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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
a 18, 1857. 
and 
an an offhand letter tter soliciting further corre The p ehid 
were Mes noying occur 
rencés, a ort you ie at Eara fenes but ong or r impertinence 
on venturing to prefer even the slightest com plaint. 
is yet more provoking is the ‘acnaation of Ene 
es, from which I have occasionally been se ag os 
tances “ vie such things as Apert j 
majority óf cases it was ear that “the 
parties oh ‘ti not piesi any of the plants 
enrian nding in place of them amres 
I remember 
reading a a a back 'No. of your Jo sipo a letter relative 
Protective Association” owt 
a 
imposition and poy a and I feel confident that one 
might sg pg renal ich would meet the case in all its 
n establishment self-supporting, exclusively 
‘for ns arly wou 
are advertise 
worth looking on, at 108. —Geraniums at 2 guineas, 
of sy faces little, or no merit Padis at 7s, 6d. —Aericnilad 
at 14s. 17s. 
names indicated by: asterisks 
I | and thes n get either w 
Jap ~The 
0 shies brought by M. ‘Siebold from Japan to 
They cmp 
nd. punctatum, a 
5 hive tous 
our | aff 
rally (ete and therefore I trust that Mr. K., 
will give us all an opportunity of 
by sending one „å the Chiswick 
y, too your 
the trouble pete soni over 
eee ose in use in the toe i of Dundalk, and perhaps in 
r parts of Ireland, These have a rim of 
stip to the ae part sad a gee! an vo ors 
bel ow the bottom of the rim a 
footing = kea pot to e pen asi snlieorr “the ‘bottom 
from tou p the 8 Eee ow the rte f an 
English ag Epon rA protected by three 
little hemispherical ince of tin fas ened « on i by solder, 
cen 0 off, mhna 
$ 
een in Ireland I mig ott improprit 7 
have said that their tools “are still ina erate of n 
for 180 em vig primitive an 
forms that a antiquarian might be 
they had once c formed part of the’ Amae of Noah’s 
Ark. . i fea 
rrect botanical names of as 
ago are ‘not generally eng 
distinct sc known in gardens’as album 
ad rubru T Uiliore; too, that punctatum 
is sometimes called roseum, and ‘that rabr f 
named speciosum. .Are these three 
one species, and is s that s Species proel pa Lilium 
hich t 
years 
three d 
rish rea àke 
fornri Eemo similar to! i 
J 
stout a 
dark closet in my b 
weeks; on 
yea E 
nt at the 
e tree in eatly y spring— the, iy 
in mer contrast of 
ost Wier 
S ow 
we. or found anything acrid in the tent | in bg 
a Quince and not a Pear. The fruit is men 
s and their Eggs.—In 
a as regards 
2 answer 
jackdaws’ eggs being su 
ook, as it 
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pais m? If so, which is the typ 
eties ? at some Pe Pcie iraa 
produced. in this country, but these do not 
ect ia questions. J. B, 
Bare Orchids. Be at ou ever Sena sg 43 G 
a plant now coming into flower which I obtained from or huded an n. the common Pear stock, to which ‘belie e sapere are often substituted 2 “aid not sa; bae 
r. Bateman’s coliection-at his sale under the name of | it is allie upposing a young Pear tree, at jackdaws’ eggs were put in lieu of the pice 
Miltonia stellata. It is a ve oddly behaved plant, and | feet high, was selected, va furnished with pemiabed, ANRC runs — “Their often sell 
have it five or si: out ever getting it to | then grafied or budded with the Pyrus, we a magnifi- | for 3s. per dozen, ipat thec country people ‘ ‘sb 
flower. Its characteristic is the stent | cent object it would present in spring a lawn or | up the nu mber with jackdaws’ 
bracts of the seape, which 5 Ama preparant | | against a background of Laurel in front of the shrub- | construed into a positive ib. ‘ot as re 
E ment before the buds esca; ming.a very odd | bery, or against the darker y. imson | generally received opinion, Does “T. P.” deny thst 
a transparent apania roughly Nee on the oppo- | and the pink would have very sect appearance 
Site side, I havea ast got half uy Bb ag ower by | trained over a cire oe s I have seen the 
keeping it very sas it heat when | Weeping Ash, the. stem of the tree a ten the centre 
thespikes begin to. come pps bat: shy tg i ae half of the | support, How beautifully the slender branches would 
ee the same. block does I cannot,guess. |.droop do n all sides. I know.a Pyrus japonica 
¿tt is one of those which pe at the season.at ‘which | (crimson) is trained against a south wall 15 feet 
N iare exhibited, and so I have never | high, for the eldest son of the lady who resides there 
chanced to see it, ua flowers in many pelinctienss but | myself measured it, to be certain of the b It is 
it is one of those O. Orchids requiring a low ture | now covered with blossom fr ead to foot, and 
which . are generally "inexperienced already presents.a Te brea a ppaaranop, sich 
w Brassavola glauca has flower (N:B. ry mary of the blossoms.are. not nded, 
this year by exposure to great light with starvation o 
ate boc in he top o tne bonn Tai [We never | 
nium alivemore. onee ; itis naer. 
see F 
vunder that word. -C 
-by the experience of our skilfal correspondent.] 
iphrodite common wood Sallow 
(Salix Perea growing in Ongar . Park Woods always 
produces hermaphrodite flo | of 
one-half the catkin is male, 1 
general, however, they are s 
the tree is in flower it Pit si shs se s as es other male 
frees near, but instead of the catkins falling off as usua 
hers produce nh, H e female Is this a 
on occurrence? Henry, Doubleda pping. 
Daoin. a y yE [Quite 
pit 
Miltonia; qual 
Cultivators will oa be slow.to. pred | 
ber 
ay brother = itu up an 
n 
his 
s ong as if he would have bitte 
japonica. -l has s often struck me as singular 
t been naita from a 
mo: y droo the same 
in the wa Se cane 
Sipe ea it would have. -But the shrub has 
f | water-hen’s eggs are frequently sold, bu et 
short; _does he mean sold sapio ve + eggs! ite 
nc “eaves which oti tear om pe is 
We have the wa moor hen’s; 
fin e Muzeum, and they are of : Phares 
ve Of | his Essa 
course if it can. be trained ai — that height it will much 
-extent if used | and also fo: 
and what a magnificent | 
the 
w (who mber), and i pusas g 
along we saw one pase i et a per al lying at the foot 
ie 
of a crimson 
ga 
to me. 
e flre 
nje thers pti watching his 
to see by that Fes what the taste of ihe falta ier be, 
my infinite am LATY 
sudden ; he nat ae it as if 
his han ikerchief ones phn: 
Straightening 
4s eertainly:an unaccountable | Cayenn d ve read some 
‘Apath; rl eo :on „the subject. of harani that this very fruit if properly preserved makes a most 
Pe tools they work with, You will find whole pag e, alt r superior to any 
ie ell clang sana, 
fo 
Lbya minute hn of 
in reg Be som 
eera foe in esse Hig in 
pots, ° 
lowish red 
at 
of. April (p. 233a 
! i t 
„the remains in it is | 
ly t if this is ex > pulp| The 
thoroughly dried and grated becomes the tapioea of com- 
. If the one can b ert not .see | 
br. rothar, 
pb ogg ge of t. 3a | commer, ur, 
i aumontelle praa that amni by its „mere. 
cy ater exert any infi either one 
Vine and Hop milde j 
| ea appear oe 
st) tosome peculiar effect of peasy ee 
of. ac rears ge 
sive in 
ack for misy tojany one who t thet ben 
I ha 
= 
e+ 
+ 
H] 
n one, es 
epee My 
meh tar l t hich ter aa 
y colour ser whic Bye 
` flower, is 
only v rom which 
pdr red for iea light bright flowers, 
red for darker. See C 
allowable is * 
and 8 Je 
hevreui passin. ke Ha 
pes Number for the # 
t da atated bye Bailey—"5 d 
Fruit Tree 
Protectio 
), it is stated by Mr. 
cot tree to be co : 
osing an 
The applicat ton. of par ore esi 
; it is, therefore, desirable i some ef? 
e to ascertain its. mode of, acholh e 
to be due to.one of tbree: 
by nascent 
r (3d) what sec to me most. p 
' in 
I 
soe [a were 
