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—ÀÀ Lobelias, 27 
“August.— —92 Lobelias, 27 Browallias, 36 Geraniums, , Larch, or any other timber tree, from өр a process ! | (the former having the preference), and о 
8 Coekscombs. 9 Impatiens, 7 Achimenes, 6 Erieas, 5 | I conceive our own mismanagement is the real reason hot stable-dung, well mixed and t a a few times 
Liliums, 3 Euthales, 3 Mesem ryanthemums, 46 of our failures; hence my que estion, which both hens before making into & bed, which should be 5 feet in 
Fuchsias, 20 Calceolarias, 20 Balsams, 17 Petunias, 6 | Strickland and — Patterson have been so kin height, so as to allow for settling. Care must 
: Amaranthuses, antanas, 3 Nierember- answer. То w sound уч of 40 ме — and taken to form the bed six inches or more larger 
gias, 3 Cupheas, 1 Vinea rosea, 1 Statice, 1 Hibiscus, upwards, I — let it have as good a situation, as|the frame or riy The above materials will bo Samet ee to 
| Cytisus, 1 Alonsoa, and 1 Campanula. to soil, as you can give it ; plant it thinly, mixed | produce a nice steady heat and to retain it e 
ene ve 26 Amaranthuses, 14 Gera- with non-resinous trees, and let it always have|siderable eng of time. E. Ev nett, Perdisw 
niums, 7 Ericas. mpatie 5 Liliums, 3 Campanulas,| plenty of room. Is — any — tree that Emigration o rdeners (see pp. 53 and — Your 
3 Vinca rosea, 1 E € 110 Lobelia 20 Caleeolarias,| pays the poter bett or is more useful to the|correspondent “J. M." refers John Jinkins ” to the 
12 Alonsoas, 6 6 Lan 4 Mimuluses, | community? Larch is highly vila ed at diverpodi where | Gardeners’ Chronicle of 1851, for information relative to 
2 Pentas carnea, 2 тг I's Sl heterophylla, | itis used for ships’ boats in preference to any other | the South Australian colonies. “J. M." must remember 
26 Petunias, 19 Balsams, 9 Echeverias, 13 Verbenas,| wood. The American Larch (hakmatak) is used for that mighty revolutions have taken place in that part of 
eas, 3 Nier embergias, 2 Nemophilas, 2 Cinerarias, | knees, the butt end being cut up with the principal roots | the world since then. Certainly we cannot be satished 
and 1 Statice for this purpose ; but it is not generally of sufficient | that what applied to 1851 is to La - criterion of our 
61 Geraniums, 24 Lobelias, 17 Petunias, | scantling for ship building. There is no doubt good actions in 1853. Наз not a of w been 
10 nani ‘splendens, 7 Alonsoas, 4 Achimenes, 12 Ama- | Larch is highly valuable for ship planking, but where is | o ned up in one direction, which calls агау їог 
, 2 Siphocampyluses, 1 Vinea rosea, 54 Сіпе- | it to he obtained of large size? It should average а industry in another! Аге no e productions both 
i 2 u s. Hazel, Ma d a mass who 
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ulas, 4 Lantan merly advanced in your owing riche: 
1 Statice, 46 Fuchsias, 15 erbenas, 10 Schizan- that the cause of the heart-rot in Larch is too dry a I much approve of the advice given at p. 53, and I 
e 1 ink it would be wise if isi iends 
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2 The bere тти й ms ‘were. «chiefly common sorts,| when planted over a subsoil of ehalk or porous sand- | instances be short of coals, yet—observing the grea 
the rest were scarlet and pink varieties. The number | stone it becomes diseased and heart-rotten, not from any | p i i i 
of fl oi imply from 
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To have pretty flowers out of their season—such as | want of a sufficient supply of moisture. Has any 2 what little canvas they can muster to the first — 
jums in winter—is very ri лт If plants can | everseen aheart-rotten Larch grown in amoderately moist | breeze, very few of them — fail in reaching those 
be made кг bloom after the warm weather and bees soil! P. P. P. [ Ves, plenty; in the county of Flint, — inviting shores, An extract or боа а letter which 
have gone, they last a long time. "My friend, Mr. Usher, | very fine trees too.] —— Larches are not exempte I received only a few days ago, 
gardener, xc Constable, Y — „has for years | from the general natural laws to which every other — was bred a farmer, and p^ fo llowed his profession in 
irably in —— eraniums in w ове. is subject ; certain soils and situations are requisite for | South Australia for nearly 16 years, may not be un- 
The Burton “Constab ble guests are — at the their full development, yet they excel most other trees | interesting. He writes, * Should you come to the colony 
y of flower seen there in winter. in their adaptation to mM worn and sometimes|you will find your knowledge of horticulture of great 
via splendens, Campanula pyrami idalis, Schizan- | succeed well in very opposite soils and situations. The value, -I wis the same amount of 2 in 
сой Heliotrope are eligible for flowering at this Larch peer ү ргеїег alluvial earths, or ee rich, | that science. The Vine is being cultivated to 
season. ough not very pretty to look at, Mign lands; yet it grows well in almost ev T" extent, and it is 4 opinion that = will — a great 
is з general favourite, on account of its fragrance. de eseription of poor soil, and may rer wine-produeing country. Apples Pears, and all the hard- 
Early in spring three or four dozen of small pots are penes on a shallow moor, or even on the — wooded fruits do exceedingly well, The fast growth of 
filled with soil, and a few seeds of it dropped into each ; | naked ro In some districts, however, comparatively | the Apple tree here would surp rise you. I 
they are then placed in a frame. When the plants are | young Send of it, and even whole plantations, aequire | have recently planted two acres. 1 am growing 
up the strongest in each pot is left. They are potted as|a premature old age, or canker and perish ; and on vum emis: which find а ready 
require it, and stopped at every second joint |undrained, retentive clays, adhesive loam, and springy sale at 18. per quart. The averaze price of Apples 
during the summer. Of course they are placed out of | gravel in particular, Larches of not more than 18 or is din 10d. to ls. per lb. I have a dairy of P. 
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ea of decay, and cows is ls. 4d. per q 
large plants, whieh flower "profuse Mr. | аге found by the axe-man to have become unsound or he further adds, “I shall stick to my business, and I 
Usher, to — + have alluded, —— үа — rotten in the heart. Degeneracy in seed, deep planting, have no doubt I shall do as well as the average of 
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November. —95 “Cine 10 Fuchsias, 8 Schizan- the Larch blight-bug, cold winds, bad management, and | gold-diggers on the average I need not refer to ; and, 
thus, 6 Eupatoriums, 9 — Siphocampylus, 3 Les- several other causes, have all by turns been assigned should any of our friends in need of situa ‘ 
chenaultias, 1 Coronilla, 58 Geraniums, 9 Calceolarias,|for the disease in the Larch, and most, or all of weigh the prospects in ustralia, with those 
7 pes, 6 Cupheas, n them pro to i i i i 
1 Veronica, `1 G52 5 18 Ageratums, 9 Verbenas, trous results; their action, edt r, is very obseu : Middlesex. —— 
7 Primulas, 6 Lobe — 4 Chrysanthemums, 3 Agatheas, | and they have often formed the subjeets of dispute appears to have pes the most important f 
2 Ericas, and 1 Stati among the most eminent . — “ One fact seems in Australia, namely, the discovery of the great gold 
Shrubby Calesolarins are now grown here in greater | to be universally admitted, мину, that the disease | fields since 1851. If he will refer to the file of the 
abundance for winter flowering than is indicated in the | commences at the roots, and proceeds upwards until| London Times or Daily News for the last six weeks 
above list. By careful hybridising for many years, we | the tree becomes 9 destroyed, or rendered | will find by private letters and authentic correspondence 
have a great variety of colour ig form in the flowers. | unfit for the 8 of purposes to which the timber that labour has at least advanced 200 Per cen 
There are some with scarlet or crimson pouches and | is applied. It may b e inferred that — Larch, like the last 12 months. Or what may : 
е caps, which I call my «Turban d "T and | most others of the bis ан tribe, has not the power, like | I would suggest that he consults the Argus, a 
which are much admired. All the shrubby sorts may | some hard woods, of reproducing — young roots or|paper printed on be spot, and whieh may be seen in 
be propagated either from seed ог from cuttings. Іа | young shoots, when receiv uo- —— any respectable room in thi vi 
i i nts, seed | ch ha vd july 4 these, that a higher rate is given iven for labour in 
should be sown ——— cuttings struek i in re sar е the roots, either from the effects of atone was ever known in the world’s history. emigrant 
April. They are planted out in some places in the r insects ere a m - funetions of the pee ih from Melbourne, Sept 20, 1852, gps PR 
kitchen 1 and stopped four or five times during avy zit: thereby retarding — flow of give 9807. for a horse, 50l. for horse. 
6 they are D to form | proper sap to the roots and ы l e tree, or They go to the diggings =x shad — OH make 
— oe unn = ware e end of the any other cause whatever, must at first weaken | 10002. more or less, then they return to Melbourne. 
same month. They flower splendidly during the three | the whole plant, and render it тоф able to exist They рау 141. for the use of a ‘bus’ for three hours, 
following months. Уе е yellow shrubby varieties are|under repeated stacks arising from the same or 2. an hour for the loan of a horse, I. a day for a 
pretty in winter bouque! other causes. Your correspondent thinks the subsoil | labourer, and 30s. for shoeing a horse. *D. J? has 
December.—100 Chinese mp 16 * 9 | might be in fault, while at the same time he admits engaged at 7l: per week. Should we not succeed at ће 
M alvias, 3 Fuehs ew Erieas, 58 Chry-|they were subjected to a system rf ‘bad manage- | diggings, this place is good enough for us. People goto 
santhemums, 9 Caleeolarias, 8 8 Sch — ; Helio- | ment. Might mot the latter be the sole cause and fro to the diggings very much as we ve ove 
opes, 4 Siphoearaplus 1 Coronilla, 20 Geraniums, of failure? and from the crowded state of the | Cardiff to Llandaff fair. Buildings are 
26 Cinerarias, 10 Camellias, 6 Eupatoriums, 3 Cupheas, | plantation the atmospheric air was prevented from |want of workmen. I was offered 3/. 10s. a ed 
l Cytisus. The above monthly lists do not include the | circulating freely among the branches, thereby impeding | maintenance for looking after a horse. I could get 17. 
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ment of next month. A. Pettigrew, Cheetham | must inevitably follow ; it although the first percep- | diggings this day.” Fro the immense quantities of gold 
tible symptoms rom, or were observed in|almost daily e in —— €: the todas of free 
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common Willows | eating ing | nd to | | 
ee it ———— Morpeth Church with hot water, but the project was Loan Society. That all men going 
ay-sides. is mes the laid aside owing to the opposition of a parishioner, who | is what no reasonable person expect, any more 
Сања Black Sallow, or grest round nd.leavod Sallow, or commenced а suit in Chancery against the church- бла hat ani т ll be content even in the land of 
: are wardens, on the plea of its being injurious to the health | Goshen ; but maintain that gardeners, р 
of the assembling in the church. The а most fitting class for the Australian colonies ; not 
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Babylonica, as ous | apparatus, о lose i making с possessing within i 
s Salix Babylonios, as i Weeping Ash 2 for this, for it will in all — disposed of in the health to fall back upon, John Ji 
i е | course of 10 12 The churchwardens of Imported Orchids.—l send you per experience aas 
герп а Fagus | Morpeth have the disposing ep etit W. W. regards the importation of Orchids from Assam, which 
vatica. Thomas Lang, Kilmarnock. Sik — eo ania dece have a plant of R. az e advertised in your columns. A friend of mine in 
Rot in Larch.—The result as far as I know of all the | Dalhousi ust coming into bloom ; it has a fine bud, | Calcutta ordered a collection, which being sent in the 
гест edens of rot is this: | and the foliage is much larger than that in Dr. Hooker’s spring arrived in this country in excellent condition, 
t all descriptions of soil, wet or dry, oi hey to it drawing. Are you aware of any one else having а and the plants were large and all according to name. 
——.— 1 3 plant with flower - buds on it? Alpha. [No.] Eager to have another batch my friend ordered a further 
rr the poorest land is planted with Larch, an Hotbeds.— Mary” may rest assured that the best assortment, which arrived in two large cases. The first 
Ens, tla hike not tig overeroping ma materials for making up а hot-bed for raising young had arrived in the spring, and were sent 
any right to expect a maximum result of | plants on, are three parts good Oak or Chestnut leaves | plants were in a dormant state eani Br ien. The 
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