1842. | THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 589 
the: “ Caprification of Figs’’ is taken notice of. Various } south wall in the Botanie Garde ; it is now flowering | of the two flowers would be so decisively tested as to 
opinions are given respecting the effect produced by an | freely, and oa, earl and velisend shoots. Can | satisfy every florist; and as this is my earnest desire, I 
insect piercing the Fig when in a youn te. According | any of your num inform me if it has ever | would much rather increase “tes number to 31, or even 41 
ournefort, ‘‘ the prickers contribu e perhaps to the wintbeied aa seeds ?. tip SLE ea u . Edmunds. iat ie on the same terms, than reduce it to a le 
maturity of the fruit of the garden Fig-tree, by c elia gracilis, a Hardy An was delighted mber. Mr. Martin, after seduclging in a fortnight’s 
the nutritious juice to extravasate in those vessels which | about three weeks 0, to discover that this beautiful an- ddinenie, without taking the least n chal- 
y tear asunder in depositing their eggs. rhaps, too, al had sprung up plentifully upon a piece of ground | lenge, pr op 0 show il blooms for 25 guineas. If he 
besides their eggs, they leave behind them some sort of | which was If-sown last autumn, -some of the plants | really wishes the question of the oe merits of 
liquor, proper to ferment greatly with the milk of the Fig, having since spread over a surface of eighteen inches in | his “ Splendid ’’ and my ‘‘ Don John”’ to rought toa 
ke the flesh of them tender. thers are of opi- | diameter. The soil i + wit old retentive clayey | satisfactory issue, why tm loaue As his 
nion, that a kind of gnat enters the interior of the Fig, | subsoil, and the situation very bleak, re py anything | flower was out before mine, he surely will not plead a: 
and acts beneficially, re) 1 y carrying in p llen, and but congenial f an occurrenc eeds cli- | want of stock. I als n old, and consider myself an 
dispersing it, but by puncturing the pulp, and occasioning | mate is far from ing the warmest ia a 4 Fn conse- pe d- grower; and believing in com ith mo 
a diffusion. of nutritious juices, Perhaps y ur corre- | quently this fact may have been long ascertained in the | other flo sts that my “Don John’’ is the best scarlet 
spondent ‘‘ Ruricola’’ can tell whether the young Figs are more southern counties, as the plant has been an interest- age in England, I shall b py to join issue — 
only pricked by the flies, or wheth sy enter the inte- | ing object in our gardens for the las forty years, a rtin, on the terms I proposed long before h 
ior, and there deposit their eggs, an kind of flies | seeds. freely and abundantly. Like the Eschschdltzia ca- thought a challenging a comparison. —J. witchett, 
they are. Some say that they are cante others ee they a ica, and crécea, it looks best when spread promiscu- ; 
cynips. account gi travellers who | ously over an extent of surfac , So as to mingle freel ite 
have visited the Grecian Archipelago, it appears that the | amongst trees, shrubs, and tall herbaceous ‘diate a ‘i the The Pena rs ptm be i Vex table 
— of Figs is reat benefit t e who culti- | the plants be to themselves, it can be sown | Marrow by putting some grass (lawn) mowings in es hea 
e them. It is stated that one — frequently bears be- | in the autumn n, s the seeds ripen.—John Mearns, about 1} bushel, covered with three or four inches P 
pers two and three hundred pounds of fruit, whereas | F.H.S., Leeds Botanical wa garden soil, in which eed was planted. The plants 
those of wiyrs fatdois yield siaaee 3 or 30 e are i —— i my absence from home my | are now an leretbant as they need to be. This ceame 
formed that ild Fig, from which the flies are p garden mistake, se Geodorum nutans (planted would be valuable to ttager if he could grow it a 
pr rome three kinds of insects, called Fornites, | in light cam) which b ad stood for years in the flue easily as his Cucumbers ich he may do by followin 
Cratitires, and Orni, which are of absolute necessity very to a cistern of water amongst ‘the this simple treatment —H. B.. Ess sea. . 
wards ripening the garden Fig. iny, in his Na Hym secmnelidee where I found it ing with greater Onion Grub—Having seen nu umerous comp 
History, probably refers to these when he says, “ Caprifici | vigou usual. Perhaps the habit of it and Govenia specting the grub in Onions, I am induced to forward yo 
triferse s y attempt been made to introduce | may be like! par of Epipactis palustris. It st on an | the plan which I adopt to ensure a tolerable crop of dhe 
these wild and the insect into this country ?—P, | i “apo pot with half an inch of its pot under water.— eful esculent. Int st place, having determined 
Mackenzie. « Herbert. i 
To produce Early Gooseberries—As a tg On Plants for the Edgings of Waiks, &e.—In former ct gar ne = saeeunen omen rte: 
dener has given a plan for protecting mature umbers of the Chr _— considerable attention has been March, according msta get my ground 
rries, I will give another for forwarding them a month tg to the subject of edgings for walks, flower-beds, trenched, at least eighteen inches deep at the an time 
or five weeks sooner than : e usual time. Proc ome | &c. ; ious nts hi been recommended for these ixing with it a thick layer , ell-rotten 
boxes, of the sizes necessary to cover the bushes, with. four pasnabe. but all are, I think, more or less objectionable. manure, with which the contents of cess-pools may be 
sides, so that the four read ay face the cardinal poin' erever flowering plants, whether annual or perennial, yan y trenched in. I ti this 
All a must be furnished with hinges, to open wh employed to define the margins of s and walks, collect on the piece of ground all the rubbish of 
required , and ther re must be a 1 slanting roof, to carry off the whatever advantage is gained by their showiness whilst in | the previous year, such pea-sticks, the pruning 
wet. After t loom, is almost counterbalanced by th tractable na- | of Gooseberry, Currant, and Apple trees, &c., &¢., which 
on; they should be kept shut on frosty nights, and opened ture; for if they thrive, they invariab y spread over too | are set fi in different places, and after the whole 
only when the frost is off the ground, at which tim arge a space of ground ; and if, on the other hand, they u hes, and in as hot a state as possible they 
four daorg should be thrown open, except there be a cold = not grow so freely, they are unworthy of the ee are spread equally over the surface of ground and 
cutting wind from the north or north-east c which they are placed. the Thrift, the least | forked in di tly. After this is done, ceed in the 
e sides should be closed hoon: the south. Sprinkle atestonabe, maiden of this class of plants, is a in | general way to sow the I prefer sowing in drills 
the bushes with so oug: fine rose on | Gong hm me obj n, unless very fre- | rather than broa A mea is neat, and the 
i i of the i have a 
5 ffi anit redibin for 
doing away with syringing; from the circumstance of his 
not seeing the water upon the surfa leaf imme- 
diately asgimilated by the Vine. As w ell might he expect 
ith its th open, ta swallow he w 
gi The plant ha 
which it developes it 
decomposed before 
tself. 
posure to the external ng the es 
mménd gentlemen to plant 
"wild ducks on islands, or by the 
Its bloss it 
yas cover about two feet high, the fomer- 
stems siaing above. seedlings should be housed o 
sheltered till the bulbs are strong papi to plant diate 
hey will grow all the winter if kept very wet, or in a 
cistern in the mig scr age Herbert. 
rnamental Border Plants. Se it not. be a desir- 
able thing at this season, for thos 
care of superior flow 
the medium of the Chronicle, of thi 
for: rm nspicuous orna ? Ma 
might derive advantage from the details of the best me- 
thods of growing, flowering, and grouping the if 
B nsias, Fuchsias, Lobélias, and‘ other half-hardy 
plants now so profusely in bloom hat I wish particu- 
larl to ask, however, is, whether there are not 
other inhabi f our greenhouses, or even stoves, 
which might, by their foliage and flowers, render our 
borders more attractive than Sy are at present. Some 
d as well with them, and i 
colours to them during the late summer months? It is 
almost dless to say, that the judicious of 
such flowers is as neces 
grouping o 
sary as planting them—directions 
is effect are earnestly requested. Z, pa hd commend 
this letter to the kindness of our ts.] 
‘pomea Learii.— A few weeks since I rémbved a t 
of this beautiful climber fr from the stove to ae 
expensive matter, hich th g in cas 
is necessarily weakly and scanty fora greater or less pe- 
riod of time. These objections all vanish when we turn 
noticed, e plants adapted a mong clings of 
a in aes enh and shady places Box 
; but even in these places 
quactboualils and open still to some of the 
have briefly mentioned above. In such situations it ap- 
with Periwinkle. These pl 
5 
small advan sakes: ; s whilat oe onl render the surface at 
all times cheerful, especiall 
ges might be 
here 
re ‘peal ay home ; and in pore spring anole can 
easing than the - manner in which 
So] , &e., &e., produc flo 4 
object is, however, more es notice a plant 
which, by a particular course of treatment, becom 
equally suitable for the decoration of such edgings through- 
ut I refer to a small species of Lobelia, 
own’ ilis, and which, in such sit 
just mentioned, is now flowering most beautifully in the 
garden of the Royal Botanic Society. The treatment re- 
quisi nsure this i i one 
whi uces seeds free t wn in early 
h 
gc we: Areated as half-hardy annuals any are at 
that s 
planed hinly' — convenient-sized pots nd again, w wh 
of increased size, thinned sufficiently to ba hua 
When ‘finally panel out, they ought to be kept in 
house, where ple a ae is admitted, till about he end 
f il, an 
gen 
first their growth is very rapid, and oe Stag commenc 
flowering freely, and continue 0 r a very long 
—T. 
tin’s sca preva 
mall eetieatiod 1 to find tha 
ed 
pears to me that nothing is so suitable as Ivy, intermixed 
° 
8 of justice ben induced you to insert Mr. Headly’ 
contradiction of artin’s patents with regard 
to his Carnation “ Splen did.”’ In your paper ra the fol- 
lowing week (Aug. 13), I challenged to show 21 blooms 
M re’e “ Sph ia” fete te the sams of Se 
artin’s “ Splendi th i and 
| 20 guineas the odds. B thia numaberst the selative muecits | 
d the a 
ground is oa clean with greater ease. I 
the dust of charcoal, in 
grub, by Sorvi sown in 
fo 
ve 
inches in circumference.—W, 
p of Beans.—Instead of pulli 
nee they have don oe There 
t n 4 _— the Basan y 
them to send es a number a young shoots. "These should 
be thinned mens ots only one or two allowed to remain. 
have had a good second crop of Beans by this 
ve practised for two years.—John 
rewsbury. 
oy Wasps.—As both wasps and flies } are ete 
= how cetam them in a simple and elleciiee ane 
ractice is to mark the nests conspicu 
the course aa: the day, and late in the 
into the eg a 0 
soon covers 
hat ho 
day are entrapped 0 hand-glasses 
over the coi and made te at the shoulders rad a Ve 
moss or w e lower one having a 
other day. If 
1, and as man 
“rae ed as as poss’ ible it ti be the weane 
ving a great quantity of valuable fruit from destruc 
Fg at little trouble ‘or ex owers, Laleham 
WwW 
eived an account of 
na Gosfield Hall, 
also 
m Mr, Sme mf gardener at 
ge bias 
sam 
ex r 
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. _ 
pete the ane cu nt ie in this nei” 
owering 
