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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



parallel with the outside of the layer of ashes. Fill in well 

 between the pots, and also between the bottoms of the pots 

 and the boards, with BShen, Then proceed with another layer 

 of athes, and then another row of pots, and so or. till you come 

 to the top of your boards, placing each row of pots a little 

 nearer t<> the boards than the row below it, so that when 

 finished the whole may present a sloping surface to the sun. 

 The whole must then be covered with boards, in the form of a 

 coping:, of sufficient breadth to protect the lowest row of 

 plants from slanting rains, and with a slight inclination to the 

 back, so as to throw the rain off to the north side. If care is 

 taken that the ashes be quite dry when put in, frost will have 

 Tery little effect on the pots. This is a plan very similar to 

 ■what is in use in many places, and one which we find to 

 answer very well. 



Errata.— In last week's Calendar, under "Pineries," line 7, 

 for "The night temperature should not exceed 6u°," read 

 " The night temperature for the youn» stock should not exceed 

 6o°;"and under** Vineries," line 9, tor "If it was done l«st 

 month," read, " If it was not done last month."— G. F. 

 V.— HARDY FRUIT AND KITCHEN-GARDEN. 



Trees —Pay every attention to getting the wood of Peaches 

 and Apricots well-ripened, by exposure, shortening, &c. Pre- 

 pare for planting all kinds of fruit trees, by getting the ground 

 in good order and suitably prepared for the different kinds. 

 The sooner the trees are planted the better, as they will then 

 make fresh roots before winter. In all cases, but more espe- 

 cially on cold stiff soils, it is advisable to plant on hillocks, a 

 foot or eighteen inches higher than the surrounding surface. 

 The trees will not grow so fast in consequence, and will require 

 more attention in summer for mulching, but they will form 

 short-jointed, well ripened, fruitful wood, which is the bestpre- 

 Tentive of canker, gum.&c, and will save the labour of resort- 

 ing much to root-pruning. 



Roots.— No opportunity should now be lost for getting Pota- 

 toes, Parsnips, Carrots, Beet, &c. out of the ground, and stored 

 up in a dry condition. Potatoes may either be kept in narrow 

 pits, with a little dry earth sprinkled among them, or in airy 

 dark sheds, according as it is desired, either to have them with 

 the flavour and consistence of fresh lifted Potatoes, or in as 

 dry and mealy a condition as possible. 



Routine.— We have seldom had a better season for late Vege- 

 tables. Pull Cauliflower before it gets too large, and prepare 

 a shed or pit to plant a quantity on the first approach of frost. 

 French Beans are still doing well with a slight protection at 

 night. Remove those growing in pots, where they can have 

 the protection of glass ; lay down strung growing Brocoli, so 

 that the stems may bo covered with eaith ; plant out Lettuces 

 and Endive for spring qm, If planted on the sloping sides of 

 wide ridges they will stand better, damp being quite as destruc- 

 tive as frost. Take the precaution oi securing a quantity either 

 in pits or Irames, or have the means of protection in readiness. 

 Remove the leaves from Rhubarb and Seakale, that you intend 

 forcing very early, and keep a look-out for slugs and weeds, 

 Doth of which will be troublesome alter these rains.— U. F. 



VII.— COTTAGERS' GARDENS. 

 The beauty of most of the plants whk:h enlivened the flower- 

 border with gay blossoms in summer is now nearly over; all 

 that remain to cheer us at this season are some late-flowering 

 Phloxes and the varieties of Chinese Chrysanthemum, which, 

 in fine autumns like the present, are very ornament tl, when 

 tied up so as to show their flowers to advantage. Cut down the 

 stems of all plants that have done blooming. Tne roots of 

 Dahlias will survive moderately severe winters in the open 

 ground, if protected by a covering of dry litter or Fern; but 

 they do not flower so well, and on that account it is better to 

 take them up as soon as their leaves and flowers have become 

 blackened by frost. Leave about 6 or 8 inches of the stem 

 attached to the tuber. They may be preserved over winter in 

 any dry cool place where they will be free from frost. 

 When the flower. border is dug and put in order tor the winter, 

 which should be done about this time, or as soon as the leaves 

 have fallen from the trees, any plants that have become too 

 •arge shouH be reduced, and such as are not wanted may be 

 removed alto-ether. Let decaying leaves and other refuse be 

 taken to the manure- heap, which should be turned over occa- 

 2 J '' " nd * *red "' WitH soil: any drainings from it 

 Should not bi allowed to be lost , they should either be thrown 

 back over the heap or they should be made available for some 

 mem purpose As was recommended last week, as soon as 



en J f^n 8 .*. 6 " ff /ruit l trws ' a ' jd thc S'°"nd sufficiently moist- 

 ened, transplanting, where it is wanted, may be proceeded with. 



rpil« S ? f »" ld bL * taken of tir ? weather for earthing up 

 ou delay / M™ *** AW>lM 8h ° ,,Id U ™ *" bC g0t In ™" 



Gaiidk.vias.- Sigma.'— These will live in a greenhouse, or even 

 out of doors in summer ; but to have them in good health and 

 beauty you must give them a temperature of about 6o u in 

 winter and spring, until the flowers are forming; remove 

 them then into the greenhouse, and they will remain in 

 beauty during the greater part of the summer. J 

 Hkatino. — W. H.— Our experience is not favourable to earthen 

 pipes for hot water : the joints break and let out the water. 

 Neither do we advise you to use any kind of porous hot- water 

 apparatus for pits in which plant* are merely to be wintered ; 

 they are all too damp. The cheapest mode of keeping out frost 

 from such places is either to make the walls of earthen banks 

 and to cover them with hurdles and straw, or to build a com- 

 mon smoke flue, which might be constructed with 5-inch cir- 

 cular chimney-pots. We have already given some hints about 

 very cheap boilers, to which we must beg to refer you. Of 

 earthen boilers we have no knowledge. Good mortar answers 

 perfectly for jointing common smoke flues. You will see that 

 several of your questions are unanswered, because we do 

 not recommend hot-water gutters or porous pipes for your 



purpose. Vapor.— If you are inconvenienced by the escape 



of offensive gas from your Arnott stove, the fault lies either 

 in the construction of the stove, or your management of it. 

 Coke is the best of all materials for such a contrivance, un- 

 less you can get Anthracite free from slates, which we can 

 never do. Perhaps your draught is bad ; perhaps the joints 

 of your stove are open ; perhaps twenty things, which nothing 

 but experience and actual inspection can remedy. We have 

 used an Arnott heated by coke, for some years, without any 

 difficulty when we manage it ourselves. 



Insects.— It is particularly requested that specimens of the 

 insects, with the affected leaves, &c, as well as queries, may 

 be sent to Mr. Curtis, without which he cannot undertake to 

 return answers. D. L.—li you will send us the insects at- 

 tacking your Silver Firs, and, if possible, one or two small 

 portions of the parts inhabited by them, we will answer your 



questions. R. A. Alves.— Thanks for your data regarding 



the Cherry-slug caterpillar. The minute flies are a species of 

 Barbarus (vide Curtis's" Brit. Ent.," fol.and pl.46Q). Did you 

 breed them from the Onion roots ? The large caterpillar will 

 change to the pale tussock moth, called Laria pudibunda. R. 



L- R'— Your Pears appear to be affected by insects, but 



we could find none in either of them. Should you be able to 

 detect any maggots in the fruit, and will forward them to us 

 in a quill, we may be able to advise you regarding a remedy. R. 



The scale insects infesting the Rafflssia are allied to the 



Coccus Hesperidum. If you will turn to an article upon those 

 affecring the Orange-trees, at p. 4*7 of this Journal, you will 

 gain the best information we can give you upon this tribe of 

 pests. The other specimens are also female Cocci, and those 

 which you took for ants' eggs are the ova of these scales, 

 which arc nearly related to the Coccus Vitis. If they appear 

 in any numbers the twigs should be cut off and burnt. R. 



Nam lis of F&vns.—J. P.—l, Court of Wick; 2, Easter Pip- 

 pin: 4, Beachamwell; 5, Brat'dick's Nonpareil; 6, Fearn's 

 Pippin ; 7, Kirke's Lord Nelson; 9, Hollandbury; »0, Minchal 

 Crab; 1 1, Gansel's Bergamot; 13, Crassane ; 15, Napoleon. |j 

 -A Devonian.— 1, Belle et Bonne; 2, Uvedale's St. Ger- 

 main ; 3, Beurre de Capiaumont; 4, Glout Morceau ; 5, 

 Easter Beurre; 6, Catillac; 7, Chaumontel; 8, Gilogil. 



J. F.— 1, Vicar of Winkfield; 2, Beurre Diel ; 3, Glout Mor- 

 ceau; 4, Passe Colmar.U Sarah S.—l, Court-pendu Plat: 



2. Pearson's Plate; 3, Dumelow's Seedling; 4, Court of 

 Wick; 5, Golden Reinette; 7, Beauty of Kent; 6, Court- 

 pendu Plat. || D. /.— l, Yorkshire Greening; 4, Bedford- 

 shire Foundling. Pears : 1, Comte de Lamy.avery fine speci- 

 men ; S, Hacon's Incomparable.y C. C— 3, Duchesse 



d'Angouleme; 4, Brown Beurre; 5, Passe Colmar ; 6, 17, 

 Easter Beurre; 8, 16, Bezi de la Motte; 9, 10, 13, 14, Glout 

 Morceau; 18, Henri the Fourth; 19, Beurre Diel; 20, St. 



1, Brown Beurre; 2, Urbaniste.' 

 Nelson; 2, Parry's Pcarmain.H 



C B.—i, Kirke's Lord 



State of the Weather 



e>l eather near London forthe week endingOct. 17, 1844, at 

 observed at the Horticultural Garden, Chiiwick. 



Oct. 



Trid. 



Sat- 



San. 



Mon. 



Tuei. 



Wed. 



Thurt. 



11 

 IS 

 U 



n 



15 



16 



17 



■ 



.Moon '8 

 A ye. 







1 

 2 

 3 



4 

 5 



HOMRTBR. 



Max. 



29.741 29.823 



29/21 29.5*0 



29.409 ^9.217 



29.322 28.987 



29.C18 23.940 



29.096 28.!'40 



--'■ (60 29.232 



i'HRRMOMKTKK. 



89 804 



Mid. Max. 

 68 

 64 

 65 

 65 

 63 

 60 

 69 



Min. 

 39 

 65 

 45 

 44 

 46 

 43 



37 



~g*-»U I 6M! 44.1 



M ean. 

 63.5 

 69.5 

 55.0 

 64.5 

 54.5 

 51.6 

 48.0 



Wind. Rain. 



Oct. 



63 7 



S.W. 



S. 



s.w. 



s. 



s.w. 



w. 



w. 



.03 

 .33 



.42 



1.04 



.02 



11 H'-avydew; sultry; exceedingly line ; clear 



\l £? KK 7 ; V V r 6ne : , b ?«« mi «>K ^»o»dy at noun ; showery. 

 13 Cloudy; c^ear and hne — 



1.84 



at in 



14 Pti 



and rain HtRi^ht. ""*" "^^ *""*'- "«*»*»* 



iakjr clouds and showers; heavy rain; cloudy at night 



— 15 Heavy shower, throughout the day; constant and very heavv r a ; n 



M night. J i,c< * v y r am 



— 16 Rain ; showery ; fine in afternoon ; clear. 



— J7 Fine with clouds; very fine throughout ; very clear at night. 



Mean temper ature of the week 2$ deg . above the average? 



State of the Weather at Chiawiek during the last 13 years, for the enauin. 



Week ending Oct. 28, 1844. " 



Namks of Plants.— i*«o/i.— Gesnera discolor. F. W. TV.— 



A withered flower of some Hedychium. A. C— Tripsacum 



dactyloides. A. M.—l. A Gonolobus, apparently hirsutus- 



2. Dracaena australis. H. Wr.-l. Mahernia 'incisa ; -1. 



Gomphocarpus fruticosus. They have no English names 



worth giving. R. G.-Cattleya granulosa. E. C.-You 



now see that we are right; for you cannot doubt that the 

 leaf you have had from India is that of the same tree as your 



false Banyan. //. C.-Oncidium Forbesii. J.P.-Diplo- 



taxis tenuifoha was once called Sisymbrium tcnuifolium ; 



Nicandra physaloides, once called Atropa. E. T O —Pro' 



bably Podocarpus excelsa. If 

 Orchidace;e.-0>-cA;s.— An Epiphyte house should not be kept 

 wet in winter. At that period the air should be comparatively 

 dry; otherwise when are your plants to rest ? There is no 

 work on their special management except Mr. Lyons's, which, 

 we believe, is not sold. As to woodlice, a score toads will 

 soon rid you of them. We will take your concluding sug- 

 gestion into consideration. s 

 Pe a as. -S.- We have no record of the Beurre Diel having been 

 grown to a larger size than the specimen you sent, which 

 was 14* inches round, and weighed 18$ oz.|| A B. C —Of 



Oct- 



1 



Aver. Aver. 

 Highest Lowest 

 Temp. Temp. 



! 



Sun. 20 

 Hon. Si 

 lues. 22 

 Wed. 

 Thur.24 

 FrL 25 



Sat. as 



59.5 

 69.0 

 53.9 



67. a 



56.2 

 55.8 

 64 



40,8 



40.3 



45.4 



42.1 



40. 6 



2 



39.0 



Mean 

 Temp 



50.1 



■49. 'J 

 52.1 

 50.0 

 48.4 

 47-5 

 46.8 



N r o. of 

 Years in 



which it 

 Rained. 



7 

 ■~j 

 13 

 12 

 7 

 8 

 8 



Greatest 



quantity 

 of Rain. 



0.13 in. 

 0.33 



o.zo 



0.40 

 0-30 

 0.72 

 0.52 



Prevailing Winds'.' 





K 





!. 



• 



2 

 3 



2 

 3 



1 

 1 

 1 

 2 



1 

 3 

 1 



3 

 3 



1 



3 

 1 



■/. 



4 



6 

 4 

 6 

 3 



r. 



4 

 3 



5 



4 

 4 

 3 



4 



• 



3 



4 



2 



5 



4 



1 



3 



* 





1 



2 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 2 



lwJ l -thLST , -*«^S r . a i, tU ^ durin * i he above P eri<Ki purred 0* th. 21.t, 

 1826 therm. nl"jind the lowe.t on the Slat, 1842-thenn. 20-. 



Notices to Correspondents. 

 Bzks.—E. B— We have given so much information about 

 Bees m the early part of this year that we must refer vou to 

 former Numbers for the information you search for. If that 

 is not sufficient for the purpose, yon had better study 

 some treatise on Bee management, such as Bevan •* On the 

 Honty-Bee." 



Books.— A. 5.— We are unacquainted with Wbistlecraft's " Cli 



mate of England." F. T.-Read De Candolle's «■ Physioloeie 



Vegeta'e," and either Endlicher or Schleiden's «« Grnndzuee 

 der Botanik," or Adrien deJussieu's "Cours de Botanique " 



H. t A Young Gardener.— Ingram's edition of Melrose 



Lindley's " School Botany" to begin with, and then his 

 *' Elements of Botany." 



FauiT-TRKKs.— J. P. W.— In the present season a considerable 

 number of both Apples and Pears have rotted on the trees 

 before the period of maturity for gathering. The decay pro- 

 ceeded from the puncture ofinsects.il 



the Pears you enumerate, the Glout Morceau is the most 

 proper for a south wall, if you wish fine fruit about Christmas : 

 if you preler a later supply plant the Beurre Kance [I 



and cut it back in the ordinary way j pot it in a mixture of 

 sandy loam and peat in equal proportions; then place it in 

 the greenhouse for the winter, and keep it rather dry. Make 

 the tops into cuttings, and put them into small pots filled with 

 a mixture of peat and silver sand, putting three or four cut- 

 tings round the side of each pot; afterwards place them in 

 rather a dry airy part of the greenhouse, where they will be 



■5rin re f° m fr ° St * They WiU bC 6t ,0r P ° Uing off singl y in 



PiXK-APPLKs.-^ Constant Reader. -To prefer eating the fruit 

 in agreenstateisnotcommon.il 



Roses.-,* Subscriber.— The following will answer your pur- 

 pose, viz :-Aime Vibert, Noisette, Corymbiflora, Jaune 

 ?nd P Pno2nT"" mphe dC Plautier ' Madame Desprez, Bourbon, 



SB o ED H S 'r^ Ccw **' a J»' Deader—Pack your seeds in canvas bags, 

 and take care that they are kept in a cabin during the pas- 



Seedlings—TF. G -Your violets, having been packed loosely 



SnnHil t° aSe ' al °w g WIth a P iece of ri P e Pe *r, have been 

 pounded to pieces by the shaking of the post- bags. As far as 



toVe a rtrikiS e fra ements, the variety does not appear 



Transplanting.-- X. Y. Z.— Move your Evergreen Oaks in 

 the course of November. Dig a large hole; take care that its 

 roots are saved as much as possible , throw well pulverised 

 soil about its roots; do not tread it much down, but deluge 

 the hole with water so as to puddle it 5 secure it firmly in its 

 place, so that it may not be rocked bv the wind • and you 

 will have done all that prudence would suggest. The quality 

 or the soil does not much matter, if it is neither clay nor 

 chalk. 



W kk ns. —A Constant Reader.— Yon cannot get Cocksfoot out of a 

 lawn, if there is much of it, without destroying the other 

 Grass. If your lawn is in such a state as you describe, by far 

 the best way will be to plough it up, get out the weeds, and 

 re sow it with the following grass-seeds, viz.:— Festuca du- 

 riuscula, 4$ lbs.; F. teuuifolia, 31bs. ; Cynosurus cristatus, 

 74 lbs.; Avena flavescens, l$lbs. ; Lolium perenqe, 30 lbs. ; 





2* lbs. ; Trifohum repens, 1 1 lbs., and T. m 



mus, 3 1i>s. These 



mixed together will be a sufficient quantity to' cover 11 J?* 

 of lawn closely in a short time.* X er 2 * acre 



Tmumw Noisette Ro«a.--ilma/e«r.-To flower this attend to 

 the growing and perfecting the young wood during the ore 

 viousseason. \V ant of attention to this no doubt ha? been the 

 cause o your blooms not expanding. The best way to pro 

 ceed With your plants is, after they have done blooming 

 shift them if in small pots into larger ones, but i. otherwise 

 only remove a portion of the top soil and replace it with 

 some very rich compost, then put them into a close pit and 

 keep them rather warm and moist, in order to cause them 

 to grow vigorously; take great care, however, that they do not 

 become drawn or get infested with insects. When thev have 

 made their growth harden them off (by degrees) by exposing 

 them to the open air, and give them less water ; afterwards 

 place them in a northern aspect, and allow them to become 

 rather dry, in order that they may ripen their wood : then 

 rest the plants, and afterwards put them into a cold pit forthe 

 winter; give them but little water for the first month but 

 afterwards increase it by degrees ; and when you take them 

 into the greenhouse let them have but little heat or moisture 

 for a week or two. Six good Rosks for Pots are Boueere 

 Fabvier, Napoleon, Devoniensis, Eliza Sauvage. Bernard 1T 

 Miscellaneous.— J. Abell.— The last week in Mil month or 

 the first in next, is the best time for moving Deciduous Trees 

 Those which lose their leaves earliest should be mov edjirstl 



H ' C.—A Carnation is not a Picotee, but a distinct 



variety. P. T. O.— You will find some rustic cottages at 



Ravenscourt, near Hammersmith ; but if you wish to see 

 them 111 perfection, you should visit those erected by the 

 Duke of Devonshire, at Edensor, one of the entrances to the 

 Park, at Chatsworth. A Constant Reader.— We are un- 

 acquainted with the Patent Portable Suspension Stove. Any 



stove will do what you want, if it is not too small. Fifus 



Oak-bark decays very slowly, and is a very long time before" 

 it is fit to be mixed with soil. It is more apt to poison 



land than to improve it. W. Wren.— If you wish to know 



how Botany can be rendered poetical, you should read 

 Darwin's " Botanic Garden," and his "Loves of the Plants." 

 We cannot compliment you on your success in attemptin e to 



do what is not worth doing. G.-We cannot recommend 



nurserymen. X H. G. will find information respecting the 



management of Gladioli given at p. 1 19, 1844. The pot cul- 

 ture of the different varieties of Lilium lancifolium is also 



mentioned at p. 591 of the same year.J T. P.— Keep your 



Fuchsias as quiet as you can in winter, by withholding water 

 and keeping them cool. They must not, however, become 



absolutely dry. Do not cut them down until spring.* S. S. 



—Yes. Mediensis.—No. U 31. — We will inquire about 



Burckhardt's "Quince," if you will give us the page of his 



work in which it is mentioned. Umbra.— You must be 



joking. If in earnest, we can only say that we have no art 

 to infuse life into dead things. The only means you can 

 employ for covering your trees in winter with green leaves, 

 is to induce Irish Ivy to run over them. That may, with care 

 and skill, be accomplished in a few years. Re-leaf of another 



kind we cannot offer you. A Tourist must give his name 



and address. We cannot insert statement 4 * about crops from 



persons we know nothing of. G. H. — If you will 



send your address, we will answer you privately. 



R. F. B. — We do not recommend you to emigrate to the 

 United States, unless you are without an alternative. It is 

 of no use to acquire property if it is not secure; and who 

 can tell what will happen in the United States? If you do 

 go, you had better pack your trees in bog-moss in a wooden 

 chest. It is of no use going to the expense of Ward's 

 cases. We are unacquained with the prospects of Adam's 



County. M. U. — We will examine your communication 



with pleasure, and try what we can do— only make it short. 

 We are obliged by your suggestions, which are sent to the 



Agricultural Editor. Aivruv.— Nunea rosea is not much 



worth growing. Moricandia arvensis is a violet-flowered 

 herbaceous plant, something like Honesty. The three hand- 

 somest Godetias are Lindley ana, vinosa and quadrivulnaera, 

 provided the latter is grown in very poor soil. Tne Pea you 

 mention is most probably the purple podded Grey.— • 

 Dubious.— Coral is not a plant, nor the production of insects, 

 but the calcareous crust of marine animals called Zoophytes, 

 whose nature you will find described in the " Pen ,y Cyclo- 

 paedia," or any such work. W. P.P.— You will find apian 



of a frame that will possibly suit you, given at p. 423, vol. 

 1843. If you build a span-roofed pit tor winter work, it should 



face north and south.: Agrestis.-\\e believe the heaviest 



and hardest of all woods to be Lignum vitae, the timber of 



GuaUcum officinale. A Subscriber.— It will not harm your 



plant of Aloysia citriodora to divest it of its leaves now, for 



the purpose of drying.: J. M.— In order to make your 



young plant of Goldfussia glomerata bloom, you must give it 



plenty of light and heat.l Katherine.— Solidago petiolaris 



is one of the latest plants in bloom ; it is very pretty, but it is 

 generally rendered unsightly by frost and wind; Acis (Leu- 

 coium) trichophvlla is tender; it is not a free bloomer: none 

 of the early flow'ering kinds of Allium are very ornamental. 

 Bulbine bisuhata is a greenhouse bulb ot little beauty. 

 Taneier Fumitory is unknown to us. Hyaciuthus brumalis, 

 probably Scilla brumalis of Haworth, is a very doubtful spe- 

 cies. Cornelian Cherry (Cornus mascula) is a shrub, or small 

 tree producing numerous small yellow star-like flowers, in 

 February, befo?e the leaves. Ornithogolum nmbnatum is not 

 very ornamental ; it flowers in March, if planted 1.1 a dry situa- 

 tion Corydalis bracteata is very pretty and dwarf. Leucc-jum 

 hiemale is also very pretty. Orobus vernus "handsome. 

 Erica herbacea and carnea are very pretty in winter. Colchi- 

 curn chionense is unknown to us. Roman N.rcrssus requires 

 a dry warm situation, and protection from wet in winter; it 

 flowers in March. The best Roses for pegging down are the 

 lesTrampant growing kinds; much, however, depends on the 

 time when the kindi are wanted to bloom ; for a long con- 

 tiTuance, China Roses are the best; for summer, Mosses are 

 bes? and for autumn, the Noisettes. In pegging them down 

 nothing more is required than to make the soil rich with rotten 

 Sung and to fasten the shoots down with strong pegs, 



about one or two inches long-ll Revert ens. -All the back 



Numbers for this year may be had. 





SEEDLING FLOWERS. 

 Fuchsias.-;*. H-The seedling No.J_has_not expanded 



its 



10 *h 00 mmain clineing round the corolla; if this be the 

 SGP ± UntrhPmcter of the flower it is useless. In the larger 



PCr f hr ^nothing to dist.nguish it from many others, 

 vane^here » no hmg to d ^ ^ ^^ 



slJsl sufficient merit to send out ; they are pretty but not 

 sess sumciem varie ties exhibited this season.* 



equal to ^^^Jfl^VaH^r was much damaged by 

 FA hJul crashedln the box : it is a large flower of good form 

 and fubstfnee but the colour in the lip is not -^c.ently 

 unfform! and runs too much into the eye.*— Amateu^^t 



bloom 

 some 



V C°N ^YouTsVedlingTs' a large and fine flower, having a 

 fmili white centre, with a well-marked eye, the rest of the 

 fl?wer^niform light mulberry colour: it appears to want a 

 little more substance for so large a flower.* 

 Petunias.^. B.-Your seedlings, though pretty, are not 

 equaUn size or marking to many varieties we have seen th« 

 ReVson Those which approach a yellow colour, as No. *. 

 we recommend you to save seed from, as it is probable some 

 striking varieties may be obtained.* 





Poa neniorahs, 3 lbs.; P. sempervircns, 2 lbs.; P. trivialis, * # « ^ usual many communications have been received too law. 



