206 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Marcy TR 
of the band. f the band. ights from which the tops have been 
* lig ith an attached handle, 
the season, is as effect the DA top which has 
been removed, and which is now performing the func- 
ions of e o hand light. And where haud- ginos 
pe pei for the purpose of protecting ar 
roof will be 
e other hand 10 
u , Lettuces, &e., 
rved in the winter months 
ae a-few p. ~ height, on 
but these ers need no 
raan gardeners will Serk apply Shen as 1 . igs 
may require.— James Duncan, Basing Park 
p poma kig, marinum.—Some of your correspondents 
having requested information respecting the cultivation 
of this and the undermentioned Ee 
don 1 Asplen 
0 
t 
for the 
tuted ; and for all practical purposes 
1 
] 
tions 
a 
0; 
que and non- pe apa 
ef 
ding in growing it, 
ls entire, and planted i 
_Tock-work, sheltered from su 
er protective sub- 
stan i raya of 5 recess, W kisi 
d shelter, . tory crea 
ally grown in 
one of a larger ize, 
pots with s um pas and p 
2 3 it will, not requir 
a dense 
there with the 
y their weeds 1 
t, I beg to su n the 
| mu 
n| duce a mos 
- | low, any obstruction 
otted in a mixture | ac 
be . pack them, and | to 
e and massive fringe, interspersed here and 
Cedar, C 
e the 
will stre Nb and keep up the em 
and possibly if a train should get off the Ban yama of ja 
be lodged i in the thicket, sav PE. life and lim. By 
rate, if directors have no eye for fanciful land- 
scape —— . meas "be 8 to eu 
hey — 
prts 
planting ahi embankments bé “arches 
ue the paragraph on this subject in your Number 
for March 11, three objections apace aps ately presented 
themselves to Mt hed G.’s” propos makin ae $ a 
a use of the land running along 1 sides of the 
tor two out of the ok 
and s 
assing eac 
ugh railways are often made 
d | glide Thou 
miles direct and niet ike an uo yet 755 a 
swee 
quent bends or in the line occur. At 
asi of the road, often whero the emb W are 
an be s from a = tance, the 
curve is — that ease 
9 the 8 vie 
hese thre 
objections, viz., 8 the road, unplen sant fie 
ho see them, and obstructing “ie 
soon be added to, but I have too 
the Larches will b 
have 
nate 
any 
teaching of the principis of 
ae iPhon aig 
e mat 
A . egular in 
d on e r 
ina paai 1b Prince o ofthe, 
3, these 
jen 
mountain or adjac ; and let us 
cavern to be fed by smal strea h 
the united supply is be di 
n to flow out, and by the 
a continue to flow 
e ca 
t lt : h f ig 
o not cease altogether to flow fel onl discharge 
smaller quantity for a certain on È then 
antity. I case are ; 
yapania or 3 apainga, 
aused by the msta 
8 
D 
. x ke: d 
may be several 3 all comm ina ich there 
magi 
e Larch Fir, how- 
ever, may be reen re manifest.” This 
um 
L 
me who rstands „ a suit- 
able trees to exclude unig objects, which o 
lan e sce 
themselves in 
| Banting either, or * must 
cape ; š ‘the wat 
moral with poate rable 
account 
De Amil 
ondents could informus 
whether it is stillin in es. 85 not. Peter Macken. 
zie, West Plean, Feb. 1. 
Sortettes, 
e 
with the plant being in the came a 5| HORTICULTURAL 2 21.— J. R. Gower, i 
d on the top, and phagnum carefully put over | made, the follo ceurs, “It would be monstrously | the Chair. R. Cre yke, Esq., and Mr, 0. Whee, 
roots pressed rather firmly, If placed in| absurd to plant Firs there for the purpose of a screen.“ | Nurseryman, 1 were e Fellows, Mr, 
a sitting-room, it should have a glass over it, From The context cert ly does not Aspro =o two | Robt. Gordon put letter which had been addressed 
localities r = it ws, any attempts to} extracts, at least as far as I can read t The | to him by Joseph gas a clerk who had been d 
e An 2 of it will end in disappointment ; it least useful tree amongst the 1 tribe of Coniters it from the Society’s service, after many years 
38 wever, i bog with a glass, be preserved in ay be well used a screen, while those | ment. The letter pis that the proceedings 
2 a piece of the plant could be | which are really suitable, ipa there are many species | Society would n vestigation and he req 
+ a ne = a Nane 1 readily. hich are a tae sat u are overlooked hat it might be brought un the consideration of the 
à l > It retains | or condemn recommen scr é 
moisture = * 5 time, but never 2 plants to | firstly, because nume green so . ra pid aia ee ~~ the C 3 afte . e 
ish from of moss do. eee reg iy, wes vig of — is ae at deration, that the Council had placed the > pecuniary 
$ pen e, particula: the 
me og ith 5 (Abele 8 the month of Sections Cedrus, Abies, and Picea. The L being and that tlie ctr iy a; gration should be iad before 
. reaga A > 8 piz 1 Pint vd eo N. foliage one- half of the year, and having thin | Council. The of the mee ting then 
Pa oe ited b 0 ort, branches, forms a striking contrast to the above. That A Banksia h r. Carson, gr. t0 
Aa i 1 brad g? from Arm! fod ae 2 will get aeg when planted thickly, and never G. 1 n Meda» was a * W drobi . 
x „ 8 i s inned afterw: i i 
— enutifal object, "threading arid famae ti = * quite ape rw a a variety of D. Griffith, but a striking one, het inh 
which is a 
numerous e Meg and never e N hs Kater te the ad- 
ut 
weeds, 
he s a 2 slovenly kolie 
to i 
ne 
rary have had ae room, 
develope themselves.— E. Gle 7 
. . 
e eee, Proceedings. 
8 conse- to 
throu: t the count y ar 
for their 2 ulness, — Cere t aer antages that still 
ag in their r traim we eag to have them ne 
dg d be e eval 
ell dressed, T 
73 
m 
1 BaP pesg the in 
xeluded m 
N le 
e b paer a 
be | esca 
| mained 8 to 
once lived in a p 
water in it, and wells that had bee 
turies. 
re was 
, laird’s well, 
go be- an excellent spring which had something rather peculiar A 
t being na 
ter any 
about it, but I yarr 8 
able there » Wis no f ault 
es | new Tropæolum, apparently an annual, raised from 
t 
wih Tee and air, to | tificate o 
being white, relieved in their centres by a broad 
of orauge.—Messrs. Veitch and Son, of 5 am 
the Andes of Cuenca; to the fo 
2 et flings, of canariense ; à cer. 
The same nursery- 
men a also sent a 2 amali plant oft thei beantifal Bia 
recei 
e gar apa bes 
f | Martiana ; Odontoglons 
tter had 
d flowers like 
00 and 5 Camellia called Storeyi, for 1 bers 
M The lat 
| ben 
i 
a nice > collection of Orchids, con 
things, of Phaius Walihi ; 
m Cer 
ud two well-fl 
with it thought that ices 
connected with it, It ap 
than T us's 
he 
x ould 
at times tł ay 
es the spring would vi od vated a 
op for a time, then flow again, nd varied a i 
year. N 
h 
something Taning to the | small 
plant of Cyrtoce: 
sages with its pale vari 
was awarded the Begonia.— Two A eas, 
rodu 
not 
ced by Messrs. 
Iver É 
rahe 
Epaeris, name A . 
e r. Willmore, of Birmingham. — n rn 
came 
a 
as 
ty 
i 
ng to and of 
eteristics 
ipal charai ot 
the tricolor 
