THE GARDENERS' CHRONI 



CLE. 



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S^home up profusely every season, and required 



■ of packing them was so bad, and iuey 

 - ""* they arrived in a deplorable 



**wixic vwiespuaaence. 



i he danger of meddling with Cucumber-like Plants - 

 The accompanying woodcut represents the fruit of 

 specks of Cucumis from the East Indies, of which 

 had seeds sent me last spring. My object in noticing i 

 is for the purpose of pointing out the im,mmr; h , 



tr « ,-day during dry weather. As with the last, re- momentary contact with the tongue would have pro- 



i time Jt may also be divided. duced the unpleasant c<w 



an hour they were each attacked 

 pt it should be got up with good roots, and potted 



udj loam, placing Btones ees the prostration of the nervous system was so 



mthatitunotover watered. I lately saw a fine symptoms in each being precisely *iSrMo° those 



coif oiece of it in a pot, : , need hv nmnns qiiffnri'ii<r f™m +V.1 a^a(..i 



m piece of it m a pot, growing finely in the g£ 

 •a cultivation. It is the true Samphire of I 



say thev ' — B. [It should b 



but di- recollected that Cucurbits, among whic 



peat, and renew t 



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stonu, and kept a 



CULTURE OF THE CARNATION IN FRANCE. 

 Jponihe Enemies of Carnations.— In addition to th< 



ti;e aphis or gree 

 ; 3d, the green ca1 



KfU *he blac 



arwigs. The earwig 



«ipui8 may be kept away by putting the leet of the 

 W o«o pans always kept full of water ; they may also 

 J* away by means of sheep or pigs' hoofs put on 

 SK t/ ake i at D * ht *" e ea ™V wi » ^tire to 

 ^ESftSt™ b mornin S }' ou . take oft' each hoof 



fcbeut f 16 . win 8 ed a P his is not common ; it attacks 

 *< Sower- th fio . werlud J ust bursting, and destroys 

 '^Ukes'ni • ^u 110 , remed y f <> r this misfortune, 

 ce m the dark and is imperceptible. 



grub is always 



3?t. Bp ' li - 



flung the grub. 



happily, is the easiest to get rid 

 here It i ° U should carefully i_ _ 

 leans to keep stalk 



xperienced by persons suffering from the dreadful 

 fleets of vegetable poison. For many hours they con- 

 inued in this distressing condition, but I am happy to 

 ay they have all recovered again.— B. [It should be 



.-o -~ F"»s'uie means to keep stalk under the back ot a aniie, wiura »uu»« --- 



feumi - h °rticultur in the hands of a friend, but he 



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had been bleached by some artificial process.-^. A. u. } 



heatiug. These defects a 



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means of carrying out those l I 



come notorious by the agitati- 



■■'.side to Mr. 

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fnd w 6e ' With * U it8 advantageSj must be e iven up! 



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1 < U'' <>d. beeaust ., tin utse! ihcr< 



me to have arisen in tin- Mippo>iii n ll.- .: *\ ..nlv 



necessary to adopt currents of alf U : 



J Roman Emperor, but is not an I 



perience is, the more readily will he ncknuv.]. <lp- the 



wind and weather, tad 



bricks and hot plates will not be the must lik< lv 

 to effect it. In regard to the particulars which 

 you require of temperature produced, &c, and the 

 name of the party supplying the plate, I do not see 

 how any good is to be hoped from such details ; 

 neither do I see that it is right to attach blame 

 to the tradesman for the splitting of his plate. 

 It must always be expected that a plate of iron 



cast a long time before using and allowing it to season, 

 ike a piece of mahogany. Also, wherever you have 



the destruction of the latter. I have myself seen 



bourhood ? It will be necessary, before the advantage 



heating apparatus ; j 

 plate of small dim. 



splitting), a larger radiating surface raised to a moderate 

 temperature only. Your atmosphere will then be more 

 wholesome, the air will never scorch, the fire will be 

 economised because not expended in the chimn> y, and 

 «ere adopted, there would be no tea* of 



complete in itself and expands and contracts altogether ; 



flue. It was once asked in a 



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entirely agree with Mr. Hazard in disregarding the hot 

 poses ; and if it does it will only off 



i^lftirhVpSto^MrapW « it ought to be, there 



time VAn°th^^ 



pamphlet ou the *™ ; that root Y purchM ed the 



a good deal oi iniereai »u «.«>- *v « , f . 



or what is worse, I fear (from the great prevalence there 



i Potato may be 



treated as « nas Deeu ior «/ — y *—- 

 up in heaps, and left to sprout and feed o 



