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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[JANUARY 99, 1864 
Cannot a ought not this state of things—almost_ as | 
be remedied? It is a subject quite worthy the 
aani of — ga great prize-giving societies, Could 
- gardene urserymen who make it a rule to 
w for nr rani puii nd to whom the expense o es 
sending. their flowers or plants is an object, be pai ida 
f transport, leav ing to the publie s 
in ice, and their clear green colour, seen through the 
e, is charming! We have every reason now 
> beli that the Hymenophyllaceæ of 
New land and Chili will bear our frosts without 
injury. should perhaps add that o plants of H. fc 
demissum were unprotected by ice, and that one of 
them was exposed to dry frost that ‘could not » much 
short of 15° to 20°. . Todea pe ellucida, froze on ard for 
to decide which collection is y est or 
could not amateurs show their Roses or their plants to 
their friends in honourable and dinge: competition 
| ok deveare) fyond being uninjure 
chile anse a sulphu m, the char ming L copo odium 
dike "dwarf Cry jptomeria), Sarracenia 
without ey vw ero oe seeing fav 
the 
n UE 
tak 
d. "utum mistake, 
Tulips grown in the parterre (in the opa POM 
Sunday's be the prone of Ale id ju) 
E.A 8 
Esq. , Dublin, [The specim 
were Lono of Du 1c vo Thol, ul ws 
coloured, and free from speck or blemish,] "d 
The lat n the interesting notice 
Francis con when mentioning Y the pine’ 
he had Lez bbe gh, 
only on 
(p. 51 
Vine 
Professor's old pupil 
is legin 
y ual placa s of 1st, 2d, ad, 
purpurea 
re all un is te opparentiy, 4 afkor having been also 
t 
and 4th yi Gs it may ok 
token of hon ah som. out these 
E 
frozen for ortnight. ew crimson scarlet 
zs 
du ud 
prize- gi ving s 
er anew leaf, and thus. 
a 
Schizostylis coccinea seems one hardy, and even 
the petals of the exquisite Caucasian Primula amoena, 
icum montanum 
avoid the bitter itas prin engendered by p 
On. | 
Will Mr. Thomson, beat near 
use of this 
in 
rete ha its value as a manure 
in feel specially interested, as I have 
Me tances to take a market garden here, m a 
WO! 
oll 
en 
var. vernu m, and Cole 
‘mained expanded an 
to which they were subjected. James 
ork. 
Bottom He 
cuttings, she th 
which HH 
hy t. The 
Ba 
e for keeping 
ode by 
at.—I am making a hous 
rough ai winter, and “the mo 
git is mitation ihe # 
re will be that eee Kenti 
1 4 
ly aetate og «pat ent wool ma as he 
alls it, to me, and I es already got 7 or 8 pt iar it, 
mor li 
which will burn anything, from roots or 
and uninjured throughout ‘the Mw | 
ckhou 
up | 
house, 1 ex two sides of large lumps of Tree, | in 
—for they will be glag, "n know that he is sti u in life ai 
cujeviagss the ru ers ell earned by his long and agis 
labours, D. ja 
Foreign Correspondence, 
Wo are indebted to the Gomritice, of Me 
U | British ish Colunalig 
Potaniçai Aaa for the follow: y inte eresting lette 
sed by Mr. Brown, their BE UN % Isaac 
addre: 
Es: Secretar to the Associa ation, at Hi 
Henry, Mdidbergh. 1 = ay loig, 
VANCOUVER'S dieran Valley of the Les-haat Inding 
Barclay Sound, N.W. America.—Lat, A8 47! oy 
1863. scs laeo I last wrote I la MET à 
, U.S., British rs — 
this, 
inh to ‘coke or Wels h € coa al, a flue v 
r the floor (to prevent Me 
ana I conte emplate having 10 tons 
"The Aree placa y will be 
floor ) 
chimney E 
fire cracking the 
£4 £4 
and I have already made a compost M a 
TPA 
REE 
he 
The chimney will he fired with a dam 
other. 
1 4) 
stance slower in heating than itself, as for e ne ce 
leave Ex S es refuse used at Wortley is stated to be 
what h: to obtain th 
oil fro: would sure ely only imperfect 
dic the oil, heres the chemical processs per M 
cleanses it from oil . Th here can be no dou bt t as to wool 
itse 
E 
a simple do ften Sidi in o: pua 
a, pla ite. of iron suspended with a A Dalene 
the 
who 
y | th 
three courses of tiles 
e a wa three 
peed; but oil acts in a w ay to. prevent pores sane e 
taking place. If we take Johns an ai Mer ity. 
— shall find in his * Agricultural Chemistry,” 
mparison of woollen rags wit 
VÀ clean :—1 ton of woollen rags is ea ay ws 2 [vus of 
pigeon's dung. or 6 tons of bloo! d, 
dung, or 40 — 
rative table is correct, the manurial value e 
waste is very high indeed, ke s a have ated rater 
men Ma whi ch 
OPE 
whom ted fried 
last year for Potatos, along with, or rather 
fast his usual dressing of fa nner vy "sr eia 
cwt. of Potatoes more to the 
and vegetables; aud I 
sone future time give the results for the benett 
George Rymer, Meadow Cott 
Pie ‘Notts. 
un 
.—I have a piece of fi 
ns the Bizs Medw. 
piers By » be aaa s pleasure), Md ke floor 
edde support 
" inte i of ud Tem. 6 ndis us oe s ofi Wide ? inches | P 
b ll 
y.e antities t 
mplet og Mise inei MEE sw] i 
pretty pus previously gg uced herbaceous plai 
shrubs, and forest t Am the last are sm 
good Co hei incudin 5 Juniperus three species, o 
et Tax a fine lot of the Cupra 
is ; Thuja, taisiin d.a a iJarge quantity 
Abies Beceem Ape oan introduced inte: h gand; 
about €: of hs à 
inus s sour a Abies grand is, 204 Ll 
unces ; "Alias Monziasi “ie this Pinus scheni i 
gard, Veg in the St. Pet ersburg 4 
A continued for about 11 feet under the front 
‘aang xovg 
SPACE UNDER BORDER. 
The Cost of the Floor Ra be po abont 8L, and the Fire-place 
50s, to 60s.—Bim: 8, 26 x 13, 
nd 
border (a continuation of an "mn Vine border), 
rfe n. 8p., ‘a fine haoh, 
fine shrub; what I 
00 muleteers Superior in fal 
Eu: va to Mr 
e and the rv have n 
eak win 
at Tussock Gras 
ds, ‘andl might be Fees gir j| " 
tage into some of the bleak islands of the -" brides 
of Orkney a and Shetland, where I have 
ie off i inter from want, 
redii ia d at 
hat me: coincides inia ts 4 the Aene st " 
nay re as he who introdu 
l'ussoc s rit a gold medal 
liscov: 
gie Conifer I 
my present ME 
t 
I 
€ 
have foun 
ae sea (the — $ or 6 mi iles distant. Wo uld 
bus the front of the 
as to the 
house, Now I wi be under 
motive for enag i this construction. 
along thea river, expos sed to the aboy: ees 
the ty 
I do no 
adire ould grow ; 3 if they 
would cou wr = 
very. 
The’ t re 
vels have terminated, 
th of this uc and to x, ‘therefore wi 
permission, I ity in dev my at 
| My funds à 
gh the money winter now fairly 
Other plans would 
some mon 
border. 
well or better pem, for warming the Mete but I |p 
thi nk if wi hea 
uniformi 
he 
lain wet, k a 
chalk. 
care 
way of gettin to the Pueri trees and bushes? T 
soil, which is hard at places where it has 
strong loam, with a-su 
w n^ M^ 
mueh under command. What 
I do not mean to put Vines at 
Strawberries. I have abundance of ater 
t I jchiefly | tha 
ant A. pus is the Fh of soil that I should give in 
but | eve: ry pi 
the border ? 
clone 36 
, and so I ded I also think 
of petting a sce en ot briek edges indie 
for |. 
iterraln 
ot like in any 
Md, butif you or 
of anything "c will 
T shall €: m px for * hint. C. W. M. 
pulcherrima.— This s plan kn deserving of 
to sa many fail a 
md Py ^s vll ih vie m pe E 
in it, each of w has flowered profusel y n 
all of them Jost their , an ig Paich 
. 
(from 5 
-reniforme New Zealan 
Ch aad our British Trichomanes radicans are all 
Apr i 
loam at, mixed wit 
anes | T 
may 
such beautiful speci- 
— last week's Numi 
in Ireland.—As a proof of the 
usnm D a E cf ie niam 
of some sod s species 
Obtain this ww am rami nul " 
‘Abies Wi 
Iu 
time send 
