534 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Auveusr 20, 
te, &c. ; but, before putting in the compost, , France every Cabbage and Cauliflower CT 
ie ton of te po isand муо асїп ag easiest lw t ES dee wnl foot af brick pedes and also some | clubbed at the roots before it has grown to th uti 
on the e hole, leaving a gutter, or cavity, drain tiles, part of whieh sh: e for draining off | MADRE out, but ае е of met plants are rejected on that 
nd whic à becomes filled with mould, | the water and t for admitting ai it the roo we by | account, A hen drawn for I ing e garden 
inducing urge ot eulture—namely, sour openings communicating with the quta phere. — examines them one by be $ aria ith a sharp knife 
mould, The utility of the above method consists in the | you kindl hether you approve of aay ч t p meot, и ct whic 9 n club. This js ' 
i g drained where the plan же a it, an . e experienced ore expe ition * а. te Ку d while, though | 
Keping the mould above the level of the erocks, in the | grower will answer this.] я reta ү 299 9 Pay с age but a hal 
middle, renders every grain of it available f for the roots New Zealand Fluæ.—1 . oes i сөз this in the | goo uliflower about a 
to feed on, The quantity of dra a pot is no open border here for abov is a o it has | Cauliflowers, on first o in and rare, som 
i of its answering th dena fe. which it is put | sent up a flowering stalk — d feet "gh producing 52 for as much as 2d. or 21d., and in a plen 
there, unless it is P a er which the flowers, whose outsi еер orange, | fall as low as a farthing each. Surely it w 
shape of the? pot and health of its contents demand. | while the inner petals are sowie, — the stamens | well her employ women and childre 
shape of the a ially those manufactured deep orange; as many аз flowe ave been all the lr ME , 
in the provinces, and m parti i neigh- open at one ~ (August 8th), free, perfect, and ry” —The enclosed apeina of fungus | 
Ed of Bristol—is highly э аре, to че health ornamental. it the flowers, w are 1 inch in | taken off 155 5 week from some Elm planking, whieh 
of the plant: e have the om оп а dead length. Thi uate latitude 55° 55’, and is about | only been cut out a fortis t, and p ed one aly 
level ; while X are still — Sierras the | 160 feet — cce sea, which is distant four miles from another. ch plank ted over with the fu 
hole i in the centre g raised, so as t ve a gutter | us (east coast). Lo his * Hortus Britannieus,” | as if painted or papered white, and requ some fi 
d the sides. The result of this is, that the ne sets the plant down thus :—“,Grows 6 feet; flowers, g w., | force to detach it. e planks appear to hy | 
a victim to sour mould, са ause sta ; earth, | A so here. 1 have | suffered from the growth thereon, but some few at 
never applied water to it till the у, end indicated decay, whic e comm 
gn 
n the bottom of the pot; and, I might add, es 
duce the pro rietors of the flowering specimen e during the gro h of the tree 
at stem — Maé pe sites КЫ” ‘eon ot "their pots | has — 5 tiisturbed for many ave many | this іѕ а TUM Wee С ber rh ny othe 
have signally failed, in consequence of which, many of times thought that he New DO rae 8 - 00 15 - 2555 e timber T "any. 
our nurserymen are compelled to get their pots from | more generally grown in gardens thau I emplo thing zi T ing purp vise t was detected the 
eae omy P id a distance of 24 miles from |all its spare, tough leaves, for еы plants, ан { planks have 5 separate чер 7 
Bristol; the certainly the best pots that can Ke. with. J John Street, Beil, = к» 8. ins. [The a Сы re re like pieces g 
be n that distance of Bristol, still, in egging down Plants.—The t expeditio ous and|kid leather. We "T certainly mot 1 1 
of shape, they ſar from being what "the aae to | neatest plan is to take a thin ee ш of Cuba bast, .about | such a state for 7 ing pu 1 bed t had bees 
be’; while others, again, of our nurserymen and gar- | 8 inches long, pass it over the shoot to be pegged, and | steeped for f Saree voa in Kyan's fluid, ni wy, 
deners, from a mistake nee 2 economy the sir all taking the two ends together, press them into the soil | a solution of corrosive sublimat d 
ible temptation of - rin o the dozen staring the | with a small piece of stick, or a wi pointed at the e m 
in the an eir словен іп n pots something likea chisel ; this is an old plan, but it may r 
years ago—wi is 
ce prts the ntum to give ve two dozen jè has been recommend el; but g| Part XIII. of M*Zntos/s Book of i" 
гора there is a proportionate deficiency the su ch easier and m correct method, pied by a variety of matters “о to on 
quir. being for the most part little more de half. | based on the a i tn меи ‘of the ellipse, that Garden and Hard it Garden 
‚ and, consequently, cen broke: By this the sum of two lines drawn from put ; but largely c nsist, as 
t the cultivator is o gainer, but a positive cumference to each of from the horticultural publications of the d 
loser ; while it excites amon ке Pacte prietors of potteries is, the sum of F c an the really ori tte 
жы which, from its generos ved and E f. ode o: 1 instructi 
Saa. 
an ungenerous 
dency, » m. puse nurserym 
The po the Lon don nurseries, * E that is, at A, B, C, an 
at the nS tof Messrs. Hugh Low 
and Co., cf fan. are in every respect 
better than t hose made in Bristol, but there h woul ttempt me y ridisin; 
tity is not ARD 3 shape breeding of plans now offer some sugges 
and quality are most Joo I Fas A their guidan essential element to. 
as in private Bsr A Raper it is notorious that the operator be d 0 mitable p 
that val ts ten lost, without watchfulness verance Ving 96 
the cultivator being at all enlightened as to on the AU ap on which he is te, if 
; and, if told, he could hardly credit are in the open AE he will Md. them put 
it, that in nine out of f nd removed under glass саре the 
the plant is solely to be attributed, not to of variable temperature—of wind, rain, а 
want of drainage, but to ispo- ts. A 
or 
its improp 
ion in the bottom of the pot ; the proprietor d f e purpose, at 
of this nursery | m happy y, at hardy and proper greenhouse p 
last succeeded in — taining a su n of pei sed, secure a corn are 
somewhat more shapely than n general be visited by bees or T 
use. R. Miles, Si. Michaels Ni n Bristol, are to yield the pollen, and the plants which are to 
Aug. 9. the seed, should be both kept in the same 
Laya : a Digging Диннен; — Lieutenant but where this cannot Я 
March, in his “ Walk across the French side plant, in genial summer weather, may 
Frontier into North Spain, eas parti- ovide be got; for 188 
1ich live exclusively on pollen, and devour 
en 
with opening bloom ma; 
and water inside, where it sia 
| easing to the age but it i 
sud the 
mode 
Я 
is ot great таса! value to | 
wns, &e. John 
"s — East rine nea 8 oe 
| Bees.—Y our correspondent * Northwood?’ had better 
his bees 
hic 
of women break D with СЕ "mallet pe 
tools enis long handles. urning ы soil by | 
machinery the oe of the plough seems йм: | 
able, because i Ass the subsoil f. Mo 
ous he water 
22 or unsuccessful in life Wer Kika 
vated in 
detrimental to 
cpa —The Crinum capense, culti 
| border, pr produces a profusion of offsets, 
sists with my own experience. 
But si aga , and 
now, the labour, 
| issue in vexatio n 
33 Still, eR d prevent 
e blooms t be on not 
within the Vi cua ; I 
pavement an Toy dowa ж 
upon sh 
would — the 
would cover the s 
leaving the 
oceasionall 
a Church of Bats.— 
р. $02) E be indueed to ку theo 
has proved effectual in a neighbo 
ed Putas detested)» " бнер in. most: аә p E 
bs Siew sen ee A 
ne по вину. ат 
| or К 5 ^ E 
r fi tili ti vd d 
mors i i 
isina 
r giving or 
riers for swelling yay: em | 
and what "— 0 me esent sale ; 
— . the wood is ripening, M 
н 
condi ition 
7 present 
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