THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



of ditches, old banks, turf, it you nave a comn 

 &c, and raise these up in slanting beds to tt 

 this is the best substitute for a deep soil, and 

 good drainage, &c. There are other reasons tl 

 are stated ; if you will not learn, then you 



evenings' reading of Lindley'a " Theory of ] 

 ture," or some such book (if there be any half 

 which I doubt), will tell you the reason of th 

 a number of other things. Whilst on this s 

 reading take in the Gardener*' Chronicle 



>fyour|neig 



of the things suggestec 



If your fruit trees on the walls do not look heal< 

 look to the roots and look to the draining ; do not be 



&c. If you have any doubt, even if the trees are < 



for early crops of Peas, salad, French Beans, < 

 Having well drained your border, make a platform 



not being rotten, and in this plant your trees high, 

 deep down in the soil ; mulch in the spring and wa 



mulch too deep, if you do you will prevent the heat i 

 air getting to the soil. Put no crop in the border wr. 



point, not even the being shown (as I have been) a g« 

 crop of wall fruit, with a crop of Peas or Cauliflow 



place to begin a radical" reform, very often the cast 

 propose discarding this sort of Apple or Pear, suggest i 



But if jou go to a garde: 





pies and Plums, do little 



bulbs, and after they had blossom< 

 planted out close to the front wall 

 they had no more protection th< 





ere than they 

 „ roth wall. Th 

 they were planted were about 18 inches deep, 

 in proportion, 4 feet apart, and filled up with 

 dy loam. In these hoies four bulbs were 

 : inches deep ; they were then coveret" 

 of leaf-mould in a conical form ; they rei 

 condition during the winter. As spring 

 , I stirred and removed a portion of the leaf- 



genial air. This should be done until the bulbs are 

 within 4 or 5 inches of the surface. If the weather 

 is dry and warm let them have some good waterings, 

 to encourage a rapid and strong growth of 

 the foliage. Care should be taken that no plants of tall 

 growth be planted in front of them to shade their foliage 

 from the full effect of the meridian sun, nor a leaf 

 removed until the ripening process has been fully 



the beginning of August. It was not lint 



year after planting that these bulbs flowered with me. 



They are impatient of removal, and therefore the 



: re with the general mass of bnlbs. When 

 once established they produce offsets freely and flower 

 abundantly, so much so that I have now, Oct. 10, 



stirred deeply around the bui 



their roots, and thoroughly watered with dilute manure 



: . ■ ■ 

 objection may be made again 



-d by planting 

 them in alternate patches with the Jacob* ; 

 flowers splendidly at Midsummer, and whose fine green 



JOCJJ 



the tediousneBS of the proci 

 saved if my advice be foil 



growth. Scraping or rubbin* 



be 8 bertd£r g thCE 



I think it essentia 



wa^tinTthrremedy y °Th g e' i tZ," 8 

 fully observed. They must be waVTwiK',!? ^ 

 and if very young rubbed with a bun £?«> 

 older, with a horse-hair Bcrubw . -r final*' ^ 



he'ri'V; . 

 5- Aadi 8 S 



duals once a*ted!ed getfrid of them^tUlTl" 1 ^- 

 Of this fact I can give the most pSe S^* 

 The beginning of spring and from uwJLl. 

 beginning of summer are the best seasons ifa toS 

 Sp. a8 oL th mL7rled a M«i5iS^ 



the tree thus treated had not only become q n ite fa 

 from all leprosy, but had increased a (nil I Teh 

 diameter, a growth far beyond that of any similar tn^ 

 around. Let no one be afraid of any injury toT 

 plant by any excoriations caused by the operation on'* 

 they are numerous and deep they are of no accoT 

 They soon heal ai " " 

 Third Species 



igus-Lmrost. - Those plus 

 their trunks generally show 

 ses, and particularly of old age. 



Narcissus, white Lili 



■ 

 the cook vill have forced ._ e 

 Spinach and a Cucumber for 



l going to 

 a radical r 



egetables, and a dish i 



pienty of dung or oti 

 it, and plenty of labour, but do 

 ■ profess impossibilities. If your mas 



mend all young garden, 



* in the garden a 



BELLADONNA LILY. 



it maladies by those who have occ 

 emselves with vegetable pathology. It appears 



A <<r ij ,i. rruis of trees, herbs, or leaves, which very j 



This has d 



plants wh; 



>er the epidermis, but the union of 



umber of years, and formed a head 

 isures. Through these fissures the we 

 , which is a dead s 



lot but suffer from t 



Moss Leprosy. — 







e or another Crypt 

 leaves. One kind of mould is known to 

 iderside of the leaves of com, or even at 

 he ear after a rain of several days, Hate 

 ■. • .■ il .p. J jacinths aro much eubjc* 

 they have supplied me with data in eon- 

 • ,„ of leprosy. Ibe 



ily to the appearance of the mould, 

 pecies of leprosy migh 



ases as much as possible, in order to excite 

 ition in their investiga 



The greater pi 

 lanor, read a ] 

 On a Series of 'Morphologic 



■ -;■-' 



nens were ° bseI ™\2 



mir\oexpi r ain U thedn*' 



/' linns of this to** 



\/B: 



8 U will rapidly accum^e 

 Some genera, ^^^r 





off every 



i this Lily produces whei 



year. The operation is indeed long at 

 j vented by these little plants from duly peri . 



