SEPTEMBER 19, 1857. | THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 645 
ve been able as yet to see and taste the, , subjoin ng Seger rng vol. i, 277. . . “From , French cookery book. Will you tell me if Mignonette 
fruit pmen this it “at sppr to ma itl saast what wee y tated is — that a a yrs we = owe igor ther flowers = leaves should be 
to procure grafted trees, when we only wis 9g ben Loc a heater ors sg preservation “Puta little water in a pan with salt, Mignonette, 
oon trees reared as half or tall standards, to which | animal perfection ; and that its presence must be chopped Shalots, and Lemon juice; heat, but do not 
more room must be allowed than to those on Doucin, | val Sas wore a ade a a teva and disinfectant, | boil; add a glass of boiled wine and Orange juice, and 
or Paradise stocks. both of which offices it fulfils in virtue of its greatly | strain.” Z. [Mignonette is perfectly harmless. We 
As for Cherries and Pras an entirely contrary | increased power of combination.” It may be that what | presume that the flowers are 
appears to us, experiments, to be nearer | is favourable to animal is unfavourable to vegetable life, | | Aphides. porn in er Paper of Sept. 5a for 
= truth. J. De mans ag iaei Taig: 24, 1857. or that it is only in a secondary way that it benefits the killing these pests, I beg to = p php sawaan 2 if 
animal kingdom, whilst it may act on rene Te that it is a ble, might be used with 
y directly by reason of its “greatly increased power oi ety in my case. I have a greenhouse in communica- 
We ha e freq uty pointed ont the adra hich combination,” which — it to attack their tissue in | tion with my drawing-room, with a bed-room and 
tno wick pA sen ae niger tbe og tid ich | certain states with greater facility: but in any case | dressing-room, as well as with the first floor and upper 
horticulture igs > aie anier M. I. Viginien, è gr wt ozone cannot be ekia at thes ouate of disease either porion a? aag hess Tn, which the wes of Sone mae 
ite aaa cur attention see Viol, iolat I ro on | in the animal or vegetable world. A. de Rosas. destruction of aphides is ient. I grow Gera- 
=e hide Oat M. Jaso netin a Fruiting of the Catalpa.—It may interest some to niums, Mimulus, Primulas, Chrysanthemums, H 
asa this pted for edgings. M. pi oe EGT know that the mp tree here of Catalpa syringifolia is | Camellias, Calceo cacia 
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ahh P "lof hema ee her, consequently the tree in question | netted all mine this year, but it did not save them. 
fends to ee it It is necossary to "emble our | must be f the oldest of its pog in Britain. The | Upon closer observation I found it was done by the long- 
Fo base, an i then tige ar its introduction is stated to be about t the year = 5 Beis How is wage: be pagename ae A. 
1726. James ld, Hampton Court, Sept. e beetle is we suppose the common 
growing eect ae height of 8 or 10 inches in a oul- | ow can Fruit be best kept from Wasps vid houla | i from t 
= actua! | feel much obliged by being informed o way of| where he hides during the day. Put a sheet on the 
reserving fruit from wasps and ants. pa am gera at a | ground at night under your Rose trees and strike them 
h, | Das to know what to do, as re covered all my Peaches smartly ; sar] aT will fall of, and may be secured 
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duct of a garden is very sas ; I trust, therefore, | and moulded at the same time? Is the mould to be 
ix ‘ole rg r, straight, elongated; the flowers are | some one will kindly furnish ‘a “with a remedy, Adèle. | sifted, and is it to be put on the bed in a moist or dry 
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ighbourhood of Paris itis only to. be found: it is said, by yonin: a. laté: Wunder res some dry rot then used for that purpose to be 
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exhibit th Sr eighty: of perennial an important ee the surface of the rotten roots, and those in | Wrest Park? I If so, ren ont would, I kirieg der: apain d 
point for the hevticultariat. ce is par à 
advan: covering surface . `? | presented a brown appearance to the core, and were quite | never so muc uch Ou a at the time, and 
elia froin e Ma ER Other r mod aT. » It | Soft to the cut. Although this plantation contains a | only when a fruit or a iver (which I have not ret 
and it is very y ily p rh b by seed. About ges many plants in this state, there remains an abun- | or seen for myself) has received your stamp a eee 
the year 1840 the to purc 
rank as high as any other, such as Statices, Primulas, 
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ozone in the atmosphere; and in the course of his obser- the k sar were placed in their summer quarters. When practice no two observers will produce the same results 
vations he connects it with the Potato disease and cholera | I came at the usual time, however, to pot and clean the | with the same instrument, so great are ne 
in such a plants, previous to their being put again into the house, due to the mode of observation. My own method is as 
the causes of all three as identical. In this he appears | I found the pot of the Acacia to a — filled with | follows:—I fix a common black bulb thermometer, 
to be mistaken. The Potato disease did not make its what I thought to be Mushroom s It showed | whose bulb of course projects beyond its wooden frame, 
appearance in this pring rps is year till the | itself on the surface of the mould in calito the middle | upon a south wall, upon a board about half an inch 
heavy rains at the py os the k in August, since | of each of which had a brown appearance, much lighter thick, of the same length as the thermometer scale, s0 
which time its ravages hav mp Fie ost extraordinary, | in colour than the soil and very dry. Not thinking it that when this is fixed against the wall the bulb is free, 
80 that persons who realise ‘one-fifth of the naticiyated | desirable on that occasion to repot the plant I loosened | and about an inch from the brickwork. Against th 3 
<rop will have reason to think themselves the surface ai a soil and removed as much of thespawn | wall I fix a n mge piece of cork of such thickness 
Now my observations of ozone du A peer it | as I could, a top dressing, and put the plant into that half of t eter — 
is true, a large amount on the mth, =o —_ 9th, as | its a pace for “the winter. I soon founds however, that the erical hole burnt in the cork to receive 
alsoon the 15th, 16th, and 17th, and the first of those pia it. effect of the cork is to prevent all 
periods marked the commencement of the disease, but k possession of the entire ball of the p t | radiation between the wall and the bulb, so that the 
the slightest covering is sufficient to protect the test ating the pot. I now began to fear that I shoul 
© Sab from the influence of ozone, how then — my Acacia, as the water would not penetrate the soil, ; on thst oe 
t be affected by it, which are covered with the spawn seem ming to poses the power of. resisting the | When wetted the cork soon dries, 0 that little error 
inches of soil? And with the exception _ the six ge water and causing it pass down by the side of the | arises from the moisture lying on the cork which might 
above oe the — of ozone in August has| pot. As spring ai petit a plant became more ay. otherwise diminish the heat by evaporation. An instru- = 
been much below the average, and jR a small | and some of the lower branches began to decay ment thus fitted is very sensitive, falling with every 
during the arresi half of the vf the period in| soon as the flowering season was over I piema to cloud which obscures the sun, and rising as rege 
Which the progress of the disease h as been id. | make an effort to save it; it was therefore turned out | and being fitted with a register any gardener can 
be from | of portion of the soil, ter the results. I do as a philoso- — 
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observed tl r aian of epidemic influenza marked | my efforts proved unavailing, for the fungus rapidly | has 100° on ‘eit eral a Angust, 
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ozone. The prevalent o inion am = . Great Goons , Street, Liverpoo to repeat the experiments o abre so ve or 
informed men as o the conn s ses & nonette as a Ve inblee The following is a | disprove one of of the most extrao: coment Bm 
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