798 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE 
our correspondent will r understand m 
about to be — ed ; mendous set mèh 
pt un 
extraordinary — s and this where ‘he: e was n 
fine timber to ed, only the crops by a seapo 
town and a untry arou If } ae 
dem 
he 3 — i 
” else why the heavy p 
ims, and con ntinual ii 
s? 
co 
pondent mitingi pays all reasonable 
damage, he m ugh 
many of t these he 
se of any 
pa fee see 
better. nts, if the late n . of 
absorbing and neutralising the gas eetual, the 
Wakefield verdict must have been justly inflicted Í i 
n victimised by “ 
woly 
will injure, as wealth alkali manufac- 
usua iyare injured by the small cultivators of 
‘the soil. Few persons living near alkali works, espe- 
tally those wh and gardens, but have 
suffered from the desolation ey deformity they pro- 
duce ; and this it is,in part, which induces me to resent 
e), was fre 
1 
- hand crinitum 2 — er rinipun cœru uleum 
ely as before; it is apt to grow tall and straggling. 
but if the leading shoots are i eg oy about 3 0 
r feet high, they will become =e ses well in : 
i . ‘amabilis is tco 
It remain 
ap dry ; "it should be 
gro larg order to give room 
for prsy cate 1 likes simile with plenty of water 
at the roots when growing. Onc 
large variet vA are beautiful thes 9 
on ways . sp the blossoms last tw 
n perfec 
perature of from 700 to 85°, cidiu m keeps 
in flower for aborts six weeks; the little ornithorbyn- 
oe i pra 8 ee and O. i 
etty a rious, EE attleyas, labiata is is one mot 
the Awe mt if 2 yn while in in flower, it will last = 
three ks ; guttata is prettily spotted, an 
lasts a fortnight i in veto candida lasts a long time in 
ium ene s A nice winter flo ower, 
uty. ae Mackayi 
weet-scen 
; Lye 
C. B. Warner, Esq, E 
and Water Spouts 
During a trip isee these beautiful adnate, and that 
of St. Michael’s, I witnessed an illusion i in the shape of 
ecidental circumstances, 
"Is ben 
a ship 
ut of bed qu iekly, I ee tothe 
to one o of your correspondent. He knows 
around such works are Aunbed, re or 
less, by the ——— and though they jan Bi to the 
evil which see: goo? 
party. That Bis eos 
tions oppl y many with subsistence is most t 
z but 
and is | st 
vi 2 h lodked on ‘the wide expanse of the Atlant 
Oc: an, over a there Ra ien a dead calm, we su — 
appeared a oth as a deat st ae 
filled the ni whi ich was as gral aaa a 
and the usual noisy din of the waves ele against the 
no “manufacturer” = pantond na he built his chim- 
ney from benevolence, or that it belches out —— ie acid 
and chlorine as a mark of good-wi as m 
fro im who are not benefited by him, it surely ma th not 
isi 
pats hanerer, the 1 e for my e you: with 
these remarks, e, below bridge, 
and — up bey 2 all — the — pas een 
treeless. 
“Labitur et labstur in omne volubilis ævum,” 
many a fairer spot will shortly be reduced to the 
same dreary aspe 
e wor asa who ike like 
yourself, can estimate its value, to preven such 
remarks as — ak re 18th ult, are tis top 2 do, 
its needless.sa 
uffer | wh 
ackened | a 
and 
| be 
| of water, falling in "the midst o 
ure 
appeared; i hee 5 oy minutes not a vestige o 
of I 
and, was 2 apear lulled. A s 
r coll 
y 
n enor- 
suddenly A itself sete sheets 
our- 
ing waterspouts were broken by the concussion aod dis- 
f these phe- 
large water- 
ae summit creating the. 
appearance of a head of a serpent. Sometimes these 
waterspouts glide alae Saen, sometimes slowly 5 ; 
some rise ~~ e y, n while others take a ork- 
screw for In the of water 
attracted piba was 
to sustain hig! 
omena Wha 
spout, mg “ang spray a 
s long in| w 
in 
The 
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zay x 
o the humane, who 
little busy wor 
take 
Orchids. which Fi ir during — tumn and Win of the water whie e ass i mal of | be cut off and th 
Ahe first I. e variety of Eniden. like dimensions, ap up the — until it dissolved mee for a few days in a shed to dry 
drum Skinne — —— prodasing — 3 itself into its native eleme cured a bo old tu 
feet long, — 35 or more flowers on each wers late for Gardeni g Purpose i have no a — when packed coon gee some Ary a 
measure 2 inches across, bright i Care nd Poteet in saying that slate is the best material that can be | finely broken: a layer 
for three months blossom I grow it on a dry block | used for gardening eft such as for pla 8 inch thiek, should be Jaid at ag bottom 
without moss. I have tried it in a pot i peat, but it | slabs for Mushroom-houses, hothouse floors, &, in| the roots may then be as cl 
did not sue ; the roots seemed to prefer the mo place of flags or biicks. Its chief recommendations are | layers, and th spaces between each 
atmosphere of the house ; it likes plenty of water when durability, neatness, efficieney, exemption from fungi, n the is full, give it a good sh 
‘growing, b at rest the utity be aud from accumulation of filth. It is a well known) it well down with the han stop 
much reduced, and it must be kept cooler then, say from | fact, that in houses where much humidity is required, finally covering the whole about 2 
55° f 60% when growing, the temperat uld be | bricks and flags often get d with a species of | rough part of the peat. The 
from 65° ( 75. E. Skinneri is Orchid, | fungus, the latter particularly, and to get rid of it is to a cellar or other convenient place, 
. the same colour as the former, but its flowers | almost impossible, eve ugh washing be practised | where i remain without a 
h smaller, E. vitellinum produces its beautiful ae J No such e app ances occur in following spring. In tlie sa 
ora cont fE. Skinneri, houses where slates are used; a over now and | Pelargoniums, weakly Dahli 
—— of the one forming a etviking contrast with | then ‘pall that is required, and they e cle am | may eserved through the winter. 
hat of the ater. Tt ks or two months told that slate is in use at one of the Pigiai London | ever, be observed that scar. 
a flower i : use from 550 to 65, but when growing bridges for steps, where it has stood for than | &c., will require to be taken out 
should have a higher temperature, say fi te ee yea hout cely any apparent sigu of | sooner in the spring than 9 
5°, with plenty of wate: grow this also or wearing, even although thousands of people weekly| Heat Proe E 7 
g buried in peat or pass it. Nothing has been brought for ward better Leach's paper on t 
fl 3, adapted for tanks for holding water. In this point it | of this elegant ie ‘of pase, 2 
de the highest praise, and will prove a lasting | the b to su 
benefit to those who it. It is also valuable for tubs at our great Chiswick 2 . appes 
for large Orange trees or Rhod ns. In the con. Mr. Leach proposes too 
ser vatory here are four beautiful specimens of o- much like to have the o} 
dendron arboreum, which are upwards of 30 years of | growers thereon. There i 
age, two of them are nearly as many feet in height, ant am quite ata —— account for, 
> the gr r. Lea 
( an r | they oa flourishin fee in slate tubs. Slate is raised from euttin s, with proper 
— ag lies le ing, also extensively u i in Read riums, and with good | exhibition plan * 
m mee far from the glass. | effects, It dese cen the attention of every lover of | had the gratification of seeing 
Orchid, which flowers | horticulture. Robert Cor, Exotic 3 v. 27. lection once, and I must say 
bor uquets well. | Burning Bees. — have kept bees on the new sinh a plant t r. 
gain, and flower as — 0 years, and never wilfully oyed | Chiswick 
