THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Dec. 24, 
The es or is oe sea pet by which 
& pr 
r of ol arta T barat powde 
in a pan, so that I might not run the risk of losing them 
in fire, and mixed with the powder thus formed s 
uch as is used bytanners. I then d the mix- 
n in 
of rye pln, ie found that they had. eaten the who 
and the were soon visible ; during several eas % }- 
sein I found num of them lying dead in different 
ay ers I have a been Goubled with them since 
nrorats some Mushrooms in one of his fields 
; and there 
of Mr. Foxcroft, of hgpawanie Polyanthus es bad Pribvoae 
flowering in the open ae as freely as if it were July ; 
a rare occurrence i tion. cile,——. 
thrush’s nest,with four ces in it, was found in the shrub- 
bery of the Rey. J. Bou of Wo teding, near Med- 
hurst, on the 15th ult.— ce.——I se u the fol- 
lowing list of pla = now cyan in my nach ip 
Auriculas ianatetoaien . 
Polyanthuses Sisyrincbium Anemones 
Chrysanthemums Tra tias Vincas 
Gentianellas Jonquils Saxifragas 
Daphne Cneorum Potentillas a me-not 
Stocks gee 
Rose (notheras Vio 
Walifiowe Christmas Rose Moree nitida, 
Mediterran. Heaths | Dianthus latifdlius &e, 
Erysimums D. montanus 
Yesterday I gathered ripe Raspberries.—G. Imms, Wool- 
wich, Dec. 20. 
Bees.—The ‘‘ Despairing Bee-keeper”’ (p. 837) h 
been most unfortunate in her selectio on of books on i 
under m ice pi season. The remedy is to be 
ns, and their advice m 
of failure. In —- ing upon 
eis n re Ate o subdue their 
T pie ou ent is not an 
shaper Golding 1 reksuive 
e bees oo under the influence 
til I saw hi 
could be di vee such 
perfect ease, withou Fri eel aoe severely stung : 
indeed ev cites Bi mb in the hive is r Mr. 
d he e can remove dike 
n 
“1 coul 
ar 
she ial tied up, to 
their original situation in the ta air.— W. H., Reigate. 
robl n Cookery.—You need not have miei “s 
such a aia y; sug Editor, - thank your corresponde 
for ot answers, although I am to be sure obliged e 
eir nten tions ; en ‘my son tells ~ that 
making all. 
ir that is swelled aa Sevcok 
n’t snyhow do; for = es ag is 
out a little at a poveal the 0 the 
etd a little at a time also, and by ae time ead ae on 5 
of the air will force up the liquid.— J. Hayward, Lyme 
P : sag hes 
in, which 
bubbles 
steam 2 wit chelling very fast, the pressure of steam 
in the large glass (the crust) is sufficiently strong to force 
"ed w over the sides of the patty-pan (the pie-dish) 
cee 
e large glass, and open a sma 
the rs ft it shes a py in the ones and a it. The 
stea capes from hol the and the 
ier boils fast, but not over. 
e small glass. 
As ye et ane is Fact a drop 
T now withdraw the candle 
nd in an instant 
R. H. B.—A 
important office to perform 
though it fObabE vee not pice nt the j jue boiling tog 
I would suggest to the old lady the adva ing a 
sort of egg-cup, ma with both ends o by 
allowing the air to escape at the top, would enable the 
juice to rise in it to the same level as it does in the rest 
of the dish; and as its rising in the one would lower it 
in the other, tt danger of boiling over would be rather 
—X. 
—_— 
Bletti ing.— —In P.P.’ Bb eateine nah the “ Thresor de 
la Langue Frangoys e,” there appea o be a misprint. 
The true reading is, Sosties bette, hadi de poirée,” 
not pourr is not unimportant ; for the word is 
derived from the Latin blitum, (Greek BArrov,) beet ; in 
French poirée, i. e., eet. It is found, r own 
language, as the name of what is, I believe, called Straw- 
rry Spinach, This, however, w e ae nown to 
yourself than me. correspon have an 
t If 
opportunity of Goanites Roguefor’s v loss de la 
Romane,” he will fin e, that in old 
French the word wa s epe elt v 
blet, bleite, blosse, blosson, blot, “7 pers 
poire bléque, a soft Pear, 
word bloat, which 
graphers, 
am siry that 
i 
originally, not turgidity, but tr 
this derivation ay disappoint ~ i oP. F.; that the 
word may hav Sa ae Bs other hand, 
however,. 1 can make I hope, give him 
pleasure by the: information, that vita oP ee 
related to it, is Anglo-Saxon, being, with a very slight 
change, the blectha of our ancestors, and Tach ifying pane 
leprosy. Its first vegetat nae obvi 
be to designate diseases ws the exteri or, 
an easy transition, it 
which the cause was Tatent os or 
not 
ral nt es blast o 
hodox gardener’ 8 Sapergear 2 and 
nop meaning of unbenign influence) 
Buch eae give copiousnes and pre- 
word Blatt is 
7 
eaning 
a Hed of the Nd mentioned by our Saviour being t . 
lady in Be 
mon n whit of our gardens, as that 
ith Gchints ref su fri 
which fortifies our opinion, an 
n the subject :—_ I canno 
o hav 
y tha 
in his distr of Gaitee, where it and the Rhododendsailm 
which g ich Lo ai roun pa 
strongly exited ay attention.” e then is an ping a 
reading s ted. It is clear that neither White 
cay & nor the Oporantbs luteus, nor oeetae wil fre : 
r. Bowring’s description, which seems to point to the 
Chaleedonten or Scarlet coc at Lily, "Thimeety called t the — 
Lily of Byzantium, found from the iatic to the 
Levant, and which, with its scarlet ig like flowery | 
is indeed a most stately and striking obje 
Shakspeare. —My ee on Shakspeare’s fine passag 
e Primroses, 
bce ve unm aicapeted ere ee can behold 
a as 
Bri 
is the follo a 
cal ure was not o 
tion of genius— 
on Homeric n 
whilst he merely possessed per me fon—intai 
speare fr a h ram uch in 
le * ds and 
erent at the very ents of spring be Old -English — 
fr osts had ceased to har = cove earth. Cere — 
, 
of the first harbingers o ses I 
first blooms are always pale, or mostly Sha 
I am sure, did not examine — er such bear seed or 
La 
the cudewune would hav 
ides SCD — poe 
; he the sam 
— ot which blossome 
e latter on seoonnt of having 
of plants ! 
that 
of a Linnzeus are different indeed !—A Foreigner. 
RIDDLE. ; 
By simple maids I’m phe a queen, 
Yet dwell in every rural scene, 
To charm sat village swain ! 
Each female e 
But often the is ena prest, 
I leave a lingering pai 
Torn sometimes from my native shade, 
I te uit dew serie moonlight glade, 
awhile to bloom 3; 
But | wiaeea by the fatal air, 
I om droop, and + sian Bi share 
Of worth the common doo 
Higsitaeg Mt faction made the slave, 
name for thousands of the brave 
t lore 
ch’d with British gore 
from whence I sprung.—C. KX. 
e Misti ee s and its symbols are always 
: meaning is level extension, spreading. In this Rvhend aa but more es veatil at resent : 
ti the needy ’ full of jui ice.” ow, Ik it is found, with very little : = riation ee shape, in all the therefore the following Faccenias: and sAformatidh from 
ie time that the juice is boiling, and only European tongues, ancient afd modern, and is, no g de avte scape Gardener’? appear 
gins cool. Perhaps the natural primeval form of language. It is the mAatus latus | priate :— In situations agri st ble to emer 
rs will try again.— An O dy. (We fear our | of the Gre nd Romans, and of English blade, flat, ie ig Hd 2 too valuable to be improvidently de- 
ancient friend is rather difficult to please. Since, nde t, &c. After this explanatio I hope t of yed, ue oe in form, or enineresting 
2 an our readers w Batol flower-plot, will adopt more | app stiff Pollard, Oak, Elm, , 
bait the following for her and her son’s consideration :] eat form facie stabapoire Sort t; but spent be aapetitly Bribe rved; and pre eviously to the 
cose ae te cannot prevent the fate ay es nee d Milton Save invariably plat, as you may see | covery of a “sey le head may anticipate mantling, by tl 
ling over of a liquid is y parts of his works. Permit me, while on the sub- | contributory aid of parasitic wig as Ivy or Mistletoe. 
tos bal the air, and the re ject tof Semel’, to give a little support to the theory | The chit eh readily’ ig an 
wah Ny ; f a former corres ent of yours on the subject of the | peren orna: athed 
at the bottoms of the gee rise upwards and create a Seckel ear. Poner ars rae to have kno bas that the | lightning, on an ncevated spat The safer: “sitachea it 
wath and « * some dig ge og imple word Seckel is found in German, “her ne ae states that | to treesofas rk ; having acquire ruidical 
6 aE a ‘.s ae. torn fhe ai aace by the he knows the evapo © meer yt 8 Now eee times a sacred Folsivantsr by its adherence to the O 
spheric press Pr Ail at: eal eet inved. When — pouch, bag, & s, in fact, an old form of | present it is more frequently appendent to the Apple- 
the tea-cup is placed in the syrup ees hen | the diminutive of s we I think with him, ‘that and merits cultivation in pleasure-groun 
way up into it, the upper part being f filled with id atte it is highly probable the name was ee by some German | from perennial supply of decoration, = for the ulterior 
ae itenss: in genetated bell te air ; but | colonist, who preserved the resemblance which the fruit of | purpose e of furnishing attractive food 
into the’ cup, and, pressing down the eae aso rises Up | that tree to a half-filled purse close drawn at the | night 
freed Wat the ted: de eben ak te sake pose a top. It is provoking to find that the Americans can absence of Mistletoe, wee bird of passage petlesers _ 
steam is no longer. ge i sgt ae end | really thrash the English who can thrash all the world. from Somersetshire to toe mee gots of Devonshire. 
condensed, aid a -raeiiuihforined Gil alan troduce a Teu = nic word into their language, and, x. need not remind ee gt still enabled to 
of the atmosphere on the surface of the i ane sp ‘ The igs igs gar eacent, a 3 entire or: nee ate ko Mist! sapees ia er 
€ e ma indeed, according to the ingenious | ancestors, of the part the Mist rhe a eae ose ies! 
the c er forces it we and fills the vacuum—and chee it Flagel y i king, i , ane 4 vet tives Bit, haat i iam iba debe P y 
i o their ‘‘ English Improved xf fo 
ntil air is admitted to drive it ou 
cae done by. iting the cu 
age be foun 
e pan 
Sebanees, ‘aad as it is so 
and to fill this, 
hi 7 
ed | instance 
, that acute writer rather objects to such a 
as the following : rd stallion has iiber mein. fence 
t mein weizen,” 
oT 
| such, unsusceptible of a Se ; signification.— 
the] The Lily of the F ed rity pra Be Lady Call- 
-cott’s * Scrip ore Herbal,” we cei oi 
 improba- | the destitute and 
“The Mistletoe hang in the castle hall, 
Or the Holly branch shine on the old Oak wall.” 
These ancient rites are rapidly falling into decay; 
strain the generous Siapiclabs of the heart. 
there are bosialga trifling resources at the co 
least wealth J) by by which they can allevi ( 
houseless, o would vila an old 
