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846 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[N° 59, 
m the part of all lovers of flowers not to purchase wr iF mere particularly ad the female part of my establishment : 
new apeciinens s that had n not been supmniite ot to the 
inat y nilet 
fic be gi of little 
nT could o ys oa ge couragement eet 
for es production of ah as are of first-rate charac 
that i is, I would offer such prizes as would afford some sort 
to perfec ection. Take Pelargoniums for ould 
offer a rere hd ary for the best seed] 5" A Be aed 
and 20/. for d best. To icc this, I wou 
Pian valentethe int alld be opened or se 
sugges! 
cific flowers, for there are many I beli ieve, who would 
aed favourite flower than give it toa espana fund. "to 
melt, handled, a a he 
bad apres patton 2% tae and it is my firm con- 
meee? that it is catia 0 ost to the salt, which, in wet 
eather, has spon hat the property of salt water; and I 
cacy bei iad ie wee vel my walks, as finding 
that the only j remedy = fact I pledes myself i is true, and 
e place is auee ough thesea, Can you tes est any 
other reason pe way of curing this ?—K. I. >a 
lg doubt the nae by. its attracting. avnaipil from the 
aeges “hicks togamic 
gine h would have, when young, oy sicciones 
anced Sul hate of Sin will kill them.] 
P 
Transplanting, — Whether the autumn. or spring be 
bee - Linge tag evergreens I have found depends en- 
irely upon the oil. If wet and rather sw apy Oe oi 
d By 
Natl estat lt and pay mens the bap 
¢ A 
nine others to be found who 
each for the same purpose, Next y year I ined probebly 
if dry, the autum 
s far as I was able to make | 
cadet o these two vals, fe Id have t pl . 
failure.— Philo- Dendron. 
Liberty Days for Gardeners.—Permit a garden 
call the attention os employers to a vai of beefing 
themselves, by givin 
vegetables, plants, and flowers. Although t 
re was below that of A ee | provincial societies apie bed 
oom, which is large and well adapted mes uch an 
pay was well filled, and the show ae 
many preceding ones ; indeed, most 
he nu umber of 
er better sh 
plants, oy Me are now upon the gui v. 
some of the go ings oo their seer eng 
went to both wir an oe Be subjects for this 
d 
show; this alone accounts for th 
ars, but this was in ecnsegt uen 
nevertheless ther 
Grapes. Monsieur Jamin hada large paid contain. 
ing is. er 100 varieties of the best Pears, of w 
were th e rata new kinds : 
e of the 
who has no greenhouse, —_— put his to the list for Car- acqu iring knowle dge. thro ugh the experien fougéres, Gens, d’Enghien, Ketlet, ourcroy, 
nations 0} ¥ panies. —Saml. Bowly. ‘ send me with a respectful uval, de Louvain, Belle Alliance, Belle Henriette, Belle 
Large —Having seen the Manchester gardener’s note to any propriet o was famous for his collecti Téloise, Bezi vétéran Imar Nelis, Délice Van Mons, 
account, i = bs 764, of the success of his friend, » Mr. Ha- or oie ni “a ermission for me to see his gar- | Chaumontel Belge nouveau, Délice de Charles, Le Roi as 
sIton. ne grower, i g dener and walk round, which has given me a greatde al of Poires, Fondante des bois, Frédéric de em Per- 
of fruit cut ne small pit in ponaive months, the tan information, which I hope | I am _Teady to impart under | dinand de Meester, Philippe de France, Poire Sentin 
bed bei ing only tmonty feet by sey en fee t six inches ; may Louis de Boulogne, Grand Salomon, Melon de Namur. 
I ask if ha L us if I have often said in return for civilties * eine des Pays Bas, Triomphe de ain, riine 
plants that were ps in pit in ag autumn to fruit the. fol- | ceived i in this way, “ I shall be glad to show our little p e, | de Printemps, oe and Rochefuset collection 
ing summer, and, al: and it y;3 et of Mons. M alot was sese but imens 
he pit. I say that the not hold more i have generally bad for answer, ** T should like t . , e lon ngue, Trés ur, Beurré 
han thirty or thirty-three plants that were likely to pro- and I ff urore, Louise Sona ‘pela Balache, Angleterre 
duce good fruit, not to mention some large suckers that expense.” Now I can safely say that ghia, Clg would | d’hiver, Beurré gris, Belle de Besi, Saint Gal au vin, 
‘saw there, that by an occasional turn-out of uble fleur panachée, Décuré, P: Charles d’Autriche, 
ing from twelve ey seven months after the ripe fruit had ie kind, than by giving them books of a very superficial | Napoleon, Beurré magnifique, Blanche _perlé, 
been cut from the parent plant. hat it character. Suc Ps ° are rtunities, it may be said, would be} d’hiver, Doyenné d’hiver, Bergamotte d’automne pa- 
tember saw those ) suckers on the old stools : now were abused i is am here should be ground for such a re- é, Royale d’hiver, Marquise, ose, 
they to be t j 1 I at ee as of education and of right | d’hiver, Calebasse Bosc, Besi Lamotte, Rousselet Whiver, 
the following February or March? they princes amongst us is daily leading us a mt rine a. Beurré Chaptal, Duchesse, uf de Cygne, 
potted into the pots in they are to — their us notions that haye too much ol , that ver, Sucrin vet, "Route Louise he 
fruit? 1 should also be glad to know how months friendly feeling consists in pressing each other to take si vange, Belle ruxelles, Grosse Berga. 
he allows the the fruit to grow out of the seven. sf should what neither reQuires, an that too often to excess. Pie peogd ede Bon Shah ahiver, Crassane, wid te Sait Ge Ger- 
appreb y ing customs are happily fast sry way, and I shall b Mons. Barbo owing varieties of 
to = tape in seven months from the e they were | glad when it will be thought a aa any of them iene's aid e Geeks D kental 
potted, to say of — in aed on th (very large), Grosse perle, a ote = 
old plant after the sow. little 1 sere the top of his du nghill. No, cottages I hop Chasselas Suisse, Bou 
i be the size shall entertain ae ther ae gor hagptality, nat vith musqué, de Fontaineblea 7: PK whenthil, Male wae, 
ye to four 2s excess of beer, but with ep result of each oth Melier, Chasselas piaccid? Cornichon blanc, 
what near the height such a sucker would ence, and thus help to bu aild each other up in in thos ual blanc, Gro ier de Maroc ( ), Chasselas noir 
be met with ey, | musqué, Muscat blanc, Muscat noir, Muscat arouya, 
” Jf 1 geta rong | our employers, are to us, strengthening our rel respect Chasselas rose and violet. Mon in exposed up- 
ue bla Set in | and obtaining us a fair remuneration for ou a of 40 potent of vegetables, among them 
it the following | C, [We € agree with our sorprapo asian: in "a hes a8 5 Palmier, 5ft. hi: hou rave a fe rd d’artichaut ; 
idle—A erty Tam ee ur opinion a wise ster, who h good | Messrs. Cels, a good collection of stove greenhouse 
figured both in Curtis’s “ Eotaat ld plants, in which we e 60 varieties of Echinoeactus 2 and 
vag coal ise Paxton’s ‘* i of Botany.” Mammilléria, wi d 
-—I have long foll 
lowed the plan of immers- 
liberty-days by withholding litle presents of bosks, but 
Pa 
if he deserves 
them. It would be the best policy to do sv.] 
céreus senilis, Brassia “ maculata, Cattleya Loddigésii, 
bad m 
wm & 49 Si 
eee 2 "2 
cig t for them, and where the plant ii Cucumbers and Melons. —When I cautioned gardeners sdnii, Onci cochleatum, and tortilis. 
in a pot it is only necessary to close the hole in the bot- zg F | other collecti seen Aschynanthus grandi 
and fill it with water, P } r fae 7: } y Dant ep reyes loxinia rubra 3 ia corym- 
their way to the land not covered.—S- l ided mi tee racetnilora, cordifolia, and affinis ; Paulévnia im- 
Cupressus T! a. — Cupressus thuri appears and I i ser a not expect {i fai ancrétium caribeum, Créwea saligna, Cit 
likely to bea shrub of rapid growth ; a small plant turned | so, No rasig was fartbes my intention iis, nants tubffera and confer rtiffora, Gesnéria zebrina ; 
out into a light soil in the autumn of last yez in fact, | Ipomoea Ledrii, ficifélia, and hybrida ; Nérium cipreum, 
this season made ree feet six inches wy Seep “motive i "writing was to expose bung. af Stepha floribunda, and Daviésii es. 
ng sg some of the lateral shoots are above one emp! bared = 60 eet of China Roses in pots ; this was 
foot long.—D. C. , Bota gham. | in this business, it is only necessary to mention that Shas by far most attractive collection in the room, the 
; Turf Edgings.— correspondent 5: D., in ns ob- | are now in the market nearly twenty professedly ne ", ied bela healthy, well Brows, in ry tei flower. 
ee ent | ies Pati for turf | cumbers and Melons, each sing, according to the Mon efor 
edging au t shad unt, superlative merit whieh. kes - 
Mmune as a beautiful natural edging. ‘T thin many of our | pensa a Asam of course. I . ‘net’ jon Shek sai) There ‘were also some “well- 
et would be highly cen te ntal by way | prices are proportionately ‘high, pean il from tales grown Dablias in pots, by MM. Chauviére and R nd Roblin, 
pein: Sy ties where they are readily procured), | crown a packet up to a guinea, which last sum I am told 
is + where few other will live. For ‘ae phat trees in pots, and some good collections of re ms 
ee atum ; | seeds ! ough there pan some very plants, - Heat aths, Epacris, &c.,&c. The following e the 
ce, and it | good sorts am te the great number advertised, they can- | success aaaick :—Ist, silver medal, Mons. eins 
Hit : ae not all te. the heat p Ranier which the daming fe- for Créwea saligna ; 2, bronze medal, M. Mabire, for) 
lead us to believe; etipreum ; 3, silver medal, M. iad 
| consequently, es sam in many cases | and other plants —— “Me a ori <r 
; deceptions. season there half-a- | do.; 5, silver , M. Chauviére, for lf 
vul- | dozen new sorts ‘brought out;’’ this ie. am there | 6, silver medal, M . Paillet, ne China Roses Se 
y Hil. | are tree times the ‘number, and at inereact prices; | Drouze medal, Bf. Verdier, for dodo; & iver wel 
st 0. 
ondet We are likely eno to be du tee medal, M. J: ee te are thus grandifiorus ; , 
butter, supposed | Melon mania, Gralteg tn be duped by practices the no wd silver mi edal, MM. Cels, for stove e and greenhouse plans 
in more Pay ha On general grounds, therefore, oie j TT ime oak M. Malot, for fruit; 12, bronze med: oat. 
"cco -eaution ws perfect justifiable; but as Mr. Cuthill de- | M. Barbot, for do. ; 13, M. Croux, for 
mands a specificati saying that | trees erhart, for ¢ 
Calanthe densifora, Galeandra Baueri, Maxilléria ~_. 
ii cidium Trichopilia 
llections wei 
