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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[Aug. 10, 



+f *MJe-brai>ches. Remove or u shorten in M any very strong 

 branches near the top that are likely to become rivals to the 

 leader, or produce forks in the main stem; also M shorten in n 

 any of the strongest side branches, particularly where theyare 

 scanty, in order to increase the number of healthy shoots and 

 leaves, for on this depends the increase of timber in the trunk. 

 Hedge-rows.— After boisterous winds the newly-planted trees 



should be examined, to see if they are firm at the root, and free 

 from wind- waving. 



Nursery Work.— The young plants will now be growing very 

 fast ; keep down weeds ; train the young growing shoots of the 

 present season in the proper direction.— W. B. 



VII.— COTTAGERS' GARDENS. 

 As wasps are exceedingly numerous this season, protect by 

 CTery possible means any fruit that is now approaching matu- 

 rity. Among Plums, some recommend suspending bottles 

 half filled with sour beer, honey and water, or any clammy 

 liquid that will answer the purpose of entrapping them ; and 

 in favourable situations, where a Peach or Nectarine tree is 

 cultivated, the fruit should be covered very thinly with wad- 

 ding, as soon as there is the least appearance of any of them 

 being injured. This, however, seldom happens before the fruit 

 has attained its usual size and begun to colour. Collect any of 

 the early sorts of Apples and Pears that are blown down, and 

 lay them carefully aside on a dry floor or shelf. Let those that are 

 bruised the most be placed by themselves and first taken for 

 use. Continue to remove summer crops and prepare the 

 ground for other vegetables. Those who are fond of Spinach 

 may now sow a small quantity for autumn use. Where Parsley 

 is much wanted and the spring-sown crop has either failed or 

 is considered insufficient for a winter supply, an edging may be 

 formed of the best curled *ort, which will probably succeed 

 better now than that sown in spring. The last sowing of 

 Turnips for the season should also now be made, and a quan- 

 tity of Vanack Cabbage may still be planted. This sort makes 

 excellent spring Coleworts, and pushes fine sprouts from the 

 stumps after it is cut. The last planting of Cauliflower and 

 Broccoli bad better now be got in. Tomatoes, if any, should 

 be kept thin ; cut out all useless shoots, and stop those re- 

 tained at the first joint above the fruit. Keep Dahlias neatly 

 tied up in order to prevent them from being broken by high 

 winds, which are likely to prevail at this season. Trap Ear- 

 wigs by placing inverted pots, having a little dry Moss in 

 them, over the tops of the Dahlia stakes. In this way, by ex- 

 amining the pots frequently and killing the insects collected, 

 these troublesome vermin may soon be got rid of. Stir up the 

 surface of the ground among growing crops, and destroy weeds 

 wherever they appear.— J. M'H. 



Bt&tecf the Weather near London for the week ending Aug. C, 1044, aa 



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merved at the H 

 M.H>n's Haroi 



orticultural Garden, Chiswick 



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Aoj5. 



iKTKR. 1 HKRMOMKTKR. 



Wind. 



Rain. 



Alt p. 



Max. 



S9-868 



Min. 

 29.774 



Max. 



72 



Min. 

 49 



Mean. 

 60.5 



if * ii t* * 



I*U A 11* 



PffMU t 



17 



w. 



.11 



Sat. a 



13 



29 469 



29.420 



69 



52 



6<>.5 



s.\v. 



.15 



San. 4 



19 



29-83* 



29.683 



77 



44 



60.5 | 



w. 



.01 



Mon. 5 



20 



S9.833 



0.642 



72 



67 



C4.5 



s. 



-7 



Taes. 6 



a 



29.* 87 29.5- 1 -' 



71 



52 



61.5 



S.W. 



.02 



W«hL 7 





29.6&U 29.021 71 



50 



60.5 



8.W. 



.IB 



Than. 8 



1 £3 J 



29-712 1 



29.614 

 £9.609 



72 



47 



59 5 



w. 1 





Avenge 



1 



29 708 I 



6 ION 60.1 



01.0 





78 



2 Quite cloudless; very fine; iii#ht!y clouded at night. 



3 Showers and sunshine; boisterous, with showers ; stormy at night. 



4 Dusky whire clouds und brisk wind; thunder and shower in alter- 



noon ; clear. 



5 Very fine ; 5 p.m., constant rain. 



6 BoUternu- ; cloudy and tine; clear. 



7 Clear, with brisk wind; heavy shower, with squall, at noon; clear. 



8 Light clouds ; fine, with brisk wind ; very clear at night. 



Mean temperature of the week 2 deg. below the average. 



at the Weather at Chiswick during the last 18 years, for the ensuing 



Week ending Aug. 17, 1844. ' 



A*g- 



Son. 11 

 Hon. 12 

 Toe*. 13 

 Wed. 14 

 Thur.15 



PH. 16 

 Sat. 17 



Aver. 



Highest 

 Temp. 



7 -.2 

 75.5 

 73 6 

 73.1 

 74.0 



71-7 

 74.5 



Aver. 



Lowest 



Temp. 



50.5 



50.7 



5U-5 



50.2 

 51.8 

 52 4 



52. S 



Mean 

 Temp 



62.8 



63.1 



62.1 



61.6 



62.6 



63.5 



63.5 



No. or 

 Years in 

 which it 



Rained. 



Greatest 

 quantity 

 of Rain. 



7 

 5 

 6 



6 

 6 

 5 



10 





Prevailing Winds. 



The highest temperature during the above period occurred on thelith, 

 j 535, and 15th, 1842— therm. 92°; and the lowest on the 13th, 1839— therm. 32^. 



Notices to Correspondents. 



Asfaeacus. — A.— The ground for the reception of your seed- 

 ling Asparagus should be prepared before the plants begin to 

 push in spring. It should be trenched 2£ feet deep, with at 

 least 6 inches of rotten dung, or if the later can be afforded 

 a foot thick, so much the better. The ground should be 

 trenched twice over, in order that the dung and soil may be 

 thorou<hly mixed. Plant in M vrch, when the ground is in 

 good working order, and rather dry than wet, in beds 4 feet 

 ^ride, with 2 feet alleys between the beds. • There should be 

 three rows in each bed, the first a foot from the side, then a 

 foot between each of the rows, will leave the third row like- 

 wise a foot from the other side of the bed ; the plants may be 

 afoot asunder in the rows, and covered over the crowns with 

 fine soil, to the depth of about 2 inches. Some cultivators, 

 Freneh as well as English, prefer midsummer planting. || 

 Bms.— Undecided.— You may introduce a little smoke from 

 Tobacco, rag, &c. in the way you mention into the top hive. 

 If that fail to dislodge the bees, you had better take off the 

 hive, and fumigate them with puff ball, without disturbing 

 those in the lower hive. Then put the apparently lifeless 

 bees into an empty hive, and pat it upon the top of the box ; 

 the bees will soon join those below. Except fumigation is 

 often repeated, bees are not injured by it. J. Wight on. 

 Books.— R. R.— "Mills on the Cucumber." Sulphur is the 

 only known remedy fox red spider. A proper supply of 



moisture is the preventive. 31. /?. — The fir>t Latin grammar 



yon can buy for 6rf. on a book-stall, is as likely as any to 

 answer your purpose. And add to it a Latin New Testament, 

 which you can study by comparing it with an English one. — 

 —J Constant Reader.— Prof. Lindley has given up the idea of 

 publishing a 2nd volume of his u Synopsis," now that the 5th 

 ▼oiarne of Smith's " British Flora M has appeared, with all the 

 Cryptogamic plants fully treated of in it. 

 Cvcvmbmrb.—Rus.— A fruit 18 inches long, from the open 



n!L i? £ ltbout bottom-heat, and a handsome fruit too, is a 

 xemarkable specimen of good growth. Would it have hap- 

 pened in a season less hot than this ? 



^?'I?*^'~ G '- rhe Allowing are quick growing, and will 

 S in' m anex P°*ed situation: Quercus rubra Turkey 



PnnAinl mr/*^' ^ lnUS ^ifoUa, Acer P*eudo platanns, 



22 rmJ ^r ra ' J ° glans D * ra ' Saii * Husselliana and 

 alba, Tiha europaea, and Sweet Chesuut «[ 



'SSr n'r'^f ' ^'-Cherries for an Schard may consist 

 chiefly of the following varieties:— Bitrarreau Hi<r*.rrpan 

 Napoleon, Banner's Black Heart, Werder^ 

 Elton, Downton, Flemish, Florence, Knight's Earlv Black' 

 May Duke, Morello. Plums for an orchard. -R oy ale Flatlve 

 Green Gage, Purple Gage, Coe's Golden Drop Kirke's' 

 Fotbenngham, Washington, Ickworth, Imperatrice Nec # 

 tarine. Blue Perdrigon, Shropshire Damson, White Marnum 

 Bonum, Early Or.eans.fl B m 



Juchsias.— T. /.— Jt is very true that F. cylindrica has uni- 

 sexual flowers ; but our answer referred to the common 

 species. We have never heard of a hybrid with that species 

 nor can we see what good is to be expected by crossing so 

 poor a thing. It is very improbable that a Digitalis should 

 be fertilised by a Gloxinia or a Lophospcrmum -, but the latter 



I is far more likely than the former. If you can throw a 

 decided violet into the petticoats of the self varieties of 

 Fuchsia, you will render beautiful what are now much less 

 attractive than they were expected to be. Self Fuchsias will 

 be driven out of cultivation. 

 Grafting.— A Reader.— You must be a good operator to make 

 one-year-old Beech-cuttings take, as we see that you do. But 

 although you may have succeeded, and although others also 

 succeed sometimes by using such wood, depend upon it two- 

 year-old wood is what it is safest to employ. Ask the nur- 

 serymen. 



Heating.— No. 2.— Dion is an idle fellow, and says that he 

 will do no more than he has done:— "The idea is all that I 

 proposed to give j others must use their heads and apply it. 

 Any clever workman will understand the mode of executing 

 such a plan." We confess we see no difficulty in setting in 

 brickwork such apparatus as he proposes, and in making a 

 chimney to carry off the smoke, or in applying fuel. There 

 is no sort of necessity to keep the water always boiling. 

 Once heated it will retain its heat for a long time. If not set 

 in brickwork there would be a great loss of heat; but the 

 brickwork might be very slight. F. E. S.— The apparatus 



common Ash which is called F. heteroph> ; H73rT^ 

 Ipomcea sangumea. There are two plant's in th/i r '«*'^ 



called Dendr.r.volutum, yoU r 3 is on.'o' then" &£££•• 



2. « squalidam. &. do Uvto^^^ZZTj 

 —1, 2. Asplenium adiantum nigrum • 3 Asm*™ „„ J-' 



.u.^l^T-^sula obliqua A Sub. 



sort of Spinach. 



will work, no doubt. You had better construct a close iron 

 box for the fire-place ; make on one .aide a door for draught, 

 and by which ashes can be raked out, and from the other carry 

 a small pipe into the open air. In such a contrivance you 

 may burn charcoal or good coke, without inconvenience. In 

 raking out the ashes pour water on them, and they will not 

 be troublesome because of their dust. Gas stoves do not suit 

 plants— at least we should fear not j they would contaminate 

 the air too much. You may no doubt keep your boiler in 

 action by a Camphine or other spirit lamp, but it would be an 

 expensive process. If expense is no object, that would be the 

 best way of heating the boiler. 

 Horticultural Societv.— D. A.— We will lay your letter 

 before the Exhibition Committee. We do not see how holding 

 a meeting on a Saturday is breaking the Christian Sabbath. 

 Horticultural Societv op Paris.— M.— Upon a full con- 

 sideration of the question, we have resolved not to admit any 

 discussion concerning the Royal Society of Horticulture. 

 French disputes must be settled in French journals. We 

 have no means of judging what truth there is in your state- 

 ment that" the prizes are never given to things but to persons i u 

 and if we admit letters on one side we must on the other. 

 If matters are conducted as you represent, why do not the 

 members of the Societe Royale de Horticulture take the 

 course that would be followed in England, viz., join in re- 

 moving the present managers, and in introducing others in 

 whom they have more confidence? 

 IIvdiianoeas.— Corylus.— In the Index for 1843 are references 



to the paragraphs respecting the turning these plants blue. 

 Insects. — J . Fox.— The aphides infesting your Lettuce-roots, 

 are the Eriosoma lactuc*e of Curtis. I have often seen them 

 attacking the plants in July, but generally in neglected 

 ground. Mixing unslaked lime with the soil in the seed- 

 beds, and trenching the land in winter, would probably eradi- 

 cate the disease. R. -A Constant Reader in the North.— The 



scales infesting your Vines appear to be the Coccus vitis. 

 Clear away the old leaves as they fall in the autumn, and in 

 February or March you must strip off the old bark and burn 

 it directly. When this has been judiciously done I have seen 

 the most beneficial results; indeed the Vine-scale has been 



completely eradicated. R. L. T.— If your Melon-leaves are 



spotted by insects, it is at an earlier period of the year, for 

 we can find none on them now. From their appearance we 



should attribute the disease to damp.il. London.— As we 



could find no insects upon your Melon-leaves, owing to their 

 not being inclosed in a box, it is impossible to say whether 

 they are injured by the Thrips or Aphides. The former can- 

 not be extirpated, it is said, from their being able to bear a 

 very high temperature; but fumigation with Tobacco will 



destroy the latter. R. E. Q.— The insects you complain of 



are Chelifers, and are useful in destroying the Acari which 

 infest frames- I wish, therefore, you would observe their 



habits minutely, and report upon the subject. R. iv*. o. p. 



—We are much obliged for the larva; but it is totally different 



from the former one, and feeds upon Aphides. R. W. C. T. 



—Your beautiful Fir-galls are figured in the 3d Vol. of this 

 Journal, p. 630, and at p. 661 are some farther observations. 

 There are both apterous and winged specimeas, and some 



pupae, but they are all the Chermesabietisof Linnaeus. .R. 



F. H. S.— The insects destroying your Beans are an Aphis ; 

 but surely it is not the same species which infests your 

 Dahlias. The best means of getting rid of them is to nip off 

 the heads or leaves which are most infested, and destroy 

 them at once ; then syringe the plants with tobacco- water, or 

 you may dip the shoots into the liquor, when it iR very warm. 

 The Ticks are called Ixodes Ricinus, and will attack man as 

 well as animals. R. 



Local Horticultural Societies.— Arbroath.— We shall be 

 happy to prepare the printed forms we suggested, if we find 

 any disposition to use them. At present, however, yours is 



the only application for them. C. 31. C. H. S.— As your 



observations were general, not personal, and made to serve the 

 beat interests of such societies, it is discreditable to the indi- 

 viduals you mention that they should have regarded your 

 communication as offensive. This shows that your state- 

 ment was correct, and that the judges in whom the ill feeling 

 has arisen are unfit to hold their offices. Since you ask our 

 opinion, we have no objection to say— l. That it is disgraceful 

 in any man to judge his own productions, and suicidal in a 

 society to permit him to doso; 2. That good feeling ought 

 to prevent all communication between the judges and exhi- 

 bitors, until after the Prizes are declared ; and that if this is 

 not attended to, nobody will believe the decision of the 

 judges to be impartial. The last question we cannot answer • 

 nor is it necessary that we should do so, because it is quite 

 clear that if any society is managed in the way you describe 



that society must go to the dogs. J. L. Dartmouth.— 



you have not been named as the person complained of, 

 and we cannot enter into local disputes, which must be 

 settled on the spot. Our correspondent's letter was intended 

 to show one of the causes of the failure of local Horticultural 

 societies, and his criticism was directed against the Society 

 rather than any exhibitor. Even if we were disposed to pub- 

 nsti your letter, its improper language would prevent us. If 

 you are the person meant, and the plants were your own 



growth, you should satisfy the committee on that point- 

 not U8. * 



Mildew.-K A Constant Subscriber will tell us what he means 

 by mildew in a hothouse, we will endeavour to suggest a 

 remedy. If his leaves are mildewed, he had better send some 

 by post. 



Mi/LBERRv-TREES-3/.-Pray get us the full particulars ; we 



nf J A e ^f ?h 8 t Cd - T o he r should include « J ' the diameter 

 ?l I «■ J? w T r ee ; 2 ' tl,at of the earth heaped up , 3, 



that of the space built round the tree ; 4, the nature of the soil 



Names of Fruits. — A P.-Your Pear No. 7i, i s not the 

 • French Jargonelle ; it is the Summer Portugal No 35 

 appears to be the Old Colmar, as far as can be judged from 

 wood and leaves, in the absence of fruit. The Apple No 80 



is the Kerry Pippin. || J. F.-Your Cherry appears to be 



the White Heart. R 1 4, * ,c * rs IO De 



Names of Plants.— H. Regius. — Drimia lanceae'olia not 



lanceolata. J. B.— The plant which has so much ex'ci'ed 



your surprise is the common state of New Holland Acacias in 

 their youth. Tne greater part of them produce common 

 Mimosa leaves at first, and then exchange them by degrees 

 for simple leaves, which eventually become their only foliage. 

 What species you may have seen we cannot say ; perhaps 



A. melanoxylon . W. F. G. F.— Catasetum tridentat um . 



R. B. B.— Sambucus racemosa. A. B.— That variety of the 



scriber.—tfo. 1, Blechnum orientale; 2, Pteris or TWv 

 terispedata; 3. Doodia aspera ; 4, Davallia elegans- 5 22!" 

 tremula; 6, Aspuiium, or Polystichum coridcoum •' 7'pi^ 

 cerium, or Acrostichum alcicorne ; a, Doodia can da JT 



9 Rondeletia speciosa. § T. 0. J/.-Masdevallia .nfraiV 



The determination of Exotic Corapositaj is so difficult thaV 



we really cannot undertake it. Henry Winch — Cvrnn«K 



pentadactylon X. Y. Z.— Hypericum Elodes'. Jtnocne * 



Peach-trees.— H. C— Your plants are attacked by red SDider 

 for which you have no remedy except continual ayringine If 

 the fruit was not so near ripeness a dusting ot sulphur would 

 drive off your enemy. All you can now do is to wait till thp 

 fruit is gathered, and then apply sulphur. The dry hot 

 weather has been the cause of the evil. It is to be presumed 

 that your Morello Cherries have their roots in undrained soil 

 If so, your obvious remedy is to plant them so high that the 

 roots cannot reach it — unless you can drain the soil better 



Plants for Bedding-out. —Isle of Wight. —Procure the fol 

 lowing, and increase them this autumn. Either of these will 

 do for the centre, viz. :— Scarlet Pelargoniums, Fuchsias or 

 Pentstemon gentianoides coccineus. For the smaller beds 

 take Petunia superba, Beauty, or splendens; Gailardia picta 

 Oenothera Drummondii, Verbena atrosanguinea, Bishopii* 

 Taglionii, Queen, and Lobelia azurea. These will all flower 

 during the summer'and autumn.^ 



Trees, &c— Delta.— If Delta be not a gardener by trade she 

 cannot legally remove thetrees or bushes mentioned by her. W. 



Miscellaneous. — A Lady.— There is no better -plan of destroy! 

 ing green-fly on Pelargoniums in a greenhouse than that of 

 smoking the plants with Tobacco. Oleanders and Camellias 

 are the best plants for a large Elizabethan hall, where there is a 

 great draught in summer, and but little sun ; but they will not 

 flower under such circumstances. There is no evergreen 

 creeper so good as Ivy for concealing a rustic bridge. For 

 plants for bedding out in the flower-garden, see above. 

 Besides Oaks, Heath or Thrift form a good border edging.. In 

 raising young Oaks the Acorns are sown either in autumn or 

 spring. The cause of your Strawberries, which have been 

 very prolific, drying up, and not ripening their fruit properly, 



is no doubt owing to the dryness of the season.t J. Power. 



—It is a bad practice to mow the leaves off your Strawberries. 



See p. 755, vol. for 1843.$ M. A. G.— Cuttings of the new 



sorts of Calceolarias will strike quicker if you give them a 



little bottom-heat, but they will also do without it.* A 



Kentish Man.— Manor Farm, Deptford. Dot.— A Wisteria 



sinensis, a small Tecoma radicans,and a small Laurestinuswill 

 not bear moving now. It is supposed that the ants feed upon 

 the sugar secreted by the aphides, and the motions you have 

 seen may well be supposed to be connected with that opera- 

 tion. There is nothing surprising in your hybrid Cactus 

 having formed a stem 3 feet 6 inches high in six years, or in 

 its flowering in a sitting-room. It, however, shows that you 

 are a good and kind nurse, or it would not reward you with 



bloom 16 inches in circumference and 4£ inches in depth. 



W. A. L. — If you can lay your pond dry, why not pull the 

 Water- Lilies out of the mud ? We cannot recommend you to 

 salt (!) them. What is to become of the salt when the pond 



is again filled with water? L. B. 31.— All glaziers can 



supply glass. We never recommend tradesmen, for obvious 



reasons. J. B. W.—lt is very doubtful whether your seeds 



are worth sowing.—/. H. if.— We regret to say that your 

 very careful description does not enable us to recognise the 

 plant to which you allude. The points to which you attended 

 are not such as botanists can use for the purpose of distin- 

 guishing plants. If you could give us one blossom, however 

 shrivelled and old, we should probably tell you what your 

 plant is. Your description shows that it was no Vitis; and 



that being the case the plant has little interest. W. D.— 



Allow your young Fuchsias to remain in small pots through 

 the winter. In spring, when they begin to grow, shift them 

 into pots of a larger size, and encourage them as much as 



possible to form good plants early in the season. t £• ^ 



Hungerford.— Ceropegia elegans is a well-known plant, and 

 may be procured from any respectable nursery man. t — • 

 J. N. Q.— You had better plant against your wail, riders 

 alternately with dwarfs ; the former to be removed as soon as 



the later become large enough to take their places. J 



R. D. not received. 



SEEDLING FLOWERS. 



Achimenes.— /. C— Your Seedlings are pretty; but they bear 

 too much resemblance to Rosea and the O d Coccinea. We 

 can discover no trace of Longiflorain them. J 



Calceolarias.— J. B.— Your seedling is a fine bold flower; 

 ground a rich yellow, with large blotches in the centre, and 

 having a margin of smaller spots around the outline; good 

 form.* 



Fuchsias.— Y. and Co.— No. 2 is a large, bright, showy flower? 

 tube and sepals carmine, corolla large, with a tinge otrioiei, 

 foot-stalks very long. 3-Tube and sepals rosy pink ; tne lacier 

 are very long and narrow, and curl up in a peculiar manner, 

 which is not agreeable ; corolla long, of a rosy vermi lion. ^ - 

 J. T.-No. l.-The sepals and corolla of this variety are too 

 much alike in colour, and the latter want substance. 4, a, u, 

 are three flowers of the same character, and too small; tuey 

 are also not new-similar varieties are in cultivation. J 4 nus 

 a bad corolla; 2 and 7 are too much alike, and possess no 

 novelty , and 3, which is the largest and most showy m^ne 

 collection, has too faded an appearance in tne sepais. 

 J. B.- The three dark varieties 4,6,7, possess nc , 1 ™\MJ> 

 the difference between the colour of the corolla » n< ! tne "£ 

 of the flower is so trifling, that their appearance is dull, com 

 pared with many of the fine sorts that are now generally cui 

 tivated. 6 is the best, being a stout, well-formed flower, dot 

 there is a deficiency of the violet colour in its coroi ia. 1, * 

 and s are specimens of an opposite character ; the tubes au 

 aepals are of the most delicate pink, approaching tow 1 " .' 

 with the latter tipped with green. 3 is the best inli»rni> 1 

 rather larger; these have rosy vermilion co onas ; * 1 

 smaller flower of the same character, with a tinge 01 vxoiet 



the corolla.* ... ,* ,- c n*t 



Pansies.-A. R., N. U.-No. 2 is the better seedling; KB nax, 

 and the eye well marked. In No. l the markings , on ui 

 edges of the lip and side-petals appear too much like stains , 

 they both want the substance of first-rate flowers. . . 



Pelargoniums.- W. il/.-The Guernsey seedling is a P rom * sl °3 

 flower ; rich and fine in colour, with petals of good form an 

 substance. We should like to see it again when in condition. 



P. P.— The form of your seedling is not eooa,*™* e 



have many ot the same colour very superior to it. 

 Jonghe.— Your box was opened as soon as it arrived ; ou 

 a flower was left. The contents had been so much snaKe 

 by the journey that all the petals had fallen, except i««» 

 roseum erectum, which is a small flower of E°od tre t0 



substance, pleasing in colour, but requiring awlmeC ^!, m pb, 

 increase its vivacity.— Foster's Favourite, Sultana.^ im h 

 Pulchellum, Lord Chancellor and Nestor, Garth s wu 

 Philippa, Witch and Unit, Hodge's Oberon, Lyne s uum 



Cornwall, and Beck's Susanna.* r»v; Q variety 



Vkrbb.vas.-YK. 0.-No. 1 rosy red; the flowers or this v*^/ 

 are small, and it is not novel in colour. 2, rosy purpi r » cel . 

 large, light eye ; a good flower, but not new. 3 " * ^ma.* 

 lent variety, but its place is already occupied by Ameiuy 



