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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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uire eiee's peat. till they are in By bearing state; and in the 
mean tim will be able to ascertain the relative expense 
ofa ciel hot. “wane apparatus, compared with that of a stove 
f the ho e; when the superiority 
d mace Hg you will probably 
etermination of heating your house by that me- 
such an apparatus is once well fitted up, it Pat 
sive satisfaction, and this is more than can be affirmed as 
A Subscriber ies os the commence- 
e the mixture of 
eat heat 
Gisngrecahly iti is an excellent material for placing greenhouse 
Fie as A PROPAGATING Wiki er.—Your plan will 
do, bu we you" must not b 
m the top 
i that it = hold water 
Pp, 0 with e ets ating p 
pay jeg Totty. —This ope ie rd perfectly Peed iy 
eT. 
Slee tabaae —An Amateur.— You ma 
grandifior i, ereetam, be discolor, erythrocarpam, yen 
- dalum, vera atum ndulatam. They are all ornamental 
and hardy. +t 
Serpent S. P.—The mags how ee plants should be sown 
F pots, in good sandy peat 
‘little loam eet event with soil, and placed in a 
fe) Fevaise: be wre and kept d , withou 
~~ border till hey are two year 
Rieaervtk SeEp.—This ona roa n either early in autumn 
* or in spring; . ‘when own in the porta months, the young 
lants ff. § 
e of 
ae Mes etheltieon, 
| Palialen; Clap- 
ts inthe neighbourhood of London a 
gs 
GRATissIMA.—A. JI.—This plant may be 2 ies bt by 
sa edt? in the usual way; it requires, however, a 
eat. 
Repay ARLEEAR: —A Lady.—The White Indian Azalea alwa 
loses the grea ater part of its leaves at this season yd the ped 
' and presents the appearance you describe; it is nearly deci- 
. us. We, theref h that tte Mpa 
‘Oo repot 
ng v 
, Variegata, la’ outa § White, double red, or any 
of the other sorts you may meet with. § 
AB UTILON STRIATU m.—J. C. ¥Y.—This plant may be 04 through 
does the frost is excluded ; 
it will, however, do better eenhouse. ¢ 
InGs.—G.—Corrzea bella and | C. 3 speciosa: may be propagated 
cuttings of the half-ripened wood. Podolébiums may be 
-sradurened in the same manner, This operation is best per- 
arly in spring.t 
Meiaeh"a14 Backnoustana.—A Lady.—The plant so called is not 
un and in no way ornamental if it was. It is not a Wistaria 
a fram: 
Paxstes.—4. D a is difficult to obtain a knowledge of all 
wy Fin aed they al 2 Fong = ed pre bited without 
amen We insert a a list of the Brahe come under our 
observation, and such as we Seeds 
Thompson’s Soon s ‘Coo k's Attila 
Fi “coe ity of Bucks; ,, Ringleader 
a ttila ‘ Black Bess 
” Bro wnh’s Unique 
” Regulat tated 
Jew Sayer 
Silverlock’s Prince rot Wales Lane’s ied sot Peaig.'s Lan 
King’s Prine teat yal Pea 
Major’s Bride parda ‘sd 
+6 Beauty of Knoathirpe ” Sobieski 
ne Princess Royal Est Milton 
Schofield’s Surprise a — iets 
Cook’s Alicia 4% 
A Lady is recommended to wet ons e fotiowing °° ranseit they 
are flowers of first-rate chara: 
Thomson’s Eclipse Thomson's ee Albert 
ea Je Brown’s Curi 
3 Miss Stainforth Countess of Orkney 
”» Desirable Cook’s Triump) 
” Corona Prince oe 
” Moni ” Mulberry Superb 
+ Warri idgard's Jewess 
re Prinineat Royal King’s Exquisite 
rf Nymph »  sulphurea elegans 
pes Rufus. Kitley’s Bathonia 
nm Ultraflora Maule’s Prince of Wales 
iy Cream Davies’s Miss Nugent 
Si 
Launcelot Fost 
Duchess of Rich-| Pearson’s Black Prince.* 
Lewisham Rival Bloomsbury ( 
ere (Holmes’) Tournament (Catleugh’s) 
Beauty of the Plain (Sparry’s) | Bloomsbury (Pamplin’s) 
omega of Bath ay Eclipse (Widnal 
tantia (Cox’s) Bedford Surprise (Sheppard’s) 
aves of Pem broke (Dodd’s)| Bi op of Winchester( Jackson’ 8) 
Princess Royal (Hudson’s) max (Jeffries’ 
Lady Middleton (Jeffries’) Grande Bandine (Low’s) 
(Widnall’s) President of the rea t (Whale's) 
ess of Richmond (Fowler’s)| Regina (Gr: 
Maria (Wheeler’s) kwick (Cormac 
Eclipse rnb Springdcld Rival (Line's) 
: Catleugh’s ) e Sue 8 
Grace Darling fon Burnham Hero (Church’s) 
Penelope (Headle Andrew Hofe! 4 
Nicholas s Nickleby (© c ta. Defiance (Horwood’s, 
send Dilber Essex Rival (Sorrell’s) 
etella (Begbie’s) 
Argo (Wit A's) Rouge et Noir (Ansell’s) 
Tinique taanel? s) Servant — Bono *s) 
Winterton Rival (Low’s) E itamford’s) 
until better uced to take their 
Those which are not decidedly edith fn list ptr a be 
produ 
e best nomen in cultivation, and have been eveeeiite ex- 
hieifea 
Fi.perts.—. us.—Y our Fil trees will certainly occupy 
trained in the vob agen ge form, as ns Pat Lok ond Soe 
they would by Say any other objection £0 heir 
horiz caballg, fe ay othing ecessfully 
tised in Kent. You bsg eas pe iigwaras Dieatons for “byte 
nagement of Fil t p. ast year’s Chron gen! wenere 
also the Kentish hetiod . eepia e trees are kept 
, with a single stem'a foot high, and 
sormgeag oe | 
e best variety of Fig for a wall with an 
Es 8. rE. “spect te the] rows Turkey. 
— J. J. You must have taken up your Shallots before 
ripe, or after having raised them, you must have kept 
é 
them in a very w: 
warm and dry situation, or they would not 
bea “bore a 
soon. The best way to dry them after they 
up is niet spread them thinly on the fiue of a vinery, 
ao Pe is no fire, or on the fioor of a dry shed; but in 
both cases oer: ter have a free bag 8007 of air. 
CAULIFLOWERS e never heard of Caulifiowers 
being forced ther efor ore we ithe assist you. There is 
ittle- doubt but growing them in that manner they might 
be brought forward much quicker than if kept under hand- 
glasses. + 
pee ap oon ae a par arent oe go temperature at which 
to keep a Mu d is spawned, is be- 
tween and 35°.  Hotse-droppings, a clear of straw as pos- 
sib] e the best material for ing Mushroom-beds of ; 
formation, in order that not heat violently after the, 
bed The spaw: t in when the temperature 
of “ se to. 70°; the Mushrooms will probably 
appear in four or five weeks from the time of Spawsing, but 
mee will d atau entirely upon tl 
—A Subscriber.—The readiest method ot destroying the 
cale ere~ Pin ne plants, if grown in a pit, is to introduce 
the steam of fermenting horse- rt amongst’ neat ata high 
Sauypersture It is also on. that if the house i ay which they 
wn is kept at 90° or 100°, and incessant] with 
ur for egg days, it will “destroy the ade, witho ut 
iiaring the Fiore 
Novice. ecommend you to procure ‘‘ M‘Intosh’s 
im soticas G arden ——A Subscriber.—Mr. M‘Nab's Treatise 
upon the Caiten ot Heaths is the best work on that subject 
which has yet been published.+ 
Fences.—T. F.—No t will make a good hedge phn omeding 
fo caged pod ® as a screen it is excellent when well m 
B 
14 fect 1 high, arg very co’ Py cckagee ble Pig which is as firm 
as a wall, and close to the very gro No plant whatever, 
in fact, lends crag so really Is a hedger as the is thorn, 
f quick a sel ns llie file e in some 
respects better, tence eker nxt writes they grow too 
annot expect a a hed ge ae min value in lessthan 
gin anting trees id feet high. 
- get 
Let your Whitethorn be as stro df as you can t, if under 4 
feet high, and, if , Such as was trans ted last year. 
‘lant it in double rows, 18inches from plant to plant, anda foot 
re) Let the work be done n as as 
lime rubbish is req uired ; dono good in such land 
as yours, 
MarveELs.—A,—You 
acari being produced Soca? is aoe by electrical action. 
‘hi gti for atheists? But w 
k us if we believe the stories of mites We 
e 
becomes of the pecogeoe Our learning teaches us th: 
is visible at her me and the ryt we study them the 
more mprehensible 
Creator, but we are not quite mad or 
that the Almighty has surrendered His power to their galvanic 
Bhobey best time for sowing the seeds which you 
ustralia will - tang a day rin gor the 
table 
mould, witha ‘tion of — 3 
sinh a AND CH —Cestus ii — s whether y our 
ders can Seuben “reason why dairy farmers object to sheep 
feeding on their cow-pastures— entiy that the cones and 
butter in such rae acquire @ nauseous taste, 
WIRE Tr LLIs.—A Mat —Any wire- waver ean make the pretty 
ellises you see in our columns occasionally ; or an ingenious 
ah poo es each tiem We dare sa. Say you will so 
fi y 
n 
Fipsina | STARS.—. - inguires $s whether the pheenomenon of 
falling stars was observedth syear gsimnyee 13th — ora 
Will any of our readers be obliging as 
Vou 
month. 
him? Wedo not re 
MISCELLANEOUS.— ung Farmer.—We regret that the want 
of space in our climes prem it ieapceatnla to admit matter 
Hormagg. to ~~ ee hea e and similar agricultural sub- 
Upo — ads 
the ear Far 
iffi 
m your descri iption, to be 
p ei caileian Ori 
jus letter nd Ai oh 
should re ato a ledged the r 
ttle of your ist. 
4d from an illegible Sp 
ctionary, prepared 
filling the ware: atared Sa beak; ia is, re araee 
atic. nbles that used for 
oe obtain about Go per cent. from the ae wi 
Pine eek.— are,1,2,Glout M 
ceau; 3, Beurret Dil 4, i, Flemish Be y Beauty, which should pare 2 oer 
of the Re fashion Gri 
Dutch Mignonne ; 
Hi 17, Red Nonpareil. The Pears 
are, 15, Colmar; 16, lout Morceau; »asmall wild Pe 
unknown. facie i 
to rape ecw rege 
well formed, wi 
renee "Picotee = common 
The heavy-ed spare delicate purple eee is bea 
the petals are well formed, of 
for: 
edge; the guard petals are small “Gf mone have been 
out) ; the colour is rather too much broken, but the season may 
some ecg on this rats ; it is worth preserving.* —— 
r Pears are, 3, Chaumontel; 4, Crassane ; 
os 3 is most ppeckeng 
other Apples you sent are not 
ix Post-office labels = ror ag 
» Pri—t 
ars, you have obtained, in 
a a’ ‘Avemberg ; . Chaumontel; 4, Glout Morceau ; 
Uvedaie’s St. Germ: arric —Your eg Fe ar is not 
i o Adams’s Pear- 
lide be 
eing sufficiently rich for Seeare, *, although it 
from 
- prabably a a very gor sane eigrey <a. It differs w a, 
e Quarre hich i aised; the latte: ga 
oe summer ap ge nd the pods aly ‘rom ‘it a bets winter 
variety. |-——A. C.- fin, 85 Apples are, 3, po 34 
Pearson’ e; 6, Golden earn 8, rom: Wine; 9, 
Beauty ee Kent ; 10, Borst ed Pippin; 1 1, Winter Pear- 
main; Coe’s Golden Drop ; ee Bedfordshire Foundling. | 
ns aivcnbelten dle of ms has been produced from 
e eggs of a i 
a caterpillar inoc 
cal 
column ¢, lin aden gs Spots Hecapen 
Bags copperas,”* read * from the 
diate of the copper ores.” 
Mr. PAXTON’S COTTAGER’S CALENDAR is sia pepeiatiod 
wi among their co’ may 
hea them de ed tn any part of London by remitting a Post- 
office order to this Office, at the rate of 5s. for every 25 copies. 
As usual, many letters have arrived too late for answers this weck. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
« successes of the British forces in China and Aff- 
gine recorded in our vores intelligence | of this 
week, will - received with unqualified satisfa A 
treaty of p has been (onset with China, on terms 
dictated Fate the anys Commissioner, under the walls of 
Nankin; and Chi s agreed to cede the island of Hong 
Kong in seiieuiine we <a Majesty, to pay the sum of 21 
ae of dollars for the expenses of ~ beta to throw 
n five a to aaekas commeree, t the pri- 
cree and ti officers of bth ears on an 
need pve foo Bet The im vicateeah of this result to the com- 
ercial and manufacturing interests x Great Britain can 
hardly at present be es a to its full amount ; the 
mission of our enterprise- o unrestricted intercourse 
with a 00,0 i 
nn 2. ¥21, 41 
ofa new world while the removal of those barriers which 
have kept the Chinese se cluded for centuries from the 
rest of es is an event of still higher interest in the 
history of a aeaey The news from India, if it do 
not open such a brilliant prospect for the future, 
— te to the i 
public: Ghyznee is destroyed; the Affghan army, 
under " Akhbar Khan, is i overthrown ; e 
prisoners are rescued from ands of 
and, in the words of oe peed “ at 
past disasters have been retrieved and avenged, on e 
scene on ase bg ones heed suetained 5 repeated Nic 
tories in the fi 
of Ghuznee ha p By huve ‘advanced the glory and ar 
blished the accustomed superiority of the British arms.” 
We hardly remark that so many successes 
ve 
seldom, if ever, “ate recorded in one week : the march of 
the two armies under Gen. Pollock and Gen. Nott was a 
continued series of or mt catenens 3 every operation 
on of march was ended with s and 
the gallant Sir Robert Sale, “rho name is 
tioned with ve pent had b 
risoners, who were 
exception of _ Bygave of these 
successes, and of the events which epee re As eee 
em, we must sedee our readers to our 
public towards those who have once more restored this 
apres oe mma the East will vo aa 
in this season ~ On aoe ames 
