[Marcn 19, 
188 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
TREATMENT OF CY RTOPODIUMS. | sive example of the truth of this principle in the working and the peer: poh blue Omphalodes verna, commonly 
Havine cultivated Cyrto for six or seven | of a new method of heating plant-houses, where it was | called « Forget me Not. 
ithout ever succeeding in getting them supposed that if the pipes were placed in a chamber below mong lena hich flo ower late in the season, there ig 
flower, I last year tried the following treatment, the | the level of the fl of the house, and communicating | a plant alled Anemone vitifolia, which should be in every 
lt of which has been, that this spri strongest | with it by a few holes or trunks made along the front or border of herbaceous pl The leaves are shaped li 
plant, vat 9 a no a8 7 err Th = it ete been ot back, the heat generated by the pipes in the chamber | those of the Vine, of a reen ; an the flowers which 
pain’ years. iA ould all ascend through these places and keep up a su stand above the leaves are white; the habit of the p 
this t me last Far if fresh po Seles sing 7 plants removing nt temperat uch, however, not the case: a | is good, as it does n w till it is eters fitted for the 
al the peat wee A parame in which they had formerly | great quantity of > <i remained where it was, and middle or front of the border. There is another fine plant 
been grown. 4 substitutin: ng in thei oe a very | plants were in some instances frozen. So in like manner | for a border, ca called Acanthus m ollis, whi ch is a native of 
strong fria’ ts tenn which I hav tees et time em- | the heated ai ix ighanth out very slowly at these back ven- | the Levant, and not v common in small gard ns. 
ployed for the maga ones: of Hi mahal, e being | tilators, and the plants are burned. large spikes of flower: very 0 tal, and its shin. 
such, that when mbled by reali t does not A house, of which Sa tulleinass the section, would have | ing pinnatifid leaves are interesting, as being 
again, but palate an ale and porous, pati extremely | all the advantages of the other with regard to light, par from which the Grecian chitects are said to have taken 
tenacious . bing a great deal ater, but | at the same time the means of sufficient ventilation would the leaves of the Corinthian capital. Itis apt to get 
allowing the superfluous moisture to pass Iyi-. It be provided we jured in winter in wet situations—R. F’. 
was obtained from the bottom of the channels of.a @ represen a a ee 
i meadow, in a s the ventilat Si ge betta SPONDENCE. 
the plants in the game pots in which g boards i m — wi 
viously grown, draining them we 
er respects ex il 
ment as in former tro 
pe t and drought afterwards 
P pa 
the Chronicle last year, p. 
ockl and pai 
and luxuriant if gro stiff, -like 
loam. I believe it will I be "found ‘that Phafan maculatus, 
hotwaterpipes 
e in con- 
thet > with the 
plants 3 
a move 
amet iro description of ‘soil. The present is a goo od 
time Cyrtopodiums-are beginning to grow, for 
riment. 
the w 
in ook but which has now wdlaippenradon —John Rog 
ON THE VENTILATION OF CURVILINEAR 
TRON HOTHOUSE 
oO a: 
various parts of the country of late veer but they 
not proved to be so useful as at first e: 
pected. ‘Those in con 
not what it is generally sup be; for we are 
likely to have too much light i gland for greenho 
plants or Vines, even if the photometer woflld indicate a 
higher in the house than out rs. The ac- 
companyi ng transverse section of one hese ouses in 
cel 4 reaching 
fi 
a 
reas F 
openi th the addition sometimes of one or two in 
the ends, are all the means available for oe as the tem- 
If such houses had been 
rature i inah sy age a 
| pre g ten —— = much shade, 
they» would doabtiove, ct had ten 
that the sere is built and 
re perpendicular, 
eS 3 ie d, yer es in the a 
curviline 
s not liable 
dying thee defects m: 
hes might t be 
used in the 
instead of the eo eves ~ it is Ehdight desirable. 
It would be ra advan than otherw ith 
bit to light, ed - —— mare — erpendicular t ‘0 the 
sun’s rays in winter and spring ; and although it woul 
be less so in the neni of aa and July, yet this would 
be rather beneficial—R#. For: 
AMATEUR’S GARDEN.—No, 
ee containing hizen ah kee erbcera 
plants may now be put in order not a 
te Atm to dig these 7 ee in the cart ioedée many 
awe at that season, oe 
same ver springing 
ese — it is fre- 
inc 8B — 
ens, nf 
up in all directions. 
quently necessary to reduce 
mens 5 but this is often done anner, 
therefore, wh cut in such pretty dwarf 
plants as Arabis alpin brietia deltoidea should 
always choose a pat om the most healthy part, which 
| will be found on side, and plant it in its 
d 
the border amongst fres ps 3 they wi me 
ers. 
s become mo proper 
shining ina ‘dear sky ky for = a few ek the worst effects are | in this manner have healthy plants, and fewer blanks 
ee 
is open ; 
the ere of the a much fasta roots can 
eaves flag, ae at their edges, 
this i 
one for allowing it to escape when it is 
Several persons lately had rather an expen: 
eo 
a place in a small 
which there are many fine varieties a preiie 
| colour; one ca usianus, or *‘ of 
pinay beaatifal Dog’s-t tooth Violet, Adonis v vernalis, 
Hepatiege, the staple and double 
is commonly named the Peach-blossom 
seston Se ee oie Siyrinchiuin grandiflorum, 
Alyssum are the common 
— rose eo Violets, the Saraboap sa Snowflakes, 
ta 
blue, ony another which ‘ 
ifraga op- | toes of a 
t iliar 
History of hia ore Nature, Habits, aod Instin ta 
In the second vol. o Sastre gel 96, it is men- _ 
tioned that in two instances wher core had ‘been deal 
— in oa at numbers, the failure of crops had been 
young rooks c 
sis as as 
the rooks has "reared their young. The nests will he 
cannot be enticed this season, as they have an 
building —Edward Morse, Gardener, Butleigh Court, — 
selice ; 
-_ 
hapman’s Potato. —In the Chronicle for March the 
5th, I find Mr. C. Chapman, of Brentford End, complain- 
ing that Ih ve misco strued hi i d wee Bye 
the sale of his Potatoes, in the first place tos 
I have not the pleasure of knowing him ot 
than as connected s ime ago with the 
| 
2 
a will be - 
to be delivered in May next” (why not before 3 tee. 
full directions for their culture.” le in 
> 
@ 
il 
?P 
a previous peprsgen or by expos 
light e calls new chen) Pass 
i to mature meh atid are” 
them at a much later season ordinarily 4 
