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214 THE GARDENERS - CHRONICLE. [Avan 1 . 
er of inflorescence, as well as a; The Seed Trade. — I am of opinion that Mr. Ayres’ smoke coming from the ironstone at the time Tw 
modifice 0 eee will be apparent to that of | strictures, at 89, upon the prices at Ko 15 but when I came among e = 
Kalmia latifolia. ut let me not be supposed t cavil | vegetable 8 are sold by druggists in th es carrie f he isture 8 ere 
= the r of coe 8 ; on the contrary, | go far to pro e the correctness of sertions, instead | was rapidly condensed, a : mn 165 beyond dene 
unio: e most r sable persons connec = of “ showing,” as he proposed to do, “ their absurdity. ; d l as scare i 15 oe went back 
with 1 politieslly - and _cientifallyy $ for Mr. Ayres admits that Peas, Beans, Union, ettuce, again, a ae, te be dea ane Ut 
fitting; uniting Aucklands, Dathousies, and Cabbage seeds may be bought at those prices red a ag The experiment pny repeated fre 
the 8 the Wallichs, re Royles, the dgsons, | re s are somewhat lengthy, but he has chosen, quent v, an ‘the me effec produced. Would 
as it were into one b d, an ose united efforts if from necessity, to expatiate upon a variety of points | gases produce cold to cause the condensing of the vapour: 
were directed to ren te re of civilisation and | in the seed tra er than come to the question at Or would it eck from the immediate contact with ith them? 
the extension of selene, both i d the rest of issue, and answer my que s I have other facts, Peter Macken 
the world. William Masters, Exotic Nursery, Canterbua owever, which are to surprising than Rain at Cobham, 8 Di in 1851. 
Mi former statement, I will give them, for the benefit o 1 nigh 1 Tà 
Natural Inarching.—A year or two ago, I sent you | Me Ayres's consideration. ry respec Dlo, Ferai orient a DB 2 — a" 
some particu non 3 sketch of a seemingly n natural | vendor of seeds at Carmarthen, whose st prices ig E dee 9 
inarching of 2 E — have lately found in my own lies before me, quotes “ Curled Parsley” at the ra apri wt ty e pA ca November 1 
8 a ‘Mall i rched into its neighbour. The bee’ per lb., while the London wholesale p S 5 ihe |? Juno eu i i wi eeem ber oy ae 
ch quits its par ink: a tree of in. round, at Ib.; & the we oe 13d. per , the 2.09 8 at 
about 18 in. teom the ground; it is 5 ft. 4 in. to the erase wholesale price ‘eae . per Ib.; “ Stras- nr ET eby. i 
junction, . rou the middle, and 4 in. at burg“ Onion seed at rate of 110 per Ib., which i a Ve ine in. Doris din „ 
both upper and lower end. At about 4 ft. 6 in. from | Is. per Ib. in the Fanden whole houses. "Ho e | Forsythia an ane 1 55 irren pranfln 5 they bo boili foe mi 
und, it unites with the other tree, and a branch, these things to be a ounted for at a distance of 220 ere as stand Aden 1 
which from its direction, I judge to be in | miles from Lo: s ina part of th re, Our vegetation zots on inspite of. drongh tho 
fact originally the same, leaves the nee tree with a from the humidity of the atmosphere, I have never been hree Vuecas, a Furcroea, Agav Sb 
thickness ba 8 in. ro e bark is as perfect and | able to n ed that would ger alan i 5 „ Ast . anal 
as at any, other forkin ng, and the distance from following season, even in the most panera summers ? | tom and mollis, are in flower, or going oa 
junction to what I consider — R. about 9 inches. | I k that low hs 5 8 eee cannot be. influenced | alrea ar I never saw a more lovely ye 
a. fF. 5 a e 
Sieve 
TJ? 
ımigating in pits and fra 
fr 
been so 
that during the last te 
sieve 
si 
8 
si 
and if Mr. Fry has 
excess of A, N Te once set e 
stage of a apam gt This, however, was the penalty of agras 
carelessn 
mes. 
ortunate in e for I can safely say 
hav: 
e frequently used the 
to from 50 to 100 Tightea — without i — uring a 
throughout the Year. 
Bundy, Dynevor Castle. 
: 
y lo 
1 val T Table 7 jl and yg heer e of -Days gla 
failed, it has beenfrom 
the same cause ; the fault has been hiso own, and not that 
aith in the sieve 
— ye anr 
] 
i 
oa 
8 aa: e roots have plenty of 
8 
a 
ed, 
. Kae uantity of smoke generated. 
Ayres, —— y Nursery, Blackheath. 
Cherere, 
bserving it 
2 that to make this p plant flow bang «it must be grown with 
say io laces me years | by 
ed | productive. I have 12 dozen b:. inch pots of it in vario 
Bl 
t stated, at page 152, 
to run in,” 
here is no bottom-heat, and the plant is on the coolest 
i 2 Increas 
DaysIncrease | 2 3 | Days Decrease || Decrease e 
on 8. on one Week to 
H a another. 
Minutes. 
ber DO | adhe June 21 
» 27 ” Hass iy 
January 4 12 July ane 8 1 
gi 11 28 e e ] 
3 a 44 A e. ; 
7 cos as eae $ 26 
February. 1 1 20 August 2 s 
ay e a 9 
* e ii 16 
a * 2 . oy 23 4 
March jit k * * 30 
55 — 8 40 September 6 
fe vale} Ss 5 13 ; 
» ee | 30 of 20 
57 — 29 4 54 57 27 
April 5 22 | Oetober 4 
ia „ pr H 
85 — 2 16 a 18 
55 26 4 » 25 
May 3 12 November 1 
br we 10 36 ii 8 
30 17 56 = FEP 
92 24 16 Pe „ 
” 318 30 ” i 2 oe 
June 7 42 | December... 6 J 
a < $ 1 85 48 39 oe 13 į è 4 6 
20 
nh 
far the best. 
Beans on each, of 
ing sent 1 
at, 
T 
And 
road which I have 
> | wind is from the south a comes | may 
t- | from the poroye beng ad 2 of. smug — 
ll ert Si being on +s aang flowe 
. 
3 se 
Pertiape. the Sine may be W to your readers. 
* Te Wicklow. 
esu, Kidney Bean. — 
After trying about two 
early meg „I find: this to be 
for 
It is of a ane dw arf. habit, and is aer 
then the 
dmy 
from Mr. He ip aki Pine 8 5 who deseribe 
it > an excellent forcer ; a fact which. I have proved, 
t to table the 
in: regular succession since 
Enfield. 
first day of the new year. Py. Rust, 
oj A ern’s Appeal: 
to certain British Botanisis.— 
o, let our Aad 
w nod between us. 
—— thanks oh tpt — s hardly. one 
‘Would havs some — — . band, 
dicator, 
3 Would diiss the — and — hand 
pon our 
e 
s but one way, 
That w to name n a 
us 1, 2,3, 
re l be an end on’t.— Filiz. 
n Efluvia. from Burning Ironstone, — For some time 
in past a large heap of 8 has been burning a 
. 
near 
2 when ae 
ess of || rolling in penne bl 
33 coil with whieh oh this | all that, —— net © occur daily in many parts of aad | whi 
tag! enumerated — * and is orthy of remark. | obj 
in all places, | thing connected wi ‘withthe 
Books, &r., Receibed. 
— — 
Lecture, and Addresses in aid of Popular Education, 
By the Earl of Carlisle. No. 18 of Messrs. Longmuns 
ane ller's Library.— Excellent matter, most welcome 
o all oe of those — jad for the peet sound 
—— atio 
To Lern ay’ s Reading for the Rail have been added, 
Bee, 
the Honey the Flower Garden, and a Sketch o 
Theodore Hook, ‘all reprints’ of well-known articles in the 
“Q rly Review.” 
Rise, Progress, and P t State of Agrieulturein 
Jersey. By Col. aonb lecture delivered before 
i Working Men’s —— and containing useful 
nformation concerning the Channel Islands. 
Household Chemistry ; de 1 — of eyr 
applied to mn i acy life. By A rnays. 
Low; pp. 188: small volume, containing much 
® 
“te 
whether it is possible to se * 
To w a it og to be the height of any rare eg 
9 mca has ae and we'recom- 
ok shoes to. become acquainted with his useful 
little gui 
te: “ian anagement of Ships’ Boats, 1 By W. S. 
hs H. C. S. en er, pal Mae feof 
means of examples and wood engravings the 
the present „methods 5 — and suggesting 
4 practical and eee impro 
Ga rien Memoranda. 
HORTICULTURAL Soctety’s GARDEN, 
he large Phalzenopsis aina bin. in the 
ose flower spikes a short time ago WS 
all Orchids with which 1 we 
handsome it has been; but it is 
wall that this shrub is most bade i (09 
we in its way, at this season of the 
Its short la 
; but 
e case of small specimen N 
a kk apr oa sed — — “fine. 
wall * 
brillianey of Cydonia. Lene at a ae ts 
