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THE GARDENERS''CHRONIOLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
[JUNE 25, 1864, 
to work in the rig! 
the "p A Re matter, e E 
ded hs. experiment w 
Such is 
the success which a 
most complete. We. 
whether the moroh 
success which a ended his venture. 
In a horticu ate tural vint “of view this matter is 
also of considerable interest. We learn how easily 
and how cheaply plan d may be sen 
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as Japan; no sary t 
Mr us by the expensive although speedy, oyver- 
required tak 
f GARDENS AT SANDR 
rees o 
e | Bigarre à Cherries, planted b 
n | bu n gat re 
“the old Mji eau n the last stage 
| think I remember ise that 10 bushels had been in 
one abundant season gather ered. All this now seems like 
Po conspicuously spotted on er upper segmen 
the upper segment richly spotted. It is „deeper ùnd|in warm and dry amnre Rx " i 
than any of the with thr 4 and 15-inch d di as must also th or fas d ha 
excep tion of the semi-double Bel gian, Souvanif Heart and Bigarreau Cherries, Sud as Knight, 
f the reasons Prince Albert, of w bien latter, by the by, though it fs ini Warder's Bay er Cherries, the Black Te : 
M üu t this season bee well ae own in England, we have | rian, the Bigarre: f sorts, and some of = 
during lou: finely-developed wae Guigne Cherries, hd are so fine in nth of 
to grow, elsewher rar nd in South Germany. ll e oa of 
3 An ather variety of considerable merit was the | Hearts and Bigarreaus are generally grafted = M 
Excelsior of Messrs. F. & A. SwrrH, a smooth-flowered em Cherry stock, so that their 
e 
I 
r. Ki INGHORN'S Meteor is another flower of the 
season which must not be passed over. It is one of 
the bright orange scarlets, moderately spotted, some- 
showy. after the style of Mars, and, therefore, very 
sho 
nh pe pe = Lord Der erby too 0, is o e whi ch deserves a pots. They would - Le ens t burst th 
ord of p for it the fi t f. If, how e confined io PE i 
being ond wight, and rose mae ‘spotted wi cultiva ted a Pit Aeriet ‘hey for press pi 
rim freely produced, and tiere as ces fertile and erii l of f fruit trees, bie. 
hi 
Cherry peri ad 
f bousa dev d. 
n they 
ee other orchard “house trees thee fit a 80 
s, that 
nally, as a companion to Flag of Truce, a double ti 
mag dera continues to improve the longer one E ; 
acquainted with it, we must mentióh a Belgia Eph make tc way t lators 
| called Roi des Doubles, a close, pe a crispy, "bright freely as if the trees were im the open air, and the 
and lively rose-colour, very showy, and one of the ax Les any iy. ae gr or ros that 
n keep his fingers from a rip ] 
y 
merry must be 
My 
finest "s ^ race for decorative irons 
Some new Belgian varieties we hope to notice here 
1l th 
l pick ig aeg 
ti 
itt 
—— We iiem Ae the formation of the New 
the N 
o ri ipen, to cover ‘i natant a with double 
netting, and not to close breed till Cherries are over, 
H.R.H. the PRINCE OF S WA mA is cae oe for wh 
rapidly eee bas M emer i of the gardener, 
zt CARMIG 
truction, aa ar aratge of forcing houses 300 feet long, 
with four others of 100 feet ea. ch, a are to be commenced 
immediately by Mr. Gray, of Danvers Street, Chelsea. 
CHERRIES. 
WHEN I think of Cherries, I seem to be eogitating 
on dap that were and are not, for I go back in 
and pont ae Pará on the 12th of July. 
three months i in exploring the environs of that city, , he 
gust; the free "wi 
‘a air gives cbe to the fru 
onstant 
it 
ssion e door 
is pee n PO and hr v. delivered Loy to 
a confidential man, who gives the when 
they rich i it. 
RESULTS OF ae RICHARD SPRUCES 
RAVELS. 
E left dd on th 
e7th of June, 1849, 
After spending 
Mz. Spru 
~ | thought b my puce days, w 
numerous old f Ma Duke, Archduke, ‘ia 
y my grandfather, were a 
litle pa their prime, but bearing, | as most old trees 
do and delicious fruit. The size of these trees 
a when 
of decay, I 
a dream. 
Tapajoz, a 
70 "o farther "p to a7 where the Amazon is 
vesci riv 
and in November of the same year went 
Starting from Ob 
Returning rey Sántaremá in January 1850, he 
But pigpose the conditions in whi 
E] the gamekeepers, : and I half suspect from their having 
t-loving 
there exploring 
Lens T v = Amazon unt 
remained - 
the lower part of the Tapajoz and — 
til en he $ 
arted azon for the 5 
7 be somewhat differen 
they had “er taken out out of. 
pni at the 
ge d have been v ry | 
diffe e: t. nd 2: nearly so satisfactory. In the 
latter case the bulbs would certainly have 
and m 
meneed to gi during the voyage, 
probably would have been found dead on arriving 
at their destination, 
È | birds have i 
s 
nerens to such an enormous extent that 
stan 
duds rd 
were spent in 
island of Tupi 
ti da io To'y h of 
where he a “ved aft H a voyage of 63 days, 30 whereof — 
r^ E to the south cf the gr e 3 
few days? journey up; and in 
fruit. 
tw wo to t of old times, and 
“ mentally ajnon ated” there will this year be enough |o 
ss ns all, aning birds and self, This 
9 tons burthen, which he had fitted up express 
m 
f the Rio Negro; ina boa 
t object. 
January, 1852, Mr. Spruce reached 
haa ‘Ont the — T wing I again visited my ed the 
d ic iamirduo af the Rabits of planih, 2045 sce cnet» Cher but the ground was | village ot Sao Gabriel, situated about midway of th 
to enable one to know how to treat them, is a ; ` | villagi 
of xh ian cove re ae stems ; dio ir ie had ev idently made our | cachoeiras, or cataracts, of the Rio Negro, an 
times of great importance day of rest a day of thorough enjoyment—instead of | remaining there some seven i oaee he Mei 
to send them to distant countries by sea. It| sweet Cherries I had sweet songs, not quite satisfactory | the large river Uaupés, which had been scarcely known 
frequently depends on the application of this to one's fruit appetite. I ought to say that for some | to Europeans, even by name, until Mr. walle 
ae whether tho the plats ian their — € — owe this voracious con nduet of our “fe ather adventurous exploration of ib preceding 19 p. 
health p und the Uaupé a more 
SA — Mns. the to my fort ; f ful forest-vegetation than any other part of 
lucky importer has been well rewarde hat wh dearly loved i in boyhood, w Mete we South a is collections include eee 
love in old age. As far as Cherries go, | this i is ith besides many speci notable ^ 
.L £ 
of his having possessed oppid: dida kind of 
knowledge, fon the two ee realised, we 
EUN 
b 
quite true, f. 
of summer very charming—so bri ght, so dT 80 
E ares e remained on. the Uau 
1858, when he sailed out of it as the Rio 
ond t| 
ys; the dirge sam M nice, but d when they are gathered from the trees to 
with one’s own fingers and (a at once; gathered | up the latter river bey e Brazilian E 
x e dd gor ner dne NS which have Cherries 1 oso all their freshness of flavour in a very | San Carlos del Rio Negro, * This 
are of suffi- eds quarters during his stay in Venezuela, which extend 
oe aS ii^ mon Mone few penta sine | sath shoal ii bath Pn ees. Son to cee 
en btm ear enti eae orate ae g e o lions 
“flo , remarkable for for the last.two or three seasons I have had the Orinoco, one by way of the Casiquiari, und she OM 
e and weli formed d oe gathering them from the end of May till the | the portage of Pimichii apo ae 
oral ts to be in | end ay, even. later. have accom. | of des examinin ng the Casi uiari, the 
marked with a — glow E t| plish is b ery simple mode of cult; merely di d d ding, h eec : 
It will thus| by planting the trees in pots, and placing them | Pa acimoni to its source, among ub lofty sn P the rivet 
seen that the colouring is ppup ka like that |in ay, * Che ouse,” a span-roofed structure | mountains called Iméi and Tibiali; as also of the 
de but the form | 14 feet wide. A house of this wi | Canucuntima, which bathes the n foot of 
is vastly superior. Another variety of the same_/ high at vie side, 10 feet high in the centre, and from rad 
le of colour, and from the same source, | 30 to 40 feet in length, would supply a 1 
: us, has been equally successful with ibe Mes of the Huna with such fine and ripe Cherries 
ered from trees in the open air now- 
esuvi 
ining a First-class Certificate, though at 
of the year. We believe this also will 
; but when we saw the 
sessio; 
ight 
All the kinds of Duke Cherries, such 
ê, idul 
a large late Duch 
ch Ch d some others, 
© dome Mahaleb, be planted in 
house as pyramids ; they ma; kept in a co 
State by pi eg a their pours gl 
three x ue leaves all th nr r, but rd as 
argest ear 
| Cherry known, -the- Belle d'Orleans, of * 
lence vim Nee above re came Si wes ou 
frontier, to E in Pen 
noe 
