THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
21 
mp nted out, it will jets 
perfect ra any right soit winks peat o r loam will 
be found to require sume arian in beon to — i 
clear of 2 and der the sa 
to stopping and e tting bac 
young plants 13 as it cannot receiv e any assistan 
the way of heat and moi ure, never stop later than ‘the 
middle of July. Alpha. 
PRISON SONG BIRDS. 
E Breos, No. 44 
No. L have now entered upon a month, i 
which there i is little 8 day by day 3 the 
return of spring. Yet do pirs s nae ong hrushe 
i vity, — certain 
3 each other, 
oy 
peculiaritie 
appro 
and in their $ delicate — g wi 3 convince us th 
will all ‘mate’ at a very early 
We were busy—musing, at ‘the remote end of our 
garden on Sunday last, yaya under the shade 
of some lofty Firs, and in the close proximity of t the 
Holly and the Laurel, when some 3 sounds’ 
saluted our ears, whi ch we recognised as the notes 
of dalliance 
3 | pairs of thrushes and several pairs of black- 
birds were busily agitating the brushwood, and flitting 
reatlessly along the vais length ofa Holly-hedge— pur- 
suing each other as these ven at this 
season of the year, a this gives the note of prepara- | “ 
tion for early incubat 
We have obs — ros certain incipient signs of ap- 
pret familiarity between cock-robin and his in ntend- 
early well! Now what were the causes of failu 
love.“ 
that are beneath him with a feeling of p giving 
„% Oh! 1 sing me something well ; 
While my n d 
Tkeep wen A plots of fruitful ground, 
Where thou may’st warble, eat, and dwell? ” 
So sings Tennyson, and we echo his chant. William 
Kidd. 
Seated aloft, he seems to look down upon all rium 
pity ; tentio ion 
t me at to songs of melody that liberty could alone | was en 
ug 
om i — it, and ——— early kinds, early, 
needs not fear the diseas 
thi is Pat no folly can 
I remember a few years ago -= your at- 
And the subject of botanical gardens, and you 
d your intention of making some apr iawn te 
odman 
= tie mere 
8 Disease.—As the season is now fast approach- 
g for pl ing Potatoes, I wish to state that whoever 
s his land thoroughly, and not 
should he not follow 
of — off the 
ear 
ree 
SPIRÆA PRUNIFOLIA FLORE PLENO, IN ane m, or pulling it up, 2 that aes aggravates the 
UNITED STATES. complaint, or — 5 the sound part of p from 
Tux following observations o on this plant by J. Saul, | growing „ The cause of the evil is not in the 
of Washington, D. C., were published in aad last Number ee ee but in the low temperature of 3 rai 
of Hoi Horticultural — 
t was 
It will be recollected that 
orti ural 
t Mr. Van yom tte 
n parties in 
England who had fine plants which they n never bloomed 
u 
proa 
ing associ 
sui gene 
these preparatory interviews 
They then separat sige ania 
the same 3 orrow 
h w n their ‘irtations are 
completely over, the “ pro posal” 1 e the 4 gi 
considered, and — happy Redbre made a y 
husband for the season. His tr ge are then 2 
off —a divorce is mutually agreed oe and scien parties 
once more retire to-“ ee Hall.” We note these 
little episodes as w oiim 
pei their ne ia cannot be too closely seru- 
a and adm 
e robins and "ae blackbirds are among the very 
5% of the feathered tribe to 8 themselves for the 
9 of ws y: vied es have any ype 
ou may see. vate garden, nidification e 
mencing at the pity of. iste 
The blackbird of last year 
£5 
arrives at maturity in the 
They meet en avance, and $ — quickly “retire | e 
ar 
or the i 8 of birds, | 27° 
probably discover 5 a canse. f o plants i s in 
England, if grow ots, we ced in a 
apprehend, very nearly repre- 
al con aene, rd, here ne = planti is perfectly 
rdy, enduring a very lo 
warm, followe 
ta 
which it never attains in Englan n the latter country, 
when ripe, it has at best a proiek hue, very different from 
th e brow wn merica 
omes, and with it a — — of bloom of snow wy 
whiteness, precisely like the flow f Ranunculus 
pre follow my advice, a 
Cold w 
n | land bids defiance to it. 
from the w 845 Geo. 
i sma no one will identify us with all these * ene 
ns. | 
"We eds on 
this subject, J have had gas i eg —— 
the „I 
“ 
Sian as 282 as 2 
g Ti on 
which is evidently from the e en. 
for I may say that no 
pales — seed.“ lai 
` for this simple invention, which Ie 
riend, n ore 
arty from 3 use. Henry Bailey, Nun ume- 
ham, oda d. 
e heat of the soil, therefore, as 5 ae 
nd rte 
alre 
above all, as I ha ave 
oO 
5 
— 
m 
> 
hem of e ee 
b land eee, a disease ; ; dry well drained 
The land has not recovered 
Wilkins, Wis. e 
1 
hy 
Lawns.—Since my article was written on 
al wer to t 
«mach pestered with them,” (i.e., 
and had them taken out with cae last 
could m 33 sie 
en 
ays he, 
ot a single 
Bu 
eem to be generally known, I 
po = in — ng you such informa- 
may enable others to derive 
The and purposes of Ammonia in 
Vegetable. Economy. —The SN of am- 
aconitifolius, but sm 
to soil, bnt rather dry than moist 
lowing spring,—assuming, with the change of season, 4 y h p 
a jet-black, glossy livery and a bill as yellow as go old. Sonn = — rete. ore 9 = * oo net? i 
The orbs of the eye, ra become — palor Asd mpa ados, where it vould receive è al the sun 
> ’ 
the whole figure bold and daun of a and ligh ch the ane 
The hen 
dusky, dark brown colour; and acg eyes less brilliant 
than those of the male. 
The instinct of the blackbird is by no 8 remark- 
able. The few birds, ind so palpably 
obtuse ; for they — their nests in situations which, 
h ce 
* 
gee the quantities 
Teos cockney spo wound 
many dre Wi whilst perhaps he ki Kills « 0 one, and 
that by the merest aceiden 
With all the slaughter, — dealt out amongst 
them during the winter months, we always find plen 
of survivors left to greet us a — top of the highest 
tree, at the earliest dawn of already 
assant, that as this bird is 
have given | resul 
nty | ve 
n give 
wood 3 = perfectly ripened * net; this 
secured, a goo om is e 
* For r forcing this finti is fra ¢ for this 
e ns grown in el sho uld b 
ee in order to m 
d in some instances no flowers at all. No ow, 
if this will happen in a climate like that of the middle 
Sta re the wood had been well ripened, how 
is i 
as | le 2 even by thos 
ficial to them, o pas specia 
to serv 
If a general asse 
of nitr. 
= chief Pa a Lr 
while all * Rely: are an 
by a due supply of it, se eres 8 the med 
r source 
ackno we 
pig dem 
much as their 
: 
fro 
8 * in 
3 which i it is intended 
e in their economy, does appear to hav 
made the subject of very er i = well define 
to plants 
ammoni 
t from this view; muc 
rved to have Pery an saat 
ish and be hs cae 
ium of 
Ait 
vidity for ammonia, 
rain, or from other es, t 
i ion made 
— i it is ond we should know the e 
from whence plan me, in or 
them r ! Row fre 
er to 
equentl Teen metho 
able to es sa 
number i own immediate E at least a dozen, zs a 
and twice that number of thrushes ; with wrens, robins, — oe . — of the ben -< sb ano d — much [o pria lants to exp e of their sn 
and tit-mice, ad libitum. Sacred is our rural dwelling | all would have leon e ee obliges us, then, to look to che o 
to the happiness and perfect enjoyment of — e melo- element of which it is composed, hydrogen, for the tru 
rogues, ure from pursui in the bosom o Ss ae EEEN solution of the problem; and I apprehend it is fully 
their affectionate families, and in > Sidst of ple = e Correspondence. competent afford it. The appetence of plan 
with me al? the feathered tri safi mae — Until I saw the Ganed aba ammonia is not a more general fact than the existence 
m who levels a hollow ‘elt, “ eg with ai. Belfect d Gardens, wn I had a very low notion of the | of hydrogen, o dro- heir 
at any of the settlers on m „who come to | value to botany or 13 orticulture of botanical ens, substance; for where shall we find a plant that is 
s the ri y „—I m mean, i 3 pee either at home or abroad; no dis isparagement to Kew, inflam: or capable of producing flame w 
ty 
Once or gri late 
doors and ont „are ex 
sive | ign 
active its and well kept. I, however, lately read a Dori of | subs And ly ce whence 
* I trust W after this 85 elon Professor Henslow in some cha per, to form a any proof that it can be obtained is the ammonia 
5 e season. Cruelty” is inde- collection of types of natural objects; specimens, &c.,|which plants imbibe by their roots; inasmuch as 
fitti r museums of na „history; now I take there is no evidence that they decompose water to 
the — is busily rehearsing his vernal | it that if this plan were adopted in regard to botanical | obtain a supply of hydrogen. The experiments and 
ke a “ peep ” at the construction of | gardens, wit ness earches of Ville, commented on in a leading 
te ials used are, fibrous n | is shown at p „even in the best of this kind of | article at p. 739, are not without an important bearing 
similar matters ; the inside being d, porn it would rende: more useful than they | on this subject. These experiments establish the fact, 
ould, and subsequently lined with Tha if attention were first directed to that plants respire or give out nitrogen. Fro nce, 
site chosen is, sometimes, a thick bush ; the 9 of types, say o h genus, and of all] then, is this nitrogen derived! Not from the atmo- 
sometimes, a laurel and See peng Á it is placed on the | p especi illustrative > particular facts in sphere in a free or uncombined state, of which there is 
side of n The number of e id seldom exceeds | vegetable economy, and as f: climate mad. cultivation | no proof; and inde contrary to al ce 
five. These are covered with brown spots at ould allow, systematically arranged, the botanical | of natural ses in which there is nothing done in 
The period of incubation is fourteen da; student would find much more to induce im to visit a to suppose plants inhale n from the 
Ere yet another short week shall have gone over our ll I | atmosphere for the useless purpose of merely respiring 
pr we shall behold a wondrous change in voi it again. It ¢ y come, then, f e ammonia, 
blackbird and the thrush, ey rally wonderfully which plants imbibe by their roots ; and we have thus 
ame 5 r breeding app and, while hate, roo ere is at least a ve n of 
an a ia sitting sedulously on her nest, fon: ndly an- ni the ammonia so absorbed which — do 
of her task ere- 
sak 
3535 
not appropriate, which they have no use for, 
fore respire or 
reject, On the o! other hand, again, there 
