Novemper 28, 1857.1] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
807 
the | os himself in a pot, and in due time e planted It 
uth wall. This year, to his grea 
Vine = produced black Gra 
olour, but — as the Blac tthis 
most i nee? ‘Ihave no aos whatever of the 
“os rag nor is it possible that 
ived. His employer ever 
Tidig 
iia, to ming s 
ington ct I fear ssia ne vasata of 
St. James’s Park, ere it was carried 
str rane, recommenatin of the inta 
onana e very 
sev: pe of personal oh 
ve failed to convinco me that the public has 
apns mamach, i if any, in oint, al 
However, I admit that sate aie tending to 
_ aknowledge or study of grea is in itself desery 
 gonsiderati ion, and it is Sad ohapel that it the experi- 
re repeated -in n Gardens the daily 
i intelligence of “the people ailen cause it to be 
on.—I wonder if any of your corres- 
m O 
specimen, 
l4 at Jong, and are: points of 
t each 
gy | will thri 
ald 
thrive best. 
Diss. | We believe there is little mforma- 
tion inptiek: 
in the inai as to this WwW : ee that it 
ve e for years in the op round at the odata 
south w alli in wert: sera Gate 
h 
have been | dark 
s | pared for 
f; 
naa Rir "Not 
f | be hardy 
ug J MUL der 
Flue Cov vers.— 
did not find so in his cop y. Inspeaking of the joints of 
ue covers, I sg ary pons putty and very fine 
ut 
omma 
nt lime, in a hole or large tub, 
sO. as ing it to the petra of thick cream ; it'is 
then i through a fine wire sieve into a = List 
he purpose, and a ap 
it leaves a fine white tough mortar ; aie ANE: 
tion of a little fine white “sand, -¥ will be fo 
e joints of flue covers. Henry 
exe 
, Ogle, 
osa—We have taken the liberty of send- 
you some frui Aralia s i 
was 
etween aes and |s 
und an excelent y 
“ihe Celine stock, a very ga PAET Bourbon iMose 
is a most excellent stock for Bourbon, N on > (partien; 
larly the Cloth of rora and pee g othe 
plan rich moist soil, will ~~ 
n height, ya me lows tandi 
tose I rece ive some 20 years 
"Sign Cri “ei who ig 
it y best of al i It 
was ruse oa Pie a Signor Manetti, of the cian 
(€ — onza, All the Roses I have budded o 
1 have succeeded admirably ; agai ah cas Hybrid 
Perpctnals, which sea rosá seem to leav ve 
ying a 
rom 
jf; 
often 
rs thrown gts eh the Dog Rose 
indeed, how w fally s convinced that the only method 0 of 
Hy brid Pe ` 
rpetual 
spinosa. The tree 
ted about five fhe rs úpis and at first trained with 
a sinnight stem u ntil about 9 feet in height, then 
Ow “go off” w ith six branches ; 
it has vi loveliness rgia with its leaves and flow 
and now fruit. 
oF A bamean i in poe Che roni 
wers, 
and this summer | 
member seeing any mention |y 
gravelly, sandy, or resting on chalk, is to employ. the 
Manetti a“ as a stock. 
more 
ed; although 80 
10t tine g good stand ards, the 
Since above Mas een gan we a written, 
experience es this 
igorous in grow 
repel ghia a oh generally to 
P. [No, only i an some places. | “Ath has stood the 
two last _ winters her Beng gside of Araucaria Lind- 
leyana, ving the psa. Ds of its | 
ret which were. “ent off “both seasons by the cold 
inds of spring. This summer it has most 
ne iant growth. Summers, Forest Hill. 
Societies. 
= ; paras the ee er end |__ ENTOMOLOGIOAL, Nov. 2. LW. Wilson Saunders, Esq., 
about 6 eet high. No really patie a FRS. in” chair. pee ste rn donations to the 
_ most healthy tree I have ake i d 15 Pears in 15 years. library received since the last ing ‘on 
© Every it is profusely covered with blossom, and | Volume of Mr. Stainton’ s Natural E Hisey ofthe Tineidæ, 
ery May all promise of fruit is lost by one night’s | ontaining an extensive se oper and escrip 
frost. I have tried Yew and Fir boughs and Frigi-domo | tions of the leaf mining spec genus Litho- 
for protection, but all in vain. Iam low bottom collet D E. Gray exhibited "ving specimens of 
: Ey deep loamy soil—by no means a clay—and the ane ores waar retinas | larvæ ie ae L 
: is perfect], i et ormations of whic’ een published by Mr. 
rete. ienai A aia a Saunders in the miar Ana of the Society; they had 
at planting a been received from Sydney, and were found on the tree 
or any ot er rat or seeds | called the Fig ie in that country. Also specimens of 
rend Newly p a remarkable G ound at Ischl, in Austria, by Miss 
y The: ants 
-be planted o n them; 9 or 10 inches are not too 
| r will aon beautifully planted poor semen’ than | 
I believe that ae roots would b uch 
the groun a all 
pale green Also a remarka found on Rose 
trees, near West Wic , armed with several small 
conical Bem, together with vga s of Euryto 
ies 
reared from them. r. Walker stated 
found the D hira Ink Gall of the mg at Mill Hill 
Wo omy exhibited specimens of 
S ‘tag aa alluded to the | 
he wings of tha do 
? n considered FIRT a 
balk, 
for st 
becomes indurated, t 
ate fr re! 
re hea 
“ 
sho 
abet transplanted from the 
shoul plan ara so.as to cover the junction of ‘the bud 
with the Paste placing that 1 aoh anda 
es below 
z ae meet figure will illus my meaning, 
better than a host of words, a pra ts of the ra 
wit p: the stock; b the height 
= vty stem. should ne 
vered h. » Treat 
in pam i the covered oot 
6 = the stock increases rapidly 
sap flows freely 
© Sadagh it, and a vigorous 
ewer healthy is the 
esult. I erve erii 
larity i in this stock worthy of 
notice; under certain 
ces the sort s balled s on A it 
pon a re ry erpower its 
t, ina yar 
the “wd wa mere the 
ancy, and cer Peggy iar ing ae ed, will 
languish an This haere: here in several 
pein com wth stocks aael pri pss seeks for pro- 
| pagat clayey soil; some of these had 
or two, the plant from 
emaining mer pear ther species, sug- | cues ds in in rear which had bans p osr their 
sa » gesting the advantage of tng the w of] shoots w sual crop of plants, and were thrown 
Mali Grape.—You ask what this i is, I Coleo eoptera when possible. — esto stated that i = is Now. w the curious part oft 
it ra abont six six years, having had the Vine eaa 2 ately these stocks wer a piante or d 
the open air with an eastern tained specimens of great: numbers of species of beetles. é and so. ply that the 
ns I haye cu e | thus arranged. — _Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited various i mn ea carth, they 
Grapes were j nteresting push vigoro y A alth ough a e 
Bit, the bun Die E ai ; y the | Bay, Australia (sent by Mr; Diggies, who is much-oceu- | stocks at the same time put forth suckers which were 
weet Grape, smallish pied with the transformations of ae Lepi- co serene 3 hey have, as may be now in 
er, and does not | doptera), and also from De Bay, Sout h: deles, most instances, overpowered them, and now form 
in Mr. Riverss catalogue of that taribi rist. Mr. mrs Mr. Hamlet Perren exhibited vigorous bushes of Hybrid Perpetual from three 
lingre.” From its earliness | two ng pecies of water beetles new to this country. | to six years 
er ripen it. I Mr. F exhibited the nest bof a species of mud} “To w Teer nail extent in this respect it differs 
e ihe jn aa Sace quite a month behind the | Wasp (Pelopsus ), the =e = which ed immature | from the Dog Rose stock will be at once mi 
n Mr catalogue, | Specimens of two dist ies, P. violaceus and ‘loving readers; for we all know that t 
Select hardy Grapes for Walls,” will vipes. Mr Walker g oe an account of the habits | Rose carries on a fierce war with its bud in graft, 
ibn s Grape: | of the Aphis cus, one of the t and most re- | unless most carefully attended to, destroys it by its 
i < anew Panch arkable of t lice. Mr. Westwood com- suckers in one season. h of pors 
» Very early ; the earliest whi 2 pe; forms a | ™ unicated apin gene Mr. Brodie, of jap raion Roses in dry irr geen soils, with the cal of the 
SE s | shire, relative to t e t discovery of a consider: etti stock, may practi y those 10 really 
EA pl at 4 A. A.—The Early Malingre gn oo. | Jove Rose eulture ; i ng, Hybrid Ch ina 
gite Erap AE all Sie ety ffa M t adame I apie deren pinya n 
intr or fi ~ i ok vigorous growing varieties— bi - “ ng 
Now rather widely distributed. T. Rivers. Notices of Books. Manetti stocks below the surfice of the soi re i 
m tenax.—How shall I treat this plant? I a should be ved purpose, from each o n 
- Chron., 1852, that it flowered at | Rivers’s Rose Amateur’s anas Sixth Edition. 12mo. | shoot should be enco wg and supported wit with a stek 
8; tr è and all gr removed, 
ry. Mr. Street, near Dunbar, tells us 
- Chron., 1853, p. 534 b) that ania flowered it in 
border in that yea r, that he, as 
» had had the 
abvereu 
ites flowered. - 
a 
leombe, Devon, but | 
eases is s it stated whether the soil | the use 
as Miss | careful 
nt 30 years, but it hed never ai 
p- 164) says that 
in New Paget and | so 
gmans. 
gladly welcome the ae issue of this very use 
and now famous Gui The 
take 
useful 
ual seg ct that | H 
tering c of | nice 
