670 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Ocr. g, 
TET Tae, ferent causes, € each of which T shall 
cribed to hree ee dferes "Se if-combustion from 
as 
illustrate by some 
rt nsid dered plau . Meyen. 
Decs rang P 4 veller, cite af ie the atalde des Voyages, 
the rE in Africa, the flowers of 
hel ir expanding, ‘produce a sort 
d by noise. 
re many 
e bet 
as the a Oakum, being use tin- 
er by the natives aa of f New Herts nd. “It is ‘tated by 
; stralix, that the nie ignite spon-* 
ps; but a can be but 
should be oadaie "aie at the 
takes place, pe Retails of 
dry seaso 
Pos person 8 
moment when self-ignition 
sta en ane ntry, however, 
g0 little inhabited, and wher any localities 
which can only be arrived at by ois “racks this ee 
“certair id of fou 
ves, HM 
tee 3 ane eing vehemen bate 
sig a  ccasectrae® season, 
; nost. prevalent. . Thi 
‘the greatest objection to uhoe gia old cog de = that they 
but 
| thinning o 
n- | itended’ * 
si ‘ at ther amboo 
of Malacca bg ete s of w 
with siliceous. ny al, that 
are seen is em. 
lant, moréover, are uss for 
polishi 
to be understood, at's fade get 
: AS t 
than’ is 
ac- 
matters has even 
*h nati ‘es se tropica al foreats: 
geusraly ‘Suppos sed. ‘The increased heat sti - 
taken advantage of by one or r two ) Australian birds “which 
hatch their eggs by placing them in 
such heaps. From 
the heat required roduce incubation, to that which 
may produce ignition, the step is not great. : opera- 
tion which is performed by these artificially, will, as a 
matter of course, take place ‘at ti b fting 
of leaves, branches, decayed &e., ines 
and ¢ gee ch, by an adequate admixture of at- 
mosplieric or Samed meee engender all the 
it! for ferm if c n an 
sdfiea aypropristely, zn ‘nally oes ignition. The 
i yred phosphorea in the” ae , the fluid sap ‘of 
uces a diffused light, may be iiick ther example 
our present class of vegetable self- new 
that ‘forests and bushes — spon 
read ov. 
quire a considerable size during ba 
> 
Ty 
regretted Ps si them in the beds destroyed. 
n. is wo rth 
flower-garden gay a month earl chit etal, whee thie 
shortness of summer is taken into consideration. The 
qoang Laity raised from cuttings -Fequire> great part of 
the summer before the. ver the béds and attain a 
er é; aT har ae site eommience blooming almost 
“they are turned out. I suppose that 
h more room; but it must be ‘recollected 
ee 
in 
gnonette boxes orpots filled with soil if soe dry nila di- 
Fated of leaves they may be packed ‘so thick as almost to 
touch each other. The back of the ment ot - peta ora 
eep them 
nahn well ‘through’ the winter. lf potted of singly i in 
prin warm place, 
pian afterwards gradually Peeps before being turn ed out, 
the will flower much more abundantly than ene plants. 
As for panes Bets, ‘Paitsteiois; &c., think that iH 
a frame was ra ve the gro SpiudePevek Oa aeahraee 
two of bricks, iad filed up within a foot and a half of the 
top with cinders, and a layer of light soil ps on them six 
or eight inches thick, the plan oy 
the borders, with balls of earth it their ou? and, a 
out the stems, that they oh Se be planted in the 
il in the frame toler of in pots. Such a od, I | t 
antageous in one res re irene plants 
n could be if they were 
WarGcad ip Via 
“winter quarter 
amongst 
ia thus presérv 
requisitions to the ower parded 
ether Kept in the 
the ‘stein TafiGull be shor 
they ‘are'tied’ to sticks, they wi ie | 
should “think that Sélvia patens might be pr 
rs in dry sand. © ve 
ing the ensuing sum- 
enh of in the fram 
me as little 
will” 
depth of six inches with dry turf or peat (the refuse of an 
old’ peat-stack). ig frosty or wet weather an old tar- 
paulin rown over , being suppo 
nm was th rtéd on 
Ree Ein ee ie ch aie: ction the tips only of the branches 
f beds in w 
e wood bei 
sa sak ro bei 
will require less protection the following winter—because 
they will hive larger quantity” ll-ripened wood 
Sher Ultimately, perhaps, they would stand the winter 
y y protection ; but DoE érience has not as yet 
far as to e tuaste able m e to ahs Rostra that that 
-Tuy ? | would be t se 2 es 
te ® id | eT hea ma “this stare fre fo of has 
. “exc e3 my expé 0 ti ‘T ventu ek 
ae this ) yonk notice e be fA one rs i ch 
uch a valuab Appl afford as ‘abe 3 
Frahing ne that te sort mus thereto <n be lost, o 
urchas a distance, at some trouble expen ite 
t conceive at there is no ie “of i alternative for 
k in the sprin gine end shoots fro old tree that 
ad not made any new wood for years s : of the 
scions were full of blosoi buds, and sh o signs of 
form Ce) hey we re gratted on bei std of three 
year gas % at the usual time, an in the pa on man- 
ner of whip-grafting ; a: ae took, and the blossoms 
showed themselves, being in some of the buds dé¥eloped. 
at work, the sa D overflowed, ant 
ced to make shoo 
€ Hott theit cet position in the 
re "he = 
sap from the blos senec 
the very spurs on h they sprouted decayed also 
that the new shoots, which are of full and vigorous growth, 
ave attained their height, few people would discove 
the fidurishing young tree before them in the autumn, 
old, withering scion n of the spring. —* *Pomaque od 
succos —Virg. Geor., lib. ii. 
Pruning Ros rau seen in the Chronicle (p. pein a 
1 n Budding Roses Fell a 
0 be ae 
a considerable nib of border pants: 
n is very 
g 
ee mu neh miust depend Se situ- 
varietie 
/Fally killing them ‘to the 
event happens with most 
erent of the Nohet 
cut away the dea 
core f 
i & 
t 
he Rosa 
ave 
| Rae ties 
the middle or third week of November, ape which Y 
cut them in very Sra leavi 
times three buds to preserve 
The Hybrid Climbers I’ wscees next paving Wibee il 
Hh Magn Bi one, pie and some- 
“tree: 
whtth ae-geat |" 
eb 
gs ey Rarer anere te 
to grow freely, I shorten the main shoots but moderately 
(cutting away close in all superfluous and feebleé shoots) 
the laterals I leave about four inches long. So t 
Pillar Hybrid nas I prune less than the rest of this di. 
vision. The ce, rovence, an f 
doubtful sides! with their buds farther apart than the 
true GAllica, I idea. closely than I do the G4 
The same, to a ter degree, holds good with most of 
the Moss Roses. limbing varieties of the Semper- 
virens and Ayrshire divisions re ttle more than to 
and Hy- 
same as that of 
oe Hy br tas Ghina Pillar Rose, leaving some of ¢ 
laterals longer in pro as the 
cover vacan 
atid Aus 
d pg ei 
peu al, ch ee Perpetual, and Four-Seasons Roses require 
pmo varia sity pruning 2 pe any a inds, some of 
m bein tender than others. a gen nerat rule, 
rn “tongé and straighter the see th of tn wood, the less 
closely Te them a Be oom,’ I “also find 
it necessa ry he spar othe: knife ‘a little with some’of the 
Spotted, Striped, aud ok seer Rise although the ey may 
be of the Gallica tribe. 
Re! and Poise Wie to 
or Firted ssitaata may not be so to plants, and we 
should err in our aunt pions, in aa ‘cases, were suc 
a’ conclusion Baek 9 I am “that I have lost or 
mislaid the notes is numerous experimetite I male pe 
years ago, on sar he ts supplied with att 
Hitiember that ent 3 Heh salts of lead, Teh A ite 
arsenic (arsenic aci niate of potassa, &c.), were, 
in man “the é very reverse Of in njurious, being favour- 
able’to vegetation: a ns a aan ad iron and’ mer: 
cury I nat very deleterio ray. 
Apples. ma you a want ftir prot respec 
‘In ion, 
hod 
=) 
is! 
may be poisonous 
pie gathered wet, they a are gr aor assisted in performing 
the act of perspireticn, and T haye Beucsily found the 
loss athong such fruit to. be less Hs among those w’ 
been © d also found that 
osed in in an air- tight 
m as firm 
alin Ghee "Linden meta 
eH 
Troy 
é them, 
immediately set about peat and st store 
fresh combs, hatch out ce bitbod; ui i prooted, in all BA 
they had en upied the ‘box as @ 
il ol rill ‘most of them, 
edly, saly, 8 
amily will do so, for a ‘portton will, “ios ty ave 
Fo! 
ee companions in the new 
to be abroad when the operation al 
reason, it the cluster be very large, it w be best per- 
formed at at ni ht or very early in the va it small, in 
the mi the day, that those Bees w will then be 
Peike th n their return, bi iy the 
strength of the artifcial swarm.— Edwa urd Bevan, 
as. this season ‘bea sed the 
now no ee rer Fan aha 
ae adit 
If t they ito 
some well. dried fine S 
ill over the leaves 
' eradicate f 
rc 
not po aa Neda whether they aire Wet or ‘dty; if ee ° 
d fat : 
queen, and carry © yn the 
‘ow er 
we 
S iveesi aes e 
— 
we 
