174 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [FEBRUARY 90, iggy 
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an have ws en deriv lire 1 so well known to  hesntify the gardens in the East, am 
only on subjects — which they are conversant. M plan | that a benefit in that respect e 
is o ‘nak n and A il, and then i oo from a or an ; but the former are new in Ireland dE "mare OF —_— bond and fers of them quite dead. 
E aikan eye zd pem. it, and next to open both |and e ,an id for we reo reaso oe cultivate maa free RR ee ME 
eyes once; and if they agree together for any in small l quanti ies only, i ly quick? ^ fal x L illed ; also Thun unbergiag, 
length of time, I think there must be something in | cons . The disease, rehus. has not time to ma and the beautifu ronhon e apageria rosea ; in fst al 
their separate and united testimony. Sight is not aec -— among them, and so people faney that the stove and g iy -— are all m 
necessarily observation; people see a great deal that | they are better off in that respect, If, however, they | less MEM. "m. fict wae hief G ardener ia i. 
they do not observe. sight— | were to treat the Banger like the Ash- leaved, tha ey Hig. gire er Frino y Tiza him Pasha, Choobrah Ga ardens, 
it is the clairvoyance, or ond sight t of the intellect. would find that it w cr cen Te i Cairo, Egyp 26. 
The Psalmist, therefore, in we last verse of the 107th | besides being better. on t ye whole than the Ash-leav: EE TUS 
Psalm, says, in reference to the ways of Providence, | The proper way to manage with all very early potatos (p GOL bya Cor Fiore. "In your issue NUN ; 1863 
** Whoso is e will observe Pe things.”  Horti-|is to watch carefully for the first appearance of the is H permission through, te eenslang 
cultural and floricultural writers should, before | disease, and as soon as it shows an inclination to spread va Uwe 5. à give the information modium of 
directing the publie, exercise * observation." The | over the crop, but before it has don have them all | Y e fibre alluded to is RR f 
different modes of vision in old ere ca up at once—wkich with a small quantity is easily done; MS DE UE piel M on Sida 
heteropticks, and were ipe Seo the voluntary | handle them carefully, and pit th lid, that is with inal Sa : ios gni i$ at Hb re 
and involuntary turn of the eyes, the half and the dry earth or ashes among them, cover with earth, h of Sydney, and a£ nearly all the i ie. to the 
whole leer, tipping the wink, E e and thatch the outside. When managed thus, during | iei Ari T dis js a Rockha Dion. on th EN 
the side peep through a fan, and the broad stare.|the worst years of the disease, they have kept sound poris Rape jg cM 6 north, 
hat we want in the garden is the broad stare. | be. me almost to a tuber, when three of every four | W? In the tropics. 2 sland, it gros 
lurariantiy, covering the ground like à field of c 
" and generally attaining a hei ght of from 4 o f ral, 
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4. Articles to be useful good hard | left three weeks longer in the ground rotted. 4. 
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eu Ereto , and 
gardening articles; moreover, small Ena upon pian South Wales. 
which oftentimes success depends, should not be Nets on Wails.—In order to fix these, run a galva- 
omitted. Years ago I received a letter from a gar nised twisted wire cord nate the top, » fix ed to wall- x 1 f 
dener living with a lady of hi ree in the Isle of | hooks 6 feet apart; then | A par P ire a | and thick coyer at Il ARATTA, ARTA hiding place of 
Wight, thanking me, and saying (I blush to record it), | few feet from the wall a eet Senna the. ground, thes vig Il Wallabi, Halmaturns Thetidis, and it 
“Iw fish all writers of articles were lik e you. You te i supported by light stakes ea —€— apart, Now fix you ue EET island, 
jp ires 
wire, and. stretch bem. ou zi 
abai oa to show off their lear rning —say a about Cinerarias ; d with wire guys pegged down to the Aus ound in the same | 
but they keep back the ‘key of the position’ for fear | manner in which the roof of a is stretched out. 
that others should have as good as themselv "IE When buit trees are covered, Pe wire down at 
Probably aiaga of ¢ ‘the key ” is not intentional, each end of the net obliquely to the stake and the 
but proceeds fi the assamption that pur epa ground in order to fasten the ends of the net, qw ne : 
e or | wire i i d. 
Tir fe water to get rid of uu" 
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n upon 
more of which success often depends. Let us wel then each. d stal f very listie value, and can ield 
strive to furnish “the key of the posi ition." W.F. Rad- | be — "obtained. . The =e cost will not exceed represented at the Tate Exhibition, 
elyffe, R 24d. per yard ran of wall. Ano e Blank and will prepare 
yin par Tho following may b interesti th Gisiurs Compound, — Sarr Correspondent, Mr. sample of the fibre from plants growing hers 
our readers ' r Some hive or pa while giving his valuable cep came. on the next mail. tA S. Hill, Waollabra, Sydney, N. 8, Walt 
si x years ago, after yt ti ubject of clearing Azaleas from insects, speaks of two Dec. 21, 186 
a the Asheleaved, b oth | Re ted and | Walnnt. leaved, and ounces to the gallon ‘solutions of Gishurst Compound í tx k 
r much vaunted ares rts, it been effieacio against living Thrips, but t 
the Potato weli ciim n Ireland. from the time I could powerless inn rers eggs. joe I. be all — to a ot ces 0 00 8. 
recol as the old “ "pan ngor," “Banger,” was | suggest a trial on a nay lant = a ‘eae solution, | Selecta Fungorum fe pogin.. E Secundus, ate 
x dunt Tabula x ære in Fol. pp. xix. and 20 
J ed studiis dirit L. R palasia et, C, Tulasne, 
ig À Parisiis, 18 Ww 
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pmi that is arly as n as the Ashleaf, | when followed by an almost immediate Be eie in It is bv: re ce we reviewed the first volume of 
and nest a pii pode td of any other early | water. George Wilson, Weybridge. thi is admirable work, which excited so mu 
ich I w t eultivating.. Sek being shiado Germination of Fungi.—* M. J. B." remarks (p. 1 rejoiced to receive — af 
wanting of this Potato either North or |‘ that the spores of Agaricus pn will not |the wonderful sagacity and diligen the two 
‘South | Wales, I wrote to : " Dablin d germinate till they have passed into the stomach of | brothers to whom we are indebted for “the ie 
ning that ‘I could not find “Bangors” in any | some graminivorous animal.” — Is it not more likely, | of its perusal. ‘Like the former, it is devoted to the 
, and asking him where they were to be honeran, thit: the sitpalion only quickons germination, | proof of a fact now more or less generally received by 
answer began, ‘Strange sty, B in ips, &c, are forwarded | my ogists, that a a plurality of modes o! Mon ' 
-Pota re not known in n Wales.” He then went on to | a year by py feeding d ducks with —- and possibly the | exists in a portion of the grand Fungal: of 
say that ie were known in England by various Pd Shs Phy rous seeds may be promoted in a | Cr p mein c planta. ^ 
names; as erlan i fed Lo. "Ga ons. „Ge siis genus of Sepnlds and dot-shaped para 
name), I Kidneys, and Halstone Kidneys; in| Schizostylis coccinea.— We notice in your reference | § ars under the ated poaa A 
Ireland as gae Eey Ban: Bangors, &c. He to the figure of this in the Floral Magazine the AM Uf ^i at last it wee $ matter of doubt 
mentioned also that he the preceding wm mark ‘much ge rara Permit us, therefore, whether any will, remain, The fa l is, however, 0è 
obtained some Halstone (or. Alstone dorum qp from S v Ta a our plant, to say that in the size and | of requiring so much time and 
south-east of England, “had them n on bog = number of the flowers we do not think that it is |such unwearied powers of accurate S servation, thab we 
seed, and that they were as true Cu nberland dang exaggerated, as we frequently had five blossoms fully | can ‘only espect inate lana at present, and we mast be 
as ever he saw in his life." It rom _as well expanded on a spike, t to the greater part of n 
here that is a mere corruption of the Irish word to. The colour of the figme given is not materially | obscure ben Rene to remain for the time being 
longue name with which this variety was honoured | different from Sir W. J. Hooker's illustration in the a 
Ireland because it af to bang, ot beut meh ate athar Botanical Magazine. Probably the idea of exagger- Ev volume is devoted to the 
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superior to them all. 5 was a ille n vitio kidney | say 4 1b. io t e gallon, ‘a ascertain the fact whether 
A Cr UE ich it erved up to, and past | the eggs would not be destroyed before the foliage pas 
3 i i eces io 
of Engl h m" W 
expected i me raened ca —€ dim ome m aar > r k eover individual | } e Vp anis «x € Demo 
this, by which time, * api ears, the let. f ie o5 ! | "Thol? Tuli à 
pe men a € e Kidneys Aun pear sear of the “Scarlet Duc Van. Thol Tulip. We Bom - hg qe I noie i is wet Mti irt 
el lities, there sppaasod - an attractive ear being able during the e season to | sorts of Tet bent ren and is et common 
S inian of =s new Potato under Man dator dio on this) point, as the plants € again coming | | Pen haulm and Asparagus, but attacks also the Wig 
loucestershire Kidneys, the good qualities and TM i paid into INDE Tie drawing in .* Florai | parts of the fruit occasionally, and even takes UP. 
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fno? ied times en thrown ! 
that I recognised at once ee old oid fpiend the Banger, cru Aud tle iei pre m wi It appears 1? 
: house, | heaps by the tide and left to decay. 4! 
adopted, mecbristenad, and ad d at 5s. a ek io sometimes to infest animal mies as oo 
ry next season, Mower, alter the vn rears re, aeo — 
no 
inhabits various plants; but the ety 
3 oeen i purea one ovate, or emi ri spat T 
Ec POM “this by lan a KT qure ng disting a beautiful object under the m 
French Potatos, and T p of true Bangers. : Pepe Cor n e. s 
What is coreect abont these Pobstos is thas they MENS | ans ia i à 91st c Those Lone rini e "rimum 
have all t the good qualities ascribe ed to them, and with | of this month ET was vis 3 ve: sie ovk uis, sidbo 
the Red | 1 —Negretti and Za b - 
Ash-leaved, ag proa equali in every respect to any other €——— arking on v vieslingnarig her [p pra Pi stomata ted beri 
antage of being a heavy cropper, | respectively 5°, 7, and 214° Fahr. below freezing ‘ae of e authors it appears that not only 
ously to the setti Hines de krosty high ium heri d d 
n 
x Cladosporiu: 
-— from the sou evailed -for arde sarcinula, Berk, 2 three forms of the myc”, 
inte eveloped on decaying ^ 
nning into — ther and produci 
a bem mts in some of the ditches on tho | naked E into me But besides those, in in a 
i morning NAM e inst. fully an inch in thickness, and | lobose or ovate perithecia which et: 
many crops now springing up, especially Wheat, | and sporidia, we have distinct no paite d. | 
ked spores, 
are 
tea om 
remy er tn ener ati that the. limate | wi 
At te bm: sanpenk to ita m inters, a bog 
