310 THE GARDENERS 
ZIRDA: 
[Marg 2, 
the Plums, and scarcely at = with ng Cherries. To, that 
all 
appearance the trees are in luxuriant health, having 
abundance of blo md a prene Tong amount of 
in your las 
a on this subject, g your insertion aye 
this i s — to contradict the conclusion of your corre- 
spond statement. He says—“ Brown, if I eden 
oo tightly, nether r gives discount nor credit.” Please 
rror, for such it is, my terms to the 
wale baie “the sesh iscount, and a further medals 
for cash. Charles Brown, nheys, Manchester. 
C 
e Wood.—I have paid considerable attention 
ns as to the | b 
oppi 
a ne airian now going on in your a 
of'an acre of Coppice owing some- | crops. 
thes of the plantatigns on the By we alle _— 28 eae 
been extensively employed in the valuation an 
m 
young 
me for thei inaccuracies — which he “sat ie, ‘and 
for g a r su ic 
— e prac SrA of the 
e 
th: yas 
e directions of the incumbent, the Rev. James 
into a more a position, so that the in- 
scription on it has become legible. ea its west side 
the footstone remains as paesa half buried, and in 
a slanting position: There can, therefore D be no eee 
that this Yew was planted on the burial of the 
es and in the centre of his me e, and that the 
stones were forced into this position by the 
th of tl the roots sm Mkea ree. The inscription on the 
eadstone i is as follow 
Hos INFRA 
JACET CORPUS RICHARDI BLANDY, 
yh gr niger DIE 
MINI 1662. 
The burial took PR appears by the register, on 
June 16. We have = mee hat for the age of pre 
Daai when ees perh: aps t years old, its 
exact aati" the present ti 
—iI am much obliged by. ‘the mggestions z 
yor: oying slugs, but I 
scii rs agree with one of the latest, that na 
satisfactory remedy has _ been 
pro 
rocky banks afford shelter to that reptile. But it would 
be almost impossible to preserve slowworms in a = 
vated garden. Their habit is “fe live under a 
and stumps and in the crevices of rock; and the iw 
escaping the 
The pree pae ag the next 
would soo imely end ; 
have 
not sa; 
woul probably fako Bowi h so tempting a prey. The 
windhorn ha — have ail al derived no perceptible 
: magnificent suggestion of yo 
anean “Miller” isfounded on the assumption that | ficient 
would 
t e en is an old one, which he wheel away 
, but my garden happens to ie a new one, made 
rmed excavati 
th «surface so 
ag every: oh the gaes eee 
_ Which was ore converted into a shrubbery, 
Sehr nn sock a spindsioned: the ina of my 
a ee cute ad Uibütum. Saad 
your readers me ag 
e plague m ight be | diffi 
mthe 
— 7 “conesived the most effectual 
he mo remedy. Whils the 
subject of vines artificially formed, I may remark 
that my experience le 
to change the site and vail togtthat 
arden. I 
artificial soil in a gar have seen 
ot 
in removing th 
large and small scale, bu 
tried both on a 
little success, and the re 
o make a 
“ie eenden 
gardeners suffer as well:as myself. Hitherto Ido pa 
vised. I a 
think anything 
the spawn ` 
manure used 
really aae has been 
himk that Is ffer from 
g M 
some very nice ones ot among my § 
suppose having been carri 
in making the . borders. 
planted a large quantity of spawn all 
Bain is in 1850 1 mile eastward az Shr 
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— March 2 
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Societies. 
The chai 
the Council presented their annual report 
of which will be seen from the following extracts 
the Council proceeded to state how far 
able to ral out en views explained in that Report, 
ess they have ae in other respects. 
iF apetala of obtaini 
apartments rent free, the 
appointed 
used the Council to 
vacant, and per parane nae the : 
y ò 
ch am be 
which 
owner 
arrangeme ering in this 
entitled te a transferable 
es the the same pri 
v where every 
given, |r 
de 
the continuous 
il, an 
I have now | manufa 
over the house, 
and prer I be fortunate enougli to raise a crop you 
- | shall h an eS 
ewsbury.— 
t forward 10. 
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Wer ea 
Total: 5 aM 
NIVERSARY MEETING.— 
aving ey. ken raed J. Blandy, 
they had been 
m Government 
n dis 
e|m ously 
memorial to Government, ‘but to recommend its prayer 
to consideration. The Chancellor of the | worthy 
however, ca’ en 
only, that the 
Ivory Ticket, 
n 
form 
and Piri, contemplate the 
n Line m 
gate to be ed 
hati the ai koitama 
bis 
rden Meetings, > = Conn have sae 
the expriment 1 for 
and “og 
in Jun oer 
— over at pa 50 
tth 
ope 
Hotes rø oe aca to 
not hav 
er per 
sptenlans upon unfavourable weather, to 
Exhi that if the first 
still be ee 
ta, ‘the o gratification t 4 pain that n both 
remedy fea an evil under which many of my brother | Grac 
the bre 
e Society’s Garden, | 
. the 
promote Horticulture by 
cidad Lupon limiti 
ing 
1857, 
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further; they are of k al that its secs awl 
e been desira ble e n had it been possible. 
of the 
country eRe and the wateiors of gardens sf thar 
own would be rence of securing; where the 
of ae t high cultivation 
may be co 
inued, «decorati 
should continue ‘to be attended to, and ths 
ent shoul 
I arrangem 
ay liaii 2. That all spare 
of the 
| gardening ; the merits of t 
workmen, and of the 
in practical 
henceforward the emential objects of te 
such experiments to — among other 
he ‘best — 
may 
Ps San onstrated, and ‘where all ‘that is most impor 
tin fruits, esculent plants, and objects 
neentrated. ind ik is to this kind of Garden ' 
that the Council think ri peren energies Of the 
Society sho i Happ: 
noe ofitably by crops which ean be sold in aid of part 
penses of the Establishment, in 
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