea fn neither 
the other have any influence pes them! After si 
aovwa | all reasoning must be n, and I shall, therefore, 
: 
the stubble meg foggots oe between the ice and the roof 
and sides, and the ‘oof _was thoro ughly thatched, the 
may be shown with less appearance 
ostentation ries m ; but would it not be pecuely 
appropriate if the reward of fey’ exertions were 
The sid 
fresh exertio 
des 
with stubble, and a door left to get out the ice; “put this 
Ten 
was also stuffed with stubble. or twelye men 
sta 
future success ? "Such — might cok be poy to 
employed for two days to make ie tack.. There 
ice h peapaes ee following Christmas. The stubbl 
ig The that aay soa and the eT 
is probably pin “as long as any co’ oof ; and the 
which are as amusingly gra — and untenable, In my 
éssay on this subject, as I came to no conclusions seem 
showing the chain of eciuhiag and proof, so am I now 
unwilling to admit of their denial, without oe In 
I mo: 
erst 
be waste fo for some of “ae nae ; then vet 
ow “ yw 8 ey alias “Pataray s 
en tae Be oa rete T 
ae el gt fd: 
Pg oid c. &c. dow wn to the very lowest it. 
stu abies ight have § se! erved a second om 
ons r lest my | attention was 
drawn to a paper s stem 
structures, by Alexa’ sth 2 e objec! ect of which 
is stated to be the none of ‘* bottom heat and top 
heat, ¢ or dry, without pipes or flues, dung, 
gardener who would ri n his pro a ea 
o emin 
| thle at the same time he are out tof th bi power of most 
20t By 
garden ners to PB rocure. r gi¥ ing such sii Lhe iat 
mois! 
water, or steam, or an othe er fermenting material, b 
ee 
ut 
t seriously to warn 
your Teaders, | as they wale ue t alth of 
“et Soraya 
= ion compost. Noteithstanding Mr. nial, 
5 sintain that : mellow sods from ar rich old pas sture, ao 
w this was effect: ted by so eco: - 
article through. 
they ¢ 
with ‘the se 
old, i vaty'e a most Siaeoedacon and nutritious soil. ‘The 
simulating - carmen compost may ca’ — for 
t growth; yet it may be depended 
as a fact, that. ‘the ans a or year following, the 
Pp pampered gourmand be- 
d. iy ely to the observations 
f Mr. eChed dwick of Leeds, in a ee pel of the 
whe 
a 
as Ica nig: un- 
dation. An excavation is to be “frst mote ga bg depth . 
four feet = thereabouts ith sloping sides width an 
length vary 
the centre eur Sis cecrnited on 
for b weeds, turves, 
according to cire m: 
roots, co’ coals, cind 
h e “is the radian of ald iron 
* | tend to render 
at ee ones of your pecs a 
advantage of changing cottage ek Po pe 
money, 2 generally given, to beg? nm ould be equally 
great, The benefit of a small su ney, suc ch as cot- 
3 co ming in Piast way as Wi 
” p g t very tran- 
mens 3 and s: ~—" alls are 
sometimes spent at the nearest public-house : — which 
case they rag be oa day 38 of little ba erga ~ a positive 
i injury. The gained a book reward for 
2 
it, or hearing it teks and thus 
| be acquired for some higher psa Soe nm than the pipe, 
which now, with too m: y of our r rural population, forms 
nation ru vi the hocolate sid sth ‘that j it will sus from one of a 
not, I believ cerns - = epoaenn state. I sleepers (whi are about: two “feet ef aheve the ground line | of winter. I fear the race of men and women who can 
to give a jeliok Ww i at the back ith Yy ith th 
nent, but such is the fact "scconling to my own observa- 
tion, and also to the pe egrene of two large Carnation 
iced the 
; wers who noti, umstance at my request. 
: Syncing ai af re d prareN se and chocolate, &c., 
retu’ 
ciall in some a as 
mp s Duke of Bedford ase —F. R. Hor 
D., = ‘ov. 29, 1841. 
wergr se ‘correspondents have of late treated 
you wk aot aa — of re a 
ine Eve hay mended 
PF 
Link 
re: t 
’ £ + 
laced. walls, 
The 
_ Bight seicing 
e and za 
+ + 
ber of young persons now growing up wi out the power 
of .—— and consequently with spiel chit avenues of 
knowledge closed to them, would be q credible, did 
not daily observa tion abundantly contra the fact. The 
Oper 
Eons which from long ph corer 
aE x 
Superincamt anure if properly ma- | 
hed 
¥ t 
evergreens will t bi 
Seasons of t rs Y 
ever enter such a chamber of smoke, 
e will 
them n food, oe rich food, at oe time. In spring they will 
autumn ——- if ever, 
great deal : but 
an old 
on the 
ao och 
them on @ bank, not tat 
papa any other ‘creature ure that breathes the bi breath of 
No more me ze Melon plants running all 
fruiting by getting down in the py of 
us far an ‘ar~ 
felt by the pony 
of th oe Ae of is country. 
pena in g almost all will pt ot bat 
very few wil ae to make any sacrifice to secure it to 
| ys are taken from school to work in the 
for intellectual 
in the young 
| ferring a great benefit 
service.””"—W. an tham. 
_ Teehouses.—I think the fat thing to be Sought for is 
which 
i First, the situa- 
Tr 
practice will strike any one who reads | 
extracts. th fuel is | 
to be plnced-upom the kearth without disturbing the 
of turvess I will suppose that there is some conttivance 
oad 
ante at 
[I the most important of 
