25—1848. | THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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N SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL 
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der 
OST RACTOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. 
Ai 
HER M 
THE THIRD EXHIBITION this 
r, to — 9 Roses W. Meates, Esq., 
to Nurs 4 for Roses in pots ; 
7 an 
esi be obtained 
rye 
Ebenezer House, Peckham 
Tie ‘Garneners Chronicle. 
TURDAY, JUNE 17, 1848. 
FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING FERAS. 
MEETIN . K % a 
Moxpar Statistical 
oi —— South Londo: 
— nnean 
TuxspaY e Gin ee 
E = — 
Sooner: — 22-Medico — EEY 
ATURDA — 7 Botanic 
ox bar — 2608 tish ee 
Medical and Chirurgical 
oni { Zoological 
T 27 
Counrry e tine 19: pap ee od Floral and Hesticulteral. 
—Tuesday, June 20: Weald of Kent Horticulturat—Thursday, June 22: 
Maidstone Horticultural. Chichester Horticultural. — Friday, June 3 Devon 
and Exeter Horticultural, Staines Ba robe ral.—Tuesda A Ra : Edin- 
— os d North British Gardene: Wednesda ay, June Man chester 
eS SIE w 
oURING rain and a sunless sky are not 1 
Ar 
able to HonricurrunAL Exuisitions under as; 
oud therefore the imide at Chiswick on g 
1 ee although the 
beati n drops 
drowned the sound 
5 Bae 5 85 their place, and 
e their, Silken Of s 
rds ess 
own; 
ty was there, but the easy and graceful forms 
of Nature, assisted only, a “constrained Ros 
too in pots from Messrs. of or hunt, de: 
eee es for. the sa ; 
rm 7 
the semicircular and were universally ad- 
mired, although not es enough for the spa 
allotted 1 vident that with a ‘Tittle 
ted for 
management they wo 50 4 admirably suite 
masses 3 far better indeed than for exhibition in 
3 as is their usual fate. The Roses from Mr. 
RANCIS, beautifu as the 2 were "spoiled by |t 
the ungainly sti 5 ns beginning to 
form a striking ons and jae the favour they 
enjoy; they however a mewhat 
better e so as to pro 
h 
have at hand a constant suppl y of the moe char 
ing ance for e ds and v of flowers in sitting 
0 0 o has n ot sul them f thus intro- 
3 can form a alia of ne beautiful effect they 
will be held at the 
There i 8 no doub 
f the firs 
detailed 8 respeetin 
in w is 
| of 
by Messrs. RorTissoxs, i its rich, rosy colours being 
far more vivid, and its flowers nearly twice as large; : 
in fact, it deserved its name, which the aes vi not. 
The fruit was better than in May : e re- 
spects excellent. Soin’. Alice Maude Strawberries 
r. LIDYARD, o 
or 
ase to be d o’s gardener 
oubled. Mr. 
and 5175 three bunches of beautiful Black Prince Grapes; | 
, of Brig 
r. Mire on (whose place, by-the- 
ro 
some capitally ene 
r. Incram and Mr. 
however, wor rah in W 
he 
Black Hamburghs ; so did 
FLE e were, 
competition for large bunches. 
w 
isbat rejecte 
0 In par rticular, a hybr rid v wy fr Mi. 
LEMING yee ee. cted the parc Seman — 
; but one of the best, called“ Pirr's Im 
at t 
daha 
e best were middling, an 
what. the whole, 
we are constrained to add that as gon is ae? gain 
, the i is t 
re—no 
P 
qlas though a s 
Sea 
8 lying along the 
this Sea Island 
passsed t 
ashes of Cotton wool by Dr. Ure. This 5 i 
che having ed 2000 grains 
emist slowly burn 
clean Sea Island Cotton in a silver basin, and then 
presse, da 3 the residuum at a red heat, 
t 
e every particle of charcoal, a 
um 
Hight grey 2 was obtained, which upon an average 
of six similar experiments weighed 19 grains, being 
ool. 
nearly 1 per cent. of the Cot 
One hundred parts of these Jabat yielded— 
1, Matter soluble in water of 
Car! te of pot. oe . -44.8 
Muriate of potas 2 os « 9.9 
Sulphate of potash es .. 93 
2. Matter insoluble in water 
Phosphate of lime ee os oe 9.9 
Carbonate of lime oe os o- 16.6 
Phosphate of magnes ee . 84 
Peroxide of iron > 3.0 
Alumina a trace, and loss ae „ 5.0 
nap 0 
Island Cotton is cultivated o range of 
coast a South Carolina and 
F to 30° of N. lat. Mr. 
IDDINGTON, of Calcutta, hav oa received some of 
Cotton pont describes it, when dry, 
sand 
ough esi in 
ground fruit-growers are losin etd * * oa a st. The remainin 
say, the fruit-growers who it. much to ble e sand, with fragments of “ar 
be tted, and we trust that on the 12th of July vegeta * rubbish Upon burning some of the dark 
the country garden ers will e forward to pe noon owder in a glass tube, acrid and highly 
di e smoke was evolved, such as charac- 
cate the reputation they nae 1 
8 opinion upon the specimens 
produce ced a 
meetings of the Horticultural Society. This i ko 
rea and serious m 9 o the ere een. — 
deners; and if we were one of them shoulder 
gard it as a point of honour that the aisapprehen- 
sion should be removed without loss of tim 
In inquiring into the nature of the soils me 
suited to the culture of Corron, we have first t 
ae whether we should take the soil o of he 
wild o of 4 9 ard. 
t, in eu 3 a new e 
2 2 — to — accurate an 
the site, soil, and 
climate in which i — a ‘growing naturally 
as — — ir v obtain and attempt to 
a he valuable Cinchonas, or the Myrrh 
or situations. But with a 
different. In the 
tr ood i 
aan cultivated plant, the c = is 
firs pe ted with the wild state 
many 050 — — . cultivated plants, 
and no one — search for wild Wheat before he 
commences cultivating that in valuable a, now 
enerally diffused cereal, because in fact su ae 
given much, if = all, a information 55 hiik i 
are obliged to seek in the case pl 4 
Culture, e Aang is e ed to favour the secre- 
produce when arranged wi te which is dis- | tion of some, and to prevent the formation of ot 
played by — English ‘ladies. For such pur- products of plants, as, to cite familiar i is 
poses ho r some too coarse, and others too | the case of the Ca d the Lettuce, neither of 
T: Collectors should bear this in mind. They | which should we take in their wild state 
will easily u d what we mean if they com- in cultivation, unless we wished to employ the 
Pare the exquisite beauty of Apr ered . medicines. In the case of Cotton the product is a 
Narr he most admirable of all Ferns, with the natural one, have only vague information 
uninteresting foliage = such plaag m Poly- | respecting the ‘plants in a wild state, and = 
podium aureum and its 
In addition to fine ie 
flowers produced some striking nove ltjes. Amo 
new species there was the 
Bro walli 
a most delicate new Hoya from Moulmein 
together with a r an Oxalis, with a purp e 
+ i to which the judges hardly did justice, all from tai 
N Verrcr, : AM pr d the superb 
Yanda Bate i, rich purple on the outside, i 
golden yellow within; it a p - 
cimen, the plant not being old enough to show its 
— 7 r. Horronp s gardener, Bass Err, had th 
— anda fuscoy a nice, though not very 
uai species. Mrs. WRENC clud ong 
* collection a wonderfully fine yellow and brown 
mean g ably a variety of pardi 
as a glowin rimson Chir s 
from Messrs, He ae N’s. ge 
Of new varieties, the most striking, to our taste, 
Las a dwarf, compact bush of Erica ventricosa 
grandiflora, supplied by Mr. GTrxDINxIN, of the 
ha iswick . is plant is perfectly dif- 
T the same name, shown 
o 
tion the growers of 
ntity in 
5 
ortant considerations for ee 
to. profit. We shall, therefore, take the soils of 
| Cotton fields, where that staple is core produced, 
which it is desi 
as exampl rable. to imitate or t 
Li 
r 
w 
seal . looks | see 
po 
Vegetable matter, mostly lignite or Penty powder, 
with a little w 
Iron — Pei oe 
Alumina 
Silex 
Upl 
eter elvad in the interior oft * pa 
the sea coa the i 
breadth, 
:}loam. Be eyon 
lating tracts 
Ana 
years of industry and $ is “amentble th that terises the peats and lignites, whence Mr, P. 
the visitors to these exhibitions should gat tabda AR lig 85 ch r in the 8 
with the conviction that the ae, = e English 3 5 aeg a pii 0 . pr Sen 
fruit gardener has departed from vat it i 5 en up by oid we “y Another specimen of Sea 
not so we know full well, and most willingly testify ; ; 1 e ont, T 2 — n age b 22 z: 
but the public has no such in peri on, and aias N ee cy sis 100 parts of the fine 
it sifted parts of these soils yie 2 ed— 
sharta 
me (carbonate) oe 7 
Water and loss oe oe 
Cotton received its ann from 
ast to t ltl. 
the omiy is Feat an i sandy 
nd these places strete the h hilly undu- 
which i a deep black loamy soil. 
nalys es of the soils fave been made bo = by Mr. 
IDDINGTON and by Professor E. SoLL The 
eotgian 
former pe pers upland Cotton soil — what 
as stat of the best estates. It was a 
light, eee sandy soil, with eoarse parti 
of silex, e a ar, = a shells, some peaty much 
divided vegetable „but without "g saline 
| matter. Analys sis y edel 
Extr: e matter, but no saline . 
Vegetable, matter, me on lignite .. + 4.60 
Iron (protoxide) . os ve se 1,25 
a * . ee .. .. 1.00 
Lime, cerbonste of .. .. ee oo 2.90 
Silex, oarse grains oe o* oe ee 89.35 
53 99.25 
‘Water, and loss oe ae * 75 
Professor E. Sor Lx analysed the soils rot four 
Georgian cotton farms obtained by Lord PALMER- 
= foryngaux. One planta- 
tion was much elevated the l 4 a deep choco- 
avoid, though not neglecting any information o ob 
tainable trois the state of the same plan a wild 
what is termed “ deficient in staple.” 
of a a similar natu 
= because these often give us hints respect 
their P wers of existence under different. t cir- 
cumstance 
E 
Ñ 
N on the soil which would, 
appear best suited for the production o 
perg 
a prio 
the chemical analysis of the ashes of an entire plant, 
so as to be certain about 
soit, oe unfortunately no such ex 
We know that like all other 2 
a 
"5 
good 
which an excess of hydrogen n will be required, 
are glad to be able to refer to an analysis of the 
of 
the Cotton plant and its wool, we should refer to 
fi 
1 
vary from 
of decaye 
finely divided and soluble 3 2 in 
8 per cent., an m 
to Ig; to ad cent. The soi h ataim traces 
of saline matt 
Cotton — it is well knows, extended from 
