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plants tfor 
the plant mentioned b t Mr. Cut- | plan could not be applied to Potatos, ex by raising 
Ocronzn 29, 1864. THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 1037 
and I was much gratified to find that the enemy had Teneriffe is sent off packed in barrels by fates de [S i ao di back hav e Lis year made shoots 
been routed = - foliage "amen quite healthy all | West Indies, where this kind of f igh, — yet "hare bloomed continuously 
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the season. | regards I e 
have now to ada dat Iam entirely rid of f the pest, for | does not extend far north. It is however found at plan ned m dole Faby 13 ee of La Dac! 
i ], as it had go! W ha e of d M ree 
y th ha n: im of 
feared I should have been forced to root out the trees. | since an attempt to naturalise it was made at ae s in Victor Verdier, and ^ of ‘Alpaide de Rotalier. 
«s Newburgh, Fife. seat of the I per Hatto! P me yi de n 
rd-house Fruit.—Seeing an account of some | some n miles further north, withou t success n R es known, namely, Maurice 
— Pears in your columns (p. 989), I 1 ister. It certainly likes a calcareous soil, i Bernardi, Chie "Lefebvre, - — To sse, aud Dac 
duced to send ti the following remarks concerning its je shell and the false op no d the the order of 
ch pot. winter advances requiring a con- | merit, for they = ‘occasionally haat pa other, and 
Sires years old fro he graft, “which was exhibited by siderable amount of lime. If “dc: aciei ee wishes | they will take s beatin, Gloire de Santenay 
Mr. Thomas Tweedie, rchant, Annan, and which | for any further Tél Mei, 9n wor him tore fer | is first-rate, but = t quite certain. aT thing could 
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drew forth especial Aen at our Lower Annandale | to Mr. J. Gwy d c o el British ‘Concho logy, wh t e flowers of the two first and 
Horticultural Show; the co d eight Pears, the| he will find a large of erre | respect- last of the above fade oses on raised banks this 
largest of which weighed 20 and the eight col-| ing this and des. " redial or Mr. Lovell|summer, or of the third, which is planted in large 
me TM. 140z. : have had. frequent Ld deer den 4 Land and d Shells. ‘it É M rien on the flat. Instead of buying new untried 
viewing Mr. Tweedie’s ce dere and ey house, in| Helix pomatia may be met with in abund Roses, I have paces my stock of these beautiful 
Shieh uw inde with such amateur, Stonesteld, near , Woodstoc k, Oxfordshire. It p " varieties. At the same time I y rejected many 
and I am sure that if others here th three | that either superseded or usui cable to my 
with considers le care, but at comparatively small yellow or orange bands round it. The pretty Helix | louli o or tliat Prea should have been propagated at 
jary cost, the luxury SP an orchard house would | js apicida may also be found in the same locality. Dr. | all. PEU in high and Jt. Beet vao 
much ‘more generally indulged in. Mr. T. ha ray’s book on British Shells gives coloured drawings | there is not free access to abundance of water, 
plenty of Vines in ae with from 10 to 12 bunches on lof all land and fresh-water shells of Britain. J. S. would not be wise to plant them on raised banks, 
them, weighing upwards of 11b. per bunch. Christopher | Mil v rene: Faringdon, Berks, Oct. A — whioh in hot summers are like forcing houses out of 
Scott, Annan Nursery. The e brown snails gat athered in gardens The sun acts on the centre and on both sides of 
Fruiting of Wistaria sinensis (see pp. 941, 965).—It e, eating and by some persons are very indt liked. | the b banks, Con sequently abundant mulching with 
may be worth recording that this fruited three times| A year or two ago the master of a French vessel | blask i. A and burnt ashes on a e top of the dung to 
during the 10 years I was at Golder’s Hill, Hampstead. | obtained dite to gather them in the t sture, and plenty of water once or twice a 
We h lant of it in t e bo ard his vessel, and they were eaten by the «de Peur poured in into the ceutre of the banks, become 
largest number produced in one year was seven pods | ship’s company ; in return the master w as good enough | necessary. “re te been practised here for two 
which contained five good seeds; these all vegetated | to gather, prepare, and serve x ie sn ails up for our | summers, elf and reviewers have been 
and made strong plants, two of which flowered we | family di “7 party, which he joined, that he might be eng grated. “Te cannot be too hot for Roses, 
second aet after sowing. In the other seasons there certain o The tistrois if ma re moisture are supplied sufficiently. 
were but three pods, with — good seeds in them. | were to use | dy those snails whose shells were at the | I hav o des e whatevér to exalt the Manetti stock 
T. Pilbeam, Nantwich, Ches: edges sufficiently hard to resist the nail without arijas o oe the "Briar; ed I must say that here in 
Bananas. — Seeing at ^ "ion a letter fi a| breaking ; to be careful not to Seir the snails two different soils, the one chalky, and the other 
** Gardener ” te to Bananas, I beg to sateen t him | from off either Ael pb r other Evergreen, as shall allo ow a and 5 he Manetti Roses have always, 
24 the usual custom, as seen by myself in Peru, was snails so feedin ne Ser nwhole mer, Logo fe beaten the Briar 
pod the mis of fruit from „the Banana plant when to put them in water with a handfal of salt to spit, varieties ; inde i eat many of my home-budded 
full” (th d to} themselves; and to boil| Briar Roses have died thi e e inr En far as my 
the trae: in a kitchen or warm room until yellow and var gently, : they come out of their shells with | situation is conce onld rather B Manetti 
ripe and fit for eati ng g- Sailor. Swe were then to prepare the frying pin with a| sorts, than, with a pe 'exeptions, accept Briar Roses. 
Popular Names erns.— Rusty Back is the little Jard and Parsley, and to fry the snails de licately I bud novelties o on the Bri r for earlier information, 
common name for the Ceterach Fern here in the West | they man than Manetti-budding. 
of England, wem. aly in — re and Devon- rich man enjoy. Bread crumbs’ "might be added if liked, dre this kingdom at. eee I think ground plants 
shire, where I h seen it growi dant] will greatly supersede standard YE nstead of 
and it is a very ap be better c one, I "think, than Scaly r family best, and formeda dish | standards in lawn-holes, plant Manetti Roses, especially 
leenwort, which it is called by in m dep we tte offen tried “since we received the instructions if the quality of the ye is I and pi e have 
y 
Ferns,” and other books. For the Ceterach, —— | thrown away all the r Roses which w my 
know, is not a Spleenwort at all; [ How die Lv f Much information about snails may be T m" bens lawn, and shall supply their places be J with 1 ules 
ir W. Hooker to revert to the old Linnean name |in Normandy." P a, | Mar ait on the Manetti There is an early 
splenium Ceterach?] wher eas the rusty eae ba aspersa, "i. pisana, H. nemoralis, E ne ea, o and | beginning nin pei, ci ely any on a tha blooming of 
f the under surface of the onds, especiall , but Helix aperta is ores ed to | Roses here on the Manetti. The ^ failures must be 
hey get old, is very canna ble. The sepa arate | all others. Kept for a week or so and fed on oatmeal, | divided between ai propagator and the culti tivator, At 
are li French lace and then fried in oil with vinegar, aud pepper, they “Oct. 20th, I cut 
altae n utifol jects Th iere mie: considered bien dé dicat dC fre ie Fr sionis M ey wish to see. 
e — aim other pine t Gardening (see p. TT information | have had a daily exhibition ; the season. 
vith disappro cn eh oyed »v Mr. ado Conti. relative to Mr. MD MEL r4 to refer him | The ‘earliest Rose out h reg the Manetti stock 
E o Spleenwort oe the fapltnieie Trichomanes, appears | to the “ Florest’s Vade-m by Samuel Gilbert, | was “cut May 7th. era will set in when 
of the most ingenious ever applied, for the ee “Turd Edition. "Printe a fo or J. Taylor, at | Manetti a Lae ps are Piel m raised bai andare 
bon + r^ lie pressed against the wall while young, | the Ship in Paul's Yard, London, 1002.» In that book | properly attended to. W. F. Radelyffe, Rushton 
rving hither and thither, with their rows of little | there are toil) directions for the Kitchen and Flower| British Quin Pear.— When speaking of this in Mr. 
reen feet on either side, do certainly bear a most | Garden for ever. e saith, set French Beans in April. | Ingram's collection, noticed zi 5 ote I observe you 
urious and striking resemblance to the creature in | John Parkinson in a “ Paradisus at ents printed eee ai it Que en Victo As there is a 
I Ihope you = not approve of the - me of | in M in = ae 1656, speaks of the French or | great bt p Ihe E British Queen, 
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this. pretty species. [It has been so these t Sere need time of sop: d ar tchell, Tremorvah, Trur iced, I ‘om 3 to say that British 
ld Gerarde calls it the = mmon or En; E Potato Sets (see p. 1011).—I have read with much Quee, pew tres ki nd, was that which was T 
Maidenhaire, of which the d Trichom a economy Vir r. Ingram on the beh "ia question, and n 
ndeed suggestive.] Confoun du ‘the name of one of planting large-sized Potatos. The results are | Victoria, J. P. 
of plants with another, and mixing them up "| certainly very striking; but v M aet farther ———— 
ist into the most serious experiments are n in orler to set matter pe errem 
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ght to be sat Pota REP — BOTANIC —— 
The following interesti articulars are taken from 
the Report of the Director, eae. Walter Hill, to zoğ 
Secretary for Lands and Works, dated J — 18, 1864 
The results obtain. uring the last two y onfirm the 
success of the experiments made in the cultivation “Of Cotton, 
Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Cinnamon, Allspice, Ginger, Indigo, and 
do not know. M. A. E, Penzance. "CNotwith- | tubers nen are presen om to this end I | d 
standing its aptness in the eyes of our Corre- | think it v: pn visable to take out some of the | peruvian per Gorton could vat gl D A coos 
spondent, the name “ Centipede Spleenwort” might | eyes when too SNR, and I ne those nearest | have been realised. The tree does nol a bear until the second 
fairly be supposed to belong to Scolopendrium | the nose end of the Potato to be more vigorous than | year 
rather than to Asplenium Trichomanes, inasmuch as the € eyes on gate si ui Your Correspondent intimates |; 
th Pol be improved (I suppose per- | hav. Es n 
back than the time of Linnaeus, and t me Scolo- o- manently) W ‘electing large sets accord Mur to Mr. The E fotroducd im ETE ago from seeds 
pendrium itself aom 2o Soxtopeni, a edere Bee Dar i ieee ry, w. Heoti etus metis with taken from isolated trees ate Je rden, is th Mi erem i 
given from a fancied ce to these This PM E rs d pene vere esee ire 
one informa : of young plant 
me in giai of | as | tm of v oue Had t Tu 
w planting Pot idoal o origina 
rectl g the rg b 
mite delighted with the appropriateness of the each. This is the plan I generally adopt in en to 
Engin ame! i T rd have tw root, w 
he they are his own not I Henn ce of producing or sized | 
Can 
am likely to a supply of 50 to 100 originating fom s 
Raag at this time ido not find one seed of a Potato berry (or apple). Hallett’s 
p cept 
hill d those which are [o at Mitcham, | a lot from the berries, Fluke tpe will continue eto 
nor is ed in your more mes as in cul oa be Flukes, true to the original, varying in vigour successfully 
raion at Hite eee = draka my gardener to | growth accordin ng to circumstances, until the sort dies She gardon vi itn the last ive y URN TESE agar 
slips from th o neighbouring c cottagers last | out from old eae like some of our older kinds of fruit. | fruit; viz: the Mangifera indica (Mango), Anona squamosa 
spring, wid: * now teils me that all the plants in this | H. T. F. F., Burt (Custard apple), Anona a ‘a — ls — 
neighbourhood were killed by the frost of the winter | - Roses «tis Msn netti Stock on Raised Banks.—Roses | muricata (Sweet. mg eenn TERETA PRERA 
0-61. Diss. like eed of heat, water, and Mem Though they Tautan oMi (Tamarind), and Chrysophyllum 
Edible Snails (see p. pee is peta is not sen of wa ter, however r they do not like standing | Cainito (Star Apple). Also Artocarpus integrifolia (Jaca tree) 
the only species whieh affords w food. H. mp. itt e summer is éxtes- warm aud dry, . — —— the first time. — - much 
(ooo o nne which rib the snail. then they w il do. well in wet ground, because of the | sake of its nourishing fruit, and for its timber, which is in 
feasts of the Newcastle glassblowers; the common |evaporation. In your Paper, and also in the “ Florist,” | some requisition for dyeing and other purposes. I regard the 
banded Helix of our hedges is also occasionally eaten, | I gave an pion a some Roses on raised banks and | fact of its bearing fruit here with great satisfaction, as- 
and is used es ally oe a the snail-broth which is | also of their treatment. Nothing could have don aur el ee qu rom cim be iniroduo 
b y also be introduced into 
Sometimes recomm consumption. H. lucorum ioc than they have done bns. during their ‘ite the s Colony with P. Masoods: 
is eaten in Italy, and “the latge rosy-mouthed Helix of rial. Some that were little pot plants Oak plantation has been made between the bank of the 
