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E GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



K *■ -»f CTfeel certain that he will not h 

 question put to ' j attempt to describe his stove 

 hT^TofT^o^y be disposed to adop 

 for the benefit otui ^ Hjg gtoye ^ , 



^wll b'So ^et long and 20 feet wide ; i 

 ■P*"^ -Isly as a propagating house, and also fo] 

 '* ^ fS the London market, a department o: 

 ^fnV'^bichnoonecancei-uin.s I, u re m>, 

 8 fnl SI °Mr. Kendall. On the south-west side is * 



S^SSfiiSSSSS with mo^S 



\i rfthe hou<e is a trellis, about 4 feet wide, and in 

 Unriddle of the house, and running the whole length, 

 k i pit. 6 feet wide, for bottom heat, Ibis bottom heat 

 £ ingeniously supplied by means of a smoke flue, which 

 X^tbewbolelengtliof the pit in a hollow chamber, 

 ibout 2 feet deep and closed in with iron plates, 



- 

 S then the soil or plunging matei 

 be. On the top of the flue, and in this hollow chi 

 m an iron cistern, about 3 feet square, and a 

 inches deep, for evaporating water ; it is filled troin a 

 hole in the wall, about 4 inches square. Besides this 

 cistern, there is another so placed that a portion of the 

 bested air from the stove is compelled to pass over it 

 before entering the house, and thus, by keeping wat 



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W. B., Brentford, 



applied Messrs. Burbidge and Healty' rioh d b ei 

 and hot-water pipes (than which I believe nothing can 

 answer better). The expense, however, and the un- 

 sightly appearance of the pipes, deterred me from 

 adopting them. I had often read of the Polmaise 

 system, and always thought the principle an excellent 

 one, but having never seen it in operation, i c„ui.l ,..-, 



Botanic Gardens, Chelsea, who kindly' showST'ine 'an 

 old house which he had altered into the Polmaise, 



di?He aUhe° same "Sim" 6 ? ^ h6,U ' ' ' 'J" " "'"-' 

 then erecting a range 0^^™^^ were toT 

 Z .. '" . ?T, e wa J'> and that he meaut to adopt 

 J apparatus of Messrs. South, ot • :,. ['!,, v l-.u.\- 



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^r^ZcoLt 00 "^ perfectb c ""**^), m - 



^E^'f° u « h . SOme nia ^e considered 

 ^•^x full of which - 11 ffi"- derS and 8ma11 Coal > a 

 S2? Is 6 Sre > i"W ^ianh'JlueZt 

 ^> l «nmZf / find that b * increaain S t°e 

 5 / 0Te PUnts ; a D d P S0 ^ * ^ ma * be ""ceaeary for 

 S^plelsant a^ B T Ced am T of its advantages, 

 ^ of th^l, a ( !mos I )he ie of the house, from the 



jyg iiMSJ; £ *^ j-j jj» fc»*. the 



S,J° Po 'S*not t0 h? v ;n°"r p0nde , nt ^^^med 



l^S?siSSwK tt S 



COB8i<j *ration 8 £tl' have'bwn 10 alteratioas now under 

 ^^rSrofaserie-sof^ttersbyananouy- 



S^ ofn ^^ ThS 



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i erry grub," by 

 which name (unaccompanied 

 author intends the larva of the Goose! 

 (Nematus triniaculatus), an account of wJ-'- u — 

 found in our volume for 184 1, p. 548. The 



windward, and the treading of the ground 



then follow some general observations on 

 • Hop-fly (Aphi " 



(Eriosoma lauigera 



1846, p. 404), i 



moth (Aicu.l e,,r_,.-(.ii:,. , tie ii;. .- ,Lee:i Cak en., 

 (Tortrix viridanus), the Turnip-fly, or rather flea-beet 

 (Haltica nemorum), in which Mr. Le Keux's excellei 

 history of its transformations is copied verbatim, an 

 yet by a parenthesis the reader is led to suppose hii 

 not entitled to the merit of its discovery. To this sm 

 ceed the black caterpillar of the Turnip (Athali 

 spinarum, Card. Chron. 1842, p. 620;, 



the Turnip moth, and Tumi] 



being comparatively unknown, they were worthy of a 

 more extended notice;) Appl. 

 and the burying beetle. 



ily room for one passage, but as it details 

 « other author has noticed, 

 we are tempted to give it hen 



our readers may confirm its correctness. " I ha\ 

 to-day (August 15, 1835) cut open Codling afte 

 Codling, and found the pips garrisoned with thei 

 (aphides) ; not one lone aphis, but a whole troop, of a 

 sizes. When I let in the daylight there was a cor 

 siderable sprawling and waving of legs, and no sma 

 alarm in the hive, but by degrees they got used to ligl 

 and fresh air, and were quite still. I tried to tick] 



ments, when, lo 'and behold, ' they^were alTdTa°d- 

 gathered to their fathers— gone to the tomb of all th 







3 firmly, had died a 

 together under them 



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a the name of Fortune, the aphidt 

 the Flora of the neighbourhood < 



in its vicinity. To t 



. J. 0. 



Garden Memoranda. 



?ep.39).— . 



; engaged much attention, 



h have taken place on the 



he Hamiltonian plan which practical men I 





any system of culti 

 m generally would pro 

 , practises the Meudoi 



- a high degree of flavour ev^tTaTlhat 



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ceptions mentioned, and in semi span roo'e 

 with hot-water pipes. The pots are plunged in tan 

 beds, and the plants exhibit the highest possible health, 

 free from scale. tea) from jaunl 



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, as that of the plant grower 



out in perfection the day 

 them for exhibition. Any 

 's now will see what probably 

 t at this season, 

 md coming into bloom with the 



out J n d.ffcr- 

 i of the finest 

 F gardening. 





xtensively used. These 1 



havt i, 



Ti 





y of Pines in a given space and in the 



Bible time, and this Mr. Wilmot has 



iffected most satisfactorily. It would not pay for 



'stand stills." mlljr complete 



their work in from 12 to 18 months. It would 

 cord with -ting in May 



e expected such ai d . ] 1 I'u ( - i , h A \ L > 



three or four months (ran . r. l!i~ ol.ject would 

 e defeated. As before stated, they come up at 



I to effect this. They would beua] 



oots burnt off, and their leaves blanched in 



1 their vigour. G. 



: . 



tve been well attended, and have 

 ible revenue. The ] roceeds of the 



■ Vut ili-.ra^Ki.i. b. 



>,r in Jersey, in 184 



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1, and June; 

 ; iry, November, December, 



exception of October, July, 

 ' I he observed sj stem. From 



Calendar of Operations. 



(For the ensuing v,eek ) 



Do not forg.t wood ranger 



i r to secure a sufficient quantity of Pea- 

 takes, Bean-rods, and stakes of all sizes, for the season's 



;• 

 ;. referable to anything else. 



r:i 



vy useful. In the second wim 

 f the remaining pLnta will lee 

 s process may be rej 



