THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



2fX,nt gave him may wi^ „ . 



• •Lin* bis competitors ; but if he is himself thrown 

 - \h7sh*de,be is still repaid for all his care. But 



w^onTy thing' which gave a stimulus to his ener- 



Home Correspondence. 



The Kw and Horticultural Gardens.— Much as 



jfS^late artkkT^He strongly recommends tl 

 < L tUT facilities be given for the admission of « t 

 2pJ" into Kew. I would diminish them. In ad> 



!jjlbe «ee m equally to overlook one important matt 

 m nek, that the sight-seeking crowd is made up of t 

 ( toinrt ' classes ; the one quiet and desirous of gaini 

 information ; the other larking and rollicking and 



.orehof nothing but ro 



Crowded as Kew garde: 



. --With regard to the garden . : 

 Society there can be no doubt that its original design, 

 . ■• its situation, was bad ; to place such a garden on a 

 dad level hardly above the Thames, in old exhausted 

 jarden ground, was a great mistake ; and a greater was 





SLTZ 



cored one of the great defects it 



garden. A further 



«e gOTernors were right in filling it up : in doing so, 

 «ej even obtained a little undulation, which shows 

 j» greatly the appearance of the garden would be 

 unproved by breaking its surface further. Should, 

 «IhUo'b an}tlUng ° f the S ° rt be in contem P lation > il 



&1' 1 . becume Dlore beautiful e "ry yLr^AnTit 



5KSu b „ ut i 0f T ltiv f o,l;a , nd ' althoush those 



^™ea to councils when the garden was first esta- 

 ^dSnt ay r, d ° ne , beUer ' had *ey combined taste 

 deb IS™*? W,th g° od intentions, yet I should much 

 Sttr? wfich? eXpeDdit ^ e t0 retrieve th0Se 

 ("Qica i s irrem'ediahl^ iv*?*?****?™?} 1 ! 1 ?^ :*}}? 



V^uch^^f,^ 6 ; and h '« one, should much 

 *PpearB^nm ^° re flouris hing than they now are, as it 

 "*»«*»/ it r?? ° H made to the Societ ^ at the la8t 



"•"toiLn/j far better t0 a pp ] y the mone y- 



^cZreZs!° *• Pr ° m0ti0Q ° f gardeDiDg ' 

 « *? Z ht ~ U ap P ears from the observations 



J7 w be Uie case that th F™?a"«» pr«a>"t"'«8 



*■* ^^ripe^its* 111 ^ 6xha M 8ted \ a . the endeavour to 

 ?* P^nt orlf 10 / 6 ^ he flowe r-head altogether from 



iL pk i woi *£ , e for this ' the y° un 8 Potat0 " 



606 °f all th- °- u- ngly recommend this to the atten- 



* t^fsta ra 4.t Potato both here and 



^* ^ old C ^f^ rf ° n *TT I have grown and flowered 

 a*" 4 ***, on IS ' aDd fiad h t0 be e**™ 111 ^ 



i? *CS toT x Si" ™ 6 litlto a "e ntioD . ? hich 



^•"aould^Iho^u? a , 3 ' inc h Pot in sandy loam and 



^^fttt ined< J then P lun * e i4 in a 

 0pea ^rder, according as it* desired 



they appeared. By the above treatment it can be it 

 duced to the forcing house in early spring, and so o 



end of May.— G. IV., Ti, 



Glass Wasp-traps Having advocated 



glass bottles and funnels as traps for the i 





11 inches apart. The crop was duly 

 squent weeding, hoeing, and thinning, 



: . a sudden change 



ish withered hue, and on looking cl. 

 5 found covered with minute particles 



le entire crop. The bulbils' yet see*J 



jappeared. 

 for I am's! 





n S"Hautbo*s1 eil l8 th k , tn« 



k), Hautbois, real Hautbois, were plentiful 



valuable kind ; the plants are all fertile, pro 



magnificent fruit. During the meeting i.f the Hntis.li 



exhibiting the two kinds, and of 'presenting them to his 



.... 

 will not be disappointed in Mr. Myatt's new Hautboi.s ; 



the world will be glad to know what science has to say- 

 on this mysterious subject. To the hands of the editor, 



When 3 they lmve enlightened us I may have more to 

 say.— Henry Bailey, Nimeham, Oxford. 



~ "xng of the Queen Bee.-All that Mr. Slade re- 



de in the young queen reeog 





X himself.-J. Wighton. 

 h-er Keys.— In answer * 



I beg to give the followi 



ras formerly Balk 

 ilt e 1 r!r P fgeon P o?tSe dTe (Sai 





- ■:; ■ •- j . 





-H. M. Herls. 1 



>ut Culfre and Culver 

 Is Culver Key the 



am rata pratensis. See u Salmoi 

 •hai-p. -jnr:.- W. S. G. 



h»,m rt,>.,f.-The accompanying specimen is 



resentative of my principal crop of Onions, wni 



lately become affected with somethi 



njure it greatly, if not entirely to destroy the 



Ths Onions (Brown Portugal) were sowed Marc 



an open quarter of the garden, gently sloping 



south ; the soU is a sound heavy l°am^eli mi 



i.j ,-h^T -: 



iraished in the case to which 1 have alluded. Possibly 



field of Clover where 1 find this Cuscuta, there is all 

 superabundance of Clover-rap (Orobanche minor) 



Clover hopeless. There are not many of our farm 



over his Clover fields to pull up the Orobanche, and 



who in consequence is very • 



seeds of this parasite are so exceedingly i 



they can be separated from any sample of Clover heed 



by merely Bifting it. The readiest modr 



the spots where it has commenced its ravages, and 

 carefully remove the cut plants to a distance. One 



some difficulty in persuading the persons he employed 

 to remove the mown Clover from the spots attacked, as 



