THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



•*""' » P STclassic a l work entitled /a™ 1 * 8 



i m **"? ^enumerates 23 species of disease 



Jr^. -t two classes, according to whether 



£5^^i 9 £ e al° Both of them have 



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JJTl hare learned much from : 



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■KT.Arbra" of the « Nouveau Dictioi 



y be studied 



mm the diseases of plants divided 



►„« founded on their degree of extension over 



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 ^J7 the number of physiologists who have con- 



,,«« of disease, without following an; 



^Amongst those who have attained celebrity 



at* wet useful class of observations may be 



;as. The greater number of t 

 fojeally with the diseases th 

 ■riff details the reader is refer 



K: :: ,n 



ct grain. For 



tt W satisfied with the methods adopted by the 

 pte somber of them in presenting their views, 

 taen&etions and observations I had made appeared 



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f«W on the facts which modern chemistry has 



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>t^S d dLTef"h^s eT Pred9e ' b ° th aS 



■SftSS 4 ^ e that ' in a great number ° f 



m mot oimcult to assign some remedies which 

 | ied by the cultivator. I pub- 



Tir£"T\ an essa y on Vegetable Nosology, 

 •L^ kteI y "Proceed at Florence as a 

 ^wiuwut my knowledge, by Tofani. I th re 



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*c w t° t a ;?^~ n8tanti ^eit: 



l any question of rural 



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fdJeasirbvTfe 1 ! 



1 8u Perabondant luxury of 1 



asoned they may be. I shall, therefore, procee 



1. What must be understood by disease in a plan 

 2 What are the causes of disease generally laid d 

 by authors. 



3. On the supposed analogies between animals 



4. Basis upon which I have established the cla: 

 ation of vegetable diseases. 



5. Classes into which I have divided them. 



puzzled to j 



PRACTICAL HINTS FOR AMATEURS 



totfl commonly called' by the ns 

 Jtus belong to the natural < rJ. v Caetae. re, but 



various appellations more or 1-.- .-- 



' : peculiarities ; as, for instance, the Epiphylh 

 Greek word signifying upon a leaf, in allusioi 



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Latin word cereus meaning waxy. Cactuses are v 



growing, and giving them a good rest, will 

 class as common as they are tx 



ah} i the tribe, and the difficulties and 

 tttending their cultivation, although they may 

 ting the number of their votaries, 

 ( same time tend to strengthen the devotion 

 have the courage to encounter and the means 

 these formidable impediments. It is, indeed, 

 probable that Orchidaceous culture will always continue 

 in a comparatively few ban 



the same ardour in the upper walks of life 

 sphere, attends the cultiva- 

 iful varieties of the Tulip, 

 Some nerhaps there may 

 eilities afforded 



hTdntlfas 



ear ; for although they are nat 

 », and Peru, and 



c-'n-r' 



STanrind. 



to, yet in other r 

 ntly hardy to allow of their genei 



v.: 



tivYtion! SU They 



are magnificent objects in the sto 



es and 







U the 





n ; Key S g Zl\olTLrln } 



luk'.ed 



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tage window, ac 







among the floral collections of the middle classes 



' Yet 



with this general disposition to cultivate the 





plants are less 



understood in those habits on 





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would look at my Cactus," said 





<« I wish you 



a lady 



to the writer th 



e other day ; "it is a very fine 



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but it never flo 



productive occu 







of vegetation i 



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mak it hVwei 



SerthaU^had 



1 th- 



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commonly called v 



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ma e mTa a ned Ve (and e somi a even now^who^tiU maintain) 

 that the Fine Arts were essentiaUy aristocratic, and 





readers of the Chrc 



In the na 





hnn-.e 



of the Cactus, there is a 











the former, vegetation re 





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uring the latter it flag* 



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ough the heat of the sun 



















e of flower-buds. The w 



.tor 



from that adopted in window 



lumber "room In? have had^wate/^ 



water. They are now as plump as can be wished, and 

 are covered with fl>wer-buds. They will I 



In a sunuy part of the garden, 

 against a south wall, until cold weather comes and con- 



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loam and leaf-mould is best for them, and need not be 



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the sun. and to bring them" into the sitting-room just 

 they are about to flower. The whole tribe is easily pi 

 pagated. The cuttings should have the wound heal 

 . : be given I 

 a month or six weeks afterwards. Such is my simple 

 plan. Experto crede . H. B. 



Home Correspondence. 



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. f~„, vo,«x n <r rt . in which he prophesies that thi 

 f growing 



s to thehumbh 



difficulties and 





(Dendrobium nobile_ for 



ower se'llers in London, an 

 .eciossimus,&c. I am rath 



1 stand of Can, 



uricula, and Carnatio„. „ 



i who, looking only at the great 



y the latter, may be disposed to c 



f whatever is placed v 

 ing ought to^ Oond. 



d^hanYall were intt 



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There are many other persons 



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__ perhaps he did not 

 persons in other depart- 

 jeling. I know that there 



;rn pictures brought together and selected from 

 H ?;„s ■ i V .„' arvt- at a prn 

 •respectable tradesman in this country. Coins were 

 ially an : 



; : every vein is 



j purpose of the leaf itself. Procure a small quan- 

 of boiled Linseed oil, some very finely powdered 



finely powdered colouring mat- ri 



•earn/ Two flat leather balls about the size of 'the 

 and will be required ; these should be made of wash- 

 ather and stuffed with wool. The balls are then 

 ightly smeared with the ink, and rubbed one against 

 le other, adding a little ink repeatedly, so as to obtain 

 irface on each ball, which is 



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 then place the latter inside a - 



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p • -Have any of the pur- 



chasers of thi.- w a3 to Trove 



,tvor not! I bought two 



a of it, and it is my present impression 



Dg more than the Chassei:.- 



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Epson's pomologicai know- 

 ledge than myself, and it was solely 08 

 aeChasselas Masque was a O. 



long before it becomes ripe; 



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not been grown at his place for upwards ot 



