J^ent Hewhc 

 ^lj recognise the 

 He causes of this 



no difficulty in roc 



jTbe explained below. When any portions are { 

 «far as to be quite incapable of vegetation they r 

 The scarcity or bad quality of nutriment is the sec 

 (tflilive, although starved, a plen 



■■■ 

 J observing, even in gardei 



when the month of April has been 



Jday coming on extraordinarily dry, they begi 



that the roots may remain in a medium of considerable 

 heat, whilst the leaves are suddenly surrounded by an 

 itooephere cooled down to a much lower degree. The 



?«aker, whilst the roots continue to supply it as before. 

 That this is really the case I am convinced by the ob- 

 Kmnon I have frequently made of the effect upon 



• ; r; n in spring, when the genial warmth of that 

 kuoq is suddenly interrupted by an extraordinary 

 cold. Not that the young branches die, nor are the 

 buds lost, but after the attack of cold the branches 

 Ingush for some time, lose their deep green, and grow 



Third Species. Cladipodistrophy, or starvation of 

 blower part of the plant.— This disease is not fre- 

 pent I have indeed never seen it but in some dwarf 



- . •-. ...■ - .-:■;..-::•, ... ;. - 



ftw used for the cure of the 

 Ftnth Species. Distuophy of the Graft, that is, 



• papd subjects, when the sap is not so distributed 

 « to feed equally the slock and the graft, so thai 



Whoever transgresses the fundamental law for insur- 

 ag the success of a graft, by neglecting the absolute 

 K*ssity of only joining such plants as bear the most 

 Seiaffl * t0 eadl ° thfr in Lytl ' y l '''" l ' " iU *"' hU 



THE GARDENERS* CHRONICLE. 565 



I regret not having many cases to bring forward within appearance the old Tigridia (Ferraria)'p 



my own experience. I only once saw it very success- having been in flower lor a fortnight or three weeks, 



was much more vigorous below than above the graft. I the petals being fine yellow spotted with crimson. They 



" tree, but it was aged ; no | are doing exactly the same this year, after having been 



jr for about a fortnight. Can an explanation of 



entioned the three-pronged fork (page 518), is 

 i poor "half- pay," who has an 



•war or less nourished than the other, the whole plant 

 ^shortly perish. At the point of 



SigUtf S> fr7 r uTt d owurrenc^ h0 r e '""?' "f 

 wadenng the way in which grafts are commonly made 

 some persons. If the graft is properly made, the 

 « JH not occur ; but when trees show symptoms of 

 vji remedy must be applied. And here I would ob- 

 wat it may happen, though rarely, that two trees 

 ^oBited, although they may have the strictest 

 r»gy with each other, mav vet show distrnnhv of 



a** 



within my own observation. If the 

 id, the remedy I propose will be of no 



ing the course of the' sap. This wilf be 

 anner already detailed, by making some 

 two or three inches long, in the trunk, 

 or even the roots. These will always be 



P^ofthetruSfwrn 

 "the sap is mad 



produced in drawing 



^ to IhT &Te , . made in *«« roots, attention si 



I by the old age ot tlie 

 of vegetation. For f 



Eoger Chabot. 



VILLA. AND SUBURBAN GARDENING. 



It is scarcely possible to find a more imposing 



autumnal plant than the Hollyhock, or one having the 



power of producing, under a variety of circumstances, 



ceous plant into the shade; Ea fat, 



it in the gardens of a few. 1 ha.! 



Lr,th..D..l 



irban garden, the pro- 



i plant; cooMqna 



ment of these plants, exhibiting endless variety of 

 colour, and perfectly double. His neighbours, who 



which he continued to cultivate through good report 





>m its legitimate and proper 

 *Hollyhockw a highly C 



lours, are unapproached by any autumu plant in 



The Hollyhock may be propagated either by seed or 

 division of the roots, without the assistance of glass 

 other protection ; the seed may be sown any 



garden, in shallow drills, after the manner of Parsnips, 

 d finally transplanted into the border or bed in 

 tumn. 'Managed thus th. v will flower profns.lv the 

 lowing season. The effect of a line of Hollyhocks by 

 j side of a walk is extremely grand. A mass of them 

 scarcely less imposing. In fact, it is the only her- 



admitted amongst shrubs ; its stately form contri- 

 buting a new character to a limited landscape. In order 

 increase the finer varieties, the roots may be divided 



.ssification is too arbitrary and uncertain to satis 



iced from the absence of any del 



;e classification is the want of an easy and ready r 



auty of a Rose which he sees, and he learns i 



me ; or some Rose is recommended by name to hirr 



...w is he to find it out in the catalogues as now a 



ranged \ Only by wading through each classified div 



i case is an alp: 



d arrangement, if it be though 



The Aphis of the Lettuce Root (see p. 548).— Y 

 respondent " J. O. W." speaks of this as bein 

 w insect plague, but I can assure him that it if 

 ;h thing. I have known it to affect Lettuces in 

 ,y described by Mr. Shurleck in the months 



of it in autumn. My 

 r Park, Sept. 3. 



s " Addio" could give « Timoth. us " (tor ] find 



use of "liquid manure, for the accounts I hav 



v so ■!;!!■ -i , iit and contradictory, that I am quit 

 lark. I have placed a pump in a tank in m 



judged by the odour, it is good stuff. 1 do not think i 

 had the good effect (when applied to Cabbages, &c, 



used. In one way, I hope to make it useful ; fc 

 having collected a large heap of weeds, I intend to tur 



the fluid to each layer. Is it rec< mmended to use limi 

 and ought it to be slaked or unslaked ? Timotheus. 



large adder, lying nearly at full length in a Furze bush 



en shed. But if a Sussex correspondent wi 

 have the goodness to send me by post the snake's s,ki 

 which he kindly offered, that will enable m«- to eon. par 

 '" >, and by that means I may be able to judge nioi 



Camphorated 9j I 



rits for cleaning 

 happy to afford " X." o 



correspondent's service any hour 

 " " "' need not trouble himself tc 



h. Veritas. 



Dentifrice.— The following is 



pped bottle. When salmon fishing, i 



antiseptic, astringent, 



:h more therapeutic in its properties than any \ 

 ition of opium, brandy, ammonia, or other prescri 



'>■*■. <;f ".?■;.-. . *k.^i.. 



ifif six were required; and when it is 



trial the grower has 20 or 



30 plants to cut • rj bad, and not 



worth growing, will nevertheless yield three blooms out 



5 Specimen f!onto?-The Leamington exhibition was 



remarkable for one excellent regulation. The com- 



rized the judges to award specimen prizes 



■ • '• r ' 



painful necessity of placing two or three 



plants of equal merit above or below each other. It 



was found tow- ; am schedule, 



-• week for the 26th September, has the 



Growing Flowers near London.— The three first 



