THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[Aug. 



ground, are concentrated in one bulb, instead of being 

 and as the seed is so easily obtained, it ma 

 are sold by weight, by which modi- th- 



ick, even although the ceils were 

 jolony. J. Wighton. 

 „ v/ , ... Orchards.— I find an idea prevail 

 ;, J neighbourhood that Apple orchards are rend< 



t>r is it altogether a prejudice \ 



b much understated his c 



i Beet.— I have just read i 



apiary, I hedged of a lady apiar 



Twenty Hardy Plants for a Rockery. 









empty prepared cottage hive, of the same size, over 

 full one | a sheet was next thrown over the win 



•■-, just :\\»>v>; 1 ■•.■'.. ■■-, an.) at the j.. hit ,,t ju 



of the two hives, t 

 >iag lightly, but briskly, on the sid 



FthfwvSwd 





Flanders Spinach, new <>; 

 Corn Salad, hardy winter black seeded brown Cos 

 iy Hammersmith Cabbage ditto, and 





tan off with No. 1 



with a little sulphui 



My Polmaise Pits answer capitally in~eW^ 



• my gardener cannot sue* 



Melons. Both last year and this, no U>T~L. ■ r* 



the Melons were most promising, but ieTcam^ 



red spider, and all was over. It is difficult to get* * 



on-Wyre, Garstang. [If' you'can^ob^auffieW 

 moisture by the usual plan of sprinkii- 



surface of the beds moist, &c & , we !£& 



""' 

 * i aviary attached 



>us, the young birds have died whe/ baJf 

 fledged, either from the old birds neglecting to fe^j 

 them, or from some epidemic disease. I should like to 



nches. The < 



rather distinguished by its thicker and more rigid tex- 

 ture than by any decided specific character. In the 

 locality before alluded to (see p. 502), every degree of 

 size and rigidity occurs, some perfectly rigid and neatly 



ing ; the former occupying ehady situations, while the 





i popular form, is of no practical use whatever. We 











in two, on the ground ; I 



Bide of it about lialf an inch* from The ground 3 wit^a 



the' hive, and the 







Q. F., Tunbridge Wetls 



taken off after a 





e it was suffered 



variety growing in a fie 



ck the following 



F.X. 





Six Hardy Aquatic < 





nymphseoides, Nuphar 1 



m t h T te one 



fimbriata, Nymphrea alba 



Chalking Lawns — I should say that the chalk should 

 on the surface, say on 

 ly be procured from a distance), not 



S?h !e K^L beU ^r &lready ! in ^ es loD S»«"i glistening Husbandry," published under the sni 

 SSTS^ntrSL'STi tnrclS an'fin tie * ^ZswlTh.-LtTlo 



, from vol. i., " British 

 the superin 



of Useful 





S£ 



i,Holtoway. insure esoap. Belfait, Aug. «r- - ^J 



f gardening may Mm -!f fj/way. Ther^ b, 



riant crop was entirely destroyed ; land »!^ ***? 



