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jnade quate t o buy "back a thousandth part of the con- in cultivation, e “when better known will orsi to be arranged. for effect, in or ont of f flower. Le Let these 
l favour Robert Bullen, Gardene 
ditions of pice which for centuries she has wantonly reel Es ^ TR M e general mass of other aped 8, according to the 
squandered a qup Oak Trees Killed by Frost.—In our annual fall of E E eeu ment of a competent superintendent, This 
timber in 1862 there were some e 80 Oa k trees so much give room for the intr oduetion o of many plants 
Home Correspondenc injured by the fi Co 
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S 1864. the remarks to cut them rer They ted singly in hedge- rows small state. in t of 
ns Unpropiinas Sean Riser nt i Som bon tn nt to the River Ryton. is should be limited to from 30 to 
tiim a ttle more on this Bet save Here the season lot tk vere which contained over 100 | plenty, and with this number, there would be ample 
| has Beli, Ya ery unfavourable as far as d t in eac Kt tree ~ One ione contained 140 feet | room ior taste in arrangemen his notion of beauty 
and vegetation soy are cider "The frost on sta The boles of those 80 Oaks w e all, stri ped or of arrangement seems to have peat provan t pe the 
= Sew! i M an occurren of nl t g n, with t d ^ s a ing = 
rded as i e alniutty comin b r, not even by the Schedules of the great Agrien ural and Horticul- 
the bedding Sate had been plac ves in (Mif s bea ing, a process denn tanners disli ke. "The majority of tural meetings, ji find that § ng Pee aa ar - e It 
"Ma d! f the other trees na as an ey ness 
Md ut E. A RAUM by oie ia any | - pe en is impossible to ar them of their|can bear testimony to the beautiful d "tul 
ai h The r Oaks affecte 3 but it was | character of such collections. There still r n two 
i 2 e 10-guinea Silver Cu dix are 
d to be taken and started again. | con sica that th rath rally. Some of them are | other shows this year, where 10-g 
ered. chen ee of different, kinds Serie greatly, and at this time very s sickly y; » faet one ties given way | offered for such collections; viz. at Leicester on August 
the effect may Le seen on some even now. Following | within these last two months, We have several large | 31, and at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, on Se eptember 7. If a 
this we had cold, or at least what was ui fa from being | Beech tregs hereabouts which are sickly and dying, | list of the plants comprising the winning groups, will 
growing weather, and things could hardly be said to gu from the continued dry weather and heat.| be any guide for future exhibitions of this kind, I shall 
tart until the beginnin ince | J. L., Wor be pleased to furnish it, An O 
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um we have had seven weeks of dry weather, with the | Stopp toli in Ted Pipes.—1 shall feel obliged if The Present Drought.—What can be done in our 
exception of a few showers one day iri were not | can suggest to me a remedy under the de lowing flower and dien Pall with a drought of now 
oil an inch dee irri have a large reservoir or o n tank, nearly four months’ Guration—no rain n having pene- 
gation has been a daily iabour, bat b per ein of | basin.shaped, bricked all rou nd, which r Pucdivie a great | trated t ] g the 
most of that arduous task can be ted here with a | deal of la m drainage, having no spring in it that I| whole of this period ? ith, some pumps the 
hose attached to the inr piper This, wherever it | know of. It contains a very large body of water, has | premises I hoped i have d» ept my shrubs and “plants 
can be carried out, is the best way of watering flower shrubberies and ti mber round two-thirds of it, has gold | alive, but the springe are hv exhausted, à 
rdens. Sometime: ge sh i j d es leeches and frogs. This| can sca ircely o obtai nee ncy for our few a wien: 
them properly in the ordinary way some part must be reservoir has for 70 years supplied the whole of my | I have hig 50 years, and such a 
trampled on; a pipe with a little force of water there- | premises with soft water—house, stables, farmyard, drought and so "s a stato of the atmosphere I can 
fore remedies that evil and keeps the Grass and | garden, &c.; but for the last two or three years I have | never remember. ‘Ihe trees are shedding their leaves 
walks clean. A flexible pipe may be attached to a occasionally Minti a Roige in the lead pipe which as in the e autumn—my iria rd, rw two years since, 
pump, one man Maa " the latter, -— another direct- | conveys the "re ie the pond to the buildings ; t burial ground and Pears, of 
ng the hose. Some, after reading ‘ Js" remarks qu hoked with the spongy material the best sort—my Filberts, and all pe are ones 
n Flower-beds, might Lodi ae alga with the | which I tlioloie a void Can you suggest eee away, and my stock for winter in the kitchen ga 
idea of mulching, and w with all speed to | which will i is substance, | is shrivelling up, and I fear now worthless. Dig as WMéply 
apply it, wondering how tur Tt p s0 stupid = — without prejudicing the water or the fish? It isa 14 |as I moisture i 
to think of it before. Let me, however, a inch pipe, which runs from the pond to a mim s 7 | be done is a question I am unable to solve. w 
to take heed. If they are troubled with eier fries d 25 feet, and lies about 6 feet deep. J. E. Gra [Seea buying water at a dear rate, but to little purpose. 
thrushes, they will never forget mulching; for before | lending article in — r page.] This place is peculiar in its character in regard to 
24 hours will have elapsed their covering, whatever it| Se car Runner. ti i 
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; these seldom visit us, and the rain clouds that 
n the shady s ‘side “of a row of strong beu Sana have appeared around have seldom gi 
put it. Flattened beds again appear to be a very} Runners, and mp ng their deep green leaves and | though within very short dis "owe ir soe smart 
natural Seen and no doubt they “i only are, but "T flow: I began to tp on the fact, that showers have fallen. aa island not m n 3 mi 
will be adopted wherever it is convenient to do so. , bri right summer like this, the ouds SY t 
My be ENNE % is hs aised en" roduce a id fall. 1 » welcome to a second island n do» distant, leaving us at the 
decidedly better effect than flat ones, giving us as they in the “days o of auld la ang syne.” I kne was not |bottom of an inlet et whilst they are being deluged 
do T. hills of floral display as well as “ seas.” | for a of water, because hits are watered oy with rain, of late often di inti 
Here some are perfectly flat, others partially raised, every evening; and it is not throu gh o Over watering, this state of things 
[ cus very much so, a the beds in the i 
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cause some of m g water at all, and | matters will become most serious. I hear o 
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they are not any better off. I wondered if there was|noó far from hence—who 
h dd bes AER Pr Roe any et tebe ag in the flowers themselves pre. bd medi for lack of water, havi 
ali round them, or making w erme asin for | venti them from being properly impregna wasl ands, their wells bein ! My wel 
each plant. This may appear tedions, but it amply | a and then T remembered SE A uide gated wi have mever a ru te mln 
repays the operator for his trouble. p t—“b t only int the | abun will now yield but very few buckets full i 
been followed in the case of some of p trees on en tor to make honey, but their most important work | four-and-twenty hours, nory of the 
the law diameter | was to impregnate ev Fat i ao that each herb and | oldest inhabitant, never befor aa have 
round the plant, affording an p nity of givi € it | tree might bear the p e and after its kind."| been predictions at t| inning i 
a i ree days i in succession; Whether you will agree with my Fy DON or not|by some learned Frenehma: 
ount I cannot say, Mi e t notice E s humming|for the coming two or three seasons, but of what 
i Proce flew from ind and c at causes 
ot ha p rrested by eS m emarks ai 
nis si a long drought as we have experienced, | humble bees, w as nien of going into the flowers | P. 771, bout our gar being so frequently | mithout 
with curs de lawns and Meng me the effects on trees | settled upon them. At Mn Ith oe he was — water, lead d to stage that fountains should in ey: 
and s may be bett asd then d escribed. e g bim go to another and settle in the case be a 
ecessity o ower-garden ; it is quite be § 
Oey mk machines have pues dispensed with for| way I cual the one v just left and found that Pine ficient fe one that it ako only play the quantity 
the last six aoe m €— not likely to be was a hole through tbe cal — I looked round nted every day in a a garden or a greenhouse, which 
Tequired for some e yet to-come, The Grass fields my acquaintance, and found him just settling, h benefited by bei 
the vicinity bl mly faa and bet Boe the sun . A stoneware tazza with 
appearance of rte On the Toth and Umi inst. the per petal of a stiff eal ere with his head to simple j jet i is not very expensive. Somerset. 
air felt rather cooler, med at night; and o -— the stalk, then opening his mandibles he took a wid 
morning of the 12th t nd was covered wi grip, and by an upward jerk literally tore away the 
Meroe frost, and at 5 oc in the morning thin calles upper part of the calyx at the base of the m m = 
ight be en off the Grass. Not! "-— ioe just over the nectary, then thrusting OYAL HORTICULTURAL: Aug. 16 (Floral Com. 
received any injury from it except a | the hole, he extracted the e el without t the trouble ain — Several very fine spikes of lyhocks were 
Ki baler Ponca the rich hue peculiar hich has certainly rather | furnished on this occasion by M ffro! 
been changed in nto a n. One might be eon ee for a heavy i i 
bee to rifle, t seeing him | Walden. To Cygnet, white; James 
peat the process Hiie times, I killed him. I then | purple; Rev. E. Hawke, cerise; Decisi l 
a o on examinatio on tha at the major rity of withered | Chai A Mac crimson ; Hereules, yellow flushe 
ould have | blooms had b ly fa carmine ; a 
Men Bresfer bad i it ain dorem y in the Wide manner | did;T find a young Bean formed where calyx had | Diz,' 
E the Coleus was EX the previous night, The present | been perforated. Is it usual for this kind. of bee to do | awarded 
n may therefore, I thi; nk, well be set down as one | this, and if so is it not injurious to the crop? If not | coloured’ kind 
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 incess . W. P. R., Shrub- 
land Park Gardens, hay arn aep — loom and see if it is similarly affected. Croy 
; Lilium au lium or these last ree weeks I have Horticultur, Evhibitions.—I quite ee with t the | for his collection of 
had a opem bulb of this Lily in flower at my | remarks of your Colrespondeut Mis, ae 723. fine spike of Aeme, Era 
at Draycott, it has borne 15 full-sized | doubt a change is wanted to increase the last yar, sod on 
T is rd i these same collections, the 
ng from the top of the pot. The flowers Lee ae awe oe among 
mean om rome. of about 18 inches round the top of t the year present themselves With un - Pon Se of Lem ing ki kinds, ET bg o 
tisfied, prove matters ur aan 
that time the, hers presented a truly magnificent the Councils | of our societies wi » well to give it te de E. were. E kaid Trda 
appearance. William Barron, Elvaston Nurseries.- dne tes for nd Defiance, rose; and 
My plant of, iem Lily has at th + eet Tue crimson; both excellent Hol lyhocks. 
stem 7 feet —— high, with 115 Some kas, d pP. VM. am e nis of the season must - ined The same Albion, primrose; and 
had also 
i o 91 n length; the flow: re 11 in if even on a sma aller scale than that hitherto pra ctised, | rena cherry ; to which rie scale Certificates 
; nümber, eight of which are in full ty essrs. Carter & Co, furnish ed blooms of 
| Ud unexpanded; the Sowers were 12 ia in| London season, so as to allow other smaller shows to be | eni ra fast reii atrotiotà acea, a semi- double or rather 
lameter, a sight more easily i Collections of fae | hose in hose flowered sort, white inside and violet out ; 
As an mir of its s attraction, I may mention that | and greenhouse flowering plants, Orchids, Azal Fe 0 e pretty Nosegay and Zonal Pelargoniums and 
1 Visitors pass by a e plant of Disa grandiflora | Gerani iums, and Roses must maintain their position wed | other interesting plants. Mr. Bull exhibited blooms of 
i unnoticed to inspect m individual flowers on the latter | the general summer displays, but the quantities, and Mg eximia and examples of new striped Italian and 
i vex ve Mer fe ful Il beauty upwards of f our weeks. | consequent oe ber je in many of the pose pe might | other Verbenas. From the Society came a handsome 
t i a few groups of good plants! leaved Anthurium, ier home by its eilledtüt, Mr. Weir 
