| Avcvsr 13, 1864] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 718 
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superseded wax „candies. I am satisfied from many | utmost c credit upon the management, of some of the His own words inform us that his aeg, Bored 
| . crew A - places = aed diee rome Er pe 21 pee 
ndon butter and nast, reasy | the kingdom, among h may rystal | “ ary's Nursery, Ho 
baco - m: oy d their health be eer, Pala dim de of F the mi Hactionleacal Risus at Christmas 1862; prd after “this the pss 
| but thet temper would be sweeter. find | at South Kensington, Kew mpton Court, Hyde ac and in the preceding line he states 
invariably that people vicum like Boney e persons of | Park, = are ark. that the se MA from which these Clematises were 
and affectionate temper. The pro- But returning to the —— x beds with an even | raised, was hybridised and gathered by me." [ notice, 
f honey never draw Sie s unless in | level der e, and 21 ye r my own charge in | however, that he gives the public no information as to 
defence uh their homesteads, and the eaters and| Battersea Park, mos aia ere made level before | where he was up to Christmas, 1862, nor where his 
irers of honey rarely indulge in acrimonious | planting, it is found "hat i in patting in the plants, the | plants were that he hybridised, or from which he 
e I believe a great deal of bad feeling is not mee E the bed almost invaria ably g ets higher than gathered the seed ; perhaps he wili favour us with 
moral or mental, but physical in its origin. If yow moisture n hese particulars, Again, some of them are reported to 
tion, or Ls a ages or in a convoca- hardly "utbs "e notice ; but in à season like have bloomed jast year, that is, in the same summer or 
rybody ears, treat | present, when moisture is of so much giten season in which the seed was sown ; this, contrasted with 
Ma to "a little waite v breakfast ‘or six months, a nd the -— is torent. At m mma of the dry | the statistics just given respecting onr Batch No. 2, 
the ‘Thorn will blossom as the Rose.’ eople that weather this found an evil at rather astonishes me, rendering as it does our sy stem of 
can’t eat honey— hu caveto '—t z can't ever Iien an im pats rem re mulching | is | propagation quite stage-coach pace, compared with the 
fit ‘a land overflowing with milk and honey.’ e: resorted to, from water T aw plentifal and con- marvellous rapidity with which it is managed to raise 
*[ have not answered half the letters : have|venient for use. In consequence of is. evil, | Clematises at Hornsey. I hope therefore that Mr. 
received; but because you have been gian o take that of the "beds , being ve higher in the Townsend will je td enough to give some further 
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you ession of my thi anks, 8 Saai gl de ! T d. The dpi publie may thus eins some 
super of koh oney y filled from Heath during S = 1f you | line of plan This as done i. rod em a dee valuable information on an interestin, ing bject. George 
do not eat honey, which I hope — — am sure | from the hig The st s ide behin d each line - PAT with a | Jackman, Jun., Woking Nursery, Surrey. 
is not the fact, y g I any inmates of — hand: du to the front, where i sed so as urface Caterpill ars. — The long-continued dry 
your great hive in Printing Hou o Square i may be m a small retaining "wand and "thus s a concave weather we hav ve had this , Summer has been _ very 
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(This and the foregoing letters, quoted a t p. 748, | or 12 or 15 inches broad, according to to the space be- insect vx In nsects, indeed, in general can withstand 
bes: with vs *' Bee-master's Sermon,” i in which he | tween the rows. By this method and with careful | cold and frost to a great de egree so long as they are 
s that bee carry from the hive tot vatering, every plant is made to. receive an equal | dry, but wet is their great exterminator, Among the 
d loyalty. quantity, and but little water is wasted, so that there | insects which hay us become prevalent to an 
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cone Cristian sympatl y, Seni reta bano abour. These little water tables | extraordinary dnes are ‘ha surface grubs of the heart 
love of fresh air and Mt risit: have called forth on howev ver require to be carefully attended to, as a and d In the series of agricultural returns 
this subject of Bee-culture sundry criticisms, of which | front or raised edge occasionally gets washed dow ublish hed la Eh ae it will dé seen that the Turnip crop 
we propose to give the rius hereafter. ] and every little fault is made good during the pig 1s picti msi aia a failure, and in many instances 
tion of watering. - The |: abour of forming these tables | this is e pressly ati jus ted M the caterpillar, In m 
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IRRIGATION OF FLOWER-BEDS. by a a proporti ionate. savi ng of labour iu a few days’ sequence sor a hs of y ‘young "Tufnips being compietely 
HE present season will long be remembered by —— There is nothing to — of in ti t below the surface of the ground. They 
those who are interested i in the cultivation of the soil, | appearan of. beds so treated, „except in the case of | then attacked gee Carrots, erm ge Seakale. 
and especially by those th i vi th with foliage ; | 4 set my dap r daily to move earth roun id the 
bility of Jarge gardens paos upon them, in igo and these would probabiy suggest the idee that some | roots of the: pé gei les, and i t ti 
q Sorel en busily engage Ra testi ing he filled a a pin measure with the creatures. 
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of his is d E rmi or mou il moved around 
with de necessary libera lity ca iaa fo ro ees memory an verts of some earthwork, 5. G., | the plants, and so long as this is the case Chis is Thè 
tomer M desi or pet ^ andal loreng of of | Battersea Park. best remedy w which i am ibis. to suggest for their 
owers, and indee orticulturists is genera ly, will hay |n eir " zin ther i 
— mda re ro^ iia lon. nother mie past the tops of Lettuces, 
culty, ; disap- e beds, keeping tl ist 
dd t, or E of success, to ihe to thi ir reco Home Correspondenc da visiting il 2 DOR ee 
ection the x season of 1864; and it may n hat each| Seedling Clematises.—I_ feel great "lids in | 7, daily. They form an excellent trap. 
individual wi ll economise to the best of his ability, and train. E a 749 with our experietioe NL T ree Killed b Frost. as P 
i ating properties of EA tis seed. | Y Ys h nd 
of water r1 of labour in applying it, in order to|Asitis sta ted yi (s that Clematis Jackmanni and s A me 50 i p " v goal t 
to his means, | rubr a EA exhibited by us at South Toini v oig and contents n Py f o P owest 
^ No a the thoughts of some ingenio ous minds may | July last, * were so marvellously like those produc which nd e ACEOACT = ili d * s fi 80 feet of timber, 
bring to recollection the perusal of certain grand the hee: before from another r source, as to suggest cod | pletely kille NT e frost of MS I do 
prop à | id igin,” I feel bound, for the credit of | such size there is nad b 
d ith e by explaining the origin, | This is th ODE es Fe by frost in > 
» This is poh rone dry ar .l know of here, Secs nad ee Oe 
water a ee hes - ne hat a in the pig ms Rages working of those M) 5 stating | one Bidudreds of Oak 
hope of reaping some benefit, by adopting perd and confining 1 unreservedly to facts as they completely X xil illed wd by the frost. of A wi om = 
of which they have long since read a a deacriphon, either barred. Bate! ho Alm No. 1: In zy Las 9 W. Strickland, Howsh ar Fi E this 
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; for we cannot get rid of the fact, that und i and at 
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it necessary that the sup ly of water to our flower- ties wit Ne the aeg I sho: ate eiie distinct | f 
beds and aem oul wh bed" Ingenuity in colour and shape of flower. xi did so, hing dite 42 otices of Books. 
however, and it may be science, will be taxed to meet | ripened, was gathered, and sown in Novio 1858, by The Alpine Guide: Part Second. By John Ball, late 
the difficulties and necessities of a season like the | ourpropagator, Thomas May; theseedsdid not vegetatein President o of the Alpine Club. London: Longman 
present. Mulching with cocoa-nut fibre, with leaf-| the year iu but they came upin 1860, and the young & Co, 1 godin 502. 
mould, or light rotten manure, or with short Grass or plants we re potted off i in pe adi of 1861. The follow- In our Gk year’s volume we noticed at some length 
othe: E will each be held in requisition, and (pp.846 and 894) the first part of this most useful 
y all or any of them will be found to Thomas Townsend (no w manager o ’s Nurser ry, | guide, from the pen of one of the most successful of 
produce | the very | best results from their power of Horn; sey), who had these Clematises "e his manage- mountain hot e The volume before us is a further 
A capital ips, and some 
ment work, with ca 
confining the extraction of its moisture xad to ihe of 1862, when we selected from among t f to tl al Alps, 
roots of the plants. These oe refor is included the Bern North Bwitzer- 
especially to be ms ii ish or the first time by Townsend, who left our E to land, , the qe the Rbetien, rt the Lombard 
Instances may occur where the eun oF ea water is take the St. - Marys s Nursery, "Hornsey, the follow ing Alps. Forty cha apters | or sections - of. tha book are 
sufficient to pen yaa even the dem 
this; but in cases economy o: of Ta af of n of the last m entioned date, C. Jackmanni and ue systems are dirided, and under each of these a series of 
importance, i ido aaa with other tations which violacea, and E awarded unanimously ad First- "ie which are open to travellers are concisely yet 
at first sight dey or to be of but little momen t. class Certificates. _ Bat ch of Se eedlings, No. : Ia nd amply discussed; such information as to tracks, and 
especially he sloping or unleve and charges, and similar matters, as would be 
which beds and Ee are generally made to assume, 1862, C. Inuginos and s of the new nie of | most like ly to be sought after, and useful to those who 
Being highest in the middle and cud teh N with C. Vitieda venosa, and the seed was | are bent on trying mountain passes, being very clear arly 
teide, consequently w n finds i e | gathered re bim the following autumn, and was sown | put uda the reader. 
e" no. e little, "i ny. remaining T penctaate By our oy clip Dec. 2h 1862 Lie e on; The bulk of the volume peang made ap. of a Bane 
En Mo surface or very erence to our labour book, I s fter | account of these various rou is essarily to 
is the result, although tbe operation of wnsend ind "left our employ). " This s Y not considerable extent pris of iem 
3 iig moy be repented again and agein. Under such aie in the spring, but two needlings iu | scenery th: which 
TR plants t of from 2 
‘ir roots but, to the most, a very scanty su and one of these seedlings produced a. | 
This most Ye PAET ca an extr eid yet hot with: lat week, the LE TUN 2 portion 
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Let us take another instance, much less obj eni | bad this m ng, and ng to our former experience | seemingly 
han the last, one ies appears to represent thepre practice | I Sps e h tons in the summer of 1865. liv 
in most of the large establishments sari d to C at | This xplana n will, — 
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ee early show | ts nd. The v 
or hibited by the firm has been tw ed down = T 
certainly benefit the plants, but in duty cases it | George Jackman sei were originated a ab = Waking suffered severely get - storm of 
would not remove the ed; i in the following case, how- | Nursery, and taking into not seem to have ted unfavourably iy ike physical 
ever, it would effect much more. I now ws to what | Ciematises were exhibited i in Tasa 303, on pir condition of the ac The men are usually active 
: has been the rule of practice in some of e leading | before Mr. Townsend showed the A eg he also| and muscular, and will carry weights over the rough 
ments, both publie and private, in this country , | possessed similar variet! ies, I take it that ours must | mountain paths that would not be attempted by well- 
for some time past, viz b id I hav ve during these | fed qr Soon after leaving Guttannen the 
the flower-beds quite level, a practice which has done | last few days read Mr. bt paigaple letter on the wer | track cr the right bank at the pieturesque 
much towards’ eae ning tothe nega her ota grand | of his Clematises inserted in a contemporary, July 12. | bridge “Techingel matt, and rather more than one mile 
sheets or Vine RE DE us hues | He there states vd “he shall be happy to Men, any | further on returns to the left bank, The vegetation 
w tt that may be put to him concerning them,” i becomes more alpine in character, the summits of the 
