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in all cases this should be а pn эл far as possible, | thus wasted for a quantity of stuff that would disgrace | men wh a.na un to its support do so [o poung 
The young panis should be he a close, warm, | the meanest garden patch round London; while, had | the poo RE ARAE So, or to render su 
moist p d carefully shaded m p sun for about the trees been properly selected, asy SL of the |any s a yr оГ MN nited K "3 or eb 
a fortnight ууа: avg Singh: by which time they will | number would have sufficed. То show the style and | purpose, I for one cannot ea ри good of 
may — quality of the planting, І may mention that а row оѓ) any longer; for if лк: allowance is ue Rar is, 
blished. ... After this Гоха inl be placed in а zx pit, | Lombardy Poplars extends all round the en olore, the | were, permitting wolves to enter freely into ОШ P5 
or moderately warm house, keeping them near rne e glass imet being at a distance of 5 or 6 yards apart, and as А Subscriber to your Paper frem. the first. "i 
= èyringiog d them over-head on the ings | poo naked as you can well conceive, and Кг арра- | The. Winter in Lancashire, — Y. PLANTS ON. А WALL 
afternoons es ght days. Hong ot а very € habit of | | rently about 10s. or к 15а. рег 100. „There are also Hollies FACING THE Easr :—Escallonia rubra, small branches 
l ges o n well, à shift will soon be required, nd r | killed ; É rnb ТАР € АГИ ` 
Elis id sho n poit Ае окса ip mier d for ant of pot condition тне on raised ins of red earth, ‚ with | branches ; E. pubescens, killed to the ground ; Rhamnus 
ould be shifted in ety, killed th 
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Чек as, 4-4 = vem require it, om Rn and 
mie unb. Bo roots ane into the fresh soil. 
several other kinds of tree LR аге evergreens ass and variety, ed to the main stem. 
anything but appearance. The 4 50 common РЕА TS FACING THE . SOUTH :—Euonymus .sarmern- 
| 4; Ша, the 
p ps the à MEM but if a соз root | hon, baronet believed | js was stating the truth ; at I pn a Killed ; Viburnum rugosum, the en 
action „із maintained, stopping will pany be necessary. | | beg to assure him that it will * oceur again," Ву | the nothus m killed to 
Where the dhach їз to grow large specimens Jenae circumstance of his not Ales competent persons to | (ground ; е еа killed to the m m; 
flowering, the plants should be kept Eos = rapidly | exeeute the work on the one hand, and from his looking | | crispum, killed ; ; Maclura тей pu branches 
онол dur Ф. А the. summer, and autumn, affordin | for a * cheap" market where only Ше most despicable | killed. III. ON A WALL FACING THE Wist 2 Buddlea 
fhem pot room as may benepeamry, and a gentle bottom- | articles are to be obtained on the other, In fact I know | globosa, small branches killed. IV. Рглмтз см: тнЕ 
heat would be of assistance towards inducing rapid | of. no London nurseryman who would suffer mA. M» | не Gnouxp: Viburnum Tinus, very much eut; 
growth. The best situation for them in winter will bean | to occupy his ground. Iam the more anxious | mbusa fa leata, эй to the ground: Aristotelia 
intermediate house, where the temperature may range | publi ic ns to the planting and oy ani. sin ка. Mac Aa covering & of 8 yards, with four or five 
about 509, f. by too lo w | nin ngto it may be a foretaste (if the pre | tems, 4 inches in €i Raa situati 
а temperatur or the want of water, as this would pro- | | tem vi ^ speedily —— of what we may y sry ud » the Eoo i Urt Vando, very much соё; 
bably. p кызын а tendency. {о flowering, and cau use some | expect to see at the ча Battersea . Та obilis, inged as i 54 H 
difficulty i in getting them. to n away freely i in spring, | But in this latter instance such proceedings t i Р ex, Jost all TJ Оден Rhododendrons" hybridum, 
and neither should they be tso warm аз to encou- | Objectionable in the extreme, for here wehave a splend id | е or less injured ; К, ponticum, suffered in some 
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gro out the us of March willbe the piece of land soon to form a valuable addition to the | | тке ethras are all very much cut up. `T ám 
proper time to place them in.growing circumstances, | Various places of public иий ун and importance | 006 pre ared to say what was the lowest temperature, 
And with suitable осени, and attention: fine plants Cannot be i se ly on the Board of | Teny Shepherd, Botanie Garden, Liverpool, June diss 
will be easily red by. autumn, They should.be| Works of employing men who are capable of performing | Common Rhodod агулаган some 
. Placed іп a теше p зз kept near the glass, and | the business entrusted to them, and whose arboricultural | plaptsare quite killed; th common and Portu- 
аз вооп as commences, the roots should be knowledge is such as will allow nothing to be purchased | gal, ауе suffered considerably; ; Sweet Bays are killedto 
um а. giving z a liberal shift if. necessary. ‚ Keep the or planted, which will not fully answer the pu urpose | th 
-shoots ni | required. In the case of Kennington, we see a de-| The Deodar has suffered much; Azalea indica alba, 
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together and i njur ing each other; and. make sure d | plorable example of culpable ignorance and shameful | which has stood in the shrubbery for the last six years, 
daving the. specimens well furn оред, idwapds the | squandering of public money ; and I hope that you will | is almost killed ; Cistus cyprius hs wie Porn killed ; ау. ае 
ре | ng y pe that y P 
lom. „A | second shift "n probably be required. continue to exert your influence on this Pone which HAS Fabiana imbricata an 
towards May, and this should be into the flowering pots, | has pode А been productive c of good. results. M. Z. R as suffered considerably ; Die So предава" has 
E: which m ust. be A ated by circumstances ; maryllis.—The author * The D vaa Princi- ilodi the winter without any protection; Calystegia 
will. be sufficiently large ys fine speci palities, qe; "leg pr tinted i in vol. i, p.33, says that | pubescens, in & er against а south wall, is also 
ае and will A аз be ba found pe gn for plants | near Gro bni ; in Austrian Croatia, * the seárlet coming üp strongly. Yucca gloriosa has a e S 
of b Stop not be aryllis "e" on the damp soil, where tiny streamlets | Berberis eur Forsythia viri 
p moy Eee e middle of Angust, and the pienia triekled,":- What does he mean * А, A. [Don't know;] been at'all injored ;:Buddlea vx reringa а гетен dL 
d be s kepi ra rather d dur the root, aud more freely | ^ The Potato Crop and Spring Frosts.—1n reply to the | Winwick, Warrington. 
d of. Septem aber to redi iuquiry-as^to the kinds of Potatoes which 1 consider |... Kitchen! Garden: Qrops.—The. following items iare 
of Aie sas x org will. [um the wood, and prepare | most able to resist frost, I answer, those which contain | taken гоп my gardening book. Potatoes planted 
it. for flow wering. By placing them. in heat, and supply- | most farina; "The latter always produce а much more | Dec. 9th, 1853, first drawn April 15th, 1654 ;.P. 
: i j will. s | i i i 
ing them ally with. water, they oon show bardy foliage than" s жаху or wet Potato, апа for the "Rourke) sown: Dec. 31st, first dish. ріске 
flower atthe end of oot- and- if removed to fol r "The P. pushes: a weak, | May 20th ; Potato-Onio: lanted Dec, 19tb, sent. to 
2 close part of Ше conservatory just. as the buds begin slender, tougli stem; om aceount of the floury nature of l baye ha one quarter of an 
ume their blue colour, and tected from рр the tuber andi Potatoes to buy for entin; ot II һауе proved an е anc 
they wili remain in this s some tbree or four | this is е best guide, "On the contrary, if you see t v piara m April 15 
months, for they will hardly open.in the. temperature of | the а eye, be sure that ít th sibi to Mr. 
the Y! yand in.£his they.have.a very | Will tidwi. In my experiments with the r Pike í Аут to LE hoc 
Dg ap A The: wilh ;however,.open I-have tried all kinds of sets, but if the sorts are Severe was Беёћ 
reely in the. tem icf.am intermediate house, greened'and spronted, as bed iu let, lose to tle e Posto plot but odt 
where, if the roots are well supplied with желк manure | Varieties' will be found to endure fróst about equally | of the 20-plánit of 
water, and à moderately dry /ntmosphere maintained, | Well, on account of the sprouted eyes being all green, | tle Potutoes were: ААА dirus өе 
£hey..will. last. long, айй op. plants that. have | ; and grown slowly before planting out ; for be it | who had Potatoes up had their crop nea aeris. injured T 
ly ripened, will be:;produeed. іц Succession. from | remembered that when onee this touph neek'is formed | müst attribute tlie escape of mine, in great measure, to 
the side shoots for months. Specimens intended. to Ље | it ean never lose that hard consistency, neither doinsects | their strong growth induced by. Mr. Cuthill's с=з) 
grown.on for further.use,anust be cutback in ti uch i e nec ug upi ich my experience this season ( trying one 
M of their. maki growth before winter, and | healthy and hard, that I can scarcely put a pin through | gives g rea to reco wall fruit 
shoul ev er year ; but by supplying | it—in fact this is secret im inanaging the | trees suffered n9 waay TD. the frost, nor did Straw- 
liberally with-manure water; th be k tato. til I discovered the following plan of {- berries, which I io gather on the 20th of May, 
health in good :sized .pots!:for-seyeral seasons without ing Potatoes when cut down by frost, I'was as much | and which have s proved an abundant стор. РҮ n, Uus 
Tepotting. -Fhe best soil ќо ів plant is three parts | Concerned about the loss as any one. ^ Wheh the а , June "a 
good strong бргу loai; апі. опе part peat, or leaf-soil,| haulm gets cut down, as was the case everywhere this| Yew ' Trees 24 believe the following о wiü 
mixed with & proper quantity-of. sand and lumpy bits spring, it is too well knowh that all dormant eyes will | Solve e Crayons " diffieulties. Yew foliage is poisonot8 tà 
reoal, to keep it open and porous ; for if grown in | push a large number of shoots ; and if al are allowed | horses and cattle, but only causés death when taken in 
rich. soil, the wood. is apt to be рае jointed, and | to remain, they become over crowded, and an inferior | large quantity upon a stomach. : All the fatal 
the specimens rather inclined to straggle; Alpha. small sized crop of tubers is the result. To remedy | cases which have come under my -nótice have taken 
AREE E S A this, as soon all the shoots com ; lace, as in * Crayon's" i е; dur from & 
seeond time, let the peopl ver each row, and | storm, or during à hman's or carter's dir 
‚ Но ome Correspondence pull up all the weakest, leaving iiy two or three of the | the, to them Ye retten ir of a. Yew. tree, In all 
Kennington Park.—6 Mr. Ѕроопег wished to know |strongest; perhaps, п priced scale, the hoe may do | these instances the horses have been, almost to а cer- 
what the sum of 23651. + ial services connected with | as well ; once allow the main shoots the lead, and the | tainty, for some time previous without other food, I 
й meant, in addition to the sum | flow of sap will = entirely directed to them. Тһе | myself lost а riding horse some years ago from the ва 
— "Sir William Molesworth said |above simple plan places the crop in as good a state as | cause ; he was daily turned out for an га ог tvo fu 
rviees was incurred in | before the frost attacked it, ply it is thrown 14 days a field in which ad some hedge-row Yew trees, 
e new park and providing it with new |later. James Cuthill, Camberwell. ыр of which he was often e to nibble with ii 
outlay would not occur again, and had no ération,— Your corr eorrespondent's remarks on this |punity, 2: one unlucky day : 
i е maintenance of the new park.” |subject, at page 389, are correct in pri ineiple ; and, | usual first course o eame эл viti aod Mit 1 € 
е а e in the (©; the 8th inst., I | modified, the rte may be useful in certain cases. | on pede “hia stomach, the contents were Y. 
ed to suppose that ybi park at Ken- | If the Mri air always perfectly still, the venti- | with a very trifling proportion of Grass. Downes ^ 
iot only well а jviiciouly laid out, | lating apparatus da doubtless act with great regu-|  Armenia.— Curzon's ** Armenia,” I 125, 
ith suelr trees and shrubs as would "Rd ; but when a gust of wind d what distinction | parasite growin with a 
cate that the Magi un mem of | wi ake between the ї ings ? | Lily, 9 to 12 inches long, i e Stalk, - эй 
vog nable them - It will be exactly that arising from the | parts of it resembling crimson velvet, Tt has ng 
idis suitable for the | opposition offered by the Aut warm air to the | Is this а per He calls it Ravenes or. ise 
per „eventually а spark force of the wind; and the ratio of this resistance would | coccinea. е describes а kind of Thistle wi 
UP been | excited | be something like that of а eite to а 101b. weight. | flowers all kay the stalk, looking and smelling like the 
of Sir Vas. Mo seen in the | It may, tlierefore, be said that the cold air, when in| Honeysuckle, and ealled Morena orientalis. boh have 
ү ч „По. роу ое pense would | brisk motion, will rush in at both openings, almost іп- | we not ће plants of Armenia Are е ont "P 
pu XA отр y- eod correspondent ought to уу e or | naked of snow for them to be hard ox АЁ [The 
uy inde рае і disprove th his, апа then gardehers will be able to judge Plielipsea i is а root parasite allied to ti 7E 
day ог two ofi the cof or the danger й 5 Aur "wo Measurement of Timber.— A long Манам for m 
iu dil isa ment at ue nstitution, — d a | purpose was lately given by one of your eorr e 
putos др stocked with the most | member i er this in I vis пе pleased to see, by | in answer, I suppose, to inquiries on that head |} 
od €— and shrubs the report: of {һе Inst, anniversary, at р. 389, that the | me to su guest a shorter, simpler, but equally effieséidus 
oes not — to [erm since trea to" 2671: 10s. Being a poor | mode of doing the same thing, being one by-whietj he 
abet the matter ; | gardener, I ёйпіоё theref. in fr my | my time, I have dis some 
sing frc ipa rr the idea | grateful. thanks. to: the. very kind gentlemen who so|of oak timber. Let AB be tlie length: of 
те which it is evident | iesu cro nakon yen pete cum But, asa member of (say 28 feet) ; ВС the girth, or eireumfei 
Ere paid for, d the publie money | the institution, permit me ќо inquire whether the gentle- | middle of the 28 feet length м 64 кс... then take 
