230 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [emi ae 
Apricot deny Mr. Bund = ight 
and had not lost si * of the same . be I was in ee The Stanwick Nectarine, and Veitch's new A X 9 y — of inde 
to recommend the k migator for all minor purposes; | would be desirable, and so “a's ame a Fig ee srs a fess, A eeds may be baal 
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and I flatter myself iat I can very Atika ctorily show mended by the Horticu x y 42 by the right ae: 5 bee at d 
lan yet known ; for example, I propagate the greater secretary, but I was not fortunate wit ap een except W u en , appears s 
eek i of my bedding g on my first Vinery border, | four, which suppose to be Brown T — White Mar- oiy some ym 30 miles distant, and more than wie 
Thich i is inside the hou The cuttings are inserted in | seilles, Green Ischia (which never bears), and Verte de Ti 3 Net the 8 Places just mentioned put toget 
a bed of prepared soil, had ae vered with the portable | trés pane qualité, which are already here, and the two I infer, therefore, that local circumstances 
tops of hand-glasses. In this way I strike from 200 to | first mon. ‘There is also another kind bea a much to d trade ; 
400 under each glass, consequently it N be observed | very pars nearly undivided leaf, and a very large blue 8 
that they are inserted pretty thickly. Now it sometimes Fig, but it is utterly worthless as a ruit ; it grows, some ocahitiesyand do not represent the general 
happens that before they are removed — * cutting- | however, very rapidly into a large eres ae A tree. | e seed trade in South Wales. W. Barron, gr. 10 J. . 
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bed they are attacked by green-fl 5 arently | It is sa ade ve come from China.—J. C. Bi S ivian, Esg., M.P., Singleton Ab 
Fes . u. 4 tio bee 25 * Po A Polmaised Grapes.—As the subject of Grapes grown | Vine Culture, I shall feel obliged by Your giving 
be at a loss to know how to — e fone npn rey in Polmaised houses has been brought —— notice, — | eee fe - follo wing statement, as it may be s 
cb ole house (which may not be n ssary), me to state, forthe benefit of those about to erect garden of terminating a highly pernicious and dns%⁵ | 
were it not for the facilities ak by the «fumigator” structures for the cultivation of plants or fruits, an — m = tn 8 he Grape Vine, which is practise | 
By ee the 3 a little on one side, eight or ten of | who are wishful to heat them on the Polmaise 3 ere :—My employer is never his own gardener, em 
them ean be filled with smoke in two or three minutes | that Mr. ee EER to W. W. Pettinson, Esq.,Felling, cept in the present instance, in which, despite af M 
with the sade ease and safety imaginable ; hence the Gateshea — June exhibition last year, held at remonstrances, he has been arbitrary. We commence 
value of the “fumigator” in this ease. I have at the se 1. Ton was awarded a first prize for the foreing in the beginning of February. We laid eight or 
presen e about 500 shrubby N apei. and a best bunch "of Gri nie ly Frontignan, and was also * nine e in thickness of raw pig’s dung on the Jon 
. x x a age stuff, ded out in pits} first for the best bunch of Black Hamburgh. der, pre 17 , ee temperature of the honse, 
sods of turf, bare of using pots. Grapes in ~~ same house this year are all e — The result has been, that a 2 and assiduously 
These are oe ed within two ree inches of pi Seni crop he has. One of your co er s app lying the syringe, the es have broken | 
the glass ; ha whilst in this transition to it is pro- some pae back pen it pe to impossible 8 emul. 4 | well and regularly ; but 9 is only the appearance of 
bable that, long before their final removal, they will herein could be carried out on the Polm a very moderate (or rather scanty) crop, The bunches. 
grow sufficiently, so as to cover the oN ole a aeia of the | Here is one 3 in which Polmaise has. ome are abou 4 foot, and, in most instances, 18 inches from 
bed in which they are ee Such has generally been and if ae hy not another the base of the shoots, and those puny specimens a 
the case, leaving no e for the introduction of any-| Rain at Ham, ne ear Plymouth, in 185}. 3 n the — — 5 3 f 
T > penes vene 51 
thing inside should fa fi zation . „ 5 ry 2 — Hon e ome e on oe cold filthy muck on the border. There are Ag 
of essential Farc ae fumes can be driven through Ma ial . . B68) | Roventer . (6 + ome when trodden upon, for 
an aperture from the outside. For fumigating on a large á wil s oe , 2.53 December . 3.24 | Sink into it, when it emits a epee efluvium thatis 
scale, I would recommend (instead of the sieve), a con- J — 4 . 1 95 Total 47.96 in — It has been n alleged alts 
trivance similar to that exhibited by me at the Horti- Ju uly = = 85 440 On 160 days. 3 15 
cultural Society's Rooms in Regent-street, in March, Augu 
1850, sean ean be Ta by any country smith. It is| At Radstret, near Bach, Yà was 27.61 inches on 125 days. 
made iron; in f. like a very shallow stew- H. H. Treby. 
pan, thickly p perforated, priid feet to raise it sufficiently Welsh Seed Trade.— With all due deference to Mr. 
high to allow a current of air to pass through. This is Bundy, I think that if he had had the buying of his 
far preferable My the sieve, gà if ie Bern dees not seeds from the different e as I have had for 
go on 84 a little shaking by the handle greatly accele many years, he would hav d out his mistake before 
tes i ee Soe ee much, th is time; and I ho th efore Mr. Bundy again 
action of the heat on the inually, soon destro; ii pts to publish anything to the world, he will mak 
it, and it beco fi pensive in than himself thoroughly acquainted with his subject. The 
having apparatus made upon the sieve principle in follo e the d the different 
the first instance. George Fry, Manor-house, Lee, Kent. chemists p Llandilo for the last three years :—Onion 
_ Notes and Queries.—Acacia dealbata, with me, is now | seed, 2d. to 3d. per ounce ; Carrot seed, ditto; Pea, 
with its delicate yellow flowers; the tree is 6d. to ls. = si ig oe * va Si Savoy, ) £ n 
between 30 and 40 feet Wen pe Sia ~~. only once been ditto; Leek see per snip, 2d. per by applying fermenting material, l 
injured since it was planted out many years | ounce; Rc di sh, 64 re half-pint s e l of sorts, 1s. meters, or trial-stieks, in the border; the 
b. It is a strikinglyx elegant tree, 8 nt of its per ou ; Tarni nips, Id. per ounce ; and other kinds of heat, a judicious application s7. 
es of blosso e early flowers of Rhododendron seeds ini 55 oport ion; but many of better sorts of vegeta- * e not lengthen this communica 
nobile were inj by itter r enst | bles are not to those eed Potatoes mou a onthe. 
wind of March ; but some fine and perfect hend are | are very dear ; Ash-leaf Kidneys are 2d. per lb, ; Cock- this — system of forcing, or rather killing, 
now open, with ed ‘Rose-coloured variety of tlie fo former. ser. | neys, 2d. per Ib.; Forty-folds, 14d. per Ib. Lewise,— | Vine. J. A. H. W. L., Surrey. 
e groups of hybrids will soon be hillocks of crim T think the subject of the seed trade in Wales worthy 
— “pees have lived through this winter, ak of eee not as an individual loss or gain, but 
strangely enough, a of Eucalyptus robusta, abou t as ving to a pae see gad praan of British 
4 feet high, i is dead. A species of Bamboo, from ae ee een transactio: e general point of 
malayas, the a of which was advertised in the view. I shall, 5 N eg for the present 
Chronicle three or four years since, proves quite hardy, | to the bearings of the question as affecting the princi- 
ES s aliy interesting and good thing. Some of my | pality. 5 les, as rege hap d the land of the Leek, 
plants are 12 or 14 fee t high. How can I propagate it! merits that cognomen ar that, in the growth of 
PBpdirision when old enou The eee 8 | e ‘Lek and Onion form a prominent tines 
nian Cherry (Cerasus ilicifolia) does not thri n the lan vipe This ing e is the key whereby | va 
in the open ground. Does it require any ee ae veg eos 1 best ached ; they form the 
soil? [It is perfectly hardy in stiff elay.] Does the old, | leader under whic * all other individaal vegetables must | 
rare, Sambucus racemosus require any peculiar treat- seek to follow. This being the ease, I think it a a piece | be 
ment! [No] It is seldom seen in shrubberies, yet I am | of bad judgment, to say nothing of honour, on the part 
abundantly last autumn, in a vicarage of London houses, to sacrifice old customers of 15 or 
‘Devon. My informant said e ears’ standing to ee or caprice of any mono- of P. rosea w 
1 ) as a | houses wil ers mselves ng 
induces me to offer a dif- a little time, by men of our own locality, who may by | ing quantities of long creamy * 
3 i the source of ies. flowers; a Certificate of Merit was i 
grows with wondrous strength With what attention and success this diseovery ean be | Franklin, gr. to Mrs. Lawrence, cont ne 
ficently ; indeed, it is difficult to keep | prosecuted remains yet for future years to determine; of Orchids, containing well cultivated ex% 5 
ds, and it is to beregretted that s0 beauti- but as long as London will be content to — ls. 9d drobium nobile, me the r ee 
more y grown, What a upon a constant customer, whilst the same article ean phyllum; a charming Maxillaria, labe ‘different tun 
= a free-flowering yellow species be, for | be got in Wales for ls 30. per Ib., I — me will XI. a SN but; in reality, quite a ore 
ough Bign Tw oduces flowers of the excuse us for once if we choose to discontinue to do and much handsomer ; the beau a , 
most brilliant — E it is far too much of a niggard een Walsh Seedsman.—— Mr. Bundy has s s Brazilian Oneida — tes; $ 
b- be as eee t otherwise would be. My plant certainly gone a little too far in asserting that vegetable Trichopil - (T. 3 ep 
a gran — er, with seeds generally can be bought i 
— one — of sixteen mens which, though they ccna eed A baes at E 192. eee — b 3 
did not open fairly be ea d the metropolis of ri ie Ait niee 5 wil 
— This me plant, — does m not 2 stove e heat, cannot b e eae — anything like the pries o question Sasape aa pretty = abe 5 
so much grown as £ ila gla 5 en we floweting 
Climate of Hampshire- ae Though we — some me sharp vendors of seeds in — town af Swansea, an at gather Lesseies of Actus ; two dwaxf, compact | collection 
Weather in November, an e had many frosty the — facts from them: — The commoner kinds of Rhododendrons i a highly interesting awarded 
nights, | do not find tha 1 praag Jost a single plant. Peas, not the « different varieties,” can be bought at 6d. Hyaeinths, for w vhich a Banksian ksian Medal commun. 
Bignonia eapreolata — wall), Edwardsia (stan- per quart ; Knights Marrow, &e., 9d., and upwards. Mr. Turner, of peos Royal Nursery; Charm 
dard), Jasminum revolutum, parviflorum (standard), Beans, 4d. to 6d ditto; French » Beans, ls. Ed. d ditto ; Broc- cat : f Pans e and ps | 
“spectabilis, Escallonias, Ceanothus varieties, | coli 104 to Is. per oz.; Cab bb 6d. Bs 
all aut of doors, without any covering buta few Fir head, which bid ditt R ppn a. to le Desi | 
_ boughs, are in the a i Onions, 4d. ditto; Parsley, 2d. ; Radish, 2d. 
t. | ditto; Carrots, 2d. “se —— a to Is. 6d. 
B. r . Now, from 
