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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL 
GAZETTE, 
[AParn 2, 1864, 
FT 
keeping Dre = Faster: The tree forms 
head, a 
ober Pear, which 
fine pyramid. 
size, iem ped of a 
een changing | to straw 
ihe h 
gm me Treyve.— This appears ed 
roprosentation to be a very large Pear, and is dueccibed 
ugust and the beginning | 
uit is in we — sized, broadly 
owi vines: ve - haw i but ae: in text ture, 
melting, with ^ eren fior: The fruitis in season 
from Novem o January, an 
tree of vigita cond prolific habit. 
STANDARD EPIPHYLLUMS. 
Now that plants have come largely into requisition 
for the decoration of the dinner table, I know o 
an be reco 
n to flower, iid conti ied flower- | 
ing until M: A 186 
The fo. ollowing are the sorts I am growing :— 
j. ; bunches which (though 
, Janua 
3. 
neighbouring — who ot sold large 
qua mntition of it; but Turner himself never made one | 
farthing by it in the way o xpi In 1852 a subscrip- 
tion was got up for him, chiefly through the | 
f Oswald Dicken, Es Middleton, an nd M À 
sc:ib ^ 
the €— —— was 115/., with which 
r him, but this he only 
r 
Wilton 57. ; 
sultry, thundering weather 
insects are Chien do hatched from eggs ^ 
| parents similar t e pro 
sible for them to wn RM "by a 
of the air. i 
ver 
njoyed for a ver 
Feb y, I pes e spoken more 
| fully of the Fluke i in er in Main of your Paper, 
ve gr r- that of the jak 1856. Ed. Bennett, Osber- 
n Hall, Worksop 
Dieta of Bugoleuch Grape. 
—Being in Dalkeith a 
n finding 
and — an hour to — p called at | i 
I was for 
g this | be 
nowing u 
€— at t 
ertain ty its free-bearing character as 
drape. I the ans o = Meg Mini: of 1 
the LU 
ering the . di nde 
g large To check 
e third, and on to the fifth a proving E should be washed over 
cco-water or pure lime- wat 
con wl T 
has been proved that 
; therefore 
ish 
ac aa: ES 
er; P this 
y 
not yet in flower) were 14 
inches in length, excluding the stalk. It m 
collected, fro nes started on the 
m I had ihe th e ire sure of 
n my a stage later, planted out. 
— f Chas 
be it r 
seeing it in 
The flavour | 
usqu 
fro m the cracking propensity of that sort. 
ERS zm eins for the b the. the form of sub-carbonate urred to me 
E. R. rubru be pink, petals deep red, large and fine. eet cà of recent introduction I am conv e that that, os € fotash of AAMO is very costly, 
E. R. caperbuim ; tabo pi pinkish violet, petals deep violet pur- "ike Duchess will occ v pd a pees in the foremost rank. it might be used on a moderate scale, e " ied I 
malos . Anderson, Oxenford Ci ave sobbed aut procured a quantity of potash, 
E. t. MM tube violet, pet fine. | Orchard- House Trees. ui beg to apologise to Mr. Ere to apply it toa Vine wori Fiske = that 
Bt Mem pete paroiis — eer ris mani | Walenn E E but e at answering his letter can be done with safety. It a appears however 
i largo and Puis p. 150 ore, but it so happened that I did not read one in its present state, the salt is b PA Avail, 
EY A Dc e tube rosy violet, petals deep red, large | i abe number of your Paper in pe it Lap eared. When and would Mobably do more harm dim good, even if 
CEDE pest bilg; tubo white, » deeply margined ee SA i rule the ball about a all round, and diluted with 200 or 300 times its weight of water, I 
E. t. salmoneum. — ches at the bottom; I ‘then cut away all have consulted Liebig, Thomson, Davy, and 
Et Morelianm | the JY roots that I can fae at. The potis cleaned other authorities, but they say ris or nothing upon 
E. t. Rucker: | out, and th ee put in again ; the earth is then the subject. Pe stan yw en: me to some other 
The six sorts which I have briefly desc SUA are] g ad flat rammer. The trees mis of information, o; f your ur Correspondents 
beautiful varieties; and there are many others, of one over in this way, r is dug and might t favour me "with the rem)t of their experience in 
whie eT bave nok Regi? sutt t6 jure whether. = pot is set in order, and in that state they remain An Amateur, Clapham. 
hey are distinct from those named. fiud that the | till the next October. I give them now and then Lora 
ka fc of E. truncatum òE er first, “wht le ieee of | watering, and occasionally a good syrin They do ee 
E. Russellianum are later, and by exciting a few of the jmot receive any check, but: go en asii ing had g ocietics, 
former in autumn and retarding a few of the i I li happened, and. bhey get walleskablishód: im thell id Election of 
am confident they can be h liver ficu much | in about a forage m Ehre weeks after the operation. TU arch ¢ ce The 
longer Meo Sette named xs ove, ensis why Ir early is because ull such , Fe des —J. T in Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 
were repotted 0 to 48 size or 4} in. | trees a fresh r ote a as ibe sap descends, just as they following Candidates were duly elected, viz. :— 2 
ots, in a spring of 18 ah athe heads of many of | make youn in spring when the sap ase ds. The Archbishop of A t Mrs. Wm. Atkinson, Mts. 
T have 
men the foliage of plants with elear water only, avd 
may therefore cleaned them per 
be judged what they = E goen fully grown; and M sev seo tim mes, while on ce, or at most twice, aprire 
1st of the wash 
rfectly ; but this 
just mentioned, wil 
e 
Wood 
sily procurable, The 
Barrow. Mrs. Edward L. d 
Mrs. A. K. Corfiel 
Ralph Disra 
Ashes.—It is well know 
selas Musqué, a valuable manure for indt every description of crop; 
ich is Mel of the parents, but the seedling is free — a ee absence of loppings and prunings, they are 
It was no ey a 
rites last year at Kelso, where it wo oik the ciel on account of the bres which ve contain, in 
Am and it has 
has to be re 
l suffice. John 
that these are 
re valuable, I presume, 
in flower they formed beautiful objects CHO HT. Ud spring, and then Miss Emily Fielder - W. Graham r 
some of the largest in ei inch pots, aud | they recs ve FES every thing to do, which I think is very Mrs. T. My lier Mk C Nugent, The A nU Tm Tent 
anticipate that by the autumn there will be many of | “unfavourable for the oreuiug crop. o poor met Colonel P COR i e ee hes a ee vere d 
thé ri et flowering plants either for vall creeping insects, ‘such as earwigs, woodlice, and ants, | sees To und A. G. Testes, was held, 88 
the decoration of the pe n A - for the conserv 3 E x es 30 e Spring Show).— The Coundl 
tory, in which latt ES B Ciméllbis, Torok di | round thi the . trees, and form a ring of tar, mixed with a tho hato occas the Entrance Hall, the Los 
Hyacinths and other bulbs, Aces Rhododendrons, [Es js robe Jade rere Cae Roo the ing Arcade, all 9 Lo 
&c., they fru it gets ripe. ` These remain till the next February, | ud filled with dr fowering shru Hyacinth, 
the red spider; they must Tulips, and other plants in blossom. Her 
| AEEA be taken off ket f carefully and ‘bu rnad. I. E geri by HRH. the Princess Helena, a 
pee fae. Eo I Te seful t bl e exhibiti th t u^ cone ust as it 
modo E xs ^ t it. e A in to f those 
sow. an then AM ihe iren a vd syringing till the Hyacinths. -PDharmis collection o 
into bl n directly the ie hy | is d by Mess "E ush, ay 
to fade. JP. A thers ; the sorts, however, P ir in no way di necese | 
'ew him; are less u; Boss: than plight, from those noticed in our last report, it 15 © 1 
eet is ve gens attribute d to some my: sary again to record their names. King 
dry during the winter P : air or winds, rendering then capable a fine kind in Mr. Wm. Paul's group í i 
suastity E water being increased as pau myriads of — or at least of carrying |a R ( fieate was given by the | i 
nces, lins fae "temperature t: pem of ai ks I Shem about over the fac of the eartb, doing sad | Committ snm uen made as f 
i: , mischief i in their course. "By i blight im been | waldsen, pog with jn bells, from eue i t 
f iy appearance of a haze or blue| Azards.—24: Ist, Mr. poe i Mr. M. Yo E 1 
vnda not have too. much oe ade, n they mist or a sultry Parlak or meee inge, while others Messrs. Barr & Sugden —1st, Mr. à 
eed for the nas some feds rper should bo twined | entertain certain fancies »in regard ogually T toi E aoe -— ce 
ens the stem to hide it. Thomas Brown, Exot uufounded and ridieulous. These pied en are not]  oses.— These, both cut and in fos consi 
renim e | confined to the lower classes; they have even found | season, were excellent, the foliage being uit 2 
t their way into books. It is now some time since I|clean and healthy, and the blooms large M 
eles. f these t E ir e, or words | colo onspicuous among them were Lord OT E 
° fie aving a similar me * singular -collapsions John Hopper, Lord Raglan "dier, Maurice 
Rest x Fe Pcs eae m accumulations called. a Vlight, the air beco omes | W tha: Tae MP 
m Ny É rendi sem T en spontaneous formation.” If th ame cahe say thee promising we 
= > cashire, first | was merely $ pny unconnected with practice, it might tly a dmired, as was also the VES T 
a “seed apple,” taken indiscri- Ax left to care of theorists : w:thou ck Hybrid Perpetua Lovie Darzens. Of the brog io ue 
fhe Langley [bt t iE ia mot mo, and “tly tend many | near dun Pech tere wet O20 
4 : ps ma; Padi. to say | looking bu " 
garden, and it omes m that as far asi ethane "T may der PERRA e an in pots: lst, Mr, Turner; ee 
H others, be of blight can be nothing else than pen Satake thong): | & Son. Cut blooms : met Mr. Wm. P p^ 
He grew tlie Fluke there is nob the least doubt thal. e D northerly or | Azaleas—Of t . Bull contribu ite kind, 
: 0 y winds wi shrive poses rd collection, in which. pe Victoria, tice; ww — 
others he gave! the leaves of trees and hedges, as may also sometimes | striped with pink, attracted especial n 
