THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[ Correspondence. 



England. Four specimen; 



pfott 10 



ceived by tiie xMessrs. Maine anu ouu, .« mc ^^ 1J1C , 

 road Nurseries, near Bristol, about 18 months su 

 in rather a doubtful state, but they soon recovered, 



permanent establishment in this country may be * 



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 [We have] 



TrwisniatUing large Cedars 



.—I have recently trans 



Lebanon, irom w to 20 

 very wide spreading boughs, and I have 

 moving it almost uninjured. You may 

 form an opinion as to its size and weight 



I moved. Some of my neigh- 

 bours kooou : manure to the 

 roots, either ft ,-nano water, or 



a garden-engine. Will you do me the favour to state 

 how you consider it should be treated? It has been 

 transplanted about a fortnight into a p« 



quantity of good light earth was put about 



... [Use no manure. Water 



KtfoS!] tyear,lflt8r0W8 ' Sandand eave8are 



The Plan for "Economy in Healing? suggested by 

 M G. F., Aigburth," appears to me, as I 

 understand it, so likely to be of general ul 



' ' onferring a great boon upon 

 F, from the high price of coals, 



i;o situation ot tne damper, 

 and a fuller d< for clearing the 



pipe by a "••■■ v.ched to round 



sera; rs, ' &c. &c. F. W. T., Cheshire. 



many years I have adopted 



storing my Potatoes 



pis or cave, wnen 1 cover 



and finish with earth. At the sides and the top I place 

 the length of the store, more or less, three 

 ling them through the earth 

 into the pit, so as to allow the free escape of heated air, 

 and the result has been perfectly satisfactory. Last 

 year my neighbour and myself had a field of Pote 

 | the whole were of the same sort, 

 taken up at the same time ; but he not adopting 

 use of the pipes, but covering up the Potatoes clo 

 as he said, to secure them from frost, found then 

 opening the pi', entire!; ] /. d, whil t mine 

 perfect. I do not mention this as a discovery, but 

 precaution which is too often neglected, and the P( 



Calla cethiopica.—ln 1833 one was placed in a small 

 iek s;old and silver fish were kept, and where 

 a jet was playing duriug summer an J 1 

 gardens at Castle Semple, Renfrewshire, N.B., and it 

 grew and flowered beam.:-.. 



threw up seven flowering stems. It received no pro- 

 tectum except what the cold water afforded. J. Hardie. 

 lathing in the Calla which rei 

 J or one person who succeeds in growing 

 it in an open pond, twenty fail. We should like to hear 

 the opinion of men of experience in regard to this 

 common and beautiful plant.] 



The Chaumonlelle Ptfar.~Tb.ere seems to be a com- 

 mon fallacy t ' Pear in rf 

 faon in the British Isles is useless. No* . 

 Of this error, permit me to h 



gathered the crops from off a tree of 16 years' growth 

 <trauied against the wall of my house, and having a 

 -M. IS. W. aspect), consisting of six dozen of fine Pears 

 averaging a full 8 ounces each Pear, but out of this 

 number the six largest weighed 4 lbs. 15 ounces, and 

 the heaviest of that six was a full pou 

 course I cannot yet speak of the flavour, but they are 

 almost without exception well grown healthy fruit. A 

 Subscriber, Lyme Regis, Dorset, November 1. [We 



oe true lor very obvious reasons.! 



Effect of Light on Vegetation. -For some time past 

 wehave been making a fe-., 

 and we would recommend the study to t r 

 *rright trees in their woods. There \ 



rs, that will sooner run the risk of losing 

 S offte dedduou^rees wi/l seeT^o™ 1 " ' 



strongest. ' It?s no'uncom! 

 meet with a healthy Spruce Fir planted 



West Plean, I 





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it is in good health, there are 12 more young shoots 

 ii the main stem. IV. W., Newport, Isle 

 " • L 

 dag experiment has proved 

 but it may have been on too limited a BQaU 



in all cases be a remedy for 



the disease. On the 10th of June I potted some 



« Shaws," and plunged them in a bed of decayed leaves 



and as soon as the tops were far enough 



. < 



the 10th of August they were sufficiently rooted to be 



1 good balls and planted on a south border. 



, they did not 

 hing else was 

 aid keeping off 



last "week, when the yield wa 

 all, 24 plants. The tubers 



ivere perfectly free from 

 ut very small, averaging about the size of a 

 I think that if I had potted the Potatoes 

 id got the layers out in good time, the yield 



te ripe. Two rows, 40 yards long, treated 

 to Mr. Tombelle Lomba's plan, were not 

 from disease than others in the same field, 



5 Fox's seedlings, an excellent Potato. The 

 Is a stiff cold clay, and the disease has been 

 ./. L. Middlemls. 



Bentham Hill, Tonbt 



idge Wells. 



■ 



of becoming firm. Take off small shoots, put them in 



in a rather moist stove. As soon as they ai 



*B to a front shelf, where 

 tight. They will show flower 



, 



nd in the Catalogue of Vines, under the head "Syrian," 

 1 following remark : " Huetius informs us that Crete, 

 ios, and other islands in the Archipelago, afford 

 iches sometimes of 40 lbs. weight. . 

 . Speechley grew a bunch of 19± lbs." Now as Mr. 

 >ert Smith does not appear to possess much know- 



Royal Botanic Society. — Having observed among 

 ur " Answers to Correspondents," in last week's Gar- 

 ners' Chronicle, an intimation (couched in the most 

 justifiable language) that the accounts of the Royal 



im!;_' ' ■ 1, 

 anniversary 



; et ! 



is usual printed a short time after the 



ig, and delivered to every Fellow of 



applied for it. As the editor of a 



that you should venture to 



of misleading 



I of referring them to the quarter where 



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Iy say that a Fellow of the Royal Botanic 



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 cure his copy of these papers. Will Mr. 

 Sowerby favour us with a copy ?] 





Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, 

 specimen of the rare Oncidium ob 

 prettiest of the small bright yellow flowe*^'- ° De °* *• 

 toglossum grande and Bictonense • vari r ' 0dfl * 

 among which was the rarely seea ' C . p i l f^ 

 species with lilac flowers, havine a &£*?*$ a dn * 

 the point of the labellum ; Dendrobium KS 8p0t * 

 orange-flowered Epidendrum vitellinum- th\ *■ 

 violet-blossomed Miltonia spectabiiis • L r ^ 

 scented Houlettia Brocklehurstiana ; Oncidi,,!^ 

 keri, ahandsomelargeyellow-lippedkbd C nebu l^ 

 and the pale salmon-coloured CalanuV T5? 

 goides. A Knightian Medal was awarded fo^ 

 but more especially for the Oncidium b& 

 turn.— From Mrs. Lawrence's garden at Ear" 

 park, came a small group of Orchids, comknVT 3 ) 

 two new Cyenoches, one with wl 

 with yellow flowers, the latter covered with small bS 

 brown spots ; also the Gongcra-ii 1 

 turn a good specimen of Cymbidium faS£ 



Cvmh dilim K nenso A Ttantcior. M 



Forbesii. — From Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-mcii* 

 place, came one of the Feather G: 

 elegantissima), and a handsome h : 

 by Mr. Anderson, of Maryfield, near Edinburgh, between 



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Andersonii. The flower-spikes are 



. 

 while the foliage is just intermediate between the two 

 When the blossoms first appear they are violet, but thej 

 gradually change to white. In the plant exhibited, one 

 half of the spike was white and the oil r\ tt, pro- 

 ducing a charming contrast. It forms a valuable addition 

 to autumnal flowering plants. A Certificate of Merit 

 was awarded it. — Mr. Ivison, gr. to the Duchea 

 Dowager of Northumberland, produced a white-flowered 



for which a Certificate of Merit was awarded. It w»s 



coloured mace which covers the seeds— the Isutmegi 

 of the shops. Before they split they look not unlik 

 middle-sized Peach 

 Various Pine a] 

 highly creditable t 



ribited, all of them 

 though they were of 

 unequal merit. The best came from Mr. George, p. 

 to W. Long, Esq., M.P., Rood Ashton, Trowbridge, 

 V\'i ts. These consisted of two well swelled fruit of the 

 old Queen, one 6 lbs. 4 oz., the other 5 lbs. 10 oz. The 

 first of these was awarded a Banksian Medal. Two 



past their best, were sent by Mr. Bundy, gr., Dynevor 

 Castle, Llandilo. They weighed 5 lbs. 5 oz. and 

 4 lbs. 7 oz. They were stated to have been raised ob 

 the Polmaise system of heating, and not to have been 

 exhibited as extraordinary specimens of growth, but to 

 show that good Pine-apples can be produced as wdl by 

 by any r^" " 



iundy stated that if they ha 

 ueens, he had n 



system, planted out in the bed. The two irunsnw" 

 re been grown upon single plants, by 

 which is meant that one sucker only had been W* 

 on the stool instead of two, which is Mr. Bandy', 

 practice in order that he may obtain a large suppij 

 of fruit. - Mr. Bray, gr. to C J*«jM5 



, Bart., Coleorton-hall, WO- 

 ', Starch-green, Ham- 



Esq., of Bishop' 



of Muscatof Alexandria and Black J*"^ 



j Nov. 6.— E. Bbande, Esq., in the 

 chair. A paper was read from H. Dobree, Esq., of 

 Bean Segour, Guernsey. It stated that at the last 

 Guernsey fruit show a Chaumontel Pear of perfect 

 shape, and of the remarkable weight of albs. 4*oz. 

 English weight, was exhibil 



Some years ago Mr. Dob; 

 a Chaumontel 1 weight of 1 lb. 



13* oz. English nest which had 



hitherto been produced in the Channel islands. The 

 Pear produced by Mr. Corbin grew on a Quince stock, 

 d means were employed to increase the 

 I be tree. The soil is a deep strong brown 

 loam, which is occasionally manured.— Among subjects 

 a nice collection of Oi 



rood irUH, W»B«-S -~r „ jr 



are very favourably Bf*«» 

 f h P v are even better «■ 

 y=ear "ha^hey wer^ 7 VeT Thf Black BJ^J 

 hibited were well swelled and coloured, andu^. IJJJ 

 were quite ripe, large, and fine. A £ ^^ 



Sficate 6 of Merit ^Is awarded ^\^gUA 

 an open-flued wall. ^^^ the bit* * 

 SS'-jffSei ^^^ M 67 "l^JJ^g 

 high 5 laTyeark'produre 3 ^ !^ 00 ^°"^ O ttt S* 1 

 l° P aL q t^ed b To C h e ave doubled its size to** 



betmgS^^^^^^ 



aptrt ? The young shoots grow the h«ght 



