ae ae eee 
uppl 
.the free-growing kinds, such as 
any of which 
SSS Se ae eee eT eT Oe ee Pe Te ee 
of the ants disappearing in a few days, and not reappear ing 
1842.) 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
269 
answer the perose rigivsatas well. They require to be 
ar, 
des of the soil, and ee to be potted 
a little deeper at “ ae shifting ; it hl. necessary 
to shade them for a short time fro bright sunshine if 
the roots cake been in any way Lcceas by the operation. 
e hotbed is the best place to grow them a young 
must be ‘abt, near the glass; if not, they 
will get unsightly, and 
—that of being oe rank top to botto h 
and flowers. As soon as they are well established, they 
i h th 
ey can placed 
ds situation, s kept in the room, as may 
be most desirable, and they will flower "beautifully for se- 
veral months in au pacer 
in the greenhouse will now require a liberal 
of water; liquid manure will be found useful to 
gt 
of Melon-growing may so seeds now, and they will 
find some i for their sent marfagement By and 
by.—R. F 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
Si haves of Sulphur on Ee say Aig se ca tat = acom 
cation in No. 14, would Mr. B ene e good. 
ness ito date farther Fatcuar feipeen 
alg a; agp pat “Was any fire 
it fl f sulphur with which the 
filled ? ce nd if: , had it the effect of destroying the ants, or 
did it only drive them to remove to another pla 
a5 
pears to have benefited by the sulphur; has Mr. 
Bower y experience o et ve the ant- 
hills have been at the roots of shrubs or flo So far 
as tio he is concerned, u 
think powdered quicklime put into the holes would answer 
ery p ht — ards Pe r ore 
red on it.—W, 
fa Rash us with the foowing 
Ther 
ication :-—* 
hu 
AALTLOU illed | 
ae nts; on that hei * am not yet anit satistied, for 
revoir that I could di r dead in soil bore little 
@ (eleven mon ths) | on several acres | of short grass, or 
I have 
rubs or trees for that pu ly 
fo: 4 supposing eu sulphur destroyed them. 
yet used it at the oots of sh 
but knee to 
ance of shallow, aerunes borders, and the possessing 
a sont 8 y of hea cima in Age house, moe <e 
which a se at esse vod a greater de - ee of nourishmen 
to pvt the stems ih ion fruit wil not be mist wanted in 
vineries 3 and I re d to it, for the purpose of ex- 
cusing the want o oa ment, but as a method 
that might be tried as an auxiliary to it. (In line 29th 
my previous communication, the expression ‘‘ anxious 
t to part,”’ sh be ‘‘anxious not to hurt a quantity 
of > aren &e. n * Angler” will be pleased to ob- 
that I did not ascribe the effect produced to O gravi- 
and the result of experiments this winter and spring 
to conclude oon t gravitation has nothing 
: ; 
he incipient 
Licey of many of my Vines would £0 blind, but I have - 
nerally cnarm 
certainly the bunches have never been so compact nor so 
shaped ; but the question is, what is the cause, and 
uw 
to mature their wood, particularly tow Pp, 
8 being left nearly twenty feet long. If “ Angler” 
be able to.inform his er gardene’ é real cause 
Clianthus puniceus in fall bloom. 
a wall, is 9 feet high, extends 
with some hundred 
Ash 
disease arises 
laid in a pon ndi ina a clay field for 
en mae 
and fi 
Halisphote a see 
of shrivelling when t 
a great service. I can attri 
I have facts to go by.. The first and most commo 
ad gone perpendic 
and: Soe natural tee uenean 
three ~ oa is full 4 “springs riest ning 
cultivation, yet it is not of the size of your 
eta 
n 
the same house I have two Muscat Vines : ne pro- 
duces | - berries, but sons ally imperfectly ripened ~s do 
not force them); the fruit of the othe 
but always of a fine amber paced ind seldom ehsstike ihe 
former had only on roo 
oth fy vine its way 
e pillars on w which er flue is seve 
I traced it for thirty feet without finding a lateral r 
Sy neg as is very probable, pas f had died) ‘anitil it esieliad 
a of the flue imbedded under the soil; it then divided 
sometim 
he pit, and 
t Melon ~ adjoin. 
ing, yet ric have eee reappeared 4 bin of the 
are. 
2 Sheteelling of the Incipient Bunches in an Ear 
as nery a answer to an ‘* Angler” 
0 state t = in writing of the shrivellin u “ incipient 
k bunches, 1 ng —o as 
sun’s influence could’ d y and warm the soil, t 
eaavean when I inform tl 
of two feet during 
ere in full blos- 
— I su 
than they were befor: and I have had the gratification to 
a that th they have Sedhatiod new fibres nearer home.— 
ni 
Brach e iberidifolia.—I1 have heard man note, com- 
—— of “the shyness of this pretty annnal to seed, 
in yesterday’ 8 Chronicle perceived a query pacts a 
my own experience concernin. ng it. The first season, 18 40, 
I raised it from Swan River seeds; and the pases turned 
ovt in the serene? were too late to perfect seeds out of 
srt therefore I saved the small ae = obtai _ 
a few lates kept in the greenhouse. e followi 
igor 1841, I took eare to have my aad nile to t 
u 
S 
ies 
A 
mer, although b 
in the month of one 
seed was per 
ray that care is requisite in gathering each head ot | 
seed as it becomes matured.—J. Brewster, Gardener to 
ianthus puniceus.—' G, 
B.” a Limerick correspond- 
e hich I refer 
the kavwledge aon ait alee 
a proof of the mildness of our ir 
Mr. perg , near and mr 
of 
oisture. You shall h the 
Naiads) of the eaHe of-my plan in due time. As m 
is no demand 
ordinary gerden-mo 
thoug 
tice of rubbing off 
— 
sities 
in their turn are rubbed 
as useless a 
ane 
wered dui 
y no — ina sheltered situation ; and | Brocco 
well. 
| and if late, 
Ch situation, voles proteted te lit 
ent, has se Spent us with the eptnn | statement :—** As as oe 2 
there is now it ‘oo 
Se a trained against 
is now covered 
” 
6 fee : 
panere of i Aassabe sare blossoms. 
ong" —Can you 
isease any of your 
readers, give m infor mation irl a peculiar 
disease affecting ealthy young Ash-trees of about 35 
m 26 to 30 inches in girth ? They 
a tion, which appears s i" 
usion or bruise, being slig tly and evenly depressed, 
extends through the alburnum slightly into the w 
e same t s y su met in som 
is subje 
rom pruning inied when the sap was 
motion. 
Necessity of ve wai o Seed.—I took a quantily of 
mould, the result of d mpoeed Teaves, which had been 
ye 
a variety of s and plants ; bel I found ae not a ts 
would ve otal ster a ait grow in it. At the same time, 
took some mould, the result of leaves deco d by 
exposure to the-air on the surface of the earth for three or 
four years, and it produced a most luxuriant growth in 
he plants placed in it. Then what was the cause of t 
fi conclude, the abse ox in 
two pr rans with it, 
i _Wheat, and to Bis of the pots I 
ion of soda, to the other 
a ly of a none. 
Both plants grew, as a one with the soda produced four 
times as much straw and grain as the one growing in the 
bog-earth i pot 
though my garden affords Asparagus 
ntly succulent and tender, by the ordinary mode of 
m 
removal of the garden 
y 
soil (a eax eres! a supplied its place, in part, w with 
drift-sa I la his new soil to receive th 
liquid anure nd set! i f the above-mentioned drain- 
age one year (perhaps stealing a superficial and transie 
rop of some summe able), and then crop, ne 
os with Lnesideed Bos Asparagus plants. . Situated ag 
understood that I can renew 
and alkali 
little trouble, and ( ae presum 4 
and natural habitat of the plant is of great importance 
as of abundant 
Dryads a 
ng) may, when mixed up 
mould, daever the purpose as well. as 
drift-sand.— 
Potatocs.—A ah t the causes of ora in ine plant- 
may be re d the end ae on, ondition of 
the eyes of the ‘ sets. mA Gige neat ago, 
on sa egpic.. a pga planting in in Me rf ‘rubbive off the 
use th rather 
ey. grown longer ah an he 
ht expedient A the welfare of the plants. The prac- 
denied that the first and lea 
(ceteris paril va the strongest a r 
plant ; and.that when this is removed, rime sviinry 
es d, 3 are much w ; and if 
off also, the gat ” may 5 
s a fragment having neither rind nor eye at all. 
ecco. —You do a very Poctire ee thing to us amateur 
ners by now and then 
pete iO scty ton! ~ 
e purple son «prolific, ce 
it it produces a 
