rede water to the soil, T - liberal use of the been well furnished with fruit on all sides. Mr. Russe 
yigorous specim 
38—1853.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 597 
P n Home Correspondence, jeter dig DEL АЛАД gei. It 
` Some of the species of Bossizea deserve to be classed |. Gomphrena Amaranthus.—A new annual ped d чий is all rough at — not fully but T hope tds 
with the most beautiful of our greenhouse plants, and name was highly spoken bt Jast 7$ winter to get the 1 in ^ Du вфат 
are indispensable in every well furnished collection, | to hear what any of your renders 1 of it, rent it, determine on drai ue live y^. of 
All the sorts are profuse bloomers and not difficult to | and consider that d Think ie is ee idit. abe В. А йрек n — Jack [We south of 
cultivate, but they are be i to the attacks of гей finest China Aste to oo a mmon Daisy. марай will favour ое 4 i p 
spider, which must be carefully guarded against, for if | People зуф be desire ed obe by - or hat and be this enqui m] à practical reply 
once it obtains & алей it is afterwards eradicated | seed, but So a speech a 'arlegated Planis—In your of 27th of 
with much MT and it soon disfigures the most Sheffield de days а vane ibe British’ manufac aie, last MES р, 551, M. Car is | Deae 
um 
If healthy giants are obtained at the present. season, 
ordin 
0 
in the market; but as people were get ting their фе] a 
open to the deception, the foreigner would cut out the 
y. It will be the same w 
iem T fine, and when proved у^ om out 
spring I — M me China 
trash. 
At the same ~ I got some seed of China. Aster from 
: : s 
warm, maintaining а moist atmosphere after potting) isi circumference, curiosity Jed. me to weigh вэ 
until the plants appear to haye taken to the fresh soil them. Two each measuring 32 pa: in length hy 
When fairly established in their fresh pots, admit ait 4 feet in 2 256 square feet, weighed 3 
freely on every favourable occasion, ‘and see that they 83 lbs., which is at the rate of 31 tons, 10 ewt., babe. 
are 
exposed to light and sunshine. Give A gentle ia a pound, the valu acre "would be equal to 
T 
re 
zbe don g th Globe. lhdn cis Symbns, m Cure 
is danger of being deceivéd, the soil appearing most Sawdust as Manure.— An i — rt ſond of 
a clea in su 'as | pos 
to w of well. washing ba dide s das PI "Ihe! proved injurious: to чет erever it was use 
foliage Situ ay. oil, and repeat pis although it was sey 20 years ad; ; it was chiefly the | 
every othe DEN. is pest is fairly overcohe, | sawdust of Fir wood. P. Mackenzie, 
It is ERN E water, and also to repeat ihe | © Orchard Houses.—I think that Mr; Russells commu- 
wasbing o there may not be ‘any | nications (see p. 582): should not s allowed to pass 
evident necessity for ae 80, for in this matter more unn A Although an —— house must be a p 
especially rS in any other,” E [emt is ‘certainly | acquisition to a garden t» dispense wi with wall tr 
better than a cure. — in my opinion, — de nothing gained. When 
weather becomes “sufficiently ‘mili! to L walk round my garden and see а quantity of heulthy 
allow of managing f ttle ‘plants in a cold frame without Peach and Nectarine trees about 10 years old, with on 
exposing them to a lower temperature, move them there, an average 8 dozen fruit on each, it is not easy for me 
ituati ‘thar em. our seasons 
ea t 
will consist in giving free admission to air; а slight guard the blooms in early spring, but for my own part 
e on the forenoons of bright days, and a proper I never use ennvas or netting, and the walls here = 
coverin 'doul * , 
зв ай vix delatae nio lights maß be left Marie Louise, and many others; are quite at home cn 
off at night, and the planta > бе greatly improved by the walls here; ‘and 3 produce better fruit than 
wun ol s 
ctio drous A * in a house. Suppose we plant a Pear tree under 
will probably а mer, | glass ; by A. then | ‘consider it out of place, and must 
wait thle Gd Бегин attended to w нта is nren resort to artificial means to render it fruitful; in 
ircumst: yo ; у, 
“the support of the leading s Hoot, -— pinching out the roots are eut off to make it produce — and 
i 
the British seedsman, who recommends his seeds as be 
the glass, and where cd will be E to the statute acre. ä them 1 be worth a penny | t 
2971. 1з. 3d. . The sorts were the White Spanish and 
Ut. 
a 
rivers 
Now 
the points of any branches Which may take 5 ‘desided if the operation is not ennt performed when: the | 
nu hard! any Site. will be pev in the way of | tree is young, all the fruit drops off without — 
ain scon . and ШАГ gib the first season. Should this not be yt 
0 as the Net ere r is over, and let your aim duce is small, and ripens prematurely; or to . 
after this s be to ripen che wood, and prep piss the “speci- this a greater ‘quantity of f water is required at at the roots, 
mens for winter. and then the fruit is deficient in flavour, It may cer- 
When cold damp weather sets , remove them to táinig be necessary to root-prune some of the strong. 
their winter quarters, which shoal be a naue 2 growing Pears planted against walls in the open air, but 
‚ пеат the glass in the greenhouse, and water still this very seldom . for the tree has its 
cautiously w while the plants sre in a dormant: анс" 17 Te —— — long before half the work is done 
large Specimens are- desired at once, it will be necessary | man kinds ‘are * best state. 
to grow the plants e ee with —— are we to find 
just as recommended for the first, except salads, Ke. Having a large family to supply, the 
to flower ; and in this ease they may be treated the well sheltered borders for е family to supp, te в wards 
that iti be necessary to cut back the shoots, во as to bordert are’ to me of the greatest importance. I am between 
sd ably to 
acharis 
railway s sat, 
nd ; such a 
of that intricate: 
rent with the Se and —— 
the country pA Wolverhampton 
оло know whether 
he. other common n. 
nck cad а үзү atra of ca 
MM of the leaves ? (е 9 
Netile of а 
et ‚(еш ьа 
orth, the Ouse on the east, and tlie 
ui few detached 
wo 
Mif somewhat siniilar to 
i, but 8 ribs of the on thé andèr- 
en longer than ‘the 
y are commonly met 
with in the Nettle lenf. P, Mackenzie, 
ашпау, 
In reply to your ‘corre- 
noculate our 
* а near the Crick 
d me before mentioned . pool” o a 
а for the nonce, it is not improbable that 
у bave “entered the h the’ 
A Vol vid Коду and Warwick, "as Suggested, and ке 
imber 
has | carried үне boats or 
- it os бол en 
to —— 
Worcester f 
above — by some branch 
canals which биб the 
England and another, — ит it the кзг ot 
the che from any part 
only & quest 
time. 
m writing on the abet I -= sid le, ie, trough 
rnal (interestin 
ry 
e eg posh a the 
which 
кожа neigh 
they know de hi is at “he present moment to be 
4: census would show us the the 
Dried Pitio ET di Chronicle 4 ie fede 
e ce were inserted observations with experi- 
ments of mine on — of dried Pi Pi 
to Profe: Bollman 
ones agrée-' 
n's plan. Withabe the expe, 
е 
* pea Ра 1 nn 
lén. 
„тем Hi М 
appear to have laid hold of the des: soil. \ 
АП the varieties seed freely, and cuttitigs of the half. east and north 
road ook with ийе тешу, but nevertheless | to gs 
well-managed d Bossizen 
sns from the eating чи give I i. x 5 
х T) 
water the mass grafti 
place. Alpha. you recommend? Again, 5th. Shall I cultivate 
mode of planting, | thé 
ng my trees, &e 1 Ath. — nnm 
how! debut bave riot beens 
! stimulatin 
