THE GARDENERS? 
CHRONI 
CLE. 663 
42—1852. | 
> the A cumulating in great; culture of this lovely — tlie greater portion of wiele; cool situation. When the.glasses are moderately filled 
tities at locks and bridges (hugging the piers of the | has, u — — ra calculated to deter persons, with roots, which will be the case in the course of three 
— and gro g in shoal wa de of Sipen nden me sources of information, from r four weeks, remove th nits wns e the plants will 
— ma be best seen in still and narrow waters ae! It . with writers on the receive a moderate light, soon the leaves 
such the stream above = bridge); clare of Ag race, to state that, to gro t suc- assume a healthy green — ‘to ike lightest possible 
wantin it seems to s essfully, a very rich soil is absolutely necessary, Th * ion —— ual po wth, keep them as near 
pring first rom the two sides and 
bottom, meeting at length in the middie, and complete 4 
watercourse, aS ve see 
filling up the A vip 
t that — so called Anacha 
nacharis Nuttalli of 
828 riv and tha has been 
separated bota nically upon differenceswidhiout distinction. 
How it got em across the Atlantic is the a y 
Mr. amphlet 3 to solve 
think most satisfactorily, is expla 
of sound reasoning, for which we must refer, to the 
All 
hilat taal 
goe 
ris | and 
following are the — s for the selection of proper 
soil, a treatise — "ae ath „ turfy 
d cow dung, } sharp or clean river sand, 
: h x 
D 
© 
3 
2 it w 
traced from Ru by to the Severn, the Thames, 
the e Neno, the Ouse, — elland, the tang and the 
— from a tub in the Cambridge {Botanic 
— in 
3 it got to Rugby! is uncer- 
tain, but hard is much probability in Mr. Marshall's 
— = 2 feet. deep, — pnp 
with the soil as the work proceeds. 
re 
conjecture that it was brought there with American manure, and d And it will be found that 
tim in constructing the rail the Hyacinth will produce equally fine spikes of blossom 
We know that in North America the timber g in soil prepared thus, as when planted in more 
floated in rafts down the rivers, in which case fragments | expensive compost. The fact is, that a —— of 
of Am weed would cling to it, or seeds might | having first-rate spikes of flower consists n the 
find their way into the clefts of the wood, and if but selection of properly ripened a an in — soil in 
ment retained ae vitality, me ae y may be gro n the case of other 
ts 
moist crann 
wn. For 
plants, there is stored in in “the Hyacinth the 
ficient to account for the 
individuals th 
iragment 
bable ‘tan by “supposing a pete Sek of seeds or 
Bose imported.“ 
2 M 
* NEAR Dover, Sept. 2 
one of which lies on either 
side “rT the small bas beautiful pleasure ds and 
flower-garden, are very small, no ho 
* erections are 
he side 
en fence, conse- 
vered w 
the other — is well cro and in excel- 
lent keeping. t round the is also w 
ped ; the Aok against the walls on — side of this 
ealthy. 
of 9 Oaks and large Por 
In the — were 
brilliance 
Wi salt spray, looked as green Grass. 
Little alteration appeared to have taken 5 
ears ago. 
ens since I visi 
the d 
to pass through th 4 
oor, B but bing oka he sd he said to one 
other door. ” 
The head-gardener ( (Mr. — is one of the Duke’s 
old soldiers, and has lived here 19 years. James Cuthill, |" 
. 
FLORICULTURE. 
nd. 
is — more dependent 
tion perfeetion in the b 
or pla 
t- yra last fortnight of —— 
q | need = be ee earlier than recomme 
own as “6-inch Hyacinth | 
common, afford more 
in these with ‘the F 
— 
matte or; and the production of * — of flowers 
upon the of these i 
E 
bs, than upon their —— planted. in 
The 
e of p 
of proper bulbs is, that va should 
ea 
of 2 as those with the largest bulbs. 
nting Hyacinths in beds in the open air is 
nd the first of November. 
dry day for —— in the ae e _ if the 
chosen for the preparatio soil, it 
better condition for the 
be in . — of 
lant than if worked wh n lines, 9 inches 
p an 
by 12 inches piesa Hae will ‘afford — between the 
a 
plants when up, to work 
the a 
— of 9 | 
e of many 
be | differ from that recommended for 
p 
glass as convenie — nd t mn them! atom to 
nad — weakly, ‘lsh soil ste 
ould be changed 
ed of rich soil, in a fram 
iw en arefully planted Sod 
9 
proper roe leaves die right 
sl np eng? for ti a 
var planting i in beds the follo 
h the Management, hay ‘will see ‘iba 50 finely 
as imported bulb 
SUS. N many varieties of these 
beautiful and deliciously len t flowers. They may 
be grown in Pons in a sheltered situation, os spring 
` | delightfal obje obj jects n in 
sweet- 
scente 
the soil should be rather lighter, and it will require less 
o it. 
127 eden zpi equally well. suited - -= deco- 
e | ration of the fi arden at a w plants 
with high-oloured blossoms can be had in e in our 
3 ae A ing in pots for ornamenting the 
flowering, as they do, 2 very little 
aia — 4 after Christmas, they form an easy 
and inexpensive means of enlivening the flower-house 
daig winter. require much the same treatment 
as the Hyacinth. The double and single hols are 
the ai 8 early flowering, and brilliant colours 
ompact peg ren = them worthy of ex 
of the later flowering 
re still mor re show wy. 
3. —T ueceed best when er ra 
Ran Aiton 
esca re in dry w r. ns of the mang deep poet arsine, eg Oe soil. The ieiti 
bulbs should be 3 inches under rf e soil, should be dug 2 feet deep, liberal dressing of 
and lest a severe winter should —_ it is well to cover anu mined ith r pineon soil, but this 
m bed wit a few 5 of old tan, or any light sub- should be kept 6 inches under the surface. Plant early 
i mber, coverin ubers about 
xelude frost. This 9 be removed, in 
w through it. 
tance 
— — the — — begin to grow 
Cullure in Pots. — The Hyaci 
ug 
ia inth is remarkably well fros 
pio paias for this ae — with 
garden 
of 
e, with so poa 3 or tan, to furnish | 
a po — it — — be h flower at Christmas, and, 
— che display may be kept up | taking care 
with a 
as April or May, 
"Mer early flowering, the bulbs should 
be planted early in —— those to flo 
wer in spring 
for beds. 
ae „ 
. pee and 
— ~ sand, which will 
vent cracking, and peen e moisture. 
rieti in the flower- 
take up the 
until val gp too 
re beautiful, or 
an 
— — —— e pots lightly | it 
il, and place the 
g here fora month or five weeks the bulbs | 
t became n them ‘ord space 
for the healthy iiy development 955 the Be which in- 
oma | eens very rail 
SUMLCIOM UY 
tos a gentle bottom heat of ab — het ‘nad introducing a a re 
while 
flower wil be secured n those in the open air come i 
to bloom. P. osst o better accomm: 
moda- 
romp pnts tha — window will, with 
careful management, be able to grow and flower the 
Hyacinth well, if not to have it in bloom as early as 
those who —— a ‘gent le heat. We need hardly 
ath, N wa i — ee 
m Atkinson and Barr’s Cata 
ust issued, are — — the pen of an ee al 
we have to publish them), an 
therefore their correctness may be relied on. 
here is scarcely a 2 in cultiva- 
repays the attention bestowed 
that plants grown during the dark days of winter 
should be vised . — glass, and be freely supplied 
with air, when this e e given with safety, and those 
grown in windows will on to the os t unless the pots 
1 turned. Most persons know that a sitting 
indow forms ae re for 
while in bloom, and that their beauty will 
in Pewee, here than in Ree itu: 
them from a close atm 
most as 2 when 
planted in the 
The Hyacinth — — been a — 
in 
in beaut; * 
abe Surpassed by any sae with — the ance, 
Christmas. = Mn drawing-rooms or flower-houses A 
Much 1 been written respecting the 
any period of their 
r ce 
glasses, and fill 
(of the bulb ; set them in 
wi eee — which they are greatly injured. 
the i rieneed to agai 
and pee sail subjecting the plants to sudden changes at 
n Glasses Of all the plants with which we 
ts | are Hyacinth is the most suitable for 
the 
this 5 “song somewhat unna system o 
Its e those of other plants, . the 
Place the bulbs — the 
n inch 
a cellar, or any . — dark 
re dark- coloured 
proper culture. n grow he open 
bulbs should be transplante every third 2 “which is i 
PE to afford space they form. 
We have only to add to the above that w re Hyacinths 
— eultivated in glasses, nothing beats the Bottles and 
supports invented by Mr. Tye, of Birmingham, for 
purpose, and which are figured in “a Vol. for 1851, 
page 291. 
8 eceived from M 2 
h-street, Worcester ; Eames d Co., 
Dublin; ce and J. Fairbairn, r pin nei J. —— 
lands. R. J. Lawrence, Hampton, 
J. H olland, Middieton, 2 ear Manchester ; and E. E. To 
of 
Danis: “Cala. You may lime your ground, but nothing 
so well as 1 milowing i it to = — rope 
the acti 
and winter 
they are — away in toute winter re 
dried up by much air, and rotted by too damp a place 
avoid * h these extremes. eee il} fi 
advice on the subject about w 
2 Florist, iiam gh — G 
Focnsias: J O. Yeu our cuttings — ia 
up. Give 8 air in the way you propose, in the 
