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THE GARDENERS? 
CHRONICLE. 
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— — with ae e should be destr — 
is morning (April 3) the — aet of ‘the trage ee Ab 
ra Th “hg pity ue hen returned an 
the pigeon-house furio y seen 
one of the holes and driv a ung 
a which she chased eagerly till she too was 
driven off — s There were four young callow 
: e holes during — a week of the war 
2 olested.— 
enlilalion of Hothouses. e aii icle on this subject | 
a ger —— = — 25th ee * Mr. Errington, 
of the segments of the head. as the former are gard e 
different piai in oe 
er a April 26. 
the chair. J. W. Ny pea and G. Blenkins, Esqrs., 
elected member ers, A paper read, b Mr. J T. Quekets,| 
on the sy naa of the eee wp to the distinguis hing 
oubtful struct ing to the value of the 
—G. Busx, Esq. Peat in 
a church door at 2 
substance to the s 
co 
on iced this 
kin of a Da — Big which, ac- 
— in 62 country, had been nailed 
there 900 yea 
101 
with it hairs, Which, froin their position and m 
t e 
under the micro Ae — — * r ſou 
ser 
s use for matu pog bie 
has in the front wall a windows, 2 feet high, 
ower and 
out 
— opic A 
e mieroseope had been ab 
firm a tradition, and pro 
b n 
E 
„ but it pate faile r. War- 
y os 7 arr ‘hat unless ~ alten rine was entirel 
free from alkali ‘ould not — Several mem- 
| bers had tried it wilt varying resu 
THE THICK-LIPPED = 
oe * 13 3 * Bi 
ume.) 
— — 
- | superfluous. 
ecu d the town stands on one of 
It | drops brs = valley of * Lower —.— The soil is 
cold a gaa the e 
“winter, minr the length of 7 whol: the snow lies 
upon these eminences, render a 1 places 
for ‘horticultural experime a e population has, 
r, accumulated ther re, — ose pred f occupatio 
cutlery, t ei — of J. ve e years some of the branches of 
n to Birmingham hav: added. The 
the ridges where it 
el 5 Pett o was early found a useful article of food in 8 
highland „ and t rden in question has been of great 
ublic service by affording prac and ocular demon- 
stration of the description of care, and of the s 
treatment which is requisite to ensure a safe of 
this valuable vegetable. M. Knecht’s experience is the 
more valuable that he was a eareful observer of previous 
failures of the Potato at different e of the 
ce, | present century, and has followed all the i ay 
in the culture of pa root made or proposed by Flemish, 
and Engl ardeners, 
e garden is — 2 English acres in size, divided 
into pa á mn beds 
yore 
— woule ean er that 
— care is taken in K* over the 
ground, aud pulverisiug it as 
m 
alternation with vegetable erops is also observed, The 
and w 
ed with ‘ike — 
sengages the ammonia. it compost, ashes of 
ood, burnt e and all 4 — — ap 
to loosen the so 
00 
of y Blu bas il, Hull. [Weare not for Potatoes. compost, well turned over, thoroughly 
sure that we eee this. Some s ch plan might decayed and mixed, ensures a sound and full-sized root. 
work, no The selection a also very essential. Not 
Mutual I. Societies. —C d bli i h t taken 
meeting was held at at hae 3 Wees na poas ee po “3 p Shr be which have been 
r 3 ot oe — Sherwood, on being salt adii pard * u gro 
` „ possible grown 
aalled to the . aisd the ‘object of —— . wiel was not dun The selection should Þe made in the 
as forthe se of taking preliminary —— for estab. autumn, and Potatoes kept i moderate.-sized 
shing a society for the mutual instruction of gardeners and deal aces in a dry cellar. 
amateurs. The following resolutions re proposed and z sy 8 
unanimously adopted: “ e opinion of the meeting a Amongst the Potatoes in the garden t re some 
ir a ve ye nade 3 instruction smug gar- with very short baal, that are planted in rows 14 
deners i d t i theret 9 
25 gte itself to ute its best exertions toward the foot a É fe at eee — mag . 
te to Boy foregoing Fe iin 1 te pec nea dara yen | a is — to . i he gs a 80 — — 
of d h ing to t 
code of laws, & e., for fur the government o 5 the proposed institu- l Engli 88 ms ee — garden 
tion, and submit the same to the next meeting.” The follow- x : P vest eng 
ing were elected a provisioned committee—Messrs, oe averages h n ascertai ed, as the kin 
Dodemeade, Gurrie, Whomes, aud Crichton.—J. Whomes, Sec. are very numerous and very various in yield. 
500 kinds of Potatoes from world have 
Sokieties been tried in this garden with more : a — 
Linea the present stock serves as a nursery for the neighbour- 
the chair my Apel 18. — were . To bis i, or is t to those who know its value even at a 
Mr. Newpor “contina — f me PPE n the 2a season of 1844, when there 
t memoir on ihe be 927 Melöe, the object o was tal failure in that part of t e continent, the fol- 
rr ving sorts ee ene Guay bat preserving 
Pd their quali rom ur in 
8 2 ia ties = a 5 Ai — ; Uy cr qliy == the dere yellow Mt at . lar —— 
laws, which were + noticed by Malpighi and Is little-known Java plant Sowers with 1 Chili rge joie eed); a 75 pt hee from Cali. 
Dewi, at the end of the 17th century, and since Veitch, of Exeter, in March last. It has much the seca aimed 8 8 La Plata, South 
fully demonstrated by Geoffroy Saint Hilaire. | habit of P. Tankervillice or e but its “pect eee eee a Wak — n a 
the view now pursued by the author was the invari- | are less numerous, and of a dull, reddi dish-brown colour, N 25 i ee Zealand teem 
O ama ciation of particular functions with defiuite just tipped with dingy white. The lip is white, with ne — . 1 ; a white Potato from Nova 
_ -Sfuctures in the economy, and that sy tien marked | tiage of pink, a dark purple spot e re ene ee, S tia ; —— a whit (partially da- 
‘ration of form in a part is and probably | yellow on the two-lobed spur, Its end is truncate, or ao der, Ate ý Kapre foe 
a by c a in function. | almost two-lobed, with a thick, Fit line, whieh passe Pitt 8 ae = P liepo, 
form in an organ was shown pend on | downwards a along ” SE E tween Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, he pointed 
iples ; the one a gradual alteration effected by | which is rolled u atia sources ; but praised the orange tawny 
1 or the atrophy of its constituent cells; aud Cee and the 
the extension or the n of paris of arden Memoranda. cae’ k Ne — Potato, whieh is both mealy 
e by the operation of secondary agents, as the Model Potato Garden.— The Model Potato Garden 8 prod vd ; 
es edwithit. The changes which | at Solingen, » an far from Mie eld, in Rhenish Prussia, MI. Kaecht’s Tae © pamphlet lately publis = on the 
the first of these principles were shown tooceur is one of 2 seeing in in: sitivation of the Potato ry interesting contribu- 
in its outer layer, as in of | teresting manufact ae been esta- ton on the subject. ; 
claws in the larva of Melöe in its earlier blished by that Sia ede stra ler against the — rae ae 
effected ry | difficulties of the times, = Peter "Knecht, ee ardour Miscellaneous. * 
s illustrated in the changes Which take place in e cause of on this ee made = = „ Gacetesye that 
Kikai cr 8 by family recollections, e his i grandfather of the same a method i d and by 
. The mode of ori: ro n os the l e anà of | name capsa ht the first saa rsa the district of | sound will be ae visible ae human eye, its various 
: alike i; * h in was sh Solingen in 1731, from Nan + M. Knecht names Messrs. Gibbs sae Oss Gos Half Moon- 
1 che latter ieee he true ee The neighh surhood of Solingen i is an e high- s street, as having a great variety of seed 
: NEW GARDEN PLANTS, PUBLISHED IN BOOKS. 
N.B.—* = Very handsom rate. $= 
i si ER Colour Time When a Where, 
Where Published. of 3 Quality. Natural Order. of Flowers. | of Flowering. | meee 4. ; 
T e e “chi Yellow and Jul 1847 Loddiges. 
Bot. Reg., 1847, t. (5 Mexico G. 1 Orchids — shea A 
806 1847, 66 Brazil Orchids Yellow and April 1847 Loddiges. 
8 bench oe “wii 1847 | Veitch and Som 
irae (epiphyte) i Vort Jul 1846 | Loddiges. 
Bot, Reg.,1047,t.70, Mexieo |S. Orchids a * 2 
e 3 > oe Orchids Brom and} October 1946 Veitch and Son. 
a ö : va . E O 33 
f Bot. Reg., es 23) a 3 _ white, 
