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ous then, I think, that the yot = of 5 r This suggested to me the probable cause of the] base of the young ont and kariniame the eg aban e A imme- 
prety ob honid — — with these d injury, and on ascending 2 the roof lights I passed my diately withers. I se 
season oung when this operation bas es — hand over them until I came to the one which roduced | Fern (Pteris alli) N ie extensively affected in ia 
quisite, all 1 farther disbudding should stand over until the rays, and on exainination I found it much thicker | some so [The 
midsummer, when I hold it absolutely necessary to pro- | in one part of the glass than in the other. ome time 
ina gressive way, with the other por tions of a pe e led me to see the manufacturing process 
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Kensal Green — In deseribing the Kensal 
Green Cemetery you say, “ you believe it was laid ont 
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grea 4 od out the plan, by the committee, and 4 obliged 
of newly made wood ; indeed close seer with such the surface a piece of wood attached to a ro I Is request, 
the late Mr. Ronalds, at his with a foreman, 
to 8 out the arrangement of the platy Pro- 
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Bone- dust a good Manure for Shrubs.—A day or 
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i times. in i the glass | since they were pla: anted. The person said that the 
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n at which the stages are usually placed; but after all, time, and althou patel 3 e or expense in my 
qùi own glass is, in i h hly trenched, an 
To return then to my point of digression, the removal | liable to these defects. The size of panes in the green- | my ground that I could easily thrust a stick full 23 feet 
of all the pte en spray about midsummer will | h i inches by 6 ine i i yself 
be found to control, in a very powerful degree, the | am about to replace them with crown glass, of the fol- | every tree and shrub planted, for which I am ‘now 
ry - lowing dimensi ons—5 inches by 6 inches. I enclose a amply rewarded by the g= growth and beauty of the 
few amel 7 Subscriber, | enti , Which is the admiration of 
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h e rn se that —— My mployer has two Vineries erected, of 40 feet who sees py) still I think that my shrubs are fall a 
remain unexcited will be found much strengthened, and | each, prifeastiig to be upon the principle of those re- good year’s growth, in point of size, behind to 
arte a much more perfect blossom in the ensuing | — Ba ected at Dropmore, and glazed with British | which I . having had bone-dust used with them, 
We e see imperfectly formed blos- eet glass, each square 2 feet 6 inches by 7 inches. and with equal a revi Moen as to soil and situation also. 
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ry amount of light during its organisation, 15 is of the back wall in the late ese which had — time. Now as I intend planting to some extent in 
not so much heat of which porarily filled and treated as a greenhouse. The Ke September, I have ventured to trouble you with this, to 
site, but light. Some good-natured country folks think house is chiefly employed for forcing, and in early | ask your opinion as to the advantages of using bone- 
is is carrying an idea too far; rather too philosophi- spring I perceived blotches upon the foliage of 5 Pea dust or any other material, likely to accelerate the 
cal, they think. The writer, however, with all due plants, such as Stephan = Passiflora, &e. I moved | growth of shrubs ; and to ask you to state which is the 
respect, thinks differently. Instance the Melon: it is the — we and replaced it with other plants; | most desirable way of using it; whether it should be pat 
— 2 — that the Persian Melons enjoy as much these also becam er ee which led me to —— that under the roots, or thrown in amongst 
in one 
day in their own climate, as those the glass was at fault, and whilst Synge on the | planting, or mixed up . the top soil after the plant - 
in th wae — — — — — in a week. To mode of detec ing the particular squares attentio ing is completed. A Subscriber. torgi no doubt 
be eure a bright day i r own climate is was arrested by several reflected lines of prest Peele about the 3 of bones dissolved in acid ; we 
light enough . anything, but behold how * cloudy, ness against the back wall, which I found issued Ka have frequently recommended superphosphate of lime, 
izzly, or rainy days ma may be placed — — — a state the upper squares. From these and — a ear- | which is the same thin 
of weather. The tender incipient buds of fru aon ances I was ever afterwards furnished with airg de Kohl Rast -T have never seen this plant in England 
natives of brighter skies, become what A technie cally | to my enemy. I found the Stephanotis to have merely |in a useable state before the end of summer, but it is 
termed “drawn” when sm ung spray, |a an extuberance on the upper surface of the leaf, preducedin the 
with y erman 
and hence the abortions and malformations of the sue- | pasted over it a small piece of paper, and no more spots | of ney , furnishing an fe rege ble 1 for the table. 
ceeding spring. A midsummer's disbudding will not, were seen; still this concentrated line of radiation ap- One form of servi d res, ` 
however, complete all that is necessary ; a stopping in pears, and only loses its intensity in this particalar cooked he a Spina nt ug — F 
addition is, in —— Ist, it seems to point. These of — ia pa centre of the lay round it slices of a stem, also cooked. This 
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fruit of a larger character ; — it tends equalise longitudinal ter in es under kogn, see * to w oc. as is occasionally in France 
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; a September growth. I need scarcely urge | one square, and nothing more than slight transverse | entire two or three hours, according to size, served 
that such cannot possibly benefit the — * in conjunction with latitudinal euneiformity whole, like a dish of Artichokes, and eaten in slices wih 
The vast ere therefore, betwee 5 — This line begins at the side and runs the melted butter. But spring is the season when it is by 
zummer's prun ing, and that of the winter, should ba whole “length of the square. I will detail one eier! in- far the most welcome. With the view of having it 
kept Steadily in view by poinh ‘aspirants in fruit culture. | stance in which T witnessed the loss of the head of a I made last year a late autumnal 2 but the stems 
runing excites to wood ; that of the young Vine, znd from obliquity of positions the concen- are only now ae ba beg ginning toswell. In all. 
summer ultimately: checks — a tendency. Our spur- trated rays were then showing their line of reflected | the gardenin ks that I am acquainted with, infor- 
g fruits are in general much inj ured by sueculent 3 to the es of 5 feet, diverging, as distance | mation is we dep scanty or 3 perhaps some one 
Spray ; and it should be borne in mind that the wall creased, from } to 1 inch wide. e head of the | will inform me whether there is more than one pele 
— eto in the main less light in the aggregate Vine was 1 foot from the top of this 8 The | of * spaa ; the German spring specimens : 
ordinary espalier. This may appear a very | effect was almost ins stantaneously visible, but before this than e usually see here. Also, what 2 best 
disputable matter to some persons; but I feel per- line had passed over it drooped, and finally, from its 3 of treatment to obtain a crop in May 5. 
= that such is the case, more especially when we | reflexed nature, not only its extreme point, but a ength Spanish Chestnut 
consider that the root in the former case is generally | of 2} inches was destroyed. In this instance the rays in order to ae a little sound advice. A 
5o placed as to receive a greater amount of nourish- concentrated 2 inches from the side, running parallel | Spanish Chestnut was saloon down last autumn, ; 
ment—that is to say, in proportion to the amount of we = edge the whole length of the square, which | to the concern of the family I patee with whom the 
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— degree that ree reciprocity which site exist | generally deus from the side of the square, but N in 2 
— the absorbing and elaborating powers. I must some few instances run its full length, and in many | in 
urther remarks on this interesting subject to | do not appear to act visibly, though in others a slight 
another occasion. Robert e acon Oulton Park. convexity given by way of undulation or extuberance 
seems to give ween 3 Aee of a positively destruc. 
i espon nden tive agate r.to Sir J. Hanmer, Bart., 
taken 80 hing fects P 2 Sheet “Clase —1 have | M. P., Bet. tiie Astor Whitchurch, Salon. stil 
„Some interest in the question respecting the find British, sheet glass to burn the leaves of my Vines, 
th z effects of "British sheet glass, and having had | though I have taken the precauti paint every lap 
° top lights of a use glazed with it, I can bear | on 0 „ as If the leaves under the lap 
— observation, to its injurious burn in co ne esponding with i 
ha “pon the foliage of Camellias, A as, Mine | From the very conflicting accounts which have lately 
Suiered very much, and for some time I was at a been published on this subject, I should imagine 
I consulted an extensive | differences exist in the quality of the glass, which, may 
for it. 
Whe an, who said it was caused by an insect. I in —_ measure account for the ee ee in its 
iene that such was not the ease, and on going | merits, a eireumstance which I formerly adverted to.— 
the house on one occasion when the sun was very J. “Spencer, Bowood, June 
— fal, I noticed a Calceolaria which was similarly w Diseases. Within the last a ri four days 
88 ; I observed at the same time an intense ray of | a —.— se, similar to that which attacked the Potatoes, 
such as would be produced by a lens, ng | has Pini destroying the young shoots 3 “the Privet | 
across that part of of the stage where the Calceolaria Ea vas as | hedges in this ne ng, te oun The bark dies at the 
