50-184/-.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONIPT.E 



J^msT erected, attached to the end ol my resit 

 5J3ik^ a garden. The greenhouse is 22 feet 



if e^inside'measure ; it is glazed' with the best 



?.« »nd built very substantially. I had thin board 



Swn made for the front, and end lights to fit on 



prerencives against fros 

 deciding "P^J^ 



'. had a pit dug 7 feet deep 



bole in the top for the pipe to carry off the smoke, 



pit door exposed. I then had a hot-air flue built the 

 whole leDgth of the house, connected with the top of 



Bide of the arch filled in solid with stone, which, after 

 the fire has been kept brisk for some time, gets so hot 

 that the fire may go out for 12 hours without mate- 

 rially alteriDg the temperature of the house ; and if at 

 uy time it should get too hot it may be regulated in a 



house, and the smoke is carried off by au iron pipe 

 which passes into the house- chimney. From the com- 



draw down the canvas cover, or put in the front 

 shutters during the whole winter, although the ' 



< me Frunmg.—l quite agree with " T. D." that tl 

 single rod and close spur system of pruning is the best 

 ior producing good fruit ; but that this system will pre- 

 vent shanking I very much doubt. Last spring 1 got 

 ge management of some Vines which had apparently 

 wen greatly neglected, so much so that I determined 

 on ratung part of them down ; for in former years the 

 frui had been deficient in all essential points/and par- 



the evil. On examinati( 

 ated deep into a n 

 i 4 feet wide from the front wal 



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a KaVv 11 , P " vent % bli 8 h l "P<>n wall trees. Early 

 * soft ioa P roc «red 8 lbs. of black sulphur, 7 lbs. 





' Vueen's p nrL . ,V , ' " ci<r aouinampion. 



de| « r »>uiatS?* ' mUSt not be "'PPled. With this 

 eoa "ant)y on »j! n f 0Ur min ds, and with an eye kept 

 ** «nall f 0r 80 "° ds w «ich, though apparently large, 



W "*at tiie n.-i - ere Was no scope for art - 

 **HMtl Xt } mi * ht ^t have been mad. 

 « *£*> "* that U could »ot have been accom- 

 J^andincu,^ 08 * materi ally crippling the play- 



en park or 

 »uud, as we] 



7LSy*.rwd Wi " 



Transplanting. — Having been much engaged in 

 transplanting large trees during the last two months, I 



ing branches of each tree to the south-west, or to wind- 

 ward, with a view to having good shaped trees in the 



exactly in the opposite position to which they were 

 previous to removal ; I need not state that I have placed 



right, for reasons which need not be stated at present. 

 My practice is, however, opposed by persons who ad- 



J not so, and found the result t( 



arfiug. The heights are exposed to very une. 

 ts were as follows :- on the one side to the fla 





■ 

 yurtery. 



: :. i, 1 perceive that Mr. K« 

 Raby Castle, animadverts, strongly on the pri 



mended in the Calendar a week or tw„ 



-In the prevent the escape of smoke, & 



c | •-' ol 1 »~ --ntt Castle Gardens, the pla 



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i shovellings, which generally i 



ich receives the contents of sundry spouts 

 in c, M.,-h is , „t infrequently mere mud. 

 , principles involved in this proceeding. 



hot air by a properly regula 



