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854 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [December 19, 1857. 
Poe ea sre semen suse orm ems Sn a ne em NR i Ra Sea a ASTER ca Gat I dio volume before ment 
Torate. After speaking of his being- greatly occupied ~ not wear out. In the volume before mentioned is | over it? Would there bea — 
during the sum lsin w ith the family of the Water Lilies, | much curious information on the subject of plants — the place with a thick pn ‘oie n to MY covering 
which he had recently studied very closely at Kew, and rsa which ~ have no doubt will be interesting to yon which would at ali events -protect ee fete mm, 
with the water-weeds allied to our Anacharis Alsinas- | readers, and with your permission, on a ‘attire « Giedi perhaps.act asa kind of artifici ` wet, 
trum, which is now so common in our streams, and Im xA send eit some further extracts, E. G., Runham | prevention, I have thought a reje AS a, at 
which he AS to be nothing more than Elodea arage. [We are sure that our readers would be much were left on the top ri the stock, Pride two. shoots, 
Canadei ae %, Ki rather Richard, he adds :— obliged by poser communications, | selected for budding-on, instead of cliteg th the ‘shoes 
“ Being paina ed b e things, my investigations of as Heating.—An amateur, a friend of mine in Corn- | away ee d the lather hich is usually d the shoots 
the Potato disease yo. me make any progress. But this wall ere is ery fond of lint has for-years heated by shoots although constantly pinched Pac th tp 
year has been very remarkable as regards this disease. | gas. Some time ago, while spea aking to me, he dwelt | the effect of keeping the stock ae tare can have 
The Potato fungus did not appear until the beginning with satisfaction upon the pleasure which he derived | healthy, and when the h eading in May alive ang 
of August, and as we had scarcely any rain it did not | from atte en upon his plants; his “pr of manage- | I understand the proper e aa place; iti 
prosper at all, but made only a few scattered spots on | ment, and ca: e bestowed ae them. replied, “Yes, | perhaps, be a better chance for the ears would, 
the leaves ; Tead: A any on the stalks, so we had the rgi is all Hi well; I can fully enter it your feelings | the wound, and a a pidit head formed; em ian 
rare and extraordinary sight that even still in ANN as regards the pleasure derived from seeing them other subject on which the gardeners] tesa k 
the fiago of the Potato was green, a thing never seen | growing, but I apprehend you are keeping studiedly out | greatly differ, namely, as to the propriety of Consulted 
The tubers w me nearly all perfectly | of sight all about your visits to the coal fires in winter, | with dormant buds; provided the. Dents ee 
he pa Aai sak iay 9 be so still. The more Bot and the danger he you sometimes run in not being | roo is. there any Pegi to. its ? 
been struck to read i i Galiqnani® Messenger that n| able to give them their requisite and regular warmth.” | not, moda this month. o; r* February be the tate 
Treland, Scotland, a2 England nearly the whole te His ready answer was, “Oh! that never gave him any | for such Penki aM: me information: on the time 
has been lost. and the Potatoes either rotted in the biter as he always heated with gas and could pnt points will oblige Æ Bristol Subscriber, stare 
— or a few days after they had hg taken out of any temperature suitable for his purpose by merely} Orchid Disease—About three Years ago my atten. 
the und. Not having. yet seen the Gardeners’ tanig on or off, as the case might be, the gas under the | tion was directed to.a premature decline im de babs t 
Chronicle of this years, I do not Lilie whether this Meier One house so meen is ne oats and tothe | of some Orchids and Anectochilus then ‘under: 
account is true or not.” M. J. est of my recollection is r 40 feet long and nearly | care in the west’ of England, and whieh from. “my 
Blue Hydrangeas.—l have other recipe for blu at et wide. This is sity one instance of 5 sm ubbibel ances, when compared. with the complaints: made. 
Hydrangeas. They won? É Keep, bike without. yellow lis, application of gas to heating. G. Dawson, Fulham | various correspondents in your columns,’ I’ conte, 
s9 a neighbour tells me.. Tshall try-it, andthen report | Nursery. believe was identical with: this 
progress. I am mo chemist, but yellow clay contains| Large Citron—I am desired ‘by Lord Emlyn to fór- | my endeavours to check the advance: of this evil-were 
much oxide of iron. But pink or blue, the delicacy of ward you the accompanying Citron, and to gorra if it | for a time unavailing—a-reduced and ele tempera 
poea e grown in ug bap ey; is infinitely greater than those | be an unusual occurrence for the same tree to produce | ture, superabundant. moisture, . excessive. dryness, and 
wn in.com h. Som in different seasons var of a a globular; _ at others of | such like measures were resorted to by way of exp > 
Teal Clubs. Sh ne be trate for the pence an oval form. The sent is part of an abundant | ments; but; alas, the most beautifal 
of any of your correspondents who would communicate | crop, many of which weighed 3 lbs., produced on a tree | day by day got disfigured. At last T was i 
to e the rules of any of these clubs which have be een 4 years old, , growing. o he back wall of a lean-to look at the roots; accordingly, with as little dea Š 
Vin o i oceeded to disencumber them of: 
for veto Aerea y An annual rental of about the at Ai this year, this ijeliji4iip first: season it 
602, in an agri parish has Teni sein restored to | has shown a disposition to produce fruit of different 
its proper use of providi ing the poor with fuel. fiey forms. Last season the crop was abundant and fine, 
sum is not sufficient to furnish fuel to all the claim of the oval form, a specimen of which I sent you, with 
the whole year round, but it may, I'am certain, be ada am account of the treatment the tree received, a part 
to produce a very great amount of good, if the poor can | of which statement’ you noticed in your <i: 
beinduced to lay by their money in the spring, summer, | Should you deem mm further ert necessary I ha’ 
and autumn, and avail themselves of the advantages of | shall be ha apy to fi ms them. John Hill, Golden: flaked 
purchasing from the merchant at the summer prices, as | Grove, Llandi [The. beautiful fruit sent weighed 
well as if the manager. has skill in making a bargain. | 3Ibs. 7 oz., and measured one n E = inches, and the 
If your correspondents, will give me their best.advice | other 22 inches in circumference. were not aware 
and experience, I will use my best exertions to carry | of the changes in form to which ie maak that the 
the thing out for the comfort and independence of the aie is eset E 
labourers. Binham Priory. —I like’ your: corresponden 
Cockchafer, Melolontha,—Alawn in one areaali sJ. Bi in one mera your: Tate. Papers much taken with 
isinfested by the larve.of apin r D Pig can they Praag ef cheap Vinery, and was- contemplating 
be got rid of ? peng will not Pg he place owing; making: one on that asrar but what: Mr. J. Ellis 
toi anager . C.B. [Th bee have to dig said on the > subject dam ped my ardour; which was in 
up the lawn, pick out the grubs, ge relay it. There is | some measure restored by what you said to him; but 
no other remedy. your advice ibis “J : ret e pause again, as the 
„Aralia papyrifera.—There is a fine plant of this mag. | climate here in the sum iant so favourable to: grow 
species now coming into flower in Mr. Glendin- | Grapes without Boot heat as the locality where ion 
am Green. Its immense aliaa | ti neron’s” cheap V; adin 
F wig at 
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tions P era at the West: of 
; | Park shows: in the season of 1856. Atay Feot sll 
a beara the: evil’ in this case to the- 
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Tether 1885, a that aig al imy n 
nad fri ria a er phagnum, which injured the rested gT 
a io the root the disease passed ‘to the leaves; on 
which were deep brown leon: tbs pes ong 
sightly in appearance, 7i, The Gardens; Moulton 
Grange, Northampton. [This form form of disease ae 
apprehend, quite distinct’ Thanet alluded 
ther 
cal M 
section ‘Henbane, Fioatan: with a few Remarks 
on gag out of Races.—In a recent Number of your 
r an ancien t recipe for an anesthetic for surgi- 
operations was given containing, among other nar- 
coties, the seeds shim gees This plant the editor 
rightly conjectured to be the Henbane. Indeed if the 
sb teas I-us-qui-amus, one may easily see how 
C in sass of te remarks sent by 
seem to — thee crear ee 
| foreman respecting m; ores 
| firm his statement ; t; they have been all bel 
them to be. 
never ce AP steer pev than when ea 
parr our’ pape , 
plan 
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y a copy of the very curious | + : ; i 
collection of Mediæval Vocabularies, which by the dis- Enp. View, SIDE View. 
cerning public spirit of Joseph Mayer, Esq., FSA, has TENE B Stove. ro |] |) Valve. 
and edited by Thos. Wri 
en prin cult: 
Esq., F.S.A. _In a vocabulary of. the. names of ‘plants is “in preventing the gas s coming through n | 
oy m, > 4 = its ti 
tions, the following occurs (P. 141, Col. b.), “ Jusquia- | plate metal ; it is nearly as tough as: eo 
mus, nebone ;”” and in the Pictorial. Voca. prin vag wal 
mus, at tarse times as long as iron; it isa very mild nds 
bulary (date 15th century), p. 265; col. b, “Hic|t porlagan nan is adopting: it i rt m the: steam | A 
n® a hennebane.”” Th i ed from 
on 
recently discussed by you, namely, “The wearing out of | plan has been proposed’ before—the air going direct this plant last al savgnad 
ae! SPIT at eal . a Ph A e s to ; On en, fho- gardener 
races.” At p. 192, col. b of the English Vocabulary | feed the stove, and it can be regulated by the air-valves ‘ its: bests Mit: Brown pjanta were 
15th centnry) is “ Hic.: ae ” ki if psc aaps is i rae ea a pa fite it aie Pi 
: ditor ha -a note, sent up t the chimney, and this 
showing that Drayton considered it a modern importa- | late the draught. Isle of esen [Incomplete areeni as 
tion into our island— | is we print it because jaaar an idea 
“TheP eaeh tn long ere t was knowne,| -Rose Stocks.—Your weld daidai have contained 
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Now in the Rotuli Hundredorum (a record’ of the 2d mary ries oereeren oper man ô 
ent of t - | cent 
eee of King Edward:I.);-vels: ly e p A are told that | rosestock, so as to mun the darasi i eenaa 
Henry I. gave the manor of Runham, Norfolk, to | the dying down of the wood above them: T have seen | is al 
Alice Evermue for the ann payment of a tiers of | Roses: m the n i of many respectable growers 
a hm 200-Pearmains, “ morum.” | and have always: found Scent in mes of them the stock 
_ i , Pearmains: — seks -~ thnk: the, on the side opposed to the top bud has died back below | solid 
ap n i ip ths bee righ „iù ating e it, and in some cases to the depth of 2 or 3 inches. I 
ts just — fro respect- 
able nursery, in this on condition, Talis aoe anxious to 
know if the dead wood should be pr once cut clean out | 
—and whether that, notwit' operation, will | 
ben the effect of amen perce e 
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