THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[JAN: 1g, 
a calendar for himself, for’ the system and rules 
xpected to suit ws 
t is 
uch primi in the ¢ 
1 stocked with Cabbage, G 
re I can produce any 
‘is no more 
son, no smal ng your corres 
at the emit and went igven of the 
o yourself more especial 
before ore in this | er :— 
ts, by the con catia §. meeting sap, 
Intec "the sound Ein Sy ivert his grain, 
Tortive and errant fr 
gr 
and Cressida. 
As there can be no doubt that these ‘words were intended 
had come under a poet’s own obeseras ation, it must be 
g, and patealaly so 
ions o 
pce vi 
takes pone of Mr. Colli ier in publishi ng ‘‘ Reasons 
for a New Edition of Shakspere.”—4. 
ulipatam Melon is 
anner :—I first dug a trenc 
by two feet wide, and into this put a layer four inches thick 
phy paackoay m a Melon bed, composed of half leaves and 
be 
. bed, and in fi aer I covered the mats, and 
the result was had a tolerable a Pe joung Pota- 
toes by the 14th of May. I plan n the 12th of 
March ; the kind was the American ty: — 
Vitality of Seeds.—This is Pestng of the first < 
; llaneous i of last week o the i 
stance of tenacity ° e there adduced, to eee the 
following additiona’ —No. 1. GAS saath ago, a 
the prove ly premises, 
we remove an old privy, its cesspool 
rry, Curran: 
and a few Cherry-stones ; in all, about half- 
It was evident that these seeds had been the 
superior gravit: 
in question, so the e exclusion of all the ae solu 
terials. The d its re ene 
ough it 
payee Bey trea so gE pe 
Wi 
matter til the next ‘year, Ww en, 
for three or four 
_- after ‘Cherri s, and Cu ts 
were found _ springing in great bers all about my 
ous parts of ar the manure of this 
en distributed.—No, 2. 
oe 
im my neighbourhood (a sandy common an 
rabbit-warren) whenever the turf ig disturbed, and par. 
atura | are 
Strai on the loose eart 
An at that tthe er had eg livin fe the 
years, perh had not been recently importe 
is mse rh foil in the fact faet et its springing imm ediately the 
one is so_mov sa e-bye, this 1s one, “of the plants 
of o r« Flora” which Sir J. E. “a ith doubts 0 of bei 
Sitiebidin! is of considerable 
aang away from any grow the plant 
ental one, 
a et embankments are thrown u 
springs up © 
S” 
ec) 
t 10 0 , and seed, a 
bove, always present in the soil, I apt no o dou of 
mr native to ae wah mi The Ae snl 
sus and all get's 
there are ni localities in let T ive been able 
P At the 
here had not, apparently, ever been faved befo re ; and 
unless, in remote times, on turf fuel, ste an A had never 
been disturbed. Bi rds may have imported the seed 
vin the was turned up ; but the 
hoes places I have indicated, and it is ev 
s t be easi 
of 
ye view. 
sidered in ilustration of that Lose in vegetable physiology 
alts exist for years, less pr 
under the mos i tavourable circumstances 
any concept ion i resistive of external agencies, But, 
setting _— st doubtful stories of the ve vegetation of 
reulani d Pom are t, 
t 
attractions ma: subsist for an i 
hardly be called 
Juhi prom 
not always ex c 
the a situations where cliffs =a hollow ways 
rie Oak, i 
yo ep Rae 
tous an 
mbling down of the parts 
ed, — the appearances there exhibited 
he air of an instin 
ut 
ts”? ‘mu ust n not go 
one of its fibril a d 
crevice into which water percolates and rotten leaves dis- 
charge their hi h and vigour, 
and if the crevice extends to the = yor and moister 
below the root, insinuates i e course of men 
drainage, or rather obeys the im 
ect 
by its ent 
‘oak and 
ory 
ing and twining in suc ch grotesque shapes and 
Siposiatly where veins fog crevices of softer materials a 
terspe nd vy ‘uch on the same principle ae 
account for the sipiedtues eer ourjAshes sid Beeches tha 
Wreath their old fantastic roots so high. 
—P. P. 
i. Nitrate of Soda.—In the essay on Nitrate of 
in p. 7, the word “cortex” should have been  latex.’’ 
If there is no proof a the nitrate does suffer decompo- 
sition goon being a’ Sg does it bem sm that in 
eat d with the 
ui 
gen fi 
yinecing proo: 
pee in ‘the plese chan finding that ve eg 3eyien 
xed constituents of plants ? either sulphuric adi 
nor soda is the proper food of plants, and cannc 
wy nenees plants as nitrates which con tainal ni 
requisite in 
trates act a eS 1 
tions yet ee a osed are imperfi 
that in all cases the nitrogen which t 
most im her element. Under some circumstances, 
other salts, not containing nitrogen, agit yee as good, or 
even better effects than the nitrates 
b manured with 
and that their moves is employe 
Some ts absorb nitrates, and grow y 
due performance of t ; 
the —— of gluten, without directly contributing 
mselves. i 
pru of Vine cohiat 780, (1841,) mention} 
made of eareated the roots of p t has 
ear ; : 
e 
short stumps of roots outward; but t 
lateral direction, which, 's so far as could 
t | fed luxuriant branches 
ect my vi 
Soda, | cess 
Were ui 
found in'a majority of the Vines, that one one had 
out a leading root immediately following the found 
h 
that business occupied the spare intervals ine 
between autumn and spring, portions being 
ended in one interval of time; those which were dona 
the autumn were much better ripened and more 
than those done at a later period. Some of the i 
were cut down within the house me w 
or whether it could be done at all with old Vines. 
able to offe 
us-growing 
Peaches, and Plums, by tracing out the leading roots 
have not been able to 
ge 8 
oe 
eal 
rd 
een any remarks yet to elucidate that p 
—John Duncan, rdens. 
lvia fulgens.—Salvia _— may be propaga 
cuttings in the , and after being P 
Ju 
a short time, should be ae into pots five or six 
across, filled with a of peat-loam # 
inbald, They should b 
part of September, a 
hin they form a s 
riking contrast with the Chrys 
ums in flow 
From its tendency to bloom iat 
to the greenhouse at this season.—G. G. Watson 
