THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



only planted out a week or ki 

 rence. A China Rose growing vigorously b 

 l :i to the old wood, but with thi 



urprised that the Nasturtium and Tropseolu 

 : ; ured, for I have often observ 

 light degree of frost in autumn 



Allendales suffered very mi . . 

 situations and near the rivers. I 

 trace of it in Westmoreland, i 



north-east, and I am n 

 Haydon-bridge and 1 

 ' particularly thoa 



up, and the Tobacco is left to burn out. The ac 

 the invention is exactly that of a Polmaise 

 I intend to name it " Gallier'a Fumigator." Richard 

 Gallier, West Bromwich. [This is a very good ap- 



lately to tne mere 

 by the formation 

 stating that one w 



proved entirely i 



. I have much 



ig town of Dai 

 Our subscribers, 



garden in 1847. My neighbour planted his early 



np some of them were killed down by fir 

 • leaves. This produced 



examined on the 28th of May, and 'much to 

 he found in each of these vacancies a few large Potatoes 

 I find, on inquiring of him to-day, that they were the 

 usual size of good grown tubers, perhaps 2 inches long. 

 And whilst these topless sets produced this crop, there 

 were few or none formed larger than Peas where the tops 

 had not been injured. I have heard of no disease in the 

 crop in our neighbourhood ha " 

 A. B.C., Coc 



large marquees purchased by voluntary subscripti 

 aid from the society, who have now 50/. in hand, 

 add that many of us were utterly astonished last a 



at the excellence of the vegetables that we 



produce, and particularly those under the head of prizes 



already produced a marked effect. The class 

 rewards were three, viz., gentlemen and their garde 



e town, and cottagers. R. T. Clarke, 

 , Northamptonshire. 

 Hailstones.— The accompanying sketch will give an 



3d xMay. The most frequent form was 



Lomba's plan should only 



scale. I he tops we 

 i neighbourhood two 





i until the 



y of Potatoes grown, being ch 

 sandy soil ; and it is here a generally 

 that those farmers who have had the poorest sandy 

 have been for the last few ; 



I 



mtntei' 8 ^ pla^, WS haVe 0Dly adTiSed U3 trial eXp€ri ' 



h-aps.— If I may believe nearly 



all the gardeners who have grown this Grape, it is 



which I think was sold by him some years age " 

 tfiat name at a guinea a plant. In France I h* 

 toaown it under the following names : Muscat P 

 <%™*}™^ tt as also been 



extensively cultivated in England, under the name 

 Chasselas Musque, a good Grape, but liable to en 

 Now, under your notice of the fruit exhibited July 



X a I*? n* )taBic Garden> y° u notice that Josl » 



St. Alban s Grapes were « cracked." This looks i 

 picious. If Mr. Thompson was deceived in the app< 

 ance of the fruit, when he pronounced his well So wu 

 opinion and it is really nothing but Chasselas Musque, 

 he must candidly acknowledge it, and tb> 

 paid a guinea, or half a guinea, for a Grape Vine worth 

 avethe remedy in their own hands, by 

 withholding the extra price. If, on the oil 

 really and truly a seedling Grape, so like the latter as 

 !£ni ^d^nguis hed from it under ordinary circum- 

 • veSf^^-fT e i ted that t0 ° S °^ an 



£■:,:■■;■ - ■':::■:-■ _ ;;;■.- . 



2dSi°e h of"th^pubS*%r " te " kt 



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poses implies the poSion tf m5F"**s3H 

 love for fruits and flowers. T. G CM?** »5 

 will prove to be the same sneci,, 1 ?*> l 1*2? 

 ence of soil ; the former being^if I I*** *3 

 never found on limestone, and the uSr'l^S 

 there is not limestone. I will wJ^ ""f «W 

 fact which has led me to wSSL* ° e « i «5 

 years ago I took plants of decirtM P °?" Ab «* ft 

 Cheddar cliffs, whfeh it i JS^SW* 

 and where it grows in great abnnd^^J^ 

 ttHons^ctio^ 



principally masses of quartz! ^SfZ S "^ * 

 this year (1849), I commenced bSj" tj?« 

 when returning from a visit to NortwS* I 

 brought with me roots of P. DryopteA 2?" 

 never before been introduced into Nettlaeo'Ju 

 and there took from the abovp.^^^TT 8 ? 



as 



ng, P. 



er having been introduced into the garden latS 



mg. I lately revisited Cheddar, andmSL 



supply of P. calcareum, which has been {Zy I 



Nettlecombe, and the change shall be caTefuTlTnaM 



subject, which should be accompanied with a cheatf 



analysis of the plants, would be desirable, and nft 



i to results of much scientific and perhaps mm* 



srest and importance. W. C. Trevelym, Tmntn. 



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nth in the growth of the Potato. In proporfiaa 

 weather of July is warm and dry, there will be kg 



e correct, the present crop mijbe 



iected to be comparatively free from disease, of fat 



, in consequence of the drought, its 



frequently recurred 



was shown in the Tobacco 



and chimney, which was called 

 pipe, and in which the condemns 

 It struck me then, and the idea hi 

 to me, that this Tobacco might be applied 

 purposes both in gardening and agr 

 be liberated without duty, or b? the payment of a 

 nominal one, and that without risk of fraud to the re- 

 venue, and to the exceeding satisfaction of the merchant 



hntwif 8 ^ £*' C0Bt) freightj and char 8 ea u P° nit . 

 but who finds that a total loss of these is better than 

 if this damaged 



T*!,-^ P^Mipping sheep, 



nominal duty, the merchant would probably at all times 



the D 8 imSe W tDat UdidV^* ** - f ° r - Bmoki ^' **"** 

 uses I have been suggesting ; and this substance should 

 also be very cheap and easily applied. It appears to 

 me mat tor all infusions nothing could be better than 

 sulphur, which, I think, would effectually prevent anv 

 one from smoking the Tobacco ; but this would scarcely 

 be suitable for fumigations, as the sulphureous acid 

 which would be produced would probably be injurious 

 to vegetatmn ; but in this case, or perhaps in all cases, 

 powdered ream would probably be effectual, and it is' 

 quite as cheap as flour brimstone, and would, I think be 

 quite as effictent a preventative of fraud on the revenue 

 ^here may be other impediments in the way of allowing 

 Sere not,^ ^ ' 



luite eheap 



li the stem and leaves of the plant having at&iaeJ 



full growth, the organs of secretion are in »*fc 



id ready to perform their fonetnB 



rth is sufficiently warm to permit the tuber to act ia 

 ncert with what is taking place in the leares, ifl is 

 11, and healthy maturation progresses ; but whs 

 cess of wet and cold has so cooled the soil as to f» 

 at this harmonious action, a check takes place, ai 



ease is the consequence, on the same principle u I 

 ang animal becomes unhealthy, and which is nfyij 

 d to be from growing too fast, or from being overpe* 

 ;, or, as it may be presumed to be, lrom one pan* 

 » system progressing too rapidly for the otto, i 

 :rdena; Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees, Ju ^ li \, 



tried of stripping the bark from an Oak tree a *» 

 spring, so far as it can be reached without loppm? 

 the branches, and leaving the tree standing for«7» 

 or two until the sap ceased to rise *■ 



this plan for years without being able to P^J*^ 

 one to adopt it, and the advantages ought to " fe*» 

 cover the loss of interest, and the annoyance of »JJ 

 the skeletons of trees standing in land for twoor 

 years. I think Mrs. Marcet mentions this p» 

 Vegetable Physiology. T. G., Clithero e. 



§>Qtittit*. * 



Horticultural, July 17.— F- BB ^ SDE, r fnX #■ 

 Chair. J. Brown, Esq., w ^ el f ted /n n £ H»* 

 Jones, gr. to Sir J. J. Guest, Bart., of D^ 1 ** ^ 

 Glamorganshire, showed four Queen Pine- appl^ ^ 

 swelled, well grown fruit, whose J™&*jT k +. 

 spectively as follows : 4 lbs. 5 oz., 4 lbs. \^ 



-egetalle affections ^^'Jtt^ 

 tional or local, and tne rememw Tjj e nittr» 



i injury is committed, was also 



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