12—1849.] 



THE GARDENERS- CHRONICLE. 



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, the present, and apply his means 



Let,theref 



fSK^ *&*Zr*ZZ than e£ 

 Sifting c« be more provoking than, upon some 

 ^rKn severe night, and such will be found to 

 *-?TuSi "> find that y° ur a PP aratus wil1 not do 

 -work. The effect of such for a few hours may 

 r-Lnu vour labours for months, and render nugatory 

 S^uaieuei and hopes you had indulged in for a year. 

 On the most propitious occasions a gardener's anxieties 





Hw conduct, show how lightly they estimat 



^J who treat him as a Cockney does his 



^nttring his worth at so much per hour- G. 



PRACTICAL HINTS FOR AMATEl 



»fl Rose growers, that those varieties which are budd< 

 or grafted on briars are apt to degenerate unless r 



perienee this Has 

 hybrid perpetuus, i 

 sickly every year, i 



wood was trained in than was necessary. Gardeners 



nearly horizontally has kept the wood short and bloom 

 bearing, and it is in general evenly grown, and no gour- 

 mands. I observe, also, that there is on these trees 

 what is not on the wall- trained Peaches, viz., a tendency 



stock aad the graft, and the little attention generally 

 paid to congeniality of habit when performing the 

 operation. But as far as the evil admits of correction 

 by transplanting, the cause appears to lie in ihe soil or 

 the state of the root ; and when taking up a large 

 number last week, I particularly observed the cw " " 

 of that organ, and its relation to the state of th< 

 I found in moBt cases that the unhealthy suhj. cts had 

 tery few root fibres, but in the place of them a r 



nauvHedgeYhad left* 



mode of digging them from 1 



or budding, they should 



be grown for the purpose, that a young 

 <*ed from a root of its own age, and 



R*«; and I will detail the plan I adopted myself, and 

 am still pursuing. Choose your new situation as re- 

 mote as convenient from the old one, and well dig the 

 »d to the depth of 18 inches, incorporating with it a 

 Jjp portion of well rotted manure. I employed niaht- 



SSlifr which have been mixed for 12 n,onth »- 



ftJ»T \ , preferred the dung of an exhausted 

 ^nS ed tL a '^ Ugh r mU8t meQ " 10n that Mr - Paul 

 «3Ei J" i° mer com P° st f " r lj « ht ^ "a, in 

 »pE Rosens teS' cIre e not leS ^^ ""^ ** 



•ynrf 2 tt^fork. ha prune lf the" head dose"*! 

 Jj^my all dead 



W e ,V fi l p0Sed . t0 the air " little as possible, 

 ^e Ae fibreg nioe]y on the gurface of F^ goil> 



and oil! W1 , 8ame J tread the whole firmly in, 

 **Gly f n °° d d *f™%- This must »>e repeated 



P^oUhe'rwts aSi T ***** ft T^' T J e 



growth hP m nne ^ nowers and a more vigorous 



H^Sty aSfwilUe 8 i^ ^dT* ^ 

 *bole collectln Hi* few be done ever y y ear - and the 

 fiowerin. win? Wl11 be ke P t ia hi § h condition. The 

 be aTadvZ retardedb y the Process, but this will 

 U tinli h»v» !' by Pronging the blooming season. 



Ul y,t0Dr^! a ?, thrown U P suckers should be cut 



% ^ W ourl?f U T Ce " fUtUre ' " y ° U intend 



^^ae duh / f » choo8e proper stocks, avoiding 



^inhedsel 00 ^ thinga which are 80 Plentifully 



dry, and as the bloom-buds swelled a bed of !e; 



to the ground, the soil "nd" climate 'being** 

 — ' J mp. One of the principal advantages I ex 

 the protection of the bloom from the wet 



he ground, just within the glass, this year some 

 I dwarf Cherries have been planted : these being 

 planted upright will not be shaded by the *»—'-»■ 



winds, passing under the g] 



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the air which 

 ghl be readily employed fop 



Aigburth Strawberry.— In the autumn of 1845 the 



gardener of Henry Harrison, Esq., Aigburth, found a 



; Strawberry plants near an old plant of 



ia the neighbourhood of whirl 



British Queen, Royal Scarlet, and some others. He 



next autumn (1847). From this bed a quantity of : 

 fruit was gathered in 1848, and highly prized by ] 



growing. Some of the fruit was sent to the Lorn 

 tv, and was favourably noticed 





supposing that the crops ;uv i „; I utt. r than th >-',- p ro- 

 tten protected trellises, be grown in gardens where 

 sufficient for their young trees may bring forward 



well ripened wood by i 



ght readily be accomplished by any handy 



had myself a small gas stove erected in a 



• 'ached to my house, when re» 



which being nearly closed, as regards the inside of the 



3e, was supplied with the necessary air from 



ast I suspect the quantity of 



Edinburgh, make use of j 



deal packing box, into which I placed i 

 bottom made of spars, and fixed at a proper d ; 

 he top. Above this was packed a quani 



an ordinary shaying j, 

 r was placed for the purp 



H*2?? Correspondence. '^X^^T^'ZZ^ZZZ 



««ettein e treV m -~~ With res P ect to the Peach and I found the heat thus obtained to 



Sand »T 8 & row n on a sloping trellis near • n t for my purpose, but of course 



« covered with glass, a description of which, this was m ....stances. The 



oWV OU !m - ,h seem to require notice are, first, 



u * eD U th.! . think the *ood has ripened nearly it is essential to keep the moss a little distance from the 



^ tual ; the trees were planted late, and the f 



)f the heat from the pipe ; second, it is 



1 from Mr. Thompson to his gardener, and 

 it he mi.-h- make what he could of the 

 or his own benefit, naming it the " Aigburth 

 The result was its being advertised in yw 

 ugust last, and again this spring. James 

 ! verpool. 

 Weigela V$i I lj !:,rlv. it 



gardening, and it also answers admirably for forcing. 



■r purpose, any time during February, 



Bg plants in 3- inch pots, and 



old, and some sand. Let them be plunged 



BOme little summer-pruning, or rather 



nice dwarf plants, and may be removed to 

 pit, cool part of the stove, or warm green- 

 house, taking care not to prune them. Few plants 



care Frederick R»we. 



Hint respecting the Culture of Araucan 



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all considered more or less good, with one exception. 

 This latter plant was placed in what might be con- 

 sidered a disadvantageous site in all respects ; when 

 planted it was looked upon as certain not to do well, 



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 along more destructively than in the exposed places, 

 »t the foot of a hill facing the north, and shaded by 



Feb. 28. [To be sure ; you 

 ;r how and where it grows naturally.] 

 ■h Foresters —I wrote to your Paper last autumn, 

 inted - l h to English 



farming in many particulars ; and amongst the points 

 that I enumerated was their ignorance of every detail 

 ng to the fatting of beasts ; and I gave the same 

 I as that which is given by your correspondent 

 S., Hants." I was attacked by four or five 



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the superiority of Scotch farming. A new branch of 

 jotch imposture is now springing up, which is the 

 iffing of Scotch foresters ! a country in which there 



e climate. Why don't they send us up Scotch turtles 

 _._id Pine-apples I I wish you had been with me at a 

 sale of stock in East Lothian on a farm of a tenant of 



Leicester sheep. The tenant nevertheless is a very 



Forcing A} H time to time 



heard wonders of the Dutch forcing in the gardens of 



ho has, I believe, the same gardener that 



» Mr. Labouchere had at Highlands. ■ 



is especially celebrated for forcing Apricots in 



Keeping Properties of , 



til hills till I 



Mr. Beaton's paper on ice-keeping. I study to read all 



aton's articles that appear in the Chronicle, and 



: : , , ,:;..-. • % ■]■ ■■ • ■ ■ -' i ' • ' • • " • »- • '•■■ •" 

 1 ■ ng strips called Lady Alva's Webs in q 



-- time to come: but we will have a cold season if 



they are not all melted long before the dog-star rise* 



