Sy See ie 
842] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 349 
Cacti, would be much i injured, and eye rotted by | arise from the handling ¢ of the ¢ Grapes i in thinn nning, or or from T have written to them to give the name of the individual 
being kept es mere” in water ; and, therefore, | being rubbed by the hair of the operator. My Grapes, I | from whom my information was .—F. Coventry, 
aarwoush pes new dl p aced below the poe for the pur- | can confidentl fe a have never come in contact with Jersey. [It was impossible for us to tell whether the 
d to | an i M ’s or 
n a e find u 
now have a stage, and place the vicar of tives ni of doors. | amateur gardener at that time, and knew little about | the wild specimens oe Tre zeolum palpphifibens, but ‘the 
If the outside of the window or balcony is not too much | planting. But aving determined to discover, if possible, pore is quite different ; rat om the os a polyphylium, 
i i t ye t r et us 
from reflection, the plants get burned, and in a short time | Vines, which had always shanked. I found them buried blue-flowered sort, whose colour is that of the Siberian 
: look very unsightly; in such situation, Mammillarias and | 2 feet, the main root had never entered the border, but oars and which it appears that Mr. Bridges has 
f ‘ d.] 
a: e ome a : ese ee ae he h : : 
_ ‘plants are very well suited for rooms, particularly the | tub, and buried itself in astrong clayey soil. This I have Chamomile.—I have no doubt Chamomile is a restora- 
‘pretty round Mammillérias, which are at all times curious, | no doubt caused 7 aes I have shortened the roots, a = many sickly plants: I am much mistaken, indeed 
‘and when i n ave ct. 
ica 
5 
° 
4 
& 
bie 
o 
a! 
cr 
“ 
is 
5 
ob 
— 
4 
i=} 
oO 
p 
i-) 
i 
f-] 
3 
a. 
wn 
] 
B 
~ 
— 
o 
i 
o 
ra 
o> 
ic] 
=| 
+ 
— 
is 
a 
° 
3 3 
"pS 
p 
=] 
f=) 
Bes 
Ee 
= 
oO 
mu 
= 
I ao 
me 
r=] 
ic] 
= 
oO 
73) 
& 
+O 
cles 
~ 
Re 
a 
i-z 
~® 
s 
to 
o 
-_ 
= 
i= 
=) 
aa 
nm 
J 
a. 
wn 
=” 
° 
aa 
is} 
2,2 
“<q 
3 
25 
cad 
a 
oo 
pe 
> 
— 
i) 
tna 
— 
g 
J 
' 
the flowers are small. There is another plant, known as | NOW grow very strong, certainly, but it looks atten; however, as applied to plants, modern research 
the ‘‘ Creeping hosts which is well suited for a window healthy. "The Tokay and the Sweet Water I planted | has contributed nothing worth recording.—J, Murray 
With’a south as There was a beautiful specimen of | myself in the same binder and they have never shown any | [If this be so, where is the evidence ? 
‘ ; i u io i 
yeai’ in a window at Turnham Green, and sometimes in | and a bad border. But how to account for the appearance | L, M. N., had requested information upon turning a piece 
summer taken out and placed upon the top of an old | of this rust only within the last two years, I cannot | of wa aste ground into a lawn;—I submit _ following 
-R.F. surmise, and if you can suggest any remedy, you would | method, which I adopted in turfing about 200 square 
Erratum,—At page 332, col. 1, read, “loosen the ground well | greatly oblige me.—J. Deane Waite. [We really cannot | yards of garden ground, if you should think it worthy of 
all round the plant,” instead of “soak the ground,” &c, suggest any reason for the appearance of the disease in | no tice. I was too impatient to wait for a decent sward 
this instance ; if any of our Correspondents can, they | by the slow process of s ed-sowing, and too poor to give 
™* 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE, will greatly oblige us.] 3d. a yard for turf, and the carriage ‘of two miles more 
On Raising Tropical Seeds.—Much of the disappoint- Bleeding of the Vine.—I have been amused by the | afterwards to get it home; so I obtained a few barrow. 
ment in raising seeds is iin plore either by the access of fight about the cheese, for this urpose, in your 5 loads of pretty fine turf, from some green patches at the 
i fumbers. If i _ a i 
0 . you ‘ound re nted 
or by insufficient heat. ap plants will grow well at a| which I will recommend to them if you will not, ‘ ind: it all over: i. e., I took a piece of turf in my hands, (Iam 
temperature quite incompetent to promote and sustain the ley’s Theory of Hortioukure;”. they will find at page 257 | not a gardener, but a schoolmas ter,) and tore off small 
germination of their seeds; for instance, the Kidney Bean | to whom the iscovery belongs.— Surreyensis tufts, and tossed them down (grass upwards, of course) 
(Phaseolus) can during a cold wet summer only be cul- Hellebore Powder and Gooseberries,—It may Save ex- | at little distances from each other; dotting the 
tivated in Britain by starting the seed in a hotbed. The pense and disappointment to some of your readers to it pas a th re all over, and stepping backward as 
well-known difficulty in causing imported Cocoa-nuts to state the result of an experiment I made on the Goose- | my work proceed I 
germinate may arise from insufficient heat, or from the berry Caterpillars with Agrees hellebore, which is so | tufts, tere as I went on, by which they were spread out 
fruit having become dry by remaining too long on the strongly recommended for their destruction. I covered | and pressed into the oa which gave it at once a lawn- 
_ tree. The liquid contained in the nut is indispensable in ao of the larvee completely with the powder, and con- | like appearance ; and as I did this in the autumn. the 
__ the process of germination, as the food of the embryo can ed them under a wine-glass, on a piece of paper strewed | patches branched out, and nearly filled up the intervals 
_ only be absor se in a liquid state. Although the Cocoa- with hellebore, I watched them for several hours, during | the first year. The above was an experiment of my own 
i tai ica, | w i i «nol ie 
2 
S 
or 
: s w t ; 
come under my own imiled “observation, I think it may | it would bepossible to do on a bush. My inference from | and I could doit in less time than I could — down me 
safely be laid down as .a rule, in sowing tropical haa it is, that hellebore is useless. Ihave ke ept the ee quantity of r r tarf,—O. P. (‘This is an accoun 
_ that; how well soever a plant may grow at the minimum | well under by hand-picking the bashes | by children, — of the old practice of inoculation, which is aur so Prseae 
mperature of its native pe. ipcalit re the maximum Saaiees. peating it when necessary.—Surre known as it deserves to be. 
ma. i roccoli 
e the s aw Ss an bberie 
are vegetating.. The ~ ical effect.of light, so elk Gardeners’ Chronicle, Mr. Gordon bes given an ample | you ree oe ed the propriety of scenes a ‘the scald of 
_ to small seeds, such as Lisianthus, Lobélia, &c., could description of the different sorts of Broccoli and their treat- | shrubberies the leaves of trees, as neither unsightly nor 
easily be obviated. by having es glazed ae coheed ment. For several years | have been in the habit of plant- altogether useless: Approving entirely of your line of 
in i i I was i it as applicable to an 
a 
glass. ; tannin that Sie it of being covered coli. e | argument, 
F to the dept ch half an pee do not r require ich preted sorts I generally plant are Keen’s Seedling, Roseberry, | object I have long been desirous of { ing, viz., an 
tion w in Mareh. If the atmospheric tempera- | Grove-end Scarlet, Old Scarlet, and Aberdeen seedling: | economy of the labour of keeping’ extensive beries 
ture al domi of the a pated every plant were © better I prefer planting either after Celery when the ground has nae ‘irom weeds, grass, &c. The expense of this, putting 
nown, the proper mode of c ultivating exotics would be | been bastard-trenched with a good coat of manure dug | ou ew its impoverishing effects on the soil, is very 
_ more Hono pia Pw mined. Many. individuals readieat into the bottom spit ; or after an kind of roots when the peti particularly in seasons such as we have of 
. ell experien: . 
eterred fi rim 
‘plants from inability to name them, while others think | and dug previously to planting. I putin the rows of Broc. it, has answered m bs It 
_ they have greatly. enhanced their value by noting their | coli from two feet to two feet anda half apart, and the | ing the piedeas eq over the ground, and sprinkling 
Linnean class and order, But I presume the information | same distance in the rows, according to the size of the | some earth over them to keep them down. 1am now 
Most desirable to accompany a package (suppose from | sort; I then draw a shallow drill in the centre between using, lesasd of aa the short cuttings of mown os; bolt toe 
Jamaica), is to know whether a given plant grows by the | each two rows of Broccoli, and plant the Strawberries in it which, when strewed very over the leaves, have 
_ ‘Seaside, or towards the summit of-the Blue. Mountains, | one foot apart. Ifthe weather should be dry after plant- | effect of bringing them 5. hdhiethnes, a c 
_ Where the temperature varies from 40° to 75°; whether ing, I water them two or three times until t ey take root, | network, which observation has shown me to be of a very 
_ in the partial light of a deep dell, or exposed to the direct keep down weeds, and occasionally clear away all dead or | enduring ch ow It is evident the effect jp a oe 
in the open glade; or whether an annual, | decaying leaves of the Broccoli; and in the spring the the growth of the plants is considerable. — After m 
or a lofty tree. Such information might Strawberry plants will be equally as strong as those a perience, I may perhaps communicate the results, econo 
y any one, most useful and inter- | ing in a similar situation by themselves, and come ict er ctisidered ; ; in the mean time I mention it, " in thes 
' geography is. the distribation of plants, as | flower some days before them, owing to the —. they —_ that you will give your attention to the subject 
re dependent in a greater ‘ degree on external cig receive from the Broccoli in the spring, which of course | that othe — Precd be induced al. = gee nt upon it. 
as heat and light, than animals.— Thomas Cow will be gradually thinned out as they become fit for use ; When ex ve shrubberies a re plante I think it would 
of the Leaves of Fauahe Teddi tenks aie and by the time that the ——— are in flower the | be 80 as 
on the authority of Mr, Hayward’s Treatise, | Broccoli is all cleared a away. I am no great-advocate for | the scene may be cleared by a horse-hoe for a few years, 
1¢ author does not believe the curl in Peach- huddling different’ sorts of crops good iy but the above | and then the re applied as the plants approach in 
to be caused by cold winds, because all trees, grow- Biss r have practised with considerable srt and nT their foliage: I find the oo spr of the horse-hoe, 
& same situation, are not affected by it. This | find t ground, time, and labour. = a small harrow attached t to i bee! o'be most economical 
Y proves that some sorts are hardier than others. I Sticvaaen Carton Gardens gg g iks, as pp 
ea aie ay Nectarine this year blistered all ove er; ad-| Mills’ Im mproved Pits.—] have lately oe constructed reins &e.—D. B. ; 
a Peach, that has ar Fa curled leaf. The | one of Mills’ improved pits, which has astonished all the | | Rai/roads.—Being a good deal in the a - travelling 
Srax ¢ oie Heated’ in light turfy soil, has had its roots gardeners about here from the quickness or the growth | on phe it has often occurred to me t onsider how 
ore than once, and the s pe Sh sort of soil added, | and gigantic foliage of the pe ai plants — in te easily thei r sides (of embankments as well as cuttings) 
it it; the | The Ww ine. 
. 
to, t 
y were pulled up, and the spot has neither 33 fine Cucumbers, varying from 14to 18 inches in length. | have been planted, which are decidedly objectionable, as 
nor cro since; so that a surfeit of pu- i i i i 
“cause in this 
loam there are 
Oran mM, Cle Halt epth of soil was eighteen inches, and this was laid upon | some exceptions to the general rule, and I should be 
iy os “ : Gas hanks es 
d 
s now and | 18th were twenty-one inches y n—T. Hoblyn, | the difficulty is to know wh re best 
ae Tadehed last | White Barns, Buati cir se ich 
Year, as Ouse is heated be > a ‘brick Mg to place upon Megat tee en il from a Jetter I have very unfavourable, 
it a zinc st 4 feet long by 6 inches wide and 3 dee ep, | received from Messrs. Low, of Clapton, that the specimen | however, o 
the purpose o deeliting sture, which I was led to | of the “plant exhibited by me at.a meeting of the Horticul- 
would prove ve highly ra as tural Society, on the 2d inst., is identical with thei 
But hc peta they certainly | I request you, in justice to them, to corr 
eng ith a i 
t ; 
er T had er witn mely, communication, that their Tropseolums were an in : 
This hes — abi itself upon the “Black variety. TI regret that I shonld have been lett to make ; 
3a Tokay and Sx weet Water, on each side, have | observation which m might, as Messrs. Low th 
of it, This disease is uniformly stated to | injurious to them if allowed to pass 
