THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



i***!' A ?°° maTlv useful things, such as salama- 

 •ft CK curd, and fairy butter was sadly per- 

 9*X. .bout the preparing of a dish of vegetables 

 SfifSht to her. The name of the vegetable 



■ ^ Sb several Grasses, such as Sparrow-grass 



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\:,ii; P.ibtry, &c ," 



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 —s were u; n the ooint of being consigned to the 



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eat to inqiiir. nl, t sort of Gkk 



ad how it should be made ready, and whether it 



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 ■t Grass, aud but just the Scorzonera, and to sc __ 



■aibeCfea ro't." ee pe a rhaps the following mode of 



aoking Salsify and Scorzonera from « Rogers' Vege- 



y be of use to some of the readers 



i the Ckrukic'.e. " Previously to boiling the roots, let 



fiadi the roots are to be dipped, and after having 

 :'!■'-.. 

 u B ly put into the pan ; they should 

 I, and when observed of a deep 



brawn coL/ur, they will be ready for table." The 

 or those who have forgotten the 



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jwmentof sound knowledge, and dispelled of dark- 



«-»m ti:a fu:,> of the earth.— Peter Mackenzie. 



Unh, Po . reign Correspondence. 



•Wed to ti,f °° ; , but in an additional piece of ground 

 r--"» "" tne garden wit.Wn «,»„.. +!,„„„ ? 



^Ga e Lt% tre -% P l anted in 1^87, by the late 

 *»<*ZooWv"^^ V l' fatherof tha Present Profes- 

 "•y'CSe n l B0tan ^ Paol ° ™* Pietro Savi, are 

 ? «■* as he 'i a tlf re T \ Cedar of Leba °™, neari y 



^CSifc!!? I had -therto seerlmongs! 

 observed . 







^d the0 8ht!y suffer ^- A Date-tree, 

 rflft^bly iij^f 8 a «d Lemons in espalier 

 ^'MknoiX £* «» small-leaved variety 

 *SV e almo *t, if not uit S"^' and PiuU8 



Sl? e ^new, clL "l ^ arden w laid out accord- 



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^al? ed L ' a i P °T 8i - 0n ° f a11 th ^ stronghokTs 



^ by 8triYing\nfln e ?7 f0ll ° W LL -" 



s t0 kee P back systematic 





lg, both under-crops and Vim - : ljure 1 



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the scanty food they have 



cones of the Stone Pine to Pisa, and for a fev 



tea. The whole establishment is more an 

 (ferity, and a but de promenade, than of any 



eal advantage to agricultu 



Societies. 



— U I (,T.J n the Chair. Mi 1 



e of the hive-bee, which had been taken paired bv 

 node in which the queen of the hive is impreg- 



of the drums of the Cicadae. Mr. Spence read a 



of notes on the h. r.ey 1. ••;.,', oh;, .i . - : .■ e t 



from " Gardner's Travels," aud also noticed the ii " 



stwood stated that the same 



lemselves. The 

 in the 



nformed persons in this p 



iUbtetug, 



Illustrations of British M,, u>looi 

 Hussey. Reeve, 



lent, i Two distinct 



s one by Dr- Badhara, * 



Fungi, merely as picturesque objects. Their collectio 

 jf drawings at length became important from thei 





nary department, wiii 





blunder. We hope that as the work progresses, some 

 department, and greater strength given to the litho- 



table, and as capable of supplv 

 often sought for but very rare 



tion of Echino 

 Many specimens 



Garden Memoranda. 



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gratified by an u 



Although Canterbury and the neighbour!: 





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upper nursery, out of the town, 

 the Dane John (Donjon 1) pub 





• 

 has here done good service i 

 for Mr. Masters having been 

 very patriotically new planted r 

 and garden at his own cost, and i: i- i 



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 employ his neighbour to hoe his Turnips, perhaps it 



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in the town near the cathedral ; it ought to be 



of taste for rase plants, the garden of the Hon. Mr. 



in the precincts should have been excepted, 

 ugh exposed to the smoke of the town, this, 

 h small, has many rare out-door plants, espe- 



those trained against a protected high wall. 



re are full of flowers, and though the public are 



beer shops and gin palaces by such simple 

 pleasures. I consider gardens and the study of natural 



with this topic I may mention that Canterbury 



in the main, due to the credit of the spirited 

 gardener whose nursery and whose landscape gardening 

 I have above noticed. There is here a v.. 



f objects in natural history, quite sufficient to give 



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in. s. L< ftur. - are . ccasionally given by .Mr. Mas- 

 imself and his son, and I suppose by others. For 



and instructed and amum . 



■i .me by a separate canon, 

 lean taking the general arguni. tit I Here 

 would be quite enough in the museum for the iliustra- 

 a of Buckland's treatise, and many others. I, how- 

 t, made no inquiries on this point. They are deh- 

 good time. This museum at present is not very 

 irishing, but it is a proof of the importance of the 

 v act allowing towns to rate themselves tor such ob- 

 it towns, to self impose a rate for so deserving a por- 



Miscellaneous. 



a-ious kinds of Pine and I 

 ce of Philip MUler, and 

 Indeed, on this last j 

 1743 the Duke planted the large plantation in W obi 

 ST the birth oThta daughter^ afterwards C 



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