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THE GARDENERS 
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CHRONICLE. 
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bored, is is used as beads for rosaries ; and many a devotee, ] of n hers it is grown in, I Rss no ce ones a Se" 
of 
both at home and abroad 
3 mer. - seen adorned with a | a 
e Beet-r I 
fi 
string of these jet-like ornam This tree has bee 
ous ‘a coun 
to have seen an ssid 
several years past I h 
species of sh 
and trees that usually enjoy the conservatory ; 
ark aa troyed most of them ; b 
goes that endur ed * ~ the thews and flaws,” _Proved to 
the Melia I 
plants s of large dimensions. For 
the poe 
ma are pict 
y 
try for en rior to any I bo seen grown in water only.—G. J. P., 
Ba 
tony! 
n Flowers. ara ith all the deference due to men of 
and practical know wledge I venture 
to off e observations on the 
The poten of Dr. Horner and Mr. Dickson, as given in 
the Chronicle, have induce io todo; not so much 
from a desire to prolong the discussion, as to express my 
blossoms in par and July last.—W. Masters, Exotic | pc gy nt e the conclusions to which they ae 
Nursery, Canterbury. he mae gist of the argument advanced b y 
vets — mation, e hu $ pointed out the following pas- Dr. ‘HL is pre recisely f Mr. D., 
tn ears in North Am erica” :—The | namely, in every locality 
follwing i is fom gy ii., p- 262. ‘‘The Pride of India | and under every mode of treatment to oak h the Carna- 
tree, Mel zedara ch, s shading the streets of oo eZ, a has been subjected. I subm = that this conclusion, 
was in blossom of this | which I think is quite = proves beyond a doubt that 
tree is full of ercaire having a a greater pcetirs Brlg a the hare used in the caciden of this particular 
the Lilac than to any other of the ~_ ng shrubs. sy — not the feed or only cause of their sport- 
tufts are larger, an i ra long oe is an established axiom in science, that like 
ing. 
causes will produce like plat rages ; 
with this axiom, when applied 
and in conformity 
to run Carnations, we are 
8 
h, that the robins immigrate to this region 
winter, settle on the trees, and feed on the 
icating and 
covered is suc 
in the end o 
berries. 
the cin sitting on the trees in o 
may be easily peg hacia astick.” [This 
of the nvenience of giving p! 
in science, As the Melia 
pervirens, or M. ach, which are probably mere 
varieties of ong oles, we should have recognised it im- 
mediately ; ¢ that of Pride of In dia had e escaped our re- 
collection, t 
~~. Hoop-tree, West India Lilac, or Italian Lilac. } 
runing. .— Observing that the subject of roo’ 
rr likely 
a compou € same ingredients t be either 
stance is aa recorded in the history of floriculture. 
as muc 1 is a truism ; and in the 
pursuit of knowledge we must i d 
severance. 
oe 
i} 
i c 
e co seevirach ey but eg those gentle- 
ren 
are setae tt other cases than the” soil i in whic the 
between him and the 
who have oon useful to com ee ; ago 
they are moreover suspected to be the writers of letters 
with which they h ‘ aka of which in m many 
ses 
fit others 
busy- -bodies 
m by which they communicate 
their thoughts and discoveries to each other—therefore 
put to my letters, if you print them.—John 
stone oh 
Country Shows. —During the recess, as we m 
th I 
cal 
should like to call the attention 
of the different horticultural societ ies now ha appily seat- 
tered over the land, to w 
attend the union of such as exist within « e dis- 
Cae of each other. It is well known et sogaing 
work many have to get up a gare show in the y 
how very small the B sega er are able 
inducemen 
central place, the rae reverse in e . 
So 
gretted to see the most praise effort 
tee and exhibitors lost from the chibi ypeteas place 
ina -room or other unsuitable place; where, 
ht, _ the bea auty of ‘the plants 
tors 0 RBS which hone not have —_ the case 
+ 7 lof +} 
e of yc your “correspondents, who respectively lay claim to 
priority of invention, allow me to refer them _ th — 
”” by Ste 
hen Switzer, published 
about 120 years a perusal o which will a nt 
afford hon. pase satisfaction, 
find room for the following extrac 
from too great ai 
Ray perhaps you will 
—‘* Barrenness pro- 
afl ence oa sap through those 
large roots. d tk 
Ithou is now residin, ng in 
its parent comer and sere — oo a series er — 
to bring about rage ultimate op ony Whate 
appliances distu heir natural repose inju ag 
inflicted on the tadiidal plant, which is erential 
made manifest ag the state of its inflorescen 
rning Dr, H. puts fo a a using tie aioe 
had the funds allowed the hiring a suitable m, or the 
taney eh commodious tent wit d tabl 
&c. But I need not enlarge ; ny evils I allude to are 
familiar to the majority of your readers, and I —- any 
1 agree with me i reme ropose. may be 
said that rizes ought not to be ucement to 
ri 
on i _— his care un 
crow y their beauty i in their season, feels (not un- 
naterally) ‘esseaieeel al when he receives as a prize 
piec of plate which may well puzzle him to con ceive how 
wai 
stuff, "refers reflecting mind 
ae 
on in the practising | ile upon old | trees, I re it 
in two or three > years, 
This woul 
to the matter one of 
ch he ultimately confirms by the simi 
a pi ampere d gourmand. All these observations, 
sel valuable in themselves, | if applied ithout re- 
ference to the plants, are com- 
paratively valueless. 
"The constitutions of plants are as | 
——— an 2 how few the nun waned 
ours. General remarks 
intended for ev race: 
or 
the a uty of his 
am cutting away all “ great oeane. 
has 
ae me the committees 0 
ally do what I desired, and it ered siisaaiane: treats them er alike; the robust and the delicate-habited | Staines, and Sant ury Horticultural Societies t ar 
having always in view that precept of the ever t eceive the same ingredients ~s te pat are correspondence on the subject, and see i their union 
Virgil—* In teneris assuescere multum est.’—Robert | belteeaal-< same. or- similar. depositories, and ar gee not, instead of th ic weak institutions, make on 
Zaompson. — 3 finally « expect nd to produce the same — its. "Nuthin, superior character. Staines, as a point, 
Primula stnensis.—Plants of Primula — now I con more irrational. The t hi- | inend make a good place of meeting ; and I feel sure the 
quire some attention as Saag ir and wai rgb therto “has “not considered that, independently rz cout bee’ circumstance of bringing a large number “of florists 
vention of damp, a thing they are mt Siege a es this | tutio: horticulturists together from a nai ded circle, 
Season, eb rly if watered on the t — of the pots. | to “aha hs excited, ant I humbly —_ that if pont be beneficially felt in the interchange of experience 
An excelle t plan is to _ Place feede rs O f water under the excitement Us Pr rod —_—* m improper si a dis- and infor: mation wie o ou vel to be one of the principal 
— ang f the tissue “il result; a ng of fies s.—Edward Beck, Slate- 
plants require a ot deal ” whilst saueetion but will fluid, instead ec ting in a arte — works, Islew 
scarcely eee — it ever _— tops of the pots. If the|is thereby enabled to flow i — w Suits a Turf and Box Edgings.—The 
ores er-buds | ve been pi — pinched ur tone Da pe — of oe arr various plants for edging f and har a a 
h s of flowers, which hte ererence to vail euthor, 1 ubject of interest. It is true there is that difficulty t 
ed 
will tony y repay “any trouble bestowed upon 
eign 
Ks Scott, of Farnham, near Cavan, agrees with 
asa r Pal 701, that 
n flow 
heathy: su abmit enomena of run Car 
) 
u 
contend with, pointe out by your cor respon indent, a 
hat phe 
a matter sree cherry to the rupture of ‘the floral ventetee 
in the pre! rematar re state, superinduced by unseasonable ex- 
of mice. But 
he — that lay some oatmeal 
saeet: with arsenic, or 
cece ot cold boiled lean 
a, 
I beg to Peon the attention of your se Sm ga to 
the fact that Cartwright’ 8 Rainbow — a is one oe: 
meat, on which arsenic aia 
prea r 
i, 
=. aE eT 
by Soil, $c.—I believe most kinds of 
timber are altered much in their pro be Somme ate, alti- 
tude and latitude, cold and warmth, and very quick or 
very slow growth. I have been latel Sat 
or 
the Fir, ieee in En, - Thereis 
of Scotch a hi pokes on the borders of North 
_ Wales, near mpeg present residence; Ido not so their 
“age 5 probably 100 years, more or less. He 
ily excited ; and if your said sitdopsedaain will refer 
to their Bes stocks, they will now find that 
winter, from the leaves dying off; still the nu a er a 
plants ‘adapted for such a purpose is sr reat, end from what 
d, especially 
in connexion with lines ney ke seen. od pehang 
ho has studied 
th Iv, 
the fact, that rows of plants, 
a flower Aaa in the sprin saekirey 
dual fi * while vont 
ween sorts are — mpara ely dorman 
2 We 
me that the mo Vine mania has 
h 
roduce a good effe ct. big following are Kinds. whic 
“i be found useful for s purpose :—Corydalis me 
and ——. Faméria iotuian ¥ and ee bbs a 
Cham zbuxus, Achillea tomentosa, A’sarum eum, 
A 
ea 
party ‘sided, nat grown them | extensively, I beg to to 
ffer a few arks. Th 
ie only 
lwssum 
in pots, ofan net is plenty “of hothouses, i is to have a 
few to ripen in aeons an nd beg “West's _St. Pe ter’ rs, if 
properly manage 
Aubriétia agen ‘i rd 
Vesicéria utriculata imine - 
a Le ee and preco Cheiranthus aipines 
of February, ie in so sons, till ner : and where 
Pocus Hés ésperis pepands, iowa saxatilis and 
sempervirens, at gia arvensis fa’ Ceie méni am mex 
John aie. 
there is an early Viner, _ 
red Deal from Hareey : 
to the 
mere a beam ‘tones that clump that had been 
re-app’ 
ng hb border is y ieaied os 
d snow ; ra ar succession can Bird 
the 5 year roun uae T hav yas a dozen pots dere 
"Cider. <= g to 
preserved sweet, a sy w years 
bought 100 gallons from the mill ; 50 ga’ al 
qa 
ina building about 60 years, and was lied to the Toe of ea and og > the 2nd of Maree: “another n the cellar, mare the bung out 
ns purpose upon rebuilding or alteri being ve: n the pare pabsigrene: and cut in April. | and k t hissing “fo r nearly three months; 1 ee 
lic le, if any, the worse ; so much for the despised Scotch Where etic rapes ca’ wn on the rafter: ters, _and proper banged tt x t, “tet it drank very rou gh “and wage it, 
Fir. oe i is to be observed that the situation is light, attention paid to as “borders it es ms I put i into a mash-tub with a tap in = 
cold, a1 winds upon a gravelly in p To the amateur, | plac Jaced it on a tram in an open shed, price on on 
course ~ doa ra had a much slower growth there than pt garden ner with, per'! haps, a % hothouse or (aes the | the wet; there it sfabage sts without any further to * 
a lower and warmer climate, or on better land.—W. | case is different, for ae ee worthy o1 is care and | This, I observed, never hissed at all, and “ers voc thet’ 
o attention, as } know se ow plant to be estoershee to a Vine —< snow during its exp the tu beliete och 
9 —i have Bever seen described a ato I} well meray a pot. To this class Mr. Mearns 6 s fo rth- 0 fixed time for i its — me 3 pede ~~ 
fore, I piromercamched be ae I mx m in Beet Wm. | only criterion to go by is to aoe ta wea the work- 
ts. et my roots straight to within a quarter of —* Witheck C alia? yd ; it will for ecEap 7 kaad, > and when it begins aay 
m - crown, and sufficiently large to allow a hole res.—Some of your correspondents find fault ak or drop, or sink, = is the proper nee = cask, 
papa iw diameter to be bored, or large ~an the practice of putting woos signatures or ini- | off carefully from the Ps nd. petit into 5 Ce as 
to admit the bulb half its di th in the root, then fix | tials t unications, and seem to consider that th 3 a “l here 
-root In two pieces of copper wire, a spend it | ari or fear, or on worthy motives ; | ditch-water; but by the pegs Siarey yoe wil s of 
averted from the roof prey conservatory. It immedi- | and on the otber hand, if the name is attached to any re- | beautiful sweet, clear cider. To every 100 s8 ty, 
si a P Purple leaves downwards, and ; marks, ire to see the name in print, an itch for scrib- | sharp cider or put 3 Ibs. of ined or bura s 
oe with the green foliage ut pp colours of the | bling, and such-like silly motives, will — Writing | when cold, in lumps, bung ong ia.00 = 
ee ne for a paper is atten same drink, soft and pleasant.—R. plant 
ae amen ee Oranges From the way | for a i paper ; fr alihough an individual aay ‘The Deodar and Fir.—We bave here © Fase, 
Servsich Y had thevonce of the bub siRGhic Wee himself to subjects which have a tendency to bene- of the Deodar which I raised from seed sent to 
