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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
405 
them, in mer during the winter months, this will be 
ily secu d by thoroughly syang the first 5 
the er 
wee nc of the — that 
ged 
roper treatment the plants will last man 
woe a them a period of com- 
exhausted energies ; then 
d ars 
quan i 
porous, 2 drained pots 
Cuttin m 
ass, and place 
glass in a * * jah of from 
80° to 90°. Alpha. 
Home e e mapa ge 
on 
s-houses at Trentham.—Mr. Hurwood, in | Grass in 
New 
his letter at 389, de 
s 0 
own invention the 
applistion of the which he 
— no t do—it i is far from being e eat ar to me 
what À = 3 infringement consists; for, with the 
exception of the lights being movec serew, there breadth of 15 * is cut every time it e 
does p to be any other resemblance between | the lawn. the pie fh 1 n thick heavy 
Mr. Hurwood's method of ventilat and peepi is too 10 niw Arika is got, t 
shown in your Paper of June 1 t is true * men work it N 5 study the directions 
in Mr. H. 8 „ Illustrated Catalogue,” which he has 
re 
kind enoug e, the a which i is 
described as being ventilated on the screw 83 
in this there is a v and four w 
e hanging tight | in a house 100 feet long are lifted 
simultaneously by one screw, ere is only one 
sm eel to each sash. I ot ss to know 
ofes 
enough of the laws which regula rA to enable me 
to say positively.» whether we axe infringed upon Mr. H. 
in this case, but so numerous are the ways in 
which this ee is applied, that I cannot see how 
hi i to be d in 
of others 
yer. If any 
wil be kind oars. 938 a little 
light upon this 8. 8 they will much e no 
myself, but many ot who may be desirous of adoptin 
this mode of 3 without teat of restrictions 
from patentees. pa Fleming. 
-Potato Disease.—I am sorry to state that serene has 
made ro part of the country 
(Sussex th ult. it 
appeared then on the margin of the leaves ; but since 
that it has mad ess down th Be 
h 
2 light; 2 ditto; Plums, dit earn Ae: 
very ; Cherri ; Peache — Tight; 3 
berries, ditto. ‘aha ‘Daniels, Woodside, rra 
Violets uiry was pote a some time 
turning white.— 
— in your Paper, wheth 
+ tment 
that it is 
suffered more gt 
a fine variety, bt whic 
others t know the cause. An Ulste 
I don 
“Improved Mowing Machine. —Last autumn I took u 
cs, and co 
ot only | fir 
p- | flower e is in ig eg unsightly portions of trees, 
5 brid pretty effect. 
implement was most objectionable, as it caused the 
machine to be difficult to draw = hold, and would not 
allow it to cut wet Grass, mpro oved contrivance 
we have no wooden roller, 3 it is more easily 
t 
t it ; and when they did, i 
a ‘machine, Man eee 
and Sons will become a grea 
and their men. 
0 
* important eee 3 that of Messrs 
Son. ‘ “Utru m horu 
procured add 4 lbs. of white sugar, the juice of two 
Lemons, and the rind of one then, to fine it, 1 ounce 
s part of the 
ed: take about a pt of 
the liquor, in which melt the = over the fire; 
sure that it is cold bef 
You will see that my re 
many years and never failed, varies mn 80 
rum mavis acci ipe,” A Co ountry Oar ate. 
Aline 33 
a palustris, 
the pags ation of ponies with . 
many gardeners prefer 
t this place it takes four men with — 
hours to cut our 
0. S. 3. rerin 
„ Peat. —1 his substance, known in 
as turf-mould, p announced in a late ‘oni 
discovered to 
Let m 
Treland 
verges and a 
better than, bas may * — for the two wheels. 
e 22-inch machin mend as best for most 
gardens; with this - a 1 inche es of 8 or half the 
by the ma 
fully sarees “that t when a mow 
poor in Hi anc and forms a most valuable ure, 
If n has to be buried, a few barrowfuls of turf-, 
mould prevents any odou riom arising. In my garden 
the house sewer passes down the fencing ditch, which 
has a sharp fall. I rail pie s at intervals, wattling 
pretty close. Beginning at the lower end I fill in above 
the railing with turf. ; sewer-wate 
through this, and out beyond quite p 
clear. When this is satu "e í a: ik e 3 a 
ge above this _ and so s 
an moved without ak wv? V 
thrown aside, ecause the men kno Scarlet Runners—I see by yoe wN of Operations, 
it. If this letter makes ‘ot e fo try on e p- 392, that = pp omar a t Runners to be 
say that a machine embracing the t ——— vement | “ sticke ed, ” to — . pen wea is it not 
= to be sought. A. Pettigrew, y par hile Man- | better and — econo do as the gar- 
c eners p with them, yra as off the shoots 2 they 
Aion, of the Moon on Plants. — In the i 2 - keep them dwarf? I did so 
nterest- 
in ing work of “ Lives of Celebrated Travellers” by 
J. A. St. John (H. M Se 1832), there is one 
(vol. 3) of grag oo de Ullo: a Spanish — officer, 
172 to i in 
1736 hen ts 
st ee e till 1 ‘attain. the ir full | perfection, 
when t cut do 
tubes contain a ps antity of water, bat 
able ee that at full m 
ful 3 fd 
ost 
with this rem one 
observation. J. 
ngs, June 
“Climbing 8 of the most natural and 
pleasing forms in which these can be ts rips in a 
opp ie | a of prac 
rustic vases, & y speci ft 
rampant ‘growing kinds aes "> excellent Caji for 
flower beds, either on Grass otherwise ; for this 
as to ai hide 
neatly kept in order they hav 
n | high At Garrigill, th 
n my kitchen- rt last year, pe poy a most 
abun — and continuous erop, and saved stieks into the 
bargain. Birxhurst. 
Hawt bjects adorn our landscapes in 
early summer more than the Hawthorn. The lar 
sunt of other trees in untrimmed 
ere I reside, and in good situa- 
tree ; but when 
2 a frequently dies in the course of a few years. 
It never . here, not even pon t i ’ 
been gre 
aspect er in favourable 
about 1560 feet above the level of the sea, and nearly 
nen ey with hills, rising some soe feet or 600 feet 
e na d 
360 feet nus; the Hawthorn 
also b well. Hence it ap that in the 
d at an elevation of 1600 feet, the 
Hawthorn will scarcely exist. Wm. Wallace, Nenthead, 
8 June 22. 
Mice 
of ka 
whereof 1 
felled, an 
with Spruce 2 h 
on e, 7 5 nd, and “have attacked the young trees 
, Sparing neither bar 
een 
as this spring | been re-planted 
wood 
r anted, 5 „trunk, n 
E sh Stall Aa 8 7 by advice as to the means of 3 
ee: A 
Ice Hut. alk me to inform your correspondent, 
on the subject of _above-ground ice-huts, that I followed 
this year the directions given in your columns for 
epdts—choo spore B a * and —— 
his purpose may be mentioned Maurandyae, Chee, 
Loph ospermums, La and the weaker-growing 
varieties of Tropzeolum : the stronger Ae being 
my pen to write an art 
wherein I intended to make known certai 
which in our mowi 
ha I 
ntees of such contrivan nees. Hence 
article for insertion in your colu umns, and 
ts 
d | well w 
itl 3 and in rt tim 
of Bud Bete — machine. Between dans and 
the notice of m 
which acon Pe 
to me > be 
e- | any one will take pe hesar of trying bo 
result. 
re 
| getting m 
as quite | 
en roller of the e 
= 
other plants “of ga habit -a Pens ee 
3 edgings, and even the co 
a bed of pane  Geraniums, fo forming with rer 
thout the n 
bart sigs —1 
essrs, Hard 
eed of ni sapport, . 
N 9 to find d fault with 
r Rh 
I can 8 — readers wi 
methods, I 
I have oe with many 
pie nted a little on Rhubarb- 
wine-making, and with very few who have 5 in 
han a vapid app rs ee 
5 concoction, me the reason of thei has 
en because i c They had 
have little fear o 
people who have 
ys, a day, and | in 
4 Stand nine da; 
i well to oover the pan or tub with a blanket or cloth. | 
ood drain, using ra 
recipe preseri bed- thatchingi it cre 
an xamin sion it lately, 1 found, four or 
five hada of ice deposited under this 3 not a 
single trace remained. E. G., Castle C 
3 of Van Diemews Land.—The followi 
extract from Colonel pores 8 an volume “Our 
ivin he gardens of Bes 
pleasure he 
others, at findin 
Minti 2 place of Box 
“The luxuriance o 
e other scent of the 1 
English preg am fruit appears to benefit by transpor- 
an Diemen’s Land; well-remembe: ed shrubs 
oa Fe — the heat of A 4 5 
xuriance under this m 
climate, For “omg years I had 1 lost sight of x rot 
Sein or sque “io every gallon of the liquor thus 
old friend—-the Holly, or at mgt 
had contemplated er chastened affection 
