SB A Ea ak Sf 
1842. ] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
called a verjusstate. It was puffed off a good deal at one time, 
but seems to have sunk into obliy a If any one can give a 
Sim sae 2 it, perhaps he will oO. + 
eas W. —The diam Filix-a0a you seeds tion is evidently. the 
Too much manu a independent of reid cir. 
roper 
sun roves ently 
exposed portions of = 
gum; and so will 
The rays of the 
Beane on the 
wings ae udimentary condi stems bt 
tion "You mgs een Pin ti "thi im Fre any rus punbareas: Suen oe sad gleaear. oe et gpccenen th 
with your detai spec ioe is structure we will * 
ote them; or you can find a place for the a in some withhold manure when it : eoe's wns te “oS ae 
of the Bo otanical Journals of the day. 7 — ot find the struc- rich caine ee clean o - ah cieks ed ae 
oes noticed in any book now at hand. It has apparent been and Screen, the stem from the ven =e ~ 
missed by Adolphe prone=inh althou cs e has occupied him- summer. |] sayse of the sun in 
elf specially with these subje ae WALNUT. Te REES «Dis lus” inf 
4 ‘ott hat vega 
WIsTARIA BACKHOUSIANA,— —The plantsold under this dozen _— a “wa grates 
name is not nb Neer pens is it ov aie what itis. It has — ment big =n ve pave, succeeded ~rgah Mo Syn a ve 
flowered, -_ ae not —- by ye Itreceived its ni means yormnghns- coved. - nad oes Sig 
from some dealer, er y. WALL-TREES.—A, B.— 
very shy of buying things with names not known in rT Royal G rge, i. B—Por you “Ariel pont ‘Ad De ee 
RHODODENDRON TUM. ly « € flowers of this the Elruge and Violette Hative Ni rine; and the Moorpark 
plant a nown in Europe _ are reported to be dark and Royal Apricots. F north aspect; the Jargonelle 
Md and enon en lavey as ag sed small R. ponticum. Hacon’s Incomparable, and Bezi d’Héri Pears : the Orleans 
tats AquiréLium.— W. C.—This is a hardy shrub, peas np Plum; Kentish and 2 Morello Cherries. For the east as 
no doubt grow Giles: Fir- trees, although dies Pr tes ot flow 2 May Duke Cherries and aG _— os For the eases 
freely in such a oe oe if it were x osed. aspect, the Passe Colmar, Glout Mor and Beurré Rance 
country it seldom attain reater h “2% Pears.|——A Subscriber.—The so sane maa posietia es of Apples 
Cepar-woop.—Presbyte “— uate tee emarks concernin ng Pears, Plums, and Cherries, are considered pro tea or the walls 
- "ge of Lebanon, to the effect that it is unlike pa it was of your garden e West Ridi ng of Yor —For the 
in the ite rat the Te — a of Solomon, occur at p. 765 south aspect, 55 wea ielenetts Mari sin ‘Taoec's Incom 
of ast — Chro The hich is supposed to have parable, Winter Nelis, Glou , Pas mar, and 
n used in that ‘Sending s is t tha t of the Callitels q stearate is, rré Rance, P rm, ae a and Elt ee eens the Gree 
irich. ta beds durable, and es and co: d in Gage, Purple G olden Drop, Plums. 
~ eect buildings bem the East. ¢ north aspect: 2 Ki she t 2 Morello, Cherries a ee 
aoe —P. W. J.—For Rochester we should Washington eh Jargonelle, Hacon’s In acehie, ¢ Catlac, 
See aie Peet 0 pro a 8 e the dar, the Douglas Fir, and the two and Bezi d’ eri, Pears eer or the east aspect: acon’s Incom- 
Pines called taurica and halepensis; or, instead of ane ees parable, Thompson's, Ne plas Meuris, Suffolk Thorn, Knight's 
Pinus Brutia, if you can obtain it. They are all very Mo Loui onne of Jersey. aed Easter Beurré, Pears. 
esate e.f For t t as : Ribston Pippin, Court of Wick, Nonp: il, 
CLIA ro PUN -—Anne, who has a fine specimen of this and Golden Harvey, Apples; the Royal Hati e, Green Gage 
pian ie ps og Pre close to a flint wall,ona —_ east and Ickworth Impératrice, Plums. For the east and west 
aspect f the bens of Wight, which has never yet bloomed, but aspect of you arf w = the Dunmore, Winter Crassane 
js now promising a re sion of Bins 6 oms, had better awed the Marie Louise, a hompson’s, and Winter felis 
ape warren fa Cue ae -frame before it, or the frost will pee may be on either side, and trained downwards 
destroy her — and i Herken severe weather it Boy be even the opposing. ithe Syke- gy eg sear arson’s Piste, 
necessary to throw aia ane the sashes. It must, howeve Herefordshire Pearmaiu, Boston Russet 
have as _— A in’ as on. CThe t 
CHINESE Pr lants should be potted 
ure a 4 turfy loam, 3 sandy 
erg be’ placed in the 
be watered 
ic piel off during 
aed nk in <—o mixtt 
most airy part of the gree cnhewe a 
sparingly, otherwise they are very ner 
winter. 
Vio.ets.—J. L. C.—For blooming in winter, Neapolitan and 
ow double Violets should be taken up in the earl t of 
September, and either potted or planted out in a frame in light 
seh os oil. "The situation in which 
freely exposed tot the sun t 
to give them plenty of air at favourable bei. to ae 
them n fro om frost, to water them sparin gly, we an 12 ff slugs, 
may reduce your plant of: Cactus’ Jenkinsoni, 
Gekich. tas sien too —— by beat out some of the older 
and leas t: nches it bloom freely, water 
sent time until ‘Mareh 
appear. This 
— these plants 
usually miserable appea rom the loss of 
leaves on the lower part of their od ses that ha tA have ow 
been stinted for pot-room, or have 00 early in 
— —— or have not been a de ed toi pointe ok es 
During their growing s they should be fre- 
quently shit shifted into larger pots, cour porn watered with 
iq 
SuccuLents pc L. 8.—You cannot procure any succulents more 
showy nec better adapted for cultivating in a small atneeas 
or pit, than Céreus speciosissimus, C, speciosus, C. Ackermanni, 
C. Jenkinsoni, and C. fagelliformis. + 
—Ignoramus.—This plant does not lose 
—When this plant has been grown 
e the eet it attains a much Shaped 
The specimen which you 
means remarkable. There 
Iti antieen inclined to gro 
usual when put in rich soil, or a high laaaeeitore. 
There has tear 1 one baneh of fruit gathered at Chatsworth this 
* autumn aan sins 
uLBs.—J. L. S. e handsome bulbous plants, 
i : Sone, from which Tu- 
Bo and versi- 
. 7 
— ee hs, &c., are luded : alis Bowei 
o i rand ndiflora ; 
Triana pla, ex ‘ispa, an ualida; I’xia patens, viridifi 
tata, an a Watsénia falgida, and Hypoxis élegans.¢ 
Saad article on the cultivation of t 
a sym ea! open 
than aye nea can convenient reach 
gro ‘ound to bacon the necessary 0 rations of p 
&. rope: te 
be = vem ved. ng, 
some per sons thr row off the — soil Hobs or three f feet wide 
und th to this basin the small prun- 
TO tree, 
ings, leaves, ek are put and du ag i, 
—_ om eB y be pro propagated by cuttin 
with as mu as by beperad but the plants raised by the 
latter method ‘peeune fit for grafting in less time than the 
2 rae. e French raise their Quince stocks principally from 
cul Ss. = 
_ pon ih Bak. 
leaves of 
t beneficial to remove the 
erie ys sh r-fowl egg Pear-tree, whose 
fruit, which a ways been ienianle has ‘suddenly 
become wooll flavourless. Last year the tree bore a large 
crop of clicionsly-jucy fruit, but as the t was getting 
rather larger than ished, she had it "root- oe The 
trees by the side “ = have borne » as usual, 
- Pr robably, in this case, the fruit has become oll in con: 
quence of acquirin size later in the sea bog have 
ning. You would 
as the produce was previously abundant fen rich ; and kep ¥ 
whe pret eos 
thus the whole quality of the fruit was 
iomeeat 
UM ON FRviIT-TREES.—T. = states that he has Nectarine and 
Apricot trees, from which gum exudes copiously all round the 
stems just above the toot an —_ _ 
oO 
2 
) 
os 
3 
ude, more mepoolallp if the border con’ 
Cc ou er. 
of keeping Cucumbers — = they are cut 
placing them amongst d eng: sin 
ASPARAGUS.—A,. ~ ~The va 
nt to Aspar 
me pose of giving the latter a 
geod salting, is a —_ 
__ macogh N.— Bassano Beet will no doubt be on 
ong the ciadieat, coheed Seedsmen.+ 
ped —Inquirens will region ne wate in “Sweet's 
Catalo ib pe —A seful book for learning the 
genera of 'itish plants is “Banter 8 _ max bbc Plants, 
with figures of all the gene uch 
r' 
sale this year 
aa, Sones 
scape gardening and 
ntal scenery is that entitled . Sir Uvedale Price on the 
Picturesque,” of sit h some ae de is given at p. 320 of this 
8 Chronicle.t——A Journ ony sidering what books 
u hav to provide yourself 
pocket.lens, Lindley’s * Theory ag eat 
Natural System of Botany, Hooker's Bri Flo 
Y last edition), Paxton’s Botanical Dictionary, and Sir DY 
n the Pict payer at all which will be wer ught for less toda 
a prior at you: posal. “Bn age information you 
wish for will be pokey in Soke son’s veaiaaeies Encyclopeedia, or 
cies We will ans 
A 
© 
eS 
ie 
8 
preety Book of the Farm, when comple we 
in _ nder glass when we 
uiry about the culture of Wines s 
ed Mr. Roberts’s book. t——M. ~ —The title of 
ers id 
Ww atallin staat toland; ;on = 
coutiedy, # vege ming we eeping the thee 
ees 
But they “eg mhalgntig, and therefore = yst 
We should not think of removing them where ap 
ee 
Moss on Lawns.—W. C.--This 
small rat and compe “agen § lamba the 
and Watering with gas- esa mixed 
six tim as rm pee of water wiles it.+ 
Law. —We dare no tine opinion ap the 
telaeeata of your theme ig ave too much perso 
perience of vad - gg tayo al of such matters. You mu a con- 
ur so eral, we are most anxious to avoid 
is produced by the growth of a 
surface is very Pe “2 
with 
ns, + 
ou Saeed give up at Midsummer next a small 
‘lip Dot § ground, rey light soil, usually appropriated to Potatoes, 
why not crop o with an early set of Ash- soni Kidneys ?+ 
A —J. B.—The smell of tar, which you perceive 
with paten’ ent asphalte shutters, 
ten our  eetoal letter has not been re 
ceived. In order to examine the internal om eee no plants tae the 
microscope, you must cut them into slices. han the 
“50th of ny inch thick ; if you can padi then ioe, re much 
the bett 
Ex mnrri0Ns. — Crypt ‘ogamia.—A collection of Bengals, Bour- 
saults, and Noisettes can compete in the ee mn Pot See: ¢ 
Th v4 acct ms to be exhibite pir Class be seedlings 
ner coming out, or those recently sento apn Baccharvg 
Leite of the first class. “9 ret in Aecpmmm oar this class 
= to improve the quality of the exhibi- 
have co! Jeotiveet “pe the 
foferiority of rg sorts exhibited, compare to the best raised ; 
and as inferior varieties will disqualify a stand, it will be the 
oe berets the taste adhe the Wd orice for been beaut: og 
bn fin 
— ge 
Complaints 
Su 
rithey a + eo and then at the 
very curiow us fact, arising, it is aor eet 
Fong! ing Gaabie's exist in ground which other Fangi ae ~ 
nec occu pied. Iti is thought that the co ra ance of t 
n these rin -. is owing ma _ a the Fungicontain i 
rg . $.—We cates! ting out door wooden b 
ings, the black aieoral 
—E, all that the leaden wire 
which is used for fetta = ake produc an injurious effect 
u wre ae an occurrence is not —_ ‘obab. 
—W.—We do not _under ir ot 
wild boar is as i the farmer a Chinese 
a ited to the brewer as a dray horse? 
Sure ly no nm you complain of what are called 
not. How then 
improvements in sy rg suiert Such deviations are 
by the ree which God has given to man, and may be 
without offen args age paid by man to his Creator. 
are on. when i -recugaieie the matter, that you 
you have spewed “ t the poastlas through a false medium. t 
‘MisceLLangous,—A Subscriber from the commencement.—From 
eva... 
to your poi cat -— A Subscri 
mie very prett “ine 2 
aiken andi y not sere growing. No. os a 
crimson tube, ti ped with green, is the best, 
the colour of Ne oO. 8, w 
—S.H.—We can 
is a pale brick red, is also good. 
R, Your to be Ja: 
eenbou Indi at t 
flo rept it Ses a difficult plant to stoma ~—W. HM Af. nwt 
what ave made of his communicatio ~ oa s. Rk. S.— 
The o chida daceous red hed Maxiliria em. The o 
not Waste with.t lant is Star 
‘te an 
giving tes ~n dd shortly by 
——A Constan 
heterophyllum, 
a are 
a medies ia destroying 
ths; one is to subject “the ian Corn toa 
heat eadiclont to kill ee 3; the — is by evaporat- 
of is housed, 2. } 
plan 
{ prepar ms ‘a er, 
posed to it, and agree with you in thinking that 
aman. oO not 
It contains wainies that 
t. t, for instance, is the Em mperor, 
nger, the + bg fro bir Pine (the o Pino-epple ‘! and 
the Princess Royal (the Elton ?) t-— Nicholas Nickleby .— 
P iums are all worth preserving, 
the purpose of ppc reel 
dispensed with.* ‘ear, 
e Dunmore is the earliest am 
the Haco pompeiine, nate Winter vind 
Jean de Witte, — Ne plus Menris, tv 
#ppe pears to be 
a “y vou had sent for 
that aoe mpure state; 
cq material tye men- 
oa a aha attend next wee 
ap ubiat g eo No, 1, is not the true Knight's + wap 
ved from rel 8 ar end the a ard 
Teoh rh 3h Winter Orange; 4 Winter 
Linn? which is excellent. Bsa Apple tary rey 4 
eof a » No 
Kes ‘odlin Alffist argil ; » King. re ‘a 
onto 6. is pot Sg though rather improper, carly Red; 
Ribston Pippin ; Balt Wy yken Pippi melow’ = 
— J. R. mtn —Your ” 
Fl — Bea Napoleo 
:s, King - the Peciis ; 
Year App ies are, No. 1, Kirke *s 
5 the Golden 
1, nore al Rus 
No. 1, Franklin’s ve 
em seeing 3, Rymer ; 4, Hollan 
rn’s Pippin; 
Ingestrie. The Pear fst the Glout Shorcens,4 -i——J. M* Donatd.— 
Your Pear when received was ge wae ned decayed ; de. tapp ears 
Saeeices Selinn tiers R. S.—Your Apples » No. 2, 
Coce: 8, Barcelona Pea Pearmain ; 14, Api Noir; 15, Samet of 
Gianna? 26, Manks Codlin on Green Codlin ; 23, Beach. 
a ai es ey 40, Paradise ; 45, King of the 
pp’ e Pear are, 1, Uchauets te; 3, 34 
The following are mea early Pears :—Dunmore, Sam 
n des Carm 
e 
becom aa, ; * pectic the 
es. R. 1 Gril Na's eae teen us pulchellus, figured 
<eaman in the Gardeners' Chronicle, vol. 1, p. 196; and No. 3 
Turbo — asili: e 
contained some shells of the ja) nigricans. W. 
are much reer go to him for No, 1.R,——B. T. P.—Your s 
os ~ on = le Bretagne Doré; 2, Duchesse d@'Angouléme; 3, 
3 4 ae Beurré ah Me Bergamot ; 6, 
Biahop's T Thumb. The Apples 2 2, Dutch 
Mignonne; 3 eee ; 4, Syke e house Russet ; Cod. 
lin; 6, Paradise Pipe in; 7, Christie a emt y "Embroidered 
Pi ppin. | —— —— T. K. S.—The article upon Guano has already ap- 
Exratum.—In No. 46, p. 758, column Bes _ from the bottom dos 
for “the plants : should be pen five t 
ference,”’ read ‘from five to seven Sector in diam ” 
many tettors ha late 
As seek have pote de too for answers ed week, 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Tue Overland mail from India arrived in town on Sa- 
turday with ae from Cabul to the Ist October, and 
fro 16th September. The intelligence 
thus received is neti tantially the same as that brought by 
the intermediate mail a fortnight since; but, although the 
ng facts are ri Libis everything whi ich was 
s is now satisfactorily supplied. 
of the prisoners in the hands 
leadin 
wanting in those 
Captain Bygrave, = ak 
of Akhbar Khan, was surrende en. Pollock on the 
27th Sept. ; and the r prisoners reached Cabul i 
safety on the 2lst, under the oe vo Robert Sale 
and Sir Ri meet s t interestin 
hakspeare 
portion of our news is that comet with their escape ; 
0 romance was ever written more exciting in its details, 
or more abounding in spear nisuiade Gen. Pollock, 
in his official despatch, s 
ef were i rsuit ; and orders had been issued 
ut to death such as te too weak 
to ey and to off the survivors in Seale. to 
The army was expected to march from Cabul 
h October ; and it was said, that on evacuating 
