45—1848. | THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 735 
d, and one which has been most, bition are alre the h — arer vd 
, of — in Scotlanc ` ady in pots they are to bloom in, forcing of winter vegetables, They do not 
tigated, y ieldi ing to few in magnificence | with strong vigorous shoots, wanti thi eatin ficie . armth is — 
keenly in j — This is followed by a table of weather an? sa to ripen their Ay T ganad h g, for a sufficiene ey of w 
i 8 
the principal li Agel ae eee Cry ptogamie sizes. The t old. i i isi S 3 
comes a list o 924 2 ga ae ap g ; 5 e two-year-old seedling bottoms are particu. | this is more a precautionary measu 0 
— of the county, a ing to the natural | larly good, and are trained out into something of the sity. These pits are 44 feet in yor ia In the pao 
with full — p the Tocalities of the rarer form they wi l assume previous to exhibition. Of | of them a layer of brushwood is placed, so ag 
er more interesting species, and interspersed harms 3 of this year, about 2500 are potted off, | the pap to penetrate mo re readily under the sara 
matte ll be read Men pleasure by the greater portion well-established, in 4 and 5-ine allow any excess 
most botanists, -tepen those who do eee a pots, ea the most vigorous health. bie plants ohe: ; the root E — — . * = 
the Germans call the æsthetics of the science; those from which purchasers’ selections are made re equally | with * paar care, and — on a bed of mould whieh 
short, to on the N of our great poet vill = aa well established i in 4-inch pots, and only requiring had been in the prev season in the 
oP . | Melons, — — had since ag — stored from eaa 
not A 1 — acs! 1— tank system si heating i is employ ed here. Mr. | clemency of the weather, to prevent | . — being over 
en s nothing more, eek being the firs roduce it into this part of | saturated with moisture. No care i uired ‘farther 
value of the work is farther enhanced by acol- the country, 9 0 ee — will be pleased to learn that than to attend to keeping up a —— 
of 150 of Wars N species, 2 of the it stands as highly in favour wit him as ever, and no | to remove the roots which have ceased rodueing. If 
Jeetion oe cad J which accompanies sub- other — of using bottom-heat is ever resorted to. | strong roots have been employed, two cuttings will be 
copies, a the x oe 1 * pric — li, in cluding In fact, the tanks We heat the houses in winter, form | readily obtained from them, No watering is requi 
ie eoi very pretty riley the on ms ee gating beds in the summer and autumn. It the genial warmth roceeding from the adjacent cham- 
bri ridge (North Esk), the other of Reekie Line, i subject of Frc that slate cannot be used in their | bers —— of a. The — 
a vork, making one-long to put, the knapsack on construction, „as from its imperis hability, wee necessary for carrying this plan into full operati 
; its requiring no paint, no material would be so | the supply of a Bm Ae quantity of strong roots of the 
o | Valuable for the purpose. Mr, Beck sa one tank, | articles to be forced. The roots of Seakale I 1 
50 feet long, so constructed ; but it is formed by doubling | replant and force again in the — season, 
the slate, with a water-proofing between the parts; thus | siderable number are, ever, annually destro meat 
nsuring tightness even after the slate has split from | but a proper succession is kept up y 8 bed of 
the expansion consequent on the beat of the water. scedliugs both of Kale ~ Rte on well-pr 
k has a small but select collection of Orchids, | ground every season, uall mence Pe saa early 
We noticed in bloom Epidendrum Skinneri and vitel- | in October, and leave off when cutting in the open ground 
linum ; Cattleya labiata and Perrinii ; So pm comme ences, the blanching of whic h ha as been — 
i my and Mackayi ; i sta 
bium 
; | guineum (two vars.), nobile, and mouiliforme ; Miltonia pits are also weil adapted for the — on of iate vege 
nd 
n Clowesii and candida ; Phaleenopsis ama ilis and a ‘ables, such as Lettuees, eee and En 
piece of the same, purchased at Mr. Veitch’s late sale, | taken from the ground in a —.— Pep fit 2 use. 
ch, Coming into flower and rooting well; Oncidium Suttoni, When employed for rpose the rs are re- 
papilio, and one or two imported pieces; with Sobralia moved, an a are only pty replaced whine severe 
` | macrantha. Others were also throwing up their | frost is —— ended i — n, in the Journal of 
6 rac and amongst them Lelia autumnalis | he Hortics — al Soci 
o and a and numerous Oncidiums, Those Poisonous — ne the Parsnip, De Pupeke of 
— ie i apni of slate. - horticultural | Giesse gs era ates, that at the latter end of Mar a 1847, 
urpose find here ever = use ich is | seven children were poisoned in consequence o eating 
N Selene by Mr. Beck, = 5 ae z i rain | seme boiled roots Qf the Pastinaca sativa, growing wild, 
and 3 shelves, ‘als a — boxes for punin The 2 were illusions, loss 0 i 
edging for borders, hot-water tank covers, ioa r | quiet delirium, — staring look, change of the 
frames, on which half, hardy ihig are placed or the — r of the — 4 —— * — and 
: | winter, &e. We had nearly forgotten to mention t at | Slow, suppressed [un iekter ng 
Mr. Do bson has a nice er hi of the ieties of | and pulse, aud almost uninterrupted attempts to get out 
de ee 3 , With a pretty Ms a of patients siared mnd promod at imaginary je 2 the 
ew Hollan er plan 27 
Cie tex ne de 7 eA r, & them did not speak at all ; others only 
i indistinctly or incoherently. Iwo of them uttered inar- 
ar, acne a piece of e e lee ticulate souu ds. „The irritabili ty of the gastric nerves 
ARo and esta e all botanie garden, to On Forcing Sea kale Pinter eee, 
pomi, ai esa the name ie Dove-hill, cae he aaa. Saloti and 3 Late Vegetables. Die bee e A PE CET cl effect, Bat press 3 
vated many rare — — those 1 HEE oat —— 2 of a eee aqueous solution of = 
Scotland, To procure th e he made mong | are dati s uced, viz., r masses of fermenting | pliaii ofisin; d effected, and perf 
— S; and as the ground had "hithe o been material i 5 Ae “pru Seay e has — aP — ed to me * followed in be e e This is a new 
tored, he could not have failed to make ] rdening which not only involves a very, proo a poisorion an 
e and eb expense in the e on of these 3 but, id Len ed during poi aly mi 2 ercond year, on 
ected were propagated H e garden, and | from the saan ide nature of our 5 ae 3 the approach of the flowering season, in the root of the 
out to various parts of the United Kingdom, the nme the produce stss es, ered very | Parsnip, which in the autumn and winter of the first 
mens dried and distributed in like manner. nb more 3 during periods of continued year is sweet and harmle Comparative chemico- 
ld s in ntain | Wet or stormy w 25 er, It also Seat nt BB P 5 n 8 experiments on this pomt would be very 
eing then no comfortable inns heating is a sour dene j mees erably interesting. At the same time the seeds should be ex. 
S oi, ay, he damaging: the leaves, e not unfrequen eutroying amin — Buchn ners Repert., No. 147, p. 363, in the 
ead for supper and | them altogether. ger A years since, whi st —— Ph e, 
shelter of a rock for the | gardener in a large establishment, at my Ae Poi Culture of the Genus Gladiolus.— Few plants are 
wallets as companions, | © close dark shed at the back of a fruiting Pine yand more beautiful or better adapted for ornamenting the 
ed to dry his specimens during | Which derived a borrowed heat from that bl ne drawing-room be conservatory for a lengthened period 
em in good condition | *PPropriated Mal Sin, ee e Di i © and tan some of the varieties of the genus Gladiolus, I 
„ is matter of surprise, espe- | blanching win „and it 2 tlie os have for several years cultivated many of the sorts, but 
eap ith ioual $ in severe ; 4 
atly have been overloaded with poor A wally al more especially the G. insignis, byzantinus, and car 
ivi , heat etimes ee and of a more Fagonia . : . ; Bo 
: 15 ble to a healthy development of | "nii i, certainly, the bie dip ay of flowers 
removed | : 
ere and ae T i in each pot is regul 
wild | t em i in the Fine ee eee e in short, almost usually producing from 1 
y modo of of cultivatio fascinating colours ; 
ruins of 7a | vi th pots. an and manure in che open ground during, the the | amongst the folia 
i sfe depth of winter: the — conditions necessary in plunged ih Vann 
instanees s; | operations being to secure a sufficiency of heat pan is gorgeous and le den, g. 2 vid n manure H Írequer 
the researches of | P . — l 
perfectly blanched. The systemy y the plants 
rs were pertapa mere so economica i the process o 
l d for a of y open air for the pt 
a ay 5 ae well suited for the oft est alike of of forcing Rhubarb | fle So soon as the foliage shows * of 
i Gara M eee rie t e 
en 0 y to do away with (a eir-s , 
ge emo s me 4 9 the action of light and moisture on the jee 
* Worton Cottage, Isleworth.—This neat pedients by which 
Renn b — of | cheese basen produced. In a quadruple range of . v a state of . 
is concerned, compared with a 2 or ing pits, the pits are situated 2 feet AA Top: in the | the Horticuls ural Society 
omnibus, Half an h other, and were formerly heated by dung linings in 
to Twi <a alg nthe Hash. intervening spac spaces, w which were closely covered over with Calendar of rene 
8 55 eg i the visitor within 20 | wooden shu : the Jatt et don easton Snow | (For the ensuing Week.) 
Ee OTS . — [and formed at once sap oe und RYATORY AND GREENE 
stock, two- -years-old seedlings, or seed- n being chille m ee a vis isit to Pit 
| te more enolate en of pints 
3 for their original pu 
