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article j in the Phill tei 
Be 
1842.) 
THE GARDENER’ 
CHRONICLE. 
staked with moderately pg willows, and run ‘ree 
with 8 eat! twine, which h 
de 
th o 
seeily: be seen that the Peas are certainly rept from the 
frost and severe weather, and have eine plenty of air 
when t te eather is fine. The watered rather 
sparingly at “fir st, re ple pape as an ady vance into 
bloom. The following is the re re) twa years’ expe- 
rience on the abov ee hod: whe | 839 and 40 I gathered 
a peck of Peas on the lst day ay; on the llth 
last May, above two pecks ; and a peck on the 15th, 20th 
and 25th days of the same month. The whole was ga 
l 
thered from pots standing on the back flues of two vine- 
I have tried the early-frame 
Thompson’s early dwarf; but I 
o earli ness or pro- 
om, and od 
arded admirably, Ihavy 
on the same principle, woe bon not get them after the 
Wils 
20th of Nov.—WV. 8 Oe 
d Butter.—In Hp ae Sid T have to say that the 
cause of the srat bs aoe was poring of the kind 
suppose t Bet; noticed oie a ry, and conse- 
uently Mrs. aie ions were nothing new, as eve 
thing about the dairy was perfectly te he only cause 
seems to b co ving eat tuberous-rooted 
Ranunculus; for when that plant died down in the autumn, 
Tee nuisance, i 
oul preety necessary to and bu 
Beg ol k as take eg te oot 
pais of is oa my 0 attempt this 
peer. The curious @ thing is that it is "hy after the 
utter is made that the bad taste comes out, the milk and 
t ye ar struck with 
onicle Seng sf shee es 
o buy a of his 
seed. uded t toby a correspondent in 
p. 781, (isdl, ‘ bo, | it sbpeare b made a cessful 
it, I a vill consider it “joatiog 
r par t of the try, was so wet an cold, 
that T Sad coe a ite fru, had I not sown  Cothil 
A nurserym » grew it with similar re- 
sults ; and has sidaehaa e me that other arias in this 
country —_ — it equally good.—C. A. Walker, Bel- 
“ 
Cepophil —of the Home Correspondence of the 
Chronicle of ‘the Ist of J = ree} oe a If as garden- 
ing in ‘‘ Lat. and Long. 35 I be ask where ae 
anne fro correspondent wal 
ae - hi peg were not likely oa: want water for som 
yea 
to superintend the va posal and pack- 
g of the rome and upon these two points, I consider 
afte ice oT arkins, 
ronic 
ark, [This is very good when the plants can 
nt often J 
—I have just finished reading you 
arding the Double Yellow bee 
which you say you have not heard of one north of 
had one for some years in this county 
pe therein hig Wales, perhaps you | 
Seas the res growth. About seven 
rs sasiaaee = light, ede 
grew very luxuriantly, but never showed a 
single flower. Afterwards it was moved toa due southern 
aspect (a brick wall, as before), where it has several times 
sine attempts to blossom ; but the buds have always burst 
on one side, ane decayed, only one ever having reached a 
eee colour. I am now ite at a loss what to do a it, 
hether to tr ry it on a north wall, or train ut on ss and 
stones pessed pit to the ground, as I am in the habit of 
training mo which flo urish remarka bl y well here. 
I shall no “ touch it ‘until I see by the Chronicle what you 
advise m ha susgy: Subse eis [In this case 
—An 
it is Biles ant of vigour that prevents the flowering. 
It would be oerth trying the "effe ct of ase i glazed sash 
Peta m a cucumber pit over it early, inaslanting direction, so 
as to keep it dry, and to raise the temperature of the soil 
and air, | 
Edgings for Walks.—I am not sorry that I troubled ine 
with a short notice respecting Woodsorrel, recommendin 
it as an edgin ng for shady rs as it has been the Bde 
of bringin plants apparently better adapted 
e 
e 
for lentes in shady places: lo af flowers. will 
make little noise choc way the opinion of the world 
pi ke, for or against them ; 3 and although I am mw 
Sa everne, * that * the ‘ehenipst 
. faa 
does n Aghne 
alls 
i onjures up before 
AniGv, a Battle of retorts and the 
n the ‘land of re er oo men 
a 3 thrilling emotion is esliged ed i e arts of thet 
an g aside the beauty of the leaves and flowers = 
i e ay fin re 
ot 
learn cel al of the 
‘* Grammar of En- 
a 8vo, might suffice If he wishes 
to study the genera yee species, and to ‘‘ make out’ the 
insects themselves, Stephens’ Wiser of British 
ntomology,’’ though incomplete, is indispensable. Th 
out 207. Should that be deemed t 
Anglise 
a similar work, 
and the * Foss mrs al yal noptera 
lvol.8vo. The pigmy, “= a inter beige 
by Mr. Rig la in | Hap or But- 
teres d Moths, in a ‘‘ scis and see te” Waialation 
the apes ecific characters vat "Stephens! larger work, in a 
. by an unknown hand. nd 
uaint 
the genera ish insects forms his 
* British uopmayee pos oa at least tobe ey the moa (its 
the 
cost is above 40/. 
ore rtion of "Watom ology in this respec con- 
pry an uckard’s ‘* British Co auspice deine 
ore atid Shuckard’s ‘* Elements of British ae eae sete 
ae afford a cheap substitute, I must not 
ouelle’s ‘* ‘Bato tomologist’s Compendium,” 1 ‘a 8vo, 
of 
above are to met with ‘at very reduced prices in the 
ei ae of the yarious second-hand booksellers in 
London 
¢ and Gardeners.—Your remarks, in p, 731, 
‘Masters 
masters and gardeners, are very 
on the relation between 
er in s 
saighbodll , sow ee plants to help t 
= frre enjoyed the ed 
tainly be hard, thoug 
e end of the 
. Lymburn. [In our ope this is not to the 
rchased 
not have pur 
"s property.) 
re — 
pu 
them 5 having 
[dene hy aes mar 
Glazed Pots.—I1 was oe M‘Nab’s Treatise or 
Heaths the other day ; 
that work 
nary flower-pots ; and yet, t 
the experiment, 1 
perenn 
ber, and dying Senn dats tess i 
f | has all withered ; thoug 
ing in a hard-burnt 
p- 24. Is i ce sae 
being a much worse conductor of heat than the pot? Sup. 
posing a small “Heath was p lanted i in a large hard- baked 
woul 
he growth of the two be the same until the roots aied 
ths sides of the Pots?—J. Townley. 
PROCEEDINGS gd SOCIETIES. 
FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
bas ype’ in the pair, The accounts of the past 
year ea dited, preparatory to their being read at the Annual 
Meeting on Saecaly 18 sth, 
Limerick Practical Horticultural Society.—At a numerous meet 
ing of the Society, held 1st January, the Right — Lord wt 
in the chair, a full report of the proceedings for the past year 
read by Mr. Bevan, the treasurer, showing the improvement ba 
— of the Society, and submitting the treasurer’s accoun 
all w or pond Borneo highly satisfactory. “it Lbseued the 
220 pi 50/., were obtained, awarded, and distr 
buted ete a ng Ae gardeners, in the seve sses ¢ 
fruits, flowers, and vegetables: and after t 
made for the three exhibitions for the new year, t ing sept 
rated, much pleased, and returned a vote of comes to othe chair- 
man "for his continued patronage and support, and to the trea- 
surer and secretaries for pbs management and b ceding to the 
interests of so useful a society. 
peed OF NEW PLAN’ 
Qt PeeiEs 
® 
NTS WHICH ARE 
—The number of species in the genus 
ony yarying slightly in oe combination and y 
acqui — in wi which the colours i the 
fates similar, ly small value, 
xtreme ian: af tab hue in the flowers of the 
heir great size an 
wing manner, 
Howat $0 rhe identical 1 with Odontoglossum 
— et pag igs press yt ir 3 
ac! 
n the tio > plants if 
do-bulbs of 0. robe te same tied 
concave on one side, and wi the flowers, the 
latter egal a Be inferior to O. grande, except in ia o claus oe of the 
labellum as a manifest pre-eminen colours, the 
roa pi ag tubercles snd appendage * 
, are essen 
from the 
1 | Bae che ger | e Mare 
lossomed with Paree 
GESNERA ZEBRINA. Fascia Gesnera. fos o— 
plant. am —Gesnera zebrina may properly be accoun’ most 
ous plants which have develo themselves i 
h it is pomible that it 
of G. mo y 
A plant flowered finely at Mr, Low's, Capien, in October and No- 
and on which there is yet 
green, wi 
nee and eewaae) whole en a 
been d 
with proper supplies of mo 
doce no cone rh the spproalll of Hoke : will “will be 
t shows natural 
