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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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dat he at system that he and the — Ge Siia whom, 
has chose nme s to con- 
One, however, I cannot e ich 
4 believe 3 Mr. eag" s chief object i is to remedy 
says, naged woods. Upon what he 
mind of his 
t re ewes 
the propriety 18 0 wie 
e 
Si 
1 
. IS FROM — N 
aoe een ny 
—This is a seesutiful little arpg 
2 “inches in height. It gro 
of its runners sen dit ing 5 
abundance of 
in 
ae — 
and should be placed 
other alpines. 
Has estern islands of 
but it may now be extinct, as it has not been 
only on some of the 
oth 
dividing. Its position should be amongst 
mixed 
ereased by di 
Bd. pretty annual even in its 
oist, s 
n thickets 
t 
common garden a and the plants are worthy of 
in the flower - gar — 
1 as -= . — 
the 
e placed o 
rock-work ; whan planted in the common ae 
perishes from 2 winter. 
plumarius, L., also grows on old ruins 
and 25 first detected by ol Leighton in 
; it will succee n garden 
ces 
85 7 
3 
hoes 
a nondescript spec 
europzeus growing beside it, Ara ‘of id 
8e aig or 10 gears), i is — 6 feet high. It is not 
g n some of the er heatlis in 
ny Tight 
—This pretty little plant 2 found 
moun t should 
oo It may be slowly in 
—This 
has Shing except rarity 
, es, to have fre- 
? waterings overhead in 8 8 It 
— — slowly by dividing i it in spring.—Davi 
Spo eee 
remar 
It was one 
drained pots in light peat, end rar Here 
ani not understan 
e Rush, from the essential bearin 
Fermoy. [We apprehend eat in this ease the carrion 
acted by destroying the vitality of the roots, which were 
then attacked by 
table bodies. ] 
Te 
the FRN sts at 73 ts M. 25 was 
7 at 35°.” 
titles ‘therm omet 
e low 
er time since ee has tbe 
We an 2 
nd.— S. &, 
aven, Cumberland, Feb. 
Queries — Can any reader favour me wich the best 
mode of lining a brick cistern to ma 
answer. Also the 
of fixing lead or iron pipes in the cem 
20 
Sende of Gra 
anking of Grapes ed 
— hes beiug undor different states 2 2 8 
and cultivation. ae last year where all 
the Vines 1 ring 5 a side, except one; a that 
was the pe ne free pon altas. 1 * 
them wie sp — 5 referenee to this 
ee Apple 
to ae s incorrect, appeare ed i 
— tive to the origin of this Apple. It sed ay: 
— farmer, named perma ler, of Shackerstone, 
Gopsa all 
ah agree 5 — 1 * 
by th and t 
bi 
a small villag nie 
Hall, the seat er — i * six Ashby-de- 
la- fa such. Am 7 a first plants of ith port he 
gave away, a friend of his at Normanton, 
e ee. village, abont threo miles from hi ie whence no 
doubt it derived siet of ha Normanton Wonder. 
Dummeller is gen an in need Dumelow, even in 
the immediate neighbour rho a 1 know ape, bor well 
and have frequently them speak o Apple in 
n.— M. He — cet Hall, 
Korey ced 3 a-kale, A 
z 
question 29. 
p ms, and 
oar item in 8 extensive 
the ° winter, the best a 
Feb. 
3 
2 for imp 
establishment through 
et the ost ec ical method 
h em ‘ion ald 24 no Aker, ry par a 
Asparagu s being in * request here, and no 
it having ever been adopted, 
Mr. Errin 
favourite mo 
ngton, and “ C. H 
with the remark, that it is the very p 
the grubs which feed on decaying vege- | i 
was 
of 
5 i 0 | Boman, Cald+r-bridge, 10 miles S. S. E. of White- 
extra — p aapne 
n | fla 
ment.— 
mes th 
po! to 
—An ar daes hich 1 ies 
last 
xpen- in his 
4 i 
mber w 
icient-age and strength to 1 8 good heads in 
KG Hy i r. Ingram 3 
of hot water in this s process, ove 
E, yet he practices 4 E. 's 
ing 5 one, 
without frequently moistening the pipes af “paces ili 
e uffer from the dryness of the pipes?) r 
5 nehed, 
meie 
rmed 
- 1 n ee. moro v 
more | rior o 
from the spaces, which were “again i filled wich vegetable 
efuse, weeds, ra 
akings o 
protru 
od, 3 they 
8 gt 
threat the pam -holes in search of food 
vegetable refuse, and fi 
found no lac 
1 
ung, e destr 
Nevertheless in — opinion there is not as thing 
which supersedes the above -pih provided this destruc. 
tion of the roots could be av 
coping to o project over the beds 1 
n will be placed a 3 in 
ag, 8 rey slate, extending — full dep 
8 pigeon moe ee, 8, squ uared a ll pitted, which will 
ts within 
hoth 
add a t provision Ep pea light, me is of 
the „erte u Y, well as air.—Jam rls, 
Rab l 
in his caustic 
Cree’s system of pruning, 
dia nin va se of trees, 
xcept “in infancy ;” 3 is, | suppose, in the nursery; 
= ys he, 60 "Reds 
— 2 
-tree 5 —* Quercus,” 
Abie: n Mr, 
strap 22 aes of age 3 
this is n the 
soak pid mea — ue operations affect the 
pA of the hea B ulti 
eneficial mae tree, fags oe Soy is to S anth 
mote 2 up ward gro of the bend; and in 
> opari S 3 in particular, roger pre- 
S 8475 tim eg By entirely abolishing 
ring Bet: hav plenty of short-bodied, low, 
b: * hea ded trees— very » well for single park trees, 
but how unsuitable for or ores na hedgerows, 
avenues, or eve epee ups! But, surely,“ Quercus,” 
indignation, imagines pruning polars ed to be 
er exten: all intended; 
pa not what is 
— bed my syste might 
suppose that all the shortening 7 “bra 
mended is with a view to ultim 
no means the case ; for, unless perhap 
o the field and the fene cay fart 
the sh e een sie „ 
n the and onl 
ot water in the place of fermented | vent the ex 0 
at the e time to promote, on the whole, an abu 
foliage on branches of moderate size, and smaller twigs 
„in the head of the tree together with a suitable length 
of stem. I agree with“ s” that pruning ought 
to commence in the ; and, if systematically per- 
severed in, as need r no tree should require 
2 Rap 12 or 15 yea e pruning of 
age 
everg is a more doubtful matter; but however 
wg ie is usually de mare and to be sparing y 
k it necessary in such trees as are trained ord 
timber — obtain a more Ak al body. In the in 
of . a ted by a natural proc one 
pe in te on the o 5 5 we may eee this og 
ressive shortening « a the lower branche! 
whieh gradually ‘ee d pre seed for 
moval.—J. F. H., Per 
55 merits at 9 — are not sufficiently 
Being of oom diversi'y in height, habit, 
claims 
T 
possess many 
Planted out, en masse, the taller varieties in the cen 
diminishing to the edges which might be 
form a beautiful 
they form is objects in pots, 
with inc ne other 
the beds 
vid | pigeon-boled within 
two courses of the top, f 2 
which h projected 7 or $ in. on ea 
spaces for 5 — were 
wide, the ar 12 feet long, and 
po 
with a stone coping, 
ide, and 6 in. in de 
covers are 1 so as to ie aie? 
t ieit air pwards o 
20 5 e e e 1908 vith ie above 
d by having a series 0 rest 
—— bon se — , they used to 8 splendid 
ter the foreing season, the dung w was remov' 
e same 
3 feet agen the sides consisting ye 4 inl „ sete ary 9 
vers exactly as shown in Mr. b 
curvilinear, the other 
ise stove, 
ice 
e iron 
p gai pia a Po Imai 
last, the thermometer in my garden we 
while the interior temperature at 3 end of m 
house was 60°. Being au advocate fo 
