THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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&•*£ do^en fly. Refer to > our 

 i^iJ^i'iJonTdeTayln giving the necessary 

 Iwfti Ttmj useful about the time new 

 C#t&* *Zgji,ei ' » few days here recovers them 



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»???£? SbST the cuttlDgs m a &hady 



*!S^!5« Carnations. 



v rains have much 

 ; 

 ] ias been duly applied ; destroy 

 £S5C&Bt Use small twigs to secure 

 {SSU 'mm ^ **«*■ ; if any plants are 

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JU*5l!will carry or perfect more flowers than 

 Tnm-Be more watchful than ever to secure these 

 m* frost; keep the covering down on the weather 

 2TiMd the winds prove boisterous. Carefully 



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adur; tee to this, and prop the intruder out.',.! the 



jMft 



of cultivation now 



Hfaawh.ch I hope to gain much satisfaction. I 

 "J" tte P«uculars of my own procedure, so as 

 *"* «• "to fanciful experiments or needless 



Wg » ta|e Grass-plat, with no flower-beds to 

 !r T «mtamiity, and being desirous of growing 

 "nnneteof the Rose, I determined to cut out a 

 J^W in the centre, about 9 feet in di, meter. 



outline being marked 1 

 tremity. This outline 



j^, or ^4,theontlin; 



^WfcpljwUha sharp spade, and 



wing much of the fibrous rooty 

 nw is an old pasture, having a 



E *^ m ^ld and putting" 



8 »J m thii , was i not • 6tter ^ Ua PlaCC But 



* felT^ "» U en e fkme rJaUTbeTn" 



* *mi ,w t *3 • WOrk P roce eded. A bed was 

 !> «£ !f!2 m C6ntre and 8 ent, y ^clinin, 



•sjRit proper shape f ° r recev "g - 



V'Jftte^ from the Rose nurser y o 



H and they came in health 



21^SL vw l? d -. These u was *&5 



S^ iTH M le ^ ,0n at little «P«™*. Th 



M * object has been to produce 



but W a e ii n th e bunches have dwindled^*! 



Having fixed upon the distances of the plants, I trod b 



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them. The bed being raked the work was doi 

 I the edge of the bed I placed cuttings, 

 as of the roots of double Violets, to form go 

 plants by next spring. II. B. 



SELECT SPRING-FLOWEI 

 PLANTS. 





Home Correspondence. 



ridgewater-squares ro 



1 hud greatly supe- 

 r A u mj i ture of DO can be obtained 



ibout 3/. The boiler is 



i the atmosphere too damp. Consequently the plants 

 row roots into the air instead of the earth.] 

 The Destitute Highland Districts.— We have been 

 juested bv Mr. Bond, the secretary of the Royal 

 , to state that the Highland 

 Board having decided upon sending only Cab- 

 ants and Turnip seed to the d-.Ktii:- districts 

 Highlands this spring, surplus pat 

 or baskets of good keeping Potatoes, will be 

 illy received by the Society, and distributed as 

 ;o persons locally recommended as industrious 

 Qts. Packages to be forwarded for the S >eiety, 

 f Messrs. Bigg, 53, Parliament street, London. 

 gret to understand, that, in consequence of the 

 of those permanent means of indo 



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s is deteriorating, instead of improving, and 



very different means be speedily adopted, an 



nrrive. 



irons. "D. O. Prune them like Laurels ; 



now is the rigi CD Gardeners* 



A lover of colour and an old subscriber 



bat is not understood. Has "J. D. R." 



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quotes was given ?] 



Pomology.— During the last three weeks I have 



observed a letter or two in your Paper on the subjeet 



Of the plants. 



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hit our public records contain good proof 



that our bluff K m a bit of an 



rdens in England. Many a 



The -(name il\egMe)-(Pair 



' " .pi.-s ( Pcpi; ) to this rojal gardener, as 

 Id Pears that bear French names. Z Y. . 

 master Hedges, ^c— The Cotoneaster is 

 ■ed by cuttings layers, and seeds. Th< 

 sorts, micivphylla, marginal, and r..tui 

 ;hly ornamental, grafted standard high U] 



i deeply read 



trained up aa 



:,, on account 

 foliage. TneC 



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y trailing in habit, 

 j a hl r o 8 hfof , 5 P o > r a 6 



ich other, and it i 



fruit, the Lt-er 

 replaced by the 



ned. The Cotone- 



aer 9 take T tohe°a 



,rmed Kale.— Towards I 



u-,-L Mr. kind, «ere planted, to fiUnp a spar 

 ro, saw the garden. Six or eight P^ over t 



i small 

 a'dibble hole at the end of the ground, 



ita Serve'lh-CSfteoliof .i* or eight plant, 



.othouses, the . of plai 



> of which I seed v 



cy to bulbing became more maiKea in i 

 its, so that I determined to preserve 

 ation, and they were accordingly well e 



winter, and secured by a stake, 

 d about the end of July 1843, and was 

 i in the pods on the stalks until spring 

 j 29th Api" "" 



; year's wood 



TtU not .only t 



bulbed regularly but 



and on the 15th June three or four 

 re taken from the teed bed, and planted 

 ■ho ««,«,« nf the season all the plants 

 gely, and in form of leaf 



