8 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
[JANUARY 2, 1864, 
case observed b y Mr. G. B. Wol laston, of Chislehurst 
few years sie, at tho time the rimas station on | 
he Mid-Kent was bein med, 
Fas arde than upon old ground. 
Ce rtain | the surface soil, as deep as the filtration of water 
new 1 
Seeds buried in 
or the | 
netrate, are subject 
ere upon Kiige eron 
erywhere, 80 as ds a 
hy: 
they will resist 
according to the intensity of these doen but in 
nd they will be influenced by them 
pen te ps = m 1 and er burial in the “ virg 
soil NUN must exceedingly rare occurrence— 
so rai must be ver, 
and go peril that the — 
<i 
such soil dec 
appears to me, however, that a careful considerati 
of A facts would lead to a very different iw wh 
ic 
The c only evidence which m je convincing that 
seeds contained in such d x soil” (like the 
| *antediluvian ” Mustar: mentio ned T the late 
Mr. Herbert for "s Selborne, 
hi. 4 eee 
Double- adiens 
re Laurustinus, Berberis Darwinii, 
Jasminum nudiflory 
Christ 
this is no ee ba the gen neral la E. T. Bennett’s T p. 486), remain alive, would be Fern The foll Roses hav also 
bees wen has laid down, viz., that the greater number since the inst, viz, Gloire de 
of seeds lose their power of g not yet been disturbed, and | uate Gloire de Dijon, liot, Geant 
—: after they are ripened, that some may — it bring a$ aseet iranian of nikae of weed seeds, | des, Batailles, Louis -Philippe Si Angen, Devoni. 
for many years, yet that the number aoran of speci tch what will come up, or carefully wash it and | ensis, So de Malmaison, Duchesse Decazes, 
and i EEA diminishes acr with e for the seeds. Mustard "e Charlock seeds at | together with many blossoms from the miniature Fairy 
ation for alittle more — Ey are not so micros pio as not to be readily seen and the common China Rose. Dedham, Dec. 30.—— 
one oce the longest period o of which an authen before they germinate. I say U P the present time we have not had the Jeast 
cases c mms Devonshire Rasp- | symptoms of the severe frost predicted by your co 
not enjoyed by seeds buried in the earth. I think berries. How unimpeachable the veracity ad pondent at page 1160, ec. 5. On the 18th ult, we 
that the sudden appearance of the Erigeron — good faith of the penes cm on whose evidence these, had from 2° to 3? of frost, which only lasted a few 
must be attributed to some other causes, I do not|cases rest, there are circumstances in each which, to | hours, and was soon succeeded by a dense warm fog, 
deny that our soil is often full seeds, mind, make it not at all improbable that some |A few beds of Heliotrope and Tom Thumb Nasturtium 
Darwin raised 537 plants from three table-spoonfuls | small re p the long LO f proofs may not be| were destroyed by it the flower garden; but with 
of mud : - from the e little pond | entirely free from suspici lusio; deception. B. | the ex » Ig oe bg ge 2 S still presents a healthy 
beneath w I have myse vehe aps Mr, Wollaston wouid adopt the shone pcm sk appea or e days ago led ase 
year soil fal ot seeds; but then it is the surface soil, or of tre os, © a barrowfull of the soil, and would PPAS r^ mi variet is of flowers, all from out-door 
surface soil recently buried, at the seeds, the plants report ihe uer plants, 23 of them being bedding plants and tenda 
reared from them, are always of. many ki nds, I nev Ke eeping.—Before reading your leading | annuals. Among them were Camellia Sweetii Clianthu 
knew of any instance, even of riclo s "i "this subject, I was under the i — that | puniceus, Ceanothus azureus, Pittosporum ira, 
garden to fill a garden- am and eiae out of reach oe this climate had something to do with Pears not, Double Myrtle, Veronicas, Fuchsias; Pentstemons 
seed-shedding weed, which has produced an abundant | kee eeping. I find, however, that in die parts as well | Calceolarias, Verbenas, Scarlet Geraniums, Wallflowers 
crop of any one kind oft E eed, However few those that | = Ne Treland, rene are affected with a disease which I | Stocks, x tome Seedling Picotees, Lobelias, Mig 
tribute to the cold sunless autumns w ve .|nonette, Tro x scandens, Ageratums 
Trait p Ed eger decays quicker than that | Yellow Crocus, po "Rosi We have also had Rhodo 
si 
this place came in| 
m m a such oasinece, to ‘the almost total 
Any o 
was not in the virgin soil. excavated. 
y all at once, very late kinds being ready almost 
ones, and ev on De ripe they were not 
d 
S ue else,” be ask, * 
appeared immediately after the cutting was made tob 
accounted for?” at f me Erigeron was not pr aiai. 
e ne eighbour hood.” The | sudden | $ 
flavour ; of them ge arriving 
t ar M ede M. pi 
pulcherrimum *^ 
of walt expanded osons. the colour of which 
most brillant. Among other things are Willow, Cre 
tegus, and Hazel; the latter has catkins from 2 & 
3 inches long. R. F estcott, Singleton, Swansea. (Wi 
| have many more „communications on E subject, but 
em. 
goodly portion o: of the 
ps need only man that all kan Peas here are 
ight, has been | just Se ; a fortnight hence will & cleared out. 
pepe d ares, and as popularly attributed in the This will at once show T indifferently they have 
s bur ried in the ground, in the o other to >| Ken. John Edli Crom Castle. 
F gular Ey in an Toehouse, — While employed | o 
as the simplest modes of accounting ry them ; i e thal f which a 
as the a above question , to which w 
se is certainly | ca 
England, but it is pretty a 
ed some of the southern coun ties on road- | 
sides, river banks, railway cu. ttin ngs, &c., where the soil 
is light or loose and vegetation thin, "The sioe 
are Wally few, and its slender -like lea: 
and insigni SR t flowers cause E V easily e 
looked, moreover one of those short-lived 
which, as of the Groundsel, two generations may 
rie in a single year. — individual may produce | 
thousands of good seed. moderate sized -— of 
above 
ard Houses.—I have been much interested it 
the dia en ussions vh ch have from time to time appearel 
in yonr publication erting orchard ho ouses, but I 
| bey that any o 
ne 
whi s ae een o e m tree pot 
t de obtained i in a similar died. EN from tree) 
plan nted in „beds in the ordinary manner, I have 
| had i in consequence been j^ fall to pieces, 1 
voce: to find at the BARON ok it gd ine gf sever 
and of above 100-har Thi ewhat singular | 
rates AG to me e necessi ity Pd. 
of this kind closed when they are no Lao wanted ; 
lest other animals more valuable should meet with a 
similar oe E. Welch, Palace 
Mildness 
| this, I beg T send you a Tesi de Malmaison Rose 
grown in the open ara here, and cut on Christmas Day. 
ek you will sa u have seldo 
reference wing, noticed 
co ear I would say et exbibitors go on as her 
|as who can tell whether a 
h 
meis places | y: 
the past ete Xr to grow fruit without protection; 
jyou may j how I have succeeded when I td 
ou that a Soe ree trees have fot. se the whol 
time pani 12 sg a fruit. s trees E I 
Em nditi bloo abu Bs every 
but «e. spring ‘frosts me Joven kiled nearly d 
the fruit. the sprin I erectel 
a small = hard house, about ee 
|10 feet wide, in which (I p 
hese in that year produced phe 5 dozen goo 
fruit. wining the trees were repotted into 13-ind 
pots, t r pots being only 10-inch ; in poer 
of late pi lo I only obtained about 7 dozen fint 
fruit in the last season. T Ne fruit produit p 
follows, viz, :—5 e Pears ; 12 wer Peaches; 11 
m Nectarines; 1 danas: 2 Apricots; 9 dozen T 
Plums. Cherries on two trees an buete crop. 
fruit Tis been s] fine, 
Amateur, ety 
anor dendro 
and of the best flavour. Af 
about 20 aber now e aa me has 100 | when go ns >i E ee The * National" gives 
good Ze roe at once; A flower at can | prize for Tea d Noisettes open, and I informed 
P to 50 seeds, givi a total of near = ° secrotary of. the Crystal Palace See if a prize 
d and i foreign spe Rosie have twice| were to be given for 18 T Noisettes and Bour- 
k number. ao rdin these se being eher the show there ": be pe fect, J. Holling- 
shed in of drought or "eae, tabtewian = worth, Turkey Mill, —— Although we 
weather, p "falling upon a hard, = a pre-occupied, or | had 8° of frost here » (Stamford) 1 for a short time on 
otherwise ungenial soil, remain — Surface lng the night of the 22d ult, the following c in 
of f insects bl i the e open air, viz , Devoniensi sis, old Crim 
t d ly China ere "Mignonette, oe sii]! 
5 ed "by t sur owning vegetation, o. or otherwise den arnations, Chrysanthemums mI Pitie 
destroyed in ia young state; so that in those , Cydonia poem Mezereon, Arabi k Butterbu ur 
where we see year after year the same small vam ns of | (Petite) Double and Single Primroses, Polyanthus, 
tered indiv viduals, an averageof 4909 of the seeds shed |W. wer, Double and Single Violets, Pansies, and 
= Strawberries, {í have eu 
full-grown ago But S sapposing twoor three oe 
to have been e roadside weeds in 
nei urh "gh the A tho from pow 
paucity they may bave passed unheeded, and suppose | 
one seeds to have been blown on to pee fresh vein 
very such seed, ‘thus 
befor 
ad in the conditions of a pati 
- beauty 
| stantly subject to "s breeze It is equ ually io 
o; 
end herewith two s sprays of Yellow Banksian Rose, | 
Ilive in a purely ma 
M ai ow nursery farm, argue as it does, 0 
50 acres, is within a few hu ndred igh-wate 
ark, eTo sho 
y part of England, an 
suppose that they will no 
carefully — ould germinate ; ani in the clean soil, 
as free and grubs a 8 from obstr rueting | 
eiae i the erop would prosper a d exclusively cover | 
the groun nd, y ya egregius struggle with those 
uch fo or it, but because 
2 ae n^ s with none ix itt e 
y which "strange weeds are brought into | 
the zl [- prepared in railway and canal cuttings, 
which a very 
ne 18 
ra 
e | last 
in a garden a Brockley, near Bris bol A Subs ida. 
—We eed you specimens illustrative of the m 
weather which we are now experi encing; one ís a portion 
ns Apple tree, several 
come into, ng f within the 
t few the of 
gathered! rim. an open wall 400 yards (me We haveac 
for 1 the boris I have several times observ ved young | 
plants, especially annuals, not mon in the district, 
come up near the troughs where railway horses are 
suing 
| from sida e sea, à Wil lliam Barron, Sketty Nursery Far 
Swa Your Correspondent, ** C, D.," is certai 
quite. that Rhododendrons will 2 
they requi 
article, at p. 120 
al Rh 
are they will flourish near t. 
atc 
bserved how més more 
h i ds 
lean- to Pea ch-ho ouse abou t 40 yards long, but we Men the Me UE g^ t ia ias, 2 rum ws sheltered m 
n they A " Heat,—As pw utility of geothermal by 
Mei ime aims § 6 SU een : d Oot |appears to be universally admitted, m ight n de 
re 
ma Tu s niji um Mp ported to be cold and | principle r1 applied with "Dk ie in derit e a 
ooming in a gar t Dedham, near Colchester, will —by some slowly fi w 
, , y ermentin ma 
prove the present season to be ree om there, as | mixture of leaves and tan whi - would yl import t 
in more favo aduer eser Am red nuous]y. Have LA 
