THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Jury 11, 
ear -o out. When they get 
woud: never W SG. shui thay 
of course is no straw requi Im ead 
a little short rak about the anes ia to Se s grit 
ing up by hea s. The fruit dri 
wet, and I believe p Aaea better, 
s latter is is 
ot like 
ne h fr it the stalks get 
t ‘i S e 
gathering alien aed hem aas worthless, pan when the 
e moved 
as 
they are made of m 
inches in diameter, cab: dei 
long; all painted 
re we wir 
s a good bearer ?—I a 
use I have not men 
ing year, 1855; in 1856 they each ri 
12° ing the Barbarossa, ch grew we 
but showed no signs of fruit. The Black Hamburghs 
in this house have now a fine crop 
swell- |; 
faney the 
flowers united 
Iy plant. 
nt from Chisw: 
Manetti Ros 
ri Rivers’ nes 
stoc 
ans, Plants on as 
huge, pure white, fle 
ot oe hardy constitution of max 
superior, with a 
ts of R. 
ed. 
r size, of a Tright g golden yellow, an 
borne in:a-cluster of ten or t 
e Stock.—1 e 
p 
that this is by = the 
shy character “a oe 
ecies. 
in the 
Me ae Se 
per 
glaucum hate proved ae 
I am induced to ask if so 
men: evonian. 
irely abs 
ose as Roses generally do) m 
hod. of en ng that or That 
s, in aoe ahd 
observe one blue H — 
ill 
single 
ask 
with most. of 
m the syle and peculiarities 
ts | know 
a | my inf 
most efficient, od: 
iron ey not hold good, for in th 
Dalton in Furness 
ws ne h grow 
a > an requntly a them, 
this town In 
appear almost weekly in ee 
beautiful shrub, all you 
Y 
wing together in = 
| indiscriminately, a ee RE ase 
on their -culture 
them within bo = ge 
sa 
Others 
ow in the shade, but this, e is only a 
common name for the Hydrang in G 4 sng. ex 
Bay. “Why this name = ion een given I 
been able 
Devon the pin 
ve never 
told that in thesouthof 
nk Hydrangea is seldom n dont 
> this refers i abs ia 
t havi ee resided on te} pe 
To a. jabuitewe of the Hydrangea I w vei 
a visit to Guernsey, for > beauty and luxuriance there 
are perhaps unequalled. It is to be seen in every cottage 
t| garden, and chica a ine i e, particularly in favour- 
able: situations. C. M. F. 
h 1 i 
4 es | Mr. rs ha pa Roses on this stock that have arge Oaks.— aving columns that 
upon , allin the same house,and planted | been left alone for years, and still of the most tase some artist is ut to sk all the very large Oaks 
in the same . I may add th e Vines came | growt , I can verify ; but * fact ey not in the least | in England, I take the liberty of info -you that =e 
from one of our most celebrated Grape:growers. I also | affect the question, as these may be considered purely | there is a very fine specimen i k Oxon, 
‘find that a gro for sale:a few from here is | natural objects, ‘and as such boot left'to ora a To | which is known to be 800:or T vold. Any ine A 
attinge: out his house because they | them the knife is seldom app ied, and the roots and | formation can be given PPE ES oh it if needed. C. i 
donot bear. I king over some gardens last autumn | bran eir natural proportions. Butvfor | [Our readers TEE ertainly to have:the informa- q 
Lsaw this variety growing with a few monster bune dwa i or clumps, where the seh th hinted a d 
it, and I was- edt asia first-rate Grape; | plants are objects of the highest artificial culture, the ht of Be ie Timber.—Not being able to recom a 
but I did not hear anything about its b qualities, | knife is beeen unsparingly applied,allequilibrium between | cile nhs ine of -= don .and others with my own d 
ore, like and branches: entirely destroyed, and the neces- — q 
their la 
wuld 90 malas. i effect 
tufts of foliage on a pillar-like stem, mesa, 
tall, erect scape, Paap aa 
for erent s. They are 
I believe, to Australia 
rge 
bya | 
nanesie 
hing else, and | 
all 
in that ‘country, whether tomas or iwi admire ioe 
of a * or’ ae speak of ndeed no Austra- | annually, and the 
is complete without its Xanthothea, Wi e no — re 
have now G s 
2. 1 99 Vdd + 
ated; these are now seen everywhere, pak 
tosee the atthatinns as ends T imagine pa itrwonld 
71 
Cu We. 
at of men in Poi — “as 
weight of different kinds of tim’ 
o; 
admite the shoots meyer 
iron ee t 
iii 
o piana i 
hg sone all 
on 
soon | clean, h mpact, 
pales to import seeds 
es in the year 1 
; fie Genes Bs. Sao the ‘projector of ‘the. southern 
‘fishery, mentions “a beautiful tree similar to a | 
; unknown in Eng- | stock 
to 
a tiie glen ener denii 
id.” need ? 
mate of the Auckland Islands so nearly resembles-our 
own that it would doubtless be quite hardy. Like 
most of the vegetation of the ds, the tree 
is ever d from iption -T infer 
that it would be a valuable acquisition. R. oo C. [The 
= pe | question is no doubt Metrosi 
which Dr. Hooker describes as 
with flowers white at first but becoming crimson-after- 
not oduced that we know of, 
It has been intr 
bat would be valuable if we get it. It must, how- 
be observed, that alt} a i n like an 
‘tree, it has no-such fruit as the Orange, but a | nated 1 
seed-vessel. | 
esse 
Sikkim Rhododendrons.—I see by e a that 
uh Rhododendrons this 
suc 
asa tree 20 to 40 fee feet high, } i 
plants 
through u 
t ‘oe nor do 
cot eee 
Mr. Rive 
lant deep, 
of Kaas arr feng i to pokes 1 
appearance o; 
pe after ass second year -as | bl 
these will be! See indeed); give i 
the roots par ae what pe may be requ 
e what altera 
filings silans er the same 
— I think that 1 neither i is to be Bi Se 
re > find 
E = basket 
nded to pitii a mass of 
sta 
formed on any class of plants whatever. And | s: 
after all—all this is attained by less le mse 
than is generally bestowed on tationary system. 
In beds or clumps (and to:these my culture has been prin- 
| cipally wi wW mo; tious simple | of 
than. t an-end or corn cag om the soil 2 or 
3 feet, siaii remove the Ros the roots.as 
entire as poig manure the chit th yee up 
of su 
cke pat er cna 
e 
ecessary delay avis no 
they deserve success. J. Ma 
as.—One says ‘soil strongly im 
will produce these; another = 
rpose 
tfrom observa- | 
‘garden soil, 
this will | on a hard gravel, about 12 inches 
will | 
‘that is a poor sort of sand, : 
; | penetrated, The ar 
a 
a: Š 
© 
sto the 3 
of Ate N 
io ak sity of — will es granted that’ the treatment demanded Dacth, the tn" being om I T shall be glad to a 
in these ust be widely different and the results elicit any information you may i able to afford, 3 
of the different ate a will be best understood by | Loudon, in his “ Arboretum,” states the weight of Bei 
examining examples of each in. autumn the bed or | to me when green, es lbs. 13 oz.'per cubic foot, anise 
group of unremoved or stationary Roses, if at - nie 50 Ibs..3.0z. -I find that the weight of 
decent he will be found plants uci ch growing on es Chiltern Hills im a gren 
of | rampant, pr wth Riampeaet shoots that 1 have ‘lone state varies from 90 
sf og a wt since the vse loom | the trees being lighte 
in Jun ne the shoots | had occasion to send a quanti 
according to the amo 
the so much worthless spray. Mr e 109 Ibs. 
an s 
number of blooms Again, rat 
eraser Pe tan has the 2E 
e forh 
ja comet consist of rege or se flowers and 
fal or uns co 
and that. I hope some of your 
dents may be induced to give me 
this-matter, whether amateur or 
