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mums to perfection are :—to allow them plenty o 
room, and to shift them as ote as a pots woes ditea 
ri 
with roots; to give them h and rather strong soil ; 
to water the ly, and is them in a situation whe 
ere is a free circulation of air, but where they will 
become 
the plants will 4 
shifted into those pots in which they will remain to flowe 
T in should be 
time that it will impart a 
he oo “Chrysan a are ex- 
tremely liable to become infected with mildew. 0 
gin 
eagsiga ina dituation where they are 
red se te dh nd w ater —— two sa three 
t) 
8 separate stick, 
g plants it may be well to leave about five | eading 
ut on weaker ones not more two or Pee 
should be allowed to r rem 
8 
oe 
“ee 
flow: 
e m situations, sa ay in sascursite 
seasons; but where there is a scarcity of room it is ha ardly 
worth hile to run the risk, when Dahli lias, , Salvias, and so 
tained. The latter 
will continue to bloom ati sree by the autumnal 
rosts ; whereas the Chrysan 
igns of tlowe ering, and is des em en 
the e amateur is anxiously looking forward to be rs for 
the trouble which he has taken in its cultivation. 7. R. 
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AMATEUR’S GARDEN.—No. XXXII 
now i i Il 
plain y which a very larg d of flowers 
may be pro d upon a small plant, and in a small pot. 
Many amateurs have been astonished at th lar, ers 
which they seen at exhibitions, and have naturally 
attributed the effects to som thing in the soil, to 
manure water of some kind. » however, is not the 
cause. It depends upon a law which is almost universal 
in nature—namely, t ounger re vigorous a 
the ern 
S 
nn 
S 
en es oe 
"Es 
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ter 
e folate 
n treatment in other 
respects, and any light rich ae will sufficient to 
enable the plants to prodaee's very large belies of flowers. 
produced, 
small ; and Dieiefors if small plai 
erred, th 
t 
They may be brought out blue, = well as pink or 
rose, which i - their a ral ar by gro 
tain kinds oam, uch, for 
ood, near eer ; 
Produce the same ¢ The particular substance Alege 
tained in soil which produce this change is, I believe, a 
present unknown, Alum is said to do so. 
¢ Hydrangea makes a beautiful autumn-flowerin g 
in some corner of the flow 
urhood o Where the Oi 
wet, two or three wfuls of brick-bats or other drain- 
uld be put in the bottom e, and the Hy- 
drangea planted above them. ing and flowering, 
it requires a lar, rge cay ta of hifornag and in winter a little 
ia mee send be the roots and among the 
ros ae protected 
mats a the usual way. 
the garden in which Strawberries are to be 
planted, ought now to be got ready, and I will shortly 
furnish a list of oe particular varieties which are most 
approved.— R. F. 
HOME ee et 
each 
for early forcing, as the rs will pa all les blind, 
however w ell the plants ma “ aj ve prepared; but i be |’ 
forced late. Force d Strawberries generally lose theie Savaer 
when c con nveyed toa 
M : 
dged, from being too early excited. Fromi 
peculia ly high aroma, ‘i made no doubt, if I could succeed 
obtaining a crop, that it would ame its deserving me 
witl it to any reasonable distance. I ha discovered that 
he 
abundance of atmospheric air, 
and leaving on a portion of it t 
keeping an afte een up by art 
5 eg. 
a 
an 
?2 
wm 
S 
m3 & 
4 
a 
uccessfully, to. procure their — 
from the most iomaaahid cultivators of them.—John 
Mearns, F.H.S., Leeds Botanic Garden. 
be In the Chronicle of the 
rd, I observed with regret that there are few who culti- 
vate this pie heey, Iry with h 
surprised, have 
dS 
& 
ne, and the 
nh of any symptoms of its 
will, eiealove. a before you the 
adopte a n cultivating it 
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grow bund: 
the second seaso Afterwards, bf are sah a = the 
me way as the kinds above tioned. — Cicero._—— 
There are many instances whe Myatt’s Pine 
mmense crop. ould strongly very one 
done the above sles and they a. “e be richly rewarded 
$x thei r pains. Having no a r friend ‘‘ Stum aga 
. Ch making any improvement on this 
plan I shall deters call it the ‘* Model Plan” for 
gro 8 
the same syste 
ood plan is Fs allow 
fahcie said about t Myatt’ s Pine Stranberry, 
I believe t he ta principle of pore! it ee: t bee 
fully pointed ou - By som bee wn igteera 
it in good rich loam 
of repetition, on a slope. 
other varieties on 6 "ear in the garden of the Hor- 
bg Society, but is now doing very well since planted 
na sloping Sorte, as practised y Mr. Redding.— 2. T, 
igs Princess Royal Straw ——I was sur- 
new variety, and to vindicate Mr. N é 
duct in sending out an old sort for a new one, merely be- 
u as a seedling. t f does Mr. B. b 
forward that the Princess Royal is a new variety? Simply 
—th - Newsome said such was the case. Mr 
- does n m to un e culture of the Straw- 
berry, or he would not lecture Mr. Morris on his unrea- 
e size of the fruit borne 
Pine are ve 
arrived at th 
oo this” gitik: ; 
th 
nositive 
had I not planted them 
I bec sowhed and tasted them, as have 
8, in to 
to deceive the Public, 
to send out 
in 
he seedling a new sort, and charg’ 
the publi i sc 100 for free an the high-sounding title 
of the “ Princess Royal.’ Y 
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* 2 
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rry | of being ame * i or Pare, 
sald fom 2 Llan 
Be 
A. By Essex. 
pt to "this dis n. as Rieter: 
h t ns fruit of his Pence 5 aes 
and fed are yor ABR my ei? Bi S 
—In 
Chronicle of ‘Stary ist, - tie do 
on the 3” in which b 
it they ee such supering, | carry | spo 
be reduced to the alternative 
reas if an eke or a 
darip ng the winter, and thus be 
-size ir wi n wo 
incurred, not Soald any indipoiion be shown for carry- 
ing on their operations. In all future years, supering 
ae ner be preferred to a it as ‘greatly nae A the 
ferry 
ees. — correspond ent will hold the ae 
under the Beis which pont 5 oo of oe fy Cy 
many of them into it by sw 
rsues any peculiar method by which he obtain 
swarm chtty i in April, and two more, from the sam Pride 
early in May, most bee-keepers would feel obliged. for in- 
fo ag on the ig —M. H. G. 
— Wi ur cocrenpeneeat q antes Thaxter, Nor- 
wie: ” have the | iaiieaal to inform thereis any way 
to save the Bees after leaving the eat which 
pisoad jn in the dark shed, as stated in the last week’s bes. 
nicle 2 
On the v tality of Seeds.—If in the ex 
ford it is in w hak pitt 3 
seeds, and n te stent the merits of the 
po inked ou ee progenies 
long practice among sceds, I 
once 
