THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[Nov. 27, 



perience ol such 









would oblige— A Constant Header, \ 









. 











a as gardening 



is concerned, I 





give a practice 



knowing respe 



: 



pruning of Hyk 



and other strong-growing s 









if Roses of this class are 



pruned, at all severely, the 



immediate result will be a 







no bloom. The directions 







effect. " In pruning they 







t, and the sin 



1 





ne extremely diffuse and 

 e thinned the worse will 



is past (the second week 



the insertion of the bud. Fn 



push in great M be plenty of 



time (provided the operation be not delayed beyond the 

 period spec ified to become well 



. In February 

 or March ensuing such of these shoots as may be ill- 

 i any way super! 



left nearly their 

 ibundance of bloom 



. it repeatedly, and 



invariably \ 



have a succession of Grapes ; the others I inten 

 force early, but did not, as I considered them too _ 



ring. On the 28th of last February I intro- 

 duced those that had been exposed, and I 



posed. I kept the temperature low at first, so as 1 



allow them to break regularly ; all through the seasc 



they were treated alike, and mark the 



each of those not exposed I cut 38 lbs. of Grapes, win 



those that were frosted did not produce 2 lbs. eacl 



Now, it will be seen that if I had exposed all my Vines 



I should have had a regular 



Artramont Gardens, Wexford, Ireland. [Exposing 



1 suggest that these be con- 



They throw out heat b 



Stourbridge clay enters into the composition of 

 wares, and might be obtained to work nearer 

 should there be fire-brick clay to mix with it. T< 

 pipe makers use it, as well as the workers in 



MR speak to the durability of slabs, 4 feet 

 long and 2 wide, made at Stourbridge ; and a great ad- 

 vantage attending them is that they retain their heat, 

 as well as throw it out. All large circular pt 

 liable to swerve in baking ; but these may and 

 be made thick enough to avoid that : longer time i 

 he subeti 



:e imperfect, as fire- 

 or build with ; and 

 inker's chisel might. 



folly answer the purpose requi 

 these you can form any sized slab, flue, or fi 

 with the ordinary f 

 tricks will become 



Ality.— Spencer T. Garrett, Stoke-on-Trent, Nov. 23. 

 Polmaise Iron Plates.— Many complain of the cast- 

 ron plate over the stove cracking j this can only arise 

 i-om its being very much over-heated, by forcing a 



ligh red heat ; and this surely will scorch the air passing 



vork by the expansion of the plate, I wou 



fifferent form for the stove. 



m iron stove or " cockle," and this surrounded at a few 



nches distance by a casing, so that the air to be heated 



night pass on all sides, there would be little fear of 



:racking, and a much larger surface would be available 



'or the air to come in contact a 



1 be better ^supply 



g consiin^ 



would be precisely the same. I cannot 



would be much (if any) danger of back di a 



, page 115, 1846, supplies the 



,r of the house, and nothing i 



of danger from back draught ; but as the 



-- 

 must be* furnished through the laps of the glass, there 



It has been 

 suggested to cover the stove with 



of. [Do you happen t„ „,.„, 



the Grapes. Now, with me, this las a derid«2n£ 

 lystem), my Frontignans showed magnificent d°um2J 

 •ipe, the larger half of all the best of themwasTonTbr 

 shanking. 1 have now spurred them, and pruned cIm! 

 ;o the old wood for the last three years, and the efe« 

 s, as my friend said it would be, that I am almost fw. 

 if all shanking. True, my Vines do not show enta 



en in every other respect managed as they wen 

 t was adopted ; and if deep, damp, 



again suggest that it v 

 with the foul air of i 



ductor of heat that a very large proportion would pa 

 up the chimney without useful effect. I have had 

 brick dome only 9 inches thick, under which six lar 

 fires have been kept up for many days, creating a he 

 in which iron would melt readiiy, and yet the outside 

 the dome would not burn the hand. — Lusor. 



To Preserve Medlars.— Scald the fairest of the 

 when indifferently ripe till the skin may be 

 off, then stone them at the head, and add to each pound 



till it become ropy ; then take them from 

 put them up in a close pot for your use. I discover, 

 the above receipt in a very ancient book on domest 

 cookery, &c— G. J. C, Kingston, Surrey, Nov. 1 



In addition to what was published last week . 



Medlar jelly, a correspondent adds that a few drops 



c the colour. 



- .s e»fli»v— The following flowers are 

 now in bloom in my own and my neighbours' gardens, 

 and they do not yet show any sign of having ' 



Peach Trees.- 

 with great pleasv 



is, that I get any Grapes free of 



ery gardener knows the difficulties 

 oua aid seasons. 11 It "athewtel 



Haflfone of those quiet, genuine old English residences, 



filled with fallow deer, and peopled with a profusion of 

 venerable Elms. The principal approach to the house 



of thei? of gigantic stature ; they are of the variety 

 called TJlmus glabra, i. e. the smooth-leaved English 

 Elm. Mrs. Cranmer, a descendant of Archbishop 

 Cranmer, resides in the mansion, and has in her employ 



fs 8 what "is 'called a regular gardener. In his youth he 

 was employed in the garden of Sir Robert Harland, 

 Orwell Park, near Ipswich, as under-gardener for 



■-, and is a c 



■;.■■■) y. 





y one arch or si 



clay cement could be used 



what that would not rectify, 



My Seakale pots are something like large < 



beehives, with the tops cut off for fids. These are 



made of a fine kind of flower-pot clay, . i 



and it has often struck me that such a material would, 



where appearance was not an object, suit better than iron 



ferred, it can be used, and pipes of the same to carry 



the sulphur into the chimney. The ironing-stove will 



it. Such a rush of cold air as "Buffer" 



must have through his fire would consume anything. 



rovides against this consumption after the 



joken of would 



slab of fire-brick, or of Stourbridge day, 



• aud air, answer well ; or to 

 present a la he beehive, in- 



stead of the -,,t be possible 



of Green Peas for to -morruv. 



The Undercliffe, Sandgate, Nov. 20. [We have had 



13° of frost near London.] 



Walnuts.—- Having failed to preserve my Walnuts 

 this year by packing them in dry sand, in which they 

 soon vegetated, I have succeeded in saving some in a 

 perfect state by submitting them to the fumes of burnt 

 sulphur by means of a strip of cotton dipped in melted 

 sulphur in a closely covered chest. The effects of the 

 sulphur destroyed a 

 proved the appearance of the i 



>vious. The 



(tailed in " Paxton's Magazine " for May last, 



79, combines, in my opinion, economy and efficacy. 



adopted this mode in preference to any other in 

 cently altering the mode of heating a Vinery and 



draft by a 





»ved appearance of 

 , Dublin. 



, waterproof clay. The latter term must be 

 able, for close to the garden is a pond wnien 



Now I have known these walls for 25 years, and per- 

 fectly remember a joke then current that they vere 

 capital nurserymen's walls, for scarcely any tree ln*0 

 more than five years, and during that time tney w«» 

 ially blighted ; so that, nearly every seas on,w 

 3 required to replace those that were dead i or ^Jing- 

 small quantity of fruit produced was also verym- 

 >r. The present gardener, after some > few ) i 

 ight this an annoyance, and e^eavoured to tu- 

 ns to make his trees do him credit. He nas u - 



on these walls are the most perfect in HM"?' - 



tilitythat it is possible to see ; blight a ntt w»Ji ^ 



and aphis, are all put to flight, and the tr « e * € 

 invariably fiae crop, being prote< 



Mr. Sillett, the ga 

 with his system. I 



• ii.gut, »"- — matter of 

 .' L"e acquainted 



krUeTtfS tree" It alone" ^jgjS 

 many good gardeners never take crops from . fiee . 

 tree borders, which leads to a large annual d 



however, I must now to the point. Mr. ^"^e* 



to the public the result of his laboU geS that tb» 



one that pleases to look at them, m &ai n ^t 



permission of his employer, tnis ^ e teJ & 



summer, during which he will ^ k e knojn 

 "n'g up hfs secre * J^jCwfW ** J 



• ; ' ■' !- : - : : ' : . ■ ... . .' ■■> , ■". ,-.', , 



made like a shallow tank or pan an inch deep or water cistern open in the 

 more and filled occasionally with water? it woul.J, i i- •_•.- :,:. of which the general 



cient heat for the purpose <A \» | Bishop's Stortford, Herts.- 



houze.-Cerniu-aidd. [Scorching arises from neglect , cussion on a system of pruning Vines, which he called I worth, Herts, Nov. 25. ^ .. 



ot the tank or its equivalent.] „ hav > s . Now I neitner know nor care rauch Policy of destroying 'Wtf^^ re »d *!*»*- 



Polmaise Heating, use of Fire-brick in.— The patent l whose system it is, but of this I am certain, that it was I commonly called Vertnin^-l occawo 



