Ill; GARDENERS 



CHRONICLE 



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iu the neck. In the same nouse wen " ,"73 

 Ur Melon, which is being grown here (in a po set 

 in»nanoi water and surrounded with Moss) with a 

 *J££L to ****> together with the TurUe Soup 

 Bean, a running 'pink-flowered sort, and a white- flowered 

 American Bean, of similar appearance, which is stated to 

 be a -reat favourite all through the Southern States. 

 TL:s last was given to the Society for trial by Mr. 



Frederic Rowe. 



PJant! of the Chinese Yam (Dioscorea) have been 

 put out of doors, under hand glasses, but the weather, 

 unt lately, has been too cold for them to make much 



fr in r the Kitchen Garden are some excellent Cabbages, 

 the best of which is perhaps Dancer's, but Cock's is about 

 equally good. Both are the Fulbam Market Cabbage. 

 Peas, late and early sorts, have just been sown, with a 

 ▼lew to prove which is best for a late crop. Some of the 

 January sown lots were fit for table quite a week 



The Early Emperor came in first ; it is rather 

 before the Early Warwick, which is a little behind Dan. 

 -O'RourUc ; the hitter does not appear to be different 

 4ti>m Mr. Sangster's No. 1. Early Surprise, Beck's 

 Eelip*, Dickson's Early Favourite, and Prize-taker are 

 only yet in Sower, although they were sown at the same 

 time as the above. Among very dwarf varieties Beck's 

 Gem is the earliest ; it is now in fruit, while Burbidge's 

 Dwarf Eclipse, and Bishop's Long-pod, all sown on the 

 eame day, are only just in flower. Hairs's Dwarf 

 Mammoth is also later than Beck's Gem. Pois 

 Miehanx Petit, or Paris Market Pea, appears 

 to be the same as our Early Warwick. Peas sown 

 in pots in February, forwarded a little under glass, and 

 then planted out, came in a week before kinds sown in 

 the open grand in January. They do not, however, 

 afford bo many gatherings ; but then a week's earl in ess 

 in the first of the season is an object not to be over- 

 looked. 

 As regards Lettuces, we have to report that May's 



Mr. ura BentOD has proved to be the same as the 

 Black-seeded Alphange Cos, a large good Lettuce for 

 summer use, and not so apt to run to seed as some Cos 



Lettuces. 

 In the Orchard there is every appearance of good 



crops, though Pears are dropping a good deal. On the 



night of the 20th inst. there were 2° of frost by the 



iw "m" fln\verslii~YOOTK plants, it is necessary to , other,'for if left to stand too thick thiv »*, 

 onfine the ro e ot 3 to £>ts ^portioned to the size of finely nor make half the display of p 7 ,^ 

 the nlants Cultivators disposed to give the two methods afforded plenty of room and crown *Jj. w 

 a fair trill will, however, I am persuaded, acknowledge 

 that the Chrysanthemum does not make such a bad use 

 of its liberty as to render it imperative to put artificial 

 restriction on its roots ; on the contrary, strong healthy 

 plants, be they ever so young, will flower freely and 

 very much finer when grown in beds and are in every 

 respect very far superior to the best Chrysanthemums 

 that can be produced i n pots. R. M. 



National IVobjccltubal Society, S«m91.— At this meeting 

 Cafcto aria Ye low Standard received a certificate of merit; it 

 Ha neat profuse blooming shrubby sort, with bright canary- 

 floured nosers. A similar award was ; also mad e » Celcedana 

 n-ftne" Perfection; these came from Mr. Cole, of St. Albans. 

 ntocSftw. Mr. Lochner, was not sufficiently in flower 

 for its merits to be determined. A fine specimen ot Verbena 

 Mrs Woodruff, was contributed by Mr. Robinson, the raiser of 

 Defiance ; its flowers are very large and brilliant. Several other 

 Verbenas were staged, but they were considered to be no decided 

 improvement on existing sorts. 



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afforded plenty of room and grown stronHv 

 flowering bulbs, as Tulips, Hyacinths, 4c rWu " ^ 

 left in the ground after the decay of the f<2 ^V 

 wet weather occurs they will make fresh l ^' * " 

 weaken and injure the bulbs. 



HARDY FRUIT and KITCHEN GUtDF* 



The bright warm weather which we are now eiW^ 

 will cause the Peach and other trees to m '^* 



freelv. and on lieht shallow bnivWo to «*^F° w *** 



my 



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VA f"°7 W *"~ "~~9 a»«a W .a, 6 UgUUY W1U1 TOtfe Lmm m 



to retain the moisture as soon after waten* ♦? 

 border will bear treading. Weakly treesiLi u 



hpnpfifpd hv mixincf with the l^af-a/^ a nortioni* 



are at all in»iuff? 



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SEEDLINGS. 

 Gloxivias: T D. 1, is the best; its colour appears to be richer 

 than that of most dark purple sorts. The others are too 

 small. 



make gross wood mulching should not be 



at all incline * 

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Calendar of Operations. 



{For the ensuing week.) 



PLANT DEPARTMENT. 



Conservatory, &c— The Camellias and Azaleas for 

 early flowering which have set their buds should be 

 removed to a shady sheltered situation out of doors, as 

 if kept in heat too long after they are fairly set for 

 bloom they will be apt to make a farther effort at 

 growth, which would cause them to bloom weakly and 

 irregularly. Give careful attention to maintaining a 

 succession of plants for the decoration of this house 

 during autumn and early winter. A portion of the stock 

 of the Lilium lancifolium should be* placed in a shady 

 situation to retard their blooming till late in autumn, 

 when they will doubtless be acceptable, and there should 

 be a good stock of Fuchsias coming slowly along in a 

 cool house or a shady situation out of doors for autumn 

 flowering. Attend to the stock of Chrysanthemums, 

 also Salvia splendens, Tree Carnations, &c, and afford 

 them pot room, &c, as may be requisite, and endeavour 

 to secure well grown stock specimens of these and every- 



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they can be spared, and endeavour to eqaih» the 

 growth as much as possible so as to get the treea vrf 

 filled throughout with bearing wood. Loot to tW 

 preparation of Strawberry plants for forcing next sprinr 

 and do not allow the beds of this favourite to want for 

 water until the fruit is beginning to ripen. 



STATE OF THE WEATHER AT CHISWLCK, NEU LOSDOX 

 For the week ending Jane 28, 1855, as observed at the h™».-.u-1««-/ 



June. 



ss 



S 



Babomxtir. 



Friday 22 

 Satur. 2*3 



Sunday 24 

 Mon. . 25 

 Tues. 21 

 Wed. 27 

 Thurs. *J8 



Average . 



9 

 10 

 11 



12 

 13 

 14 



Max. 



3C.250 

 30.170 

 30.173 

 30.163 

 30.201 

 30.357 



30.274 



Min. 



30.104 

 30.110 

 30.1,8 

 30.148 



30.074 

 30.224 

 30.204 



T*MF!RATU*I. 



Ol the Air. Of the Kink m^i • 



1 wm 



Max.! Min. Mean M 001 2!e *l * 



74 



63 



71 



6S 



77 



81 

 79 



5S 

 41 

 43 

 52 

 56 

 43 

 53 



30.228 30.144 | 74.0 \ 49.7 



66.0 

 54.5 

 57.0 

 60.0 

 66.5 

 63.0 

 66.0 



I 



60 



18* 



59 

 59 



61 



3 



detp. 



ST 

 56 



57 

 J? 



JUT. 

 1. 



s.w 



S.W 

 8.W. 



I 



m 



M 



m 



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M 



M 



61 > 5S.3 57J 



June 22— Fine; very dry; overcast at night. 



— 23 — Light clouds; overcast; fine. 



— 24— Fine ; very fine ; clear at night. 



— 25— Lightly overcast ; cloudy and fine. 



— 26— Overcast; very fine throughout. 



— 27— Dry haze ; very fine ; hot and dry ; cloudy and fine. 



— 28 — Dry haze ; very fine throughout. 



Mean temperature of the week l-5th deg. above theafenjt. 



RECORD OF THE WEATHER AT CB1SWICK. 

 During the last 29 years, for the ensuing week, ending July ".»*»• 



- 



July. 



radiating thermometer. New stakes have been pro- - „ . # _ 



cured from Mr. Montgomery's saw mills for the young thing else. Selago distans is a capital plant tor winter 



espaliers. They are inch-square deal, and painted over 

 with pitch as far as they are inserted in the ground. 

 Stakes of this description are better than rough ones 

 with bark on them, as the latter are apt to harbour insects. 

 It will be seen how backward the season still is when 

 we state that no Strawberries have yet been gathered 

 from the open ground. 



FLORICULTURE. 



The Ciihtsakthemum.— I have proved the following to 

 be a most successful method of producing really magni- 

 ficent specimens of this favourite flower. I insert my 

 cuttings under hand-glasses on a cutting bed, in time 

 for them to be sufficiently rooted to enable them to 

 endure the operation oi transplanting by the first week 

 in July. I plant them out in beds previously manured 

 with plenty of well rotted dung, setting them in rows 

 1 foot apart, and as much between the plants. After 

 they have grown sufficiently large to require staking, 

 and which they will have done in about a month after 



planting, they are neatly tied to stakes, which I con- 

 trive to be as near as possible the height to which the 

 plants are likely to grow ; at the same time I apply 

 a layer of dung the depth of 3 inches, or there- 

 abouts, to the surface of each bed. This, while 

 it protects the roots from the effects of continued 

 dry weather, furnishes the plants during every shower 

 of rain with a copious supply of liquid manure, 

 which wonderfully accelerates the growth, and imparts 

 to the foliage that dark green massive appearance 

 which is so indicative of vigorous health. Beyond tying 

 the plants occasionally as they require it they may be 

 left to themselves until the first week in October, when 

 they should be taken up and potted firmly in pots of 

 sufficient size to suit the ball. As a rule I never attempt 

 to remove the plants until the buds are fairly set ; it is, 

 therefore, advisable to defer potting the late flowering Peaches. 

 varieties until the end of October. After potting the 4 x 

 mould in each pot should be saturated with water, 

 and care should be taken on all subsequent occasions 

 to give the plants plenty of water, and if this is 

 well attended to they will not flag or drop their 

 foliage. Treated in this way the time the plants are 

 cor fined to pots is limited to the shortest possible period, 

 •and never present that starved leggy appearance which 

 they frequently exhibit when they are grown long in 

 pots. 'When the amount of labour expended in water- 

 ing 13 taken into account, together with the frequent 



•11 ?°^ °* l ^ e ^ ants producing diminutive and par- 

 tially developed flowers, the advantages of the above 

 plan will be apparent, especially when it is recollected 



y a tithe of the trouble, the cultivator 

 .tion to command a first-rate supply of 

 well-grown and finely furnished plants in every respect 

 worthy of the name, richly studded with flower buds. 

 The true colour, size, and shape of the flowers may 

 al^o, with cempM^e certainty, be depended upon. 

 Ihe practice of growing the Chrysanthemum in 

 pots^ appears to have been founded on the generally 

 received opinion that, in order to obtain a good 



blooming, requiring merely a cold pit to grow it in, and 

 keeps in flower an unusually long time, and is well 

 deserving of attention. But we must still depend prin- 

 cipally for a winter display upon our old friends the 

 Camellias, Epacris, and the winter blooming Heaths, 

 and these should all have every necessary attention and 

 care, and should be largely grown where there is a large 

 demand for flowers in winter, and do not overlook Mig- 

 nonette and a good stock of Cinerarias. 



FORCING DEPARTMENT. 



Vineries. — Attend to keeping cool and moist where 



the fruit has been cut in order to preserve the 



foliage in a healthy state as long as possible. The 



laterals need not be kept very closely stopped after 



the fruit is cut, but they must not be allowed to 



shade or injure the principal foliage. If there is 



any appearance of red spider give the foliage 



a good washing with the engine directly the fruit is 



cleared off, and repeat this as long as there is a vestige 



of the enemy to be seen. Give prompt attention to the 



thinning of the fruit in succession houses, for like many 



other jobs this is most easily and expeditiously done 



when taken in time. Look well to the state of the 



borders where the fruit is swelling, and give a thorough 



soaking of tepid, good strong manure-water wherever 



the soil is found to be at all dry, and aim at having the 



borders in a healthy state as to moisture where the 



fruit is about colouring, for a healthy root action has 



more to do with the colouring of the fruit than many 



persons seem to suppose. Young Vines planted out 



this season should be encouraged to grow freely, and 



as the roots will be near the surface see that they are 



not allowed to suffer for the want of water, and in the 



event of hot drying weather a slight mulching over the 



roots would be useful. Do not keep the laterals too 



closely stopped, as the more leaves, &c, the Vines are 



allowed to make the more freely the roots will run in 



the border, and this deserves attention the first season. 



Spare no pains to maintain a moist state of 

 the atmosphere where the fruit is swelling, syringing 

 freely, and shut up early in the afternoon, but give air 

 sufficiently early in the morning to prevent the least 

 risk of scorching. 



FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES. 



With few and comparatively short exceptions the 

 weather has not been sufficiently warm for the bedded- 

 out stock making rapid and vigorous growth, but so far 

 everything seems to keep perfectly clean and healthy, 

 and is growing slowly. Watering must still be well 

 attended to, especially where the soil is of a Might dry 

 nature ; and as the roots are yet near the surface, this 

 should not on any account be neglected a [single day 

 after the plants begin to feel the want of moisture. 

 Where the soil is of a stiff tenacious character, it will be 

 advisable to give a thorough soaking when watering is 

 necessary, as frequent waterings on soils of this nature 

 cake and harden the surface to a most injurious extent ; 

 and as soon as the surface soil is surhciently'dry after 

 watering, it should be lightly broken up, using a short- 

 headed rake with short blunt teeth, or a small Dutch 

 hoe, and taking care not to injure the roots. Get 

 annuals thinned before they grow into and weaken each 



Sunday 1 



Mon. i: 



Tues. 3 



Wed. 4 



Thu. b 



trid. f. 



Satur. 7 



v be 53 



71.8 

 73.1 



74.7 

 7M 

 7SJ0 

 76.6 



74.1 



Ml 



52.2 

 52.5 

 52.3 

 52.U 

 52.0 

 52.6 

 53.3 



4 a 



f.2.0 

 62.8 

 63.5 

 64.2 

 6i.O 

 64.6 



63.7 



No. of 

 Years in 

 which it 



Pre? iQiBf Til* 



15 



11 

 14 

 8 

 11 

 11 



17 



Greatest , 

 Quantity | 

 of Rain. 



1.23 in. 

 0.65 



0.7* 

 (Ufi 

 0.a^ 

 0.45 

 0.3 J 



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*i S * ' * ' 



Z !• i. Z 



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i ;. - - 



1 3 J- i I 



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m: 



-i 1 1 ♦ • » *< J 

 114 16*41 



The highest temperature during the above period oceiDPred ot ^»J^ 

 1852-therm.97 deg.; and the lowest on the 1st, 1837, and UMai-i*"* 

 37 deg. , 



Lindley's "School Botany" was written expressly w^ 



" The general truths of .▼WT 



?„j :„ *v, a laofc edition. -£ 



Notices to Correspondents. 



Asparagus : Anon. The stems are "fasciated/' a rel 7 

 kind of monstrosity, usually arising from ««*'? h !Sr- 



Books : A H. Sweet's " Hothouse and Greenhorn* Cnltm.or 

 — Vina. Saunders on the "Pot Culture of the >ine.^^^ 

 Lindley's " School B 



all such difficulties. *i.v. b ^. .>,..» ^w;™ — R k 



physiology are briefly enumerated in the last witiaj. 

 Mills on the " Culture of the Cucumber and ^J^ 

 J) & Sons. We have just received Carrure irauejw 

 Coniferes, an Svo. volume which seems to be wnai>^ 



search of. , , th ^ eon** 



Diseases: ABC. The Peaches are affecte^ ^Tj- ^ 

 Peach mildew. Either apply brimstone i with a JJJ ^ 

 or syringe the trees with a properly o"™^"^ m <* 

 son's mixture, the receipt for which will oe w 



volume for 1852, p. 419. M.J.B. ^nwhkatoF 81 * 



Labels: Liverpool. Letters of various sizes J 1 ^'^ fre* 

 names on sheet lead may he had of any consia«— 



La^urIum Sports: J C. This is the ^*SjjSES 

 Cytisns Adami, concerning which consult tne 



culture," last edition, p. 35«S. ^ ofln hs2S B** 1 Pr 



LAW»i : Constant Sub. The mowings and bw»P"« ^^ 



manure when mixed with leaves, and **^oW«*5 

 « house-slops » of any kind. But the v are som n*, m 

 down, and are apt to become offensive ^fl^itft * 

 time to time with peat charcoal or some other ai»— 

 mixed with stable manure so much the dmw • ^ #« 



Mealy Bug: Beginner. Perhaps the best mode ^^ftfte 

 this pest is continual brushing, sponging, ai 

 mixture of tobacco water and soft soap . ♦ jfonptfift w 



Names of Fruits : B A. Your Apple is a sort ot r- 



Braddicks.,'1 t ,, on nh \\ ee i to reW^ 



Names of w " — *w>n «, often oblige. a 



: We have been so o 

 decline naming heaps of dried or other -plant, jg 



to request our correspondents to reco 1 ect tW rf ^jjj 

 or could have undertaken an onlimite^w j^ ? **, 

 Young gardeners, 



to whom these remarks more ,*£ ( 



should bear in mind that, before app •""? » in in({ io-ri-. 

 they should exhaust their other ™ ea ' ^^ning ^ tf J£ 

 We cannot save them the trouble^ of m ^ A» 

 for themselves ; nor would it be des «»«" wffltag |y. J « » "J 

 can do is to help them- and that most *iB,^rf 

 ~n„o»toH th.t. in future, not more tnan _^ >ndn ^l«jr 



• Mill w m m 



.ianche..-r 8 K. Calycanthus florid"- ^££ 



ite indeterminable; 4, SinmnK <*£», 



senTus^ at "one time.-F., ^ S - A ^we^m 

 Its seed never came from Mw^^rjeW; 



Acacia quite 



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W W H. INext wee*.— * ~ - - r pU 



minimus. No second ™lume was e 



looks like a bit of Euonymus euroP^ ^^ 



Oak Galls. Peter Wh. meyaio ... ;« >Wg 



nothing unusual in.^em. . The i e »f m* j&t- 



Variegated Sweet V ^ LI .f^- ^-negations in S*» m1 * 

 striped with white. Similar varleg ^ ^ £ 

 ha/e, _ however, been observed befo, ^pgfc* 



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vSuZSUTi &' W£ We have n^Jff&Zj* 

 Vl d4aIrma W /be. compl,^ ^ ^ U*g 

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