404 THE 
j s the b however, thicken, The branches of i 
months; uds, however, . ee e Datlias sid al plates likely to require auch | 
or not at all, as soon 
These juices, however, have no minomis whatev 
thickness in a tree. T 
GARDENERS’ 
rolling ma A ttend 
ing and ro 
su Follow the progress of creepers with the ne- 
— utions, Propagate China Roses, Pinks, 
upon 
b The present the we — sims 1 — all 
. Behne n —— aes kitchen garden operations, 1 pl iraba wtih 
perfectly shot forth ; it seems, therefore, to be mo sae should be proceeded eke ei The 
centrated in the leaves; and the growth o inter not anted, should be got out 
point of thickness only commences after the leaves are without delay. Cont % par Celery, and ‘sow a 
capable of fulfillin good bed of Endive; for a fair supply, sow Peas. Th 
the measurements an Hall instituted, | Wrinkled Marrow an y Frame may be employed. 
influence of the leaves upon p ta increase of trunks, | Transplant Onions if necessary. Contin Hees o 
i poets ay in 
shoo and o e the 
wood is plia ble. We hare er seen aà — a 8 
of March, the increase in thickness was proportionably ment of wood on espalier trees; tage ma en 
slight during the months of J une and July. The growth | of the aandaa o lay in an extra quantity, with a 
of a Lime „on the other hand, in which the side | View to the ultimate removal of old unsightly wood. 
es, also those lower down on the trunk, as well | Continue to se de snd destroy superfluous shovts on the 
ab b t, had, for the | traine ; many yf hag i 
ater part, been | purposel eft, was considerable — broken shoes — half way up. ac 
ales ing every year. N e with trees equently. The — lately i 1 favour- 
two — i aks, situated und 3 same circum- wR to the production phis. Stop and tie in 
stances, all the lateral branches were taken from one] Vines, thin Raspberry suckers. 
State of papi — near London, for the week ending June 15, 1838, 
rved at the Horticultural Garden, Chiswick. 
CHRONICLE. 
BAROMETER. ee winter Wind. | Rain. 
Max. Min. Max. Min. Mean 
29,821 | 29.623 67 | 53 | 60.0 || S. W. 27 
29627 | 20576 || 6s | $3 | sso || SW. || 35 
29.811 | 29.730 || 71 | 50 | 65 || SW. .00 
o si aal 8 | 8 (83) E | 
* 
ced in ALT) Bl Bhai phen 8 
me Ray ae i 4 | 29.692 || 69.1 | 51.2 | 60.2 2.12 
: Jan e o-Fe ight. 
. maaan : tees ER phn » almost throughout. 
— ver 
Calendar of Operations. = 12 Cloudy s overcast hands iting. a sind kay tela tn cee 
(For the ensuing Week. e F 
— — 15 Pads A ‘ine 1e throughout. 
a O eee rated 3 3 — 91 that Mean re of the week, Iz deg. below the average. 
: por- State of ac Waste Chiswick during the = years, for the 
tion of E the — of plants oo Wee pur- ensuing ee = June 24, 1848 
out of doors has been he surplus stock | 22 8 i i 
$o 2 2 No. Prevailing Winds. 
should now be look 3 5 po proportion] June £25 AFA ET Cee “lal lal lel 
selected for potting, a reserve always being kept to aoe A | Se | Rained. Hats % EE 
make up deficiencies in the beds; a cold pit is be — E — a 
A : Sun. 18 | 733 | 51.6 625 12 2 2 2 2 345 2 
adapted for nursing those plants eee 1 se = e 50.3 610 12 Me — 2 1 2 10 6 
bellishment of the conservatory. O- Tues. 20 | 726 | 516 „ 10° | 03 12 ) 4) 4) 6) 6) 1 
ed. X a . 3 f — 
niums N e ane = employ the rane or Thurs.22 EF 49.0 | 609 955 ) 140 1204800 
n 5 2.9 el . 
383 - f N oe eee sha rest, may Sitor.o1 | $25 | 497 | aLI oa Hela tt al sali 
ed out o er pots, — ‘ies them, | The highest temperature during a above period d he 19th 
and e in za pot of edu ced dimensions. y and 22d, 1846—th ,1830-—therm. 39 deg. 
pinching o! Se eo TT 
a, late ble ay be secured. The owe Notices to Corresponden 
Roses anA have gee forced shoul raat bees ges gene = e not peo the ** but, ex 
4 hey seldom fi — pete em. The notion 
ma cool situation, with the view of repressing further| that they are — to bees m : risen from wild 
activity; after a season of 2 * should be shake nj bees sheltering in Dahlia bloom ms durit ld nights in 
them, and all ter aut are ce torpid, especially drones when 
pit, and there s plunged, | 
A few plants of — red ‘Orange sho oi 
a shady situa as soon e young wood 
tion 
is 8 ripened; > — winter bloom may thus | 
be obtained. Pro 45 4 
by cut- 
tings. Gesnera 5 may a be 3 
blooming. The Cacti ma: removed ae 
shifted, e in a close ose pit, and supplied lib Tiberally with 
Balsams and er annuals for ion 
should at once be shif Achi nes, Be- 
gonias, for the same Id also be repotted | 
progressively. Regulate Orchids so that those requiri 
most y or = may occupy those mi 
m. Avo i 
and Oncidiums now a 
blooming, hah no sn ere are conc 
UIT 
Pines.—Attend seru nous to ie ite 
while the weather is p cc a ering, E 
membered 
3 succession plants ely 
; arrange for the admissi i the Pi 
generally; an adequate supply is more important at 
than y season. Vines.—Those in- 
ded for before the burst- 
ork may be 
ing of the buds without { injury, but as soon as activity 
decidedly manifested, a certain degree of heat is 
r: t t when pianos in the sun, they 
speedily gain strength, as * pion we bees that m ay 
sei d amongst the sweetest nem Wi 
your straw hive is wind and water- tight, we cannot t advise 
you my coat it with, man cement; ows 8 uld make it leas 
rous, in fact it would render it so o tigh preve oat the 
piration or damp from 
ld be more or less a 
. . 
ro 
© 
k so well suited to his pur- 
ry of H 1 If he will study it— 
—he will not find it difficult t inst en tae 
He 
oung 
5 School 1 Botany” will help him, but not in physiol 
= na also Loudon’s Self. Instruction for 
ners. 
o er Campbell The sport in the — of the 
bloo: of the Celcbolacie t is not uncommon ; we hav 
— 
pen man We can only refer Aon to trot 
3 y given to similar question 
pe — 1 n the removal of the fr ras 
the trees may receive another watering, and le be 
given to continued health in the foliage, that it 
may perform its im t functions properly. It will 
o progre D bling shoots and check 
8. tin e 
plants liberally with water; a few s e i = amra 
may be allowed a few joints i er yey — 
length, otherwise five or six joints long. 
FLOWER 2 AND rin 
and Box x 
Grass be cli 
trimmed, the latter (Bos) dart aeasSbPP Tres 
LETTUCES—A JB For summer 
use the Brighton or the P 
be 2 d bees na, the 3 i ema Cabba age Lettuce ; ke 
MANOR L—It is — vain = ‘seek for rules and quantities | 
[June 17, 
in manuring ; that is all a matter pete mA 
ment, guided by circumstances. The rinciple is towed 
manures ¥ and ä ar r 
if guano be used. Put a handful of guano toa . wes 
it will be strong enoug d health is all th: at your Rows 
ire in order to bl reely. * sato, that you do net 
give them manure that is too strong an ing, 
Metons—@ C O—Mr. 5 is gar — je e Duke 
Sutherland at Trentham, and his Melon: is 4 — 
serymen nan furnish or procure the seeds, They 
a ar advertised 
MONSTROUS SLOE— —Chirurgicus—Your fruit is 
n 
generally 
— 
t he see 
has happened we do not know, vy peculiari k gon s 
1 ee specim 
NAMES OE 5 B— enen, Ternate 
sulphurea. Singha per a sA Tragopogor my — 
N mollis, a variety sop Pi Š 555 
Some exotic Dianthus, near a i tag, 2, near r Sisym 
officinale, but di fferent in me pe H H. 
bridum; 2, P. argemone, if Englis um macro, 
rhizon; 4, Erysim mum repandum, -P ‘should. give us the 
history ‘of such pee as ma 7 — We do not 
nise your pla the s are mperfect, as well ag 
boy a ie is oe susceptible of 8 
Nepeta amethystina ; 2, Meh oe austriaca ; 3, V. pin. 
. : 4, Epilobium angusti tifol Kemerton— 
= uina pe are.——S N—Scilla Peruri viana,— C L—We are 
acquainted with the flower, Itlooks like a white variety 
of 5 RTP * 
Peacues—JV L—Your leaves are sadly blistered, from the 
attacks of aphides s chiefiy. Syringe frequently with with plain 
worn and s h Tobacco-water, 
Korais 1 nit hasi sow become necessary for us 
apply t 0 this 28 the rule we have laid down in other 
matters, net to recommen xe - * The s of the 
now do, and it.is for the ime, is o give following 
names :—Plu N working brickiayer, of F Bietehingiy neat 
Reig ot Stoke Newington ; Smith, o 
RT 1 0 TU oe Socrery—Thanks for b 
e, because it enables us to see 
ur Strong Prd ages 
their points cut off. 
P—Fuchsia spectabilis is a greenhouse * 
0 P- ch santhemums bloom on the lateral shoots, 
topping them just nip the ends off the main shoots with 
te Eager and thumb. This will Taoa, om to become 
bushy.j—. ths Hone 
A G—Much obliged, but we 
i SEEDLING FLOWE 
ANTIRRHINUM—J JV W—Both your seedlings are good and 
clear-coloured 4 2 5 the same s to be seen in 
most sey agate but not so bright in colour the 
th r flo of th 
— 8 ’N—The indiri- 
is large, compact, and han 
in colour, and want e a and 2 ; 3, larg ee) 
„but ting g brightness and novelty ; 
er 
E 
- 
25 
=, E. 
8 
= 
7 
13 and 11 are too much alike, 
100 hi 
6, "ditto ; 8, good, but not uncommon ; 12, uee . 
oe and hands some, and forms a largo compact 
ase 
the colour is 
gens * 
E which 
and in 
which 
re „ We can oe — exa and 
take upon . to say where you had some per- CALCEOLARIAS— Your seedlings are pretty 1 A they 
sons succeed well in the United States, others do not. marking, the deficiency is in the form of 60 fable at the 
prefer new Zeala ay or the other Australian colonies. If — are either too flat in front or the looping is heed this defect. 
3 America, avoid the southern states, bottom of the flower. No.1 is most free form, but it is 
eo ure S following sorts: Light Whi — reg is a good example "o PEK 
Perfect: Wright’s 1 Dickson’s Acantha, Dr. 8 our, ground colour is too they do not 
8 Meile Napoleon, Turville’s One in the Ring, Cas- t of port seedlings are too flat yi ad at the 
sates, ae Countess Cornwallis, Mayle’s Purity, Deli- — sufficiently, and in many of them the Sowers among 
catissima, Epps’s Nymph. k: Willmoreana, Low- ttom appears looped, as 10, 6, 4, 1; the best y of your 
ryii, Covntiiaa, Smith’s Eximia, Smith's Ne Plus Ultra, | your 4 are 6, 13, 8, and 15 —91 , 1 colour 
owle’s Exquisite » Pope’s Criterion; Kendall's Beeswing,| seedlings are too small, — are a wing we con- 
Haiseli, and Crimson King; Smith's br. Smith, and Nichola | and marking, and others are too flat 9; they are 
Pave ee ne sider the best, 76, 2, 18, 52, 10 45, 8, 255 2 1 be prevailing 
— 0 find no insects on your flowers; but t they] flowers with clear gro ounds and dee pear sporti ning ja the flower 
meo 8 with blue mae, — that e at you call an in- — among oak seedlings is, ani 
man em 8 suc 5 oes not project 3 iently. pretty 
They look as if e ere Shenk: too one ere amp = ACR: . E- Tour — — mei ma ties to n with 
8 cer paian 3 e 38 V but . possessing sufficiently 5 
. N which the best sorts 
are now —.— to chr nara Ea = that, unless 52 is a 8 —.— B „ vour our specim ns arrived in te opinion of 
succession of generations, the mischief is finished for the at it was e a to o for . a re opie oo 
present season, The flies wiil — 5 appear, and mi E 2 Lou re sess 10 
3 by running a loose flapper over the fiel s= monly raised from seed : ey bape it novelty * aim we babit 
with piteh. “The f the roots of the Wheat appear to qualities to distinguish them from many we Hn 
revo naturally swollen, but we could ra detect any insect, of seei good varieties, but 
Ohe insects you reared out of the old dead 1 T re arg flowers are both 
standard R are Diodontus trislis r friends, too like G. Cartonii erway a beyond 
as they bury other destructive insects for the prey of their 1 Y—Nos, 4 , 42, 45, 50 possess 2 = 
progeny. Th q distinct from the maggot whic e of common garden varieties ; fu 
3 into t se pith, W——J A C—Your caterpillar pee eate but the colour about the ey e eee e 
was too much shrivelled up to be recognised. The one vou defined; in other respects it is a good dark 
ude a is that of the  swallow-talled a Geometra sam- | your Primrose selfs, 180 and 190, the former We j ange 
5 We = nnot tick somites better flower; it is superior in g 
tae specimens of your enemies, of w evi- petals less frilled th 190. Icwants nae 8, 
ot hes 8 different kinds, as those which nibble me 9 not better than those of the sar colour 
See ene ee n ot burro rae ms of Fuchsias. WV. brilliant yellow ground, with p belting, and w. 
7 — Thank you for the sof the weevil in round the lower petals ; eye e clear of l. The 0% 
erent states. It is the Otiorhynchus sulcatus, whose his. a little more punas —.— it joins the m rove 4 
Leeres given in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1841, page 292. W. is. stout and good i and is likely te P | 
eee ro ae have no further Infornare. Such expe. | variety.“ sa he cst 
ree e more care and patience than are sometimes Perunia- B H— arance o ; iis . 
The a of petals, flower: itis n 
eedling is no improvement upon the onen . 
itken me of sigo 1 J» 
the anthers ra Yo ur ‘specimens 
anae to 85 Arg they are a A 
re generally obtained from saving 
