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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[Feb. 17, 



Shallots and Girlie, if not done in the autumn, should now be 

 planted the first opportunity, digging the groan l deeply, making 

 it tine and just fastening the bulbs on the surface. 



Cabbage.— Where there are not plenty of autumn-sown ones, 

 tow some on the warmest border you have, or in a carrot-fram 



Onions and Carrots.— The ground intended for these cannot 

 be too often turned after these frosty mornings.— It. F. 



VI.— ARBORICULTURE. 



Old Woods.— Attend to former directions respecting the work 

 that is necessary to be performed. It would show care, and add 

 much to the beauty of trees if all ro'ten branches and split boughs 

 •were removed, and evergreen shrubs planted under the trees; 

 young Firs, such as Silver, Spruce, and Hemlock-leaved Spruce, 

 to be headed off at a proper height, might also be planted as 

 underwood; this may be done by having a cart filled with good 

 rich compost, mixed with leaf-mould to put over the roots when 

 planting. By this mea.is most kinds would succeed, and render 

 the woods much more cheerful in winter. 



Coppice— Forward all necessary works when the weather 

 permits. Having omitted formerly to mention the distances 

 from each other at which Coppice- wood should be planted, 1 

 would recommend planting them at about four feet apnrteach 

 *ray t as it will be advisable to have plenty of stools to choose 

 from, as some will grow fas'cr th in others, and some may fail. 

 Informing a new Coppice, I would prefer planting In ma », 

 •each kind by themselves, according to the soil and locality. 

 They would have a better appearance, and it would prevent 

 some kinds from oi crgrowing others and injuring them, besides 

 it would be more convenient, when cutting, to have each kind 

 separate. I also omitted to mention Birch, and some kinds of 

 Willows, as being very profitable and useful copse-wood, along 

 -*rith Oak, Ash, Hsgbcrry, or Bird Cherry and HftXtl, M being 

 the most useful. I may also venture to recommend the Locust- 

 tree in favourable localities. The Hazel might be mixed with 

 tall- growing trees, to draw them up to a greater length. 



Young Plantations.— Too much care and attention cannot be 

 bestowed upon these during the early periods of their growth, 

 for all their future value depends upon this A few trees will 

 naturally take the right way, having a proper proportion and 

 equality of side-branches, with only one leader, but for one of 

 these there are scores that require timely and skilful training to 

 keep them in right order. 



Hedge /for/ «.— It is much to he regretted that there is so little 

 attention paid to the proper training of trees in hedge-rows, 

 which might be made useful and ornamental if a little care was 

 bestowed upon them. 



Nursery Work.— An the weather continues unfavourable for 



many operations In this department, all Works that can be 



■Yorwarded with advantage should be proceeded with, to be ready 



for the more active operations of planting and sowing, when the 



Weather becomes more favourable. — W. It. 



State of the Weather near London for the week ending Feb. 15, 1844, at 



observed at the Horticultural Garden, Chi»wu-k. 



Feb. 



Fri. 



Bat. 



Nnn. 

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Tum. 

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I 



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II 

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Thurs. 15 



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24 

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30.000 

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111 



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29.417 



89-704 



JO 974 



99.971 



0.994 

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Mas. 



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44 



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43 



91 



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83 



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42 



91 



1 49 



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370 

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W. 



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M 



.01 



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JK> 



J* ek. 9. Fr«»sty ; •iixhtir clouded ; densely overcast; rain. 

 20. Cloudy and co d throughout. 



11. Might shower >>t small hail ; clear and fine ; troity. 

 1*. Uniformly overc.ist i clear and rine ; d*n»e fo«, with frost at nt«ht. 

 'i.1. Frosty, with dense fojj ; basTV and cold J ti nsiy, with f •* at night. 



14. FOj<£y ; thickly at ited h»»ar frost; clearing; densely overcast. 



15. Slightly overcast and fine; cloudy; rain in the evening. 



Mean temperature of the week 5" below the average. 



State of the Weather at Chiswlcl 



k during \Y 



ie last 18 years, 



For th 



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; ending 



< Februari 



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No. of 

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which it 

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| Prevailing YViacu. 



Feb. 



Aver. 



Highest 

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Lowest 



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43 8 



31-5 



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31. £ 



38.8 



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4.'. 



33 8 



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467 



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39. H 



19 



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6 



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4 



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Fri. 23 



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330 



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3 



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Th- highest temperature during the above period occurred on the 20th and 

 Slit, 1841— thermometer 5r>» ; and the lowest on the 20th, 1836— the r mom. 19°. 



Notices to Correspondents. 



Our Corrksfondknt* will oblige us by not mixing: together 

 Agricultural and Horticultural questions, and by writing them 

 on one side of the paper only. Such precautions can give them 

 no trouble, and will save us a great deal. 



Communications from the following Correspondents are in 

 type, and are only waiting till room can be found for them :— 

 SI. G., J. B. K. L., Nemo, J. Wighton, A Practical Man % Peter 

 Mackenzie, Martin Doyle, A Bee Preserver. C. A. A. Lloyd, G. 

 Thompum, W. Bdlington, 0., Vitis, $., J. Spencer, It. Erring- 

 ton, Gr.,J.APL. 



Abltilon striatum.— Proteus — This plant is a native of Brazil, 

 and produces its pretty bell-shaped flowers, of a bright yellow 

 strongly veined with scarlet, for ten months in the year. Ir likes 

 a moderate supply of water when growing. The temperature 

 for it maybe that of the open air in summer— about 75 °, at most. 

 The kind of soil to grow it in is not important, but it must be 

 allowed to have plenty of pot-room for its roots, or it loses its 

 leaves at bottom, and becomes naked and unsightly $ 

 Charring.— (>.— Sods put on a hotbed, and sticks inside it, may 

 be greatly reduced, but cannot be considered charred by any 

 such operation. 



Deodars.— Govyn.— Place cuttings of the half-ripened wood, 

 with the points cutoff, under a handglass, in a very little 

 bottom-heat, and they will strike root. 

 Emigration.— j* Poor Cabbage will do better here in a com- 

 fortable place than in the United States or anywhere else. We 

 do not admire the land of repudiation, and cannot recommend 

 any one to go to a t-lace where swindling is the national cha- 

 racteristic. If Cabbage is in such a state of fermentation that 

 he cannot remain as he is, then he had better try Canada 

 or New Zealand, provided he has some money, some patience, 

 and a great deal of energy. Any place, however, is better than 

 one where you have a large garden, lOuO pots, 140 succession 

 Pines, 120 fruiters, Peach-house, Vinery, pleasure-ground, and 

 kitchen-garden, with only one man, who is often absent six 

 weeks at a time. If there is such a place, we can only say that 

 the master ought to be his own slave ; and if gardeners would 

 lake our advice he should be so. 

 Exhibitions.— An Exhibitor. — It is rather a nice point whether 

 Clematis Sieboldi and azurea grand i flora can be called green- 

 house climbers or not. They are certainly hardy, but they 

 thrive much better in a greenhouse than out of it. You had 

 better inquire of the secretary what the practice is of the 

 Society where you propr.se to exhibit. 

 Florists' Flowkbs.— Warwickshire. — Your Chirfese Primrose 

 looks like a half-bleached variety of the dark-red notched kind. 

 The specimens are much withered; possibly as there are very 

 few varieties at present of this plant, that you have sent may be 

 worth keeping. 

 Fumigation.-*- O/iivr. — Your question should have been ad- 

 dressed to the "Pharmaceutical Journal.*' According to the 



archives of Pnarmacy, a sweet fumigating inflammable fluid k 

 prepared by mixing together 48 oz. spirits of wine, 4 oz. 

 Tinct. Benzoin, tne like quantity of Tinct. of Vanilla, of Acetic 

 Ether, and Oil of Bergamot, each 1 rz. ; 2 oz. Oil of Cedar, £ 

 oz. of Tincture < i Musk and of Peruvian Balsam ; Oil of Mace, 

 Oil of Cloves, and Oil of Cassia, each £ an oz. We cannot 

 again answer such questions as this, which have nothing to do 

 with the subject of our Paper. 

 Gorkkns.— J. B. K. L.— The little prickly Russian Gnrken is 

 often used in pickles, and it is always distributed by the 

 Horticultural Society ; but, from the description given by a 

 late correspondent, we suppose that he meant the Cucumis 

 prophetarum, a bad material Ut such purposes. C. Anguria is 

 also used in the same way, but is equally objectionable. 

 llKATHS.—Dtnnthus.— These are best struck early in autumn, 

 but they will do now. Put them in silver sand under a bell- 

 glass, and wipe it out every morning and evening. We never 

 saw cuttings of forced Pinks used, and should doubt whether 

 the practice is worth attempting. 

 Hawk ku's Lickncb. — W. A". /.—Garden seeds cannot be carried 

 about the country and sold from door to door without a 

 hawker's licence. Every hawker, pedlar, fcc.must pay a duty 

 of 4/. for each year; and if he travel with any horse, ass, 

 mule, or other beast drawing burthen, the additional sum of 

 41. yearly lor each such beast. 

 Hom.y-bekriks.— A Subscriber.— Of your Holly-berries th^t were 

 mixed with sand and buried this winter In the ground, if sown 

 in March, a few may come up during the summer; but they 

 will not grow, generally, before next season.; 

 I.vskcts. — A Subscriber's Scales from the Peach-tree appear to be 

 the Coccus p-ttcllseformis — Gnrd. Chron., ro\.\'\\., p. 517; the 

 smaller ours running about are the young of the same, but it 

 is very probable that a smaller species may also infest the 



Peach-tree. it. O.-We doubt whether guano sprinkled 



among compost will kill wircworm. J. /).— Nn. l is closely 



allied to the Coccus Testudo, of Curtis, and thus are probably 

 identical; 2, is a Lepisma, but I neither know the species, nor 

 can I say upon what it feeds; 3, is Aspiuiotus Bromelise, ol 

 Curtis; 4, is a young Helix; 6, the leaf has probably been 

 punctured by an exotic Thrips. The box No. 5 was crushed 

 and empty. Pill-boxes, unless cut down and well made, will 

 not bear the pressure by post, and the stamping at once destroys 

 them. If a pill-box be cut down to the depth of half an inch, 

 and a slice of cork of the same thickness, but very much 

 smaller, as the cork of a vial, be stuck in the centre with seal- 

 ing-wax or a wafer, the lid and bottom will not sink in, and 

 there will generally be plenty of room left round the cork for 

 specimens; for the same reasons nothing can be worse adapted 

 for transmitting fragile or living objects than lucifer- boxes, 

 which are often employed. For small insects the barrel of an 

 old pen or a quill stopped at both ends with cork, is an admi- 

 rable protection per post. As the period is now approaching 

 when we expect to be favoured with numerous specimens both 

 from the Gardener and Farmer, we hope our recommendations 

 will be adopted, that specimens may arrive safe, and enable us 

 to give satisfactory answers.— R. 

 Lawns.— F. R. S.—A good kind of Grass for improving a lawn is 

 Crested Dogstail ; it may be sown in March. The common 

 practice is to bush-harrow the lawu in order to stir up the soil 

 a little for the seed, which should be sown broadcast when the 

 ground is damp, passing a garden roller over it when the 

 ground becomes sufficiently dry. t 

 Ll'cui.ia gbatissima. — Rhudon. — This is an excellent Conserva- 

 tory plant, but we never saw it tried in a window ; it succeeds 

 well in a mixture of turfy loam and peat. It may be propa- 

 gated by cuttings, which require bottom-heat. W. C— It 



is not a climber, but a beautiful greenhouse shrub, with large 

 fragrant blossoms, having some resemblance to those of a 

 Hydrangea.? 

 Mam'hbs. — Ignoramus. — Charcoal seems useful for everything ; 

 the suiter it is the better. We know nothing of the action of 

 Potter's liquid guano; but his common guano is so very good 

 that it is worth trying the other. Nothing that we have seen 



acts on Pelargoniums like superphosphate of lime. O.-We 



never heard of Rushes being used as manure lor Auriculas. 

 Bran, soaked with soapsuds, which has lain two years or 

 nearly, although not reduced to a soil, is fit for use. Kill the 

 small dingy-coloured worms, by moistening it with boiling 



water. A Lady.— Nitrate of soda is no doubt useful to 



greenhouse plants if mixed in the water used in watering 

 them. The weaker the solution the belter. Instead of 2oz. 

 to 6 gallons of water we should only use half as much, or 

 even half that, and trust to the quantity that will be given by 

 slow degrees. A much better material is Potter's guano or 

 superphosphate of lime. If you love your plants they will 

 take it kindly of you to give them some. 

 Morphology. — E. B. — We are much obliged for your very 

 sensible letter; but we make a point of not coming into contact 

 with such people as those to whom you allude. It is true that 

 the criticism is " a production which for egotism, ignorance of 

 the subject-matter in dispute (?), and illtberality, cannot be 

 paralleled in the whole range of English literature," and for 

 that very reason it is beneath even contempt; 

 Names of Plants.— Cork.— If you will again refer to p. 71, you 

 will see that the account of Statice rytidophylla is a mere ex- 

 tract from the M Botanical Magazine," with which we have 

 nothing to do. Your leaf is surely not it, but seems to be S. 

 oleifolia, or some such species. S. Dicksoni, or Dickensoni, is 

 in the way of S. arborea, and is the same as S. rytidophylla. 



G. B,— \. Cineraria Tussilaginis var. ; 2. Erica gracilis ; 



3. Indeterminable ; 4. Ditto: perhaps Bignonia pandorse; 5. 

 Lavandula dentata; 6. Indeterminable. Plants out of flower 



cannot often be named with any accuracy. A.— One of your 



Begonias is coccinea, the other has no good flowers, and we 

 do not recogf iseit; the plant called Hibhcrtiais Pomaderris 



elllptlca. W. M.— Your Gesnera, which looks like a cross 



between G. D »uglasii and bulbosa, is handsome and new to us. 



S.H. — 1, Carex fulva; 2, Scirpus syivaticus; 4, Blechnum 



boreale ; 5, Asplenium ruta-muraria; 6, A. adiantura nigrum ; 



7. Polypodium vulgare. § Tropical.— Next week. 



Oaks.— Crustt/mnn.— There is no good reason to suppose that 

 Wainscot Oak is produced by the Quercus Cerris. It is pro- 

 bably the wood of Q. ses^iliflora ruu up in the close forests of 

 the Continent. 



Pbach-trkks.— A New Subscriber.— Your Royal George Peach- 

 tree has been planted in soil too highly manured. You must 

 manage it in summer in such a way as to have no occasion to 

 cut out over-luxuiiant shoots in winter. Much cutting will 

 increase the tendency it has to gum and canker. Withhold 

 manure from the border till such time at least as the tree 

 begins to brar,(| 



Peas.— A Subscriber.— The Pea you sent of the variety which 

 grows with you to the height of 9 ft., and which you say is the 

 best tasted of any you have ever met with, continuing in eating 

 when other Peas are hard, is Knight's Tall Marrow. || 



Pkars.— J. W. T.— On your three worthless Pear-trees on a 

 north wall, you may graft for fruit to come in between January 

 and March, Hacon's Incomparable, Ne Plus Mentis, and March 

 Bergamot; but early varieties are more appropriate than late 

 for such a situation. Grafts from the garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society cannot be obtained except by Fellows of the 

 Society.J 



Pin'r-appmc?.— A*. Y. /.— We do not advise you, as a novice in 

 Pine-growing, to attempt them out of pots. Try that way 

 first, and when you have become acquainted with their pot 

 management, then turn them into a bed of earth, warmed by 

 hot-water gutters. S il is of less consequence than good 

 management. See what is said on this subject at, p. 19, of 



the present volume. /. B. K. L.— The instance you mention 



is noticed to-day. It, however, was not a Queen Pine, but a 

 Providence, which is a very different thing. 



Pits.— An Irish Economist. — Mr. PaxtonVs plan of a pit is only 

 for its construction and not for heating it. It need not be 

 heated at all, or it may be wanned in 20 different ways. Our 

 columns have, of late, been occupied by descriptions of 

 heating, all of which are, no doubt, more or less good. Will 

 none of them suit you ? We fear clay pipes will not answer 

 Some say they do, but in our experience they do not. We 

 cannot give plans of boilers ; that is the business of those who 

 sell them. Rogers's conical boiler is a truncated hollow cone 



POLYAXTHU3.— O.— The florists who use for these flowers the 

 soil in which Cowslips grow, do so upon the supposition that 

 plants know better than we do what they like; and no doubt 

 florists are right. The Polyanthus and Cowslip have exactly 

 the same habit and constitution. 



Potatory.— Arglos.—lAme is a good manure for Potatoes, if 

 you can get lime-rubbish, so much the better. We should give 

 the land a good dressing— say 20 loads an acre of lime now, 

 and stable-dung at the time of planting. You would no doubt' 

 however, find your account in using a few bushels of Potter's* 

 guano instead of lime. It costs more, but produces more ! and 



then you may sell the stable-dung. Ignoramus.— Nothiu^ 



will make Potatoes mealy that are grown in the shade. They 

 must have light, and plenty too, if they are to be of good 

 quality. 



Potted Plants. — 0.— When pots are lined with moss the 

 young roots a»e entangled in it, and hold the soil together, so 

 that shifting may be easily accomplished. Or, if sphagnum 

 moss is employed, it keeps the soil damp. Half-decayed 

 woollen rags would probably be useful in potting, but we never 

 saw them tried. 



PitfMVc Forest-treks. —Dendrophilus will appear shortly. We 

 have already so fully and repeatedly expressed our own 

 opinion on this subject that we cannot undertake to renew it 

 again speedily. Col. Greenwood's new book will, however, 

 probably lead to some discussion. 



Raspbkrry — T. P.— We will inquire. 



Stakks.— Midland County.— Point and char your Larch poles, by 

 all means, before you drive tnem. But did you not see what 

 was said in our last Number about Seyssel asphalte for this 

 purpose? There is no object in putting them in round. If 

 driven close together, and secured by a lath nailed to the top, 

 they make the best of all hare- proof fences. 



Suoar-bakkrs' Sc um .— Opus.— We regret to be unable to give 

 you any information concerning the action of this >uhstauce. 

 It is reported to render Grass very rank, which is quite in its 

 favour ; and it is said to be good for Turnips ; but we can get 

 no satisfactory intelligence upon the subject. Our correspond, 

 cuts would much oblige us if they could furnish some inform, 

 ation respectingir. 



Timber— E. IL L.— Larch-poles, of 6 inches average diameter 

 at the largest end, are worth about 2s. 6d. each in London, 

 Good Oak is worth from 5rf. to jd. a foot superficial in the inch, 

 which must be what your sawyer means, and not 8rf. a foot 

 for the I inch. English Oak is worth from 61. to 8/. per load, 

 according to quality. We will take measures in a week or 

 two to publish the London prices of English timber, and con* 

 tinue to do so from time to time. 



Vines.— 0, M. — Having two small Vineries to furnish with 

 7 plants each, you may plant .in the early one, 3 Black Ham- 

 burgh, 2 Royal Muscadine, 1 White Sweetwater, 1 Black 

 Prince; in the late house, Black Hamburgh, 2 Charlesworth 

 Tokay, Muscat of Alexandria, 3 St. Peters. For fruiting iu 



pots, Black Hamburgh and Royal Muscadine. || A. B.—\t 



will be advisable to manure your Vine-border with super- 

 phosphate of lime. Let the roots be kept dry in winter, but 

 moist in the glowing season ; the reverse of this is most proba- 

 bly the cause of failure as regards your crops of fruit. If in 

 consequence of its being situated near the house, you prefer 

 having the border neat and rather gay during the summer, 

 you must select such plants as will neither root deeply nor 



overspread the surface, and they shouldbethinlyplanted.il 



Emily.— A fall of 18 inches on a width of 4£ feet will be quite 

 enough for your verandah, especially as you intend to have it 

 glazed with British sheet-glass ; and if you do so, theie will be 

 very little ri>k of damage from hail-storms. Vines will succeed 

 if planted to grow up the supports in front, and trained under 

 the glass. For this situation, the Black Hamburgh and the 

 Royal Muscadine are most suitable varieties. R 



Vines in Pots.— Peter C. — Vines for early forcing may be 

 coiled once round with some advantage, because a store of 

 perfectly-elaborated juices is contained in the mature wood; 

 which will prove useful in forming leaves in the first instance. 

 But it must be borne in mind, that if a great length of wood is 

 coiled in the pot, a large portion of the returning sap from 

 the recently-formed leaves is appropriated by such great bulk 

 of wood, and the latter gains an accession of tissue from that 

 which would otherwise have gone to the formation of fresh 

 roots. The Canes should be potted in January, and brought 

 gradually forward, so as to break the buds before March, when 

 sufficient light will be obtained for the expanding foliage; after 

 which there will be a long enough season to prepare them for 

 fruiting next summer.ll 



Whitney's Transparent Fluid.— X. Z— The following is Mr. 

 Whitney's answer to your inquiry: — "The calculations I 

 made, and which I still adhere to, was on glazed calico, which 

 I have found to take as nearly the quantity specified as pos- 

 sible; but I find that different materials require larger quan- 

 tities of the composition to render them waterproof. Bcok 

 muslin takes considerably more than glazed calico, as all the 

 compartments of that thin fabric must be filled up. Very thick 

 calico without glaze also takes more to saturate it, for which 

 reason I have particularly recommended that parties should 

 use glazed calico, and apply the composition on the side wot 

 glazed. Your correspondent must have omitted to read the 

 directions, or he would then see that the composition is to be 

 put on hot. I have no doubt, however, that when his calico 

 is dry it will be perfectly impervious to moisture, and I should 

 be inclined to let it stand the summer, aud give it a coat ltt 

 autumn, if to remain out all the winter." 



Miscellaneous.— T. S.—Wc know of no proportion for mixing 

 oil, &c. for white paint; your own observation will tell you 

 when it is of a proper consistence. If yours rubs off like 

 whitewash, it may be because you use bad oil ; but it is n \ ore 

 likely to arise from using bad white-lead, which is often adul- 

 terated with common whitening. Get good materials, of re- 

 spectable people, who do not profess to sell cheaper than they 

 can buy. and your paint will be as good as your neighbours . 



/. B.— You may plant a Pyracantha, or a Chimonanthus, 



or a common Laurel, or an Alaternus, oraPhyllirea. We should 

 plant the first. Violet-3eeds cannot be readily bought. V> b Y 

 not get the wild sorts out of the woods? none are sweeter. 

 They maybe planted now, and will blossom soon; but we 

 doubt if they will succeed. Better try Periwinkle and Lihes- 



of-the- Valley. Uckjield —We are in possession of an answer 



to your question from • t O." that will be forwarded to yoji 



upon your giving us yrur real name and address. £ &• L.-~ 



Address, 4# The principal Superintendent of the Garden* 



Hampton Court." Este.—A book is at the office for "Este. 



Aluha will find directions lor the management of tne 



Tuberose given at p. Hg, 1843. t Theta.—Vie do not know 



where seeds of the Sirdar Melon may be had. Your letter 



is sent to Mr. Fleming, t A Constant Reader. -The term 



struck hive ;n the article on Bees was misprinted for stickej 

 hive, or the hive with sticks in it. Your other questions wm 

 be answered by Mr. Pettigrew himself, to whom your letter 

 sent. X 



Erratum.— Feb. 3, p. 70, Polyanthus— for "fice-eyed" read 

 •• pin-eyed." 



** *As usual many communications have been received too la 

 lor answering this week. 



