36 
THE GABRVENERE 
CHRONICLE. 
without any further attempt at Trete than 
boaii of emege perhaps perfecting mires 
their second growth a few flowers ; on the | s 
befo 
required. In these o 
exercise a little penn em at ie e but a 
careful * nish 
As a plant for winter forcing, bey will be found to 
surpass most of the usual subj po nye gual toc | 
ts which were grown — 5 in the seaso 
ee i Soe has been retarded by having been io a 
i e 
| and the tops appear yello ow. Those 
0 ton s 
— can | gine 
y reach 5 feet, throwing out leaves every 
Ter or y ber The stems are as K as a middlin 
ized Willow 
ghting fires w 
r time for eutting the stems pieng level with 
sag is November, when as descended, 
s for „planting, awy put them | o 
maller 1 good 
abont the size of a well-grown Horse- Radish, a 
some are as thick as small Parsnips, and 3 or 4 feet in 
taking up the crop, a trench is taken out to the 
vt of 3, 4, or 5 feet, according to the nature of the 
former | ‘trenching g; a rope is t wee tie may the top, 
it and it takes all the strength a man has got to pull the 
e root generally breaks off, say a foot or 
ya it never 
than foreig and if the acreage 
p- James 
Cuthill, 1 
PERPETUAL VENTILATION, 
In your interesting mira > p. 819, 1851, respecting 
Burning of Vine Leaves in Winter,” it is stated that “as 
will come into bloom at almost any time, with the assis 
regards the means — — perpetual a we 
are . nearly as tury ago.“ 
of a few weeks of a warm pit. This Gar z nia is 8 ere a 
of little use, however, for agape Saat the winter, ex- | This is a very se tio soak ‘an no one come 
cept when it can be k oa ; forif amA e and 9 5 siia ＋ on so tag a ee 2 
from the forcing pit to a Tadia or Re gi are the of Polmaise who a 
its flowers soon decay, ey the ordinary tempe tended so warmly ar sa soda of perpetual 
ouses is not sufficient to induce the Pa pea ventilation $ Pac e in e, may 
of other blossoms. Nevertheless, in a warm pit, it | dormant. But the seed fon 92 germinated, and only 
will be invaluable to those who have to supply large wants the perse we hand of practical science tos 
ich 
esteemed for bouquets during the win 
soil, 
use fibrous Sua pana, to which * add 
‘about one-fourth of light turfy loam and a portion of 
charcoal, with pam er sand, wea pee my plants f 
333 vious to in thei 
I usually shift established plants 2 every other 3 
This plant is not a grower, an does 
not require so much pot room as m Ray 
- little clear id manure- water the 
growing season, and when the plants are flowering, will stan 
of ne assist such as may be i 
T ~ HERBS. 
o. III.—LIovoRIcR.— The cultivation of this plant i is 
= little understood in this country ; in but 
„ 85 here, and h. iig I 
— rr W eco 
TRAE ahd ; r of th Sper 
OEH till the spring. In March | ventilation at tòp: The bottom of 705 
3 down, will consist of flags, resting on e of Oak (or iron), 
pil | supported by 9-inch brick will be 
e iron gratings in the ge to —.— the heated air, made 
. ; | humid by Sa” wa eaming tank behind the 
on stove, to ascend. — with a 
“ine and covered with a large strong of the 
T Grik bese ike E N ẹ smoke flue will be carried e es “a 
wor adie They te ime pi an te i Aera bt below the a level, so that no heat aa 2 
r. urnished eyes every 2 inches see specified, b I trust 
which grow well the first year after planting. Ev , neo N suffice, 
it sad be fitted up, W. "pit itzsimon, Hornby Coal Catterick. 
close off by the neck of the roots, and, if fresh plan- 
io ee they are cut into len of two e; 
Band winte red in heaps o out of habe A covered — 
stra 1 like Potatoes ; ; but, if not required 
y peres 8 ent. 
pots. freezing. At 
me ti aig homed ehe 
ing- | frui 
cet 3 -E gg are — for thatch- | 
| ing sheds and li 
The 
pee that a ve 
-grown ou 
is i 
be | dens ar 
e 
What t in the prese 
private persons, ae the ree flowe 
and poor aa re 
edulco 
one 
At S 
agar, the cour rt piradi are Min ey id out m 
there are abou 
100 gigantic Orange 
Y 
of the taste al 
ER 
H 
carried from 
love 2 gardens ed to Rare ne ee nn in oe E 
many miseries of her ary life. 
an 
= there T 
G 
the 8 or hollow. 
A fe beds oobi 
plants d according to an order; 
same pir shel: of green plants, and a large 
hothouse cramm ith a mixture of old stove plant 
stifling each other. These, h ch called 
gh 5 Glasgow 
to my mind what 
last year, only they were 25 per cen 
ghosts of old, — “useless ga 
tanical gar- 
den, unless, indeed, it is connected with a — 
and lectures on botany and vegetable physiology, ea £0 55 
imple const 
of Polmaine if 
some years ago. 
stand at 60° when the cold eae ge 188 ‘he are 
t time the ona la 
g itself 3 abs bed 
The accompanying woodcut represen re 
— intended plant stove, 40 feet by 20 ey which, his = 
eated ers little 
FOREIGN GARDEN GLEANINGS. 
ing, as, for i parc for isin . These 
to collectio Throu German 
— prevails a taste for window E — 
ingland, 
ll the plants, or nearly all, as far as I could judge, are, 
| against the scree 556 
what we in this country should call well grona 
is 
with reference | in South Ge 
with few gag = ill grown and 8 few flowers: 
ie Jer WX. Ee worthless | bu ee a aided Coun and all along the 
8 9 . 3 = smaller towns 585 are flowers in 
g like so many in nearl. 
; aring hte a es i i rh rod 4 63 
At Frankfort, where there are some fine gardens of 
Why, even baa Kew is but a large mete garden =i 1 
no school for botanists ; no lecture n, and 1 
publie — the one in Lond on 1 Wein con- 
nécted with our great public garden. So far, therefore, 
cept as as through 
me publications the ich the collecting 
ins. 
ae Munich I saw M. Weinkauff, the hea e 
= was very ae and desirous of showing l 
to be seen ; clear that it is not from watt 
y will or priy on ‘his 2 th n is not 
in a bette was a small collection d 
plants of Orchids; nothing — and nothing i 
as to their cultivation. Slan ting from the back of 3 
lean-to house there was a b screen, and to 
this most of the best . were either 1 
moss, or were grown in pots suspen nded by wires le 
n; and the plants were health 
truck me that arrangemen 
e Only one plant Ge e 
came Dresden, and there the gar 
than those I ha 
tensive, and I saw some two or three Oaks in 
an which I believe are not in collections in Eng 
There are two a „ who 
each h i 
M. 
the — i is 3 Aor bi 
best M. Seidel principally por his 
— $ 8. — collection, as com h those 
llisson and i Veitch, and even ie 
the plants 
ms that more flower than we § d 
pia 1. „ cultivates his oa a ana houe 
pted to growing these plants, an 
I think his are the igs * 
ums, 
rman eee e eee 
of Count Thun, at Tetchen, in Bohemia, between 
and Dresden. 
t per has written 
Ape Are I have not seen. His 
order; many of the § 
He 
Orchids, 
3 i in 
rge and 
the ho 
wall grown, e 
ouse, however, I suspect is 
