Jan. 1.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
5 
spines, and small, re exing yellowish-red fruit, produced in 
large pene F sali - u arta 
Pyr is a ring kind, with 
we numerous Sema fruit, which 
ripen very tate’! in the autumn 
Crus-Gatii.—This species and its varieties are desir 
able on account of their isp Liairige green leaves and 
numerous bunches ig keg which ripen lt late 
in the autumn. The me bars e is the variety called 
salicifélia, which has Decal branches, forming a flat 
ta a e- snapeh head. 
uA. — This is a des sirable kind, forming 
a ie Fk t has rather large, shining leaves, a nd nu- 
merous ua of dark-red fruit, whieh. ripen late in the 
autumn. 
Firava.—This is very distinct; ithas a rough-barke 
tem and straggling branche 83 it produ ces small aoe i 
rf ki i with numerous 
een fruit, wh tumn. DSi 
desirable, as it retains i fruit nearly all the winter. 
ORDATA is is the latest in flower, Be i woe rs the 
smallest ceva # has bright- shining angular leaves and 
bright- vai berrie 
: ae Be ROSE A SUFERBA.—This is the most bril- 
liant of all when in flower ; it bears # Pubs crimson blos 
soms 1 The a variety * oa as also flowers 
— as intense in colour, and quit ae Both these 
should have a place in the most nthe collection. 
THE AMATEUR’S GARDEN.—No. I. 
In aes the Amateur’s Cabeadas of weekly ope- 
_ rations be as well to point out its objects, and the 
_ part: ie “clas of ediedhica for which it is intended. 
Am readers of the Chronicle see is a large 
ho possess small gardens, and who m e them 
These in 
— arth y apply ; but I propose ev gener to advert to 
particular kitchen-garden operations, an the treat- 
i ; and also to introduce from om 
_ to time short accounts of any pretty plants which m 
- seem deserv: ing ae notice, with practical diseoten for 
- their cultiv The objects will be to make suc 
a n praca and useful, as wath as popular and in- 
wy 
‘ 
; psoree se holiday _—— it is of little use to recommend 
- out- door operations, s people are more inclined to mirth 
and gaiety than to gardening ; besides s, the weather is soun- 
: rete, st t nothing can be done with any degree of plea- 
—_— Pret seor half-hardy plants, however, must not be 
ae hey require very little ee at this-season, on 
must save be of air when the days are fine and mild. 
e hard-wooded kinds in particular should have very 
dry off 
e that the 
3 as we frequently have it 
ea om of “ae before the 
e to lo wee 
eenhou dead and damping leaves sh 
fully ebiovsd from the plants in cold pi 
oe now t 
4 require very little wa ater, but the quan- 
tity ought to re so d by the habits of the kinds ; Pe- 
_ goniums, for example, ough a have more than succu- 
e ve) 
ecessary per in preservin 
_ frost, and ac de ca nage 24 force ae into growth by 
q keepin ng them which is too warm. Hyacinths 
‘ jnglidees many havea tinie fresh hese schatinaiie: —R.F. 
aa Cc ery pak DENCE. 
with Kiltens 
k Ora 
quite agree with English ‘aiek: and I would sug- 
that the little kittens and puppies generally throws 
; into the river when larger litters are Pasion than required, 
e mekeeper an anak 
Spoile rs game I have found 
. : hg t help at the root of an old Moss-rose tree.— Salopt- 
ence leads me t 
rrespondents the necessity there is for ~ 
' ing fhe localities to ine their or, if an 
They for 
counties a 
| q have no doubt whatever that in a large, perha 
part of England, spring-planting is she best, and 
Wn experience, in 859 latitude an d longitude, 
pee the preference to autumn-planting. 
837, I Par ted a Holly-hedge of more than eighty yards 
“pela a do a ane after the w 
Cobbett in ‘his “Eng ardener,’’ page 21, i.e., 
row eighteen inche 
In the year 
of the intervals o 
I ee in all 384 pg ; ane soil low, wet, and 
I first planted these the month of June, ‘and they ap- 
Ray ‘ be et ng on mo pte ee y; till a catting 
, E. wind, near the ae of the month, blackened the 
7 por killed peas half! I carefully supplied the places 
dead ones in Mat are ober Rlaglig 8 which ]. lost 
ike Tae s; but y remember the eme rigour of 
hat winter. Ia ae in s applied oie a hing n the spring 
of 1838, and again more than half died; the October of 
ed the cme a places, and not one died ; 
and at this mo apg [have e raat as interes par 
and sitet _ in number, as originally. Thus you see, 
oast, "tivec miles fom ple athe the cutting 
cares in spring would se render 
tumn the preferable season for planting "Hollies. 
rin la lite conv reach that if gage is taken in water- 
g ond} puddling the roots at the time of a ae Sa 
IT have large 
all transplanted at Midsummer, an 
bat year, - alive, ity new oy eh 
n full flow I intend next Midsu 
to cut d y Holly-hedge within six inches of 
ground. J} Prag is the ti to prune evergreens 
safely. I am gla find that some notice is likely to 
taken we ihe prorer methods of warming, ventilating, &c., 
the co stic greenhouses— 
to dyeing: het and would pestis 
a article in its alt and one that wou 
a host of i ae = the wale e plan and proper 
n for a goo gtk ee: greenho use, 
“" a a 
answ 
cece be give 
attached to the oo Ea in Bas a fe 
allowed, divided under the following six s:—l. 
30 by 1 Inclination of at ‘ay 459); ; 
ecw (which when a greenhouse 
e should not be Jess than 
five yes a half sae 3 4. fea wa i ine 
haw in 
our correspondent’s 
of ng hig: gine o fF, icles on ir, 
Fig.—It d be of g 
are al well a cequinted with the 
tree, if some experienc 
S 
Peach-houses, and pits; on the 
Vineries with a prepared oA vey ina ie wit th “horde sd 
a table 2 ge of wire, ina Grape-ho ~ ass the s nes “P 
the rafters only, and a a Fig The writer: 
should name the most proper sorts oe all the shove me- 
thods Rs growin g Figs.—Ficu 
Ru wers.—Now that the subject of run-flowers is 
clocpving "tie attention of the s gage: is ges ares in 
old one of 
size in th which, after 
out two winahes right and let, having an ten quantity 
of layers on each, A 3 gate nd p ing an equal 
luxuriance of g bl douied feds ¢ k one bra’ 
producing self- Saari Nibeed the other variega 
me 
, Hants 
Hyacinths. sa j have read in she Chronicle what has 
oe peed a new mode of growing aan Mt it 
s not a new mode, for I grew them myself 7 in 
Tasiaibe n nearly in a similar m r in Beet- mee ‘ey 
a! told me how to do it more than twelve vai ago, 
and 
ve he knew the method twenty years before. I 
think it wrong ga a in the roots immediately afte 
the root is scooped out; but the proper way wou 
hollow the roots, as your cdr t del then to fill 
uspend 
place; then they may glasses when 
roots and bulbs oe scienty forward, wid diy look very 
curious. I donot think they receive any nourishment 
from the Bee ket C. [An 
of the Fae charencron. equally we 
Carro nt also 
placed in Turnips, ei the hight Shed in Beet 
the contrast of colour is striking and beautiful. 
n reading the Gar 
ed ot varieties to be 
-root, when 
deners’ Severe of 
December 11, page 817, in answer to an inquirer on Po- 
tentills, I find the seidiasie “that Spat Potentilas never 
roduce seed, at least perfect cones ral varieties 
el ose ineattoaed as having this pecu diag? ; now ee 
dissent from the ae assertion, having, in 1836, saved 
seed from ana, which p at plants in ‘1837 
‘aa bloomed the tat following. " also saved seed last 
ar from P. Garn which hav c this y ag! produced 
; bas of healthy ‘plants, which I expect loom next 
mer; and informed by a respectable pr 
that he has su bated in ost ing ict s from seed of P. 
Russelliana, bt at the 
the press 
it my 
ot of 
, or alapsus of the pen, whi I have sonaitced 
duty to correc. 7,5, [We wish our 
spondent had informed us whether the seeds of the hybrid 
eae reproduced the varieties from which they were 
ved. 
"stu gs v d,—There is in Be 766, (1841,) a recom- 
iindeten ota sea-sand as a preventive of he attacks 
I tri m pe 
them. As a proof that lime is ba’ little 
value, I plant ted out about cl Lettuces, and sprinkled 
them well with lime, and now I have not . ing ve plant 
left. The best ane that r be ave found t ff slugs 
is soot sowed two crops of Lettuce this Pats one aft 
Bab a am binary with soot, and after that I never lost one. 
—A Constant Reader, Ryde. 
nder this title there is an article, at 
ought to recollection a paper rea 
be ore fe Horti peristite Society, pied 15th, 1833, by 
e late W ne! Atkinson, Esq., of Silvermere, not less 
his t 
pee ated for talents as an aa t, than for his 
knowledge all te g to the vegetable kingdom, 
but above all for his modest, unassuming manners and 
cae ambit of character. As of your readers 
may not pos 
ciety to veer %, subjoined is 
pape 
also very interesting, but omitted, not to swell this article 
be ir pr of s (3) oo 
Ai nly two species consi- 
pedunculata and Quercus sessilifiora. i unculata 
alled by some Q. Robur; and by others Q. sessilifiora 
m called Q. Robur ; to prevent satel ba think it better 
pci the name Q. pedun agit This kind is easily 
wees by the Acorns having lo i and the leaves 
very short foot-stalks, or in 7 cena hardly any. 
In the Q. sessiliflora, the phir have footstalks from a 
quarter to one inch in length, sit close to 
the branch, pare hardly any stalks. Wi spect to 
the qualities of our two native Oaks, the Q. pedunculata 
=polnnt a great quantity of oe silver grain which shows 
workmen call the i 
lits 
clean and ea 
t 
laths. It is also stiffer wood ugh 
brok ee a less weight than the Q. sessiliflora, yet it 
requires a much greater weight to bend is, 
fore, ae dolectited Oe beams, or to the greatest 
eight without bending.. Th iliflora contains so 
small a portion of the silver g wood of 
for Sweet Chestnut (Castanea vesca) : ing last 
thirty years I have hee ret fovea ag ‘of procuring 
specimens of wood fro ildings, arti ly 
what the carpenters called “Chestnut but Ihave never, in 
a single instance, seen a ° tnut from an 
building: what has been taken for tha Sa oad, I have al- 
ways found to be the Q. sessiliflora, mistaken for Chest- 
at from its deficiency of ti the flower or silver grain. 
f of Westminster Hall has been sai aid to be Chestnut; 
us specimens 
eee a pate gg Pons found 
Oak, from trees ad ave to 
of the same c kinds ee 
ou 
From finding t 
dest buildings about Damion we be chiefly th 
wgeiny con the chief 
kind * ; at present 
the gresite part of the Oa x Sh aahe in the south of E 
is Q. pedunculata. Spec s of Oaks that 
pe i. different pa ati of Veskiios: and the coun 
Durham “ya es Q, sessiliflora, which is very 
in the south. There are some trees of it at Caen-wood, the 
Earl of Mansfield’s, near Highgate, which I to be 
one of the oldest woods near London, sig a par a 
Q. sessiliflora nee ped ay rom old s aig 
Q. sessili “3 appears to with Q. 
culata; it is a han Filciedd tre aa mt e ang, icon 
finding so “fhe of it soun it 
may be es durable. "s h 
e 
greater we weit to break it; 
from its toughness I consi- 
it best calculated for ship-timber. The old Sove- 
r the Seas was broken up after forty-seven years’ 
ervice, much longer than the general durability of ped 
Ea ag sb ilt 
liflora.”. 
Genus Cliens aoe 
1@) 
page 814, has made some few mistakes, 
will aiow me to correct ; and althoug gs. fm ; 
roof are not often w von ved from any Sead much E. 
hope that the 
0 from strangers, I a g to ee 
my part of bere been rather a successful culti 
ed the pees will ind 
of is commonly 
to pardon me and ee cae the i 
first place, there is no such 
vulgar name for the i in it aly. 
