28—1848. THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 453 
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Sublish the list of prizes awarded during 2 past year with the f as at any season, at the close of the month at all events. is an end of the whole question. But now for 
—.— of the roprietors only, as they appeared in the late | The large class of tender plants, trained for r bedding | merits of the case. I will not stay to wnt how many 
Assistant Secretary's record. to in out, begin now to be established in their new quarters, | of the visitors to the Botanic sree 
" h respect to the non-payment t of prizes, alluded 2 
i to any person professing h and to — profusely. A small stock of these should | search of scientific knowledge—and h thee 
or . ler the practice of th neil ha Ay en | be in reserve in pena well-managed garden, that when — after ee I doubt athens fair enquiry 
at the ing | ® vacancy — they may be introduced, For instance, 2 not show that there are very few 
of each year, to every person entit 
e ‘where the sum reaches 5! and upwards, in sep te | the common Pæœon k found in many borders, and cer- sitors, or visitors for the sake of science, at — 
n favour of the claimant ; 5 7 the rie is bodes — looks gay in May and June, but now it is destitute Botani e Gardens in proportion to the whole mass of 
mount of i SOV era og ta nav thea, of flowers, and a patch of green covering a square yard | people was promenade 2 ere eee. the year, or 
i f the : 
—— ust deman wil s 
At the ——— F last year, the Council fi 4 ab d it ex 5 mely grown well, and the remedy is, to remove a few of the both are * ere — recreation and not for study. It is 
ifficult, in consequence Pas Kn iho at ache a R E “their oldest branches, and tie up the rest. A scarlet Pelar- not denied that the very same persons have the privi- 
late . 1 wind up the financial business of the gonium, or a China e, or a Bites oe on may then | lege of visiting both grounds on the same day. 
ar, and to ascertain satisfactorily he outstanding demands | þe planted i in front of the Pæony, and prevent the bald | question of different classes then, so far as privilege i 
der these c ‘public papers oal iing on | | appearance of which so many — lain. The same may | concerned, falls at 2 I appealed only in favour of 
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advertisem $ don 
claims against them to send t n on or 5 Y ae 
3 3 Upon examining the dansade så they s.k their foliage at this time. Let the withered leaves | visit both on the same day; and I cannot, for my life, 
came before them, the Council found that there were some | be ved, and a Verbena or Petunia, grown strong in | see how one additional man ean be required in conse- 
cours e: 
laims for prizes which upon dele 
en books, appeared to have been paid; ö they, 8 a pot, t may be ; € ou 8 
fore, resolved to postpone the settlement of those claims until thing of this kind may be procured in reste ne at | Visitor” hi hol horror of ot bis otup; kd Viit 
they should have time to inves T 43 oe al rs — onfine about 6d. each good pms can be purchas ig he, not very classically, te “ prog. have a spell 
ade ee of in fll with x iof prizes awarded . -r give to G. J. s“ garden a very differe o subdue even this horror ote spirit. I had spoken of a 
either 
to members of the Council, who declined bringing forward that he complains 
their claims, until 22 other demand against the Society the — Pelargonium for effect in the cases t t it stand thus, how- 
donid. Mee toe tb The few ont All. ang 3 under consideration; its hardy habit as to soll, its “Oe — the —— ie Gardens, as at 
És soon as „%% Pr ETA Ep EEE A oriental-looking foliage, and its vivid flowers, give it a | regulated, every basket which m might contain the awful 
he i s statement, which nothi preference over many other beautiful things, hich and above recited “ prog ” is stopped and put into bond. 
their desire to medame the public mind would induce them | perhaps require a particular situation, and soon lose I would pt ar then that all persons who enter the 
to offer, wish it it, to bea poeri csr bug —— tiy are, ae their charm. tanic Gardens on Thursdays may pass i the 
— lg 8 r others, that oa ** to assist. The grand obstacle in the way of a well-filled flower | Pleasure-grounds, but that no persons shall pass from 
them in the better ——— out the objects of ma rig garden is the want of foresight on the part of the eir | the Pleasure-grounds into the Botanic Gardens, If the 
Suggestions of this nature, whenever Nal i ght t for ik ard, have owners. A gardener should have the wants of present regulations for the Botanic 
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have been brought before them, and they Boog 1 pleasure in say- | threugh the year ; more than this, he should know now | sort of human Aspen-leaft’ I now approach your 
ing th st these have boc Nag ew, and where any grievance ex- | hat- he will want next summer, that he ma „ by editorial self—as more confirmip 
ted they en " Y. 9y f- ) 8. 
The Council are » bap appy t to say that they cannot credit the 3 sponde with v 
Sarton 2 4 FA taron tha agi a ae ty A ir prepared to fill his flower beds and supply vacancies | approve of the idea that so far as Kew G are 
„ an erefore oe pala N ar is MN 
prove a by bythe $ 27 CHC: 2 visitors aot 3 when they oceur.—H. B. 2 pan ae: cool a have — At uite 2 ol 
tions; a t i not ne pro rank . 
e ane aes now bing to their credit at th ‘thelr bankers Home Correspondence inds, great concessions paver Doai. made ‘of late 5 
8 The Beehive Strawberry —In addi sre to the all of which are nov g 
Na er — of the 2 tis peesent 4 3 poe age 3 1 nde respecting this Strawberry, I have But can you name one of which it was not — ante - 
nearly valuable time and labour | to e e. Induced by the w onderful character cedently, that the people already enjoyed “ quite 
2 the interests 2 r pce i their reward fumed ope a Anl. —— — iti — Mr. Matthewson . t, I b t| enough ?”—Hortulanus, July 3. [We hold to our 
——— ‘aad. support of the e . s, 20 plants, for each of which I paid 2s. 6d, and, thinking opinion that it is not desirable to hold out inducements 
‘and of the great majority of the respectable 2. ers con- to beat all my neighbours in Senger culture, 1 8 the ee p to 8 
aeon with 21 ae and aly pe gerne Me favour of a discri- grew them well. In the course of the season I pur- re than they no n this 
winati li he ma an institution : 
like this must be apparent to any unprejudiced mind, and the | Chased a dozen more for pot culture. The latter also — the roota of any facility y which per d 
wonder is, not that there are complaints, but that "hace are | received li treatment; notwithstanding all this, ate | — — vy ra 1 * n : <n 
it the Botanie Garden of Kew they ly have 
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80 few of them easter they produced but little fruit, and — or mall 
So long as “the Gouncil receive this su pport, and enjoy this | and g had expected to have seen so f Mr. opportunity grante em. at more our corre- 
F continue t eee eee Ane ob- a = wonderful —— last Wednesday at — ent’s- | spondent wants we do not understand, unless it be to in- 
ects intrusted to them, and will be always mney, as they ever p ig 8 P : nom 
Tare been, to * such * or Desain as may, upon | pa ; but ere. They are, nò doubt, | cumber it needlessly with idlers, who would rather pass 
mature consideratio: towards the improvement of horti- | reserv: 3 Chiswick on a Wednesday next,—S. Knight, n it into the Pleasure- easure-grounds 
culture, cr tow — 2 the a nee r management of the affairs o Barsey, July 4. jé ter by some other road. 
Resolved, that this statement 2 3 and forwarded to Rhododendron marimum.— Many of the =. of Price of Digging.—I see in the Agricultural Gazetle 
the Editor of the Gardeners’ Chron Rhododendron here — an admixture of this spe- of the 24th ult., at Pege 425, a statement that 
We received this paper too Ia ‘late for notice ~~ cies, es although by no means so gay and beautiful as | can be performed at 30s. per acre, and at 40s. Such a 
but we shall refer to it specially next week, If w many o hers, it nevertheless. —— by its 3 snowy t los- | statement, in such $ place, is PRT to do much ill to 
that we have been misled by inaccurate airasia we | soms for a both overlookers and laboure Can any man dig 54 
shall do ample justice to the parties aggrieved. In the | been a dull and uninteresting monotony « of foliage. They | yards square, and 1 foot — with a fork or spade 
meanwhile we have to state that the information upon | are still in flower, and likely so for several | straight down, not sloping, even in So good sandy loam, 
which we have proceeded was not anonymous, but| weeks should the — neve rade’ and moist as | under 3d. per pole, that is 40s. per cre? If good strong 
derived from correspondents of high character and | at present. As the foliage of this plant is somewhat Wheat land it must be 4d. per — D that is 538. 4d. per 
station. Hortulanus Hibernicus ” es probably com- | impatient of cold, the sheltering influence of this system acre. No one can get bread under that, which is little 
municate with us as soon as he sees this.] of planting in groups, causes it to grow more freely, and | enough, Then agai i i 
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D í 00 yar 200 
ALL GARDENS, Vipers.—I have no doubt whatever as to the fact of to be wheeled? If not, what distance is to be wheeled 
G Vacancies IN FLOWER-BORDERS. — young vipers entering the stomachs of their mothers in | for 2d.? as there will be 15 barrow- loads to a yard. 
8 alarm; for I ha i i 
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still ask for information as to the best mode of supplying my house ; and aroki quarry being ne 9 well sow pg that © is, it eertainly tends to de- 
d : > ing from it some loose stones, — which t — had | ceive gentlemen who — ‘she prices, and do not know 
decay. of early flowers. “G. T.“ states his wants in — and Killed serite? vipers ; ‘at 3 they moved a the value of work. No Stranger to the Wheel L 
the following way :— At certain times of the year large stone under which lodged about a dozen little [We are certainly surprized to hear that land can be 
there is a great vacancy observable in many gardens, | vipers, _— 5 inches siti and about tebe thickness of a dug, for 30s. an acre. It may be turned in for that 
copa tobacco pi i in | pri i i 
into bloom, or my ee would have a very naked | fye go under another | mee — near, upon moving | peared a paper, headed keeping in 1660,” of 
appearance. I grow standard Roses, which have pro-| which we found, not the little vipers but a large one; which the writer seems therein to have considered one 
duced a good sprinkling of bloom, but something is re- from the size of the latter, I suspected that it must have Simon Harward to have been the author. Any one 
quired for the borders, &e., not only to keep UP a sue. received the young ones into its stomach; we killed it acquainted with works which have been published 
1 e but Pas to 3 up the —.— Will = immediately after saw the head of one of the young | within the last three o r four centuries on bees, will = 
w good A 
— suitable for t small gardens, pat a moderate price, whie es placed against the old one’s mouth; one of the | Harward to a subject on which it is probable i 
9 differe I gently p What he did = 
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y to this — ane inquiries we observe, the — out of which four or vipers ran of Propagating Plants, and the True Ordering of F. 
that be ts will not be likely to answer the | with great A activity into the bottle, y which —.— stopped | &., — before the year 1597; and further, the ex- 
purpose of “ G. T.“ They generally bloom early, and | closely with a cork, and gave to Adye, surgeon, of 3 
are from their size unfit for small gardens, unless 55 Bradford, our then county — ads kept the vipers | tailed, and has omissions might have rendered it 
used, Lookin . own garden, I find alive in it ote some time. Milliam Stone, Winsley,| more useful to bee-keepers. second edition 
s ony, Spiderwort, 
nial Lupins, Campanulas, oat mostly gone off, ande Kew Gardens.—You agree with the view of the The latter is in my possession, and a comp! 
w se a shabby appearance for a long time to “ Frequent Visitor” of th — wal ess I can make | from it shall be at n 18 ie 
list 2 v a space, to EU up | ou case for mine. There is a 7 — however, | twice the 2 of the Paragrap 
situ t spots, the edges of shrubberies, and similar | on the very threshold. If you ever saw the late Liston | serted in No. r Canterbury, July 2. [We 
a ations, where general effect rather than near in- in one of his favourite charac you will remember ~— be obliged to you for it. 
i i - Disease.— On the 27th, there was here a 
fog, 3 
epection is consulted, but i hey are wi 
Cut of place, and should not be used. What few her- carry off his betrothed to Gretna Green. The lover cam, dense ing re 
baceous were 
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linge takes up requires a long time | are a great many,” answer rand the (now well knows) dis- 
8 it. I would waves “G. to dismiss this aa, I have no ase ae as That's quite enough—you | a — el. The blight i 25 a 
flowers altogether, and cultivate others more need not say a word more,” was the reply, yen in broad list across the plot, leaving 
sompact in their habits, and more durable in their that peculiar tone which ih always set the house roar. | fected, in same way as I 
nia A So with Kew Gardens. If the a uthorities have not the 1 — 
pect the fl den to lool lendid king the proposed change—there | bush for a considerable 
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