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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Avavsr 27, 1864, 
1: hers no ] bject of * morte Distine. 
fire and flame by d d itceld t difficult to surmise, tend to you taking up the subj isting 
ne sark an Marin pra d canteens,” oan D pinco Fiododendrot chiefiy in T pe v reg of tio ons, first mooted in the Midland Floris M 
i Tyndall, natan nire they tbrow Verbenas, Lobelias, anc 
eos emer: ode ctp ipee Fm Bs into tho binds ct ziobienienis consideration of eren. tonl- ton ectieniinslit, is Nhe 
ic we that which and geutlemon's 2 rdeners,? In another articl ning of F. Hs, 
cnm MA rera s oe ‘Now, = Ld a n Pæonies, it is remarked that the account we by any mushroom, Twenty de. year HS, 
tion of "vapour enou ht n water, DR " the c i of these plants in an an honourable distinction, but in these 
itis fou md t t t fre ho lout to | house at Knypers as read “wit gned | days F.R.H.S s nothing. Anybo o chi to 
the fre eezing vri e boil- | astonishment.” The, ies admits that it is dificult to pay the annual — and — fe can use 
unt f ec liarities of climate, a nd t t act they are used chiefly b 
ing pens d a silt farther of water ato h of bat is i8 s given goo glia 1d “W pele erat I wish to see the Horticultural Society d 
he goes “that we have | London take this up, and institute a scientifig 
ih iti is 
Hence it is shown 
€ however to say," 
not necessary to bara upon the tics “ Fe 
process of condensing the vapour for this one je of 
water, and freezing it into hailstones, heat enough is 
region to raise 67, 690 gallons of 
air on the temperature of melting ice to summer 
a result which, it must be confessed, is positively 
1 the circula- 
e t 
Fi er; the 
nding the congelation of salt water ; | 
the le iia «a 
sco! 
i he Dead Sea, and of inland s 
till about the 
e 
thee pink annual shoots 
begir protrude, hen a hood or table-like 
coveri Spruce- fr. ‘rahe, scaring full access 
to the air below, and chiefly e the flower 
£ 
f the old varieties or the Moutan with oan fellowship with which shall be conferred 
po jas one ble success in the latitude of Edinburgh, |on all distinguished in horticulture. The 
somewhat humid district, and at vation of | way to go to work in starting would be to 
350 feet above the level of t ve six|2ppoint, say, Dr. Lindley, Mr. Thomas oore, 
plants in our little garden—if we had r we should | Dr. Hogg, Mr. Rivers M illiam : Paul, and 
have more—three of which hie nii Pii slightly Sir Jose h Paxton, to pr list of 100 dig. 
rotected, and three not at all and one of the latter | tinguished men in the gardenin O; b 
loomed quite as well as the more favoured. We never | once TUM APR 
apply any protection e beginning of | should t plac erly, w i 
when 
e qua 
[eet]: Fellows stele by it of polli; 
and lis bein 
No pee “on to [a x oit y 
of they 
e to preser 
n | buds from ww nipped by spring ‘frosts, is 
avuRe 
1 
kd ipe in 
general a are a Deautifally described, 
"er like d Amazons, while the continent of Au em 
is alm iverless. Andthen, agai 
fer! = m y in the world, has scarcely any trai 
to anotber While the Mississippi, the 
mns Pen of North America, running from north to 
m s — its latitu de with e every bend i n its | 
utans 
protection, in the open shrubbery, and at a dis 
de 
rth as Inverness. In the pleasure 
far 
| gro ar Mr Binny, 400 feet above the sea level, the 
od th 
deni u no chan being 
smi ed. The MN “Of having etatik 3 iet not 
answer, as there are too many difficulties i in the wa ay. E. 
have stood for several winters without a 
walls, The plants flower bea autifully every 
d of 
end Eng 
and a and, all s g this 
entier on the "Hortienltaral Society of TEH There 
, and foma irsquita bushes g 
i ese drawings’ 
suspect I however that the climate P Edinburgh is more 
than that 
need of e exactly those articles of t; traffic 
above or below, has to 
eon that river before the 
American - srr was more valuable than the 
entire commerce of the whole country with a 
its pee have 
which every re hes n either 
spare, The trade raffic 
. This. allusion to the me and some other remarks on 
gnifi cent country, whi ch he 
f Staffordshire, or perhaps for 
Moutans even se, that of London, by n. pin 
ing growth at so early a 
eriod. Ther me | £u 
land, who 
distinction, a and on thisside of the Border w 
to back t up. Wi I stated 
of the Fiori ide, 
ie as Is are gm to — — us of the 
which 
able defence of pee prin 
Maury published t three 
this recinte contest to 
How long is 
continue T and how Pind » 
profession to be regarded a 
be heard. 
hi be fore them, x ad ea only do it.” 
The West ri €—— matich ural Magazine for 
h 
P 
good advice to the Royal  Hortieulturat Society turists, and collect ve braved the anp of 
"d ! that it should be o leave the tropics in searc new things fok = -— we not 
i the | future, fireworks sad nigger- ey e Ere of its ber to h fellowsl “among t such m disti I 
gramme, and to devote itself to the promotion of them from the It is my rapi to m-— 
horticulture, the introduction of new plants, Te b. ubject before horticalturista, Ia uch pleased to 
giving prizes for the exhibition of s vow ors sud any find t 1a emi in the gardening world are 
every department of gardening— ord to | determined to take up the — ; and I venture to 
strive to ei E A ad mission ; fiin no more | hope that before next summer has pa — ala ~~ 
scontent would “They that my suggestions have not ford made 
bate work e i Midland Florist’s Guide contin €! os occupy 
its gro: eg usefully. The subject of — 
Hordcultaral oe by some more sa 
than the assumptio 
this ornament. of h 
rebel? 
arvey's | 
The third part of second volume of Harv 
Thesaurus eon — 
apensis nissued. It 
well-drawn plates, —— as ER 
“I find the following paints E — most useful for 
Fe other 
25 
pais with brief f de escription the 
— of b em | 
dersic, a beni shrub, first 
g 
R^. who describ white fl 
ach blossom embellished by a dark velvety ring round | blue and ra 
th 
the eng of a e eg and as 
fu the h 
ully at branches, the general aspect 
ust ry ronmental RU. flowers and foliage are 
those of a Jasmine. Of Strychnos Atherstonei we read 
that it furnishes the clebrtol Kajaten wood of the 
eastern colonists. Dr. Pappe regarded it as a new 
g and named it Athe "m but Dr. Harvey 
ca find angible character in floral 
structure or in habit to distinguish it from Strychnos. 
had been received e name of the King's tree 
under th 
of the Zulu m whose chiefs" sticks of ceremony are 
same month article on the cool treat- 
ment of O: -— 8, to find room 
far marty. “ere b i i an ting -— of |* 
, Neture prin ting Mr. 
Foon of Bach who desbeiltn it odes: = 
[ 
: n . . 
summer treatment of Gladioli the Editor observes that 
“it will be advisable to keep the plants syringed 
watered with a rose pot night and morning, weak 
| printing Ferns and chrome yellow, 
Prussian blue, ——— en mis — raw a liquid rm ure may be s safely applied frequently, 
terra verte, Naples yellow, raw umber, and light r believe liquid manure fely lied in a 
Chrome yellow amd Prussian mab e, used in various | tolerably strong state. Occasio al stirri M 
proportions, iM e ere of bright combined with liquid manure 4 Ve 
5 [ Hoon, 
"| We this year stri 
the skn - mary — be 
ke a sickly green, 
rnt nna, 
a. ee t ‘withered Tears or those brown s 
which are found on. Fer autumn, and which are 
very — ^ ie 
leaves, eme br 
tints i in poe while the texture of the leaf rema 
fresh, sys red w 
umber 
some Ferns, 
made of its 
I. filico: 
of these should be about "am cirenmference of a 
"mss species, all pex A for the 1 
slender cornucopia gu of the lip ol 
We have m the J 
of the 
T8 | [These are all that are 
mall and fine, for any 
ttle stalk that may have to re nsu e 
The co 
peleito, In general the face of the from 
Apis the painton. In Ferns I -— dm without excep-| ^" 
m 
on 
used separately or gen 
tés) I hd 
a iether of 
planting, 
h Exhibitions, - XR as 
eek, a 
and have scarcely a 4 
nd the tug 4 ES 
Messrs. 
o idere 
plant, and an important —€— in its c 
h 
looked u 
Te 1 3: "1 
ena 
Imost A coge same tion pio 
ue is called the beddingont 
early 
a 
are ——M to what 
8 ododendrons bloom in spring or 
mp mot too m 
e Bin in your daran comm at the extremity 
"n Ae frond, dab it on — and uniformly. 
e paint is less a fault tha 
commo; 
prize was not withheli.” The August number is 
hibitions. , 
Poo | Almost in filled with reports of ex 
summer, brem the e] world is i; " London. "Spr ing en as I said before, will sit thi e CATALOGUES REcriveD, — William Paul's Select 
flowers are neglect d we have known an instance | spots, &c. can be put on at the same time, and List of Hy a carefully prepared descr 
in which they were actually forbidden? Those, reme to dab on the paint, not ti o lay it on as|tive list of the best sorts of bulbs for autumn plantings 
who are familiar with tl of garden expen-|in painting. Having coloured the frond with the Hyacinths we mesas nove 
diture will readily Vnde ied. ge when the keeping tale it up and lay it carefully on the pate ie the pain King of the Bl te , Robert Sod | 
of a place, ie, the price of labour ry to t of course, dow: Lay several folds of | Thorw. &c. The ogue ie accom, 
keeping of it, ranges from 5007. to 10007. per annum, blotting ee aiaia E hold the leaf firmly down by — of Mr. Paul's ough? cathe x. 
very little margin is left for defraying the expense of | p e hand on the stalk end above the blotting |a —— nnd ric Mew ai and at th 
the formation of odendrons or the | paper, Án with a cloth rolled up in the other | reported at length in WEE. 
"ure t propa | wg rul w] e care, in | d Son’s Bulb pe for 1 a 3 
of pressure up | compiled select an A dere der including E 
the thick midrib | novelties m the wa s icinths, Josephine, T 
: F both, al rs 
on the paper. ‘Sa ae ae Se ee irs 
e. in paper is to have it) Cw a eri — Princess . 
a e ^ 1 soft “ous,” ana a how t y neys Pri a X 
in | We quote also lled pages the following | ——. illiams's ie is Y 
peers on the subject of ltural distinctions is j aretoa ae Td thon h with less of rarity 5. is 
writer, | eor ot e Parata Ge" Tam gia ts supplemented by a fruit ca Mo c 
o are eminently entitled to such an bes urable 
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