THE GARDENER®Y’ 
CHRONICLE. 
621 
‘seedling fruit? It may be re case that the first bearing 
of a seedling tree is sm malle 
spects inferior to its u ate ered ; but can art assist 
natural capabilities ? I should like to know in what 
. Knight treated his seedlings before they at- 
Bot are standards. 
manager of 
 wall-trees) entertained a diffe oe a of the poem 
hy of the process than that i 
In young, ee trees it is 
om auxiliary to feulthahsess that may be e prac with ad- 
vant ut in adult specimens, unless radalged | in very 
cautiously, it is quite as beac to produce sterility as fruit- 
Of this I have witn insta 
ft the place, I will venture to say he will not regret hi 
; rees were young and had not cove 
not ‘been’ root- —neither is it 
ystem of summer dressing is continued, they 
ill ever require that process ;» but in other respects th 
treate ded in my paper. Per. 
0 recommend riber’’ to make himself ac- 
‘cannot than peruse 
of Horticultdre,”® or the * Suburban | Horticul- 
b 
tufist,’’ now publishing. 
Budding.— 
having been present at the exhibition), whether there wa: 
any other bloom of Don J ohn exhibited, that would, Tad 
eaten Martin’s 
superior to anything of the kind, 
n to have the pet rier a ee grown by him- 
gs or ‘his neighbour, Mr. Hea nthus 
nis ’ ted four years ina 
f the Botanic ahicng! sildecs the slightest 
hould E 
d punctata be found equally hardy, I will communicate 
sccordingly —wN.S. Hodson, Bury St. Edmonds. [They 
ie 
maea ne a Bahar Fag produced about twenty 
seed last year e. Four or five of the seed- 
stronger plant pro- 
uced no seeds 3 the latter was in a ‘6 ower te 
the roots o 
en 
ldo ware to none in beauty, and far more prolific in 
—A correspondent informs us, that 
when he ot 0 rast, threescore years ago, a 
yr jee phe nia with it ; 
so well, that the market had ever an abun oh at a 
rice an 
= 
a% 
This pied im vache lapse rol detent 
the Bengal and Madras armies rendezyoused 
at Bombay, on thei 
amon — ee with the 
minal. supply of Potatoes and 
having always both eyes 
‘Select t of a box elve or mor ya ee: 
son on Mr. Headly’s behalf, and while such selection was 
ng e€,a second person came and assisted in the 
choice. Therefore I am led to believe the best bloom 
_ Was chosen, othe there | been an in 
the judgment parties w e the choice. I beg 
_ Yespectfully to deny Mr. Twitchett’s paler on that I “in-. 
_ dulged in ae 
t’s deliberation without Yerex the 
enge.”” If he refers to th 
__ tices to correspon rides” of the ‘* Gardener’s Gazette’? of 
_ the following week, he will find that my letter could not 
inserted. he fi he 
can- 
ce in meeting my challenge. T: 
myself justified in this 
ent to tet the e in saying that eleven 
€ merits 
—J. Martin, Northam rits of a Caradon. 
’s Don John Carna- 
you 
d that Martin’s mSple ndid was proved to be a su- 
fener Sain, by having the prize awarded it in ce 
eferen 
to Don John. I should also be glad of information (not | * 
corre: 
quired some time since what sh sset it was which destroyed 
che leaves of the common Laurel, I beg to Inform him that 
ha serv on garden 
o. 33, that you know of no remedy to prevent wireworms 
ppm stacking Carrots, except the application of spirits 
tar. I would recommen 
It is not je fio tal thatthe that this will 
Scent is so 
—R. G. 
glo for the world 
when the’ ca vi the Stagiite acronis were weighed 
balance heir 
€as.— 
—e 
. 
iples of sci- 
rough the clouds of ignorance 
anes in which men’s 
nsconced i and Ww thing was admitted in 
sophy, "ahettie er belonging to mind or cor i‘, 
that had a facts for its foundation. Even the cause of 
welfare of his crop. 
re; M. admits that the mildew in 
by 
natat Of Ai, find it growing at one 
t when I fi 
time in dry places, ‘and. at other times in lakes, ditches, 
‘*E. M.” consid 
and rivers. Altho iders mildew in 
plants and in damp cellars to be different species, I be- 
lieve it is generally understood that Fungi never attack 
prep tecr 
e Coler ‘ages “ Ancien iner,’’ when he says— 
I oul oem ai rotting sea, 
my eyes away ; 
I look’ g deck, 
And there the dead men ay ! 
n such 
eless our ingenious cor- 
is in md wr Tong as we shall take an early op- 
portunity. of showi 
Araucéria imbricat ou are certainly right in your 
yetg against the nico a hasting od of Araucdria brazili- 
nsis. rauciria imbricata, we 
of a 
safeguard too of that ekitfal Padi Me, Mitchell. —J. 
g of a Wasp.— 
I can only say gt it was of no avail, 
the pein tia ime from 5 ey hs a.m 
ere of its earaive 
nt, I Rave 
uld be 
that vegetable 
cept about the nf aa t ight When 
is scarce. ‘rind alone will an: € purpose equally 
well “Th a fortuight’s ti time the beetles and cockroaches 
will be greatly thinned, or will have eared ge foe 
following season ; gan Pe neces be 
repeat the experiment.—. 
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE, 
aris.—The lia season appears to be commenced 
in England under the most auspicious influence of genial 
weather; but far different is our situ 4 @ whole 
it = can scarcely present one perfe m, in 
onsequen long-continued drought, and cag 
heat which literally broils the flowers in the 
tes te is not, however, to te our friable: bat 
to vey some info rmation respecting this beautiful 
fio ten wieeht a may be of service to Dahlia ers, especi- 
ally at this time, when they y are anxiously watching 
in I know that 
was first at Salisbury, i 
the wi epi no solitary cases; they 
every year; and thus, palsy a hoped for eeded 
commensura *y with the expense and tr of rearing 
several thousand seedlings, is for ever lost. 
rowers saree o counteract it, but 
sre submit; ur que were a decree 
hey = these Fier better i in heomtan Sis ‘No one. 
chance of his root b 
to those 
ifficult to break, or, 
long stringy tubers, 
winter, and to others which 
rade ates "to all puch thie brbde is recommen 
