THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



years, for flavouring pies, puddings, hashes, &c ; 

 they had better be fresh made every year.— D. S. 



Lemon Juice.— This may be preserved in small 

 ties, keeping them always full and air-tight— .D. i 



Polmaise Heatiny .—The battle of Polmaise wiL 

 winter be fought upon a wider field. Mr. Fortune 

 fairly opened the campaign, and by the coming tr 

 will stand or fall. Mr. Fortune says, " I acknowl 

 that theoretically the Polmaise system has an at 

 tage over all others as regards the circulation o 

 atmosphere. I have seen the glorious vegetatio 

 the forests of the Indian Archipelago,* where Ni 

 bows, and plants, and rears without the aid of n 

 and although no artificial atmosphere can rival th 



that in hou.es where" the Polmaise system is ui 

 This,Sthr- : ~ il ~ ~~ J ' — - fc - »-- -—" 



esteem, and, like all other quacks, they 1 



journeyed from 

 gaining all the inf 



a public body will 

 Ke°ndall, Florist, Queen EUzabet 



against the glass. A repetition 



pranks at almost all the windows 



timeVm^d^'l • 



wings, or alights for an instan 

 and taps so as to be heard in the 

 when the garden-door is wide op 



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the garden. Fifty 

 bill, flutters on its 



j doorway. Where 



bow. " Do you peri 

 yer honour." with a: 

 been to Mr. Meek, an 



ditely enquired if I cc 

 uld erect o,e for hie 

 ' says Pat with a moi 

 ctly understand it V'- 

 >ther profound bow 

 the gintleman here 1 



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plate split, and my crop destroyed," or '• Mjpp 



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 vapours out, some sharp frosty night I" how th< 

 Polmaise ! These are grave iju 

 sible in the chapter of accidents. Even the las 

 published by Mr. Meek is an insecure one ; it mi 



ividual to perfect it. It is only the man who 

 s profession who is at all likely to succeed in 

 to perfection. Mr. Foru ; uo.s„\ s _>- .\h own 

 leads me to the conclusion that the air from 



the same circumstances (that is to say, 



dinted from hot-water pipes. I have 

 maise stove at work in the Chelsea 

 st mouth, and instead of finding too 



with water in the hot 

 to leave that part perfectly dry. The 



had a small P( 



of moistening the air, I always found it rather too damp. 

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 iiddle of the house. He then 



incline me to favour the new 

 convinced of there being any- 

 safe and substantial plan 



come to me, and I will show him one. I have 

 now at work an apparatus, cheap in its first cost, simple 



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escape whatever. What more can be desired ! The 



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of beingable to 



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■i Leaves Cherry, Pear, Poplai 



i leaves should be gathered in Jun 



il membranes begin to separate, th 

 i the operation. The leaf must be put in a fla 

 e plate, with clear water. Squeeze the leaf gentlj 

 the finger, and it will open on one side, the greer 



be stripped^ff, first i/the middle and"along the sides 

 th y closely adhere, and if an opening is made 

 ill easily come off; then wash the skeleton in 

 ,-ater, and put it to dry between the leaves of a 



book. Pear and Holly have a double set of fibres thai 



is more perfect than the other.— Anon. 



Large Vine.— There is a monster Vine growing in 

 the lower town of Bridgenorth, Shropshire, which has 

 been only planted about 16 years, and it is 20 yards 

 wide and about 12 yards high, and has now between 

 2 and 3 cwt. of unripe Grapes upon it.— C. A. A. Lloyd. 



^Eschynanthus miniatus, a specie7nfth?7a7!rr 

 djstinct from, and better coloured than radicL £. M 

 oppositiflora, a pretty scarlet-flowered 8De^l^ 

 dwarf will be very useful ; and a Fuchsiiir, ,\ i 



corymbiflora named dependent A Banksian W 

 was awarded— Mr. Catleugh, of ChelseaW^ ^ 

 plant of Mr. Fortune's Torenia concotor 4 f f ^ 

 and 3 feet through, exceedingly well ' ^ "*' ^ 

 hardly sufficiently" advanced mVot ^J? 

 ficate of Merit was awarded it. - Or Faut, foS, 

 bunches of Black Hamburgh, and perfectly ripS 

 Muscat of Alexandria Grapes, came from the v2J 

 °n whu^h ie acco°u f nt BiShOP ' 8 - Stortford '°*S 



desired; and they were stated to be fair aLSlrf 

 very heavy crop equally distributed over the »lJ! 

 house. A Knightian Medal was awarded them -Bu2E 



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ripened on the open wall, were shown by J. B D»X/ 

 Esq., of Worthing; and from 11. Warner, EsqJ^J 



f Worthing ; and fro: 



may be plucked 



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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 

 — J. R. Gowen, Esq., Secretary,! 



eautiful purple-blossor 

 flipped v 



large- flowered variety i 

 id Bark. 

 Odontoglossum grande, Cattle} 



contained other scarce 



Hanbury, Esq., 

 urn Skinneri, and 



a labiata. A Knightian I 



J. H. Schroder, Esq., for Lselia Perrinii, Lycast 

 ■"-"— ri, an Oncidium Barkeri, Epidendrum Skin 

 md a very large- flowered Phalsenopsis ama 

 Cr»ggs, gr. to Sir T. Acland 

 on, was a fine Lajlia Perrinii 



award was also made to Mr. Lou. oi ( lapt n 



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 on trees, on the hanks of the Sarawak river 

 the imported plant, and flowering from th< 



will, we imagine, prove i 



genus. Its little spikes 



'een 3 and 4 inches 



i exposed to the sui 





t express my pleasure in | pot to .its top ; also cut s 



Jm, but several, which must render the plant, en masse, 

 ry ornamental.-A Banksian Medal was awarded to 

 r. Donald, gr. to Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing Park, for 

 ane Cattleya labiata, Angisecum bilobum, and a good 

 , with seven expanded blooms on 



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it a Miiali i >ncid.um, which appeared to be variegatum, 

 Cuba species, and pretty; but the specimen in 



i plant may ultimately become.- From Mr. Pass, 

 to T. Brocklehurst, Esq,, were cut flowers of 

 cuoches Loddigesii, Oncidium ramosum, and some 

 tasetum, apparently Ru-x-ihaiium.— \J« *r-. V. itch 



i great panicle loaded with white flowers from the 



Gra e g s e Tt r ls y nof Scessar ^hlt^^c^^ 

 be exposed to the direct rays of the sun.-Finallv. 

 Black Hamburgh Grapes, fair bunches but ill coloured 

 produced on the open wall in D vonshire, • r 

 hibited by Mr. Craggs, gr. to Sir T. Acland, Bin, 

 M.P. The Vine on which they were grown was stated 

 to cover a piece of wall 38 feet long and 8 high, and to 

 have now on it upwards of 400 bin 

 Pine-apples, Mr. Mason, gr. to Sir J. Kennaway, Bart 



n "> weighing reap*- 



.4 oz., 4 11*. lQi, 

 2oz. These woe 



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all handsomely formed fruit.— Lateral branches bearing 

 fruit of the " Large Monthly-fruited Raspberry/' of 

 which some account appeared at pp. 686 and 701, were 

 shown by Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth ; and two spe- 

 cimens of a large fine-looking seedling Apple were pro- 

 duced by Mrs. Wharton, oi Ahud-tooe.— tp . - 

 four kinds of Potatoes, the produc 

 again exhibited by E. Lawlord, Esq., of Eden Part, 

 Beckenham. They had been raw 

 seeds sent from Mussoori (on the Himalayan moun- 

 tains), Baden, and Warwickshire, and sown iu January, 

 February, and March oi the present year, in pans filled 



and placed in a Vinery. It was stated that in this situ- 

 ation the seeds soon vegetated, and when the plants had 



were placed in turf pits covered with felt, air 





plants had become sufficiemJy 

 turned out of the pots and planted 

 in a field, which had been preri- 



:ar k. 



This was i 



"" '"ofa 1 single seed 

 v-able from this 

 equally good as 



year by this mode of treatment; and it does do 

 ■ ■ sown sowryearljfW 



. __ to* 1 !!? May, were *** 

 by Mr. Wrench, of London- bridge. These latter ■con- 

 sisted of three sorts, two from Baden and one from the 

 "" aalayan mountains. They were stated tott^ 

 a sown in May in boxes, and raised in a little grea- 

 se erected above Mr. Wrench's ^^"fj^ 

 , where they vegetated ; and when tney na ^ ^ 



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 , a fair sample of Potatoes raised from see 



^..J.pden^enTa ^collection of large and vjg-jj 

 shaped Squashes and Gourds.—From the ** 

 the Society were various Orchids and ome ^^. 

 among which the more remarkable were ^^ &Qll gd 



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 8PeCieS tr:aleTb^-n^we3c : 



f blue-flowered herbaceous P'f^f FlaX -le»^ 



3isted of the following Pears : Foi 



