Mr* u A li u £i l\ & tv c 



muiated heat of summer's sans partially retained near 



the surface of the earth. A few years ago I remember 



many clever gardeners who thought light ; 



r ,. r -;mc- ! '■ •■ '■ '•' ;ar:\v an-I v-rls.ij.. n ::i :: ; } . 



from the perusal of the paper of the late Mr 



Pine culture. Subsequent observations in various 



puts of the world have however established the fact, 



importance of this than 



with those planted in deep and i 

 temperature of the soil to wh' L 

 moved is then an important coi 

 heat for our purpose remains ti 



buted seeds, raised some. Some Mexican Pines, given me 

 a few years ago by the Horticultural Society, do not show 

 themselves hardy here. Two or three will do. One, 

 I believe it to be apulcensis, appears very hardy. 

 Cryptomeria appears hardy here. I am trying this 

 winter Taxodium sempervirens. My Araucaria imbn- 

 cata was measured this last October ; it is 19 feet high, 

 girted 17 inches at 4± feet from the ground. It is a 



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light and increased humidity. If, 



rtration of the i here las 



I state of wall I Pmus Webbiana and Pindrow.— \\ e Have, at uu 

 :. P. Webbiana 10 or 12 feet high, with leaves ve 

 ;ed soils. The white on the under side ; it has borne cones which i 

 plants are re- ' purple. P. Pindrow is from 5 to 6 feet high, and 1 

 q, but sufficient long green leaves much more slender and longer th 

 of September those of Webbiana ; smaller plants of the two kir 

 nctiy the same t 



although 

 good esculent, and are valuable" at* kSt"b 

 emergency, when from the severity of tho 

 or other causes any scarcity of vegetables 

 ;. James Duncan, Basing-park, Jan, 9 

 Sand a Cure for the Potato Disease in the 

 Parish of Holme, in Orkney.— Mvs. Smith had been in 

 the practice of having shell sand put into the parts of 

 the garden where the early Potatoes were planted, for 



order to improv* 

 had the effect, 



the first year of 1 



period I ; growing 



minished j ference in appearance. 



,— I do not agree wit!: v,bbiana appear to be Pindrow. W. S., Bury 



as the old ice well ; , -Inn. 6. 



in keeping the ice Efl ..—If any subject deserves atten- 



to be no blame to be a •: re than another it is the necessity of placing 



packing. I am, however, led to believe the wages of the gardener upon a scale which 'will 



It in his old-fashioned house must exist in \ make respectable men seek the profession, say, from 



: great length, an important point, I hm 9M to Nt per annum for a single 



mded to. Our ice-h to. coal, and vegetal 



I by « J. H." ; it had 1 

 ' le door at en' 



«J. H."); and having one of Fuller's patent ice-pre- 

 servers (which no large establishment should be with- 

 out), it is kept constantly supplied up to Christmas, 

 u never been entirely empty during 

 all that time. I filled it on the 23d ult., when I had 

 8 or 10 cart-loads of old ice still remaining. My plan 

 of filling is simple, and I believe pursued by most gar- 

 using a fine- rosed watering-pot! A house of the above' 

 description is no doubt more expensive at first, but 

 when once made, it is always made, and does not require 



tion. In a place where I once lived, great expense was 

 gone to in a blasting a rock, in order to obtain what was 

 considered to be a proper site for a house. The well 

 was formed, the walls were dry stone work, the drain 

 the same, and the roof and passage thatched. I filled 

 xt the first time (even before the thatching was finished), 

 nd, although it held only 30 cart-loads of ice, I had 

 lenty for the family during the summer. I believe, 

 t a total failure ever 



Plenty for the famil. 



Since ; and, taking in . 



keeping it in repair since that time, I am cer 

 must have cost what would have put up a good 

 v"h Capable of contail »°g 100 cart-loads of ic 



■i :.,->k 

 f ice, and 

 supply of 



MM for Planting ?-Mr. Cuthill 

 s tha the only drawback to using small Potatoes 

 id « that the crop ,s a few days later in coming 

 •uruy. is not this contrary not only to received 

 d, but also to theory and experience ? (Lindley 's 

 ." pages 195 and 196;. There 





smaiTseST But ? if 



a Regent, weighing 4 

 the shoots from the e 



" it nptt 



'tehemw' 



Oetober, I hav/no doubt** 



me, though c 



on first floor ; 21° on sout 



y cultivated garden, and in similar soils' 

 nough for the table will be obtained from 



aable. Let Mr?Cu 



of single eyes- 



variety riparium do. Car 



I vegetables, i 



rertise for a gardener, offering somethii 

 vages, he would get an intelligent mat 

 f there are plenty, even in our own da 



brought up where gardening was to be learnt, a 

 places as Sir Robert Heron's, of Stubton, in Li 

 shire; the Duke of Portland's, Welbeck, in Notting- 

 hamshire, kc. ; where, as well as gardening an " " 

 geometry and natural history were taught by s 

 as M< Arthur and Thompson ; gardeners, I say 



and will attend strictly to a system of economy. Under- 

 paying head-gardeners is a bad policy, 

 men in a respectable establishment will 

 70/. a year than others would be |at 30i 

 entertained by a good man ill paid, or ill i 

 to leave the service, and an intention to do so ti 

 opportunity that offers. J. R., Jan. 9. [Under-paying 

 any_permanent servant is bad policy.] 



first scrape off the 

 * tfhen the 





>ugh bark ; 



luite dry I give the trunl 



good coating of linseed-oil * 



and rough places, and where there is any possibility of 

 eggs being deposited. I find that wherever f«- - 

 touches the blight does not again appear. E, F. i 

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hitherto been ; if properly treated it retains its 

 flowers for a great length of time— a quality 

 renders it especially useful. I find a mixture of two 

 parts turfy loam and one of well rotted cow-dung mixed 

 with drift sand to suit it best. The sizes of pots to be 

 used will depend on the size of the bulbs. I employ 

 6-inch pots for bulbs 3 inches in circumference, an<3 

 9-mch pots for bulbs 6 or 7 inches round. A tempera- 

 ture of from 60° to 75° will suit it when in full growth, 

 and a little manure water once a week would then be 

 of service to it. When your plants have done growing, 

 water must be much reduced, and they should be kept 

 cooler till they are again started into growth ; they 

 then have a higher temperature I 

 open, when they should be removed into a cool cc 

 vatoryorgreenhoi 



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lity and make 

 that time sh 

 n the countr 



. 



ed the only part of the crop tha 



;. all the early I 



ith shell n -' - 



escaped the 

 sound" white 



ow, chiefly fallen | Total 



■and, and proved 

 3 general crop was diseased. To i 

 s sand in preventing disease, she, in 1848, had part 

 the early Potatoes planted with the sand, and part 

 thout. The first were perfectly free from disease, 

 d the latter overrun with it, as well as the rest of the 

 crop. The Potato submitted to the experiment was a 

 white Kidney. The sand was strewed n 

 ground before the Potatoes were pli 



■ afterwards. Shell sand, of which a sample is 

 ded, is what was used. Mrs. Smith was induced 



land many years since. D. G. 

 Cole and his Celery (see p. 23).— The culti. 



new varieties of this esculent have appeared in the 

 market, and Mr. Cole, among others, has announced a 

 new and superior kind. About the merits of this latter 

 I am totally ignorant, but as he has misquoted the sub- 

 ovation given in 



.:... 



I feel called upon to set Mr. Cole right. He says, 

 " I perceive Mr. Errington attributes the coarse and 

 bad quality of the large Celery grown for market to 

 the luxuriance of its growth. Here I venture to assert 



cally opposed both to my real views of the matter and to 

 my opinions, as expressed in the paper alluded to. What 

 I objected to was, very early sowing for the main crops. 

 I still beg to aver that Celery sown in the end of 

 January will assuredly be less tender, aud indeed more 

 stringy, than the same kind sown in the early part of 

 April. So far from objecting to extreme luxuriance in 

 growth, I consider such alone as the key-stone of the 

 arc':, it v. ill be found by Mr. G, on referring to the 

 paper in question, that I recommend sowing in contact 



that he whocul- 



being equal, will grow it finest and most 

 tender, whether it be sown in February or in April 

 Robert Errington, Oulton Park, Jan. 4. 



Bees : Brood Comb.— Mr. Wighton complains that I 

 say "nothing respecting the injury done to deprived 

 • ioss of brood when the combe are taken 

 away, especially in end boxes." I can only assure him 

 that I never found any brood comb in either my caps or 

 side boxes. Bat even had this occurred, my bees would 

 not have sustained any loss ; the whole of the brood 

 comb would have been carefully preserved and returned 

 to them. I have several times bought hives of bees, 



5 lbs., containing probably several thousand grubs. To 

 lose so many bees would break an apiarian's heart ; I 

 *ed the following plan, and have since 

 ^ces with success. Having 

 adjusted the pieces of brood comb to the best advan- 

 tage in a small box, and fastened them by numerons 

 props and braces of stick in their proper perpendicular 

 co.l the box by the side of the bees from 

 which the brood had been taken the day before. I looked 

 in many books on the subject, but could not find that 

 this experiment had ever been tried, and therefore ex- 



ftly. The bees instantly ree 

 old combs and their grubs, and waited upon the latter 



&1 care, for bees are very hi 

 A month after, seeing that the bees did not frequent 

 this small side box much, I took it away, and found that 

 all the grubs had become bees, and had taken their 

 few which hadbeem pressed by the sticks, 

 kined in the cells dead. All the combs bad 

 been fixed in their places by the bees with pillars of wax,* 

 so that when the sticks were removed, the combs re- 

 Mr. Wighton also asks why the old- 

 fashioned bee-keeper may get as much honey as his 



ds to De ted ; and almost all the bees being thus eW- 

 ■ed, little honey can be stored until the middle or end 

 uly. In a bad year the honey season is all over by 

 time, and the opportunity of storing altogether lost. 



