THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



■THE AMATEUR GARDENER. 



for months to come. This is bad taste and bad policy 



1,-: th MB now be pulled up and mixed with stable 

 manure, that the mass mav ferment and roots and seeds 

 be destroyed. Tc 



protect the Grapes : 



I feet, and at first planting other t 

 and be taken out, as I have doi 



r as it ought, I think, 



Burgundy Grape, known by the name of " The A 



who brush' by' it. It is^he oldest and probably, all 

 things considered, the best out-door Grape grown in 

 England. I have a few (true) White Muscadines aac' 

 the common black Morella which do very well. 



There is a great fuss made about plants. I hav< 

 given high prices but have lately raised mine as easilj 

 as Willow sets, and in the same way ; and any one wh< 

 wishes to try the experiment on a cheap scale, and does 

 not mind waiting, may mark out his ground and plam 

 his sets at once, cropping the ground with other thing; 

 5 feet long, and then put dowi 



[Nov. 13, 



accompanying drawing walTm!^ *** 

 possession of Mr. Glen^ningTol^ 



CULTIVATION OF IXIAS, SPARAXIS k 



Ki8.Tritonia.&c..ni-pno-1i a n t t)„ , _.. ' 



well grown collection are surprised that^heTuTL* 

 more extensively cultivated-thriving, as they do? 

 «-r ; nan i ivures of soil, adapted for the flower ^rf, 

 borders, when dry, and merely protected throng 

 to be preserved from severe frosts unti'l sprin^'whS 



I hiek, and that in fact 



equal in beauty to 

 by Prof: 



28 two varieties, the present and 

 a has figured, with flowers more pink. 

 - -* the corolla. He states f 

 from St. Catharine's, 



as ^w^^^^r^^SS 

 begins. Air should be admitted *P arm ^ "" ded 

 leaves appear, after which it must he uniform^" ^ 

 to by being gradually admitted early ana 

 mild weather, and vice versa. frame, orp' (> 



On the approach of severe went. : 

 _ust be protected by banking up the o ^ 

 highly decomposed manure^firmly snd j^ J/gpgJ 

 level, gradually inclining upwards to within <* f oDe or 

 of the top; the remaining protection cons* ,; ht8in 

 two bast mats (dry if possible) placed over ^ addioo o 

 partial frosts, and when much more seve ^^ ^ froB ^ 



out 9 or 1 2 inches deep, 



the kindly influence of sunlight^ and m^^ ^^ 



