THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 69 
5—1852. | 
blackbird, rene is left to opinion. Some oe a very eee with myriads of its deep yellow blossoms. The 
tame, others a very wild a In the former case, the in question is situated in the highlands of the 
song is ei n the latter, the bird is gene- 5 with that n “sae are flowing by their base, 
rally possessed of his e note. and open to a cold breeze from the north, especially in 
These birds are imitative,—so much so, oa it is . uring which time the constitutional hardiness o 
difficult to procure a young bird that does not “talk apran can be well te oil in which it grows is 
gibberish.” If he hears a whistle, | a will try to imitate a gravelly loam ; the = is about 5 feet high, very 
it; if a noise, he will try and copy it. This will ever be DÝ; and it appears to have been Ar- o or three 
el of ars. During the idet rof l made shoots sa 
c 
s 
these tied «bat-folded „that is, e wild, at night, 
in a n ae 
These 
once sob sing sw 
eetly in refuse 
a 
irds will sometimes take kindly to a cage at | the 
a week; 
h ve 
n, 3 to 4 feet long, which, though yieee ng an 
xasi 
gro 
k bright light 
sun con solida 
were well ripene 
w 
they are qui They ed at and enables the plant to endure the w unp 
> op 8 height. They should be procured i in | tected, through a degr cold which has no parallel 
the ason ; if taken now, they would fall sick in Britain. About th le o h it commence 
and pag Their troth is pledged, their 1 are laid, ning its blooms, which had been thickly set over the 
and all arrangements made for the Let wood of the previous ye > nd b me 
p ourselves i milar ition, by hypothesis ; ; month it is one complete mass of deep yel Its 
i n of flow 
ease is analagous 
ing these bat-folded 
; but it will be desirab e to hear them sing, before 
you become a purchaser ; and to take them away in the 
ere be plenty of young "Pe u in 3 
London Pi- ts in another 2 onth. The 
ve young birds. One of 
for ers es noe cory 3 a 
yours 
umber 
ctl ctly you get them, place them in a long cage with | 
a vie 7 he that they may have a long Cover 
the bottom with red 
owering, will, of course, depend 8 ‘the lati- 
tude in bers it is 1 he re, gtd. mme openi 
ite 
in full beauty. „In the Ist vol. 
en had com 
when: the noe was 
e of Botan 
Garden A 
the followin ng — 
o delica 
me in 
and excellent plan 
that I know of no n whose bloom 
amount of ‘rough W uninjured, T 
of my remark 1 as 3 “oe in 
during which time 8 — 
o falls 
snow, and much wet eather, heed the . did not 
— 
t J droppe 
24] 4 171 +} 
* ou Th 15 are 
7 4 Breet: the way to their mouths, 
e constant in su pplying U thet vie cold, fresh water ; 
t -ay 
good birds,” in no 
can you obtain such. I have myself just been edgeating 
heen surpassingly great. Iam e entertained e áy 
ning, after the fati of — day, with music ‘that | 
might well be sup manated 
in 
1 t chapter ill k of the proper fi cia sete 
n our next cha we wills 0 ood 
‘treat of „ars 
or blackbirds, an 
is pleasant, as 
year is 
Hia ie . trembling year is unconfirm'd, 
An = cae oft at eve n the breeze; 
Chills the pale his driving sleets 
Sator the da; 
But the day is even now at our = ai when n 
with all its enchantin beauties,’ will burst upon = Fe A 
this, let us patiently wait. William Kidd. 
— gon -e 
n the last Nr 
tural Society. 
“The value and exquisite beauty of this plant are not, 
Fortan from China, he spoke in high terms of its 
uestion much whether anything more 
d 
handsome can be found all 
may have been successful in cultivating it 
a a | 
ter but mo ony poate sar came under my notice in | 
| ously in of the poo: 
ength on the 
under “an eminent | 
t- | Plan 
umber | fo 
1 1 * tly known in England, where by many it 
consid When Mr. | of 
tural | used ta the latter 
av 
uctions, not 
‘lint was in an open, „ — situation. In o 
grow this plant well in England, 
causes to whi xr success is to be atiribu ted in the e 
not soil; for that in which the plan 
as pla r of a poor description, and I 
served o a pes in the same nursery growing vigor- 
rest kind. Bright light and 
as are the conditions to which success w 
and, no doubt, the best pr for it 
south wall, where it wou 2 ceive 
all the sunlight possible; so circu ee e 
en its ell an . lse abundance o ers in 
lene wi 
airy station 2 be 
of e 
ted out as a bus h, an 
fone degi ney irect 
it sh 
be guarded pein 
En 
Chimonanthus fragrans, the greate 
open, 
* 
rs | overmuch — at the Nerz Net the soil in which R 
| cellent tonic. 
rs ga ome 
to — 
rs a «halt — 
i gate Wallflowers . than garden 
he mi — 
order o | ably strike root.” 
must examine te gen 
ture, I . e should “ake plac 
rn |J. Liv ar 
a japonica or | wa 
best time for the ae, is November, as the plants 
have time to make roots ing the winter; by hoein 
and — to it, the folowing spring, they soon resi 
the groun flow thered in July 
August. Chamomile bitter å is s much estee as an ex- 
rey ; one plan- 
„year, foni all that can id — -= cultivation. 
he flowers are dri ho for the pur- 
ose, with flues running through them ; the flowers are 
read rames, but p, Hore- 
hound, ut herbs, n lines in 
eds, through which plenty of air circulates, Most of 
succulent roots and juicy erbs, however, are 
artificially dried in stove-houses, never in the sun 
ast week's article on Herb 
parag 
Peppermint, as is ther 
relates to v Nr Jala Cuthill, Camberwell 
Home Correspondence. 
Origin of Ro 
stibjest give rise to m 
them I wish to direct the attention of observ 
e roots of the ery plant fo which Jou 
om the fracture of 
Thorn, 
ould be r re almost 
« plashing? "i is fracturing 
oody fibre, but not severing itf from e parent ste 
I have watched 
n. They strip > off a well — 
Strikin 
neral practice of layering, is, as it seems to me, all on 
the same E of fracturing. I would suggest to 
Prop pagato the experiment of fracturing a 
cutting ; Aati is, — a cutting is duly prepared for the 
ot or ground, } 
— intended for the — a then observe — 
which of the two parts the roots co 1 The frac- 
3 M., ——You — 
and — roots N in coer 
but not your — that the 
g and ne p 
nsiders it a very useful plant for 
y extracted co 
winter and spring forcing, an opinion in which Lentirely 
es 
In order to grow this — for e blooming in 
conservatory or greenhouse, youn 
nts in the spring; shift them liberaliy, using any 
w | good compost ; TR T plan it to break into 
several shoots—as rather ineiined to throw one or 
two strong — * — . 
sd poed ea be shifted nally, and at pe | 
stopped; the best way of e effecting this is, as soo 
any shoo Per are observed to grow 1 r than the odes, 
to ade out the extreme points ; they e soon break 
fi : whereas if left till the 1155 beco 
ta shortened, they take a longer tine t 
they never do it so free 9 : 
t a season whe y other things are in flower, 
whilst the Fo when every stray floret is 
HE 
No. V.—Cnavomtte.—A . acres of this plant 
are grown round 8 ref the blooms. 
is as follows: — The ground is 
manared and dug, or ploughed, and unt nete n s old old | 
plant et apart, mm ot 6 inches tant athe rm. "The | 
ae the plants have com- l 
— forcing, in order to 
0 
| the fruiting 
th 
escribed at page 51. 
nee evidently been cut by the spade in 
C. Pocklington, Boston. 
Trinity College Ga 
Bain’s letter, and I ho ope h ot th 
ue the merits and dnn of the Dublin Trinity 
n the autumn of 1850. 
ga 
ronicle of my visit to the college stated 
how much obliged I was both to Dr. Mackay and Mr. 
Bain for e civilities and attention, and how satisfied 
| Forcing. —At p. 52, Mr. Buchan states, 
that a pit 
to effect a proper temperature. I 
orce about 300 p nothing but 
pots, an in asunny situa 
ey remained, until the pots were likely to 
