31—1854. | THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 503 
Jonger- pointed, and more irregular T enee чече This | In the c m hs nre, Apple trees are very amply rue to preserve a due amount of moisture 
too, of which we have specimens be fore us, from Mr. d with American blight, which has to be about the For the propagation of old and known 
Brant, Н. M. Consul at Er wem Has w x they со finaally. abel off them by syringing them well | varieties Mess the middle of this month, take s 
were collected by Dr. Dickson, would be an extremely | with a powerful garden engine. 'Gooseberries and Cur- | short-jointed cuttings from those plants which are the 
е addition to the Oaks in En glia маши: rants are nearly spoiled by aphides, honey-dew, and a healthiest and have p owe uri 
black sooty-looking deposit, both on the leaves and fruit. | season, and strike them in a shady bed bem! of equal 
his latter, indeed, is so much covered with it that they parts of silver or shar rp sand, leaf-soil, a li 
n Memorar nda. have to be washed, or otherwise cleaned, before they | and garden mould ; fo. t few ies rs should 
Il урат s Ga T TURNHAM ghe are fit for use. These evils are not confined to the bec dian with nd- glass and shad th 
2216 may interest Orchid grow o know that the Soeiety's Garden, but are prevalent in the adjacent | but о protection will be required afterwards, en 
t plant of Eslis superbiens in L de ембе stove | market gardens, and, we Maece all over the neighbour- | the 'onttings are sufficiently rooted, which will 
thro four flower-spikes, an ре that there | hood, Of ordin пагу. о here is none this be in about three weeks ог а month, plant 
is reasom to ехресё that more ret roduced year; and therefore чы very many varieties that | them in good sized pots, and let them stand in a 
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This makes t! he fifth o r sixth year i in which "iu magni- remain to be proved must stand over till a more dry situation till the frost commences; the po 
ficent { ing ғо. | should then be PM in gato ashes in a cold Зада 
and therefore the appearance of its еерее blossoms "The haulm of Potatoes in the ; : 
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kitehen-garden is and kept quite dry, but air e given as often 
annually may now be looked for with € Е this August than it has been at а similar period | practicable, ре end in Em When the frost ia 
The plant A is in excellent ен, Vern the spikes | in any year since 1845, and the tubers are as yet appa- | severe cover the frame with a mat, which must not on 
rently free fr isease. This remark applies to Pota- | any ассо be ed during the day, if the sun 
An шейн cathartica, which spreads over the | toes іп the garden generally under all kinds of circum- | shines ; more plants are lostin the spring, especially by 
interior of the span roof of the propagating house, is at | stances, whether earthed-up on Mè, Aldborough's plan | not attending to this rule, than by the severest ов 
t one mass of yellow blossoms, a eondition which | or ge^ in the ordinary way ; all, with the exce wins New varieties of course m ised fro 5 
bore i ls to be in every year about this time, It is а stalk here and there, ùre alike sound, Of | whiel 1 may be sown at any time from March till 
g in a pot, and, with the exception of эч French E Beans it may be men MM that the Newington September, either in pans or in the open ground. 
back every autumn to the well ripened wood, it| Wonder, a dwarf.growing sort, bas borne most abun- In about six weeks the seedlings will be ready to plant 
Nquires nothing more t ihe most ordinary treat- danily this year. "The Haricot лг de Belgi ut, but i i 
ment. of thi o 1 removed, the seedlings will require some protection 
M. Van Houtte's A helandras, such as have been shown | year it has not done so well as the с Wonder, during the winter, either by a frame or otherwise ; they 
At or metropolitan exhibitions this уем, together with | which "aem proved itself to be а most useful variety. can be planted out early in the spring. As ge 
i Ы rule, Pansy seed should be sown as soon ав convenient 
(B. fava) in а very young state FLORICULTURE. ns 
a cool pit was "еы Јата clematidea, а white ог rem | many of the seeds will not come u 
pn» very pàle blue bell-flowered plant, obtained эбин CULTURE OF THE Paxsy.— The follo wing instructions | 
ussi although not striking, yet on account of шау ч useful to amateurs үрле А to grow this lon er й | 
the singular and really handsome combination of colours | Ғор эла um time, Having fixed upon the situation us of other Sive which have bright or good eyes, it may 
in the interior of the little drooping bells, it ìs certainly your bed (one having a gunia eas Hue ar aspect and well| have a good effect, The seed-pods, when ripe, me 
well worth eultivation. Associated with it were Cam- ud from all winds is the best that can be E erect, and open on the first fine ау, and if not gathered, 
ula primulzefolia, a hardy herbaceous plant which taking care that it is not so overhung with trees as to | wou ld shed in the course of a few hours during fi 
mot yet crise n the garden, aud a species ОЁ cause the plants to be drawn, or where they will cd i Bey art 44 beds S а" тес over аё 
xpeeted іо prove а valuab ug tim ау, & 
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ner oms; and if these be fertilised with the 
e Globe A maranth was producing à | between October and Februa y mark out your ground be athered. lt dran tita ü notice нйн й beds, 
men flowers; it is а fleshy rooted species, which | in plots 3 or 4 feet wide with 1 foot alleys; remove the which it will be necessary to have, in order to ensure а 
шау possibly turn out to be a useful late autumn and € etu the beds to the e of 8 ree: and fill them | continuance of bl ; for this purpose I would re- 
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; but the huge specimens of the red o tion of which should be made use of first, planted out in а bed, to bloom in the autumn, The 
nearly over, when they will be pruned “ hard i^ an i erving the finer part for the surface. The |treatment of. the plants will be ihe same as з before 
cleaned preparatory to their pushing fresh gone next operation to be considered is omui h неч 4 directed, b I 
or anoth he Orange С hi * may add that the - e ge remarks I hub ve p 
y into ‚ and a Jarge se | or the beginning of April, and having first neatly сала made are the result o years’ practical expe- 
nothing can possibly be bandsomer. The | the bed, proceed to mark off the intended rows at one |rience in the Шене о of this i diu nt. D, 
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whi $ né bushes of Calceolaria | be advisa r each plant for = f Miscellaneous. 
rugosa and the white variety of Trachelium czeruleum. | first day or a ium shade it from the sun, wind, or fr Charcoal; By Prof. Way —Prof. 
The latter makes а capital plant for greenhouse or con- | If there has bee ede the — be very yc Ya Af tlie ен) jt. dix 
Servatory decoration at this season, the numerous great | uncover the noxious resulting from the putrefac 
ty n, gre not to u "hem if | the sun be a all еу, 4o to shine. roy Tere cdita ipally 
eorymbs of Small. "white flowers, most symmetrieaily | Pansies love a І à 
p lt is à biennial, | patient of wind; all sudden cl are | 
Ше seeds of v this i 'e sown жаз ГЕ) —— tá nimal 
. March, 1853. Tog f plants of Зеро ея, poma Chry- that if a hot suu succeed rainy weather, many of the wise, li y» 
ums, and Japan Lilies, &е. now being pasia begin to P фтор and would. soon die oit E not bin i i у ie ses, and, 
shifted and grown on for the wintgr rsen. of this | shaded.. The e effect is also €: eed when a bed | musk, alm СОЕ ТУ le w оза ppreciab 
a iapa н. is suddenly exposed to the heat of tbe | therefore, by deodorisi rge amount of Pos i 
«Шу the open ground, American plants are AME fine | midday sun. ЇЇ you u find any plan t thus affected, place | was not to be inferred gt a large amount of manuring 
growth, and the ill effects of the winter on most things | а һап гс чи over it, and form it ж cuttings. But after.| matter was thereby secured, n He then enumerated ш 
have now all but disappeared, Even the Атчы all due саге and attention have been bestowed, it kiere ue чю double deodorisers that bad been 
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pe f d. to Sir Will 24 
which а ime looked as if they had | will frequently be found tbat some of the ats о ex il Sir ; illiam 8 
been entirely ‚ have now — fresh foliage, and | fog off. This has been attributed to the wire- excell nt application of chloride of zir id T 
fast recov à .'apuleensis is the | worm, t have never found that pest = f pi es ia des n pu 5 „огур gyps api Kai of Pine) 
most naked, but that is ipai cuts forth Pop orig in the roots of any Pansy 1 bave taken up, which | 8nd its con | 
On Us conser би will tb white of|I S a p^ when any of the plants fall prostrate. sulphate o seria and carbonate of line; to the- 
Ceanothus azureus is now in full blossom ; it С Str trength or амил of the manure, and its-being too agreeable odour "d pure ур ап 
the wi unbart, while C. azureus was killed. "The|retentive of moisture, have been assigned as other | giving intensity to E N a 
Mount Etna Broom (Spartium tnense) on the same | causes 1 that ps 5 ьм been y Apc re them? which intensity 6 с W en 
Wall is also coming into blossom, its branching head of | I have no doubt, but it ca the only reason, as | drawn; Рат ga E 
О ce above the wall. they very frequently E p^ in poor sandy s soils. when pow: the algia eu im ' 
f Roses, а bed of foot standards, Bourbons, which | Perhaps some of your readers сап sugges true m Кару onn 
had been wintered on Mr. Rivers's plan (i.e, in а cool PUE Sid Any person who тову wish to send flowers for position of the фе sulphurerted Вуй don oeuf ТЕЕ 
ame packed elosely together, with their roots covered | exhibition will be quite unable to compete —Ó p" f | 
With ashes) are doing in pproaches | unle is beds at least а week previously to 
they will рез ken up and stowed away as before, | each show, to prote i - 
to чч e are thus wintered | the wi rain, or faded by the sun ; in 
rom frost, and is made a matter of | it will „ер excessive ev 
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Some of th the young fruit trees in the sepe cover pen be at least 3 or 4 feet above the bed 
on of the open gro ring sud the centre d at the four 
pi, bave neverthe! uced s few good Plums | аё about 8 inches from ce to 
and Pears. Among the latter peere d'Anjou has two, | circulation of d it may be e simi » Pergami 
And Baron de eon fs five fruit, and а mong ел former a frame, One of tb б greatest enemies the Pans, mp porer anode, ag miera дч € ME eben -гое 
i smali tree of Reine Claude de Бау has 18. Plums on | hasto Bard бле. is the slug ; during ET rns plane ты M ia D. io s bé MOM, 
it "Two seedling Neetarines from de ME are|make as pet ravages among the blossoms as der ne Sem a cung cx pier daala deri 
1 — h ma; fruit next | require a week to replace. ^ best method here. ar was burnt off in the ; very pure 
| Estar уш | possibly ripen this senson, and | youreclf of es intradera js to water the bed with clear pe d eI ADU dul ш diato VIA wot 
3 Шешу sf yon TEON gin, rm crop. One | lime water during the evening, after a shower of rain | in Ча ML Ee Жыт siaod that codat 
1 I^. Тула Eutr p. 467 and 486 has | (when they come out in great abundance); but any е млоца ut gu ir erue gem AE dis- 
| en plante тащ the bed of ae: ; the otber has | person wishing to show, must carefully search for them | is г s а (a om vhich the "geh 10 per 
heen in the open border. Both appear to be|both morning and evening. They. | ma E ра чна rgb cantina 95 
| yg. themselves under the leaves or elose to Ше roots 5 (os Hereford to the l charcoal tot wink 4 
1 EA КЕТ vi a ventilator, similar to that|the plants. In order to guard as much as possibl эже coc : к к r5 
| h inery , =й x "eds be | ог 60 per cent., which peat up, and to the 
еее deseribed «t p. 405, hts boen fined. | againat фе depredatione ef Mags, НЫН or | fallacious dry state of the manures, with which 
| ilu ^1 y vint TORTEN com, Denn эз, caer irse org i here i ү, ы this water-carrier was mixed. He feared this mode of 
3 і ы. be mentioned, however, thát the inlet | them, and always looks neat. There is only one other | à Eu x latent pito Í oaa or 
^it tis intan вѓапее appears to be the merde xt the back | remark 1 would wish to make concerning the general a pen. bns ores бе dz ENTE 
us le, &ceording to“ J. Р. S.," it should be that | management of these plants, namely, never nra the ар than of f farmer, 
Neu а. No mildew has as yet attacked any of your beds even in the driest „but in its s ai whd ММ сокі could be need ec 
this house or elsewhere in the | continued hot weather is expected, I сз рени чан — that the E gs ^ som rot m. “water; i Ба 
those on open walls, where a a | fresh cow manure be placed round IR would prove of no VM other asa _ 
E has stopped its pr progress. plant; which, by preventing too rapid ev evaporation, will 5 * 
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