1847.] 



THE GARDENERS* CHRONICLE. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.- 



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fORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 



®fje ffiartiencr^ Chronicle, 



£.4 TUB DA ¥, JAN UAR Y 2, 



n two months sinc^ we dre 



land. We should have as soon expected to 

 hat the skilful graziers who exhibit at the 

 ield Club had been beaten in rattening pigs ami 

 Butso it was. Since that lime, our intelligent 



calls himself Mirabil 

 fully explained how these Pin 

 ourselves, beyond procuring < 



t the Office of t 





frained from saying 

 now that Mr. Pe; 

 explained, we shall 



It is precisely that for which we have' alwa 

 tended (see 'Gardeners ~" 



adopted tl 



: M 



Dec. 2, 1843, 

 t, what is now gene- 

 method. Those who 



ome credit if they had 



the French gardener 



tPaddington, nearly 30 years ago, and 

 inch advantage as could "have been deriv 

 le practice so long as the old- 

 pstem of Pine-growing was otherwise f 

 for are the details of his method essenti 



Unrestrained growth by using free soil i 



of the Meudon plan, for the French Pine grc 

 have always used peat, and very ill have 

 previously succeeded with it. Our Paris c 

 spondent, reported on the 6th March, 1841, tha 

 Versailles For. .[ Queen Pines 



which only weighed from 2 to 3 ibs. each. Th< 

 peat in fact is verv like English peat, sandy, an< 

 fibrous. We have no good 



This v 





'the Pine-apple land" of New Providenc 

 Professor Solly, that iron in excess is its pri 

 characteristic. 



Can the ammoniacal vapour rising from tl 

 menting litter affect these plants? Our info 



"* ' " i might, perhaps, have detected " 

 or it may have been absorbed b 



not find i 



by the usual t 





not yet appeared. The 



exhibited in Regenl 

 October by Mr. Purday's j 



The°heaviest C Qu( 



17th Oct. 1843, by the 



i Regcnt- 



find i 



xpressed a belief 



and we 



■rd ot it. 



: 



rge English Q 



le been the weight of an Englis 

 las that to do with a French Quee 

 js. l*oz.r (We hope we are no 

 spectfully of royalty), 

 s in reality no ground for anger o 

 i the part of English gardener 

 beaten yet. For there is anothe 

 quality of a Pine Apple which n 



.ed, and 



x ed a Queen tc 

 If, then, the French hav, 

 weight, the English may console 

 - re still unrivalled for quality. 





equally hopeless, all inquiries i 



wisely resigned itselt to 



cured must be endured," 



igs to that class of evi 



We might, therefore, 1 



further space with this inquiry, w 



3 re it not that in 





ighlands the p 



-oplo still din- 



with affe 







when Po 



atoes were always sound, and indulge in 





at the worst of the disas 



er is passed by. 



We trust 



that it may be, but we 







:y upon that point. On 







3 issue of the next Potat 











■: 



aTyetXr'tl, 



' ^Tcrexpert 















advocate. 



They may be successfu 













dares trust the fate of c 





arsi 



ns and appearances f Who so mad as to 



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old advice— not to rerdanl 



titute some other crop not likely to perish — Oats, 

 ; 



tichokes, Cabbage, Wheat, 

 h certainty be relied upon. 



■ is unpalatable, and even as our crtespond- 



ells us, tin-. ■ ...-..'',,,,» , :)Unv 



lduce them to carry 

 Potato, we beg to address the followingrema^s, in 

 they are attended to they 

 -ill diminish the risk of this dangerous crop. 



Firsts as to sets.— On no account use as sets 



recommended (p. 503, 184(i), then 



i-|>ly. The best seed is that which has 

 left in the ground undug ; of which we have 



aid by diligent* search"" Vt'does",!!!!' 12 



tfuyantakmup; 

 be neglected with 



...,...:.■■,.■., 

 Have nothir 



• 



d by a greater tendei 



og of 2 cwt. of salt hi 

 >rroborate the assertic 

 ave been sound, and si 



ence. It is said that 

 s been useful ; we can 

 a. Crops dressed wit 



1 to it. A better dressing may, pcrha 

 i of magnesia, for those who can get it. 

 he following testimony from Mr. 

 ly, the intelligent lessee of the Mu 



Gazette, dated October 21, 

 f Potato 

 the rough bd 



the other 



op of Potatoes on half of a plot of 

 ground, dressed with the rough sulphate of mag- 



lilure. This rough sulphate magnesia 

 mi after making natural alum, and 

 t 5s. per cwt. When used as a dressi 



nd find nothing in it beyond that salt 

 t said to have been pre- 

 ss it is a little free sulphuric acid ; and 



a beneficial effect, because we know 



health* condition of the Potato plan 

 sonilTnowied^rof the effect of the 



planting, and follow exactly the rules laid down by 



published at p. 170 of this Journal for 1846. 



, dated Nov. 7, 1845* 



