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lar struc- tion; and, by being taken up at the end " September, >| 8 Henslow. 
die el ap mp f th best may be in oc dum in separate A! ast, that Mr, Hen iut 
s filled with h homogeneo green inte of the bes | 
-— liarly formed | wh he 
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size, and filled with a brood of secondary | the win 
tri М Ает жеңин бнр ng homogeneous green ‘contents, | potted off T accordingly. I peen n ish I could sa: i 
utricles, "үи granule.—A long dis- some yea th perfe —— my object being to save | had been more о followed—but with the 
tion followed не + reading of this pa oin ulti- | the piéton ревень number of plants through the tion of a Society form 
б i the dist tinetións existing between winter in the least space. 2 sea! — — stock o t oo M ee an 
mi | | Geraniums extends to ‘thousands, ‘an еу are ail) which I will send you ne 
— "v m eim —— fa Re tema ie" — жей as above; AX winter management — 48 at least, T must sa 
d ired; Vin our | has been attempted. Vill 
€ re|give at another time, if require à p 
é ВА qi vel ct af elt жайа. ta tno engen Vf correspondent северна that his —— although pre-eminently deserving e 
what it еллы ODE Walker Arnott stated that he kept in a cold frame nm shaded (when real interest in the w elfar 
had йү heard that starch had. been found in the | sary!) они wret hed, reas, his € — continga I “ә ess myself, cheat an 
Medus. If this were the ease, the existence of starch r e vigo 
«оша 1 laimed — characteristic о! 
ме b. rm. Prot, АП r — d shadi lerate in a high | to raise them in the social scale. I do not d 
nion, that glass and shading accelerate j 
Eanester tae 418 TRAA expresion б — het med | e e the form 450 of roots, wien sed judiciously ; a rule much charity and benevolence still ex 
mà pps i igi off oxygen and 8 t he — ould be as light a * Tes a little and is practically shown by the rich towards 
м carbonic acid, “whilst ian. tissue absorbed litter, for instance, which will n — — all the light, | but I look at something beyo 
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03 and gave нән but still breaks the force of the pha will answer ; | volence—I am thinkin 
a en i н To be inni and the lights or glasses should deren oved twice every | upon the educated classes to do a 
duc M — day, in order to get rid of the vitiated air accumulated | condition of their fellow creatures among rho 
under them. Thave'seen Mie s Verbenas, e rance is the effect of poverty, and whose erimes 
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bili ub e Ge orrespondence. | Calceolarias, Geraniums, &c., merely prić cked o a | often the offspring of ignorance 
Ч ете noticed in your report of the border under а south wall, меге — left to their fate; removing this ignorance 
1 ultural Society’s Garden, at p. 567, some account | and they nevertheless succeed — soc av 
of a trial of late sown Peas, I beg to add that I have e Holly Tree. — Y our corres Country Books are not the only mean 
made similar trials for the last three years, but without Clergyuun,“ quotes some lines of — son — Holly, A n who knows how t 
success, although my sowings have not been later than | whieh infer that the spines are designed as a defence his neighbour is more Jed 
the 24th July, while those sown in the Horticultural against ‘cattle, dnd that when the “bush grows out of a little kind instruction he is t 
Gardens are 10 days later. I find that all the early | reach it loses its spines. Another version attributes the | which his success 9 0 s, if he is 
sorts ете п 
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dew, more or 1 Knight’s Tall Marrow | Natu g i ys parti- | works mysteries, i 
to ae the very best ce late he = ote is less subje e lars, and therefore little to be trusted for ‘correct | her work up — knowledge of sue 
her y elucidate this by another cw lending him up eator, i 
er 85 the Loch N in ye * o. Medie i ар. гы T" at deseription, ps from the truth as Soutliey's [rs cendi of happiness, an and dd giving а hig 
Pea is very prolific and lasts a long time in bearing, | lin mind must rais 45 — 
it will carry a Lagern til late in November, unless the poe the Holly, whilst a TOM tree, indirectly romote the welfa € of the whole vil 
rost has been very severe indeed, The British bows Thickset with spines, as ever it can be? u— If t Ee meet d pardoned 
is also a ood autumn Pea, but rather unmanageable in , proceed at once to our horti e 
windy weather, dn account of йз tall growih. The | Logility Kone no meroy Bere 1s wns striving at the rectory grounds, T found in 
Champion mae sa most pr olifie early variety, And everlasting war reigns in the Holl bowers parts of the lawn three tents, and I wi say a few words 
but it should not be да t жк п „чы on account of But, mark the change! when from tl the contents of each 
1 ject to mildew than і he леры. 9 пила à its „strength to fruit, orice ‘attracted ut 50 60 
ose who are not fond of seeing varieties may get an pones енш — ари е leaves; ^ к Aud Wheat fr je pari h al enis, win 
excellent supply from the above named &orts, to which So кеп, driest, his fierce shows, were arranged for TE in two classes, w 
may Бе added Prince Albert, for an early sort, or the bai КАЛД and still more spiner Aid and red, and which I was informed by the judg 
Paradise Pea substituted for a third early sort (instead Cultured, Atl beat fele Wee es adul un fruit; were very ‘superior samples indeed ; 
of the British Queen), would be no loss. The Paradise — d ehanged—he, like the > Holly tree, 1 in each class w 
is new, but an excellent Pea. Thorp Perrow. W ill FE his spines, and ever fruitful be. long row of ta 
a h ick Nectarine.— Much as 1 respect the opinion | I have learnt from аатай Pat te Holly 3r which about & 
f Mr. Rivers on the subject of fruit, I cannot see his | sometimes grow spiney from to om, near t 
remarks on the барата Мане ine pass unnoticed, as | ground, or far out of the reach of mei and whether 
the greater parts of his statements are contrary to m ung or old. I have met with instances where the | 
zu The late Earl of Ducie purchased two of | whole bush was spineless, yet 1 entirely without 
earliest 47 and being under the impression that fruits, and hitherto e: have not been able to learn the| A 
the gala the fruit were first-rate, had them planted | cause of these variations, The general rule,I believe to be, 
in his P авад and that too, under what I presume | that са — has a pec leaf. 7. C. Brown, Cirencester. 
Mr. Rivers would assignate “ favourable — ons.“ e ein a considerable latitude allowed to poets to 
ney in, it nee e rise i 
border was quite free from pei Water, the soil was | some of their descriptionsof Nature be either overdrawn 
a light fibrous loam, and the treatment was the same as | ог fall short of the mark, but that to which a © Glergy- 
what has for many years e d me to produce good | man" calls attention at p. 620, would seem to have been 
Peaches Mr. Rivers's opinion, that, even under glass, recognised by parties who, above all others, are expected 
Stanwiek Nectarine cannot be ripened without the for the | at 
2 of fire-heat is in inco „as, in our late wee no o quotation i is found AN Johnson has it in his 
i it ri “Berwick Flora,’ and Hooker in his “Flora of the 
British Isles? Other local “ floras” have also availed 
s of the passage, Now whe tatement 
b ked by such close- seeing observers as botanists should 
be, it may see terous for gardeners to hold 
eontrar е I must tI 
n looked in vain for that distinctive difference which 
the lin. imply, and though t 
by others often produces leaves having but 
or no spines on them, 1 have seldom been able 
oy een the bottom and LE 
top leaves in that respect, and I don't remember 
а ing an exposed situation which did | tot 
З yed; | abound in prickly leaves up to its summi its true, there | to the 
Tn both vei алран without t t the least exception, the fruit | might be more plain ones near the top, but then 
г places, from the stalk to the | these are more plentiful in uic interior or central parts, 
ex—a faule crt certainly le less тамо than want of|and that beautiful arrangem nt of | ature, which is said | shown 
to prevent its регис on the to guard the tree against з Ба certainly only ex- 
"rt table, 4. Cra inb, Gardener, T t Со ouri, мны in the intensity of the 285 on fully 4 
it has hap that the m rees, as compared with inelosed and sheltere 
ek should not 2 "Азган 3 than by the lower parts неа d + more 
as . are quite unable to formidable front to their 1 END the top leave 
the quality of the boat n properly do. The imaginative genius of t has therefore | ts 
said of it, all who led him, I conceive, into error à 
3 well lioe, Until quite Tokens of Winteri—On the morning of the 2d inst. 
e ground in this neighbourhood (the centre of Kenz : 
frost, i a ; 
irrepa damaging, most 
French Beans, Vege Marrow, &c, as well as 
Dahlias, and other tender flowering ving 
а register of the weather for some years, I have | Q 
never wi earlya оге; the thermom we 
to being down to 26?'on the 3d i inst, ; it is needless to say | cared 
that a bright day followed, hastened the destrue- 
Dd 3 » lea, ‘ ti 
A Vist to Hitcham Village Horticultural Society. the r 
а Wednesday, the 28th t ; the second meeting of this | cove most, that 
the lawn of the rectory at:Hitcham, | exertions and тч of cs ur tt * 
| Society: 
under the active — de of the те the Rev, | rector of 2 C. R. B. 
