APRIL 4, 1857.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 235 
heavy fruit? will they not either drop off or bring all; it cannot be ae tea It is my belief that where explanation on that } head is necessary here. "The young 
down together ; and do not some of the tribe require | Violets have been once grown, they will come up for ages patik will do well to make himself acquainted, in the 
training along the ground that moy may take root at | afterwards, Hedge Violets, for grey in a garden, | first owed with the general characters and outward 
the joints? Some of your yang, Farge will an soon become a = 4 nuisance, remark I wish | of the chief natural orders: he will find this 
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"r feet orig whose branches are in proportion to its | bloom for the nti ais and perfaming the air for a number of orders to which it certain nly does not belong, 
i 5 the surface of t i Russi m | and so the field is gradually cleared of difficulties. 
part the sa been oozing out slowly for some time ;/ but it requires d management, and when “ well | natural dist tinctions depend are often too minute to be 
and the bark at the base of the trunk is cracking—it | done,” is quite an attraction. It blooms from September | made out readily by the unassisted eye, and that a 
thinking that might cause the sap to flow more freely. {under glass. Be care to give plenty of air. irim, and they should be always at band. 
Would this hurt the tree, which is in excellent health, | My White Russian is a beautiful clear white, and | “Finally, in taking my leave, I would e eu a 
with the exception of the lower branches, which lately | blooms all through the han pes ix ed splashed with | little book ay indulgent criticism of those 
have turned a little brown! I may also state that I| the rains unless covered. It bear confinement, | me the honour to use it, To know the nah eR br 
have the roots, and they are in perfect health. | and for that reason I would rena it. The amak is nothing; I ‘admit—to observe the poe penn 
I have put fresh earth all round the tree to the depth | Double White is a beautiful dibio clear white ; its 
of 2} feet. E.S. [On no account wound it; if you do ane time of blooming is in May—a good com pact e Whenase'er t 
you will kill it. Let it alone.] ety. The White Tree Violet is a semi-double kind, On earth, sie, ocean, or the starry sky, 
Wearing out of Races.—I beg permission to deny that | which no doubt would form a tree trained to it ;’ Converse with Nature ia) pure sympathy.” 
the Dahlia, the Potato, or the Hyacinth have degene-| but it is of i other use, having a bad habit Re “Such is the spirit in which this elegant study should 
rated except where people disregarding all advice to the borders. The Double Perpetual Tree Violet is a beau- | be pursued ; and forming and strengthening, as it does, 
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r” that the sorts that have been Garden i is supplied through the winter. It hho idg in | ‘generation, frait, 
orń i le, | almost any climate or situation, and bloo ost pro- |. When we add that Mr Childs has done exactly what 
they have been beaten fairly by new ones before per all be ae the winter if kept thin pay clean of | he thus describes, it is needless to do more than recom- 
asi : weeds dur e summer p e | men book to public favour, and this we do most 
whatever was good and not beaten may be found now | next three ire is the proper time for planting all aia scien auly; Pare o aerma r oag, JEn ome singular over- 
with new names. Let the writer instance a sin ngle | kinds of Violets, either runners or divisions of old in which will doubtless be corrected in another 
variety of anything thrown by and en that has | plants, They should iat poe be 9 inches apart in the 
not been abandoned for better things. a rey the /rows ; should there be more than single rows they UMMM 
best of all the old ones was the Sprin ala R then should be 15 inches atleast f from" row to row. ‘They are ae Cooper of Sth Regiment has published 
a star of the first magnitude ; but which at its very net rere n pre ee provid h with manure ; | 8 New Zealand Set ders Guide (Stanford), with w 
would be nothing anp Sami of the present day. Prs r theyare apt to get en with red spider, emigrants will do well to provide themselves. 
What Potato is there a aie years old half iae good wlohe cxmias the foliage to die down in winter, and | gallant author considers « New Zealand better caleu- 
as those we use now ? In our time many a variety has | makes the plants so short in the stem. Violets should jated than any colony for an Englishman’s home,” and 
thrown aside for better croppers with better | be fresh plan ited öven "panels: the runners should not be he gives full reasons for his opinion. A very good map 
flavour, and the Yorkshire Red, which is still grown, |eut off, as they bloom on the top of them. Robert Shows that at all events there is plenty of room ‘fer 
always had a t fault—deep sunk eyes ; andas soon as | Shackell, 5, Broad Broud Street, Bath. [We have other letters | settlers. 
we can a i its properties }on this subject ł hall Hb week. i Oi aS i 
daii the Yorkehio Rel wil pothaunicdside OF it ait ikl aha tak 1 amargar a ne ee tale by Mrs 
m l'acoording t to the writer in the « rd pi F Sib HG Apg a ercy Sinnett, intended, as we are informed, as a book 
worn out. G. in the * Seottish Gardener Notices of ooks. of amusement for the uneducated. ‘The intention is 
om had In reply to the request of « J. S” for excellent, but the commencement is singularly at 
information how to have Violets the same time as Coven 2 British Botanist’s Field ePi A ater of the s eR se the intention, >“ In t prone oes onal 
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Ea E dee aa a = renter > escribe | difficult to write, and in iii of its unlucky commenee- 
t hes apa prepared piece | truly what the volume contains, and shal! have such ~ fai d that k y the 
of soil. When they make runners, pinch off all but! endorsement as we can can give e them by tag tee principa mend emmetde Seiruedsie thodogisning is 
worst part. 
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to the first joint, and peg them at equal distances| “The title of boner book correctly defines its purpose. OT Pag E 
Yound e _ These will make fine stock for| Tt is intended to be essentially a ‘ Field-Book the Garden Memoranda. 
ne the following year. They may either be taken | field botanists siodst a: em Mr. Barnes’ Nursery, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, CAN- 
when the plants are taken upin August or September, | “It is obvious, that vi erento ng this pe a chief | BERWELL.—Since we last visited this nursery a marked 
an OA, a8 th metimes produce very fine | object has necessarily bedi the reduction of its bulk, improvement is observable in all its departments. 
blooms ; but the better way 1s to prick them out in a | selecting, as nearly as possible, the essential marks, : and | out-door stock comprises nearly everything that may be 
oa prove dry, a liberal | those alone by which each order, genus, and species lestmay | expected to be found in more extensive establishments, 
may x app nee eyes - | be distinguished. and, although by no means out of the smoke of on, 
b “Toa complish this task f lly and ly would | under Mr. Barnes’ skill and care few or no failures are 
balls of earth are “secured, ae may | demand l EA EER claim. to, | experienced Roses even succeed here admirably, and 
er a i ndjc combined with a happy and rare facaty of obseraton, the collection which is comparatively extensive consis 
would disregard characters, however striking, | of all the finer varieties, such as could é 
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I often wonder how it is that jan increasing tendency in the direction: of minute a bat i rishme oe of the e plants. 
ut Violets, ae the exception of | needless subdivision, and it may not be amiss that even | Fruit trees in 12-inch pots are pS plunged at mulehed 
the khaa ios not | thus attention should eee iman opposite direction | i na similar manner, and nothing could possib] peer 
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in ‘existence at all fond of flowers| “ Of the ae peera (Hieracium and 1 Salix) as formed “heads loaded with bloom buds which- E 
n the Violet as her chief pet I have a tempted waa rer ance wert by n. With fruit trees culti- 
be | necessar on of such an arrangement as | vated in the inary way this Nursery is also well 
would smio ¢ airas the se seope of this book do not exist, | stocked, as it Stowe’ is si 4 Aucubas and certain other 
into bouquets ; but if of no other use, the | at least: they have not pa been collected; and I must | sorts of Evergreens ; which, disregarding their subur- 
hey give off would amply repay their cultiva- | either have — d in a manner that would have | ban situation, look as healthy as if they were miles in the 
ingle blue spring blooming | been simply ridiculous, or have transferred to these country. Of the more popular kinds of herbaceous 
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Violet, ~ Jears to get good specimen Tree | but i in translating it to “awil-shaped,” I sak felt that aee to the vrei in beauty, The spurious kind is 
deal of skilful ear e and manage Selon maiyetinde too much precision was | said to be more robust in the foliage than the true sort; 
thus given the resemblanee to an awl | it also blooms less pa as and the flowers are by no 
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in ips be eases. These terms and thei r translations must | which they possess, Pau a should therefore take 
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