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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
netrates deeper than in Araucaria, and the twigs 
at length fail, though they rem main green for some 
ter the lower portions agi suffered. We 
aff 
onser- 
mareos The ti 
by frost may becom 
into the heart of t 
cells my ae e 
instance y frost ag aie a neighbouring cells 
perish from the eta, and thus the whole stem 
may be rapidly affected. M. J. 
Goop cheap WEATHER INSTRUMENTS are so in- 
ompletely recover jis 
When pro 
e | will in the majority o 
and the effect will be all b 
if the cultivator’s skill je 
e directed to such points. 
lutely necessary to the 
excessive moisture is 
he met the are co see 
W: while 
the requisite conditions, 
certain. A t part 
k 
sure to Je 
mperature i 
evil. 
that it is ausi a that fungal thre 
tact with the healthy but tender cells of the mena 
will induce disease, and that pieces o 
moval of all 
omposts. 
pa raga 
-< matters, or tha peri ion oi it 
will not indeed cure diseas 
but it will tend to prevent it, 
“trial of various 
ins 
romney Bunt, one of the 
he 
dispensable to all that we have no scruple about T ve ee ee = long before the true 
directing attention to the excellent bar gag and mature of the ma wi rane ni prs n a 
thermometers made b L, iar as x x öro::anything- was: mown o se an E y 
y Mr. 
oin London. The baro 
costs 10s. 6d., is qui uite as as one ap a Dae 
session for which ten times the price was ee: an 
the are bag self-registering and accurately 
roved upon tri mla 
aai 
e had these i ments in use 
vastified i in it that 
y well made that can 
Gilias with them for 1 price. 
New Plants. 
207. VIOLA PEDUNCULATA, Torrey a UB 
w of the genus, albeit lackin 
© great favourite, the Sweet Violet 
e of the many discoveries of 
oo ange n California, ri uring the his j 
d ut a little before the accident which ca 
in the Sandwich Islands. been since found 
Re. William specimens 
from 
d by Messrs. Veite Son, elsea Nur- 
the exhibition of which at the Horticultural So- 
lly at ted much enm It seems well 
are 
large blood red blotches at the back. 
. 208. AZALEA OCCIDENTALIS, Torrey and Gray. 
Bot. Mag., t. 5005. 
The plant just ngage cage this — in the 
ee n gardens as Aza ag 
californi It h 
bably as "Sir William 
A. calendulacea, of little Sarriena importance, 
=- VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY. —No. CLXXI. 
frequent repetition, and so hav tters 
The doctrine of signat for example, 
may first have pointed ont ¢ the common Blackberry as 
useful in attacks of red gravel, while chemistry shows 
that it contains citrate of po an approved remedy 
in aca or a strictly Seientific ands. Abundant 
similar description might easily 
. Remedies may be divided into oa Sensis those 
which are certain os | those which are e 
Th 
ia contains sage beets of i roin 
v: 
ng 
upon 
eys, | at first prne is aa strictly ratio 
s uired — su uch cases ma 
I was m 
t flowers ag te ce bg 
fi uth 
4 my pose gag and pot as. a respecting them; 
whenever I vinced y 
ones excel the pn "kinds in ‘habit or henge I 
ofit 
How 
be 
ca 
Pharmacope 
which ~ very uncertain in their "nelis and the same | 
ma 1 
of Many pracu 
os A to remedy or 
edies, on the other 
r palliate disease. Several of the | "pon it will 
hand, which are p in | § 
ugh successful, in 
es, height and pleted at plan 
may be had from 
ungi. effect is all but certain when pro- 
sin 
Te = pe 
tal w. okie “mildew. Sulphur was 
ant ween i as ti medy be pe inst this coils In in 
hot-ho ouses, ae pip mature e diseas aan 
to be a cable tot the sam 
matter of certainty ‘hat ml 
mpa yi ng it, or formed mposi- 
with ae retted hydrogen n spor fatally 
f the mould ; and the remedy though 
pan? 
seful 
and it is found 
end stages. 
acid ac 
cen, , together wi 
ied. to 
en it has aon arisen, | 
su 
me certain remedies have arisen ek 
7 : edindi 
u 
pey snipes, and improvements have been made 
the disease was better unders ales 
ON THE een OF FRUIT wa 
(Conc uded from page 62), bie 
Amongst a large rodka of other varieties : 
istinguished by their ir handsom 
be ality of Ba ae 
ose 
fo. 
$9 
=] 
BS 
r=) 
HI 
2 oO 
ed 
£ 
ia, 
Am ong the ape which Bg at a later ide 
season than the i 
and productive variety 3 in “the open 
n having a light de 
dry than age the fr ruit, far from om 
size as when grown against a wall, is prod 
ved quality, The 50 years old tree vi 
bears every year, whatever way the tem 
which I attribu 
fted ona good se other i 
a root-sucker. ige opinion n mai is oq be 
various circumstances known todi 
ta conclusion, this beg mů 
ed, the Bergamotte d’Esperen and Jos 
wn, | fe M se ype varieties which are far fromt 
results in others, 
may rest upon pran grounds. M. J. B. 
HLOXES. 
leased en the gang: eee on mynd PY 
reader 
ad 
I consider 
hlox 
also planted i 
en they are all in bloom I make 
of the new 
then 
y so doing I find 
eet id wi 
hrow away the inferior s0 
e uti 
y I 
= five n worth keeping, or that are 
to those I have alr 
by making annual scribed I 
reduce the ieee = p 
parsa it is a fact that the 
ted with an sthing like 
have had allotte 
where 
June e until Nors r. 
_— following I can with confidence recommend :— 
prs lel de Lepinium 
Impératrice Eugenie 
La e Cerf 
me Delahaye 
‘alery 
e d'Amour 
lies at — doubtful 5 g 
cceed 
may added that the 
ve sAn favourable the 
and Ap 
Europe, & 
suit them 
finer. 
Seni ti pr the 
understood 4 
instance, a tuft of leavees 
William Barnes, Camden paca Camberwell, S. 
years; or amongst them © moro 
the course of two, three, oF 
