24—1852. | 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
373 
late years have oe 
in the country. The 
ously effectually provide —_ 
from spring frosts, which of 
at least half the yore trees 
question would o 
catastrophes, 
such he first "house pas this a ses nie erected was 
November d the last of 
ted i in February 1 1853, tho total length 
The first that 
houses 
is so great, 
mp can possibly injure the fru 
the plan of —.— we . —.— attention, even 
if there were nothin orthy of notice. In the 
Fig-house, which, as 3 stated, is 100 — sg there 
are ten pairs of upright each 5 feet wide; ev 
ery | a sh 
other one of which opens —— by movi e 4 0 
op 
handle 
a space o 
yet broug 
ang in such glass and 
easy means 0 of ventilation, 2 id I ‘feel 1 — — 
in — — a plan d to N so w 
me may imagine oe. the trellis in Pass 
houses will shade the back wall; but the shade of thetop 
of the speci 
early in Ju 
re 
se Avoid over-watering at the root and en a rather 
into the fresh * a prevents rapid hinge — 
much water at the r Whe 
a i 
sprinkling the 
d by spri vinkling over-head = the syringe on the 
afternoons of brig egards ae the 
al u xceede 
he spring mo 
aged free circulation of ae md; aata gh not be an 
to pass over the plants on 
drying currents. 
ths, provision will be afforded for 
A thin 
há oficial during June 
sparingly, and 2 it altogether aoe: in August. 
ater the coal nas on which ts may stand 
ee tly 8 
ver-head on the afternoons, 8 
pee evening, but raise e lights for the night. 
rag es 8 l 
uly 5 this as early 
necessary, and — les shifts at this 5 
the end of August the plants s sho va gee nsidered 
p season’s growt! 1520 1 be 
red for winter by full exposure a and air 
dry atmosphere 
Leschenaultias are very liable to suffer xa damp in 
winter ; they should therefore be p a rather 
yi atm ph can i they are 
tered it should be done eariy i in the da be “and avoid 
wetting the rraga kg cially during damp cloudy 
eather. At this season, and er ly in spri 
vey 3 to the gee sofa 
tch is maintaine 
dunl 
tion must be resort: y 
the 2 15 imen plants are considered sufficient! y large for 
we 
during s spring, cond adopt t the same treatment this 
9 for ; but ood young 
he 
as the pl is 3 ee der Z eB | 
hav 
If the plants — be placed in a cold frame during they ha 
shade for a —— 
ug, they are 
ha 
that en — N wi 
jand then to be cut out at two or three eyes from its 
base. Notwithstandin 
rst year 
right and left, — 3 These side 
eave perpendieular intervals ſor 
so nailed as to lea the rods 
of the current year to oceupy ; ier is 6 or 8 feet 
in height. sue has remarkable, and I 
e had large Black Hamburg well ripened t 
quite a n fF 
0 be 
contented with stagnant warmth in ir hothouses ? 
G. W., June 8. 
Wasps. The 3 . of N gana of ane 
as again come to a close. This is the third 
ts | has yea 
which J. Strutt, Esq. m “of Drage Hill, Belper, has ae 
rought to his 
destructive little is a gre: 
Belper, 5 all hs: bes of large establishments 
2 e same principle, a 3 ould soo 
beco bnd: rarity in our garden: 
the hills of 888 Amos, Bel per, Jw Ta. 9. 
th- West of Scotland. 3 long 
as a e 
such as nable me 
sufficiently “evidont that heat 
rectly to the stmoephere by 
water, or by land ; but it is Si min: t 
requ 
becoming straggling ; j 
off the red kind a ep T 
the blue sort will be prolonged m ‘shading the plants 
r flow ack the 
e castings can be done 
pc) eae hee 
z can be more beauti well grown and 
well es oomed blue Leschenault, or mesi ane hen 
t E Le sal ws 
milar in — di 
treatment. "The blue sort (le wien eee in spring 
r early in summer, grow hould be w 
— before winter; : st hab it is Sides l 
and unless perseveri ngly sto pped while young, compact 
ns will not be ä but plants intended to 
— the following 
required. 
treatment which 3 one will answer for me 
3 
i pose; 
be stiff ~ RaT, in perfect 
not A r important point is y% induce 
active growth as ! in gee can be obta ee 
of a he — are place 
he tt aly air can be a admitted 
z; e occasions, a night rature of al nout | 
45°, allowing it to rise 10° e tempo clea 
y be added w tage, if the peat 
rich nature, but this should not — one-sixth of the 
ole. 
2 the finer 1 being washed down amongst 
ha. 
The flowers should be picked off previo 
allow: 
sandy peat, covered with a bell-glass, placed in 
gon heat of about, 70"; will root * a few we 
They shoul 
rooted, and replaced in — until they have 
tablished. Their treatment after this 
5B 
Ag 
room as Pesu require it, 
and aim at obtaining dwarf strong plan 
clean porous a and ensure perfect 
drainage bya sufficiency of potsherds pro 
age r es 
and covered with the rough turfy pieces of the soil, to 
however, we 
north of Scotla adi is produced pe ly b 
sation of vapour brought from the Atlantio Osean by 
peculiar mil: Iness of it twill be 
much higher 
that of the sea about the north of 
2 2 tream does not 
erable distance from its 
if allowed ain on the plan ant, they freuen k prove by the cold of the winter over the adjoining land 
much injury by omoting ith proper 3 N 2 however, the ying 
ment the 1 will last ven iain but fact eee ithin 
keep up a stock o ng plants, so be provided for | the ody 25 este e e ere ing it misty and d 
the occasional loss ar = specimen. a considerable 3 as it is About Scotland; and 
3 selected of er firm pieces of the young rein the climate diand is not rendered 
, as early in spring as they can be pie pa * m by condensation 2 apour. In the southern 
m the A ee tland is in the nor 
no warm current similar to the Gulf- 
ning to southern parts, nor do 
generally blow towards them from warmer latitudes ; 
et the winters are high mild be almost as 
warm as the summers, and vegetation is said to be but 
little affected by the ge of winter. Fai « on 
end 
y of the atmosphere 
Rich fibry peat in the best —.— condition as to of aqueous vapour within 
ge, &e., is n ry for the successful culture of the | is still more dant in Terra del Fuego than in Seot- 
Leschenaultia. This should be broken up into pieces | land; and it would not be easy to point out any adequate 
about the size of a hazel-nut, and liberally mixed with for the mildness of the winter ina 
silver-sand, and a sprinkling of el small potsh latitude so far removed from the equator, but the copious 
will sm ortion of — fibry loam | eo on of vapour which is there taking place, 
ma advantage is not of a almost without intermission. With reference to warmth 
he draining materials. Alp 
Home Correspondence. 
— Will you give a corner 
Out-door — 
memory of Clement Hoare ? So far 8 tn Aare phi 
Culture of the Vin ne on Open n Walls” . 
2 
free circulation = Soul will ie safe 1 8 the beginning of 
22 but at season the temperature should 
7, by the ah of light. As soon 
a growth is apparent examine the state of t e roots, ond 
sm a moderate shift if sp requ 
periods of a plant’s existence is that 
potting ; the water is to pass off 
maintaining a close moist | 
e | to the sim plicity, t the 
. to have struck root 
deserves well, indeed gate Pied 
myself under grateful obligation to 3 ; aul at this 
e year, would draw the attention 8 all te 
should stay iF but ae would l particularly direct attention | 
ing of labour, shreds, 
and to the wonderful i 0 0 
following his favourite method 
wood except what is barely “necessary to furn 
+h 
ab 
to the desert, as w 
3 that V 
height — about 1300 feet ; 
or rather m age Iiberated b 
t th 
1875 
monsoon conveys vapour from a d 
dre height tioti the whole of a season, and rot con- 
ous warmth, as well as the moisture thus conveye 
tion which, on E ae 
e eee 
the mountains imparting 
to the higher portions, it is sufficient to observe 
