THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
Oer. 14. 
on; and Mr. S 
tur to be imitated, irre ularity will best rare ee from Ceyl q 
aved Kidneys; in — to — — —— — | pam sets nn = “ee i 4 * aa e ohrare eee — — 
ee —— Lettuce seed was cut, when, larger as well as in smaller plantations in the natural fund en al š uS 3 inseetif — 
f the ci eve tato to a root was found sound, | style, but more esp cially in detache roups, which found on the beae en r. J. F. — 
— ——— f ground, not so trea ve so powerful an effect in the woni of idence. ye eats 1 4— been — moist n 
ri The greatest ty of a group as re- bruise years without 
the erop was full — eae meara whieh — roi their — s in the varied direction these take | fering any injury or rotting. ti xtraet of S 
of ‘cur g off or pulling up t the dideane „if per- as they mor into trees; bu as for all practical purposes | from W. Thompson, Esq.) of Belfast, was read leer 
—— — 2 mahifest i im the — or this is beyond the influence of art, all we can do is to ing an account of the injury infliet Phin: rary 
formed prt — blight is mani vary as ossible the ground plans of groups folia by myriads of the minute white — 
poe — a * yt 59 suffered by on the relative position whic! the s- have to lyrete, of Haliday. Aleyrodes — 
— of reg lass. In a Vin eted here last each ot her they spring fr ord c R 85 
ear, plazed with sheet glass 21 oz — foo — Vines From observatio ; made, I imagine if the in- e cod 
N hau st by the sun — the leaves and | fluences that gravitation and lig t have upon vegetation The Emigrants Guide Zetland, =: zw 
ona of the shoots 5 and s ne plants — at re mo di er ho direct the fo matio Stewart and Murray, ol E | Bailey, yp. 64 
least 8 feet from the glass — , one plant was | of plantation s or the groups of trees, some point mig Guide to the Cape of G Hope; io Mie ae 
— led, the leaves looked as if they had been | be obtai oe that wo uld be desirable to the designer as ales. &e. 3 to 70 Nä a Jdc 1 ae 
— pili i ho i sed to see Mr. well as the possessor of scenery, and in regar J. C. Byrne. Effingham Wilson. 5 
Pasten so highly t of sheet glass, to the named direction in whic i the stems and branches Wz trust that the r hg these fout 
— he — t Chatsworth, and at every other place, of trees grow, they would find that er for practical books, together with that of the Sydney, 
where he has mmended it, has ever proved perfectly ee benens einfluence of art. of | a few weeks since (p. 591) will * Š 8 auen 3 
respondent stated last week, | weepingBirch ma ing the num ersons who a 2 for 
his — Iina basi “stil to continue its use, position by — of a robust growing tree in their their tht of Einen Wenne take = 
may I be allowed to refer — ak —— noes s who are tre; h means one tree may be made to train selves the grave responsibility of jit ne 
may sted in this subject, t 5 n Mr. n’s | another tree in a certain direction; or one group may | thither, to B take the other place, and to C j 
owe Magazine, 1847 ‚pa age 206. a With — e to the e an influence upon another r- group; and | of a third. Every man must ju an for h mate i 
influence of light, as connected with plant valtivation; it Hes the object is obtained the trainer may be cut best bwit him 5 ad H oder 46 98 1 bu 
would appear W the theory of its importance is not | down or r left, as may ~ eee proper ; Balor e ho uar ead S booka cui ba í 
borne out by practice, inasmuch as no decided improve- ane West Plean; Sept. 11. The ey a k ough to èt the cony oft 
ted fr ts use ; but on the contra tar 7 ee of Treland.— Having in cent poorest er lth menes ‘ 
t has resulted from 1 5. ry of your Paper ghee rved my name dent ned th pre 5 be fi re upon doing is 
know some of the best p ical gardeners in the | n nection with some 3 of yours relative to this Society, I to express our cont inéd cli Sia the ie excellent proes 
country are decidedly opposed to the use of heet glass. | feel myself ä — in the peculiar circumstances under | offered wy ardeners and e ive cultivators u 
So as our own ex nables us to judge, we which I am le ood s- the * of . N vig take New 2 tend, provided g Cook's “Sata 
have no great — for it, and — — its e sesi] ANE DiN T 81 inter ests l gardeners and gardenin gat 11 . E- eae yoo rg ila ii 
ap nee ne BES; nes eart,” In this you have discriminated justly, for I always o! 
much abont using it. Singular as it may appear, it is have had, — and I trust ever will have, then eim pete ak ip Zealand,” convey rome informatio of a kind w 
not more: singulan han ( Sete dret to Tan foprmote and Balp | OUE renders wil 
— both fruits and plants sent to a — on forward, whenever it was in p r, the meritorious and de- ea 
exhibitions are grown common glass very | serving. My political —_ — it è relates to the profession, may | cultivating timber land range 
frequently in rhe eavy houses seemingly ibadapted for | very briefly be stated. s this: Not to consider the party that 
8 have be ng p 
first clase cultivation. We aon plants Seotehman. Sach Ee mam È che Irishma wid eae tO ee 
under sheet gla he best — for some time past, winds as. bigoted, partial, and unworth ery man to me . 
and we find that houses so g requ h closer the same, let his country or creed be what it And fae ther 
attention in ch ble weather, and are very liable to 4 tor n a 8 a TS he ee i 
seoreb the plants if neglected.” Now surely Mr. Paxton —— and gardening "of this wofully divided and un ubeppy 
attention ” 
d leaves m nness, 
Easton. [Our correspondent is under a misapprehen 
sion. Mr. Paxton is n ore an wei for all that 
may appear in his — — what 
appears in our colum 
e Thee editorial responsibility r — 
anagem 
ight and G A 
ndscape gar „in th ngement | z 
of shrubberies, clumps, or plantations, taken advantage | 
of gravi pa and light? These agents 2 a great 
infi 
certain 
— the stems of — — p ‘ly un 
ce of u tion, so 
— continue to neath the soil; — eA 
as as rise a they are to a considerable 
the control of another agent — light. 
in whateve tion it receives the | ha 
greatest quantity — —— 8 seer consequently each 
avoids aud appears to shun bade: ‘of ‘every con- 
tiguous plant. In 
c o a may be made to answer 
— il properly understood. Knight. telis: us 
erpendicular under 
ountry, I take the opa ortunity thus afforded me of expressing 
et sentiments and v ens. Asr regar rds the e Royal Hor tic — 5 al 
pee! 
to becomeits n if it required such, or critically 
to — ‘The time is approaching when that Socie ety and tl 
public will have an opportunity o 
of things, as regards the intentions of the Cou eil, who I may 
be allowed to say ri asa a body, been—as ars we Tean judge— 
That faults attach to the Society 
d, but, s yo u justly observe, What Society 
So nit — with the Royal 8 This much, 
very grossly 
is not to be d 
has not?“ 
the however, Twill add, that I am thoroughly satisfied it is the 
uncil t 
Cult ect ever J fair and 
reasonable cause of complaint, and pr omote, by all the mean 
within their power, the best interests of horticulture. . You — 
Sir, have properly and rightly reflected upon the miserable con- 
sequences of division in the land” where Boe even —— 
forms an exception. It is indeed ! ble to think how ap- 
parently — — it is to do anything in ireland that does 
not mooner 7 later merge into this. It scarcely requires to be 
told that s this unprincipled party jo ery that ruins a 
| blasts ublie — in it. 
ength erwise quic ople, co 
i zeo the folly.of such — d understand that. unity of 
3 . — the net or direction, upon the part of an 15 pebei 
any e y strength, 
alm ost a The 
is not but as — ultim 
aso! howeve 
sI — is sinus 
ytl * alike 
while F 
ek — eling ‘rat 
Reben or ploughing fir 
s from 184. pense it 
each case pea + ot big in ze (18 
25 
ing, N — logs; ierit: 4 f. 
timber 1 es eo 
Ee of ‘breaking up E. hand do. ne 
Expense of putting in crop, and expense of seed ss 114. 
beare gA 
Total oe ee £4 20 
—_—~ 
Ex i of cutting and burning Fern, 22 $ 
. u stu —5 from 1 acre of Fern land 0 no 
st time, 1 r 10% 
Expense — 2 — second time arrowing, p ough- 
P ing in seed, and harrowin g again * 1% 
—— of 2 bushels. of seed, at 5s. each . + 0 0 0 
1 
bushels 
Total 
= — oa land — from 5 
ern land yield 
ou consider that, for the sum requir 
vantage i in the latter case is so grea 
50 to 80 
s from 30 r” 50, bi 
ed 
n cultivate four a 
0 
r better 
eee m 
enough of “Repeal, 2 
arrived when 
plisbe 
healthy, vigorously condueted society in Dublin will do much; 
i “feeble ones,” as you justly call them, can do but little. 
— — on there of the 
— om — : It will be necessary, when 
fru ize is 3 to place the — 
at all — of — growth iderable distances 
each other; the „leaves of the Fine. apple plants 
s an individual, I may be allowed to state, that no greater 
atification could I have, than in being permitted i 5 bay, fair = 
honourable est of being the medium of such des 
— the friend}: 
111 Ain OF 
as they are made “a perpendie ular direetion, and | and credit at — atte n for the best of wishes and intentions; 
direction — — compel t to take when they are rey House, Carrick-on- Shannon, Oct. 9, 
la shaded ; for wes of this plant, like | ct he agra 
the stems of Potato plants, are — — he conflict- Sorleties. 
ing influence of gravitation and of light, eee one labour- |. ENTOMOLOGICAL; Oct. 2. — WILLIAM SPENCE, Esd., a 
ing to give a perpendicular the — a horizontal direc- F. R, S., Presiden the chair. I si 
tion to the leaves, and the ‘power of one stated that the venerable pa of the Society, the 
agent increasing as that f the. other decreases. v. Ys i i 
; Kirby, ha 
direction of the stems and branches of m ended for the Muse f the Ipswich Institution of 
trees may be greatly varied by the agency ght, Natural History, and ich it was intend 
for they a re controlled by its influence | lish copies for distribution. Donations of T 
than evergreens, especially Pinuses, for we may often | works were r the Natural History 
See a deeiduou bend away from a larger one ciety of ton, U.S., the Imperial Natural 3 
5 near it, a — 5 of Fir will push iety of Moscow, and the Entomological Society of 
Sure f another tree Stettin. Speci of both sexes of t e Lamia 
ie * ee, 8 ‘ind still 5 ce ‘ther erect position, Textor were presented by Mr. Jacques, of Bristol, who 
PH difiere: » Ash, Beech, Birch, &e., may be made considers e a nocturnal inseet, en me 
with it : and his mode of capturing the 
insect is by feeling along the b fter it is too 
dark to ses. Mr. J. F. Stephens exhibited some Fir- 
tree wood — perforated by Sirex Gigas 8. 
ig taken at Charing, in Kent, the insects ap- 
ng from June to Septe Mr. Weir exhibited 
ja Specimen “of Ojnæda dentalis, from as $ — a box 
the beating thatch, thus 
insects, whie 
b. 
dislodgin fen 
* pare winte: 
Auarters. Mr. Vernon Wollaston exhibited a box 
* si well | rem 
| doing,” with you I would most eordially and 5 anik in 
f Dublin 
of truce in — 1 sand | 
ident 
ev 
e cultivat: 
5 before them the mo 
able — purchase, 8 
Zealand for les 
Ne 
of labour and capital cannot admit of a m 
t prepared to give an opinion respecting the 
g of timber land: ve er: some farmer 
would require manure than 
ion 
a pa 
oment’s 
snk a than I have 
