* importance 
Jan. 1.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
3 
W ANTED, a GARDENER for the Bahama Islands. 
He must be a ost hos informed man, who may be 
he ma em 0 
den produce. Xp voyage will 
climate of the meciiean? is aed aaa very healthy. 
only, to Dr. Lindley, 21, Regent-street, London. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1842, 
aah = THE Sank all bfevinns 
e paid out. he 
—Apply, by letter 
fonday Entomologic: 8 p.M, 
paseo * Floricultural. . . » + 7. P. Ms 
Wednesday Geological. 2 6. 5 5 83 P. M. 
riday + + 5 «+ * Botanival « . « 2 ss 8 P.M. 
aturday » » s + » Royal Botanic - 4PM 
® Farmine or agriculture is, according to Liebig, 
bexane all ep pairs the mos t important of human 
s may be, because it produces food. In 
sp hy 
“O- 
may be that Gardening prodices 
directly more enjoyment than For nae ministering, as 
b it does, to our senses “8 vision, Cis be 
cien es 
4 ich a dia 
| ie but a wilder 
What is the use = our pretty flowers if we are to 
ir mazes without shade? of what 
dingy rows of fireburnt clay, dignified by the 
of streets? It is totrees that the great features of 
natural beauty will be traceable in every country, and 
hich form the difference bet the rich and de- 
’ licious scenery of South W ar as compared with the 
| craggy ie of Llanber 
0, lies the n eutalce ealth of a country, 
ere 
: —_ counting the Rai. and h pr the corn-fields and | 
— aval 
in its forests, the | source of n 
but 
guided by the men engaged by them ‘in one Lay ei 
tions—as gardeners, land-agents, minin s, &e. 
yet when woodland property is in question, its will not 
listen to reason, and ev ow their ladies to interfere 
with the vecialie obnereation that they cannot bear to 
see a tree cut down 
So few there be 
That choose the narrow path, or — = Tight : 
All keep the broad highway, and take delight 
72 fi 
Than with a pe o walk the rghtet way: 
O foolish men ! wn decay? 
ow how dingerous it is to con sayy general 
practices, and ete ont a share of odium 
be incurred by who, with wha 
set about expo ding ignorance; uevertheless in this 
great national object we are © content to run these risks, 
and therefore we ri 1 
of the points in which it is most 
t common practices in i gorcnye should 
be cor rected—in doin ng w whi ch we must crave the 
friends, to some of whom, particular rly Mr, Hemerton 
of Hellifield omy and Mr. Billington, we are already 
under obligati 
We our ‘readers some spclliet for oy pe so 
long aalayed” to renew the rere 4 Cultivating Bus 
Now that a new hes is begun, we hope to redeem a 
our promises. resent we shall confine our- 
selves to pote prin iples 
ne of the mmonest questions asked } 
lateurs, is what they are to do 
just r 
e 
pe as wen 
eceived fro 
shown. b 
saved fro Ie the general loss that so often attenis upon 
all such fa en ions. To this point, then, we first 
address Het oe 
Whe 
for 
Peoples “i of the mines of at oe iron, of the ver- 
dant rato and the hardy sons of Britain, as the secret 
_ of her pre gape are ong nations; but are her woods 
as nbihinist d people iA abe themselves about the 
of tid iy 
- tries for one corn, as i 
| ti ot as 24 ae a sect of consideration 
of vy; ended in 
2 ot: 
4 plea 5 r = _ thousands of aie italy mith forest 
4 ism of munificence of 
be provident investments in wood of t 
outlay in- 
this simple pee that to plant j is not 
necessarily to create tim 
_ An excellent correspondent whose letters have been 
_ too long on our table 
terms. A ver at - ine he trul of what 
are called plantations cannot ever come to maturity, 
that is, to the ti which _ oo Seon 
_ we must suppose, intend n buys an estate, 
‘reads k about the patriotism of planting lays out 
_ a good round with his nurseryman, sacrifices the 
rental of his broad acres, an bab ge? t to 
y do by fighting like 
vy the other, Aidiber 
rant 
must look to any 
r own for s suifiten imber. 
a be aateoch that these on exaggerated 
; Hasients, and that no gen Primcia tee e have referred 
to rea bles AB 
‘have no 
The majorit of 
ir i thei ox we doubt not, remember ch 
me country 
5 Lr 
nested! one soo it is ages to commence ray eim 
diate digestion of another. oF t that in nature such 
sudden changes actually occur: on the contrary, when 
rain begins to fall, it soaks had slow] tats the earth ; 
and wh oes reach the bulb, it is still arrested in 
its action b numerous dry coats with which: this 
body is invested, and through which it must gradu- 
ally filte 
But w when a bulb has been long out of po garth.) oA 
vital energies are much diminished, and it 
even that slow supply of stew ck 5 Po wate a oh 
is furnished by wet soil, whose humidity ——— 
the bulb.coats, and is aceon a the liv 
analogy—the bulb is en. like th he 
by the 
stomach of a famished man, enfi 0- 
nged cessation of its natural action, and unable to 
bear any food whatever except by v 
f a weakened bulb is suddenly brought in contact 
th water, it will a i, will nable to 
digest it. n the water will nt and 
0 
into new elements, and have Sieted its gape: ali- 
&' 
rule, therefore, to — with newly-imported | cinity 
men 
The 
bulbs is, to place them 
very slowly. The oe by ng og is f 
can only be driven yer 
heat. A bulb, Rants ghee lanted rf white is 
alled dry soil. and placed in a shady art id a green- 
rb moisture 
etalger Byrom 
bites until it has become plump t 5 
if it has me ? shoot when received sil the same 
treatment s be observed, and the ‘dries i used 
to plant it in. “ie is only Ac aie ecisive =a of natu- 
ral growth can ted that a very little water 
dcaid: be given, while the rage is at the same 
time slightly increased ; considerable quantity 
of water should be picatiiaten leaves are 
failures are ever likely to occur; if n 
ess can be anticipated. e once saw SUL ‘bulbs of 
e of the rarest and finest of all plants destroyed be 
os ghonite rd em in. th 
a 
, Castles, P. 
‘ala lives in my memory like 
here ee to admire, nowhere so litt 
at Chatsworth. Nowhere have pen 
age more pone abty by naan, Det, at the same same time, 
: 
more indebted to art! goed uly I pas a place so 
Here one is never 
th in in one quarter, 
one, and the materia ls Aas throughout. € is no ar 
tificial. stone, no ficti cig e, no imitative wood, 73 
rummagem plate hing, in short, that tends t 
weaken the logitionate offect, or to lead you to suspect ioe 
p is produced by are means. wi magni- 
ficence on which you g rt of reality and dignity 
ha 
about it which makes you feel “A once that there is sf; 
of arrogance or pretension in the case, and my what you 
i ore ural and becoming exposition 
rank, affiuence, and 
by gh ite 
when snyihig ste pt is pe ee to enter “into the 
"Chatsworth has pists called the Palace of the 
eandc 
Peak—a 
neyfied appellation truly ; yet, dis- 
* this noble mansion es- 
u 
de-books I must a a yo 
e the tresanree that are to be fo 
erely remarking, that art, ony ane cient an 
in in all ts branches, would see 
Duke of Devonshire, as me galerie of Be scay he eel 
ie vem 
ape Gat 
ture with a high relish for the creations of art, he stands. 
pre-eminent, or rather, he standsalone. There are books 
at Althorpe; at Dropmore there is a noble Pinetum; at 
Highclere there are beauti rounds; the Duke of 
Northumberland has a rich collection of tropical plants ; 
the Duke of Sutherland b his pictures, the Duke of 
Rutland his sumptuous plate, a tminster his 
and Lord West 
atsworth there are yi these, ne 
ich go to 
et have enu- 
merated, and of 
pica oe ted ere. i‘ is 
t.me tak 
Fitet, then, the anietig™ and of these—first, the je/s 
ig Of all forms in which water 
stionabl 
os has no 
ct to compensate for the Tiolence it does s of 
This objection, po Fee oi pone oF solely to 
in most. 
ted to the height of Posey or. 
eat fountains at Chats- 
these in petition a ipetian ought to : 
aes himself in ile or more 
from the — of cota; a thus only on a full view be 
caught o utiful effect light ammo by 
the agitated pina: If the sun shines, so 
Another atest there is, which, I was olay 
i fi ester and its vi- 
i erthe- 
exacution is stiff a 
of the gene na that Repti 
China cups and 5 “slag of t ‘ racutal tae 
ee) ne imitate. is. dendritic fountain, when fist 
is ever yore to surprise t the unwary “yisiter bya shower of 
spray, and i charm consists; in is a 
mere toy, 34 therefore unworthy of the dignity that — 
around,— 
(To be i exepewns 
ENTOMOLOGY witle: XXIfL. 
Apuipes, or Purant-Lice.—It is quite un 
dilate upon the mischief eet de 
this ibe of 
culturist i ive 
shrub, or flower seems to 
tacks. We the refore will co 
an elucidatio 
