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THE GARDENERS CHRONICL 



d be done at once, and the following 

 7^ if attended to, will help to secure for the 

 JJbJi the benefit the greenhouse is calculr iJ *- 

 P* d ne before, the house should rect 



'.'. ' ">• -,;UM for this pun 

 *^J out, or if the weather will not permi 

 iTT be crowded together at one end while the 

 ^JneeWea the requisite purification. The glass, 

 *** ^ floor should be scrupulously submitted to a 

 SL competent to do the thing in a business-like 

 rrprv corner should be scraped out, that all 





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"°Lre is more to be dreaded than frost. Mildew, 

 '^^m,el hoc se?ius o,:ihc, delight in dirty places, 



■ 

 elicit greenhouse can harbour in its corners and 



antly at Cumbal, in the province of Pasto, a 1 

 almost too cold for the production of grain. The crop 

 elongated, and weigh about Toupees each 6 * They are 

 dug up washed and exposed for five or six days to the 

 sun, when they acquire a very agreeable sweetish taste, 



Potato, either boiled or roasted, and are univeraallv 



ico, a tuber that yields a very large proportion of 



;cula, and is consequently c isidered 1 _' vi n 



am not well acquainted with the affinities of the riant, 



the Oca equally apply 



the Speake'r, which r££tflhZ%!} £ *\ 

 in the same season. In this case the Vi„„, 

 in the beginning of May. The border beiij 



brated as a Grape g: 



syringing Vines after they have brol 



nt lave the best of 



"■ ■ latter may 



fc plieed iu the situa- 



I a presumed that 



Jx 



fUepo^^the 

 •w, ud giving no 



jtifully. The 



in fact, all which are required 



! taller By this kind of sorting, 



economised, and a '— ' ' 



d kept healthy. Ii 



t U is indispensable that the roof should 



J,occas^edby'^etint:oalv^lo 



-Mt^rr r gained - lt is surprising 

 oi fre sh air among a large class of 



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"thenSfle?* 8 ' tha " Was ™™V^ 

 sensom • 0n vour cov. rin • u-i'l 



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>n kept, and which had 



[This Melloco, of which we add a cut, is apparently I Grapes were ripe ; the berries were n 

 the Basella tuberosa, a plant described by Humt | scarcely a bunch 



It is, however, no Basella, from whu ed ; and, generally speaking, only 



guished by its spreading membranous (not closed fles 

 ted sepals, and simple stigma. It i 

 be called the Melloca tuberosa, the character of 



Melloca. — Calyx spreading, membranous, with 

 equal, long, taper-pointed ftegmei 



. > x. and opposite its lob 

 V ] e one . " j order to retain his prejud.ee, a c.rcumst 



three-lobed; ovule camptotropal. (Fruit and seed 



'naliy'itiatt 



Home Correspondence. 



Culture of the Vine.— Much has been written on the 



eatment of the Vine, and yet we may read every day 



king, rust, red spider, and similar 



iese evils,' which occur repeatedly. That a good border 

 an essential requisite in the production of good 

 rapes, 1 thi ik everybody will admit, but at the same 



^AoU ;= Thfi longest erowth in the first year was i 





t planting a. \i 



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