THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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*» » *tf iSnteqiiently become languid and 

 &" **V"2i gpecially of the Ranunculus may 



* 1 ^jEdto those parts of the flower which 

 1^* ""^SiH to distil honey, and not extending 

 ^•r^SEsto a ny appendages not strictly 

 *«* t0> L*^et The red variety of the Colum- 

 *H**ZEZ appendage to the petals. This 



»5s?sX » the numbe r of , pe v a s , in ' 



• a** -1 I!z!j of the Balsam is often doubled or 

 «■* wUCtfcns of our Pontedera, that the 

 J* !£?SS5o not ripen if the nectaries 

 ^J*Sd be verified, we might co^^Jj* 

 *^t^3SSion! CC But authentic con- 

 Sit Ed « « y^ wanting. * re § ret not 



£T«M Stowgd'a work on the use of nectaries. 



VZ tarfl Uetical among writers on r 



ITJZt that doable or Bemi-double flowers bee 



.L^Luiin consequence of an increased qi 



7J&+ ■* freq« ntl y a PP lied b y art .» 



J*.* by accident, in which case it is own, 

 I_br of the atmosphere, to the nature of the 

 SrSwuut Oar own flowers are indebted ft 

 ffc |Jd«e?« skill. In Holland the enorn 

 Sow be owing partly to the peculiarities of 

 j~w, of which they know how to take advanl 



one man is kept on such a place ; this man wears a b 



apron, and is dubbed "the gardener," although 



lit tie about horticulture ; he therefi 



juires my advice, and he shall have it. Other vi 



rdens can only boast of a small greenhouse, or wl 



what he calls tidy. Thi 



iB 



■-v ----.that 



-,.-.:.* seed! 

 - r.vafew 



rell to define the limits of my task. 

 One description of villa garden pos 



bing gardener, to prune the ti 

 I scrub, and make all things wha 

 udo-eardener is, however, not 



w<» put uuuvc >uo „arm, the position and shape of the 

 dding a very near approach. Over the 

 whole was placed a tablecloth, and before 5 o'clock 

 every bee had ascended into the hive. As soon as it 

 was dusk, the hive was placed in its destination, and 



The experienced will say there is nothing new in all 



of no use to me unless I know how to act upon it. 

 " Necessity is the mother of invention," and while if I 

 had had help at hand I might never have known how 

 to get a swarm into a hive, my necessities compelled me 

 to be prompt and self-reliant. Others may be situated 

 as I was, and by telling them how I acted, with success, 



that bees are less disposed to stii 

 larly thought to be ; and if no 

 disturbance is made they may 



pseuao-garaener is, nowever, not uveruuruBucu *,»*. 



skill in his profession, his employer therefore also 



requires my services, and I willingly tender them. A 



third class of amateurs, well described by "E.O.," 



very small gardens, and cultivate them entirely 



selves. These shall also have my care. I, how- 



beg that all will minutely describe their wants, in 



that I may prescribe the proper remedy. Let 



trees Crabs ; whether Hyacinths flower badly, 

 s rot in the ground, Cabbages club, or Cucumbers 



advantage. Virgil's i 

 fvorth reading (Georg. 





Home Correspondence. 



of Tobacco in England.— I have no doubt that 



Do not begrudge the time required fogdom it would fall so 



different ills which rob you of nearly all the pleasures i m u C h i n price that the quantity of manure and labour 



v seek for in your favourite pursuit, w hi c h would be required before it could be brought to 



and I will endeavour to secure your success. Pharo. market would eat up all the profits. But I assure you 



that in this country for, I believe, nearly a century, and 



up to the recent period when, for the sake of distant 



PRACTICAL HINTS FOR AMATEURS 



[iving a Swarm of Bees.— TI, 



to the readers of the Chrc 



the great number of 

 „^>~ I ask in reply, that 



fcwed plants back to their original single state ? Why 

 kt* Hvaeiatlu imported among us from Flanders, so 



» W turth m more than the worst of our own ? If we 

 •HI ihonld say with Sennebier, monstrous germs, 



rWSiuu^ulesjyou would believe that one thing can 



■Wdilnji preserve their peculiar physiognomy, if I 

 *! k express it Bat experience shows that although 

 * k» la exceedingly difficult task artificially to make a 

 "^WingpUntproduce even semi-double flowers, 

 "a very easy matter to bring back double flowers to 

 ■w nateral state. Nature always lends her assistance 



R hp.-r tr. ™»l a ; m hoi- riaht* 



HINTS TO FLORISTS, 

 il rfSTi " a S° od time for r e P° ttin g collec - 

 -.- ?* *» plants ; if it be advisable to add to your 

 J*J do so without loss of time. If they be care- 

 "5* "P »?well packed, I find that they travel 



often keep back precisely i 

 majority of readers need 



up to the recent period when, for the sake oi aisianx 

 colonies, an English Government thought it right to de- 

 prive Ireland of the privilege of growing it, the culture 

 of Tobacco was well understood, and was practised by 

 rich and poor with success and profit. The amount of 



high as 100/., from which, of course, was to be deducted 

 the various expenses, in which the item of labour was a 



much the case of small farmers and cottiers, whose own family 



.ersons would j and the profit was larger! To show you that I do not 

 ,w" to make them profitable, or exaggerate th My as present at 



fessing to be on Nutt's principle, but of which we nev 



spring, our man has amused us with a most elabora 

 metamorphosis of his person when the bees swarme. 

 his head being enveloped in crape or muslin, his sleev 

 and trousers' legs tied tightly, to prevent the ingress 



■. •■■te repotted < 



"!"■■ inasmuch as 

 ■■"■Polled to exhibit in the £ 



rtings are concerned ; 

 days) are too early, 



b amateur and dealei 

 te class. E., May 23, 



s2Ji AND SIJ BURBAN GARDENING. 

 ***** Ita^L^ 811 as the barometer 

 "^dtawkg^ 81 * 88 indicatea the diffusion 

 & ^entf 8 ? 6 ^? any a Particukr 8 °a e ge ' 

 * reo wnalk 1 !^ l . tl ! nes Jt was chiefly limited 

 J ***■! > jf JJJj* whe . re we occasionally m< 



** **ftife ^ssSrf Se™ s. wl 

 Sri? *• iihTStie 8 



Li* diffuse 3 C peace, r contento 



What follows being the result of personal experience, 

 We have kept a few hives for some years, having 

 inadvisedly bought most expensively a lot of wooden 



s 10/. for the acre, being 



alised to this climate ; foreign seed was by no 

 s so successful. Wexford. [Yes ; but what was 

 imount of import duty on Tobacco of foreign 

 Us,- Boiling water wffllkffl them without any ex- 

 I ; but it may, as well as turpentine, injure the 



;e inost'important effects in quieting 1 



, combined with the -nifeet^of^ £ jjj ^ , ^y ^^ 



^ fcl PP'ne, „„ ' " ^ffuses peace, contentment, 

 ^ 3ra£es the m»3^ a11 Masses. It stimulates and 

 •5? * ho P»Sf *° d bo< % P° we « of the man of 

 ?*« habitsTr? 8 ^ m his bours of relaxation. It 

 a> tte iumbL U !. dUStry and dome9tic fru S alit y 

 2i*«n«0BluM Cla8ses » aud P^ces within their 

 2S ^ the w^,^, which was known to and ob- 

 &ci£2*!*!»* few years ago. The 



jir mother's throat or not ; due i num sw«e 



eipers leap out of their own mouths. This may 



^ and ; with the fact, that I ^^^^S^t^ *£$11£^ 



„ and a sort of undefined witchei ' ren / w their skin8 during 



the matter then rested, until another season brought g. J££«£ ^ appearanc ? f the old skins which I 



about the same excitement and dm. , ]n that they begin to put off 



Now it so happened that last week we bad . the reptile clears itself by 



man on the , ^oTwe'atht I 51^-^ 'fixed itself . betwLn two twigs in a 



recurred to bees, or the necessity, m sucti hot weainer, s r / ^ of v{ h met Wlth „, 



of being prepared for their swarming ; when, all un- »"»"• /J h iven rise to the belief, 



„„„„ f-om - branch of the said tree, about 7 feet from _ form of the 



1 one killed here, Cossy Park, which measured 



r knowledge, and what to do f 

 it being 



LTaS the?; I read that the bees should be swept 

 off the tree on which they hung into a hive, or, if the 

 i waTsinaM might be cutV and laid on a cloth 



TLre^ebg^cbance^of there's flying away^if not 



i* *• Si fet of whi «b has not b 

 »- ** it appea 



Irs who i 

 s in our 



^ i ported the other end, and when the cut was comple 

 bare ventured to | we together, laid it on a cloth on the Grass. The hi 



There being a chance oi tne^oeea UJU . K —«j - --- 

 speedily attended to, I determined to grapple with the 

 diffiealty myself. My wife protected my face with 

 crape, and I put on hedged gloves ; bnt^having al- 



beTg' 



put on hedger*s gloves ; ^thawing » 



The head was verj- small-contrary- to ^^{™ 

 fndta^w h ^fwas\Tttir 8 u^ris™ at finding in it 

 about two dozen eggs, some in a forward state, tor toe 

 Hmo of hatching is not till July. These were white, 

 aTd some of them as large as Kidney Beans, ofan 

 -" «,g shape; others were like Barleycorns From 

 irregularity in size we may conjecture y 



-I like Mr. Cuthiliy view 



A Mixed Floteer-ffardm.~-i. ««» »«• ^ UW ""°'T" 

 tot^GrL^utTagree with Mr. 



