844 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
together, we cannot help thinking that there was 
something incompatible in the soils e or in 
ted, 
r gar 
d than a bed filled with “this plant, properly t tented . in 
e ere e e 
den 
Norai 
the methods of culture adopted, for so oist an | Page A rd.: agra 
warm a climate as that of Dacca. New ht siia] —.—— e ireums — an "ey the 
Bourbon seed were sown both at the conclusion of a les adsigned is that Sik le dinan to thane age. 
the rainy season, and with the fir mn This, however, is not the ease; on the e nares we pro- 
F 3 — te again in May and phone et ien treated, few plants wen more easil y cultiv I 
i d, in every month of year will therefore poin int an ow it should be tear? for 
ndee ver Vario 
Fine wei 1 that the seed as not vedetate, thal 
the ground was too moi = dated, that the 
an rac 
ticabl The indigenous Cotton being harder and 
more 3 is less attacked by insects. Some of these 
oe may be avoided by changing the period of 
wine a others by pruning down the plant; for 
epla ants, 
as se aight 55 expected, Spee elt in t ‘the rainy season. 
In one year t as a cessation of rain in July, 
when the leaves looked withered; and as if blighted. 
and $z 
but tiie slant re- Taa tself, though the seco 
leaves were smaller 8 85 the first we read nowhere 
e : 
Ae ome pia 
May, and bearing abun were 
the 
4 high i antly, ' 
e by gales of wind; but 
t 
on the length af 9295 the New Ori 
and e? t will soo 
ants 85 85 were; 
che guidance of thos o may be desirous of cultivating 
one of the denke hardy herbaceous plants 
gardens poss 
The n was first 3 about 20 years 
Douglas, orth-wes 
ceolate, even 
plants, again, have no leave 
orl of flowers, while other 
eds the flowers to mea 
radi leaves ; 
s upon their stems, beyond 
s have leaves in- 
op. ‘he 
5 fever rss as I have stated, also vary ah both in shape 
some are e short, 5 25 very ringent ; 
mo 
ur; 
. Cin separate plants ) are bulk, larger, 
and h less Pap a vary gr = 
sig some being very pa r Dia others deep a 
and on some plants even 8 sh pupo but “all 
this Ap e ns on separate plants, which are capable of 
being raised from seeds, although without pe certainty. 
pale-flowered variety of this Psat, has lately been pub- 
lished in the “ Botanical Magazine. r the name of 
Pents we zon ete from the eastern 8880 of the 1 
but it sufficiently distinct to be s 
i — front ‘the . ee even if perpetiiated c 
cuttin 
ds a be sown as soon as they are ripe in 
not sown 
Pen ns 
au m coast of apse anid Fea ornia. 
hould be sown in pans or large pots, in pure sandy 
meg without any mixture N ine! _ E be 
in they 
requir 
a warmer See Aes there is plent 
th sui 
with which they es be liberally aa. In sper 
a 60 
coast of Nor h u 
expe 
r e until the following spring t 
| (beginning of darch) sina ey should be removed 
Many have ae 
a plants an 
few are aware rr Preven erie 
intelligent gardener in Ge 
istake 
from the above authority. 
culturist an 
d 
good si Th an 3 Sac Von 
worthy seoretary, Mr. Jakaby, have since 
r of trees on the same 
ing a 
attained Joe height of 8 feet ; and who, by — 
ents, beri ei. that, withou 
wer pot, a 
Wai papper When due attention is paid H 
above, you may b — of success. j 
Mr. Esaias Fec an eminent 
nd who ritten g good deal on the 
plants, has endeavoured to settle this q 
leaf. 
3 place each plant s - nch), aeaa larl ice 
vi ited 8 alen „ Th bap Cot Mr. Price | eom omp iad. of three 5 — aa 0 to be fou d on a Lemon tree about 
ound running too much to wood, and was afraid it | of well decayed cow. dung; afterwards place ‘the pes organisa is con 
would require to be checked by pruning. In S in a close pit or frame, and water freely for a few days, | itself, as if in store, till ead supply is sufficient to 
tember he cut it down to 3 Joyi by the end of the | until they recover th ects 3 by the shift; cellular matter for the 
month it threw out ne nches, and it was | afterwards give z freely, he weather be- | once burst out into waves and b 
hoped it would bear in the 8 7 season, though = comes very warm and the sun bright, — midsummer, | evident, that the e is to be trac 
was a system n he had never seen trie . | place the par hF a har: ith its face to the north, | stance th eaf contains in itsélf the 
— it is reported to be better he, to 25 shading t in very b ight — 5 l organisable matter that engende 
m parts rts of Bengal than any other foreign Cotton. pon en 5 night an Pia — aera E The the 5 of its 
may ri uation til the end o ust, | agency of the other par 
* xperime * were commenced, in 1844, by Mr.] when they should = shifte à - ri pots, Go the — 294 at of a Lem 
ERRY, another American planter, at Rungpore, in same kind o as before, and giving a liberal | from the leaves, for the formation of 
the Sieh of April, but bad health compelled h supply of 3 "When shifted ‘they should be placed | not therefore contain the n 
to leave in the spring of 1845. The district appears in an airy 3 where they are ane shaded | for, as soon as a bud is fo 
suited to ‘the growth of Cotton. e plants are, as from the the end of Oct when the {and has not the power to produce ano 
th 5 lu „ requiring to be ee — should be panten ere in a bed in he On perusing the above re 
opped, from the RI of bolls with which they fiow 3 made rather rich and fresh, with sandy itself to me whether leaves of 
3 e loaded. Some of the natives had cultivated le — 5 and rotten dung; the e ones should be again prepa d for the pufpose of pro 
Mexican Cotton and Ran d it more profitable than — NA to a cold pit or frame for the winter, whe me mea prevent the 
their own, but insects are here also complained of. they will be free from damp or stagnant moisture at piitan „ which, I shou 
Notwithstandi h reir roots, and where may remain until the end | operating upo n the leaf and bran 
standing : e KAER 5 of the following March, when they may also be planted | attached, by ‘whieh ro the petiole 0 
0 ec growth, we out in the flower ard n as before makin the soil ver, charged with the necessary orga 
ch soils especially selected, and nure thought 5 5 x N deine eile itself, as the ge 
e This ma the case, but in so moist and | a good succession to those planted in the autumn; they | that ultimately produces a b 
warm a climate, Cotton ight) 0 ily be grown must be freely arg with water in very dry weather, | this circumstance will account fi 
in a more sa y and poorer soil, exposed to the | bat ver-head, for i ered over Tad they succeeded in forming buds on leaves, W 
influence of breeze, as near Luc ypore, or ver) won aeey and lose their umat an Ang 100 tems all the ee sm g> vera 
in the mi pand of H are easi wn over or y the wind, the on it, have failed in ws Se 
i attea and venta In th should be fastened to slender stakes about the 5 hood that in those instan L Je 
of entail would | 
ton plant better than 
plant should be 
make it 
ich soils selected, 
checked in its poen 
e very advisable to place hand- 
eee er the 3 asert ed in the pide i ‘October, | 
to protect den ti e the w should prove very 
severe and dam pi for e ‘hey are palot killed 
by cold, they Aah ver 
y ing, so as to frost and damp een fange in spring. 
o bearing at the most appropriate season.“ Thus treated, this fin will, bloom from |i 
Mr. Pics, however, seems to air of succes s with the end of June to 1 and produce 5 
the exo and deat trying to improve | of seeds, — should again be s as 2507 tated, 
some of the native Cottons. Those Broach. of for in 1 e plisti is not mör hae a biennial, an 
Omerawatty, and, perhaps, Bundlecund, Sai 3 e Se wt a ear from seed to up a 
most desirable. He seems to think that the exotic | SUCce#St? ee ae ee E 
C would succeed better on the Tipperah hil published, it was — to be a perennia ial, and this led 
w E already grown, than on t many to suppose it was difficult to preserve for any 
p ins 
also in the poore pen districts, exposed 
om 
to 
to the ah inset i effects of of th the ez bre 2 and where 
life would be 
ire 
length of time. George Gordon, 
REMARKS ON THE PROPAGATION OF PLANTS 
BY AVES, 
My go: havin r. Cheek’s 
ex ae Gar s Chronicle for 1845, pub- 
lished in the Society’s Journal, Vol Part IV., I 
submit the follow t I have perused 
in 
d cece a by | yo 
„aller 8 
* 
with success, the leaves oad 
the first § 
A pine, pe 4 77 e 1 
25, 1847 
HINT 
PRACTICAR Si — RDENS. , u yet 
THE AZALEA, ie 
are na —— 5 
are ar in ay t 5 
shall — Per more light and a high 
The buds of Hy ge early 
burst their. cells, raot fromt 12 
ted in the ex ae i 
ae 1 + here i is e gng a 
on Miirchcusen 
e.“ 
of 
opted by the publication of uod in} 
pp ig and his stateme 
