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870 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Drcemprr 26, 1857. 
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n Gd. subscribed one card is aan to the subscriber. | Mr. Broome informs us Nany ’ was grown (if I un g don in bu unches like Fra $ 
ome Pen subseribe for as many as eight cards. | pea rig ghtly) without a stake; per erha aps ual Dell will An Old Subscriber, [This is Gleditschia tr Bea Í 
Those cards are then given by the subscriber to any | in whe 7 his eens were staked or not. a with the seeds perfectly y ripe and hard, 
deserving poor person — please, which poor person is | thet form A I as a grower Basie’ not ae in re- | ip Powdered Rosin v. Mice. —Having observed 
limited toone card, upon which card 2s. 6d. must be | cording my vee rdict in eras Atal ‘N urze recommended for the protection of = 
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paid between that time ss December by instalments of being at leas t equ Dell's S from the ravages of mice, I have to record one objecting — 
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id. or 2d. per week at the parish church on Monday | “ Sacramento,” ‘though it Thad only a a "fourth pari of the | which I had to that materid]. a 
afternoons, A contract is then entered into with a coal | amount of bloom upon it. J. E., on the banks of the the decaying ian caused a considerable ei 
merchant to deliver 5s. worth of coals, 1 bushel or | Mersey.—#Allow me, as roa z some little ex- | the Peas to rot, I have sowed rough rosin ground 
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purpose he could supply them with a larger quantity of tion of Mr. Scutt’s extraordinary Pompon ) ur | were left, while those amongst the rosin onl pol 
oe for the same subseriptio on and amount aoe at the Paper of the 28th November last. The idii “which , touched. a it phi ea: would use rosin 
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the H Hon. and tee! S. G. Osborne, Boone, Hatchard, Roake 10-inch pot, Mr. Scutt’s plants exceeded mine by 1100. | keep leas from bulbs. J. B. 
& Maas will aes ak. the wants of “Bi nham pene re bo after | ating struck them four months | Pru runing the Black Currant.—In « J R's sartideo 
iory. te E F. er thar self. Mr. S. does not say whether or not his | the cultivation of Mouta s (December 19 ,) is the foll 
: . Althou ing remark; “I generat; cut the plants back Very much, 
stone, teehee laid four ‘less that by his system of much ee to him for his information, we should be as Black Currants are pruned,” &¢, N 
cultivation he would produce more Grapes, Masia still more so if he could give us London growers any | Lindley? s Guidet tothe Orchard, nor in Paxton, norin any 
ucumbers, Strawberries, and Vegetable Marrows, or in additional hints on the cultivation of the Chrysan- | other work that I have are there any i 
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arrow pean of fine quality. On making course of cultivation is we a as soon as I can get wood wilh at will,” &e. Ie ‘hardly Pardes 
inquiry how they answered, Mr. Corke asserted that to strike with, stop a possible, repeating it at practical gardener would think so, Pg Iya 
the canes of the Vines would average more than 20 feet every opportunity the pens of the plants ey pene: | taken. It would gratify many of your naiea 
before the year came round, having been potted I never let them fla ag for want of m ‘you espond: giv 
856, and planted out in a new. hothouse gradually on to the last sized pot, being coef tates article on the most approved modern of 
October 25, 1 prune 
just finished building on March 7, 1857. At first Mr. them from the mid-day sun, and to prev ue roots ing the Currant, and what difference, if any, is required 
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Corke wished to decline the wager, as he told the striking through the pots I use compost similar to Mr. in the case of the Black Currant. J. C. MM. 
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he must win to. a certai ainty. Being however Scutt’s, and with meg additional care I peg short of | | Stoke Newington Chrysanthemum hemum Society. —A rumour é 
ge 20feet. him by 1100 blooms. “ While there is life, there is | poses! gn very arang, y crue’ thah khia weet, 
This they considerabl ly pt a and at the same time hope,” but so great a 2 Esn is rather disco ears’ existenc rough 
three other bets were made respecting the "Vegetable | However I trust. Mr. Scutt and some of the country | England e the best of “its my for encouraging 
and Mr. eae ge the well-known | growers will avail themselves of the opportunity of growing and showin ng specimen plants and flowers, has 
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progress. The stem of the asra ble Marrow was season, and show us what can be done by high cultiva- | dict this statement. The of the Bc ye 
8 inches round ; its bine, together with leaves and stems, | tion of this favourite plant, with a saving of four — follows. At the last PA bros angry wi 
measured upwards o eet, the wager being that care and time, I aS p observe f h w i 
r, Corke would not produce more than 1600. feet. consider Drin Drin ood bloom for ordi in the rooms when the fs ane oa “at work.” The con- 
Upwards of 400 fruit were cut from this Levia Fpl anno, ar yot like Ahi it ne had its day. Sacramento _ Sequence was the parties were ordered out by 
arrow plant. This discovery will be made public in a may be considered by some worthy of cultivation, but in | the members; a slight, quarrel ensued, the result of 
Treatise nearly completed. ` Mr. Corke’s plan is my ogni n it is useless as a specimen compared with | which was that the ere ing 2 be thus a 
| General „eaoot, Escarbuncle, and emy others. rarily put an end to the societ y. 
| James » Gardener to R. W. Peake, Esq., | two societies were formed instead of one, called the old 
ving seen some of he | Spring Gree Hou nslow. and the new, so that in fact we have now fao poa 
Pomegranate in England.—In my | aia respectable Chrysanthemum societies, 
that a mere child after some slight in: maT 
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article o on ah subject last week I omitted two figures, | 
the neighbour! on, which by com petent division they were like a beehive ready to ragi. 
judges were conside: perfe: g then = certain of the dates, and my note- | were too many for one society with some 807. finds to 
y was surprised on my return to the co try | k an being at hand, I left the space ne be filled up give in prizes. The two ye DOF y established on a sound — 
tosee in your columns an account of what may be called | earns a through the press of other business the and perm sa a basis on , the 
wonderful specimens of cultivation and flowering at | ures were forgotten to be added. The first year nurserymen and gardeners o oe, the gentlemen amateurs 
Stoke Rochfor d; but as that report was furnished by | crea w 1840, and the year in which the tree was cut. u shar: er from the number of members already 
the foreman there my supposition was that he had| down 1841. H. Pu llen. | entered T have little docht that „the two will surpass 
counted all the flowers that were faded, the Pas aya in Childven and Botany.—My a en’s ages range from | P pien ig old society in encou themum 
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fe the flower-buds to make up the extra- eight years downwards, and m y governess, who is her- | | culture, so that the public will derive benefit from the 
ordinary number mentioned. If any one will take the | self i ignorant of botany, ae to begin at once to learn | hema It also caused four or five per to start at 
to ¢ the surface from the diameter given, | herself and teach them. Will you kindly state if such | kepr Bermondsey, Cambe ar ey nA 
ng it to be flat, it will be found that not one-half | young children can make an hing of the science, „andit | th pes November we. shall plent 
of the flowers, if fully expanded, could be sie gy tf if so, what book you would ee he A. [We dou ae ingore inti Baa Br Pole an tg cher CE” 
serene, hgs ower to occupy a space of 2 in the possibility of such young children acquiring a kno pti, ary al n last w hog : 
uar f we allow the plants to be h hemispherical, | ledge of botany from any kind of book. The e lady v who | while ‘tease, the fine peim of the Chinese Ricẹ- 
flowering s the edge of the a pete one-half of the number li is their governess should herself learn what is paper plant now flowering in the i om 
would cover the surface. _ But making every alawance and then communicate ay what she thinke suitabla | asks if any plant of it ey di that which inthis 
for young men ardent in the prosecution of their pro- | to them. For her w mmend Lindley’s School | Kew in the autumn of 1855 has produced flowers 
fession, and anxious to see their names in print, we “at Botany, and Le Madat: reg Elémentaire de Bota. 
grant them full latitude to make known their nigue, a very nice book. 
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experience, and I should have let the subject. rest he Season.—The acco: mpanying N w this yea: 
ba g foreman’ eee had Ma a, not come for- | on A tree at Roydon Hall, near Diss, Nosh. ae _ I shall i 
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leave to. ask Mr. D. whether all buds were cour beg 
December, but rier gl gee ma ft i mouth. 
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Puta, i een Deg rely on the pes ia The Physianthus albus is growing at the 
is information on “my of a greenho lanted in the bor trained h und. 
cember 21, —— | to a trellis. This. plant k “asia panes ahi gf n aaraa r 
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