sl 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
E 
g 
and i rrectly in 
were saly e . Titter, and the dried 
rhizomes for fuel. What a glorious feast they would | 
have afforded, when young, for the Cossac n th 
C rer Te ens the ponds ee al “of these 
plants ; and they ha praa agate them- 
selves in ihe * ot water on the line "of the Vesdre, 
on both sides of 
| 
1 w, Dr. Clarke is the on 
ecting the utility of the 
kask 
plants begin to 
formsa dish which those that have once partake 
n with inereasing re 
e Cossacks cho ice in their use of the 
Typha. 3 — ver the cuticle and select the eee 
der part, usua ut 18 inches in length, near 
— and this 3 — agreeable, anà 
wholesome. The r poor, says 
Clarke, jaog or old, prefer this * to all L ; 
and from experience, urn among 
vario ary p 
kpe is equally applicable to the Typha; for it 
cut, stewed, prepared for yol 
the sal 
tops, may be 
peti is eaten both by T 
y one, being neither, should not a 
has created good. Even ‘the 
e | i 
o | dually disappears—you 
been thrown away ; for no plant will remain 15 in ca 
i pea done. 
| * 2 
ire by sling for what they call fin 
sift 
the deterioration | 
ed further by 
lied 
8 is demand 
In the open nd plants are suppli 
the application of manure, 
unconfined they can — where 
they please in search u e con- 
ditions are a fulfilled. A little soil onl 
and howeve 
On the other hand, if the mould 
feels elastic when pressed down, and water pons ed runs 
rapidly through it, your wor. 2 pro- 
piae is called good 8 mould, w 
ts bulk in rotten leaves, and one thi 
d, will make a compost adapted to genira 
such a mass of clay. 
ith 
iR 
any gardeners mistake the fine moulds of plants 
l 
fancied advan 
t it to secure this arse 
are 8 therw 
and even stones will be of us 
keeping t age clear. Eve ery pot should also have 
ut 2 inches of broken d ag into the bottom 
of it. For the same reg always be 
9 in breif small quantities. 
— running through houli. if aopen bem 
given, — every der- e beyond that t washes the 
of its best properties.— H. B. 
a 5 _ ne aie 80 fit for bedding out, will be given 
next 
ye 
os FROM MY NOTE BOOK, 
Continued from ~ 253.) 
L. — This succeeds best 
Saxifraga pe 
sandy peat mixed ee charcoal, aad fresh a el 
k . 
e 
in a Sun 
at It should be placed | w 
among a 
fr — aight waters, overhea 
ases but slow 
ring dry weathe 
me 
e grown in a rh — = 
oin pot in peat sand a reoal. 
likes a py i situ be 
creased b aleiding it either in 1 or in April. 
Salix hot L., is a beautifu seldom 
TTT N th. 
Tarrag delici 
& Vegetable Kasten, p page 126, that “the rhizomes 
. abound in starch.“ This being t the case, its 4 | 
h 
tious qualities cannot be doubted. ]— 
PRACTICAL HINTS FOR AMATEURS AND 
SMALL GARDENS. 
TREATMENT or Prants IN Fors.— Most * Who 
having 
mischances of winter, are “i 
to 
as Pelargoniums Fuchsias, 
out on a ogre day. This question we 
shall . to auswer, so that the least practical 
i ma, ee 1 
forms, until at last 
lively wanderings, 
roots, leaving 
2 in greater or less quantities, aceording to the 
this is 
away. 
8 are * Snide now 
e | to the side of 
| Scions, an crease 
rge spring. Teng is also a white-flowe 
creeping s they m 
—— alpinum; : 3 ores kind of Cotton- 
is d to n Britain. It 
0 
yae s] Wee by dividing it in 
spring. 
artian; alpinum, L., requires to be kept con- 
stantly in pots, in . ndy iad with plenty of 
drainers. 1 adily incre by di iding lt ir 
dry w verg 
— een, L 
Pari quadrifolia, L., may be ripe 1 
rather geen ned pot, in ste of pent 
in the soil, 
ssn, at which” time 
nte 
pia 
above 15 inches deep, and the ijo sheltered from th 
d Es a — liable to be blown from its p r 
e e „ L., is a beautif 1 
wering plant, well worthy of cu arene 
— 1 well in light san 
pots in 
red — W 
in pots i in very — peat, 
r to preserve it for 
Veronica tyes 
quires to be ke pots in peat and 
It will occasionally ad 
t should be placed in a partiall 2 5 
alpines. 
and, and 
amo 
y. Faden, 
in which 
soil 
L., does well indamp light sandy or peat 
Sown seedlings frequently 8 
3 ome me 
ise in w 
ay | Queenw 
root as ä — anvine along the daas 820 seldom allows | r 
iding it in | sma: 
kept rather moist — born 
s 3 be treated exactly like 
Ye 
oal; meg 
it — * — constantly in a cold è 
to 
ew 
any length of 
clit |e nes o 
1. pro 
sis a very rare ple ant, which re- 
to be t 
It does best replanted every year 
2 inches "e in the soil. 
Glau ima, L.— 
no beauty, should be ises, ki 
loam, admits of increase 
2 
April. David Contre 
there were a 8 8 
round by the sheep, bu 
deleterious, and ther 
of h 
the green foliage o 
woods (wl 
scale of 5 ithan 
b 
ever a poiso 
robable that the catt 
mo 
—— — of the ripe 
wholeso av 
rforated, a 
in 
— in such quantity as 
much of the x 
ia, th 
a quality, that, if po 
or ddp i — the shade 
ree o 
this oy nd is, that it is not poiso 
ith an ir 
Allotm 
let in tment =T l i 
that let to farmers ; locali ity 
ee ben 
n the parish 
— might — — 
1 trees whic 
exposed situations have 2 lower —— W 
Ate a 7 we lose no 
t is believed that the withered foliage 
are well authenticated 1501 hy 
cows having been 5 by rae 
nibbled a 
5 plac 
re is a * peP, eee 
mico- A college, on a p ctical and 
il | avoid it. I wee tno faith in 2 distinction. I int ieni 
roy 
mprobably be the case, Prot the withered . 
te or smell which warns 
Te has always 
re 
i 
i Ẹ 
2. B. 8. 
1 
Q 
1255 
persons 
