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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[JANUARY 30, 1364, 
thrown aw: 
and there they all are now, except a for which were c most remarkably s so last season, for after the mildest | 
a 
orts. None 
as good condition 
dew: in the lea 
in October, an 
m for eise: 
are 
st | sa 
1! 
inter ever known, 
e had in the harv ie of 1853 the 
skis othe 
——— eiua ever odid ther popular | 
am ngst country people is that when is is an 
n o will 
of | fol 
were never hurt except o peti | 
A 
In 1862, Hips a 
five years 
ch or the 1st of Sb when 
r I had 
ill 
mo vd abundant, Sd ‘the winter most re narkably mild, 
eable. 
el 
try the experi 
, is on the se 3 Ee 
E ing k, on 
Bligh, Bart, I was eai to 
The village o of Sandg: 
top of tj 
s trickled down for ages, and 
worn aw: : the softer material in places exp poring t 
autumn scarce any could be 
s frost 
tt 
irregularly are growing, s 
Vi 
e foretold, but the 
weather prophets =h pide them 
Arago, who after studying 
tà Nreylanki: to foretell the seasons, 
h er, 
meteorology, so 
end of that period that he 
for 60 years, confesse d at the 
gei E [lp iA 
g.—1f your ` Correspondent. SU Ww) M? E who 
about 
mally wir; some introduced, many of our Brit tish s eio 
varieties of Ferns, and a most rm he sight t it is to 
xs when 
I se 
what success voi shall Jude. 
Vere the following are found to 
e, in order that Tp may 
with orchard houses. Failure | 
‘fault, for if the trees are | 
To have good 
E 
Cdi mek need not, I ,b 
on account of getting shot. for I believe that the charge | 
is nothing but powder. My house contains nothing | 
but Apricots, re 8, 'and Nectarines in pots; but I 
d some Pea in pots doing equally well I his 
= 
e new iy house orgrapery, to de the ch 
Aspen lucidum | Onychium lucidum 
coriaceum 
*Pteris vespertilionis 
* Odontites * umbrosa 
| it , out any flue, merely having a piece of né at ir 
cns directly above the fre F so as to spread the 
any of the Bop ey 
da 
two places bar are, 8 
warm tI 
5 
*oh 4} 
a fane 
ou was 101 1 lbs. and the P "I lbs. 
Louise Bonne of Jersey. J. P., à pu bot "e 
f discussion stops ve pom 
the NoNSENSE of orchard house geamblers 
Prizes for Wild I agree with the editorial 
note (see p. 77) that it is not afvisable for the Royal 
ae the proposed prizes. It 
rticultural Society to giv 
hen "p out of E wa Ayi 
patie ery undesirable, for they tend, as is justly 
remarked, to iege the loca sd k rare pal id with- 
out being of advanta to the essful 
al 
The sort is| pur 
p pose, Mud it would further increase the heating 
power if aso ue, foot wide and ^8 inches 
deep, were built, whose bottom would be open to the 
chamber below, from which it ld derive its heat; 
ny other form might be given to this flue, the top of 
which should be thin, and its sides, if convenient, so 
constructed as to transmit heat through to well 
the house. With some i 
t 
i 
fear 
n 
if : 
is covered entirely over with a fi oot or more or Fan 
oie in Santig 
ji arranging, ani to get any Bote 
UULTUS 
internal a tmospherie eat to maintain anny thir the 
tem 
plants, the r esult will not in. his activity aud 
rcr ni 
S.H 
his knowledge as a 
have prizes E d d to e shown alive an 
ere is very little use even in this, for 
te required for the purposes to 
MS id alludes. H. H. 
Earth Clo. 
> in you 
sets.—Observing the inquiry 
* Rurico la mber of the 16th inst, (sont Je. 
ur Nu 
I eu to sata that I have had one of the earth closets ea 
Adiantum pubescens E 
*Dicksonia rubiginosa 
oodia caudal 
*Lastrea decurrens 
pubescens 
*Lomaria —MÓ 
* astata 
* ,,  cretiea albo- 
Platyloma falcatum 
» rotundifolium 
ip hobolus rupestris 
Br gorously. 
From this our Fen: loving ny and they are bon 
5 
effected than bt ture, 
William Masters. 
oses.— Having lost na Spe on their own 
during their first winter out ein trid I can 
confirm the Rev. F. Radclyffe's dietum, that they 
"require great care ti eir roots are and 
strong.” i rived s, that it is 
ing,” consi that, or r any better or les 
troublesome plan may be adopted. A. B., Narberth, 
ye 
Iron and Glass Hou s, —Being about ps wes some 
houses of this desertion, w will any of y 
inform me of the be which to construi them? 
i he matter, 
als equally well as fh 
wood, p I am “ald ‘that ordinary wrou ght b 
out 
ir helpa scone the count esult is | 
and my experience Shas more than borne 
the st statements made as to its een Inde 
person ` The 
simply the promotion "n activit, y in finding : 
lants, and of s some — of — power 
in S pened them n determining their 
id ope that the Society. will see fit to withdraw 
icr Propheln uin from Mr. Neue er | 
in tho. Times, he prophesied 
We h 
tang a 
th it ee ‘into 
and t that 
galvanised. Might I ask through your co AERA itd 
| every house, s its due igh 
commode, for it eae orises all effluvia immediate i 
The late frosts have i interfered with its action in 
the least—and that is very re from the general 
sets during severe 
Wardha am. 
in the y 
usual winter weather, and it see 
upon, that frost of greater in etit V is to c "n 
kept a wn pne sd d ene weather for candle of 30 p 
years, a quite inclined to doubt tha Mt m 
errege i a vol P le severe win 
mild autumns I ild weather 
Thus | tim 
e 
were 
e Vines, 
is really the case, and pir the opinion of. pr 
the merits of iron houses 
wooden ones pine’ in view beauty, utility aad 
durability? The difference in opinion that exists 00 
this subject is very perplexing, and t 
experience of ad hen rs tested all vinds is mà 
wanted, and in m e will in some deg 
mine the class of use Tin T put up. L. 
—1 Maker per your corte 
roots of his - 
plants; I fear tay a: that what 
should be the active ‘ports ion of them is in a bad cm 
h 
2 
cs 
ing scissors 
anot 
v 
a the then ue 
attributed this profuse setting to the: pube The otherwise atiis pro 
aves, 
end of October a deep snow, and for the season a sharp | 
fus lasting v or three da h the weather from that 
| took two first-class prizes for Black and White Grapes 
Vinery containing Black Ha amburgh, Tokay, Mist. 
&c., and T had a splendid crop, with bunches of which I 
ata horti cultural show. J. C, Nicholson, Osgodby Hall, 
f 
um guttatum. E plant has just sloughed 
remar ps mild; we ben hada 
ut any ost. 
vat Christ 
We not foliow 
Oey art hr Bs 
e te 
On h Jan ced | m 
at terrific frost sieh Tasted till the end of 1 February, condos; this we found at len 
hus had five cuti l 
its pretty smi in a stove h 
m 
gh, | cess executed by M. 
t| Mr. E. 
mixed. tes ber o 
ing about for what | 
e the misc 
plained of. Faithfully follow the ‘instructions 
page 52, and success in growth, as well as Saris 
very large floral leaves will be the result. "ES ' 
Societies 
ENTOMOLOGICAL: Jan. 
in the chair. A series of miam a ES 
of several species of moths belonging to 
r. Buckler, were e 
— 
E 
delin neeps of a cat 
pposed to be 
ore odious thai a efffividin in the house could be | 
A communication was e» cies the tary 
respects like smoke from a chimney. 
n|from the 
ravages of the white 
asser 
This plant could 
n not Possibly be retained in the largest hot- house, a 1 | Jamesto 
Per from © 
Lords of the Admiralty, inclosing a copy of pr 
Governor of St. Helen pen ative 
an 
ants in that 
coe insects were in 
consecu 
al frosts 
Cs 
E Sir William 
7 wherein it is shown that 
E: B Du 
ers of 
opinion. 
x bna ap cem 1693 
petes E 
Met mid i autumns one iis severe | impression I 
EIS soon, through the kindness of t 
itd f i cd mee widely 
om each other—a idu sequence 
ing under very dierent remus nces, 
e that we may hav a y 
n 
| req: 
the ravages of the 
of the mischief. Various 
for a "favourable site, and 
e Hon. Sir Jobn 
P 
w doing. With this | state 
Robineor pne that kyani 
sleepers ot railways 
