

THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



Home Correspondence. 



**, Disease.-The following information fron 

 JZTLnttintaDce.Dr. klotzsch, in Berlin, wi I . 



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Magaz.," i. US) the name ought t 

 1 that i; is derived from a<pvu, ta 



Dumeril (" Consid. generales," p. 2 

 Boiled Radish Tops.—l have 1 



They are positively offensive to t' 

 they are cooked, i" * 





5 very numerous. The 



f the crop, the Potatoes 

 plants were quite healthy, 



l*white round ki:i 

 ahmt Berlin. They 



Sthemraft'of 1 .'! 



method alternately to the rows v 



•we ot a dark green colour, and very nu 

 tubers, although not much lr.rger than 

 <»ted by him, were very abundant, and in a perfectly 



-■ • ■■ evident that they had not reached as yet th ' 

 ■ others showed evidently, by 1 

 . they fell off from the stem, that tl 

 were fully gVQWD> and the diaeaBe ad e d 



nore rapidly among them. Dr. Klotzsch observes tl 

 « would be presumptuous to say he had discovered 1 



WT ** d a remedy which, by; strengthening the pla 

 «ablts the same to resist the influences which prodi 

 Lr 6188 ' aDd this> he thinks > must be of g reater 

 ^™nce to the agriculturist. As I have already ob- 



St to ti w ' naturall y» f 



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■ <J '$ f 8 ,* botani st, and likewise in official capacit 

 JJ iff* des «iption tl. ^ , u ha-, e no rig! t to d< ul 



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Si thi8 word is deri ™ d from the Greek priv 

 ' of t\L y us ' the PWiciple of the second aorist actii 

 •* V^&^Lt^fKhe' whoTe dais 1 of'wo^ 

 beJ?i? t0 - ph > sic3 ' and that, consequently, it ought to 

 SE^V? which > ^d it been done, woull have 





ery word Columbine ought 



may be « 



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The 



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uing that your correspondent, ■ - 

 needlessly querulous, not to give i: a hwi-hfv 



lerly called by this name. Di 



?.w that they waste their time and encumber 



*££ tw g < " 8vo ' 1840 ' P- m - As st is ve 



Ski' M far » Possible, all names and ten 

 *itU^^££ d declar « their own meaning, a 



"•fce for' *u 0U l d m y derivation be approved, that t 

 JteBoa ' *? fut «re should be spelt Aphys, and 

 **** ofrtT, 80 Pr ° per t0 set the example as t 

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* 0r d At£ ^"espondents.-^. 5. K. L. T 



A PS«rtheni t t w r ° bably t0 be WrUt - en WUb * 



* ell -known "*"?' t0 draw or 8Uck > iQ allusioa t0 t 

 ^vir !" 0(1 . eofsubs i8tence by that extraordina 



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AphUia sL , wer — G - O. L. The derivation 



"* WTw! *' doubtful - Fabricius gires it, with- 

 h fr »m upicrrTHjl, to interrupt, or put an end 



hive and the swarm, presenting the appearan 



being completely covered with bees, and the upper hi 

 also full of bees and honey, which I removed and su 

 jected to the influence of vapour from nitre. Aft 

 to iteoriginal place. On weighing the honey-combs I 

 found that there was 30 lbs. of pure honey. The 

 novelty of the working of these bees is increased by 

 there being two queens, one to each working hive ; and 

 yet the bees of both going in and out of one sn 



British Sheet Glass.— I beg to inform Mr. Hetley 



whom I purchased it. However much it may astonish 

 Mr. H. to hear of Vine leaves being scorched at a dis- 

 tance of 6 feet from the glass, such I assure him is the 

 case, and has been caused by the glass alone ; though 

 admit I have seen plenty of sheet glass which appeared 



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warded if he could n 



my employ, about two months ago, when the 

 first ;i]'j):-a:-- d on the bat', cut off the stalks to w 

 3 inches of the earth ; this morning about o3 p 

 thus treated were dug up in my presence, an 1 the 

 duce compared with the produce of an equal numb 

 plants growing in a parallel lino, which bad '<ot 

 touched. The result of the comparison was 1 -J : : 



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days previous ; and the result, he informs nv, 



scarcely appearing in the cut plants. It has been j 

 " bserved in this neighbourhood that the di.si 

 has been near the surface, and, consequ< 



the ordinary size, is tc 



presently attempt t 



lere is always ■ 

 ling the top over, so as to place tl 

 the great strain upon the 



o failure, even in the " el< 

 ng trees, weighing fi 



This truck i=. merely a sir . 



top, it is 51 feet long by 4 fee ^ JJJ 6 '^ 



.formed, and that, hitherto, sor 

 years beyond the power of 1 

 Mr. A.'s tongue-grafting, by 





practises a peculiar mi 

 Hawthorn hedges, wh 

 hedge in three years tl 



jail bo obtained, in the 



v-o'iro'nrlngraTeachside, by which the horse is 



ball as possible, care being a U 



ing tapered so as to allow of 

 being thrust as far under the ball as possib 

 torn of the ball is then let <I 



there firmly tied, by bracing the rope round the - >n .-,£ 

 the tree, and through the rings which 

 near each corner. If the tree is heavy-headed, or 

 , it is necessary to have two or 



