99 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [JAN & 
; lacked lime and gravel, such as is esnesally use 
f Freach Pears, by Mr. J.| propose to the old Truffle-hunter to bury at the proper | then news ; 
Smith essay 0 has m the ree p a Hepetons, whe fe root. jepth some of his Truffles that were in a state of decay | for garden-walks, were mixed wi th Raauily nd fae nl tmilap 
ni . oe, at; and at page 104 is a short account of nfit for table, er one of the unproductive | to mortar ; i then d wit de tan ain « when 
the state of the fruit-trees on the garden-walls at Loan- | trees sufficient in stature a te in umbrageous lag it was isi Ai the pevement by ‘Par y Han Jat be — 
i ft ext winter, when his | an 
ee er aes 6 Os Te oe tin es pag me iy op " ” with t ice was full. The soil of the next freneh was throw 
ood effects of cutting the | visit was repeated, he sought for ti and told with great | crey a. 7 
bas ag aes which a too luxuriant in Rg vatisfaction that 1 my scheme had answered, for he had | upon the one finished, and so on until the whole border 
t necessary done.—J. Alegander, Carton Gardens. 
i to shorten them, not only to stop the | found two or three pounds of excellent Truffles beneath | was iF 
phi abagtnn com lained of aboye, but to furnish the | the hitherto barren tree under which we had experimented. Cucumbers rs Mele val —inp. Park * CHET ») there 
tree with proper feeders, in order to render it fruitful.’’ | I urged him never to throw away an unserviceable Trofile, Ci mbe ra , is A e ie t new 
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i ich a lapse of years unassisted | spring, I had a little seed o en’s Victory Cucumber; — 
pin fad ee: the ies: thee aoe Oe a aa soem: x i ye pg that of all trees | but having supplie eas self with pla , ft - ober st be 
at Me. Billington; the trees that were the subject of the | the Cedar of Lebanon is the most favourable to the growth | fore, I did not Bi ive a Ht t Ag eget ih a on meg ; rh I 
above-quoted paper a been planted by Mr. Sang in | of the Truffle—J. R. Gornes, grew on , 4 Rie riiah WerneHins me 
1792, who before that date, and before he resided at Loan-| Root-pruning.—When | first came to my last place, the | flowered, an it a nag eight fr e, thr 
wells, I know had been witness to the good effects of | orchard had gens pt has a years, without one bushel of pheeHpon ane stem Ppa mares Abdel 
ol omg wall-trees as practised by a gardener in | fruit per it ad having been obtained, and yet the trees half inches long, another y-six, 
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resented itself, without ever considering that they had | the following spring: the benefit was visible, for the trees | suffered my pl d 
~ bes any wonderful discovery.—D. Cam - eron, Botanic were covered with blossom, a me in the autumn I gathered for seed, as I intend to grow the 
Cem ne ham. above 20 bushels of Apples and from that fime there has | it to be the best for a house, though pe 
ap oyster .—In respect to the time | been on an average 30 or 40 bushels per yea e wall- | the best adapted for early frame forcing, 
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efi). I I observe that wn is omitted to state whether the | the orchard, and for the last nine years there 
temperature be that of the air or the earth. At Meerut, | fallcrop. After the orchard had been planted some year 
in the East Indies, i r, when the | another piece of grou added to it ; 
temperature is about 70° in the day, and some- | turned up with the plough, and the trees were planted ; 
times as low as 40° in - night, appear aboye ground in | though the trees never grew quite so strong as those on the 
about five days. tem occasionally, is below | other ,Parts they always bore well, even the first year after 
the freezing point at Meerut about a quarter of an hour } planting —A Consta aw Read it ute. g 
re sunrise, at the end of December and beginning of Teehouse Filling.— s back I had the charge | it, _ ; 
San In 1818 ery aon the thermometer fell as low | of an icehouse built on oh oe duclivity of a large pit; it was within a foot of the stem. I grew the Pine-apple ] 
as 30° on the 14th and 15th of Febru reery i the Wheat and pol op oa had double walls, with a cavity of six inches | last year from seed procured from th orticult: 
all cut off, and a famine | between the walls closely filled with pounded charcoal, ag oe i is an excellently Sargures fruit, but I found it 
ensued.— Anon. the dome being well secured and thatched over, and the | shy bea he Beechwood Melon also sent out by the 
The Radiating Power of Hot-water Pipes.—Amongst all | outer walls protected as far as possible from the influence Horticultural Society I grew last year, and found ev 
that has been said yet on the heating of houses, we have | of the weather; the drainage was good, and the house i ay worthy of sultivesion : "bt there appears to be lit 
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stances employed as pipes. en the radiating power of | and north; but this seemingly well-constructed house pre- | former is netted, and fhe ie smooth ; but this is not 
lamp-black is 100, polished iron is estimated at 15; and | served ice indifferently, and some seasons barely until the | always the case,— Rober Towers, Gr. to D. Waterho USE, 
i xidated on the surface, will | end of August. s this was the case, when ing the | Zsq., Aighurlh, Liver poo ‘3 A 
be much more, still it would add greatly to the effect, to | house I sent salt an id boiling water with complete success. Vineries.—The accompanying section of a Vin 
have them coated with lamp-black. One of the greatest | The diameter of the house was 14 fee ix and on every layer | the in my opinion, best su i 
benefits to be derived from Mr. Corbett’s open gutter | two feet deep of well-broken ice I = red 14 gallons of | grapes. I was struck on seeing it toward 
system, will n, er of water, which is | boiling water, having as many pounds of salt dissolved in | November with grapes in as good a st: 
equal to apr ace aD B ipo improve lately sug- | it, and finished at the top with a double quantity. is hey are generally seen during the 
in . ect the fire and water by | solidified and cemented the m closely that the house | and that without lighting a single fire 
ins of iron passing “sem the ro! e m of | contained about 1 ore than in any previous year; | more particularly called to this subject from the fact 
bo. baled into the water, thus conducting the heat at | and when required for use, the force of a strong pickaxe | my having had a late house of grapes under my care 
once to the water, should be useful, especially when speedy | was always necessary to break it up. At the time of re- | in which, although I had the 
effect is wanted.— R. Lymburn. filling there was a quantity of the old store remaining. | fullest extent, 1 was unable eep he 
Ozalis Crenata.—I have no doubt that the writer in | This was unprecedented in the history of the house, and | however, remark that house was in uch mo 
the ‘armer’s Journal speaks o =" Oxalis crenata and | showed the benefit of salt and water, for in every other favourable situation than the one here ‘alluded ay 
knows nothing of the Deppei, and I am glad you noticed | respect the house was filled as al. here there is a | grea 
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his letter, as I hope your obaervation } may leo to further | small house and a bad preserver, I think it would be ad- | the old ‘form is is, first, t by the nearly UPFIEnE mi 
remarks fees some of you @ respec- | yisable, when filled and about to be closed up, to have a | of the glass, scarcely x of the rays of the 
tive merits of these two sor vegetable ae s. Iknow | few loads of well-broken ice thrown into the passage, | while, for the same reason, scarcely a d 
ing of Oxalis Deppei as a vegetable, but I am glad to | covered with dry wheat-straw—and this will give an early | find its way into the house. Another dation 
say that I am pretty well acquainted with O. pi supply for several weeks; and whenever the -house is | for this Rays is, the nna space by be heated; conse 
having grown it in my kitchen-garden I believe upwards | open the ice should be regularly taken from the sides and ed t 
of eight years, and consider the stems when young far | a few days’ supply placed in the puserene this saves open- | an e . Thi : 
superior in tarts to either Rhubarb, Apples, or Gooseber- | ing the house daily, and the sequent waste of much st fo i m to 
ies. I cannot say, however, so muc its tuber: ich | ice.— ; ‘cham iler di 
Tie: e.— H. Bowers, Laleham 
I have given up dressing, finding no one likes them ; but Fruit-tree Borders. — Se veral emo articles on 
some of my neighbours who also cultivate the Crenata tell | Root-pruning fruit-trees have appeared lately in the | kind of stru 
me that its acid leaves are a great addition to a bowl of | Chronicle, but though it is a ouhient:a of rene Sage et I} by 
salad, but of this I am no judge, never eating salads my- | think rei pas werd of mening pouries -prepared haeoes position of 
pee I think it, therefore, _very probable, that while | to fruit-tree borders cannot be too strongly advocated, be- | ti 
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ceive that the latter is as ior to the former as “a | properly-prepared —_ de the whol 
Crab Apple toa Brown Beuré Pear” ’ for tarts and pud- Coote y t This will thangs e whole width of the 
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Prufies—1 am not aware that any mode has hitherto t of fruit fi t af 
been ss oe of propagating that exlinry tan rto | want of fruit for one or two years after that process. It 
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ist ot ee . much you i A aoe by | they came into bearing, but the roots havin netrated 
unvisited ; a little wae <= elicited the f t tl that he | into the subsoil, the trees became less fruittel, a and were 
had ae ortho eid acquainted with every 7 indinidnal pre attacked with mildew. The leaves were curled 
trouble of in- 1 the ey never ripened their ‘young shoots 
weiene ro oa poasonedinne Fae trathed which Lt ah 
wr ' that n but making a b wottom 
yor that ee — te) younger oe in Truffles ad- esc 8 = mere border crane ld se berase re = es ear hee se 
mi of explanation, ey were thinly interspersed | 1 com i end of the bo: ‘addaniy digging out a | succes havi 
among the older trees, and they had | been brought 30 years trench two : 0 fee 5 thier nine feet wide, the hee width of a ryrsteg i ving ea be 
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to their present locality, differing in soil, which was on a tree, e aul aos se ommend: 
substratum of chalk. Now it was not easy to apprehend | were then pra se more or less as it 
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im what manner the seeds is subterraneous plant | The whole of the trench was then pave el ae ones of rpm fa a ape eee sowi 
could transfer themselves from one tree to another, at a | any sort or size that came vs in se ay, in dlingsare rem os f 
considerable distance. It was clear that the process must | ten inches thick ; they were laid to a level — ine. ‘below ie se thick| naa he eae our 
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always be slow and accidental. Might it not be assisted | the surface of the bord 
byart? Such was the train of thought which led me to | walk ; the joints were fil i sloped 
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sone | ave ‘een filled with. good ool) not 0 Hid. 
