THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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that had been cut from 



-~I^Teach 13A inches long, that I 

 C "/ U ^i six weeks" after putting out.-Mr. Ayres, gr. 



sen 



t two brace of Cucumbers, the 



* C Leasurmg 10 inches in length : they were grown in 



J °^?.Hi heated by Perm's system. For these a certificate 

 trlt tbatisheatea y , ^ ^ ^^ sent 



wg5 .warded --Mr. vo , * p j Biddn l p l, Esq., 



2rrt5^%^ in s°° d - ndition - F ; om 



iT^defof the Society were Chysi. bractescens, Epi- 

 ? £,m <?tamfordianuiD, a charming fragrant species, 

 del \r the Society from Guatemala, by Mr. Ilartweg ; 

 SJe aurantiacum, Phycella ignea, Acacia verniciflua, 

 a „*«,£« species, along with Arctostaphylos pungens, 

 "nth t Vne. P t "tile half-hardy evergreen shrub, that was 

 Educed rrom Mexico, by Mr. Hartweg.-Cuttmgs^re 



^Trhutedof Kniglu's Monarch Pear, stated to be hardy 

 f 17 Id hearer, Succeeding best asastandard and bearing 



«»rfrcth ripened. There were also cuttings of the Blue 

 Rrdrican Plum, sometimes known by the name of Brig- 

 . V | olet . it is one of the varieties which furnish the 

 Brienole Prunes; the fruit is of a purple colour, very 

 rich and comes into use soon after the Green Gage. 

 Likewise the Perdrigon Violet Hatif, which, in some 

 rejects, resembles the former, but is quite distinct, 

 ripening much earlier; the flesh is so very rich, that, 

 instead of decaying rapidly when ripe, the fruit will hang 

 and become shrivelled on the tree. 



ilford state* that With him this is a very handsome compact 

 irab which related the hard winter of 1836-7- It was raised 

 nm the seeds sent by Mr. Webb from Madeira in 1825, was 





NOTICES o» NEW PLANTS WHICH ARE EITHER 



USEFUL OR ORNAMENTAL. 



QwxmA vircata. Twiggy Broom. (Hardy Shrub.) Legu- 

 minosK. Honad< na Decandria.— Mr. Young, Nurseryrnan, 



M '" 



•hrub 



from the seeds sent by 



tamed out in 1833 into the open border, and is now a very woody 

 ihrub. It is deserving a place in all shrubberies. In the garden 

 of the Horticultural society it grows about four feet high, and 

 is capable of enduring the ordinary winters round London, if 

 placed in a dry situation, and planted in a loamy soil. It is in- 

 creased bv seeds, or by cuttings of the young wood after mid- 

 summer. "The cuttings should be placed hi a shady situation, in 

 lght sandy soil, and covered with a hand-glass. It fl wers freely 

 In May and June, and forma a loose rather spreading bush, rather 

 thin of fuliage. In the nurseries it is generally known by the 

 name of Spartium virgatum. In such wild and cultivated speci- 

 mens as we have had the opportunity of examining, the leaves 

 were uniformly simple ; in Mr. Young's specimen, however, the 

 lowest on each twig, those, in fact, from whose axil the twigs 

 proceeded, were tiifoliolatr. Thisis interesting, as showing an 

 occasional passage to the 3-lcaved specie--, even among those 

 whose foliage is most decidedly simple.— Botanical Register. 



Lvxbmburgia ciliosa. Fringe-leaved Luxemburgia. (Stove 

 Shrub.) Violacese. Monadelphia Polyandria.— This fine plant 

 forms a very elegant shrub, from two to four feet high ; but it is 

 said to attain a height of eight to twelve feet in Brazil, where it 

 also bears branches. " It was first detected," says Sir W.J. 

 Hooker, " by Martini, in the Diamond district, province of Minas 

 Geraes; and subsequently in the year 1841, by Mr. Gardner, in 

 moist, peaty Foil, in open places, growing with species of Andro- 

 meda, on the Organ Mountains, at an elevation of 5oOO feet above 

 the level of the sea. It has been in British collections about 

 eighteen months or two years, and flowered in several places 

 during the season of 1813. We saw beautiful specimens from the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew ; from Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, 

 and Co., rf Exeter: at the nursery of Mr. Knight, King's-road, 

 Chelsea; and in other large nurseries. It is through Mr. Gard- 

 ner that the stock now in England appears to have been obtained. 

 Ko plant can be more regular, neat, and pleasing in its mode of 

 growth. There is a very peculiar symmetrv, cleanness, and 

 healthiness about ir, which seem to attend it in all conditions, 

 and give it a most ornamental appearance. It grows perfectly 

 erect, with a clear stem, and, as we have seen it, to about a 

 loot or eighteen inches in height, without at present having 

 borne any branches. It is well clothed with leaves, from about 

 lour or six inches above the soil, and these leaves are long, nar- 

 row, very elegant, of the purest green, and delicately cut along 

 tne edges into hair-like teeth, which are remarkable for their 

 extreme uniformity. From the top of the stem an upright spike 

 or nowers issues, forming a sort of cone. Tne flowers are nume- 

 rous, well-disposed, large, and of a clear lively yellow. They 

 last a considerable time, and are produced abundantly on plants 

 not more than R fQot hj ^ The gpecies req ., ires a s tove tempe- 

 rature, and a moist atmosphere, with a rather enriched loamy 

 J" "; It would most probably be benefited by a gentle bottom- 

 Bear. Were it once to branch in this country, as it may possibly 

 oe induced to do by cutting off its summit, its spikes of flowers, 

 proceeding from the extremity of every shoot, will render it one 

 or tne v €ry best of our stove plants.— Pax ton" » Magazine of 



healing cuts, places where the skin has been rubbed off, | 

 and other sores of that kind. You take one leaf or more 

 of the Pelargonium, which you bruise upon a piece of 

 linen ; you then apply it to the sore place, and it often 

 happens that one leaf is sufficient to heal the wound. It 

 sticks closely to the surrounding skin, and helps to close 

 the flesh, and heals the wound in a short time. I have 

 often tried this method, and found it succeed well with 

 myself, nnd also with others to whom 1 have mentioned it. 

 The Pelargonium zonale, one of the oldest and most com- 

 mon in gardens, is much more efficacious than others of 

 the same kind ; its shining and fleshy leaves render it far 

 preferable to those which are dry, ribbed, and downv. 

 —Rev. Hort. f 1843, p. 4G4. 



Plants producing Wax. — There is in Brazil, besides 

 the well-known Corypha cerifera, two other phnts re- 

 markable for the secretion of wax in their fruit. The one 

 is called in Brazil, Hycuiba, aud grows about San Paulo; 

 the other is called Ocuuba, and abounds in Para. — 

 Bol. Zeit. 



Cultivation of Onions Iff the Tartars. — The Tartars, 

 who bring all sorts of vegetables to VViina, the capital of 

 the grand duchy of Lithuania, have a particular method 

 of cultivating Onions. Instead of raising them from seeds, 

 in which they do not succeed, or which appears to them 

 too long a process, they dry and smoke in a chimney 

 those which they wish to propagate, and in spring, when 

 the time to plant them is arrived, they cut tbeua diagonally 

 into quarters, but so as not to separate the pieces entirely 

 one from the other. They set these Onions in rows, 

 when thus prepared, in good soil, well dug, but not 

 freshly manured, at about 10 inches from each other, and 

 two inches deep. These Onions increase extraordinarily, 

 and grow large anil strong. — Rev. Hort., 1813, p. 449. 



CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS 



For the ensuing Week. 



Miscellaneous. 



A Textile Plant from China.— M. Stanislas Julien 

 has given to the Museum of Natural History (at Paris), 

 the seeds of a Textile plant, which M. l'Abbe Voisin, one 

 Jf the d.rectors of foreign missions, obtained from China. 

 l&is plant, which they call Ko-hoang-kin, Louho, and 

 h-tn-thai, is met with everywhere, but particularly in the 

 Provinces of Tche-Kiang and Tiang-Nan. M. Julien has 

 "Ken its description, the details connected with its culti- 

 vation, and the preparation of the clothing that is made 

 ™>m it, from the M Encyclopedia of Chinese Agriculture." 

 'ae seeds germinated in the Garden of Plants, and its 

 POtaiucal character?, will soon be ascertained. In the 

 """" * " thinks that the plant is a Kid- 



and particularly D.buibosus. — 

 T. 



meantime, M. de Jussieu 

 ne Y-Bean, near Dolichos, 

 *«. Hon., Nov. 1843.- 



Pelargonium Leaves a Cure for Wounds.— The leaves 



the Pelargonium are, as everybody knows, strongly 



■cented ; some smell of Rose, others of Lemons, Apples, 



c - J there are also other sorts, which, when bruised, 



Wea nauseous and rather disagreeable odour. All the 



pecies and varieties of this genus contain a large quantity 



essen t:al oil, which is usually fatty ; there are several 



V which are cultivated in the open air in the south of 



I.— HOTHOUSES, CONSERVATORIES, Sec. 

 WnKN a considerable portion of plants is potted, the stove 

 ought to be kept pretty close for a week or two, to encourage the 

 plants to form new roots and strike freely into the fresh soil. 

 Many of the more robust kinds must be pruned at the roots, the 

 old soil being first shaken from them, when they may be pot into 

 smaller pots j the larger roots will do to graft some of the 

 same family on, or will form young plants if put in as cuttings; 

 this is an easy way of getting a large stock of some plants, and 

 almost any sort will grow from root-cuttings, in the spring. 

 Plants may now be more freely watered, and the houses kept 



moderately moist. 



Consei vatory.— As a great number of sprinr-nowering plants 

 are now coming into bloom, more air must be admitted ; but 

 these recently removed from the forcing-pits, and all stove- plants 

 brought in to bloom, must be arranged in the warmest parts of 

 the house. Fresh beds of soil should now be made for all climber- 

 that are to be planted this season, and a portion of the old soil 

 removed, from such established ones as are known to quickly ex- 

 haust the soil, to be replaced by a fresh supply : this will be a good 

 opportunity to cut or root-prune such climbers as have rambled 

 over the house without flowering much for the last year or two, 

 and where duplicates exist.this is a suitable time to cut down some 

 of them to the surface of the ground, in order to prolong their 

 flowering season ; this is also the best way to get rid of plants 



infested with scales, or other troublesome insects, if care is 'aken 

 to clean the remaining portion of the plants and the pillars or 

 trellis, &c, to which they have been trained. 



Greenhouse.— This is a good time to propagate greenhouse- 

 plants by cuttings, &c, where a gentle bottom-heat can be 

 maintained; great attention is required to keep these plants 

 from growiug too fast at this season; the least confinement is 

 injurious to many tribes of woody plants of this department. The 

 tops of young plants in free growth, ought occasionally to be cut 

 off, in order to get good busby specimens, even if their bloom is 



sacrificed at this stage. 



Forcing- Pits.— These must now be kept more moist as the 

 season advances. Cuttings reared in these pits ought to be potted 

 off as soon as they are rooted. Thumb-pots are convenient for 

 striking cuttings of favourite plants, in putting only one in each, 

 and when they are rooted they are easily removed into larger 

 pots with little check to the young plant. Seedlings demand all 

 the attention you can give them now. When the least appear- 

 ance of mouldiness is seen on the seed-pots, rub it off and sprinkle 

 some dry peat or sand over the surface, and keep the pot rather 

 dry for a day or two, when this additional covering may be shaken 



or blown off the pot.— D. B. 



II.-FLOWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES. 



Out-door Department. 

 Need I ask if you have decided up-»n what plants the beds in 

 the Flower-garden are to be planted with this season ? If not, 

 the sooner the decision is made the better, or you will be 

 too late. Autumn-sown annuals may now be removed to 

 their blooming- places, planting three or five in a patch accord- 

 ing to the kind and size. For beds intended to be planted 

 with halt-hardy things, I plant the annuals in a line round the 

 outside, and being pegged or clipped into shape, they form a neat 

 and gay edging in the early part of the season, and leave the 

 centre of the beds to be thickly planted with such plants as arc 

 intended for summer and autumn decoration. Californian an- 

 nuals, such as Clarkias, Collinsias, Leptosiphons, Ncmophilas, 

 fee., sown now, will bloom almost as soon as those sown in the 

 autumn ; indeed, it is a good plan to sow a few seeds at the time 

 of planting, as thev fill up all vacancies, and prolong the season 

 of bloom. Herbaceous borders, it not dressed over in the 

 auMimn, must be attended to immediately, and either fresh com- 

 post or manure must be added to all plants that are weakly. 



Reserve Garden.— Proceed with the planting out of biennials of 

 alt kinds, and prepare a good-sized piece of ground for a sowing 

 of Anemone con naria, hortensis, and vitifoha. Anemones 

 delight in a strong rich soil, and a rather shady situation in the 

 summer season. Sow the seed, after being well rubbed in sand 

 in shallow drills, nine inches apart, and cover with rich soil 

 from the compost-yard. A sowing of Ten- week Stocks must 

 also be made on a warm sunny border; cover wi h litter or mats 

 at night, until the seeds begin to vegetate. Sow llk ™' lbe * 

 general assortment of annuals for transplanting, to nil up 

 vacancies. . . fh 



Pits and Frame*.— Here the work needs no poinding out j int. 



means of providing room after the plants are potted i is u« 



greatest difficulty in most gardens. Calico dressed with Whitney s 



.... _ _._! _ . € fj .a nn o»>or« ndmirablv m tne 



III.— FLORISTS* FLOWERS. 



Auricula*.— Attend to directions previously given. Seed may 

 now be sown. The best compost is sandy peat and leaf-soil. 

 Shallow boxes or pans should be filled nearly full, and watered 

 well to make it settle, when the seed may be thinly strewn on 

 the surface, covering very slightly. The blooms are now rising; 

 mind tha* the trusses are not drawn by keeping the lights on 

 too much. 



Polyanthus's.— Still have a sharp look out for snails. With a 

 very small hand-fork keep the suifaceof the bed loose, t.king 

 care not to disturb the fibres. If grown in p;>t=, the soil must be 

 occasionally stirred, keeping them moderately moist. In pur- 

 chasing Polyanthuses ir most be borre in mind, that Hufton's 

 Earl Grey and Clegg's Lord John Russell are one and the same 

 flower, the former being the proper name. 



Ranunculuses. — If the fine day or two last week were taken 

 advantage of, many Ranunculus beds will have been planted; if 

 not, the sooner the better. 



Tulips.— The beds must be carefully gone over and the cracks 

 in the soil filled up, putting it firmly round the neck or rising 

 leaves of the flower. A blunt stick is a simple though effectual 

 instrument to loosen the soil between the rows. Should the 

 loaves appear cankered the soil must be displaced and the dis- 

 eased part cut away with a sharp penknife: after which opera- 

 tion it is necessary to keep the wound dry, which may be accom- 

 plished by placing a hand-glass < ver if, supported by three small 

 forked pegs ; thus ensuring a free circulation of air, an I at the 

 same lime defending it from the rain. Cover the beds well on 



frosty nights. 



Carnation*.— 'Ax* now beginning 1 1 move, and diseased plants 

 which have struggled through the winter thus lar, are dying off. 

 Double diligence must be directed towards the compost. The 

 careful flori who s not mean to give a chance away, will 

 make it all pass through his hands, so that it is almost impossi- 

 ble a wire worm should escape him. 



Pink*.— A. few sorts woith growing arc Norman's Splendid, 

 Beauty ofWeetoo, very fine, creed's Presi lent, Eleadley'a Duke 

 of Northumberland, Kirtland's Dr. Daubeny, Pearson's Profes- 

 sor, Cowdrey's Lord Calttiorpe, Kirtland's (iay Lad, Church's 

 Navigator, and ILmkcU's Prince Albeit. All vacancies in the 

 beds must now be made up, and the soil kept in a U a friable 

 state on the surface. Look well to the trap for wire-worms, &c. 



—J.F. W. 



IV.-P1NERIES, VINERIES. Szc. 



Pinery.— It is now quite time that the spring shifting and re- 

 gulating of Pines were fin ed. Where this is not the ease, the 

 plants will receive the ercater check, as the mots are now active 

 from the influence of the returning spring. The fruiting Pines 

 should be kept at 6a° or ;u° by night. The whole of the Pines 

 will now require a more moist atmosphere daring the day, parti- 

 cularly in Clear weather. It sometimes occurs that an excess of 

 moisture in the pits causes the soil round the collar of the plants 

 to become quite wet, ami as this proves very injurious to the 

 young roots that will be now forming at that particular point, it 

 will be well to guard against it. Much syring and S| kling 

 with the watering pot at this time has the same injurious effect. 

 When the sun has more power, and air i* mo^e freely admitted, 

 this otherwise useful practice may be indulged in. 



Vinery.— In the early house, the leading shot being stopped 

 the required length, and the laterals regularly pinched in, the 



at 



fruit will be advancing fast. Keep a moist atmosphere during the 

 day, and particularly when air is admitted. The rootlets at the 

 joints of the Vines are of use in ex - acting nourishment from the 

 atmosphere, and when t».:it is kept moist during sunshine, they 

 are longer kept in a condition to perform those functions designed 

 them bv nature. Hub off alt useless shoots from the Vines now 

 breaking, and thin thefiuitful ones, leaving the strongest and 

 best placed, and when it can be seen which are the most pro- 

 mising «' shows," thin them also, leaving one on each spur or 

 side shoot. It is better to have several buncV.es less than the 

 Vine could bring to perfection without injury, than one too many. 

 Examine again the state of the heat in the outside borders, as 

 the rains and cold weather soon chill the heating material. 



Peach -house.— Trie roots of the Peach being numerous, and 

 generally running near the surface, it can scarcely be too often 

 repeated, that it is necessary to pay strict attention to the state 

 of the border as regards moisture during the swelling of the 

 fruit If the border was not top-dressed during the winter, it 

 maybe d-»ne now with decaved turf and soot, or the dust from 

 charcoal. It is quite astonishing to see how soon the roots 

 attach themselves to the turf, if lied when the plant is grow- 

 ing; and perhaps this is the best time to apply it, as less of the 



fertilising matter is lost. -. 



Fig house.— Those plants in pots, started in November, will be 



free use of the syringe, till the fruit begins to ripen. 



dull days— they soon become strong; and, as the season ad- 

 vance- they surpass in vigour those in frames. Never shade 

 the plants till they appear to be flagging, remove the netting 

 as soon as possible, and endeavour to get your plants to stand 

 the heat of the sun.— G. F. 



V.-HARDY FRUIT AND KITCHEN GARDEN. 



Cutting and liaising Roots of Fruit- Trees.-TMi* may stil I be 

 perfumed where there is a tendency to over -luxuriance. I nless 

 !n extreme cases, the roots should not be ^£«»>*£ 



than 

 the surf 

 (hatched 



borders disp 



**£££? WnSe gardeners grow the general supply for 

 JSSta^ttl* desirable «o change se,d with ^er place 

 where soil and situation are d.fferent. A few Ash leaved tt.iuney 



mav he nlanted on a warm border. . 



m %ofec wT-^ch trouble will have been requisite lately with 



the 



composition, at a cost of id. per yard, answers admirably in the 

 gardens of Mr. Beck, of Islewnrth. Th.s is, I mgine like y 



?- l «: .....„„•:.. I „r»: A '. ami IS lUSt the SOlt Of 



P 



r »nce, and particularly at Nice, for the purpose of 

 lear" 1 ^" 1 ^ 6 . 011, wUidl is so,d t0 the P erftmiers - .T [ } e 



ves of all Pelargoniums have also the property of quickly common yellow and other Lupi 



like-should always be potted off as soon as tney are •»""-»"-£ 

 large to handle, and afterwards be placed m a warm moist 

 atmosphere, with plenty of air in mild weather, unt 1 tteyart 

 properly established. Sow ,n a brisk heat Martyn.a fr»grans 

 and diandra, the d tTVrent varieties of Ihunber.c.a and lponoM, 

 Convolvulus minor and r >r, and, where they arc admired, the 



ues.- IF. P. A. 



them^rrhTghertem^erature when covered up, than when they 



^S^-Tate thffirst opportunity to 611 up all vacancies in 

 those planted in autumn, and sow in a warm border for succes- 

 sion A «ort I received last summer, under the name of the 

 -London Market,' seems to be very early. For general pur- 

 Doses I have met with none heretofore so profitable as the 

 Vanack. A quarter planted in the autumn of 1842 has produced 

 plentifully to the i rt"-ent lime. 



Routine.- In lavourable circumstances, Horn Carrots, Radishes, 

 Spinach, fee., may be sown ; but, in roost cases it will be pre- 

 ferable to got the ground in good order, and defer sowing or 

 nlanting much out of doors for a week or two to come.— R. t. 

 * VI.-AKBORICULTURK. . 



Old Woods.— In the present state of the weather little can be 



done in this department. ..... , lg1jmff f 



Coppice. -When the weather is favourable, ^ cn ':"* °'£' r r f 

 rods poles, fee., should be proceeded with; *£"»*£*£££ 

 season tor such operations, as the stools »«ke nwev gorout 



shoots. Birch should be left until the buds ^^f^JLd 

 ning to expand, on account of its being very liable re .bleed 



Young Plantations -Great injury arises to ^f^S2 ol 

 suffering the hedges to grow up for years bela e flash .ng. or 



cutting them, whereby they become ^^^Id^e 



were kept low at an early period, the out -" L f screen 



\ feathered with branches to the b ttom, and would form a screen 



