JaxvAkY 2, 1864, } 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND ue EUM oiu ere 9 
sever tried this pla D,a 
T be the best time to mr rade 
—Pwhen the trees are blossoming, or i nardS? 
‘your 
And n 
s.— Borders constructed on such good 
‘Vine Border 
principles and ‘of such ample Lu ca as regards 
Fidth and depth as those described by your corr 
spondent (see p. 1181, 1863) will widosieliy produco 
first-class Grapes, provided proper ndoo 
ive», B of th are in din 
ayinion quite xb enough, at ems for m years to 
Probably at som iig arta! if the Vines 
yery luxuriant i ay be fou nd necessary to 
e them a little wider; owever, it 
would be next to useless to do so, specially considering 
Crom EE T 
Heating Orca scs —In Si to an inquir y 
ndent at Otle in Yorkshir 
y ripen fruit, but | 
out securing a| 
ipes. is 
and 
ears experience in 
" atmosphere prevails 
that pipes are not 
when we 
are also subject o much moi i 
d 
: | viet oy pa tates,” by Mr. R. E n, Oroa, Wass, | a 
* | Yor 
he runners of the sweet Potato. Island-bred sheep are very | e peculiar to the science are gone into, and other 
er. 
clatur 
2 a bia had = lambs an edd aient mg matters which we must pass ov 
p 1e: e H 
s shali ree i Sth folk Island Pino cones, sent On coming to the description of the elements, which 
rom St. Helena, are germinating, and I hope a few w i | Dr Apjohn designates as meu one feels inclined 
raised from them, but I am lmwost in despair Meret i to take objection to the ter which he has applied to 
x g A No 
being anything better than stunted trees and shra righ belong them collectively. hat. ghe ord ‘itself’ ae new, 
ee are so very trying and withering. 
may be done by steady perseverance an nd wW 
ipse J. Barnard. 
kj 
cde vds oppor- 1 E under it in "i those that we 
Wh 
nave been acca ustomed to. re Berzelius classes 
| 
ls sulphur, ge eei carbon and silicon as 
PERES UM. metalloids ; gen, hydrogen, and nitrogen as per- 
ed sid | manently el Mis or gaseous bodies; and puts chlorine, 
a ace — Meet ing of | n , iodir d bromine in a class by themselves; 
ne, cl 
| pjohn places all these, vea with selenium, 
E uos and arsenic, maki elements in all, 
al 
Sco - The Tenth Annual General! nder the n name of foots allo oids. 
Meetin libe s So nete. one “held ad 5, St. Andra Me | | aware o t 
EA Fx g^ 4th of Nov. last, Mr. J. Bal « e im ranon, and $ tes are inate 
Forester, Lennoxlove, in the chair. The following Candidates | |to complain. 
e elected : a 
Dari vice the Earl of Ducie resi 
d, it ¢ 
The book was rindai for thé a oepeefal 
k 
wer — is W. Coo kes Astley Rectory, near | 
Stourport ; Mesrrs. Waterer and Goiter Knaphill, urrey ; | USE of studen nts, who will know how to appreciate its 
J. Hlackley.- Bed. , Milton and Castlemilk; R. T. Mac toeh, merits. There is an index of subjects and of names, 
Esq. edsman, Edinburg h; S. M‘Glashen, 
me wills, Edinburgh; P. Roberto, Esq, i ilis 
Easter, Dundee; Mr. D. Christie, Assistant-Forester, Dalkeith 
Park; Mr. G. Taylor, tant-Forester, Hopetoun House. e. site da 
The following i Ac erunt to the successful com- TI u f 
petit x for EE ng 1862 and 1863:— To Mr. Wm ae villa o the 
M‘Corquodal Scone Puede; 5l. for an n | cro OWT E c ness gis on nthe “top E - hill opposite 
tga ocessfal Planting wis — Fir after previous crops of | the Wilhelmira Palaco, on t£ = t side of the town of 
| old Scotch Fir had bee moved from the ground," and the | vem att. Its s positio enit ve tubtosxt 
9 | Soc iety's Silver Medal “for Essay on '' The Diseases of the | akani b ^ "i gart, 
| Larch." [These papere have = pu ed in the Transac- | an the n at valley o the Neckar with 
a Vol. II. p. 2 pun lchrist, Forester, Cas s, The e P 
tion and Farm Roads and Walks 
the establishing ** Reading Rooma eee ibraries for 
ge ill aho 
n ead from Mr. M‘Glashen, having reference to | | three- „quar rters of a mile. n the ier portion Vines 
A reris | transplanting of a number of trees and Shrubs | are planted on each n ers carefully cultivated. ‘The 
r Edinbur; aey his ma ai mpm June and 
July 
trees in dg 
Committed nte examine the t 
1864, and "repent here reon ^ ‘the next a sien as fe | visit were loaded with viele nner coloured Grapes, 
their health and tit and -< = a the -i red, and | some of the bunches being mer a foot i in miim The 
W: 
mtb ENS. | 
|On the left side, ng the so 
he | formed, on dens ‘Vi ines are me ed, a 
with special rete over r the walks form an agreeable shade, Beyo es this, 
t Britain E Ireland: he bank is well covered with evergre The carriage 
kes a sudden turn to the left ney sits 
nd dii trained 
sphere dry, so that fertilisation can ed is as s ce, | 3. 
and i injury to the bloom by fr oe be prevented. 
orchard been erected in this neighbourhood 
wit ng apparatus, belie 
the Le ener now wishes his was always 
been an advocate for US adag structures in this 
district, and am now erecting orchard house which 
s rite gehen to i, a 
dla atmosphere and - keep out frost. Bradford, 
———— 
oreign Corresponden 
Island of Ascension.—The Flowing — ng 
ES. some of the results of th 
eak), have 
o Sir William Hecker by the 
cer in Siu of that Island. 
Mv Dex em Wikis, Ascension, Nov. 13, 1863, 
unfavourable or ries "d om 
my last is as 
e expectations which fi = Adi my 
ning of Sept ich fine moist "weather in the 
not thi g eptember gave rise to have vanished, and I do 
Fort t ene 
anting season 
T [As e [mea marly 0 
Pa and i I find that "t 
1 e before I leave; it is well 
ave built a cement-lined tan within 
Pie e € 
n ance of water toa 
Ere tat the birds ene 
d, sparrows are bree ing End i beat of five nests near 
springs. We feed the prie hoe » 
Sure to thrive. Canar: Cae che ed and several 
Gomitedors 
their living in. PIU 
think i worth whi wh 
while to m. i 
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heated. I have a 
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with special reference to 
The Best Me ed ng and Maintaining -— — x 
with an —À of the Plants best fitted for filling sin 
of Timber Trees sui itable to t the 
nd the Effects pro- 
gerow Trees, havin cd be 
ntal 
the court-yard of the Pzlace. 
The latter is a handsome structure in the Italian 
style « of archit ecture ; 3 it i is nearly Mb with abaleony 
uc eren 
special reference to their -— character, an 
the most successful mode of r 6. A Silver Medal 
will be given for the best x emi Essay, or Report on any | 
other subject Lect c with Eee ultur c E = be r Medal | 
will be given for a ement on 
court-yard is Her dsome fi placed i 
ds feont of p aa -— principal windows, = ‘Tact ing a long 
e It n excellent effeet, w vhether 
fro 
A 
e subjeets of wi Bet y tres 
—— Reporte, an Re Tüsteomenté intended for competition 
ust be given in to the etit not later than October 1, 
1s 804, each bearing a mot being sstoutpaniea by a 
— “i "-— letter hearing ihe same motto, and containing | 
mt ten P submitted ast tatement of the Society" iin = 
The asurer a statement of the Society's i "Rod C on then western side; i 
financial affairs, showin: lance in favour of the Society of | and a grand staircase to the dio ipsi the it foo 
The Office Bearers for 1863—64 were then elected, the | formed the principal € to the vil 
Right Hon. T. F. Kennedy, Dalquharran mes +o: ips = entrance just named, were adorned w 
being President, and Mr. J. Sadler, Assistant D tubs pots. Fr 
Botany in the University of Edinburgh, Secre! ary alk | sd Py 
f 
IU ME ST The roof of the Pavili 
FRotices of Books. stone columns, and the sides a 
Johnston's Civil Service ores Lon o. : ir ihe 
Of late the country has been M ed with very 
ood books of arithmetic, but we have sufficient faith 
in the laws of supply and demand, 
L^ v on such ores na are only written to meet a felt a grand a 
The fac competitive examination is the m mon 
hobby of of ur dns, and every candidate for the nd of | with evergri = 
de waiter, a er ; or boatman, every |o q À 
in the pot ofico, Agak- 
ulary, 
lx 
Ee! 
and on that occasion a gran 
Canstatf. Amongst all kinds k rh 
horticulture was not for, rgotten. Prizes Wen given for 
f this there was 
the entrance to the 
pples, Gra 
ductions might | 
Md 
Bez, ses 200 
il 
"3 
; z and flowe 
this work care was taken di render it worthy of 
the "- which E 2 hssder to celebrate. This could 
all be seen from the Pavilion, and produced an impres- 
sion not soon er ‘ab 
, On the south side of the villa—well protected on 
g to the Palace—is the English 
vum rq RTC ios wer garden, the plans te which, we were informed, 
Manual of the Metalloids. By — ra mo MLD, were prepared in England. It is nearly square, igo a 
F.R.S. Bandon irren Longman Pp. 596, | cov: way down the nee this was formed | 
small 8vo. - brick work, about 3 feet , and from this, brick 
The excellent series of scientific passu: edited by | columns were cred up at inre about - feet high, 
Messrs. Galbraith & H , of Dublin University, ounted wooden lattice-work, and the 
columus 
ell kn ia the thick tte lume befo ERA 
are wi own, e thic le vo rot efore us| whole was Vi iel > D) 
character Pu and t the shad Deere T = 
der that 
nd of questions he is likel d 
of the ki 
os meet with, and emp his Studies costing 
form some noti 
& 
actitis oett peci ying 
pA 
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e afd- abun aise’ oF Neh The flower beds 
moon, v stocked wit 
Passi 
the PEOR 
we eee fate = ee north side o 
e avenue 
