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SEPTEMBER 3, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
845 
beaut this season, we can altogeth 
E 
my Lecturette before the Royal Horti- 
many days up before I d them. Only three 
Society at South —— they 
with‘ peni — ” The ittm an irem 
of 2 Ab rim ey produce, and also for the M | 
and al vse impenetrable shade which they afford. 
avenue 
Spread a add T and 8 
In lon; lines. 
4. Diiia and em austriaca | 
rank, both a d 
winter trees, for avenues, re, or diglo pars ecimens. | 
The examples above given are mostly trees attaining | 
to considerable size an nd fam iliar pp Qs uch, 
There are, 
similar in form, colo our, and 7 ang character. 
novelties I have not "etn the Pow 
ably beautiful kre. introduced M an, by 
Fortune and Mr, Som "ade 
n ue 
RE tart io prove t 
some are difficult of propa pri d n 
require te Xe they become eufficiently reason: 
in price to XA seralir available. 
Waltham Cr ie 
P 
the 
dran enti Stare ‘the hardy? 
“ It is reported tha Jat | Iis leaves 
it e y 
able | bea 
William Paul, | 
Lym 
have too much air, and, dur e time, los little 
ind. My y e ed to the W. 
or . wind as Portland and the Eddystone. My |* 
other garden at Raw (close PP d X AARRE 
S. and W. by a igh y aa hedge, s open, 
or nearly so, to the N. and E., so Sees T manage 
in the course of the year to’ grow a ly treat 
(this season a daily exhibition) of Roses on the Manetti 
n) 
stock in unfit land (highly ecco ie. in chal 
i Jm Lodge, E. nac o eH 
AP e of G A Orm 
, and one soon died. 
bloo 1862. Now. oe 
wrought w “vith I hybridise sed seeds, and so 
mmediately a after Christmas, 1862, 
never 
advance of any experience of mine. 
and thin gravelly soil. rium 
an airy but protected s situ zem 
water, and beware both of "eee 
i A t W: ps ines e, R 
hus cad atus. . — It is. 
EN "ro ree access to 
and invariable 
stated 
times a couple of vineries, a conserv 
house, a green nhouse, a ima cd of « odd h 
pits were considered a 
have increased since ‘then aE lst tenfold a ty rage 
as been 
a 
for beddin g-plants h means of ban nishing 
of green — 
ington. 
Thiadi. dubi, 1 
annuals, and has still made more laborious the duties 
how 
Pul in 1861 ( 3 havin apes en then eue intro- 
Home Correspondence 
Am m Aloe.—In the conser stall 
there is now an American Aloe in 
the eee 
old, 
ves arily large spsc r stem is 
21 feet [Un with 26 pida P bios t; on one 
of the lower ones there are 240 flowers aod buda: The 
Walcot, 
Shro reel tty one of the seats of the c of Powis 
bloom. Mr. Bond, | i 
ced by the French * Acclimatation Society." I 
mu attracted the attention of 
o it. Few things which I saw 
e Botanic Gardens d Paris, 
Lyons, end prenahe, leila me more than this plant. 
the ex ental Lee d Loa Jardin p Plantes 
it y" ows like a a es erything i | 
with a pretty foliage “of pi heart-s - 
and.a perae abun T nce of beautiful, 
$s ellow flowers. Only ‘ae Pre I beli 
lavati pat it i ra e grow er and may 
extent [^ its tubers. There can 
panicles project at unequal distances all round the 
upper part of the stem, with a most graceful 
no doubt that in in the South of ,England, at any rate, it 
In the nor rth, if 
of 
i summit i = crowned by clusters of bloom buds, and 
whole it is a most wonderfal floral E 
would 
too cold, it ; would bea quot acquisition as a 
DD. O. 
=> 
i Good foliage i is the health ont the ef 
e effi 
| and Tatai dent of t 
der 40°. Thus 
to use glass atadta to Ew 
= deo d of the seasons. As of t 
my register I find that t ains October $ 1805 t to 
Jus une 6, 1864 we oh no fewer than 164 frosty nights, 
nese, on 
un d of 8 months and 6 days 
e have not had the. leen wat + more than as 
ny ights. The frost of June 1 was 
11 and 
Ageratums, 5 
but not rms so to disfigure 
em. Neve à M an announcement 
prvi onan 
t heat by day 
- m th » reanesdicgt@ ed x e ird a ines ripae 
hm ps 
on a large scale almost in dispensable. The chea 
adly mode of destroying 
Wasps.—A dea these 
means of cyanide of potassium. and dilute nd rob 
uch s within the reach of many gentlemen 
whose delight i is in their gardens, It is 
e| by 
respiration piration of bs SÉ ns 2 and also vnd (as m 2 drm It can be applied with but | td how 
prevent the p ation of those e atin little trouble by day o ar ab though of course d intention now to enter upon the advantages or T. dis is- 
Plage in which cónduce to health. Er he effect of injured | most bet plan is at night, when all are at hom ade vantages of such structures, but d ^t state that 
tis aui of Roses is the staining of the rind, those, however, who aM wish to see i pr effect they appear to me to be a step in „the ight direction. 
z neral PER of the wood. Most years doit in the day time. The mode mply t iie Hobtedt 
we suffer from fi and blig ghts of one kind or Pat h alf a dra chm of cyanide of sium in a vial, of each month, from Oct, 1 to 
her. Last y 6 of dilute sulphuric acid in an ET i | E une " as indicated br 2 thermometer i in the shade. 
ails , and ino fr eo as well as from black pour in m acid, thrust the bottle into the hole, 
blight in dues early part of the year, and from better; AE Month 
fun e latter part of the on. This year|at o t, so that the CN eibi € te 
the Son ve i t have pee bon risk; s at nigh etu 
had, I have , | but dig the nest out in eae 1| da bos 
a finer = nor more abundant Roses, | believe the ie m E 
They co nced s odis of rs on the|and thrips, but I have rw RR uf e CREE December |: 
Manetti shook on the Yth of May, and coe now E it pong at be T. W. Tay Arh 30. January — .. 
ing well; and pe ae will ae to do ving i to reply to Mr. Me s i £s 
manured an ously watered) till winter sets in. | iie s Jackman’ questions published in your wo = April . : 
a present object, however, i s its im v ae | ge Aug. 13, and wd to those ded Z., inserted i $ 
at are the causes of those agitation evious num facts of t e case as as concerns n addition tc T 
ere which are called by € ge rhe of winds ? iyati and these ti Previous nigh of June 7 sore iy ala ak E ba fit 
ey are occasioned b yt ae rn and daily motion of|to my entering Mr. Jackman’s service, I resided at | above was w. we have had more severe frosts, 
the ere and also ore or less influence Hs nningdale, and was in Mr. laura Noble's service ; din magin vite pol eans, &c. On August 19 tha 
exerted pA n sun ipei the Ps which influence | on the Ihad growing one atis | thermometer indi P the 20th, 35°; om 
bt in vs bcr and also varies ^ — lnnginoss, which was hy bridised y myself. e seed | 31°; 22d, 26°; and on the 23d, 33° dwa Ponia 
iy os eason. If our LL . to G. S. Foljambe, Esq., Osberton Hail, send 
is pia “that the suns he would e days Es Mr. pm E Ae v reserved in ad till | [From Lincolnshire we learn that on the Fen land ths 
The air ws the surface | I cam s regularly sown 
would het 6 ii heated, as is case in the vith baing 15 Bec patios ‘the time of g t within the last t three weeks: 
equatorial region, and would rise, "urrents ss = it. In three weeks d plants appeared ‘and were 
or winds would rush in to fill tthe vat sated 5 r|potted and encouraged; the seedlings exhibited by ocieties. 
rath ifi ; for though Nature ds me were some of them, Such is th of 
said to hate a vacuum, there is in reality no such | Clematises. Mr. Jackman's observations insinuate| ROYAL HORTICULTURAL: August 27 (Promenade at 
thing a »'in Nature. If there is in| that I could not obtain flowering plants of seedling Chiswick).—Between 200 and 300 Fellows and their 
Nature a vacuum, it is in the human head! The/|Clematises from the time I left his ice till mine | friends assembled here on this occasion to listen to 
most violent wi e the m winds, which are | were exhibited; if, however, A. Z. or Mr. Jackm an will | excellent music from an efficient ban A an a to inspec ct 
occasioned by 2 rushing i a hea | surface of | visit Hornsey they will find that I have ne ow flowering seen in cá 
cold or moist currents of air, to supply tl ot pu ny | Bos garden. Prominent among the rE - the great 
highly heated sfumn of air that has asce em and so flowers, but from 4 to 5 inches in diame’ i Th | Gensermtory, full, sea usual, of magnificent examples of 
Jar are cause and effect, that mariners can ^ vell the Pe. 4 rx months. I would therefore recommend A. A. Z. Grapes, rip ripening; a house in which are 
exact time of the occu se trade winds. The |a . Jackman to leave off wool-gathering, and | growin: g the 80- -ealled different varieties of Museats 
frin a system of pir quim by which Pme. pee 
alladed to in another yam rious illustrations of 
same 
"beyond the tropics, where g Clem | | hardy fruits and of fruit pam Mises im training; and 
weaker than at the e air Whites as shed its | year instea men Bs eg md |last, but not least, the i collection of half-hardy 
‘beams in a since the word "began. The|for upwards "s. wi years, abe I have no cause lants laced under the auspices of the Floral oral Come 
É inde which amet called mee in arie to be ashamed of me transactions that period. w trial ground at 
the trade winds, which are invariable. are | Thomas St. Mary's Nursery, . Free bagi 
two winds, or breezes, which affect or Correspondents may well question the statement : 
x ns COR i ninata h the same causes | of nnna ae E as c 
winds. ey are also nearly as in-| 1863 some plants seedling i [ id a separate n 
variable, viz., the _Iana-bre re AR? ene" ch-breeze. | sown soon “After Christmas, 1862.” I have had some | given as soon as their respective merits. 
uct corre the and water lose th CET h t; H H s, Ja nf tha PR q e s 
oss of heat byt the land is quick ter than | have erally found them not only the most stu 
that sustained by water, The ai pt E er both tl rime dr the most tedious to bring i Sn fi AR VEN PARNE HE Ai 
: ; estet nina "rcd ; and soon | of almost anythi "€ w. I may instance the case of 330 
the air, which rests on the earth, Dain, pedir and | my onlin Clematis Reginz, now v € hands. of ; Poticeg of oks. 
denser than the air over the sea, rus "A. the Messrs. Veitch, and with inm they th mer took| Wayside Weeds. By Spencer eere M.D. 
rarified of the latter. This takes place at t find, ser ooking back ew — Pp. 212. 8vo. Gr S 
end of the night, "" produces the land-breeze. But my Note Book, that the font gr 
when th rises, it beats the — quicker than the [between C. azurea Pes ndiflora (the "pes bea rm ind C, | This is “tie titie of a l book writton me! yang 
sea, and ae. esting inosa, were sown in “Septem ee 1855," with this | people, wit good Stared idea, that instead of 
turn into the more rarified ait resting over the land. | memorandum added :—* 1856: October 28, th ra dn 
This tdi! place at or towards the evening, and con- i three seeds oca and as I closely watch my seed- | of hard names, much might be gained by em some 
stitutes tes the sea-breeze, As Rosaries (as I{ling pots, I fee that they could f th t and most familiar plants, which many 
