THE GARDEN ERS' CHRONIC 



[April 28, 



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ing the names 

 short practical 



i all "of a glare, take one by sur- 



t...> r= -It. Th.-v, mnrtMiviT, spread so widely that all 



■ ,1 high keeping is at au end, " 

 • •• prunin- kni'e be applied, and then adieu 



them. As to a comuinaiioa with our half-hardy bedding 

 plants, the only thing on the face of the matter which 

 offers any impediment is the fleeting character of many 

 of our annuals, together with their unruly ha" '" 

 growth, as before named. By the plan I am at 

 propose, it will be seen that the first of these diff 



removed at any given period, so that, like "dis 



another and another may spring up in its room ; and all 

 ihii during one short summer. The second difficulty is 

 removed by the very came mode, without any farther 



a.; c-mpirt in growth, be the season what it may. 

 lor !. N of misted character, which are in theii 



in early summer by the decay of our most precocious 

 floral beauties, the plan will be found eligible, am* ' 

 for the mere flower border. The plan is simply 

 squares of turf from a very old pasture, represe 

 when in use a small garden pot, but with thisdiffei 

 that there ia small expense in their making, leas s 

 their carriage, and three distinct sowings at p 

 periods will provide against blanks in the raoc. v ~- 

 tensive garden in Britain, to eay nothing about their 

 adaptation to a regular bedding system. 





of these Intheearly^arTof FeW^the 

 w to wait fori- 

 .drance to other busmes,, the 



r wt o!s 1 e^!dar r e\t e ^£? 8 



size c f 3 1 otSLTrr a 8Cem t0 be the rao8t e,i « ible 



?;1 L *" . '.' f °. r . *" Purpose; and if the turves 



many diseases would be repeated in the — — ° * " 

 external accidents. But all these causes are umSS^ 



\!uLf?T _, however find no difficulty worthy 

 Sratio?; fo°r during bad weather we have recou, 

 to one of Burbidge and ***X^™ h ^?tl 

 Orchid house. Close to the shed which contains th 



course no neglect can take place. 



Our boiler has a tap in the bottom for clearing < 

 pines being at the lowest level ; and from this tap we 

 c P a P n draw w g at heated to nearly W. facing J large 



up UUhen turned on to "them, and when the tub is f i " 

 the top is graduated, so as to run away slightly, and 

 fact just enough to keep the water in the tub hot enou] 

 to destroy vegetation, the surplus water of course run- 

 ning over slightly, escaping by the stoke-hole drain 

 close at hand. Our rude turf pots remain in for half 

 an hour, and then give place to another lot, and so on. 



I must now, before concluding, advert to one more 

 most essential part of the plan, and which omitted, 

 success would be rather problematical. This is a plot 

 maSTl have got some beds prepared by making an 



clean cinder ashes. On these the slugs will not travi " 

 but in order to prevent all possibility of their doing i 

 I water the whole ash-bed, when completed, with t 

 scalding water before alluded to, infusing as much a 



The turves thus prepared, nothing more is necessa . 

 but to insert a pinch of seed in each at the proper period, 

 and to cover with a little soil, then to give the whole a 



times of' sowing must of course be regulated by the 

 period during which they are required to be in 



dressy things of the May I 



; found to have root 



lay be taken up and inserted in small J 

 with a little soil ; such on a light 



th eu^ 



desolate. For the latter purpose I would recommend 

 the following especially, Collinsia bicolor, Clarkia 

 pulchella, red and white ; Schizanthus of kinds ; 

 Kaulfussia amelloides ; Lobelia, the small dwarf blue 



nanus and Hartwegi ; Mignonette, Leptosiphons, Clin- 

 tonia pulchella, Platystemon cal fornica, dwarf German 

 Asters, Phlox Drummondi, Schizopetalon Walked 



e eligibility of these 

 t in carrying out a 



man" suggests, their Orchids, yet the gaiety of these 

 can scarcely be rendered of a continuous cha 

 and here how convenient would be a little reserve 

 —a miniature annual garden—where, at any period from 

 May to December, the proprietor can, before breakfast 

 any morning, bring in half-a dozen of these little turf 

 pots, just emerging into blossom. Such might either 



I the saucer. Robert Errington, Oulton 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 

 §2. Of the Causes of L 





M first it was laid down that e 



; maturity, uor acuumug tneir proper eolosV 

 have thought that excess or deficiency rf!L 

 might be the origin of these duordera. 11- 



jiust distinguish the different meaning, aJJ 



too much excited perspiration may be the P fmm^ 

 ccasion of serious diseases in a plant, such aTeaakT 

 lut I think that we must look for the primary eaosibt 

 hich a plant previously healthy became thus affceW 

 a this point of view I cannot consider the soppr^ 

 r excited perspiration as the origin of the dkZT 

 utrather as the disease itself, or, still moreewS 

 speaking, as the symptoms of the disease. The treat 

 heat of summer, by distending the vessels, and mJfL . 

 into them an excess of caloric, disturbs the ordinal 

 course of vegetable functions, and cecarioas TmoJI 

 considerable or more rapid loss of sap by euporuion. 

 But who does not see that all this is the eonasqwM, of 



trary, if the same plant, by the action of cold, is obliged 

 to part with a portion of the caloric necessary for iu 

 ordinary functions, by that loss of a necessary stimuli* 



and its perspiration will be checked. But thewett! 

 ss, that is to say disease of the plant, will have prt- 

 ded this deficient perspiration. 



They say, for example, as in the ... 

 Rozier's "Cours Complet d' Agriculture," that the 

 * "' of a plant is owing to internal ciosa ; 

 ing into details, they add that it raj 



om the bite of an insect which, prodocins 

 p, makes the plant perish. 



In the same art 



candidly, do we know with certainty what it is that 

 rible malady ? 



orders at all satisfactory. It should first be ascertain*! 

 that the former do not in fact attack the remainder of 

 the plant ; that is to say, that the whole plant does not 

 suffer from the injury of a portion of it. I will men- 

 tion one instance in Bupport of my objections. Wnten 

 place among local diseases the white spots which « 



this disorder has its seat 'in the whole plai 



Dine particular aliment, although it : only 

 anttol rich soil, and treating it with ap- 



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to particular species only ; and, la-v 



those which attack only this or that ^mdual.^ Thj 



far from being precisely determined what we sh 

 understand by an epidemy, or rather I should ap 



eases of a very few species, it is a very haza rd on * "j!g 

 to assert that only this or that plant is sabjectw 

 or that malady. On this account I won d reject J 

 classification founded on the number ot piau 

 tacked. It is easy to see that almost aU»j 

 systems of vegetable pathology have Deen u^ 

 on the opinion so universally received, tea 

 exists the greatest analogy between animals a v ^ 

 The diseases peculiar to the former have been i sou^ 

 be recognised in the latter ; and even from t a &gsifti 

 of both, as Pliny has recorded : f^'f^^Tnot * 



beTnVerrdtfTom™^^^^ 



of the so-called humorist, and deriving a" ^ rf 

 except wounds, from the bad quality of tnej ^ 

 plants ; in our days, on the contrary, it ate ^^ ^ 

 voured to apply to the vegetable system '^ 

 medical reforms introduced by Brown ; •""J^n 

 a degree that they would adopt the BrowrnanJ p„ 

 e nractice of agriculture. Thus ^Jjj-Sgg 

 ■JTtothe d)«**! 



jJR t 



whole secret of ci 



such practicians to be the whole «««£* p nt ** 

 soil. Tull and Chateauvieux attempw* * &<(* 



absurdity of the hopes entertained. 



PRACTICAL hiNT l 3 g ^d E ns MATEL ^ 



A Few Remarks on ^.-Several J»^£*j 



■are of Roses reqnire to ^ 



fo, which are yet too simple *^g$t#* % 





