OCTOBER 15, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
989 
rowing Tree Ferns, for thos 
who don’t pant] 
after A beaut AL of tubs. 
ke 
Alsophila Yount a slender 
oie, huge 
of 
have no a. Lem v tion. However, I must say the 
Saered Bea nobly done, Nelawbinm Token 
and potted last spring, just as the bloom-buds wer 
swelling. It was grown in a cool Vinery until La it 
was then turned out of doce ie “0 oa warm situa and 
blossoming UR end fragrant, a beau tiful thing not 
o n flow hl 
Donne 
glowi ng and str rie ct old Gheber—especially 
e 
ecimen of the Hand- panh nearly 
40 fet high, i Kal very sr le et it has n um ered. 
The Victoria "i vom us s avery r ectable | 
ridge-and-furro oof d structure, with a | 
e 
irod the beautiful Nelum 
(To 
ef yes who” bend the knee to a mahogany 
So I say, all recen to iiie Med made 
um. Win. Robins 
that 
* dum 
and four. corner "tanks, in all of which aquatics of the 
j 
oved "the propellor of all life—to 
~ EF 
nce, "Mec ola blé as the origin of species the| of Jersey and Williams’ Bon Chr irétien, treated in the 
gullibility of the human ies, is perhaps, after | same way, superior in fsize and flavour to those wn 
l, one of the reatest wonde: According to] ont of doors. G. Blake, ersley urt, Droitwich, 
ireumstances, birth, or pets we hae f à e Duchesse d’Angoulé.ne received was equal in size 
believing everything of anything or something of|to, and ped the appearance of, fruit of the same 
E | POENIDE Bat if the crea sere even in his superstitions, variety im orted om the South of France. i$ 
exercises good taste, we should give him the 1 y d 134 inches the ot! 
it, and so we should gd Loro the vin hs of the| The skin was bright yellow, and the flesh UM 
he sun 
icy, and sweet. 
arge Apples.—An Apple iree of some 10 _ years’ 
gro ada has fruited here 
and has borne such large 
E 
z Dé 
ge its 
prie and siz2 may be paler The. ue was 
Ry 
Pome for P in Wonder, 
ape aie uth slope, sheltered. It Acre five App! es 
MO eU it ESTERNI: Zu thet 1 } tog RTRSY 1b E ns 
Home beg be om oirdupois; oue measures 144 inches in girth, and the 
Fruit i in Gardens, and Birds.—Wow pikes sands othe er 14 inches, We have suffered from 
, who admitting the benefit done ie 24 p» yet drought, as other districts pia done, pe these suet 
when fruit "-— rij pen ing Zs bles r forme er | aic . Rogers, Helston 
frie ends. No i Autumn blooming Orchids. -Would f ur 
medicinal a 
1 ilst all 
t all 
some o! yo 
Orchid indly inform me the 
Jaiscollansons. collection of nd 
stood abou it; among these | 
A our s is api red 
it, 
"s to M us E den atroying uted when 
nothi üng to lose? I think it is I be eg, DI b 
"m 
ag | names of about a doze en age ‘that can be gegen 
at no ot extra wagant pr ice and „be de pended on 
seeds M herel nnd Us a UM American tre 
Linde en himself, 
by j ae cting machine which should fire 
turn their attention to the yep ign of a wi 
off a noisy c: 
Mr. 
IT. porn ing 
Milk tr 
Gower "Street is not remarkable 
ery ( 
Kia the. one ed grown as ee 
wit 
e easily D f as a often, as "required it 
e ro m 
for 
ried beauty, nor its houses for exciting a testhetie 
susceptibilities of passi ng city c clerks, Truth to tell, 
ae 1 
irm 
and with simple clóck- work machinery they might be 
made to turn round, Jifting up and dropping the 
L ast-iron circle of 2 ft. 
H inl pa De eS wd nm TY 
"m n 
we 
would hold 144 nipples, ‘allow wing balf an inch | 
h 
or new, ot hoe inter 
Gown ic p age, or Ris zi origin al eds in (d 
Our epe — to be} n 
some day, 
and then the remedy will soon ap oak 
f them in might be 
virally firing off a gun as often as you thought 
5 
(see p. 9051—In the 
The 
of September? J. M., Dursley. 
Fruiting " Wistaria sinensis 
i 
roots had “an PoE Mid and th plant was fast getting 
into bad health. it was not wanted, I intended 
having it thrown away; but by some oversight it was 
mes water nor other attention, 
un Gl 06 wh ut mber, kin r noticed a 
misera able, ended] terte seed- p This is 
| the only — of the Wistar ia fraiting with which 
Iam tape nted, J. M., Bothwell. 
Wasps 
Sulphur.— Ou paying a visit to a gardener 
here and there a botanic inda exhibi ts a pea deal of 
on a es sta Gower-street-ism, there is none of it 
Glasnevin, which : the very antithesis of such 
padde Uu épiug tota ic gardens. . Ot 
a neat-growing Aca re 
Shales 
acanthus coeruleus, | 
p according to the number of charges or discharges. 
lpha. 
ænopsis Schilleriana.—I obse 
t p. 963 
NE Select Orchi- 
new winter- -flowering plant, and eee Rm | 
indicated its own elegant s rcs T ex arog n ng i 
lovely flowers, pepe ing o i ps gt fale 
discover Miet error in Mr statement “mo is shady 
u 
y, and in the very spot x most. bene ficial—under | a era time „ago, I waz surprised to see a fine Ppp: x 
pm Gates terse = i you g thee 
111 B or twice a the mishap, the ‘gardener told me that his employer 
( lady) had 1 rap in the 
rd and that after destroying t tbe wasps in the trap 
ith — casei in a dust- = she had then wa 
bur sulpl hur in several pe T the house u 
such w were eating x 
„This, iie destroyed not only the wasps, but 
| berries. 
3 +} 
eda 
places,” becaus of the words V. 
| M : Porte ^s notes, viz., that * F. "seit is never > frond 
which rA it so exquisite 
abundant, one unnamed species eating Vals Ge such 
a term will do for bodies as big large 
Potatos) in the axils of the led £ ud there Wed lo EN 
the solid-stemm: mboo ; lant very cen oa i 
superba, int om Natal by Mr. Coo 
leaved n ted said by Dr. Harvey to be © Tur 
to 5 ing quy fully ; Cordia 
Seb rringtonia dl and Sci dipl 
pulehrum, noble-looking plants, which o 
Here, too, with Euterpe edulis, S 
of the Moving plant, 
only it was much id 
was wild about the 
-| aaro ck Tesi fein 
d constantly moist.” 
The words “moist shady places” do not, 1 submit, 
Paks the same idea as dark or sombre, ak constantly: 
Allow mr that XL dei. brought his 
re placed in 
uation he poin table; ; they hav pero 
there ever since; and T should gon like to sai finer 
plants of either amabilis, rosea, or Schilleriana. It 
then ed by Van Houtte th » because amabilis is 
stated by P. orte “ to MIS t local d 
season is more o; wur Ai 
Ar an 
e | —In reply to 
g p ourse. 
aquatica,—1l wild fou 
n 
othe water as soon as ripe. C. G. [The dry 
ions (see pp. 944 & 965). 
S. y unde 
beneath Tarda T venture. ie a say that nothing we 
grow but Grass; at least this is the opinion of An Oi 
is | Experienced Planter ó of La ae. 
-Jim ad irs are useless. 
500 yards up the sides WE ila. Lys Sue Ls Pu 
o— | that of Snowdon), therefore 
stagnant moisture. But 
not. No correction then has been made of my sta 
e| ment ; bu t I will co pns the statement in the jme 
s g ddeg a em 
Peter ao in stagnant idolabare ? Assuredly I ud * 
Societies. 
TURAL: October 11 pot 
R H CULTU be 
mittee).— Messrs ob i showed on this some 
, to two of "aid; per nC. Dok 
d 
Com- 
diram First-class Certificates wer 
latt robust-gro wing kind with crimson lip, and 
seen it in cultivation, and no dou 
Though exceedingly hot I S the 
ants in the Victoria 
r, for 
the ic oria was grandly developed, and the ferocious 
ana, I can bring pde d to prove that he was not 
the discoverer. Robert rre Broomfield, s T 
A Gar ing answer 
"an 
nary, published in a 
mem 
—a Me plant in that st 
I am very fon. hd of Water phil and thi botanic | a 
nk a 
garden without a good tropical Lnd hardy MENI | middle "y f April, 
deficient -A ma as N. lara Baier it ought to 
a table 
ope vig * "te uS ry; a 
tropical | A should hav 
or | 
gon sown in 
The first ae “intended for the fal | 
+ 4) 
e follow o Mr. 
Darwin (see P. e is taken from the 8th edition of 
N tio Pos fiéco 
d petals. C. — shown 
at a mune: nicetióg, was also reproduced on this 
occasion by the s ice Vario fin of 
us cut speci 
Antirrhinums and P mons were contuni by 
Mr. Macintosh recei ived a 
his 
de um ned by us at p. 918; and a similiar 
© | mark of distinction was bisowéà upon "Dahlia Light- 
" | ning, yellow striped EA 1 by Mr. 
ituation and dry soil, other- 
se the seeds will Tot in in the ground ; or it the weather 
more 89, ardy aie gt. in a good | s 
tate. Rarely ‘does one see the Water-Chesnut in 
i d e 
eultivation. I had not, previously, ept in 
Oxford Garden, but here it actually covered the 
tank in places, and Mr. Orr told me that 
brogues were the most delicate things, iu could 
traverse the b of the tank with, ts being 
Tenet well-horned fruit of ls Mr. 
Orr, it time to say, most efficiently super- 
v t department at Glasnevin; but 
it m al 
oala prove so favour ere as to bring up the 
| yet me will be danger 
ing frosts, which ree happen 
May.” ryan, ouse, 
Darwin may find the sternite he requires, together 
witha deal of curious matter re 
e plants, | 
DE om 
morn- Pus ant 
the ginning of | 
y 
Legge o To elargonium ia the 
way o f Mrs, Pollock, but sitis more red in the leave: 
d Lady Cullum, from Messrs. E. G. Henderso 
a First-class Certificate wa was awarded, and 
f Edmonton. 
y Aucuba japo 
qeiowdemed meis elged with green, a ma x plat 
er, from Mr. Bull, ived a First-class Certiticate, 
exhibitor for aho mes A. japonica vera 
ATION: Sept. 1 6—la Section B 
t Utilisation of 
| (Chemical Saami. after a paper on the Utilisation o 
e remarked 
ud Veg optat Bird had been read, Mr. Tite 
be found, as ele T ch Beans, tha with a 
ra rra oat other small de w to the Irish | difference in the time or ployed, from that 
eryptogamist. Nymphsas were P ad bed now praetised. 21 oth xo, | Ll" or 
and finely grown, "rn wich they S "m = half|**Generall Historie of Pl thered by John 
a dozen * ane green nhouses well|Gerarde, of London. Imprinted at London by John 
had re him for a 
The London se go thi i 
quantity. It was collected in imme: an 
| then poured into the river at times when it would be 
swept out to Thus, the whole of th e of 
vo ee Plant adt nded its Norton, 1597," says that French Beans should be “sowen | London, containing important chemical constituents, 
valuable of in from tl f over the is in the spring, especially in the midst of Aprill.” A. G., utterly wi ne 
while the. ashe Sens -cane AUT much better Glenam, C ee, | should relieve the basin of the Thames completely of 
the aquarium than t does out of it; and dar. Large Pears. end you a specimen of dms |the sewage which fell into it from Chelsea to below 
sani for the T ot ions it water pinata: grew pdlo- d'Angoulême, grown in a pot; its weight is 25} oz. | Londou; but with regard to the utilisation of th 
"i gne yon, with all its leaves low LUN Two other fruit, weighing over a poun nd each, were [se tpe! they. did not see their way clearly. ve d Mug 
two vears old he dral 
water, Calle its „graceful congener. 
The: 
also scores of things in and out of the water which Il tr 
trom the graft), which was lifted from the open ground 
of "the large towns above their district, because it wi 
