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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
the Ivory-nut, but the same may be 
sive one— 
h, and so was t 
said of the whole xpo me very exten 
the names of the bes 
inst omit, er 
n dan 
w Cala 
rest of her qu many | trees.” 
us | rec commending 
by Major Madden 
w at the wa . the 
e Cham: o s C. 
| graminifolia id Ernesto- y haat are dari wo or 
for the decoration of “ae stoves, ¢ xw ; 
| gathe ered in the Himalayan ee 
where there 21 4 feet of s 
3 thin wire, es very gracefully, 
ok in a many c cases 6 feet lon 
| these plants at Glasnevin. 
The Museum is a — shed- like hen of iron, 
more immediately apply, I should not c 
cover the yon eed as much as thr 
8 * 
surface ‘soil, the! nds e Min e 
ve been si üy performing its due share Pe 
d , as it is oota pitatively quick in its 
Pers Dh cksonia enel and Aleophila 
Lod digesii, apain turned up, with the Warratah in good 
health, : and the Disa i in flower; but this wing is chiefly 
devot: Azaleas, and popular gre 
plants ; interspersed, however, as every 
ouse 
Glasnevin is, with plants of the greatest interest to the | 
bota: gp 
A i 
from its small size an nd. wil of any € conveni 
arranging ic utterly it 
quite out of Meng with ve garden. 
im 
ible to a — M: g 
ns. but clay, and soon becomes assimilated with tn a 
the expiration of two months ies 
and | may require, the process of incorporation may le 
yh Sa if it is | menced by Senos the whol : r again down tọ 
lime at t bottom of the qe ue ta 
be wis ughly mix all the ingredients ms 
Dublin | the ope era i proc eeds. There ae however 
o: 
um, 
leaiat re or gar 
well adapted P 
xdi even if no 
us miss [^ cut. and dried 
a 
i a Sdn 
objection to there En a few lumps of cla 
rated state, as they wiil help to cari Po 
the soil 
z 
Po ground will now be ina fit state fi 
e few who w 
apariment. where there is so much 1 
I ha Wt bs to nis of th attrac- 
and ar ents, 
The ost precious of the filmy Ferns at Glasnev 
are caltivated in a sacrar Mrs old len to built 
against the north wall of the curvilinear range, 
redolent of river-bed a dripping cave. At one | there 
end of it a small compartment was partitioned off, 
into which a little stream from ei kc was trickled | beauty. 
over a healthy mass of the Irish Fi 
of the com t bui dried 
th and it. tanding amidst he 
rey Fi a remark: healthy and wel 
developed Trichomanes reniforme, evidently rejoicing CLAY GARDEN SOILS. pin 
in the conditions so suitable to our own filmy Ferns.) THE following remarks have been thrown together 
i too, age Leptopteris (or rather Todea) F i 
indeed to ienn ~ improve upon. 
(To be Continued.) 
so tha 
which it dies ia aia 
Wm. Robins 
but by no means must auy manure be e i 
, nor, indeed, natik atn another fes E 
ime m e more jn 
reason, the | : 
fre imported 
at sop who fens to know how he could = 
w garden, ‘which soil was e 
inuti ive subjects 
n 
4 af 9n 
- 
1 
an d 
intermediate belme Eiaa 
pbyllums and ibguriantias one from 
or otherwise pe giving a drewing of river r^ and 
subject is 
and the other from New South Wales. „Among the interest, and it 1s hoped that & rather extended reply 
Trichomanes a Jange batch of T. anceps fully 
its very i interes tin g frucifcation, Sa am ong ‘the| There are Me Serta ; methods in practice for improving 
Australian F veral bits of the | both 2 bs ure and gens of clay lands, such as 
Tunbridge W “Fe ern, which “often comes to| what etimes called smother- den ; also the 
Glasnevin from Australia. The irandras fenes- application f quicklime, ar ailioabua 
tralis and Berneriana were finely grown in a hot pit, 
built like the monitors, eee ay, eri be wind 
litt 
on 
tle surface ssible to | better working of the soil; but at the same time | commenced for such c red as d : ei the same 
the en my. The e pla nts of both species wine growing | greatly assists the chemical action of manure, and | time, if. the clay still ap predom 
on pv lumps of firm peat, the kind of peat least|the influence atm ere by keeping the soil make thes ee n es more 
likely to decompose in wat Young Pitcher plants | open and porous, so that such ingredients must n a very few fas re chan 
were very tin this the hottest and moistest of | considered as UMpsteble io a state of fitness for | of tl d. John Cox. 
Glasnevin ctures, and the rarer species were finely | cultural purpos eee 
grown, being a magnificent of Nepenthes| The ultim: Ku a or utility of whatever opera o 
sanguinea with N. lanata, Phyllamphora, lævis, Domi- | tions may be entered upon with a to imp e Correspondence. i 
niana, am picta, and Rafflesiana. The coll e texture and increase the fertility of play soils, think you are under a mistake 
of Pitch fact is almost unique ic | will greatly depend upon the porosity of stra- 
arden rare fruits and Seine] i 
g Fine and 
wore here i ms as the deba steen, the Bra 
the famous Manchineel „tree, » the tra e Dou m, 
a botani e po e sul 
plants| tum. If it is not naturally sufficiently porous - 
razi m Pu ut,| carry off within gu 
m which every Nus. of cinders or 
re es mov This wi 
operative part cropping, o 
clean to walk upon, and at the 
Ry best deomni which can be given to heavy clay 
d;a and this dressing à ^ repeated with ad 
The two former act as edere ra 
e | over sa mixed, the 
The following season, after the soil is is again turned 
application of manure gue! 
a reasonable time all the 
pe mad 
abundant water, it meme 
tr mely rare yo oung Palms, with de succulents 
d Forms requiring great heat ; among th: 
Trichiocarpa o: vim 
e latter were a 
multitude of onidium noone the 
Golden Cheilan thes, sd some ew Ye. a me 
extreme end of this ture as 
be off a th "light -length, 
ees a capital place for raising choice | 
reed rom sore, growing Trchon ane &c. Never 
befor dps I seen and choice dea i in 
i 
— cus | al 
wat 
This 
break ł 
is for 
| useless to sm open dx soil "for the 
| at the bottom in a state of stagnation Dine then 
being indispensable, must be made efficient. 
up 
passage of water, if that water were permitted to lie " 
of s : 
r 
ith flowers twide as large and a 
flowers are so heavy — the stem will not stand 
winds, The Pampas s, when well gro 
h bricks, or stones, er even 
Sidon. The ' dep 
131 1 
g 
vitrified clinkers from th at whic h 
ciroumstances. “Tf the garden i is ne for vegetable 
Eg 
A 
: en m; two plants gallons 
th 1 nias, mro O ar Teone from Swan beg i pn Ei be sufficient; but if fruit trees : are con- twice a week, i they have not a dea 
; xo many Cape bulbs. Here again was interest | templated to be grown afte r the ground is E leaf. When winter MOM I place 
or e e Fern-lover, “Gish uted by eee see into a fit pe on around the roots, and also LO 
dm "à ad ey eiehenia alpi: of 5 feet is the least n be allowed, and of t t | branches, say 2 to 3 feet thick. This kee es 
4 = ie ris argentea, Selaginella ig depth at least 18 inches of "rabble should be laid e in health during the winter. In Ma; 
and a little stock ri Mobria Gere lia—a beautiful | the pipes before filling in oung shoots begin to grow, I put o 
EE MK abun y grown an When this done the whole should be broken up, by | gloves and pull ont every dead flowe 
eae e Meg ‘on oa, the glass; im there|the process of trenching, io the uniform depth of and all the dead leaves, of which this 
oh tiene nt o ooden Pear, w Tupa, | 2 feet, and as th le ope eration i perem the bo yond of | basket full. Wherever I ha 
bok ag = ei, anew invillea, and H paliere E each tr i neglected, and the conse 
ant plant of Combretum macropetalum e ey being also put xt layer th at i is|and should a severe winter come, death—not, 
Aana (bo soe as thrown in from the uar uli ‘relish The bottom | from frost, but from the old leaves and stems 
gs Es nse w arranged behind this | spit “of pe trench should thrown up roug unt of moist 
rs good Boe ders were to be seen, but|on the top in lumps rat han bricks, . D. W., Man 
TO eee Drougbt ne by Dr. N . E were dead, oe these Samy ciently dry, as the female, bearin d, is in 
P id ou w TO them at with undevel stamens, as may be 
bis ee bro: S m the same e region once. This may i done in a — er, in fion the ie bea t ot the 
g arly & pan of wet peat ‘against a a ‘north i rom the glu umes. „Thes silv 
lowed to t 
ripas and Androsa 
mus put on at intervals— 
that is to say, when it is found that the fire has got 
pretty good 
Pear-tree pm — Sonn S eode ag? I na 
B rn ith thi f 
e to pick off and dest; dm yis barning | y the 1 
Teaves. -— wold ect been an endl 
some 
T 
on immediately. At the same time the process must 
rarely seen yin, 
Pyrolas in 
umen cni Monorchis, Pilula 
Leeselii. s 
ria globu- 
t be calcined, and the fires e 
downy let the Sieis w spread out equally over the 
re” 
dr ; but when a large body of oh is "epe z ^ 
best then m MG on a large supply, 
with some the fi 
d 
xhausted and cooled 
whole surface ; and in the case to which these remarks 
process 
sulphur, and Tam cg appy to say have enti 
| entirely put the enemy to flight, so that 
can scarcely find a diseased leaf 
hue 
Wrtlo str 
kind ape - I did thie 
or alkohol 
