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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[APRI 11, 1857. 
remrem SA 
adapted as a centre for a large vase or bouquet in tbe 
being cornpleteđd 
rn ted plants ; whole being yacinths We: one ofar : arine fo ¥ 
with Lycopo yer fimbriated Prisaulss s, of the latter of | such things marks. w ere suggested’ by a 
which there are now some splendid varieties of all shades, | scene fone te? h Aee p3 the writer, and it is only 
rom rosy crimson to y white, and carpeted with of many ofa similar character, W., = 
Moss from an old wall, with the addition of some hoary w put over the Roots of Trees a Retarder of their 
Lichen laid on on Bly with an artistic hand, Although | Blossoms.—The ecommended by volte correspond- 
Amaryllids are very rarely if ever seen at any of the great | ent Mr. Sharpe for Pg api si blossoms should 
exhibitions in ‘this in hii: Aan to have formed a | not be lost sight of by those who ha ns for 
nd hogs Be so fully 
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f the most extended cultivation, more Aai 
d they are |} 
cipal Ae that it is to claim the greater share of 
attention, and that the conservatory, “the pot, and all 
e accessories are to be 
yt e the mea 
puttingit into practice. I was] ‘lately inkaras of a method 
which a tradesm 
Stirling pr’ in s pe for Seay from the 
I gathered a dish of ripe nan 
and another dish on the 14th, and o ck ie at I, 
were excellen 
Outhill ray allo e as an 
gardener a some oe rs’ a shhuding to pr a little 
praise in behalf of Mr. Cuthill’s 
tical ae ” (as well as hi 
deners? Chronicle), for the cultivation of th 
vegetables usually grown in i 
can safely say i 
for cy eng s I have indicated. James Duncan, | quantity of it, and put = = ao roots of the tree and i and I feel 
Basing Pai around the stem, The not injure the tree, for assure d th pay fail to achieve what is rarely met 
Vine Leavy aA w me to inform Mr. Geo, Lambert | it bore fruit penn = me was a standard, The | with even in the gardens of lar ouses, viz., all our 
that in the re remarks I sent be te ith my Vine leaves, | individual who ere gts ro tree wi a snow is se best vegetables grown to their greatest perfection, 
and which you headed “ Thomson’s system of heating,” | many years ago, and ee has been cut down in | Amateur, Croydon i 
I never mentioned a boiler Gy iption ; at the | order that improvements iski not be s hindered, bat The Complaint ks a — erer.— Many w myself 
same time let me thank him for his corroborative proof the doings of those who have been in the world before | will agree wit th marks inca made, 
that fine ane n be produced i rly spring by | us ea not somes be forgotten as ee Mac se nzie. tending to haria git dishonesty of unprineipled 
other systems of hea psn than by that of Mr. Hazard, ybrid Epimedium.—Since writing $ to you afew days | gardeners and others connected art of 
eraat the Tanee gentleman says in the Chronicle of | ago about my hybrid Dianthu s, I hav another curious | gardening, and to t nd In d you the par. 
January 10, “from the severity of the weather in - | hybrid come into flower, ms » Epimedium betwe nate col- lars o ums of so disereditable a nature 
at I am of opinion that nothing but the public state- 
Tiira > aD ch, 
sey, y we ar 
es heated by hot-water 
l 
it is ag ak e air 
houses i 
ipes run 
in mi sach Do uses Took 
, so essential to 
a houses heated by 
will be found in 
as in Bags ver 
tl 
d ve to many of your readers, such fine _— as 
„and esp e- 
ary when rown on Vines in pots, though I cannot 
bara that I said I a os 
gour of _the ies only “ 
to the open irculation 
oa Da paratos, while 
l may, wi ih tribute 
ze of mine to oe wo eesti of the 
house in Me ‘the ey are grown; ; the lati nas 
ectio 
if 
i, z$ 
thh 
Ta consists ;_ paisa s at his! kins 
tibet ak the subject an 
on on many of ‘on: waka k well as If. 
oa Dalkeit h Pi jogs 
den Ornament.— lf rea taste is indispensable i 
designing an ornament, it is no apa re - isite in placing 
it to its legitimate ment may be in 
itself fault 
: fact 
fine arts ; it may be Bitls one, but still a fine a 
d the desea examples o of fai 
of ornament to be met wi 
taste ; 
ve how an = that can appre- 
concei 
i Gate benny in the lore of plants and ee 
of their flowers 
ae can for a momen 
- them for such a purpose. si wr tesa 
eee ri arn sega, Abe a every- 
gaudi coloured pots (of "their owu 
merits I say nothing, it — their a tion I am 
mon 
as 30 las vut by alt means k 
À gMeeclloct. ah yf 
conter an | at m 
w 
m pumiceum.—Seeing in 
d | the seed "g this for sale, I was aaas 
h I ha 
agemen 
ness it is unapproac 
at 
the plant is the pe 
chicum fertilised with pollen from E. macr: um. It 
is exactly intermediate betmees the two (t the flowers e 
which, as you are aware, are very differ appea 
o doubt owin a = the prepon- 
derance of white-in ee acranthum being against 
the generally powges kan e the "pollen M the 
colour. The seed — 1853, one ges 
aloo “pening, snd” m WR rs the po ay 
were sown but did = vegetate till Tosa 
One only en me os maturit 
for th time. I loo ee upon it as a most 
Fr tg ‘hybrid showing how certain the process is, . 
for at the time mentione 
anthum with a bell glass, 
a aasa ent to bybridiser s 
` Eoen in Ea efforts to introduce new varieti 
o t 
earing o ace pee —Fe 
knowledge of what took place above 80 years 
æ 
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two ree 
, but t they scarcely bore any fruit. were 
also other varieties ag A which were common at 
that time, but w rarely to be found—such as the 
adware by any others. Pears do 
_— ated, It t may interest some of BASE Er 
w the price of fru The best 
les a purchased by a 
inserted in a catalogue 
gs a 
packet of it ; but although 
open bo er, an 
and on a hotbed, seed has vegetated. 
I shall, geige feel obliged if if any of your readers 
aff infor regard to the 
h daetli? as being a hardy perennial, 
feet in pa ea and of a crimson colour. 
i that D. cardinale only red variety 
hitherto known ; but D pe has appeared in the 
itland. 
is now flowering 
t 
get 
w can speak with personal 
ago, but | som 
ce 
[See wae 
a | day Fa sig his Eminence, who had lo 
docume: 
l 
n ae sider, pa à pot them in 3-inch pots in a mixture 0 
plun 
e, and ha kaiia These hong a not 
seem to 
immediately sar ae finding tiat 
n paid and 
akin 
and ascertained fege the pty had. scaly EE 
money at the office 
ne 
eli EN apn a 
an defendant, danean the other 
a similar 
Violets.—The following is my method of cultivating 
T :—In May I shake out the old plants, sele 
s 
loam, peat. sand ; I then place them in a framei 
as hady corner wie ey have struck root, when 
ep =. 
oi te Underhili’s Sir pe: 
koai =] 
“ 
doing I get nice pow bushy plants, by th 
a ber, when are taken g inches 
nd planted in a frame without any any bottom heat ial 
Peach u tre seai kai daj Ge 
of the use, an shelf suspended from the | TAi AA piae (river kaea 
rafters. I Sip age to the early house 50 pots of eae > oe 
Black P an. 7, and 12 of Ke . | shaded if required) f 
