THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 19, 
a native of England or = 
tas rent. It is foun 
any, south of ae 
he ms - inet the Alps, i in the 
the Tyrol. It seem 
i choniena wi 
unless, perhaps, with some of the a wae in 
localities. It has a 1 oaigpa~ hg se of leaf, 
a rough scape, flowers, ann lyx, and is 
scentless. ay beauty it is inferior to pe arg our Oxlip or 
Comets to P. Colnass or suaveolens of Italy. It may 
b Perhaps with P. Pallasii. a English Oxlip is 
vo Pay on the tinent ts garden varieties, 
namely, the Polyanthus hese 
Perhaps the north 
known to be 
north and w e, where the climate 
is the same as in England, teat Se e excinded from these 
observations the Continent ; as it i ible that 
y and Normandy may possess bo 
raion and consequently the Oxlip.—S. 
~ FAMILIAR BOTANY.—No. III. 
The Daffodil.—1n a few days our dell be e d 
by a plant with narrow grass-like leaves, which 
spring a bulb, and surr e stem of a gaudy 
yellow flower, which some call Daffodil and ot Nar- 
cissus. Its nodding blossom does ae agi. its ese sad 
ing ; some say it is in sorrow for 
man ; but we are of opinion 
contrary, who ac it well, regard it as the 
cheats, a base trai 
Burke and Hare, and their confederates. 
Who would chi eath 50 fair a form ? ? 
rariaede n this 
have elapsed, at 
—— time my brother “ne tong from that a ney he swal 
lowed the a or enumerat é gras 
dually abated after Pan as h had been chigaiod ine the 
administration of three or fect emetic doses of antimonial 
= 
Be careful then, ye mothers, how you let your children 
piay with daffodils, © That deaf and viperous murderer 
other 
under the Lrsryes of science. 
: oe epee humble fleur 
re Sago teajanue past ques Salutaires, 
Hooping s cured by the 
cough ry extract “OF N Narciss bulbs 
anette Stowe, and Daffodils are good ¢ etios ; 
Pancratium es the Squill in its ‘utility fe for 
pense and all of henti eae excellent poultices for trouble- 
So tru wit ike natu a ae ee 
nstiaal pore — the bitterest thi 
conducive to 
the salvati tion of to-morrow. 
HACON’S” INCOMPARABLE PEA 
‘Tus variety was raised about twenty- be 
by W . James Gent Hacon, of Downham- aot ‘Nor. 
* Mr, J. ¥F. Clarke, Princes-street, Soho, 
page from seed of Rayner’s Norfolk sastpiry In addition 
e frui 
t, the 
T 
size and usual form are repr by the accompanying 
utline, drawn.from a fruit grown on a dard. It has, 
however, been grown t ize. The eye is 
r, been grown to a much larger si e ey! 
— in a broad shallow depression; stalk about an inc 
n length, with a moderately deep cavity at its insertion ; 
skin partially russeted, interspersed with distinct pale 
ey spots; flesh yellowish-white, — and ne — 
a rich saccharine Savote, somet 
a duloi us direston, an at the tree 
adapted for standards. It ought to exist in ae 
callecton It is sometimes called ready Norfolk In- 
mparable, and also Downham Seedlin 
42° 
All over Pale Brown 
e of most 
ur welfare, and od that the ‘aaligas of to-day is 
—R 
with slight Cinnamon-coloured Russet 
MEDIUM SIZE FROM A STANDARD, 
AMATEUR’S GARDEN.—N 
cori w 
t 
pit, ted in any way, 
and have no other covering all the | winter, except a mat 
delion over the glass; in summer 
and the plants fully exposed to the weather. 
been in this  situati 
They ha 
he pit if the ground is wet, an 
water them well until the roots strike into the soil ; after- 
wards they _ require H except the 
rotection 
If the iigsitione have been attended to respecting the 
— and reepites of things intended to ornament the 
er-garden 
e 
B 
S 
more splendi asses of tropes 
A lis, Petunias, Salva, and sushi. Foon which, 
after being planted out in May, produce a succession o 
flowers al the autumn ‘until the frost destroys them. The 
stems of Salvia pate ns will 1 now look withered and dead, 
bu 
ing or ready to start, and will soon send out a quantity of 
excellent - Dahlias which have been put 
m, keep 
e that ~~ do not = 
ls which 
E 
me a A few of them 
und ; 
rtles. best aliact. bation oo 
Beige shifting 8 ape stad plants should pe tev xa 
roots may 
worst ini bo Tanlseved pas Ros sein stated out on nile 
thade | 
bees of the’pipes I place a small garden-pot, w. 
to give the whole more room to grow Plants 
will require a onsen upply of water, and w 
benefited by a shower ov 
ea n. 
HOME 
Mortlock’s Satirist Dahlia.—We, at la 2 h 
Mortlock. 
very It was, also, accom a far tee 
ie variety “Our readers will, however, obsery. e them 
we have n _— eans of identifying « + Fn Satirist ”’ Dahlia 
with either of these varieties, n we know anything 
further we the matter than is the ere aaabads 
Cucum —I st e that oo init 
i. mbers. In th: 
sy 
impregnatio 
On the contrary, vey, gardener to J. Tharp 
Chippenham Park, with the finest oleae I ever be! yeheld in 
careful impregnation, could nd 
ww I will 
ee 
Se, 
y, an 
if sBatatte rfect, t 
wy tet: 
cviling, vey ray to ‘elicit pal, ruth, and if it can be 
prove in error, no one will more thankfully 
stand cadeeind ea: - W. P. Ayres, Bhace Garden, Soham 
had become properly hardened, and 
woody consistence, it would be co: d into a pe 
hardy plant. In proof of this, I may mention that at St. : 
eock, near Falmouth, the front of e Ho 
entirely covered with a gi zea, which never Fe- 
ceives the slightest peaisepon, annually produces 
tho f flowe d The stem of this swe 
men is as large as a man’s Jeg, @ and the flowers are 
brighter — 
coloured than is usually the case. ehaenn with the 
Passion-flo roduces a beautiful 
simmer and autumn montha.— Boughton 
i reserv i 
manner described, that Cobzea would live for sinc 
out of doors near Falmouth; but we doubt if such & 
result would be obtain ed in steak parts of England, w 
d 
the climate is pe 50 
Cuc <The frame raps below is 
on ea 4 inches in diameter, which oa be 
larger o r smaller, as may be required ; ‘yen itis me 
