| 1842:) 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
tate of the Wether near London forthe Week endin g May 26, | 
* 1842, a ed at the Horticultural Garden, Chiswick. 
§ 4 Barometer. THERMOMETER. Wind. | Rata. 
4 =o May ax. Min Ma Min. ) Mean. | | = 
- Priday cau 658 29.646 63 49 56.0 S.W. 4 
i Saturday 2t 724 29.676 61 41 51.0 Ss. ‘ 
* Sunday 22). 29:748 |. 29.674 65 42 53.5 s. 01 
. Monday 23 29.857 29.785 64 43 53.5 8, 01 
Tuesday 24] 29.838 .790 65 40 52.50 1 S29. Pen 
f Wednesday25| 29.854 B45 63 48 55.5] Siw.) Olea 
Thursday 26 |)» 29,823 |. 29.767 66 47 | 568 | Swe] lo 
v 1. 786 «740 3.8 44.3 54.0 Tio. 
“! 
May 20. Densely clouded, and cold; overe 
21. Cloudy and fine; 
night. ott ican tte 
“92. =e wot sligh night. 
sultry at intervals; tioaay and fine at 
t 
udy; fine; pt Hier at hight: 
The mean 5 teuhpeeatai of the week was 24 below the average. 
staat eS 
a State Pi ag he vheak at Ae abrag Phe ples bay years, for 
nsuing Wee g& June 4, 
“ = ae Wir 
Mean Year in aie, 1 mueecane 
Temp| which it 
Rained. 
a Aver. | Aver. 
. Highest! Lowest 
Temp. | Temp. 
Flak at exticn Aan 
68.9 
highest 
was and, tp ap 
—thermometer 
peta ON COVENT GARDEN MARKET, 
‘or the week ending May 27, 1842, 
most sorts of Vegetables oe the past week oo 
ee tare during the j 
Shae peri ccurred 
meter 85°; and 
the lowest on ithe 3rd, 1837 
The supply =} 
Deen sone or on fat rg kind of Fore 
more abundant. Tra 
Fruit.—Pin 
on the whol 
price, howev we 
are considerably 
abunda: 
per, 
» per Vegetables are 
» owing to the soldnon of the nights ; 
materi 3 the best fetches 
mt bages are plentiful and 
searce uch cheaper 
ng from 14s, to 16s. per half sieve 
Zz. bundles. 
variety ; the pr among oo 
Bo ronias, Roses, Gladioluses 
t f a we tie 
> ones consist 0 ‘Azéleas, matises, 
alceolarias, G arent and Picotees, 
PRICES Sarurpay, May 29, 1849. FRUIT 
Apples, Kitchen Cueumbers, per poate aa tols 6d 
Melana” English, each, 6s to 9s 
ree ushy 
e t. he 
dw arries, rao Se 4dtosd co r lb. 18s 
per doz. 
‘a 
Peaches, a Gooseberries, er hf. sve. _ 3s 6d to 4s 6d 
Necta » per rho Currants, per half sieve, 
Pine App €» perlb. 10s,to 1 lmonds, pe rpeck, 7s 
pikes? petra se, per pak 2 4s to8s | Sweet Almonds, per pound, 3s 
Ora z., 9d to 23 6d Walnuts, per e phat; 168 to 248 
Sal he 00,58 to 188 |Nuts, et bush, 
Bitter, <7 ~ ig to 16s | = rast : — + 
. Leinoas, pen doz. — Spanish, 16s 
. per 100, & _ Barcelona, 208 
a — Turke ey, 16s 
G LES. 
s6d | Garlic, perlb. 1s 
ge oa to 3s/ Shallots, per Ib., 226d 
se? Gre rt bunch, 3d 
ashe os Onions, per en; per b eeticte 
e, if spol Asp: eng Hac tong a aries 
3 to 16s 8 ri ar, “ rr’ 
orced, p.100, 266d to 8¢ |" Second or Middling, 226d to 4s 
— Sprue, or on Is to 2s 
owt: Lettuce, Cabbage A pai to ls 6d 
De 6d t 
ber bushel, la6d i 236d 
idney, per ps 3 to3s | Celery, per Piinale e(iat0 eA edn ls 
eww Wy = 6d to ls 6d | Small Salads, pe 
ish, 3d Wa atercressy| sizamall Bunch. aa to 
ps, young, oo nh ad ta 6d to 2s Parsley, pe: 
» per bunch, €d to 1s 6d a mn; piper dozen jooe Tish 
12 oxen, a hin a Sauna te 23 
aie, per dozen, 6d The vane epee d roee. 
per bandie, r+ to 8s Sage 
» per doz. 1 ands (21 to. 30 each) weit, gee Soave bunches 2s to Bs 
a M 2 doz. bunches, 2s 
_ ip, p.doz. bch., 6d to 1s 6d| Basi |, per doz. bunches, 2e 
Spinach, per sieve, le Rhu uubarb Stalks, doz. Bindles, 4s to 128 
TF po! Mushrooms, per pottle. tols 
Leeks, per dozen b bunches, 1s to ls 6d ae 
Pidgin? to Correspondents. 
tis very beneficial to cut off the flower-stems 
not required for seed, and it should be done 
heir growth, 
's plants 
A Subscriber, 
of Ri HUBARB, hed 
atan early period of ‘t 
Constant Reader's 
tAndrémede 
ei 4, 
oS a Catésbei; 2. 
4, Lithospermum por. 
6, Geranium striatum ; 7, 
is the Yellow Bucklan 
oe ee ursinum ; 2, Pedicularis 
officinalis ; 5, 
ena Maan: w requires be raised 
erward. ape out in sot open rou, 
it for mrreet iced with a hand 
+—You will find a full cine of the method : 
ING GARDEN-SEEDS for ieee leading article a 
71s Of last year’s Chronicle. 
erp eased the 
Be 
‘ > Hill. 
w 
Seiwa tea ae 
ats apes 
done with 
of 1 
'» and burning 
the more sure and 
crease th y cuttings of the half-ripened wood. The best 
DODENDRONS and a Evergreens is ay 
in pring. There is no way to prevent the scraggy appear. 
ance of the’ Warn = ge Be gud out of 1 flower but by cutting- 
sizhtly. all the dead shoots. d shortening those which are 
sig’ 
A. B. C.—The proper time to commence shading 
is just as the forwardest pods are be; 
soon as any of the 
during wet hg 
& your Picorers 
flowers are opened by all means shelter them 
W. Earl.—You r purple Pansy is rich in colour and large; the 
general form of ‘the orgy 4 is very round and good; it also lies 
fiat, oe we think that for so large a flower the petals want sub- 
stan 
ELF —Pray excuse us: and yet 
tikpisiat abort it, = it reminds us a that ts the late Catharine o 
Russia. Her Maj 
S ieokee sse je mia, 
Que ehomit Monsieur Rogerson.” es 
Ww, 
If ? had the misfortune to be the editor of a newspaper, he 
would discover that there may be very unexpected reasons for 
esa things now unintelligible to pw 
M gs goo 
wl the i interests 
lished anonym 
. R.—Man 
Seong Cuki for the eon ye ips Pinguicula, which we 
have se seldom the good fortune to s m this side the Bristol 
annel. 
edling Verbena is certainly high-coloured, to 
fr rom ss icnociahee sent; but it a ee to oo peg very 
nearly to V. apne dres super rba. 85 ye mee not a 
parate 
that isd pret ON PINKS will a oa on a 
mblance to their parents; and if the seed was sa 
that many of the offspring will come double 
e like oad that by far the greater part will be 
semi-double It sl ait with patience, you will be better able 
‘oO neee for ewes goer 
A Young Farmer.— experiments On AMMONIACAL LIQvoR, 
conducted b by Mr, Rishon, of which an account oe: Foetus’ en at p. 224 
of this ye: rmed in April 
Pink, 
ar’s Lag were perform 
n thin: 
* is the enteval counties of florists to leave the extreme or sae 
bud, and the most forward one upon each of the two a 
below ben that neither of them are ahr All t est 
should be nipped off at an ear arly stage of their h. 
C.N— nce of the curious i dna of the Pur- 
“yee 
PLE xerurros is mentioned in this week’s report of the Horti- 
ane a ety. 
—Your Princess Royal P. is a remarkably pretty 
rpeeray coon the an a of the bine t hander which surrounds the 
delicate lemon.co: er pe! - oe chee e = s fine and decid 
the upper petals bright purple. 
three under petals are of a de licate iene yellow, theup 
ee pUrntes the jour, bo e 
ely 
icate colo 
e of their flowers, which, 
thin, and i is the cause of the lower 
he Beauty of 
being thie best in form, and with a 
however, in our 0 
Knosthor pe is our favourite, 
peculiarly — 
Hibern 
dry, wekie 
easily pitragated bn 
is given in the N 
exterior coats of the bulbs as can be 
Aoi'ed popegene SSee 
Of propagating Mase heres 888 by budding, you may 
icans, Standishii, Chéndleri, 
grandifiora fnithine, oe yg élegans, 
Lar Moneypenn 
ai S.—Your plant is Spirzea levigata. 
—Your nah oer gl of Fucnsia CORYMBIFLORA willsoon reco 
It ou 8 either been rage Pct by in insects, or is ca te from cold. 
s plants 
anure or pond water. 
frequent — strong liquid 
Common Green Metin 
er the same purpose as G 
“acoptone pouring rit ind the manure. water wes so sie 
u can perc sg op offen e smell. You 
plant your youn; 
ma be pulled up, and meng in alee aay ahate Or fice 
4 our purpose for making Tobacco- pro as. 
well as for fumigation. They say you may destroy Cat 
a Gooseberry-bushes by dusting HELLEBORE-POWDER over 
hem, but som deny . Eccremocarpus scaber, and 
all the verietion of Le shear are half-hardy Creepers, and may 
transplanted into th a 
otection in winter. CucumBERs. ‘should not be stopped at 
every joint; only wh ere there isa fait at the next joint below. 
haem trained on the 
itself, for next year’ sapere To pr atom the APrHis 
your Pelargéniums, oS os eae? and not wat: ir them 
over-head with Tobacco- 
Dago.-—The larger el your plants is Neéttia Nidus avis; the 
smaller one is Ophrys Myodes. 
Mr.R Briar’s no’ 
its destruction Pp. 337. We wish he would 
the insect which the edges of the Bean 
garde have visited in Wi ves are 
ron Rec oe ill produce a very beautiful 
moth, called Bom oe eee wera rare it feeds upon a 
variety of pea and yanstnbha troee see netic e Lettuce 
hae a it sometimes attac! 
lag 
ginning to expand; and as | fair 
a bronzy purple, is not so good as several already out in the 
same way. 
i .—SALT AND WATER must be extremely weak if ‘ay. 
plied tndbas! tcammce ail gait ind -peato! of water is enough. 
QuickirMe will do no harm to anything, except slugs and such 
“3 or” e smoke burning Sutpmur will destroy 
foli ou may consider PkacHEs and BCTARINES to be 
irly stoned when a pin will no e ue of 
the Krypto Society is descriptive of F Fruits, in a tabular 
form, but includes no information about cultivation, ~We cannot 
os you * Paxton’s Calendar” unless y d your ad Ss. 
eto—ne 
A,B. Cs oa is quite Sina gpm for us the 
NDORS of manures, o anything else. They t make 
€ post mark of South ahaa we should think 
you i oa ds “yx the Bone-crushers 
RA Coven ti seed m: may be had of every respect- 
able Seedsman, who, if he does not keep it, Ah to procure 
it. It is best to 
No Teetotaller eae 
i _ es ot unde 
S 
z 
Probably be better if he was o 
rstand s pacers in the betitie wat ie 
e he says, that his Oran ree very healthy and Label 
well, but drop their —_ but Pie he aids that — these 
is autte stunted an dead, und armory by 
this Nothin g is ane of t hs state of the eo. - the temperature 
other circumstances heer with woo 
absence of such informati canno 
poninty a ane ae coal ice. 
_ Blu nderbuss. —It is Seca pte cage in what proportion you mix the 
3 the more there is of the e latter, the 
ake ie go will much improve it because o 
Salt as wrelt as shells it contains. We are acquainted with 
sickle hoe; nothing is better than the com n w 
mon draw hoe. 
Spring- water cannot be made like rain-water ; but it may be 
much i im i 
uanti’ 
at wequainte’ with the present species. 
—If yo terion foul, yon must tho 
it by ‘peta out the weeds. It is not absolute) 
the ere places with Grass bapa “because the Grass 
wil wat rere them. If, Sewer you are 
tien: ao had bet plore , Crested Dogstail Grass, 
nemo ia ity e clover: Se is a “egimerned to 
ther mixture. 
‘to sow 
———- oar 
ple air. Whenw 
arger pot: wid | anally, asneiy plating 
it of doors, repot them either into 1 
oe dy tise of your Plants. Top _ 
them bushy; and 
Slimeed in the open border, 
ing; but e 
weather. 
chit 
rostis over, they may 
which saves much labour in water. 
- y 
and 
o fin i upon plants grown in 
upon those in ‘the one bore. cae Neo cut the 
tops off, and Lead = bots containing t! e 
eA other place where they will be sesure fr 
gE iis iets precy Fags Vaciag flower better 
ah pote than the old roots. much o d, toe, unfortu- 
Chrontete of a ich you 
erdehert 
have are the same as those we Sue posse: 
De The Tied you sent is the Yellow Ban 
ae Milis's letter contains nothing bint finn es as already been 
stated more than on our columns. We will not re-open the 
question about Chapman Potatoes till th he experience ofa a season 
has proved what they Me Raper hi are. 
As usual, many letters have arrived too late for answers ona eged 
NEWS ae en WEEK, » 
Ovr news from France to the debates in the 
Chambers. The chief pith of season have been 
Fats of Search Treaty, and the w, Tari iff of the United 
mee sama of tired On the former subject the 
Chamber of Deputies y dec 
its opposition to the testi or t ty, and M. 
Guizot, pressed for an explicit avowal of the intentions 
of Government, has a that She tes in his 
opinion the nation is edged to ratify it, he con- 
siders himself called upon c refuse the ratification i in its 
present form ; tim 
rnment, but without effect: that th adoption 
of reprisals, as pap whats the opposition, was likely to 
Uni 
prove more injurious to France tha ted States ; 
d that the whole abject cs still under serious con- 
sideration of the Gover 
—In cal much sae, 
tion continues to perks respecting si 
in the there appear 
