THE GARDENERS* CHRONICLE. 





tJENRY GROO.u T , C 



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BTABLE AND 

 Saturday, Feb. 3, copies of which 



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a«y <idrfr*» ue may be favoured wi'h. 



SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1849. 





"obtaining the latt 

 JJ A not burn the 1 



The impossibility 



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beneath it, had become 



This kind of gl 



but by a verv di 



we have no know- 



S^a^sheet; 

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plat * * auiTi, 1 ? irre e ular lenses - ™g h 



?* lrre gular J n ,n , into Pktes, and left with 

 Sf 04 Sd 8 eS ate ?v, SUrface ' which breaks and 



of lj^ lniori » We sai leme southj !t appeared 



titrated, « kt 



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to the former 

 would be better answered by an expe> 



I therefor, tli <i , n 



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 iinl Society at Chiswick. 



In the h-t v.. .k .it A 



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The four Be goi a. and Pentas 



had been cut close back, and were leafless, Torenia 



tting just struck, and of Achimenes the dry j later 



lose before us, no 



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t by the middle of 



lb* end of 



y it had reached Deibv- 

 south of See 



i thai the 

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lie oVjuiy it^w"' 



of August in the Isle of Lewis, and by the 

 He of the same month in Ross-shire It is'how- 

 , worthy of notice, that allium* h the disease 



July.i 



tubers were employed. The experiment w; 



to make it succeed; on the contrary, 



It is needless to say that the months of October, 

 November, and December, 1848, wen 



February offered any adva: 

 in ordinary years. In addil 

 necessary to leave the plai 



sashes being covered 



he Isle of Man, Fermanagh, 



Cumberland, and Northumbei 

 later in Kirkcudbright, Lanark, Peebles, 1 

 barton, and Angus. Nothing was seen of ; 

 September in Durham. Selkirk, and Linlhhgov 

 The column of loss has been obtained In 

 very careful comparison of the estimates ol 



long, m 



Nevertheless, an mp< li- re«5y Ruined 



ments, the expend 



the Horti- ] Potatoes in Co 

 by, Mr. Gordon, to whom th 



r,.n....:, . 

 broad, thick, clean, bright-green leaves. 



the Gesnera and Pentas, flowers perfect ir 

 size, and form. In short, it may be said 

 the least exaggeration, that more perfect ex- 

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jectural, and therefore to be taken v 

 " tes for certain cor 

 le in Dorsetshire 



flciency of any 

 quired for the n 



clear that there had been no de- 

 ment or condition which 

 perfect health, 

 proof of the excellence of 

 plate glass possesses the highest horticu 

 rest. It shows that gardeners are now secured 

 effectually from the scorching effects of th 

 during summer, and that all the costly as w 



i span-roofed house no less a sum tl 



had the value of rough plate glai 

 - 

 might have been avoided. S: 

 do, and no lis 



be no doubt that the result of 

 V detailed will be the 



is in gardening, and that every 

 sash, roof, or screen, hereafter to be 



- 

 ie south side of houses, and to substitute 

 rough plate, reserving the former glass for repairs of 

 11 north side. 



: is, however, to be understood that : 

 question is not common rough plate, which i 

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• <if whieh 



itent, thin, rough p 



found a report upon 



to Disease made its 



3 United Kingdom, 



leir se\. 



and, and Ireland, 

 southern counties, a: 



wed itself, teaches 

 n, and no doubt ' 

 ted by climate, yet that 

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If we bear in mind that, when anv com: 



em article 



)f food is miu b ., an indi- 



cation, not only of a smaller supply, bat of a dimiu- 





he Potato crop during the last four years mav be 



conjectured wi 





the r 



skofany 









A CoaREsre m at" of a Pea, 



advertised and l.-vi han 



tse the Mummy Pea. It has received 



People will receive this statement v 



g to the amount of credulity 

 which each has been supplied by Nature or 

 ion. We have only to deal with such evidence 

 iow T tangible. As for 



has existed on 



the days of the Pharaohs. 



The seeds, which are sold by Mr. Giumstone under 



table from the 



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 . 09 are as like 

 . . - to another. Mr. Grim- 



r his Pea, for it possesses 



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.ns." Experience does not, however, 



:onfirm this statement, for plants raised in May, 



.. soon after- 

 wards died for want of water in fine old garden mould 

 a the neighbourhood of London, and that, too, 



fains to say in favour of 

 he Egyptian mummy as an obiect of either use or 



Ayrshire, and taking 

 ase became generally 



iced in the Scilly 



lifference in the quantity I w 

 5h : on the contr " ' 

 -J same in both a 

 t b y rough plate, light i 



We advise Seedsmen and Gardeners to bewj 

 There is a gang of about a dozen fellows, located 

 Mancnesua klii the neighbourhood, who are cai 



niir on tin ir swindling ve. -,a*hn wiui '"'eat assidui 



. . 

 gardeners m the south of England for seeds, roc 

 plants, &c.,and togive references one to another ; th 



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is aisy a smaller gang, located in Liverpool, who t 

 the address, " Rainhill, near Liverpool," and j 

 ^ng the same system. We have heard of o 



