THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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L A !!Xwn plan of suspending pieces 'of tin plate 

 £S* cords stretched across his plots of Peas, 

 SSjftom the ground, is the best « scare-sparrow he 



5Jp«5ta" D Jackson'7 Squire" T row, Pu°xle j'^bertaT, 

 ffiiffi' Antral' Curzop/Wakefietd^ Paul Try, "simpTon's 



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cliance of growing plants successfully 



suitable for a town garden. I intend 



ardian case on it, and try my skill is 



pleasant art of Horticulture." " Oh," says Sir. A-, 



olis. Mr. 

 oofed house very suitable 

 j place a large Wardian 



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 1 Library. 



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h For top of a hiU » backed b y an amphitheatre of mountains 



>llcutt's I Here she spent some years in what seems very like 



iVilham i seclusion, amusing herself with native servants, and 



I listening at nights to the roar of 



^■essantly sweep round the pin- 



d which her mountain home was perched. In 



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itself. This is a large odd-looking sub- 





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I Mr. B., relying on his fri 



all idea of plaut growing, 

 in seen Messrs. Wrench's 



1 beauty," and that by 



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it down, dis- 

 Fairy Rosea, Cycla- 



effected (for it is kept gay with Hyacinths, Geraniums, 

 Fairy Roses, Phloxes, &c, all the year round) is only 

 12 feet long, 9 feet wide, and about 1<> feet hi K h, span- 

 roofed, and heated by a single row of 4-inch iron 



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Stafta^ S p aFPe ' S El ' uiscetniblft. It exactly resembles, 



Coott., Cox'l Reeina 110 ^,^ Fr^T* fresh green Peas, and in that state is oftei 



Un^ Holloway wiu * pickle; but when boiled has a far 



fj*, Emma, Mrs. Bevan, G, rour than a common Cabbage." 



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" One of the commonest trees of the negro garuens is 

 the Pawpaw ; it is of rapid growth, and has a very 

 slight spongy trunk, ringed like that of the Palm. The 

 fruit, which when ripe is of a bright yellow, or rather 

 orange colour, and about three times as large as a swan's 

 egg, is attached by short footstalks to the stem itself, 

 round which it clusters very thickly. Europeans eat 

 it with black pepper and salt, but 1 do no; tli ,.,. it at a ' 

 good, and fancy it has a poisonous taste. Indeed pre- 

 viously to being placed on table, incisions are made m 

 the rind to allow the escape of a glutinous and milky 



The gleaner of facts relating to the uses of plants will 

 find many such details as these. Of ££j£g*g£ * e 



• In the evening we proceeded along the level path, 



land, Squire «eyn e », 



KS * lb *«. BrutL ' tactl * like a Str ° n ? bUt thin StUff 



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thought of making it. Whoever fias once see 



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"g Wel\hf 'ton' I crossin I each . 0ther m th 



. u thatch, and in p 



houses, now that glass is cheap, will spring up in quarter! 

 I where they might have been least expected. With 1 

 little attention such houses might be kept gay nearlj 

 all the year through, as the one in question is. Durinj 



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 might be had in flower. Ttien Cinerarias * 

 goniums would keep up the d 



Miscellaneous. 



Insects Injurious to Onhds.-lrx building an Orehid- 



hoSS oTsuch pests "as'the cockroach, or even of keeo- 



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the greatest enemy to Orchids, only feeds by night, or 



in the dark ; he frequently finds his way into the in- 



food is chiefly the tender point* |« e "yjJJ* 

 e*insect will do in one night, for if the points of the 



tie success, for he c< 



nee that the only way to destroy, or at least to 

 ich pests from doing any great damage, u to 

 itly look after them every evening after dark, 



oTromSutepi T he wood- 



sy easily b. 

 I nu> dark and damp corners, 

 or they may I, Kf» 



the Burface of the pots. As they feed in the daytune 

 as well as at night, they are easily destr 



