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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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the foxes that its erioa x Kae $ impaired by 
the «hn fe -= those an 
Being perfectly hardy id indifferent to soil or 
situation, > least in the midland etai of 
England, and moreover growing with singular 
rapidity, it soon rewards u Djak the display of its 
oral beau For example a plant, raised 
mers e me in 1856, jod into a E 
ummer showing, a gt ah y ( 
1857) ps feet high, covers a 
diameter. 
w blades 
the grace wad majat | 
ofi its nature. might be agua S as > a fou Pas 
of vegetati uiring more and more force from 
day Tar. ‘ill at = the gushing fluid sprang up 
into jets of livin 
If such is the resèlt of a few months growth 
what is to be Monge after the lapse of further 
time? “I have a Pampas is 
spondent, ‘ with over 40 fl 
12 feet high. The flowers rats light čolónred; 
bami white ad ag seen in s 
eke ase us ee i farther state- 
mportance. 
ince mentioned in 
the Pampas Grass r one of those p m 
individuals o of ales and others females, 
whic. 
Wo sexes Bree absolutely separated : 
yas e Sallows a 
em 
kno 
former, or indeed of any other peoalinrities of this wi 
novelty. No t so many specimens have pro 
duced flowers in all so: laces and soils, it has 
more ent than ever that the e 
Pampas should be discarded, the female „alone 
mos preserved for cultivation. It should be 
abso. ately: discarded for two reasons. ~ flowers 
are bro ged with dull red, and 
for ” 50 that it is nh less 
e Titer if it comes in 
erfection 
e little flakes w PAE sca ringe 
se their trans- 
a Br ie the intrinsic beauty | 
of the flowers — i the duration of 
their benut any arable, ortala. sige ou 
the universal rule aie 
so n 
epiphytal O s that those plants retain their 
brillian ce uch longer t others, 
certainly is a principal reason why perfectly double 
_ flowers are so universally refe : 
being ee agg er pra ha eir beanty is far more 
— durable —— single originals. So 
that when pse aa at gardeners for 
love of pate ae they only dies la 
their own ignorance of the cirenmstanos ces whic 
decorati on 
purchasers 
can be disti 
e una 
ntain 
m 
in our columns that 
1 e | the surface. 
in the |an 
in 
Tay then be asked ed the aint mnd ee 
acquir 
tions, are liable to a host of diseases and enemi ies,} 
and it is certain that, whatever the season 
may be, Ky ill be favourable to the attacks of 
some one or more of these internal or external 
Tf insects o Faniki invade the fruit, it is 
the prey sooner or later e ne parasitic 
xposed tissu 
evils. 
sure to be 
fungi which attack e 
from the moment the spo 
days or hours It is only when 
the exposed surface acquires from fay pano con- | h 
and atmosphere a coat of cells, 
aerea aosi Te, 
that the fruit pas marieh without decay. 
Where however Ps atoni has been at work decay | + 
may take t ie from e ien er othing, 
for instance, is mmon than for t 
surface to be bartels with dark round poth, cause 
ya minute fungus of the genus Koria cea 
which is is developed immediately beneath the tru 
ch fructifies about the time when 
s, in the shape m = Ares seo olive- 
coloured dust. Decay so s takes place at 
these spots, and sometimes he! fruit dries up an 
ayes to the tree through winter, causing canker 
in the sprin 
There are other cases in which the evil is more 
deep seated. Either 
pi Tm si 
abs of the soi 
; Sometimes th 
pia 
es a 
arrange again, the aki is subject 
to a sort of bletti mber tint, 
h 
emains entire, while the flesh is scarcely moister ; 
ene ee softer than usual. 
The pe Sy form of decay which 
which has lately been 
$ anoyi correspondent. 
of the last, but 
surface, 
polished patent leather. 
=. 
R 
rown ent, 
firm cuticle st thin a rich black. a Ay cuticle 
i hat t 
able Bes. ‘ascertain what the 
D 
ced the curious appearance, 
but we h 
a erias affection caused by a species of Spheæ- | for 
ropsis. 
Besides 
mere constitutional eauses withou 
Inj ma 
should remain upon t the 
e scrupulously removed, ‘as it is one prolific source 
of canker. M. J. B. 
badge: Ara toe reaches the 
earliest of hee age 
there wi Wi 
, King 
as may appear | green 
on it next week, 
ees 
Weehat i fully ph 
necessary, We 
w | bergen, 
the whole mass of erir i 
it ha 
a. 
seen prac the thick 
a 
all these affections, a geet from 
Pentst 
Veitch from seed ‘gathenea i in "Cal lan on 
a little kn 
s 
PAE 
thee it, al (Oe tober 
eed, 
S 
ing s will, ai take rank henceforward 
od o first-class ornamental herbaceous plants, 
n 
VINERY, 
WITH this description of my Vinery I 
Black Hamburgh Grapes, It is of We cas 
est and 
the best that can 
thi d melti 
obliged to say s 
not takin ng too much care. 
sta tement : 
Vine: 
n | pinged, and no coddling is lowed, $ for on the 16th 
July every season ew front shutter 
ones are open never clo al he fruit is 
thered. Et is panel de er the pee sh es when the 
rapes become coloured to wa out the blackbirds. 
Now _ me tell how I built it. 
at back 5 feet apart, 5 inches by 2}, of Oak 
it can he bought cheaply as mine were, corps 
of heart), 8 feet out oe 2 feet in the ground; posts in 
front 5 feet apart, of s e dimensions as as ‘thins at back, 
A ! 
ong, 3 inches by 2} ; mine were for glazing 
at Montgomery’s saw mills, Brent a have been 
in = ee pe esent places % hi and have neither 
S 
Z 
= 
r sage hey 
These 14 = tte give me gro 
124 fee that my ge rary high at 
back, 3 feet at a and 30 feet . To give more 
head room I have s sunken path in ig eoir, 15 inches 
e and 2 Par ive rmed of 4-inch 
al boards em ther-edged or rebat a on £ 
clash tog a on shvink and let in 
y eth Ri e (they afi rae 
osive paint of a 
effect is ae and 
a 3 a long and 10 inches 
wall, within 
ye ee a 
colour, an 
Three sliding shutters, 
wide, are e back 
about 18 inches of the top. 
is on hinge 
matter of some im 
a eh yee es 
Bee mera 4 rales 
C i Ni ee 
house, for I pan fey a Vine on the ge sys not to ; 
the summer shoo ni ’ 
inde pg 
by day wh or de aon shines i is qui 
at n 
"ie sarticulating, it should ie 
feet. Vigneron. 
a : 
THE ORANGE mer ees WEATHER 
Mr. D. Macxeyzrz, the wall a coos Corfu 
