3-l«49.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



Farmer's Glory 

 Farmer's Profit 

 Shaffs 



Earlv Manly ... 

 Radicals 



XtoUd Kidney 

 Pink-eyed Kidneys 



(r.l.r'- Forty-fold 

 American Earlies 



Breadfruit ... 

 Cheshire Pink-eyes , 

 Hen's Nest ... 

 Mangold Wurzel . 



N.B.-Inthis Table all t] 



>een done in large gardens, let it 

 thatch put on it, to ward off wet 

 wed to stand 6 or 12 months, all insects 

 will be dead, the Grags will be decayed, and the 

 whole will be a fibrous mass adapted for almost 

 anything. Add to this an equal quantity of leaf- 

 mould, or leaves thoroughly decayed, and about 

 an eighth part of coarse sand, and you will have a 

 our hand in which any plants will flourish. 

 If you prefer it, you need not mix more than you want 

 at once, and can accommodate your proportions to the 

 various productions you pot. But whichever plan you 

 adopt, the fibre of the turf and the sand will secure you 

 lightness of texture and sufficient drainage, so that 

 when your plants are watered, the liquid will quickly 



But what is to be done before this compost heap is 



now stowed away is fit for use? The only advice 

 we can give you is, to get materials as nearly 

 like those recommended as possible, and make shift 

 until you are better provided. If your flower beds 

 the frosts and rai bronchi it tn 



plants in fine or sifted i 

 Experience will be the bes 

 practical gardener will k 



f THE NUTRITIVE VALUE 



LOW NIGHT TEMPERATURES. 

 1 think that gardeners are much indebted to 

 ir interesting observations as to the improp; 

 ■intaining high nocturnal temperatures in our 



theory. The case of the stove creepers that 



J. a te mperature of 32° at Drayton Manor, 



rarded as an extraordinary exeep- 



_ r __ having the same 

 rerv Z I Tl y the,r goners. It may have been 

 conLivT^!. fJ e tried the experiment, but I should 



feat perl 





-ssionl "™ *'»' 



4e of 41* - e Vine8 *»ich were frozen in an 



u r mentioned by one of your < 

 me that """niy an extreme one, and rei 



From dangers of a frigS shape. 

 cir n 0Ub i ed 'y true «* ™ny plants which are 

 Mitchell has7nil tb > co ™ tr * endu « (™ Sir Thomas 

 Ea ^e climate • w!u US) ver y severe fr08ts in their 

 h '"the pol'rf i , egreat secret of a11 a PP e a™ to 

 ^h has bee?!! ?" influence under whi ch their 

 ^dened and !^ at H red > and h ? which the wood is 

 ^^imae°^K With Pr ° tecti ^ P-perties In 

 ferently circumsu j countr y P'ants are very dif. 



fi* nt8 » t Bo3S y i l 0f the treatment given to the stove 

 «e appe^ ^by my excellent friend Mr Spencer 



^ ,da ya of auSJ Utel y low temperature in the dark 



S fait hful pictu re ei !!A? 0dman '' has drawn a clever 

 £X n ^ ga - d - ene ^dthe\m 1 lo WilIed ' C °? ceited ' and 



grown in pots of Euphorbia jacquiniflora and punicea, 



erodendron splendens and 



, having completed their growth by the end 



of September, were removed into a late Vim , 



nocturnal temperature from 35° to 43°. In this place 



rient to the preservation 

 fires were lighted every 



mse being about 



^effect. 



nt of superficial informs 

 nong such persons wha 

 Chronicle is regarded a 



ig about to be started for forcing flowers, the 

 plants were removed into it, with a night 



The Clerodendron splendens, which maintained the most 

 luxuriant verdure of leaf up to this time/now sickened 

 and died, every leaf falling off. Enphorbia jacquini- 

 flora has lost all its leaves and is quite disfigured, while 

 the Stephanotis is not materially injured. 



plants under this treatment, although they have never 

 enjoyed themselves. I think that the past sunless 

 season did not mature their growth suffici.M 



; but I know of no satisfactory 

 have been as yet instituted to determine t.' 



3£r 



::: ::: ::: ::: 1:1 



According to this, Indian meal will contain, of nit 

 genised principles, 12.8 ; non-nitrogenised do., 67.5 , 

 hat it stands somewhat higher in the former respe 



have seen, contains of nitrogenised principles, 10. 

 non-nitrogenised, 77.3. Now the relative price of t 

 >rincipal kinds of farinaceous food, at the present tin 



Two things are necessary to the soil of all 



plants, with very few exceptions: it must be : 



and porous. Turn out the plant purchased in a n 



' ' nursery from its pot, and you will find the m 



! and spongy, admitting a free passage to the 



I operation on a plant potted by an unskilful 

 3r than be separated ; and water will with ; 



ueen in the habit of growing I meadow ; let it be cut rather thick, and then i 



hort, whilst Potatoes supply only 20 per cent, of 

 rming and nutritious principles, together taken, 

 M more than 70 of the former and more 

 than 10 of the latter. The value of Wheat to Potatoes 

 " >re is at least 4 to 1 ; or if Wheat sells at 15j. 

 -t., Potatoes, to be equally cheap, ought to sell 



ty year of 1846, when the price of Potatoes had 

 t to 18s. and 20s. a cwt.), if their own gardens 

 ced to supply them with a sufficiency for their per- 



s, instead of exchanging them against a double 

 itity of nutritious aliment of another description, 

 present scarcity suggests the importance of giving 

 i similar cautions against so unthrifty a mode of 

 •;U prevail in our rural districts, 

 has also been proposed to substitut. f..r IV i s 



: - - 



