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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



Pinks. Good varieties are now so plentiful that inferior sorts ] 

 ought not now to be tolerated in any garden whatever.— J. F. W. 



IV.-PINERIES, VINERIES, &c. 



Pineries.— Let plants now swelling their fruit be liberally sup- 

 plied with liquid manure. Destroy all superfluous gills and 

 suckers as they appear, retaining: no more suckers on any plant 

 than can have room to grow strong. Continue to encourage 

 the recently-pt tt d plants to re-establish themselves, by keeping 

 them shaded duiing hot weather, and maintaining a moist 

 atmosphere. Any ripe fruit requiring to be preserved for a 

 week or two, should be removed, plant and all, to a cool room. 

 Close the houses early in the afternoon, and no fire will be 

 required. By this treatment the plants will also be healthier. 



Vineries. — Where the Vine-borders are well drained they will 

 now require a plentilul supply of water. Avoid syringing the 

 fruit after it is half swelled. Keep a moist atmosphere, and 

 stop the laterals, except a few at the top of each Vine, which 

 should be left to prevent the starting of the principal buds. 

 The litter may now be quite removed from the borders where 

 the Vines have ripened their crops, except about two inches of 

 the rottene&t of it, which should be left to serve as a mulching, 

 and to keep the ground from cracking with the drought. 



Peach houses. — Syringe daily the trees from which the crop 

 has been gathered, and supply them with plenty of water at the 

 roots. The sashes may now remain constantly open. Con- 

 tinue to tie in the shoots in late houses, and stir the surface of 

 the borders before giving them water, which must now be often 

 done. Trees in pots which have been forced should be placed 

 in a sheltered place, and plunged to the rim in old tan or ashes: 

 they must have plenty of water, and be frequently washed by 

 means of the garden-engine. 



Fig-house.— Keep the shoots thin and regularly tied in. that 

 the fruit may have sufficient exposure to the light. Pinch the 

 young lateral shoots above the third joint. Give plenty of 

 air and water, and syringe daily. 



Melons.— Do not let the heat in the beds fall below 80° or 85°, 

 as it is very injurious to the plants; and if water is given in 

 that state it is apt to cause canker. Let the coverings at night 

 be continued throughout the season.— G. F. 



V.— HARDY FRUIT AND KITCIIEN.GARDEX. 

 Fruit-trees and Shrubs.— Proceed with thinning, nailing, and 

 tying in of young shoots. There will be a fair crop of Apricots 

 and Peaches in most places this season. Guard against leaving 

 too much fruit and too many shoots. Let the sad havoc 

 among Peach-trees in Feb., 1843, be a warning to ua, neither 

 to exhaust the tree by over-cropping, nor to allow more wood 

 to remain than can be properly ripened. In unfavourable situ- 

 ations, after seeing that the borders arc not suffering from 

 drought, keep them clean and smoothly raked near the wall, or 

 cover them to the width of a yard with tiles; the reflec- 

 tion of heat from the tiles, and keeping the border rather 

 dry, will insure the earlier maturation of the wood ; but 

 in adopting such a course, the roots of the trees must 

 not be soaked with rains in autumn, or all your extra 

 labour will be worse than thrown away. Asparagus and Sea- 

 kale.— Fork up the grouud of the beds, give them a dressing of 

 rotted manure, a moderate sprinkling of salt repeated at in- 

 tervals, and a good watering of drainings from the dung-hill, if 

 you can afford it, and your beds are not in a damp situation. 

 The latter vegetable I kept till lately in very fine condition, by 

 covering it thickly with wasted manure, which kept it nice 

 and cool. 



Sow succession of herbs, such as Chervil, Basil, Purslane. 

 Parsley, fcc. It is a good plan to sow plenty of the latter in a 

 quaiter of Gooseberries or Currants, as it will be found useful 

 in February and March, when to be scarce of Parsley is to be 

 placed in a very awkward predicament : it may be dug down 

 when all danger of scatcity is over. Sow also Turnips and 

 Radishes for succession ; the last crops of garden Beans, Marrow 

 Peas, Scarlet Runners, and French Beans, for succession. 

 One crop of the latter might last ail the season, if the ground 

 were well manured, the plants supplied with water, and no 

 pods allowed to get large for seed. Plant out herbs, such as 

 Basil, Marjoram, &c, in a warm situation; Cabbages, Savoys, 

 Scotch Kale, Brussels Sprouts, &c. ; Celery into trenches, and 

 also in beds for future removal, shading the latter, and cover- 

 ing all the others with inverted flower-pots during the day in 

 this scorching weather. Routine— Protect Cherries and Straw- 

 berries from birds by netting; thin Carrots, Turnips, Onions, 

 and water Strawberries, fruit-tree borders, Cauliflowers, &c. ; 

 and if, like myself, you have not yet obtained a good soaking 

 rain, you may learn a lesson on watering, by observing the 

 effect produced on your lawn by a slight shower, followed by 

 bright sunshine.— II. F. 



VI.— ARBORICULTURE. 



Old Woods.— It would be of great advantage to appoint some 

 person accustomed to such work to go through these during 

 the summer months, in order to keep young plants or trees in 

 brakes or rough places from being injured by the overgrowth of 

 the side branches of other trees, shrubs, brambles, &c. 



Coppice.— The same advice is also necessary for coppices. 

 These ought to be regularly attended to, if profit is expected. 



Young Plantations.— The summer pruning, training, &c, of 

 these should be annually attended to. This is the practice of 

 Dr. Thackeray, whose success in the management of woods 

 has been so often noticed , and in who>e mode of management I 

 entirely agree. I am at present busily engaged in such opera- 

 tions, in a recently made plantation. Persons unaccustomed 

 to such work often cut away the very trees, or plants, 

 that ought to stand, and that could easily be reclaimed by a 

 little judicious management: I have ample proof of that here. 

 It is disgraceful to see the manner of thinning, pruning, and 

 training, that is almost universally practised. 



Nursery Work.— Attend regularly and constantly to summer 

 training of young plants in this departmenr, and accelerate 

 their growth as much as possible. Plant out u for good ," it is 

 surprising that this operation should be neglected.— W. B. 



State of the Weath 



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London for the 



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Notices to Correspondents. 



Bbbch-orafvivo. — A Subscriber. — If you would succeed in 

 this, you must take scions from the two-year-old wood (one- 

 year-old is useless), and graft exactly as if you were pro- 

 pagating Apple-trees, except that you must earth up the 

 stocks above the clay balls, so as to leave only the least bud 

 of the scion above the ground. 



Books. — Renfrewshire. — Probably Tower's " Domestic Gar- 

 deners* Manual" may answer your purpose. Also Bevan on 



the M Honey Bee." D. S.— We know nothing of books on 



the Linn ae an system, which is out of use except among 

 children ; and it is no compliment to the intelligence of a 



child to give it such books Claudiocestrensis.— The best 



book for a gardener to study, who would understand the 

 principles of his vocation, is the " Theory of Horticulture." 



The others you name are far too technical for him. W. 



Sadler.— Bevan on the ** Honey Bee." 



Climbing Plants.— J. A.— You cannot have better climbers 

 than Kennedya Marryattae, Hardenbergia macrophylla and 

 monophylia, Dolichos lignosus, Mandevilla suaveolens, Cle- 

 mat.s azurea grandifiora, and Bignonia Pandora. £ 



Covering for Frames.— A Subscriber, $c— The following is 

 the mode of pre pari c g the composition described by " Devoni- 

 ensia" at page 301, 1843. M Three pints of old pale linseed-oil, 

 one ounce of sugar of lead, and four ounces of white resin. 

 The sugar of lead must be ground with a small quantity of the 

 oil, and added to the remainder, incorporated with the resin 

 by means of gentle heat. The composition is to be laid on by 

 a brush, after the calico is nailed to the frames. One coat 

 annually is sufficient. It dries in a short time when exposed 

 to the air; and excludes as little light and heat as anything, 

 except glass, and does not become mildewed.'^ 



Cuttings. — A. A. A.— Nothing is better than silver-sand for 

 striking cuttings in. If you use charcoal it must be a very 

 soft sort, and should be mixed with half its bulk of good soil. 

 Geraniums will keep very well throughout the winter in any 



soil, if frost and damp are Kept away. A. Y. L.— Wrap 



yourcuttingn in damp brown paper, and then encase them 

 in two or three folds of tinfoil, securely turned in at the ends. 

 This is the safest way of sending them, unless you prefer em- 

 ploying a tin box instead of tinfoil. 



Diskasks.— Vitis.— Your leaves were in high health ; and in all 

 probability the appearance of disease is owing to want of 

 sufficient ventilation.-* C.K.— No one has explained the cause 

 of the loss of whole limbs in Apricots suddenly ; but it is pos- 

 sibly owing to the same causes as those which have ruined 

 "OniikronV Peach-trees (see p. 33, 1844). The disease in 

 Apricots is but too well known. Mr. Andrew Knight 

 thought it was owing to the want of motion in the branches, 

 by reason of which sap was able to accumulate andstagnate; 

 but we doubt the justice of that view. 



Grasses. — R. G. — Nothing thrives well under trees; the best 

 Grasses for the purpose are Poa trivalis and nemoralis, espe- 

 cially the evergreen sort; Agrostis vulgaris, Lot us corniculatus, 

 Cynosurus cristatus, Phleum pratense, and Milium effusum. 

 Festuca elatior, and Aisa caespitosa, will grow in those places, 

 but their herbage is coarse. 



Heaths.— A Lady.— These may now be placed out of doors 

 There is no objection to setting them inside of a Melon- 

 frame, provided it is taken off the dung-btd and placed in 

 a cool situation. The lights should be kept off as much 

 as possible, as Heaths are very impatient of confinement, 

 and some sifted cinders should be spread inside the frame for 

 the plants to stand on. Wherever they are placed they 

 should be partially shaded, as the burning sun of July and 

 August, with the succeeding heavy dews, has the effect of 

 depriving the plants of their foliage; on the contrary, how- 

 ever, they must not be wholly deprived of the sun, for that 

 would tend to encourage mildew; they must be watered with 

 soft water. J 



Heating.— A Young Beginner.— The cheapest of all means of 

 heating a small greenhouse are flues; the best are hot- water 

 pipes. If you merely want to exclude frost, and live in 



South Wales, the former will do well enough. Clodhopper. 



—It is generally admitted now, that it is an advantage to have 

 large pipes, containing a considerable quantity of hot water. 

 But 4-inch pipes are large enough; others are needlessly ex- 

 pensive. The tank system is of great use for Pine-houses ; 

 but it will not do alone. You must have pipes to heat the 

 air as well as tanks to give bottom-heat. We never recommend 

 tradesmen. The more bones you have for your Vine border 

 the better. Lime is a good ingredient, but unnecessary when 

 bones are used abundantly. 



Insects.— »/. Saul.— 1 hanks for your specimens : we only wish 

 you had sent more, that we might breed them, for we cannot 

 tell you what the Wheat grubs are, and those transmitted to 

 the Royal Agricultural Society were dead and dried up.72. 



B. Chilo.— The most useful work for young persons is 



11 Samouelle's Entomologist's Compendium," and for those 

 more advanced , w Westwood's Classification" will be of service. 

 If your insects had been numbered, and you had kept corres." 

 ponding specimens, or rough sketches and descriptions, w e 

 could have given you their names if desirable. The insects 

 in quills are the pupa of a Reduvius and (Edemera ccerules 



Curt. Guide Gen., p. 42;6, vol. ii.fl. X.F.— We must breed 



the insects infesting the Apple buds before we can tell you 

 the name. The green-looking Caterpillars produce moths 

 called Hal.a vanaria and Hybernia brumata, whose histories 

 you will find in the 1st vol. of this Journal, pp. 516 and 8|> 

 with the best means of destroying their larva. A F W 



As your box was broken and without a lid, the jumping in- 

 sects had all escaped ; you had better secure some in a quill R 



A Constant Reader.— U is an Aphis which is destroyin " 



r Cucumber and Melon plants. Fumigation or sponein 



; Av - 1 ~=n=r -j^— [-^ -to- -IT of ^ttfr's guano, at the rate of 9 cwt. pir acre? Tfyou 'can 



- B vS^Si SMS 1 *? d cIoud ? « «»«r « »W" f "l* *ruk wind. !?!* ^I: S'H > With Water C 7 en now > the Grass will again 



- I SSLfSR h h *c l douJ> - c, * ar * ro ^' P rovlded ll wa » in good condition before the drought 



- iJ Fin' ^ y 73*j^£ scattered white cloud, ; clear. set in. M. Z>.-Heavy rains will put your lawn o2 



- il ci^SKj;/^ and nothing else will, it is useless to ah 71*1 f!^ 



J?. u r , " "££ **'"* —*«»" F'«"««». rumigauon or sponging 



the leaves with tobacco water will eradicate them.fl — 



Tv' V e car,not UH y° u t«c cause of the metallic hue 

 on the leaves of the Plum-trees, but we have no reason to think 

 that it is produced by insects. R. Cluudiocestrensis.-Thl 



nll'VU^V kn ° W f S f Aphide8 is ^s. water (see p. 545? 

 mir'^ w lt , ♦* V"? offensive smell, and so have all volatile 

 matters likely o destroy them. You might, however, try the 

 fumes of smelling-salts. The grand difficulty is to kill animal 

 life without that of the vegetable. mai 



Law.vs.-C. A.— Nothing will restore your Grass-plat to ver- 

 dure except water. When rain comes give it a too ri re Jin ,„ 

 of Potter's guano, at the rate of 2 cwt. pi acre? Tf Jou cSS 

 .osk the ground with water even now, the Grass wiiugatn 



State of the Weather at Chiswick during th* U.t ia •_ * .x. 



\V**lr •«^;«L t in \, la,t 13 yean, for the ensuing 

 w e * k «ndinn June 22, 1844. 





June 



HifthMt CwlVt £™l7**"i*> ° 



Aver. Arer. 



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9 



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70.4 



60.7 



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10 



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8 



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The highest temperature during the above period occurred on the 21st 

 l«34— therm, 91<> ; and the lowest on the 22ad, 1830, and 20th, 1843— therm. 39 \ 



dry w«ther. Cow-ducg is the b e8 t m^ure^i'rTlZodeJT- 



CiaOIlS* 



Ma NviK.—Hounslow.— Collect the chamherley with all dili- 

 gence, add as much water to it, and let it become putrid- 

 then pour it on a compost heap, i„ order to have it soaked 

 up; or the cinder-siftings of the house may be employed for 

 the same purpose; or you may employ it at once; or if you 

 wish to keep t in a fluid state after fermenting, add gently 

 oil of vitriol till it ceases to effervesce. In its fluid state it is 

 best applied to growing crops, provided it has become putrid. 

 7in A tt Sl i ol i! sh *£i Subs -The analysis of guano is too 

 d.fhcult to be undertaken by any except chemical analysts. 

 Hellebore-powder is recommended at p. 365. 1B42 It must 

 be fresh ground and pure if it is to act. 



Names of Plants.— Ti/ro.-l, Agathaea ccelcstis; 2, Hibbertia 



grossularifolia ; 3, Callistachys lanceolata. A Tradesman 



-Reseda alba, not Mignionette. W.8. C— Leptospermum 



tuberculatum. The tinfoil- wrapper guarded it perfectly. 



[June 1 5, 



Newland.— Your Hornbeam is the variety "can^T^T 

 leaved." It is well known. PomonlJ?'* $*? 



and Rose are overrun by some sort of parasol P S* tTt * 

 apparently a Botrytis. Lime-water is most Hke v L vl^ 

 but it is not likely to disappear until wet weather JeS U* *« 

 Cavanensis.-Your Madeira Evergreen is some sort 5i.°" — 

 the fruit will not give any further information i^" 1 

 hardy in Ireland. Your statement about Potter*. Y * 

 having been used advantageously in all cases save nL/ Ua, ° 

 gests that the exception was owing to some other ^ H ' 

 Any strong manure will suit a Vine- border. There . -^S* 



better thao coarsely ground bones. h 1 lr ■* 



sibirica; it is frequently raised from Himalayan* seeru"? 1 ! 



is only a tall variety of G. tinctorial h T-R™IJ , i^ d 



odorata. A Su6scri6«-.-Centaurea solstitialis (5) aonaeleu * 



Pelargoniums.— IT. D.— The mode of cultivation emnln^ u_ 

 Mr. Catleugh and Mr. Cock is given fully in our column.^ 

 16U, pages 83 and 100. We, however, cannot think tZ 

 system of growing huge specimens worthy of being follows 



Roses.— Querist.— We shall furnish you immediately withS 

 means of propagating Roses. Fern indicates ill-culUvatS 

 land ; destroy its leaves incessantly, and it perishes CH 

 furze hedges at midsummer; cut them down in the sarin* 



when about to start. J. S. /.-If your Roses are erowinr 



very luxuriantly let them alone, unless you prefer tostoDthem 

 so as to get lateral shoots. If you will read ** The Rose Garden" 

 with attention, you will get, in time, full information upon all 

 such points. We do not understand how a Lemon -tree can 

 grow so luxuriantly as to fall about the tub. Oranges and 

 Lemons always grow with stiff branches. 



Miscellaneous.— Upstart.— The object of growing Cucumberi 

 in troughs is not to improve their quality, but their form. 

 Opinions are so divided about bee-hives, that you are not it 

 all likely to get a satisfactory answer to your inquiry. Wooden 

 boxes, made with very stout boards and well, and well ma- 

 naged, are probably the best. Put salt on Asparagus. beds now 

 and let the rain wash it into the ground. We will consider 

 whether anything can be added to the instructions already 

 given in forming Asparagus-beds. At all events, this is not 



the season for the operation. A Subscriber.— Vie cannot 



answer your question. We never recommend tradesmen 



P. T. O. — We know of no means of reducing mica to powdtr 

 except by pounding. Finger- pruning signifies pruning by 

 the finger and thumb, and not by a knife, and, of course, 

 therefore requires to be performed when the wood is young 

 and soft. The manner of bottling unripe Gooseberries, &c, 

 has been stated at p. 821 of 1842. We presume that the com- 

 mon painters' varnish is what you want: but your question 



has no relation to rural economy. Fidget.— We certainly 



misunderstood your first communication : but the very cir- 

 cumstance you mention of other newspapers giving Horticul- 

 tural retrospects would prevent our attempting it. No doubt 

 they are prepared by the editois, with much care and trouble, 

 and often by clever men; and what are they good for? In 

 our opinion absolutely nothing. H. F. will find much in- 

 formation respecting Vegetable Ivory at p. 836, 18424 



SEEDLING FLORISTS' FLOWERS. 



Cactus. — W. M. and Co.— It is impossible to form a satisfactory 

 opinion of your Cactus after it has closed, so much of its 

 beauty and worth depends upon the tree manner of its ex- 

 panding ; and this point we cannot ascertain from a closed 

 specimen.* 



Calckolarias.— I. B.— No. 1 is decidedly your best seedling; 

 it is a good shape, and the blotches are haudsome; 3 is good 

 in colour, but fails in form ; 4, common ; 12, no use, run co- 

 lour ; 19, 23, 26, 27, are too indented at the bottom ; Gem is 

 common and Zebrina too indented ; 2 is a pretty variety.*-— 

 Calceolus.—'i our specimens are large and bold flowers. No. 

 2 is the best— good fc.rm and decided blotch ; 3, good form, 

 with blotch too broken ; 4, wants shape; 5, common and too 

 indented at the bottom ; No. i we could not &ud.*-J. Salter. 

 —The flowers generally are very much smaller than those 

 cultivated in this country ; the largest specimen is the size of 

 those commonly grown in England. A few of the spottea 

 varieties are pretty, but this class has received so much im- 

 provement during the last two seasons, that both size ana 

 beauty are required to make them acceptable. 1 he now era 

 in this collection are generally deficient, both in size ana 



form.* , . . . . _ 



Cinerarias.-S. TT.-Your seedling reached us in so dried a 



state, that it is impossible to give an opinion upon its 



Fu^nsi as S -T. L.-Your seedling Fuchsia is delicate and pretty ; 

 but a variety has lately been exhibited, similar in .colour 

 with larger flowers and smaller foliage.*- — i- *■-" " l ", 

 habit of your seedling that will make it ^ e P\^ 5.;,,^ 

 describe it as drooping; the flowers are pretty and bnlhai it 



colour.* G. S.-It your seedling Celesttnapro^ces^gbt 



flowers at every joint it must be a most prolific bloomer, i 

 flowers bear some resemblance to Exomensis ; but inef« 

 not so large, nor is the corolla so high Mlourcd -T"£ "' 

 Your three seedlings are alike in colour, though diffennf 

 somewhat in form; they are stout and handsome, but wey 

 bear too strong a resemblance to other varieties cul mate , 

 we could not determine whether the sepals expand *«i, 

 whether they were sleepy : much depends on tins. w 



GLOxiNiAs.-k>.-Your four seedlings very much rcse^ 

 each other, but none of them appear to be suniaenUy uw ^ 

 from varieties already known. It would beau vi ^ 

 future to pack your flowers in wet Moss ; the) ira 

 well in this material, whereas your specimens were 

 bruised and dry, and could not be seen to advantage ^ 



Pansies.-O. B.-Your seedling wants form, **™*"£i oveea 



decided eye.* J. L.H.-U, 15,17, are well -.^ rm t !. a eir f.ult 



! of good substance, and the marking very precu»e , more 



is being too small; these are worth trying again u jg h 



favourable circumstances; 13 is too poor m ^ t „ j arge a 

 tolerably good, but not pretty -the eye occupies ft ^ . Q _ 



space.* S. T.-Your seedling wa " ts _ 6Ub ^ e gro und co- 



ferior to most of the light sells.* 0. *-"~/' dt ne yellow 



lour of both your darker seedlings is impeileci, ' » ft larg;e 



self is quite second-rate.* G. ii.-Your sce f a ' lie 6 side petals, 



stout flower, imperfect in the ground colour oi^i 



and having the upper petals rather too large. . Q pj ear 



Pelargoniums.-/. M.— The lower petals are too iu * iin it 

 de Marie, and there is nothing in the fl°*er to q{ lhwe 



from many others.* C. J. B.-V2 seedlings, w [q ^ the 



seedlings are common in colour, and denci e n ^ 



lower petals being too long, and causing a aiv» f taJgf 

 flower is fully expanded) between the upper an" f shom d 

 which destroys the fine cupped form a eoou ^ l0 



possess. This is the case with 1,2, 3, o, /, • h featn er 

 is rather better, but common in colour, and too .^ colour , 

 seen at the base of the upper petals. No. 4 » tfae pe tals 

 and the best-formed flower in the collection* tiii ., y bide s 

 curl back too much, and one of the upper P e,a „ too coarse and 

 the spot on the other. 7 is good in colour ;9' . g B de fect 



veiny ; and 5 wants substance.* O. Ji '~~ l " . tn ey are all 



common to all your seedlings-the want ol ion , thgre 1S a 

 long-petalled flowers, and when fully e*pan u * ls tn an >» 

 greater division between the upper and [ owe ^ *| c0 mmon »n 



consistent with compactness of form ; they a ucn .*. 



colour with two exception?, and these burn vi .i j ■ gh lt irom 

 J. P.— There is nothing in your seedling ^jj".' 'L-ronea are 

 many others ; the petals were all loose, and tne iu 

 too long for a well-formed flower.* , s0 rnocb 



PKTifNiAs.— /. If .-The surface of your seedling tbat B »». 

 injured by the way in which the flowers were se » q{ coloiit 

 tisfactory opinion cannot be formed ; if tne ( . c {5r ia e w e cannO* 

 is decided it will prove an acquisition, but »» 

 judge of from the state of the specimens sent. 



