Mar 16, 1857.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
243 
duce a fertile Mushroom bea The manure is taken 
the heap almost’ before it begins to heat; the beds 
with it upon the flat system, not in 
ridges; the manure is tight pressed down to the 
thickness of re 2 fi Senne Aas it is a 7 al the 
ermentation takes 
eap 
en 
wned 
sehand. Tho lat 
of the droppings. The mould 
put over-the bed to the depth of -4 ine inches; when 
pressed down v: er not be more than 2 inches 
' thick when properly finished. Nothing more is done for 
about six weeks ; I then water with liquid manure, 
the beds The failure of 
ushroom watering befo 
the ae has — spread itself, ey as it might be 
has become strong enough to stand much 
moisture. Se ee ie 
a besser had < 
Mushrooms, simply because the wet 
mws tet but on the other rea if s s eas 
August the result erp ‘therefore 
much, and onl 
when 
It matters little in what hole or corner the beds 
made 
Saude — SSastheciben’biide tib 
place. you | prow 
not be vio lent “(oot more 
after 
I procure neighbouring um 
and or that È poy —— adel even for Chiswick 
wn | be tedio 
dismiss “the 
e | hominem (es; 
—are quite of recent introduction. I find the sia still | 
And this brings me b a. consideration of a fact 
spoken of as “new yopmerpn catalogues of rias 
cases, EPY preve ents unanimity 
ecollect th 
used to win not many years ago ; | 
sas, with an eye like a Cy clops, was | 
umbrella among the pretty parasols ) 
and the Regent’s Park. Of. the nine old Roses | H.P., whose merits have been recently di 
mentioned by “A. R.,” one only, in my opinion, is perfect | in in the Chronicle, may be cited as ano gee example ; and 
in every respect, and that is Coupe d’ Hébé. It would I have much more beautiful in the of 
us to rp the others individually ; isad ve may |a ge din Warwickshire than on my alh trees, that I 
at pow argumentum ad shall not be until, by improv <x cultivation, I 
pease when that hominem is an inglise | bat oat the flowe =: in its perfection. So that it may 
man)—would “A. es _ to exhibit them against nine ee of isputants about Patz as of He 
; an 
ore an 
3 with little.. e generosity or or 
talogues. In the first 
wW ones, ten-pound no velers and the rove A you 
y speaking, 1 Mr. 
for trav 
a a ew, florall both are wrong”—you the shield from different 
complete vichory. Cont aie | sides s thereof And I ‘would exhort the one who has the 
and I cannot but fancy, in in | flow pou eH to enjoy and maintain 
e and improve na Never 
ose, until ma ave used eans to 
on | do iras to it. hid it a not accep with you “ worked,” 
it on its own s. Giv Bes ag corner. Note 
and endeavour ie ful ur it. = oe ful and 
ent tae is ecessary to su a 
must be as in mage a pursuits, and brings its rewa be per at We 
no urs are but too apt to decry and oiis a ; Rose, 
ba Ak aen because we don’t know how to Fore (| 
remember the time, when a baby in floricultur 
n say) “to take notice,” 
and 
AC R” one hit h 
or Dec. 20 20, 1856) to 
this,” he 
the “ hae hoist 
*h 
a 
singed himself. 
if “ magni- 
she grew near that | 
pair 
every rch 
ma lies mio 
is high time for me to spceat, for the present, 
af all slic bling t Roses; and I 
compelled to srg 
= generally speaking, jods — that g ar and | 
other principal R ers have eated 
asset as hain 
pam, and with reference to 
central station (such 
Rose SHow P—a feast 
extinet, | ugby’ RAND Nati 
; but if a Rose grower charge of Roses, at’ Sev cha “cls. 
half-crowns 4 for a Rose which probably he fi brotherhood might meet in 
from Fra 
love and unity, to drink in 
prize cups of iva “ Success to 
. Turners and 
to the Queen of ie Flowers.” 
se are ig we | —S. R. EL, tn Spencer's Fi 
THE WARS OF THE RC ROSES. —No, IT. 
THE florist is a gentle, ens man; for he who loves 
flowers be = LM tenn- Flori are emalii 
sagt ack eyes is 
k the fet with her SW sid vk 
glory, are inex: ey do no Negi to living 
things ex i 
camni Madam 
ago in the ‘Cheomicte of 
_ but so good humour 
oniously to 
hen the curtain fe potia tie 
A Jong ma ne ute 6o 
The a a Helle a! iak fedi i more © earnest |$ 
this fh desire fo for peace, should sound or sign 
Warfare » startle its stom 
ely dare to 
is love is Perm befige Br- 
‘anita that the 
most beautiful.”* 
{o speak in more modern phrase, rd oat ellis 
è been called upon to our great astonishment, (Mr. 
I astonished, | were he to 
e | each tree would have required tw: 
dg | Same e proportion to its stoc! 
Tarbes 
‘| and Garden Misce 
VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY.— 
ed con ought to com- 7 
miserate rather than e condenan or on zene occasions, for 
pee disappointm and. the loss 
eventually is borne y, the original ani aser. I shall 
never forget a l f Rose trees which I once saw 
unpacked As a sen on their oe ha from 
Three of them, at 25 frances each, were on thin, k: notted, 
pacing ite geag Briars, between 5 and 6 feet high, and 
t sh in one or two eyes that they were not 
hale moribund! ‘Supposing a Base santa ued, | the 
nto hold 
— Rove A eg cheek the | ever 
crow’s nest to a 
as the 
e case, that it lives apr 
ung ger en, and not upon the pollen grai 
has s sometimes na pit, proby ke: m bright 
of the larve to be 
ae sometimes, — 
it ina gale of wind; but as 
full- | mid the most 
grown vim I consider at a supposition too wild for ints are proba 
tod upon. few y does n es suffer in some appre- - 
The i ; 
Fer pepsi 
ie [pever sever ae rond at 
7% aves pete Aci oe j aas may say) with 
y e, and heard 
y forth, bei garde 
ina nde re ‘oot ring) “itp been summoned to 
Pats for the any Sy art a pica (o 
is: 
map Ee: ” Who has won vthe Panki re 
e question, and I it. 
: Wien we buy a ve ay a Ha, wo we lok at 
to be 
eases Gh it Bi 
pt 5 wees, 2 No. 
= four 
use it answers al questions ta în proprid 
desirable, it is not |È 
"neni et 
nk peered ee- 4... | ciable measure from its 
wa gc og . He can | appi about Ji 
er ha 
he Roses kon Sore must fumi- 
nurserymen, 
them speak, as I have, 
ht pt 5 a with 
teen Inout to our 
He 
pipe 
-coloured, 
when eggs between the glumes. As thay 
increase in size their colour becomes more more intense, and 
are infested by larvæ, and these occur frequently in 
quantities, 30 or more individuals existing at 
once ina —_ flower. 
661. Various estimates Se been made of the damage 
vores however, that this 
io meme of- 
nne Hallez, line de 
salles, fer, Bréa, Pet asl and J erea Jules 
Margolin, í “2 Raglan, Louise Pe 
Guino 
7 bemi ro T E 
Cironicle, ISH, p. 39), and aral spe 
will then. assist assist him in thinning -those irich he has 
602. Destructive as the ‘Wheat midge is in North 
ig not rot the only species of Cecidomyia which — 
we “The Hessian fly (C. dsr he a 
