January 17, 1857.] TH 
E GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
39 
three pints of Dannan s, or of any small black Pium, both single and ae states of it are cultivated abun- 
softened by heat and put with the 
do as well, me give that roughness which 
so deficien n. George Jeans, Alford 
recipes in gaat have been in use by ex 
t= for a century; and we are not aware that 
ontain any error. 
bat then = were intended to 
e and no doubt far better so 
k 
Elder ju 
ras A 
long enough. 
the latter, pune’ jan- bottle, pps p wine thus prepared. 
The Australian seeds whose names you have sent are al 
of greenhouse platita which will live ou 
summer, For Lida read Sida ; for Dawfentonia Dau- 
bentonia, Callisthemon Callistemon, Zuylea Eur 
for Lopnantha Lophantha. The ie is naturally a great 
tree, hardy in Devonshire and Cornwall. 
it a favourite. An Old Horticulturist. [What is it to be 
budded or upon? 
cus e I can answer the query 
as to the genera ne ei this Oak, from i = being 
so exceedingly commas in the Crimea, where orms 
the greater part of e scrub which I see delisted 
often as “ Heath ” an 
n banks of. 
ticularly on ce Asiatic side, which I ‘have never 
see There is the beautiful neat ot 
evergre reel a, like a small Holly bush, which i 
early spring while putting forth its soft copper colo aan 
8 ts older ons oy H serge with bright scarlet 
coccus or mg apn an am is a lovely 
little acorn, quite a ° like rnas 
bigas a Holly berry, with a pretty | ‘ile Hd complete, 
growing on a tree of t size ard Apple ; 
shg fetia < d 
ewhere, ees “teri is 
introduction. 
eens coccifera is Englan 
grafted ; as 
E paii spoiled by 
the Cork 
u is benutifal m 
ca) an 
foliage (as large as Quercus oe of Ame: 
is ive of M erru. 
Trees and Shrubs. sbs. Will you be kind | 
to inform your readers if the many fine trees 
pyr discovered Dr. Hooker, such as Mag- | a 
nolias Can thi eri 
as a forage si or A uced ? 
[To this inquiry Dr. Hooker has kindly sent us the 
following answer :—Seeds of several of the tiful | recom 
Himala an have been - 
Kew by myself, and si then by Dr. Thoms 
and Dr. Campbell of “Dorjiling ; but owing to the 
oft, fleshy, “9 yn natu the albumen, all 
hhave-arrived i mt ice decayed ee 
ecaye 
tr a and rindas We pe to receive live 
ep Dr. Thomson, there „being little 
g tran 
chopped raisins will 
uiceis 
r 
The see of sugar seems small, | rigin 
much | discoverer, Walli 
hi 
ine is 
gallons of soft peel water, | 
i ceri of 
e t 
rchant exchange 
of 
urybia, ip 
er | in London is befcre ms ae c, can you n 
k things would get m 
€ opener in mme soils ; 
~ 
a delicate or © bad grower ;” Madam 
erts. | 
rr ae the Persian gardens, a and the- single has been 
eri 
bi. spit provinces of 
nally, I believe, gout into “England k its 
es bik milar 
inese sengene r E. sh “nai 
beagle Neeser he R. a a A ae ; I believ 
skee 
4 
— 
`. 
Ty 
< 
g 
fe- 
d R. Hooker 
Asiaticæ 
elevations of 8-12,000 fonts varying extremely in 
s ; these 
a + 
p] 
Village Post Aai ae tat the oran of postage 
say a word 
about village post-o' 
their m tnan when they do 
them Peis hinting that if they 
about ing e letters, hey Mi would know 
about „Sany and h Wikis they are higher, and so 
more even, and the ead would not be 
ou to say some- 
every pees 
s poste 
so badly off as th t you 
thing, in order that pae offices may.be in 
whether large or and when a letter is 
vants’ sons can get, W, J., s 4 cares of twelve years. 
Rain at Castle Hill in 
In 
5 ches 
nuary . sic BRN Brought forward ... 17.59 
February s.. . 2.24 July ... see stgr 
March sen 1.00 August "pe 3.35 
April ... sis 4.28 September . 4.44 
lay me 3.43 October 8.11 
June n 3,37 November ` 214 
— December 4, 
Carcied forward ,.. 17.59 — 
Fotai ... ev 37.19 
1855... w 20.74 
7:45 
Roses.—As a practical man who has 
much experience with wi * Queen of Flowers,” I 
am indie t o offe arks upon this subject. 
In the first abs y RAG » ‘article of 22d November, 
wherein he states that the “old Roses are not beaten 
yet,” shows o; 
from among the old Roses 
per of fart se wherein i states that“ Gen. Castellane 
nd Mdm iraud 
a most pees mara ose. 5 
e tothe of doors nort 
at | being what is term 
contrary, is a in, grower, either “padded ts 
own roots, and in fact one that I can with p epa |g 
mend as k a illar paes ool bap ce prac its fine 
lige and large sho whic 
uced in Pstenidadeer Tl it. is th pay etapted. 
Of the third ti can speak with equal confidence, from 
large quantities of this variety durin 
ch have bloomed freely with 
8 
E aak hope of weds in no ave I found it. inconstant, but fully 
“ yellow El et survivin ission. he | hearing out the character given it; this is really a stripe 
whtiae is not a H plant ; that to and a great n o, resembling in marking a we 
“d wete Pya me s alludes is, I suppose, the flaked. carnation. h, by ch is undoubtedly the 
ie M ] . Thomson to | finest of = bright Bour A ave 
found bloom to my satiafiction, more especially in the 
The 
uliar season 
OSARE AATEC ALINE nn al 
a exhibited emed bai ae season, to have arrived 
uch 
k sare to it, Bosaka as sit does koa June 
to its b 
The nee 
La 
allich Post figu maid Lafa 
is Pla 
me 
inhabi its the pms damp usta s of the | ce 
whole Himalaya, from Sikkim to the Indus mf at |“ 
are nowhere ara i 
e| and fre 
y 
e 
ches) 2a oe aor n 
d prins merr a 
We 
a conclus a continuous aia? ma are 
o 
= Secouing © even more beautiful as ca season ad- 
under my no 
f 24, 
24 varieties, whioh — gures = ne seg foliage, TE 
bloo: her = 
nabii santa! haper 
cans} decoration or pte 
Cambacèrès (rosy carmine), M 
Bai; Madame Martel (white, t 
inted with rose), 
adame nite J acquin 
Madame Vidot (waxy flesh), 
(rose), Mrs. ight ei fe mar Aiae Leon aby, red) 
so red), 
scours de Paci (deep ve ety ia sa), 
Odier (fine rose) ; Bourbon—Prince Albert prire 
> dps Reveil (violet ting ats ; Moss— 
ssenaer (eright posi Gloire des Mousseuses (blush 
white), Lane pes, crimson shaded) ; Hybrid RNET 
Tea—Gloir Dijon (fin eae ellow). Of 
imported last spring, of each of a I Hive Blod 
have been enabled to note favourably 
ollowing :— Hybrid Peá BGY :—Arthur 
mae “AY Se rw sensei yee Pelissier (rose, very 
ne), attest des 
Jarge), General Sim (car 
ep mee (Client flesh), Madame | ape a mai 
rose) 
alio. fe , Ornement des Ja: Mwg (searlet erimsom, 
Pauline Lansezeur (crimson), Souvenir de la 
, very distinct and ‘ine, “Tt 
nempene, fe PExpo- 
lilac rose 
omphe d’Avranches (fiery red), yo 
| sition (crimson, fine shape); Bour Empra ress: Eugenie 
(rose edged with purple, will Te afee ms as 
ica En — pea fe 
À Freely in in E Staal 
Per Pas greri (Panl’s) bids e well N fera a p 
minent paie among the new of the season, "e 
n 
at the same time gain m 
valuable information. "6. H. 
~ Societies. 
— 
parama OF gyre tae sew Nov. 13th, 1856.—Professor 
Fi the 
idee s- Vi The- following papers 
on ba Noticeof Makino b ideæ, &e., 
sileo in Ceylon.” By Dr. Kelas 2. “ Notice of 
the Occurrence of Crambe maritima near Paneg 
By Mr. J. W. Brown. Mr. B. “ Crambe 
meritie anp to have disappeared aom, the localities 
burgh in which it used to . Thus it is 
o long = pla in the age q the 
Serai alovg the southern shore of the ‘Firth of Forth. 
has not been included for many years in the 
ze at the botanical class of 
Firth o 
I detected the plant, in company w 
in the peer od of Elie, within ee of Edin. 
some places it is found in 
Notices ot ooks. 
ae recent pig hi now before 
bers of Dr. Weddell’s valuable Chloris Absa “(ie 
5th) , and of Prof. Reichenbach jun,’s important Xenia 
9th). 
ived the Bat part ot Prot do 
b Vriese’s Plante Indice Dhith orientalis ; an 
account of the Lome? “ioe i be Me Amboina, í 
"Ternate, and o he Malay Archipelago a 
the late Próf. Reitiwasite most zealous botanist, whose 
autumn which a rs its more 
i mon European species, Tussilago Farfara and Rosa | last, the 5 charmin, Pee Gloire de de Dijon,” > although a Tea, | merits his countrymen fave > hitherto but little pitts weknow. 
= ws Webb: — tanist) are wild, | is without doubt the hardiest of its class, and would sur- | ledged, although one of eee’ at least has known how to 
Ses , li es nae Willows, | vive where some of the Chinas, Noisettes, and even profit by his labours, The present work is in quarto, 
Mision ; and the crops are Barley. cerne, and | Bourbo ould perish, and I do not hesitate ffering | and published under the-enli í of H.M. 
his Bose Dr. a iois when in England, prin an opi that it would not row out of doors} King iam i The part before us contains 
shieh to be the mon sa lutea, a plant | “north of the Trent,” buteven “ north o Tweed ;” ner ment a. in Latin and 
Affghan se bt, bee r i this is indeed a diamond of the first water, and no collec- | illustrated “by exce ellent “lithogra ed figures, one of 
Stanistan into Tibet. The wild single state of the | tion can possibly be complete without it. Of General | which represents Dich Ter cateum, an ai 
as however found by mson in | Jacq t (He FJ) y n of in the same article f ceous plant that wouid be i mae e in gardens. Itis 
in the province of Kishtevar, |as “notoriously aon eae an oul st ptocarp t 
mir (elev. 7500 er and by Griffith in | its colour,” I can only say that such a = gente cau 
so well Tarn tage cg! earry with it any weight oF inthe leat di 
native place is fine plant | general opinion ente ot this Sine flowet, E he 
