THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



port for their peaceful 



Alas ! how will they 



deficiency of light is the actual cause, 

 case in point. A plant of Inga pul- 



character, and glazed with \ 



■fed ripened its seed, fron 

 | plants were procured. No particula] 



Of light enabling it 1 

 fluids necessary for th 



From an absence of 

 the foliage of plants becomes flaccid, the stems e 

 gated and etiolated, and as a natural consequence 

 perfectly organised. Now it is a physiological i 

 admitting of no exception,- that an imperfectly or; 



such are produced at all ; and it is equal 



plant making and maturing its wood under unfavour- 



^ell coloured. The final results, therefore, 

 ormed upon this principle, and with these 



spondents say 

 inderstood, admit of neither Question or doubt, provided j who have beei 

 to. Pharo. 



who have been longer at work than I h' 

 more ample means, may be kind enough to ri~V?S 

 of shrubs particularly evergreen ones, thaiwHM;! ^ 

 a town A comparison of results would b»Ui.'i.? 



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of broad webbing passing round the loin*, ,, k J ™* ™> \ 



the ends attached to the handle of the cultivator. The these to supply my own garden, and have a £ w T, ° f 



belt is kept in its place by being suspended from the neighbour ? I have a two-light frame «?„* v - , for * 



follows'that good 



operations, however trivial they may appeal 

 rive much assistance from being performed i 

 mce with recognised principles of scientific de 

 . I always endeavour to impress upon th 



subject again in my next paper. G. 



VILLA AND SUBURBAN GARDENING. 



If the amateur gardener was to consult half 



authorities which have written upon the Vine, and 



let it be kept constantly in 



i only are required— diligence and application are 

 valuable than far-fetched recipe 



JKTST 





Select such as is 

 be as full of fibre 

 r is of much im- 



Btate, but between the two conditions ; procure, also, 



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not t0 nl ° r tW °f th Cru8 , h ' ed bones Wllt do * ood - The se 



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been got together, commence buildine them into » 

 * *fcet.Iavin, 



mtoached for i 



ugh state to the 1 



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by throwing upon it the weight of the body ; without 

 and hands. _ My tenants were, during the hoeing time, 



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eighbour ? I have a two-light frame, set on briaVLl 

 flue, but I find it difficult to keen he fiK 

 urning, and I contemplate ei 



ImokTflue's^and^houirb 



water pipes or tanks would not be°b5ST 



jmore expensive at first ; and also whether 



alternately. One of 1 





giving his land these intervening stirrings. My own 

 crops upon which it was tried were Wheat, Carrots, 

 Potatoes, and Cabbages. It was of great « 

 and was thought to have hastened the mat 



[No doubt the cul- 



arrning of Bees.— In youi 

 mber, « C. C. M.» replies 



ees, whom he considered "shelved." Both agree 

 he cause of bees swarming is a provision of " an 



id their usual feeding places, or what is termed a 

 s flight "—a distance not well defined. By some 

 been limited to 2\ miles, while Huish records an 

 ice of his having seen bees on the Isle of May, on 



the Fifeshire coast, 'is distant about 4£ miles-a 

 ice surely sufficient to satisfy « C. C. M.» As to 



ipecial pains to tether it to the ground." Now, it is 

 le first swarms that usually take these flights, and 

 l cases there is little or no chance of « teth< 

 es by putting them into a f suitable hiv. 

 they will soon quit it and follow their scouts, aire 



is so well established as to need no further com 

 and u N i inlly necessary to observe that sw^rn 

 they first alight. I may, however, remind « C. I 



thinking of hot water, viz., t] 

 g part of the hoi 

 )th purposes ; f( 

 ng of the house— I < 



r or the rooms, and therefore 

 . sma^U greenhouse, again* 



t of enl argement. Amongst your many 



vn, and who would not grudge to let 

 )y their experience. If I mistake not 



f glass, and the increased ( 



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word deduction, and not a sense deduction, from the old 

 maxim, that whatever is annexed to the freehold cannot 

 be separated from it. One by one common sense has 

 wrung from our lawyers a relaxation of thfc 

 and there needs but a temperate discussion of the 

 the columns of a journal like the Gardeners* 



by whom yoiv 



Paper is taken, I do not 



enough to step forward 





Dunbar, and Bevan 



queen bee in reply to mvself, in Loudon's " Gard 

 Magazine » for March, 1839, by which he may 



of,/. Wightoi 

 »n Shrubs, Wintering Plm 

 >, I dare say many of y 

 garden, which is manag 

 myself and family. Though an 

 mg, my attention has hitherto be 



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 and deciduous, particular!' 

 e I lived in the country, ' 

 riety, and since I came fa 



n close by for 

 . bJT«n re° 

 ! 8 as a smoky n as 



finding one libera! 



ictures, they might be 



of your readers on the propriety and probability of an 

 alteration of the law. P.S. I open my letter, having 

 just read your replies to correspondents, Sept. 15, 

 where you profess your inability to say whether the 

 white Azalea blooms in the open air, but you believe it 

 will in the milder parts of England. This was one of 

 the plants I brought here seven years ago, which m? 

 friend, the nurseryman, said would not live. It had 

 previously flowered regularly 20 miles from this place, 

 southward. It is still alive and flourishing, and 

 flowered abundantly last summer. It is right however 

 to say that it has not flowered for some years previously, 

 but it has been removed to a better aspect. Then as 

 I believe this is as hardy as the common 

 Laurel ; it will live well in Yorkshire, but not flower 



i Ltised plants that the general gardening 

 world do not dream of. Lc <l- 



The Highland Pine and Scotch Fir — In answer » 

 "W. B. H,» you state (p. 792), that ".there b M 

 difference whatever between the true Highland KM 

 and the common Scotch Fir, except that which is causea 

 mate ; the name is merely 

 applied for the purposes of sale." Now, I am of opinion 

 that this statement is calculated to mislead people .who 

 are unacquainted with the nature and habits of tw 

 tree. It is true that both names are applied to w 

 Pinus sylvestris, but the late Mr. Don, of Forfar, con- 

 sidered the true Highland Pine entitled to be termea 

 Pinus sylvestris horizontal. All who haT « P^JjJS 

 reat difference in the true when several generations 

 it are produced away from its native locality. * 

 l varies much in figure, in foliage, and in tM»*i 

 ? e, and colour of its cones. But in the native H|A 

 I forests of Aberdeen, Moray, ^ ^^"^ber 

 i varieties are of very rare occurrence. 1 he tuwj» 

 rees from the native Highland Pine forests is Xto 

 littous while that of the low country plan* 

 even when their ages are equal, and grown side oy 



