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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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e foolish as well as cruel to attempt to cage 
w. In the first eee they > would 
season; 
their 2 ore a — . whilst engaged in t 
arduous duties of — 
— An out deer birds if well 
sometimes indulged in. , it is desirable 
In such cases 
to let th le performer have his immediate liberty, or your | s s 
em 
e third place, you would be depriving te 
he jc 
1 
| throug 
We should be — in our 4 did we . point out | snow- 
nsities rush, Our readers 
es of the th 
m 
diseases to which they are subj and 
for their reception,—will be the subjects of — — 
William Kidd. 
1 GARDEN GLEANINGS. 
t 
MS Boo nra).—I have little to say about No 
u 
are cov 
goniums; there, pretty St ori? in another place, 
immen Wal pei in other, 88 
another, trees of Thlaspi, differing i in 99 — 
4 feet high, loaded with flow 
e walks ee 
ere st other places in Prussia, pleasan 
promenades and long avenues of trees, which, by their 
Frig well become the finest 
The ma © at 1 me of my visit, filled 
with vegetables, wey eoit in kin 
not at the right 9 and only w ill-hoo 
There are e horticultural eee Ne 
er h as thei 
to wholesale clivation, 
and fioriculture. 
‘There 
«Sei uquet o K Rowan m] e 
ein ‘te towa i 7 ere a regular seed or 
flower shop. The largest establishments belong to M. 
Christian Von Brocken and one of! his relations ; Š ed 
has 
a garden in the ‘town, in which are the hothouses The 
ning 8 he former gentleman, though not of a a lange 
size, sof every branch of st ture ; 
market gardening, the SS of 
pri us. wn garden 
of f the latter ad sit does not differ — from 
winter verdure to bare — — or bee 
e 
branch 
e | situation, fro 
— penn 
in large quantities, all raid : 
— large an 
— is 3 of — 
* and half with root crops. 
car 
mpart a graceful droning | 
m4 — 
—— the slender fi ea ng branches 
* 12 feet in — 
eir elegant and picturesque — on 
&e ada. a3: 
Here in 
ning Ki Kidne y Bei 'haiftheground 
] 
© | withheld early in 
j g kears oy 8 
artificial means, the duration of 2 
f i cis, assum: a in 
value of its fruit | for pre- | rec 
the 3 orgs £ itself by — 1 of 
ind of dev r outline 
earth as with a carpet, its v alike c 8 
rm and sunshin well a adapted for 
a wall, wits $ 4 little attention to 
om d 
8 
training against a 
he deep pon tint of its 
white blo = has 8255 
« diamonds vhs a be 
admirably adapted “for Tig effect in eee 
k- ric 
ing the outer 
mal re —— r wall. 
very fine specim is ub exists, or aid exist, 
at the suburban villa arden attached to the residence 
occupied by s (late nurseryman), near 
It — a aed nearly 50 feet in cir- 
blank spaces on massive 
n, or outline, aes 
ained erect, it will reac m 4 to 7 feet, and 
for wal ‘altar, for which it is all adapted, it will 
0 fe 
18 85 c with the | exceed 
—— — ifolia (Thyme-leaved.)—A remarkably 
ill more 
y but a 
r the front of select shrubberies, py ‘middle 
postions in — borders, and the foreground of roc 
work, i a desirable novelty, furnishing its share of 
interest throughout t the ie * <A es — ially in winter, 
when er 
Ilex . fructul eo lien ‘ied).—This 
a som mewhat t stout evergreen mall tree, of senile 
ing — and v: e ace e to soil and 
to 10 feet in height. Its l of 
clear yellow rath amp to 
very picturesque objec 
me other de — 
Hippophiie rhamnoides, femina ( (fruit bearing) — A 
neat, deciduous, branchin 5 ich grows from 
4 to 10 feet in —— ish aspect, with 
en 1 lave that are ee d ce a 8 
t 
of rich o 
. are t hickly mi “presenting oa — 
effect, area well in colour 2 the — marble- 
like fru no a pears gr acefully 
su ende ed fro he stems, or An the slender twigs 
like tiny N balanced in air. W. Wood, Fishergate 
Nurseries, York. 
Home Correspondence. 
ua bicolor.—Having e ore plant 3 
uch so 
whi owing — 
ca cer of 1850 I — a small cutting of it, and 
neee it in the most er manner I could 
ntil the autum 
in 
was bottom- mer eo house — warme 
mproved) in which it grew rapidly until Midsummer. 
I then pened 3 to the open air; water was 
utumn, and it was . on a north 
bor pea ntil October, after which it was put in a cold 
hou In the pos n Jan i 
1 in the — w ed w 
n every _ e of development, eee e, 
T 
in the conservato; which f use for it is 8 al 
parts peat, feen and . lil 
K. Pettit, Gardener to eee Datari Bart., — 
hall, near Bury St. E. 
Silk and See fect of heat and cold on 
i n 5 dg 2 the 
retard 
experiment should have been taken in hand at an 
earlier period than the sent. The chrysalis in 
cocoon should have been subjected to treatment 
calculated to retard the appearance 
tely the production of the 
fluence, ee os tow 
lives 
Serves, 
menen ei, for — ie Grass spaces or con- 
of insects eo bé 
Spicuous positions in shrubbery borders, especial 
ers, ly when | ce that insects are found in _ hot- 
ehcouraged to attain its greatcat oian ye y a much earlier period a 
123 microphylla (small eo gr is well | appearance. u 
Toe bo a neat decumbent ver of c chrysalis has found shelter, in in a hot-house 
t h growth, adapting pat found fii | y a ai La glass e W 
noticed repeatedly in an gmh Vinery where a l 
s are ually introdu 41 
s of i — life are quickened în 
anuary. 1 
as a common practice’ to 
tterflies, secured 
aren 8 Pine stove, and by so 
doing the perfect insect was epee earlier 
e | period in the spring. I have — induced m 
e learne: 
essor was inflexible i in his opinion 
— 
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erop e could 5 gathered fo for 
er. 
the de evelopement of 3 a — instances will, 
I believe, justify me in assert n opinion entirely in 
i sarong to — advanced by the gentleman I have 
d; fairly argu 
arge se ar better plan than the one sug- 
a lar, 
gested ee i to build 2 me e A of g” —— 
ange of ho 
ses, arge 1 and 
eas — fis in which he might sto xh cultivate 
Vines, the geen of which would pay a handsome 
expen . . Mulberry trees 
as to pro- 
caterpillars, until the regular 
I can recommend 
this p r confidence, a as “ once — a 
sede tity o e Vin The shade 
afforded by the Vines, and the 88 maintained 
n the house for them, seemed greatly to suit the 
— W. 
Protection of Gooseberry and Currant Tree Buds from 
Birds,—Coverin faa 2 with li meng | dung has been 
recommended for this purpose ubt that may 
8 “ses but it must ‘ook unsightly in a well kept aaee 
* 8 I have adopted is to pure some 
onest white — thread, which ean be 
duce leaves to supply the 
their attacks 
all the 8 — 
at a time when the 
ener kn age that they gee 
effect ; in one or two days, and that 
"buds have swelled. to. a ponn siże. 
Ee 
pe 
until shortly before 1 expect they would commence thds 
Ifit were applied much before that time, 
for — 8 1851, I 
n as the — for cottage 
made, and — ow been fitted up and 
inse par 
-| ticular trea adop the neglec 
development of the e eggs ery e errian but the 
tried, an advertisem a should a 
The stove has now 
Wi 
Stephanotis floribu ease of this p! É pto- 
rh se ome en at Fe 55 the page 1 is not a 
soli A fine fru —— DiS N and 7. inches 
Great Men Gardeners—I recollect sending you an 
nedint some we ago, of those who gee 9 and 
of a myself, 3 de- 
re great t have ‘the 
N iebuhr, when tired of polities, i it will be seen ngain the 
glected. One can distribute seeds ; in this way a de- 
mand fi m gradually ari and from the di 
ee From next autumn we 4 
Id, fi si the — 
** rom ossoming an 
my father’s garden.” Berlin, Feb. d 
occupies an old bastion and part of a 
