THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



Home Correspondence. 



Victoria regia at Chatsu-orlh. -Thin very extr 

 rlinarv South American Water-lily, which occupi 

 large tank, built for the purpose, in one of the stov< 



CJfi-e finning Wad and Espalier Ervi'-trrr* 

 When I came here (Mayen House) in 1815 I fo 

 that the Apple, Pear, and Plum-trees, on walls 

 espaliers, had been allowed to extend their fruit-sp 





f the old straggling spurs close down 

 leaving the others untouched, with 



?:;;, 



ppljing more nourishm< 



. :■.:■.• fdin : 



a few Apples on the first pruned 





temperature by being at such a distance 



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'alker, Mayen, Banffshire, N.B. 



> mealy bug on plants, which was advertised 



W. Masters. [Nos. 4 and 5 are merely in tha 

 which we so often see, but the ca 



rhe best analogy to this case 

 •- in •! ; Wheat-ear Carnation]. 



Car inns Experiment with Bees.— About ten days 

 since, one of my apiarian friends in Bin:'! 

 to inform me that, from the languid and inactive ap- 

 pearance of one of his bee stocks, he had every reason 

 vn lost its queen, and being a 

 hive upon which he set a high value, he begged that I 



appealed to, I proceeded last Tuesday #eek 



. from a hive, 

 ' nded to have been destroy 

 St. iv. With some difficulty I succeeded b 



300 miles h 

 arrived in perfect safety, but has since t 



t she not only 



symptom of lazy gardening." I am not myself 

 plants are infested with mealy bug. 'iMd the writ* 

 ever experience the difficulty of freeing a miscellan( 



■Some years ago I produced a 



moving it wr. 



race of seedl. 

 habit aud bi 



this race has perpetuated itself for years by seeds, and 

 produced many pretty semi-double and occasionally 

 double flowers of great beauty. la nearly all, the deep 

 velvet crimson colour is remarkable, but if, 

 this year a deviation has taken place from the ordinary 

 I the plant would have been pronounced a 

 different epec.ee by persons not knowing its history. 



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a, seedling with marked distinction of inflorescence and 

 iZ ui A Cd y *' • iT not know that 1 should have 



of my own hives. T. W. W., Exeter, 

 m Constantinople to the II- 



i so pronounced. Such a Grape vi 

 > our Vineries, and if any reader oi tne uaraeners 

 'hroniele has a friend or a correspondent at Constanti- 

 ople it might easily be introduced. W. 



arsons interested in this subject to stock these with 



; present contain. But they must be living bodies ; 

 ow but sure workers, and natural purifiers. Let 

 rery graveyard be well stocked with ants ; they delight 



a dry residence, but they descend to the ^tore-rooms 

 i perform their work, and I have not found the guano 

 ley produce to be offensive. Ignoramus. 



Potato Disease. — Almost every number of your 

 urnal confirms the opinion that to escape the Potato 

 sease, dryness of the soil should be carefully attended 



■owing the crops on hillocks, or elevated ridge. My 

 vn experience verifies the utility of the latter of these 

 'o methods. When the crops on my allotment farm 



rat were planted on the same day in February, 

 ets taken from the same heap of Regeins, and the 

 soon after with an early growing Potato, re- 



crop in this district h 



JNovj 3, 



'cabling tho Regent in 



)t, and more early in attaining n 



xfordshire the name of Early Ball. Thus far then 



?sults. But the first crop was planted very shal 

 id moulded up by the plough with deep trenches, 

 ottoms of which were generally below the tubers ; 

 second was planted deep, and slightly moulded up with 

 the hoe, and the last was not moulded up at all. I con- 

 >n the heavy low soil was really 

 I thus escaped the rot. m 

 Potatoes accidentally le 



J > 'ept growing on without producing blossoms : 

 ned from seedling <5 som^^^^I c£em 

 worthy a passing notice. Indeed> ^ anomaly 



by 4.569 ins. 1 



presumed, past dispute, whence is the e i 



by which the quantity carried off in floods 



and from which the perennial supply of springs and 



readers furnish the solution of this difficulty 1 J. H. S. 

 I find many holes made in the ground 

 ("sometimes in brown earth, sometimes in 

 the earth scratched outwards, and exac- 



sratched out ? They are mostly on 

 Potatoes in Aberdeenshire.— I had 



!,<■♦ , y CS ? general and less destructive th»n ;. 

 last year. In its progress, however, it r J *^lLi n, 

 tended with some peculiarities, which tnavh* * 



mentioned to you thatj at the time ^h^ *" * 

 disease was spreading, iu 1846, we had I "?* 

 h den , Se , fogs '. f o llowe d by sultry heat. This ) ^** 

 mo" d'nse" P'Ton^eftSnS.^t^ 

 from the south or south-east, but rising oJJSSS 

 the west, and accompanied by a very perceptiR? 

 phury smell. As the season was unusually Z J.S 

 the Potatoes remained apparently free from uint 2* 

 greater length of time than they did last yearl ' 

 plot at the bottom of my garden, to which ™ .7*? 

 manure had been given for several years. and^S 

 had been prepared with only a small addition of »«Z 

 table compost, the foliage of the plants showed so • 

 dications of blight towards the end of Jnly, «? £ 

 tubers were found to be partially diseased ; latin ti 

 other plots they continued sound, and with th* «u.«! 

 aud foliage entire, till the end of August, when, i JJ 

 by a foggy and sultry' day, the whole ^ fit? 

 rows in one of those plots, which had been plated 

 with a kind known here under the name of the Earl* 

 Manley were completely blighted. Till about thia tij 

 the foliage of the plants raised from the seed we 

 obtained from New Zealand showed little sien of 



year were the soundest, such as the Irish Caps and the 

 Regents, have this year been the first affected. On the 

 ot; or 1 ■ '. the Long Blues, which last year were more 

 or less diseased, are this year nearly all sound. In a 

 small crop of them, grown in a gravelly soil, I did not 

 find one tainted. You know my adherence to the 

 atmospherical theory of the disorder. I have had a 

 proof confirmatory of it, though on a small scale. Last 

 year the tubers obtained from the sets procured from 

 Bermuda were among the most diseased. This year 

 there happened to be a single plant of the Bermuda 

 Potato in a corner of my garden, which was much 

 shaded by the bushes around. Of this plant, the stem 

 and foliage remained green and vigorous after the haulm 

 of all the other Potatoes in the garden was decayed; 



fectly sound. A. II., Aberdeen, Oct. 24. 



Tenacity of Vegetable Life.— There is at present, on 

 a road-side on the estate of Mayen, in Banffshire, N.R, 

 an Ash tree (some 30 or 40 years of age), which had 



stripped of bark ; all round the stem, from near its base 

 nark or any tissue by which the sap could ascend or de- 

 icend. The lowermost edge of the bark on the stem ha* 



.-fluid; but by what means is 

 ipplied with nourishment ' r " 

 pally from the atmosphere. . 

 •• [Why no. 



ien, Banffshire. [Why not through the wood I] 

 'alia wthiopica has lived through the three hit 

 era without protection, planted in the water ot a 



should sayprinet. 

 , -jom the atmosphere. A. W 



protection, planted i 



.ill-pond, and flowers and seeds profusely every year. 



The pond is only about half a mile from the sprrngf, 



and E, never frozen g-^ «^ \Sn .T^ 



( Potato Disecae ?-&** 





case. Last year I had the g: 

 manured with guano ; all 

 hen many of 



ft«Uc»toJ ? Jta|J- 



3k 



kaTeTon the^hornT immediately °' OT JJ%jSJi 

 for a few feet round, were all blackened and,* , 



they fell off. Has any one else observed sow ^ 

 A.Walker, Gardener, Mayen, Banffshire,*- ^ 

 this shows that guano is too_ J^f^ ft *«* 

 Iafl i of 



opinion that, if this subject is t«'y --^ «Dod- 



ig tne bore to be prove beneficial to both parties. I •'- 



. not see how he man » in what he says respecting the nectfertj ^ 



; by backing out. Can any one printed li,ts struck off for the g"^^ into *• 



* wherefore, these holes are what vegetables and fruits he takes or j ^ 



•anks, not on the I house. I have been in oituationo m>«*« ^1 



taken vegetables and fruits in m ®^u° m rvH>*l 



loped to be able I used in general to supply them in » ^ e** 



year, the Potato j about 10 o'clock ; in a short tune alter 



