1842. ] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
to be least acquainted. Win 
speaks some weight on oxygen a " 
and’gets the poor pet plants banished for ever from the 
room of his patient ey are most enjoyed. [See 
Leading Article at p.571.]\° The principles or theory o 
rdening have been ‘also i ne a t under ob- 
heey wi e view of makin m go oand-n-hand 
racticey’ Doubtless aman who only knows the 
practi, without wn eee may succeed othe certin 
ns 3 but ack doctor who cures by 
ened] ite alsoi whe ery Sesteogh in the same andcsos 
way, @ deprived’ of all the pleasure which is felt i 
knowing the reason why he kills or'w res. Plants, 
od of youth and of age— nd die; their 
organisation alike resists decay as long as the vit prin- 
ciple exists; n that ceases to act, both return to the 
elements out of which they were originally c posed— 
earth, air, and water ci 
growth of plants are few and generally ple; and, 
they ‘have been rightly understood, the amateur will 
enabled test oe met & sttaen as well as that which may 
be ended t her 
Tn rheteaten, wie our wale — been in many 
along a pleasant one, we » for a while at 
It is sincerely “usted that the 
een made t se 
he wisdom and s of the grea 
POventes} and has’ been am taught to “look. from arece 
up to Nature’s God.”’—R. F. 
pb-teperterragene- eeepc 
ME kt etieeeeiee ENCE: 
of the Chronicle, there 
on salt asa ma 
state, 
crops 2 d been devour ed by 
- 0 i mediately commence 
4 nulla a tien grown ound. with Salt, and ere pping i it as fast as 
8 salt disappeared from the s urface under 
is 
mainte i, ieaprored sapiely 3 3and from that time, Ehawe had 
abunda excell 
of a lim 
alt as a manure, if applied 
-in small quantities, and wh ore it is wa anted.] 
ur 
Danie as been proper 
n 
sed portion was quickly abso bal by 
. Mr. ‘Daniel's crop of wheat was excellent, 
him both in burying the 
4 into two equal portions, and planted with po- 
_titoes one of these was treated with stable manure, the 
: 6 
other rae oem there was no perceptible difference 
either i p or flavour of the tubers, but the arti- 
fici al boone eoecaaa most 
res Mr. D 
eat quantities of it, 
It ml be of 1 no penpat in meee - the soil is loamy. 
Rt 
g Land.— 
I introduced fe: latte at t here, es) it is fas 
suueaitiie fi ade. Mr. Mitchell, of Wymondham 
(who, I oe hewi hoes largely with the fork, and who has 
written a pa et on the subject), w as kind Ltt ep to 
send half-a- 
se instruments, whic 
Th 
Mages send them, thro 
9d. each, upon the receipt of a post-office order for the 
amoun stro ly recommend this plan for garden cul- 
bh ion ; and in t ke ip the White ee ea rot, the 
izon 
Allo fot ek am Lege with the success of my | 
Agricultural School, w begun. last spring, at m 
son’s particular dealeg a mien Dean, b 
Jo 
Sunday-school master ; who had been, owing to ill health, 
apauper in the East Bourn Union-house, with his wife 
and five of their children—seven who at 3s. a 
t 4s. per acre. Now Harris is maintaining his family on 
ly 5 acres; and ins of being.a burthen on others, 
has contributed towards their support in rent, rates, 
f per acre which 
c 
s from the soil. Iti "i indeed, their little Aree 
with light tools, ee dig e land for him 
liquid manure of the cow- oat which insures the | Sond 
nued Se arsid of his oa 
lis for Climbing Plants tik hav 
trellises made for climbing plants to screw on 
pleasure ; 
&c., the trellises can be removed to a place of safety w 
out the incumbrance of the pot attached. A sue sal 3 Oy 
the accompanying ” wrth will, I think, show what 
e had some wire 
and off at 
Cobia. scan 
every way, covering the. porch 
dens, which answered my ex 
and. elimbin 
‘common Nesturtinm; but as Tropxolu 
rapidly and flowered so beautifully, I threw the others 
away ive it more room. weet Pea will not, 
ink, succeed well against wirework, as it seemed too 
cold for its tendrils. The Trop peregrinum is s 
ormer being suitable, but not the latter, 
for Creepers with ve tendrils.— Hie 
Hacon’s Incomparad ear. — of mine, in 
alluding | to Sindits Yous pitebia Panik Snore me that 
three years sin oe a a, Shah a ee of 
Downham, who asserted t irs 
graft: at f the tree 
e 15 inches ; it has alsoa large roun Jol. Mason 
formerly stated a it was raised from the Downham 
seedling b Hacon. I received s from him, and 
also from the crginal tree, ‘be we of which i is just 
given. e fruit fro ves to be the same—a 
pretty etce Tet Milles, ‘d's we @ w how much 
seedling lia va urious feature of this 
ear is, that the trees cannot by any means be made to 
bear until the a ich 
uly, aeews and September, particular! 
I think one sowing the middle o 
first week in 
wemad-it i is not improbable — ~ cause of 
ode om-bed, p. 712, was owing to the 
se was mee ot. This 
rooms eeeteoly forward, 
but — oh) the bed af sat moisture, which, under fav. 
ble 
n 
steht ge of hays 3 the lower sho being filled with 
Rh a forcing season the water- 
kli the 
on of the latter ands prin 
are sufficien the atm —— “ee 5 In 
Pebraary, 1841, I hed a succession-bed whi been 
pawned 6 weeks, and promised well. At fe end of that 
nisi few Mushrooms with and small 
leathery caps sprang up ; the spawn of which soon spread 
over the rest of the bed. | These I away, and 
had fresh soilyspread over those parts of the w 
had been disturbed ; but roved unavailing. In ma- 
terials, formation, and t j wi lar to 
two preceding ones, of w uc undant 
crops of excellent Mushrooms. Neither the exhaustion 
of the beds nor the of the ho 
beari undantly t ime. «It s 
Ls Ce no knowledge whether or not 4 is an original | opposed to the assertion that the species of a Fun: 
a, but I have never class heard o having been | does not depend so much upon the seed from which it 
Sane, by any one.—a is a screw the screw- | springs, as fi the trix upon which it is hed ; 
ocket; c, a section intended to to represent the convexity | in the prese dus may be sup to mare 
of the front, which thus shows the flowers to great advan- | been favourable for the production of the true 
tage.—Charles Noble, Gardener to R. Mangles, Esq., | I therefore concluded ss mp fault laid in the spawn, 
Stininghil ‘| although it was from the mple as that pode hich 
eepers for andahs, {c.—During the winter | the other beds had been inoculate f. Elliot, Knares- 
pina I think it fete be desirable e your corre: spond. ough, Yor 
ents would amuse themselves, and impart a little instruc- | ¢ Rhubar e Number of the Chronicle, * the 
ion to your readers, by giving the result of their success | true Tobols Rhaberh™ advertised Messrs. Youell, 
a ies late summer, in blooming different ae 3 at| who say, ‘‘this Rhubarb. being the earliest in 
all e ill ou mine,in the selfish e of | open border by three pd of an is ren 
SbGitsing information, as I fear I can impart atlas To red hi I begto ask. Mr. 
the ye , fronting south, I have a ve- pondent n- 
randah, y Mabie made of oak branches ; and not know- 
ing what of a ore be should My » 1 took care | English. 
to have su eh a variety of rs that so d be sure | in the border, latter to, throw - 
to succeed. . reat a ota (?) Wie: which thrived leaves already, and the Tobolsk bas not, yet pode te its = 
amazingly, id no wer, a8 it fi ear; 
also the Tiénection taberost, which g 
rere ua a did not bloom. I planted it, by way of 
fA poor vont but T suppose no’ 
Pr hed af vac bohig young, made | 
t ye | pearance, 
rew well, but asa | pro 
' Baro 
I had ale eeu tis mean 
little progress crown all, Thad a plant of the | 
