1842.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
125 
they are also styled the eo te order, from Bras 
sica, the Latin ese of the Cabbage and ‘the Cabb age 
tribe.* We shall in time ont acquainted with many 
more of the a race.—R. BP. 
ON THE maton ig ets OF NEW POTATOES. 
expressed a desire to know how 
men- 
o s. Chapman, o eee ent- 
om ‘hat notice, one would be led to suppose 
the produc of new Potatoes durin 
me pecaliarity in in the ki 
srs. Cha 
avour 
btained at any 
s is required to 
force them, and that no more trouble is necessary than in 
growing an ordinarycrop. But I think it should ‘eave 
been added that this method of procuring new Potatoes 
for winter and spring use is an old practice, . — an 
s M 
excellent a ccount was given in the “Garden aga- 
zine,’ by Mr. Saul, hs? Castle Hill, jase re, in 
Augu ust 1840, and w t once shows that it — 
aA on th partidiber wee -s to, nor 
way 0 mply on retarding the 
old ag and by planting “thea at a later season than 
ordin 
is pla n is practised by several market-gardeners, 
who grow them for the. London marke i especially by 
some in Devonshire and Cornwall; an eir produce is 
frequently sent to the market pend February 
and March, in what is termed four-pounds baskets, which 
are generally sold at the rate of 6d. per pound. e fol- 
lowing extract from the ‘¢ Gardener s Magazine” will at 
once explain the system:— 
‘*To have the new Potatoes ready for use in Octo 
they should be planted abot the middle of J aly ; ey the 
principal c crop, for winte ust is 
gS F 
e r 
about | foot from plant to pla eS is necessary ts place 
he rows a good distance apa r to insure ee 
foliage by freely admitting ae rays of the sun, as well a 
a good circulation of “he Age acon as pes as aie 
lity of = rop depen on a proper attentio 
this poin 
t 3 and it probably might be better aitdined! by 
placing the rows still furth ah 
aD - 
x 
x 
‘* Potatoe s planted in <9 above ‘way, in August, will be 
ready for oe. table in No ventber, and will continue Bet 
from time till April, whe: “= ee tae okt suc- 
The oly extra 
Bay When eiinied at this sea- 
upon 
son (August), is to cover them in — a han or 
any other material which ut the fro 
hen Potatoes 
Pee ey: bok may 
insure a supply through the oie of alm 
emg as those grown during 
he summer. 
It is also necessary, Mr. a says, that the Potatoes 
intended for the autumn planting should be of a a kind 
n 
a thes : ut if the situation 
is a warm one and the soi li ata andd ol late sort.” 
ceitiodige Corda got and dry, plant a late sor’ 
THE AMATEUR’S GARDEN.—No. VIII. 
of flowers who do not possess 
3 n . 
; —s are other flowers, equall = tif hi ithi 
q Sook of ~~ whe q y ae i vn . ich are within Hom 
nd, is 
‘the shat lovely of all 
ns cannot ha 
is required, is simply to strike the sagt in the au- 
early in the spring, and grow 
i them eenhou 
oO grow ‘antil rag s n their wood a 
form their flower -buds, pen several vaslsti 
splendida, 
renee 
of Cin 
eee ee 
any free soil : with roots, and 
Tos the gis bases and a Peel y Feguire sintot little care dur- 
autum flower in No- 
and 
to 
r=) 
or 
ate J hee and Cowslips, and common Pile 
wh ch are beautiful in the woods in mah sum- 
The single white and pink varieties of this plant 
signe seeds in abundance every spring, Pica rats if a 
few plants, — whi - seeds are wanted, are placed in a 
warm situat Tho ort having frin ni ed 
nerally sate ad the ul, 
ge 
they shou Id always b widow n, and the seed gathered from 
nm any time from nly - eptember, 
an t: thick ha airy- 
lated plants ough to be selected ve cn as bye are 
nets kely roduce fringed flowers than t 
others. 
+” rom fringed cere saga produces pote plain 
and be dkinds. Two y be me — 1 double varieties 
in many rpaltantione, Takis d by 
eating, and are, th seeloca: not ae 
as er 
h as Heaths and 
Epacrises for example; but many persons, unless hig 
ave good houses, cannot succeed with them 
s should b 
mo 
s and borders, except where 
ceous plants are, should be finished if not done already. 
—R, F. 
HOME C CORRESPONDEN CE. 
— ars are’s Foresting. —Under this head your corre- 
spondent ‘ A.’ reverts (at p. 38) to “petit nt 8 comes 
with ani affairs, me as ve what is the pre of 
the following cease “ Troilus and Cressida :”’ — 
** As knots, by the takdiekass of meeting ras 
Infect the sound wes. and divert his grain - 
Tortive m his course of growth,” 
It gave me much plessare, to see our friend again dis- 
’s genius, 
nea L have looked to see whether he did not intend to 
nswer his own aueon, which he is so well able to do, an 
which he has done i mer in. 
done in and you 
of 
dhencetied, oe pra precedence of the one I Yieie offer 
or I 
to il 
restoration of the original and true reading, and i more 
for a oe and ae appreciation of his excellences. It 
is true also that in many instances their ignorance of the 
atin Ehoaaan with e was familiar, and of the 
terial things et presented themselves to his mind, 
iustat ive *: his moral conceptions, Thad led them into 
and it 5 ters happens that the habit of referring 
to pare orignal and recondite sources e information 
m e path of induction, where 
ile w ro 
we often overlook her at the top. “A.” will not 
ell, £ 
suspect me of a disposition to include-him in this latter 
o learned category has himself placed a bar Ae this 
supposition, in the conjecture that ate oats! ‘intended 
to explain s popular notion, or € phenomenon 
which had come ee he poet's own doservitiae The 
spews of A non of which the passage in question 
se a par pty NE sesses all the imaginative redun ety of 
vy 
hakspeare’s ae where figute follows figure, and one 
noble image is scarcely comprehended by the mind of the 
agit before sachet 1 is presented to a 
What grief has set the jaundice on pened cheeks ?’’ 
** The ample oe a rg — 
In all sare s begun on 
Fails in ies promised tarperiesir; checks a ore disasters 
poopie w in Cuemer veins of actions highest 
” c. 
In the aon t st of <. lines here are half as many 
distinct ag er ns of t er’s sentiments, from 
terial obje ct all a appropriate to the 
The consider- 
suggests the idea 
vow, me believe that instead of carr ryi o. him 
carpenter’ s shop, and that the a coausen so often 
on a fresh-planed veg gat suggested the rues of the the 
knotted Pine. When the is left to prune itself, its 
out, 
— = the surrounding ligneo bsta “rh 
rpenters call +s doated”? “(dotted 2) 
in their original condition vt sens of 
csi ball was used estic architecture, these 
g sbeotad’* deal-boards would pr esent 
selves, and he need hardly to hav 
~_ ptbmber-yard for his illnstration, 
| because e must | has 
=" 
e gone. so far as the 
ieloie io baes ‘ 
marked characters. — P.S. A_ friend better versed 
in etymology and 5 criticism than myself suggests 
that the term dotted or doated timber used b by our car- 
penters and woodmen bah nage to the age and pore 
y- dar 
nature of the knots, or of t ber generally. I 
say he is right, and that it is one ey, the good old a 
Saxon words still to be found amongst the commonalty, 
used in its true — — acceptation. We llow 
se out another .—[ What Shakspeare meant 
I conceive, "this; as the descending fibres from 
the "leaf and leat- buds (had they to encounter no k ts 
to obstruct and make them ortive and errant,’’ 
h ul 
e (Agam exnon) tho 
acareark oo co S was an nticipated cues 
first planned. Pro ae fey Shakspeare ha 
of the tortive and errant growt 
Oxalis crenata.—I see the shoots of this apse recom- 
me a for tarts. It is well to remind your readers of 
delicate stomachs that ac acid is, L bel iovs, "oxalic acid 
(and so, I we is - rigs vat Rubs rb), and with 
produ uces derangem 
nora a large tart of Rh haber t 
cid to killa very de na ee te: I 
classication of the di acids of fruits, showing that 
thei rative w wre someness depends on the acid prin 
silliest I believe tartaric acid is considered the 
which most generally agrees with delicate persons, ‘and 
hence the fact that Grapes are in ge found the 
wholesome fruit.— Totty. | [We fear that the com- 
osition of fruits is as yet too little known to enable us to 
fulfil Totty’s request. xalis crenata, as w t of 
the speci eum, do certainly contain o t 
e quantity which plants contain of such acids is variable, 
depending oe the weather and a variety of different 
causes. It m r ms 
I e discussion, 
and I think all must admit that the discussion has led to 
good. The same observation spplie ice-houses. Inow 
wish to learn wh he rience 0 ch meadanec as 
regards the hts pg hie Fir-trees, such as sp 
and Scotch Firs. .I am very desirous of surging i 
place of some sies tres, ve or wae ears old, pes 
have re destroyed, an 
one any experience on ‘this sehsinnias as to size, time of 
ot 
planting, aoa 
con ae alanis + by wel in, shady places h 
t only a few me them 
ifa 
able sg its Raeue se in fae espring—v. R., North- 
am 
axe Shows.—In_ page 830 (1841) there is. an. ar- 
ticle by Mr. Beck soliciting a correspondence on the sub- 
agen of ee. those small hor tieultnral apaien eties. which 
ntiguous us to each other into into 
ie Ohne for the i nat hei nts, 
&e., and award ¢ sonics prizes so somewhat pre Ppt 
merits, As your correspondent rues remarks, ese SO- 
cieties as hers sah are have much to contend with; and 
I fear that, unless the managers of he ir th lyes 
and act with that unanimity which ought to exist in such 
associations, many of the ust i har ae ase t 4 
Mr. Beck suggests a peg of the Windsor, Su and 
taines societies, an 
at 7 sap t place. 
Sun to join Stai 
‘ith ae. of Kingston, Teddington, Wands- 
and that they i 
Richmond... If arr sagen could 
Mr. Ellis fo or his large co mn 
surely the most taslidiows ca have no plea on the 
nbury, an 
at they should hold their meetings 
“would instead of recomme nding 
hab 
may be asked by th 
ducte 
— vour to 8 val spon a ton ene 
te them at Ri 
Be T at tell aoe t ees 
e, for se, second to Le i yin 
Britain: aR, isa on a fashionable ian the 
wn and aunty are more ele people? Py by by those likely 
: support such an institu tape any with which 
I am ac es d. 9g ald. be ees, 
prosincial Somer established near by gata of s 
nable the exhi 
