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1 HE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



Sln'dK^Dg P lent \f ^^°Xfa t ce°of t0 the soil 

 \ff^ "»5^ ouTaVth^rV 

 ^VtXf'alpinus, L.-This should be constantly 

 jftBTta sandy peat mixed with crocks a few fine 

 5*Tl£ne also placed on the surface of the so- 1 T * 



i a partially shaded spot, and w 

 ihead slightly in dry weather. 

 "53fi» tenella, L.-This is a pretty pla: 

 Amid be potted in coarse sandy peat, using wide pots 

 JTfiUed with drainage, and the plants should be placed 

 Resurface of the peat ; only the small fibrous roots 

 Anald be put into the soil, ine pots must be placed 

 f , shaded situation, and kept tolerably moist. It 



is pots. When established it requires plenty of pot 

 room, and should be repotted every spring. It requires 

 » be kept rather -1 



"•"BBeJ^S "', three y eara a g<> » correspondent 



!S*i vflS 6 } h l and lead B y«tem, I immediately 

 * "^e »bMi.l. P ,an ' P^vided the joints could 

 f^tottSLS'- - therefore a few sashes 



**** tad alT^ ' hey an8wer ^ admirably, and I 

 J 8 ** bring anv %l made on the old P ,an ' nor do L 



5^P°" d entfwho%ome Sti - Ute ^ PUUy ; aD<1 if 

 ^ l Bonie account of h' &ni WOuld favour y° ur readers 

 Si^Aw, and 1 tl^ Sfn^nnS of us™ U Te 



*:. te >Rehi~. : - y- L > Hertford. 



mg green Capsicum pods 

 for the Onions and Shallots. The unripe | 



Ergot. — Have y 



ceived specimens growing upon Whea 



t has been observed in corn fields al Cranford. 



found it, a few weeks back, upon the flower-spikes of 



one sixth, probably o 

 as exhibited by the i 



fully, I beg t 



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removing the shrub. It is at 



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chimera. Commence removing the earth as 



Suffolk took several i 



•eral sj ■■■ 

 true Egjptian or migratory locust (the Locusta migra- 

 toria), in Wheat-fields, in the beginning of September. 

 Three of them were brought to me alive. 

 - in that part of England, that 

 : them down, seeing they were not birds 

 thought at first they must be bats. They flew so well 

 that several escaped.— J. Curtis, Hayes, near Uxbridge. 



