32—1852. | 
season and tied them to their rod, so as to have a 
— (though a — * = young wood all the wa 
up. For who ma to know the minutiee of 
th that on eac 
ys, oung rod 
es on each side of it;“ 
28 — . this wi 
be found (contrary to expectation) an e measure- 
ment. Indeed for the Black Cluster, the — and 
other small Grapes, 24 or 26 inches seem enough. G. W. 
A 
The natural habit of this 
eads produ 
out large heads 
h head end consisting of 
ow 15 or 16 princip 
secondary ones ; and I 
the te plan if "cultivated i in this man 
become one mass 
t that 
manner, would ultimately 
of ost ev 
duces a — I need hardly add it is planted in very 
rich soil, and tly supplied with water. It is 
very clean plant, singularly free fi insects, and well 
adapted to shade an Orchid-ho I am induced to 
send you this statement use ver seen 
Allamanda when grown naturally, as at Kew and Liège, 
produce more than two or three h It 
— they fade ame and can only be enjoyed in 
ond ti = 
x 
— Fa abro’ s e is certainly startling, and, 
eed go a wa — rops in Hertfordshire w tly in Al -bu — reference to your observatic 
on ark) to our faith in the value | a white mildew, and I took some ps n the | at p. 468 on the e of the old leaves of the Rhodo- 
even of generic 3 . Indeed, if we species, ae ithout suce s year, — I | dendron only having suffered lately from the sun’s rays, 
receive the results . .Fabre’s experiments as have a species of Oidium on the sheaths and | I beg to inform Wi that in my garden the y leaves 
undoub acts, in Pe om ‘at which there could have leaves of Wheat which, I — little doubt, would agree | have suffered than the old. I send you two 
been no laten of a priori incre- | with the mildew referred to not inguished | mens of y ves one of old, and be 
dulity as to the probability of the old stories of Oats from the Which infests the Vine so many | happy to show you the plants themselves, if you think 
ving e &e., is at oved, and our o plants, ex in colour; but instead of being | it worth while the subject and set the matter 
considered settled notions respecting the permanence of pure white, it is dirty white, in small compact | right. John Smart, i July 29. 
specific distinctions “ wofully shaken.“ Truly this dis- | oblong patches, which felt ther very closely, as the [There is nothing to set right. We described what we 
covery will afford a triumph to ted author o common species on of Peach and Rose- I ; you describe what you observed. 
the “ Vestiges of the N Hi n.“ The should have considered species dium no doubt a difference tan that's all.] 
case is in me so partakes so of the mar- | monilioides of Nees Von Esenbeck, which affects the; Sulphur which been precipitated fi 
vellous, —1— to it must interest all Grasses, that a few years since I noticed in a chemical solution, usually sold as “milk of sulphur,” is 
. lovers of the truth. field of Wheat al the blades of soft Grass — in a far more minu te of division 
most that the ne heat ongst it to ected by species, while the | of sulphur” obtained by — and if sulphur in 
of M. Fabre should be carefully com ith the Wheat itself ined quite free. The species this form be stirred up in water it will remain ina state 
form, in order to their identity (if they above rded, ore, may be called Oidium tritici. pension for a pester eh time, and may be 
identical), i show in what particulars they I am happy to say that although I have on | applied to plan s of a syringe with the greatest 
differ from each other, and this examination should | which it i ing f th to the chaff, it does | facility. ng feel sure that those of your who 
extend to every part of the plant, and the microscope | not appear to have done serious hithe: d | have e habit of endeavouring to mingle 
should be called in to assist in the investigati Seeds | I only mention the ce for the sake of recording | “ flowers "of ar oe with water, will find it a = 
of the new Wheat should be sent to this country and | its existence, as it is possible, at some future time, we improvement opt the form of sulphur called 
sown on the d worst W soils, to|may hear more about it than ma desired. The | “ milk, „ which i is a AAi as cheap. D. C. Whalley, Great 
ascertain if it admits of further development, the latter | Bean crops ha n ploughed in in this neig Wen 
to induce it to back no on of | hood, but they were not injured by fungi at all, but in Salt v. ” Weeds.—Since I first applied salt for destroy- 
a Gi w most interestin our | consequence of wi planting, and the sev: ther ing weeds on walks, roads, yards, &c., nothing has 
i eaders if you sen show pci side — y they had to encounter. W to the action to prevent its still further application, but 
cut, darin ngs of the original E. o climate on grain crops, I may observe that I have this about half the quantity appears to be sufficient this 
var. triticoides, the fally d — ‘Wheat on year tried to grow some Egyptian Wheat of the finest year for lks previously operated u For a 
of M. Fabre, and the old zen, together with mag- | quality, and notwithstanding it was in a warm sheltered | kitchen en of à or 4 acres, I doubt not that 1 ton 
nified sketches of the flo ns, We should then | spot, every floret is ive. F. J. Graham of salt per year wi sufficient after first season. 
be to see for ourselves of the extent White Water Lily.— have sent you a flower and leaf | We pay 1l. per — for it here delivered at the gardens, 
of the mutation which ap have taken place of a Water Lily we have, which we believe be a and a man will ily distribute this quantity in a = e 
between alpha of the “ Sicilian weed” and the ling 5 3 a ra a compact, dense mass of leaves, is pared with the 20 
omega of our noblest . It would be further inte- rather —— "5 e, to the quantity 
resting to what was consi be the essential | of folinge, — appear so in flowering; as you 
generic r of Ægilops and Tri respectively, | will perceive, it is — in leaf and bloom than the o 
that we may see by what the one has glided | common sort. aul, Nurseries, Cheshunt 
into the other. Perhaps gest unn I have been much pl i 
Fabre’s ex is, that in no instance had he ob- worthy attempts to wt the public against imposition 
served a re the nascent Wheat back to | from adultera 0 bags lying 
its vile ancestral type. It would, moreover, be important at the nnen — South Wales line, and one 
to ascertain how hardy the new plant is— whether it of them broken le of their 
would „for i „the climate of the rag and | which I enclose. The station master informed me that 
east of ; how hardy . our he had receiv 5 
readers would be glad also to know —— —5— London, from whom the manure came. He showed me 
Dunal’s pamphlet and also of the agent appointed for this district as 
Qvata (its normal and abnormal phases) could be pro- follows :—“ Please deliver all guano which may la 
The subject is one of surpassi to Cowbridge-road station to Mr. Thomas David, of 
W. Marshall, kiy. [M. — pamphlet contains | Aberthin. (Signed) D. Llewellyn.” As 
— of all the objects w een wishes this , it strikes ＋— 5 $ 
3 cannot incur expense of reproducing rhaps can throw some t on thẹ 
them, About the facts there is no doubt. We have are 13 apie at the stati Barber, 
purposely avoided treating the question in a merely C. E, County Surveyor for Glamorgan, 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONI 
sca 
| the — — rayon a sighting to be h 
s|w 
pal heads, and at 
co 
—Your announcement of Wa 
botanical Point of view; oe we may, how 
t t the soundness of the * distine- 
tions of Triticum — "Ægi ressed many 
e e since, — 
— with som 
they 
disap until the 21st ; 
the nusually nes well as the 
hed on a 
— I sa 
ver a large pool of considerable = 
~ y merne into to the water, and new away with a 
e | its bea — D., sep wom 
rinks—1 h ave read over the receipts fo 
deprived of its morni 
CLE. 501 
P Glamorgan. ¶ We do not perceive indications 
of this aay — any 
= whatever. It 
is very like a mixture o f ground 
bbish. The buyer should have it e before he 
pays for it] 
is Darwinii.— I cannot but regard this novel 
in — as one of the nicest eee shrubs in 
> 2 and likely to me a univ a aa 
SSV, y shrubs, which never assume 
— — which deiner freely for months, are of infinite 
service ose flower 
year ; 
Ti pos- 
= 
the property of flowerin 
thro the 
m rated African — — 
es — drinking after the sun has risen should 
oide 
golden cups The 
now hanging with 
tint = the foliage is — to that of 
acrantha ; ; bare 
ru 
hardy, or what 
drooping, 
always be av 
and thirst in the animal that may be observed in the 
vegetable kingdom. Plants may be completely —.— 
with wate preserve their freshness 
and will 
for the whole of the following 2 5 if slightly — | 
in the morning how di 2 
it with man. Durin e of our desert — 
on going to rest I alw — as much water as I 
could, and frequently until the same hour on the fol- 
i the cup to my lips; 
ith F 
that it may 
— Weigela, as a med fae spring group ih Fory 
that event, be of much service in oe — — — r 
can even fancy it encircling a flower-basket ; its dark 
glosy green-and-gold would —— wel meee a 45 
eraniums, sen 
— What a beautiful trellis — as pranta 
in ee affairs! R Errington, Oulton-park, 
Percha Pipes. * * mam of coated 
gutta 
pipes at fiona e garden ane but the 
y of e 
Gut 
| percha p 
