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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Sepr, 3, 
marl, 3 inches thick, all which is eovered by a layer 
of horses, § 
of fr heep, or cattle, 18 inches 
high, over which ashes are again strewed The heap is 
next wett ter, and is then covered with a layer 
, 
ani again strewed over it; and, 
upg, stra other substances are placed on the top, 
in the same succession a ore, until the heap is 8 or 9 
t * heap is left quiet for 2 or 3 weeks insum- 
mer, or 4 to eks in winter, en fermentation will 
come on, as the smell will indicate. If, however, in any 
part of the heap a considerable degree of heat should be 
obse is i covered with a 
t has lo pts 
the 
that compost “te prepared will be very service 
able, as 1 will ive — from these com- 
i on ve them cma of 
reparation is in ac 
only half true; ; 
eal 
s. ng, offal, dung-water, or other 
stances, must be added. Even ecntng oh at the covers 
i water, ms Ante mewhat 
diminish the evaporation of the ammonia ; a great 
as the very smell will fully indicate. 
“oO 
= 
a 
o 
a 
ae | 
manure is prepared is quite as important as the way in 
which it is used. 
ne general remark gp to rr. Its genie 
be of real when materials, which do not 
made 
had it in his 
power so 
materials, that the elects of his wee may not only be 
remedied, but tha’ crops may receive those substances 
are required “oe their te ae: 
is requisite to know not 
only the component parts of t a — but ‘also those of the 
. to account, no clear 
If these are not taken in idea 
of the compositi will ever 3 and 
many substances of real value will be tried without result, 
although one +5 
le accurate c! ysis of the soil 
would point out at once whatit is that the land required. 
THE APPROPRIATION OF GARDEN-FRAMES 
H oO pet oun NTS. 
t View- 
park, 
of Heaths and Passeiehai, I 
wide nder them capable of containing the plants, 
it was necessary to build a few be gh 7) ue onan 
an area of the exact size of the frames upon ey 
were Pied: The floor was elevated oe inches abore the 
an filled with 
m8 e, the close 
o ps oaan 
which in winter would c eal stg of ture, 
and which at 5 season rae the et should be svebtad: as 
uilding in a longitudinal ae ot 
east to west, oo tdvantges oh obtained by this ner 
cons! ion: fi it be ‘aukieabte to retalis 
plants under glass in cashicb, : partial shade may be se- 
ersing the slope to the north ; y> 
Ww t jo ale oved, and a 
of added as abe he height of 
5 Wot hs dorwpied ix 
“Me i Roger Snr 
ture was as low as peek song pte heat of the pit did not 
nm hours, 
§ 0C- 
con 
appearance 
than those grown greenhouses. ec ssert w 
ee the ee in our own plants ws their 
as far ae in former years, when, 
ass 
hich are so pleasin 
of a wearek. vegetation.— Alex. Cramb, Redbraes, near 
Edi 
ATEUR’S vS GARDEN. —No. sey ne 
THE sin wer- aardn during t 
iefly upon a aie of ha 
agated extensively 
feb 
n the 
how par a can be grow 
| 
Ss 
o 
most a s f 
rioties of Noches are ap t liable to this objection, for _— 
continue one mass of flowers from the begin ning of the 
season un ntil they are Sr wedge by the frosts in winter. 
ie wg scarlet, purple, rose, 
w and all the intermediate shades, forming striking 
conatelia with each other and with the "rest of the plants 
by which they are penignded, the 
number “ Mt e 
have bee 
n 
ing other V. teu des: g-growing kind 
producing dense spikes of sweet-scented ers. om 
the latter a great number of hybri ve been nm raised, 
which possess the good properties of the original with re- 
gard to their being of easy growth and floweri ne freely, and 
at the same t lour of the flowers being generally 
pink or — a pears eohedt is produced. The 
best crioides résea, t. Barnesii, t. Iveryana, 
and t. stietne the two last are particular! fine, and oug 
to be in every a — although 
very swee! sent 
not — is of aprettycolour and v 
V : thisis one of tl the finest of its cian ae tha 
colour 
grandiflora‘and V. m 
the common pao ee oh their colours are not so 
eep as the former. —V. purptirea and V. Hen- 
ders6nii are two of the best of this s. 
Besid other gea 
varieties are very b e tha 
ufficien i ll garden ; 
if the list contains rieties, a selection of the 
from it. 
pots ought 
put in a close frame, and kept shaded during 
night sunshine until the cuttings are When they | i 
ina — or three weeks, pot 
ep them 
hen begin to 
, they can ea - pranestee 
grow, 
and th 
n be co 
Ectomatedtf rad both ‘to " pleatd struck n 
will in great profusion = pes summer. 
walls will n ripening fast if the 
Go over them fre- 
uently, removing mee exposing the 
to sun and air, at the same time 
i 
rs on Pruning —It is a fine lively animal, that 
same : ree i i 
Pilg a & ri: of the e boiler is wiv ‘inbhes high: by 12 in diame- | be = Goma and Yee e, ee ter te 
srt * 6s ed it laced upon a cas’ cast-iron grating, have never gs se lpg pad Curb not sd all, is his motto. 
ig a furna oor beneath for the regulation of air ; | See with w what grace and ease he lea A d 
cards ipes, 25 inch ee e, are conducted along ae me exclaims, *“ Tt is. marvellous ae thea Ores are Pn ger 
and secured to the wall wit n hooks, it v cann 
.to convey them round the back, a s thea appareti | of restraint Sauerea see tat th eu 
. found sufficient to heat a x of double the size. not my intention to enter upon a disquisition 
a al vel, we have, per o> ae coke to women a bby-horses; some are harmless and praiseworthy, and 
regular heat ; d, this sort of boiler is | some ther not t ho 
in 
ota the consumption of coal, although, by-a little 
‘~-alteatiots preseht orm, it might made to con- 
_ ae ea ele : a When the external tempera- 
of the Champion: of England. 
tion in Westminster Abbey, and throw a glove down 
before him, upon any consideration ; and there are other 
hobbies that are not to be meddled with, M 
timber 
tree, as 
assuming different outlines of form 
stem, producing value toutes 
und nume 
a s i 
faggot, and firewood. 
every leaf is elaborating sap 
= it does not, therefore, Follow that t the tree containing 
tain 
last 
uced to ad for its 
object the completion of the maturing process, after the 
fruit was gather cr from the tree. The reason, in my 
ore tender and late varieties of our 
turing process being other 
sarees are left in an undigested seats ooinet f being 
onverted into sugar, as they would be er the more 
par nt circumstances of a Continental ee or artificial 
Rea ing upon these facts, cf 
left some exceedingly fine i pactaian rré Rance 
a pte wall, as ooh as whe could do, , without isi shi 
to To the or from 
falling, and is nay ng tiem all nen of the fruit tale to the 
= autiful 
ery are of being perfectly 
con nieak, however, with this, I Seg them i in a late vinery, 
in w apes were kept, u til they hg 2 on ripe, 
which was about the end of pe them, 
they were found quite perc rich, sugary, an d very me 
pring everything that could be desired in a late Pear 
m 
cept, perhaps, so of t e e a little too flat for 
some tes. This, however, I do not attribute to the 
th keeping, but to several of them having been 
slightly frosted prior to their removal to the . As 
e eriment was only made on a very limited 
ale, not recommend it general adoption 
ntil further experience has a its utility. I 
merely throw out the hint, with the hope that some of the 
readers of the Chron fs will bei gee to test its claims to 
public notice ; and if the experiment were extended to 
itd late cage ek, as the Old Colmar, Ne plus Meuris, 
would be better. 
said to be injuriou ru 
well to remove som = of each - a 
last year’s growth in 2seI 
My Apple-room is : leanto behind a long building, 
fronts the North, s 
e year; ta both we have had su 
drought ‘there are now large fungi gro 
about eight feet “high f in front, and 
upwards in the manner of a gre eenhouse 
lor wo sash windows to admit air (if want 
could neve 
Last year 
Apples put in ieviias 
rons — air-tight 
dew pe 
athering ¥ 
ther Lane ane Lodgts 
‘Ca erties of Figs,—In the Chronicle of Moy 14, 
