THE GARDEN E R S' CHRONI 



tea of human food from vegetable Nature, by 

 IWg art to assist and carry further what is begun " 

 NajtaM I and to change the form of vc ig< 



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joudary evil. The best means of econc 





i'ntat.,' plant may be propagated more abundant 



. ut. •■! joint, and planted two or three inches apart 

 sandv • : rtt: : in the course of a week or ten days 



ill be well rooted plants, and planted at the dis- 

 that Potatoes are generally planted, will pro- 



diug to the kinds) equal to that produced from 

 , and when propagated in this manner, plauts 



way will be to place the tubers in a similar manner as 

 before stated, and when the shoots have grown to the 



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mal flavour of the Leek being 

 more pleasing.— J. B. We 



Bowei, for Early Blooming 



garden. When I placed 







ready for an earh" tt 



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perhaps a we< I several ] aces where they 



'»ove named.— G. W., Titsey 



noted plants, j 



; plants from four or five t 

 j usually planted. Lateral e 



Tthe parent plant.— William Wallace, C V unfair y ' Pa, 

 Leaden Labels for Shrubs. — I have used " H. B.': 

 rectious for making leaden labels for my Roses, and 



i be broken off by the wind. Another form has i 

 indefinite length, and I mark it off in this form. 



Every inch-and-a-half in length of this strip, goes 



lat surface to tha observer, showing the 

 ning number stamped on it with the 

 nended by " H. B." Of nearly 60 bu 



of last winter, except those marked ii 



ead. I have see 

 ie by the Romans 



y consequently be 

 xpense. Perhaps 



BWHB, kc.-Thomas Bentall. 

 Root pruned Pear Trees.— la your Number of the 



ject being one of great importance, I take leavTto 

 extracts, and ask a few (mentions, rlie 



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growth. The trees are 3 t 

 »lly, and with few exceptions all grafted 

 ce stock." I have been for years much 



ression at the moment is, that the Pear 



it not possible t 



^wiiaievw me moue 01 treatment, or the stock mJ^T 

 any other stock save the Pear stock. My object i to 

 othe V r e stocks e used by Mr. Rivers^and^f £ fcZ J" 

 Pear stock submit as kindly to root prunimT« !c 

 Quince In addition to the dwarfing effects of the "£ 

 he finds many of the best kinds of Pears which 1 

 worthless on the Pear stock, produce excellent «»»!!!! 



fruit bein^impro 

 I would be glad 1 



c hJoVZ 91 oT the "omTaTdtS 

 uits were fully developed on the parent* 



j advantages of the stock, he first grafts « 

 Pear, and then grafts or buds the reluctant 

 variety on the Pear, and by this mode o: 



places. In regard to budding and grafting, I have alwaya 



successful in grafting as in budding on the (iuince, 

 which we are led to suppose from the above. " 1 feel 





3 Pear-stock. " I can report 1 



and the other the reverse ; but if the tree in its natural 



Maize.— The author of " Food for the Million » 

 bliged by the note of reference made by the edltor .f 

 le Gardeners' Chronicle, in reply to his circular of tbe 

 nth Atvi.;1 hnt io I™.™ t« find him an nnnonent A»- 



has just received samples of Cobbett's corn (red am 

 yellow), and Canadian (clear, light orange), grown 

 :' • .. .ft ru i irteof Hampshire, Sussex, and ^ar*"^ 



gathered late in October- 

 year — all well matured; yi 



Two grains of each 7 i 



enclosed as speci 



: al meeting " against one of t j 

 vice pressed upon the public by the author , 



die by the 

 and he particula: 

 agricultural and horticultural societies C"* ^ 



try the question, not only with A ™ erica °' t me 

 European seed. Surely the editor does " „ eTi 

 guard the public against this advice as aa t, 

 May 6. [What we regard as ^ n f;°" he ir 

 sons who cannot afford the loss should crop u 

 with crops which cannot pay, if successful, 



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Failure of the Potato, many other J" aJ rr, ^ , 



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