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29—1848: | THE GARDENERS’ 
in n Mayo „the correspondent | NOTES ON THE ee JAPONICA, 
now looks upon it as contagious o or infectious —a signifi- THE E Cryptomeria j japonica the most beautiful tree 
timation of what is on. astle Connell | of the Conifers which is met w ich in China. Our first w 
i konp ledge of the are of thie species is derived fro 
t pet 
CHRONICLE. 
471 
sa 57 Swedish t traveller, who 
e writings of Thu 
h vol. of the“ 
it in Japan. Int 
Tri ete the late 
Horticultural apd rte introduced the fashion of 
growing Celery to 
ishes 
specimens iy le growth are seldo 
ver so 20 acceptable on the table as those of 
ate dimensions, A of Celery 4 feet long and 
figured it f. pecimen whi 
own), 
Be Hast, Enniskille en, Monaghan 
We do not give our authority aa these N ſor 
the sake of the informants, who would me per- 
sonal danger if they reported ill “of ‘the N but we 
There is awe very 
to adopt the recommendation of Mr. 
lasnevin, and Mr. . ‘to trans- 
he fields into ev. very’spare corner 
made to grow, and to begin sow- 
ing Cabbages, — Greens, and Horn Carrots. 
ON PROPAGATING OR MULTIPLYING MUSH. 
N, A ee ON RAISING OF MUSH- 
TE 
N WIN 
n (or the mycelium of the s 
pestris) may often be found on tlie floor of an 
cam mpty 
outhouse where n kept for a length of 
ime ; and from that souree I originally — it at 
may be p ed in small masses 
place, for future N 
various ways of increasing Mush 
wn ; but the following is perhaps one of 
sert p 0 
If the the — et rather co 
heat to cause the spaw eap w 
warm — ngs diffuse a petite Heat through | early 1 
the whole the spawn has run through 
very part, have ‘the whole taken into a dry loft, where 
it is to be kept till wanted. 
Another way which is ogy ad te . ae 
I believe is the most gen neral w ine 
„when pieces of Spawn are to be put in 
hen, i in any convenient shed, form a bed of 
d 3 feet wide. On 
e material I mak with con- 
sists enti of hors a 1 those of 
horses kept on Oats and hay, - 
düctive than those of ho — 
d 
rning 
me to dry a little, P weather 
pe When we atA der- St to 
I have it all taken the Mushroom- shoei pa 
if not enough dried, it is spread co the floor and on the | j 
n flues, turning on 
o the bed is ready for 
Spa 
bed when spawned should kr 
not exceed 
In 
8 or 10 days, ty which time 
alittle. Then co 
a spade 
ttl hy 
Mr. John Lyall, Pinkie-house 
e Caledonian He 
‘oom | de 
the hci 
© | the same striking habit and certainl 
rooms rally to 
ints | some Celery and Radishes will 
estimation = ee visitor, uriwi 
ort. Soe, Jan, aia 
a drie ch had fi 
belonged to Thunberg, and which had e left. to “ais 
Thun by ich. 
— 8 
er 
. 
sited the pro- 
a, I met with i the Cryptome- 
ria growing in the country a few miles from the city of 
ery 
with its little cones, which w 
stems of the 
a 
down to the Chinaman, w 
carried them ey to 1 
first pom seen in Englan 
teady N that the tree is “i Sm, n to 
the district near Shanghae, and tha und there is 
rowth. mateak. "distri 
were 
coarty Gas | 
of ke t tree in this 
Ju 
udging from the climate i eyi north of China and 
h 
that | necessa 
t | good colour, 
f| grow in 
up and | rot 
ef these seeds the Care 
act will segs cae a useful hint for tia treatment | tion 
í 05 in diame eter 
expended 
1 pee 
is a succession of eee ery free from 2 or 
earthy taste, free from toughness or stringiness, and of 
ost persons will be found to prefer that 
which is of medium s size, as possessing these properties 
in a $ garra est 
at gardeners s sow a little seed ix a hotbed frame, 
to Senin an ea The plants as 
aim at 
= 
@ 
things often rest more on 
custom eny reason, and may be advantageously: de- 
parted fro 
Celery trenches should be about 12 inches d 
as advan 2 5 
besides the saving o 
B 
© 
correct the ravages of worms and spe 
CAPE HEATHS.—No. X 
W is a number of He eaths, though distributed 
1846-47 has pro be as hardy as the Deodar, 4 divided, yet in the aggregate, claim a common 
which it will be a most suitable com in our woods iance, and as suc Á ed as a section exhi- 
and parks, Itstrikes readily from — — but oe | biting Ge cee in foliage and general habit k 
generally he b pletely their ow —— in the — M 
Like the <n t likes a eae S soil, and | elcome tubular, and tri the ventricose 
thrives best in — 9 which the generality furnish sufficient —— of the type of — 
the Pine 3 pre — under discussion. The foli ingo c of all is short and 
ful Aus 
re not ary 
in this country. 
sA 
e we N a 
ful in form, perfectly hardy, and sg mailed 
orth ate. Ina few years i may 
a very ype t on our 
to produce 
= rain, not . the eo 
wood is ees 
Yew, and 
3 ee FOR AMATEURS 
MALL GARDENS, 
Cretery.—T — of the table must not be for- 
gotten in our attention 
It has often 3 a subject of r of pears ea the beauti- | © 
ao 
d 
z — by 2 — All the 
just all 
colour ; and the flowers of all are — varnish 
of a viscid —— which heightens the Pel “of the 
many eccen n the economy of the plants. 
3 —.— . the flowers, on alight- 
n them, glued 
saw a 1 
e pensive at and difficult of propaga- 
tion; But ix in a collection, — the term in ay broadest 
sense, they are indi ble 
3 e whose taste for flowers s borders on the 
and who ire a flow geet for its 
. there is a curious little Heath I w 
em to 
uties, 
season a judieious gardener will be laying up a stock of 
care and skill in various 
3 with protien upon his table in autumn and winter 
Among these vegetable luxuries “must not be for- 
C 
remember it with vexa- | same 
desti- 
ke the 
and in- 
t they are tres more 
ge rent 
e two glint i is not 80 
laced side by ade; bat — cra 
recommendation 
2. 
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