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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Derc. 24, 
psec css sah 
‘to be di maar and not applied_ to the land by 
“ means of the 
This last statement probably explains in part the 
conflicting evidence abe sett produced 
with us whethe 
from its viscid quality, it 
tf api to oer a it should probably we rea 
before win o become thoroughly 
as 
Bred oe the soil before the dry weather of spring 
can se 
It is 4 be recollected that of years of its grea 
of 1841 hte 
so; while, on the cage = band, just that year in 
i a arkable for its dryness 
ng all the growing lee 
MATEUR’S GARDEN, } No. LIT. 
E who live in the country, at a distance from the 
aes no idea of the 
a Ward’s case 
a sitting- | 
d by 
es get cov ith 
dust t, or they are pode “secre ane destroyed es the 
excessive heat w ss is — ted by the pavement and 
walls of the houses. There have rage’ several setches of 
these little greenhonses published. in he colum f this 
Paper, but none, in my opinion, <5 pinidanibes ps that 
e~ 
luxuriance. Some little plants of 
es: iaptshatil> om the top, and have 
a very pretty © veh at Anot sn are nt matter 
connected with its formation is, ns n can always, 
the side, get his ‘iad readily in to 
self can 
1 her 
seats grow in _ 
different kinds 
necessary. $s a most important arr ment in the 
elinznetion of all articles of this kind ; if it is not attended 
to, the plants are sure to be sooner or later neglected. 
The expense of such a case as this, the | 
made of brass, cial be about 82; but then it Tiorae a 
piece of very ornamental furniture . "it co course, be 
de per of some other su — such as zine, but 
it would not look s in a room icely 
furnished. In order to give a iden of its real size, I may 
mention that it is three ve oe nee ene os all the parts 
are petri according to 
ioned before, that cigieeke atc of this kind 
should f at well, itis not necessary for them to be air-tight, 
0 , and 
ap 
their 
which ref refreshes yoo ten som 
» where window-plants cemeeally look so stunted and 
unhappy. 
a cae th the - pe ing elbeott 
afford t ti Ohi ] 
his - > © highe pre ion to himself and 
a= 
x_£ rece XXX 
“Sa Panason GaLt-rL - ican 
from time to time, witha h 
a bere ng the gardener better acquainted with fh + 
I wish to refer the reader to 
trees = 
have now an oppor 
which forms its nda rd 
ing such an oat deg pversion 
galls, that iti aby pa da attention of every one 
who jaamry in interest in the wonderful works of the 
nity _— ing the ai 
Be gs of an Oak, prese 
ed by Dr. Lindley that the Oak coca . 
a eenere of the I Leas — the 
wae bom Naples by the Hon. eppel Gennes 3 it 
to bea f Quercus aaa The twigs 
; Gardeners! Chromite vol. i, D 732. 
| loa a subsoil of ina irick-eart. 
tending over 
pte fruit inte 
with the galls were gathered in the Valley of Sevenno, in | compare this Pear, 
the 
im peed a between Salerno and Avellino, about 
four ee iy former city and the sea, but at some 
eleva shoe aving never seen anything which | 
pr resented ao slightest eevee ce nce these grotesque 
ought they must be 
s attached ‘to the ie, 
fro hich an Acorn had fallen; 1 presu : 
that these galls are monstrous forms of the fruit-buds, into 
which the eg i egg, of nips i 
‘saber 
to envelop ‘the Oak-stalk, and Sehily shrsabe it at the 
lower pee te itis3or Bim in circumference, and from the 
centre a a stem or stal surmounted by a table or 
parasol ; this is apts a. “the ae but similarly bpothed : “ 
alf ua inch thick, and on the top, 
a cable, is a little elevation or 
ddish-bri ete 
hin 
were as Entre pletely fastibded 
if they had been varnish ; amongst 
Diptera u (Molabry I believe), 
ulus. 
elfth of an 
ining the specimens 3 ig ds hoes eam 
were females, only 0 d to 
‘he tw 
n exam 
with 
x aE, three broadish black stripes, with a 
arcs the EE arses is black at the 
ee the ariegat e same colour, 
ith 
and the oviduct was € pea < thighs are striped with 
r wi 
Fig. 1 represents a twig of the Oak; fig. 2 is the gall, 
with the aperture (a) at the union of the ruff and ta ble, 
re which the Gall-fly had emerged ; fig. 3 is the outside 
m an anterior wing to show the 
neuration.— Ruricola 
PEARS, 
- Tux following observations may be useful to some of | frien 
a 
ai 
aa! 
8 
a 
a ee Ded with chalk s 
Slaghed. i in » ocessional rows, 
| re 40 acres; an j Md what I have otenrvad during 
se pul variation o Pe — not appear to affec 
Pears so at hi : 
ae pay : gusty invariably good in all soils and 
or Sees ec $ prior to that of 1841 the blos- 
a ty by sprin @ troite 
3 it has this ¥ year been 
a peyton! ppl robs ; ‘the fruit 
mae e, and 
ee oe Ted. a The s preter 
art of those of the rasp seemed cracked on the 
ot zinenes ersten €: 3 so that vd Christmas ss 
This not been favourable for t 
the Sais portion racking onthe tres Sept. I can 
th A hee the | 
| 
| 
end flavourless 
from standards avy to peters. £ but a 
fine-flavoured Melon; it is delicious. I have bought ~ 
vent-garden, from ealiewets, very see but 
them in Co 
orpe Cr assane, ig 
the 
good and full-flavoured, 4 
f December ; be 
1840, remarkabl 
ack 
the flavour was inferior 
the trees during the heavy rains 
have ripened prematurely with an indiffe 
a garden five miles off, they are fine and delicious. 
isa Me har a Pear. 
Winter Crassane a 
o 
ways bears abundantly, 
pretty goo 
flavour better than in th 
— this will be a biota 
olmar bea ost <bandlakly, but seldom ors 7 
ever “ripens its fruit then remain hard and worthless 
til they 
Duck dase d Angouléme grows well, blooms — 
a aout bears. i 
enné ae is a good bearer, and a very excellent 
Pear’ in : Octob 
Glout Morcows grows well, and bears moderately ; 
fruit but = seldom ripens well, unless placed in a warm 
chamber; it is inclined to spot on the tree, and is oft 
peo pent inrgulriy shaped. 
erg hicks — those of 1841 kept 
oe season they ar 
A variety of this Pear, sent. from Mons. 
years since, a aly ‘true Beurré d 
mit from the 
Ins 
ears. 
no 
so slender ; its leaves are a little broader than those 
variety in usual cultivation, which come he 
cultural Societ It appears to be a seedlin 
from the same orig Beurrée d’A erg 
French, hich I have mi oc seen in their 
is pope - stro eid ig He large 
Glout Morce I have ata ahativs eects 
when aigioetiet in id: quattabs of the Fre 
the former will make a shoot fi t 
one year from the bud, the latter barely reaching three 
et: but it pla belongs to the same rac 
the peculiar pro t buds and yest he of Glout Mor- 
ceau, only longer. 
aster Beurré nite std spot ‘blooms most abun~ ‘ 
dantly ; it - produces but these never 
_ kindly, een always si ‘and ant at: the core, — 
poor in flavou 
"paki an’s Seriig Beurré is a Pear grown abun= 
dantly in the east of Bae x and west of Suffolk. About — 
8 rhill it bears immensely, and one season in five eats 
tolerably after Christmas: it certainly is no Beurré, b 
a pry or stewing Pear 
le Caissoy, or Nut meg.—A very hardy and fr 
bea ing he Fcc ibe ct a peculiar musky flavour; it 
keeps be till F 
ne el babar wall, ee ae we 
o bring it to its full wee ur. The fruit of ~ 
Ted kept “till December F, wd those of ‘the pr ese al 
ould kee = the middle of December. 
« Incompar rable b well, and is invariably 
firs In 1840 it kept till the end of December ; ;ae 
184i he: was fully ripe by the middle of No Th 
ats | season as if they. would ripen in December. — 
pl é gris is a good melting Pear. In 1841 it 
ijened't in n December. 
Bon Chrétien Fondante, from the Horticultural Society, 
bears well, ~~ Pay soem in ’ October ; but it is inv — 
mealy and 
it ei 
Ci paras a 
Onn in soo it was fine a 
es high flavour 
in 1841. This season it is poor and deficien 
Winter Nelis bears well; the fruit in 1840 
haa in 1841 
ose of this se 
will perhaps keep till the middle of Dec 
At a rey and vipena in October; t 
favour is ea cae 
and over i 
¢ Cay apiau 
os sari of October, iol is s generally juicy and good. 
season vs is very inferi 
Rouse Lench bears most arse ; the fruit is hang: 
ing on he trees It s till June, and, to use @ 
d’s words, is “a Crab or - Pear ;’’ it has eve 
thable ”’ her 
Beurré Bosc bears wills n 1840 it kept _ be middle 
- rates in 1841 until the middle of November. Th 
ason it ripened ete the end of Oeiwhers “ite flavour 
is 5 iy tec first-ra 
Inconnue Van Mons, from M. Van Mons; a dle- 
sized praai Pele r, keeping until the end of Februar Mine ‘uly 
and high flavoured, Ay seaerat a Valachlo variety. It grow 
‘ealy, and bears 
Calebasse yi sie in 1 November, is crisp and juicy, 4 
its flavour is moderatel 
sse de ‘Nore val well, cn till epg? ; 
its Pivoer i is peculiar! ; 
been oe 
and bea 
A t “abundantly ripens s 
October, and its flavour is very indifferen : 
Beurré d’ Amaniis is a free grower, pon eee well; 
