Serrawore 10, 1864.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRIOULTURAL GAZETTE. 869 
apprehension of what he says. In his ning I was alarmed to find that the id had birds I think live entirely upon fruit. 
what may be called *the open country' x^ m Se ied. E the water in the pi = = nd s - tober they live on the produets of the garden and 
‘hill, and dale, and plain,’ = a it as not piantei | tho ater c nected to enable a new fitting g^ rehard, i the remaining months ther food is 
M» ‘nice art, in beds and curi. knots ; but it by I was assured, i eas that all would be com- farnished d igh read and hedgerow. Every ner 
p y ev vening, so as to ena ble the fires to be kno lague the blackbird is in the fruit 
Sion any more than Spense cag Rn ier he i relit. O Y" m 
art as — in aps ctive Bower of Bliss, | that the new fitt Ming did not aud that another oci So I do not think the cause of our having 
which was spread as a trap for the Knight of M casting should be made and be ready for use Ed next wd wasps lies in the ijt e of bi 
perance, On thas are Me describes day. It did not come home until two day So "m d Wind it to the hot a sum mmer, 
* blissful bower” of our first as fashioned v there t which as been partieularly A ama 
Divine art; and his words are cd R selected to|large houses without any heat, with 12° to ri " frost. | to wasps. Since the latter first — 
convey iio ofthe art which perfects man's abode. | I much regret : x not make a note at the of the| I have haa in d upwards of 1 th 
roof is inwoven shade, fenced up by a verdant | actual temperature of the houses, and of the rois I have used are ve Aa simple, rte on expensive. 
wall; flowers wrought Mosaic and with rich inlay | of each, and - Sihat now only write from recol- | have pa pape rol inge t id bottles, and I half ai 
broider'd the ground. How elaborately the passage is | lection. I think it was apg: 56° on the morning the | them wit ibe of beer 
to exhibit art; and how carefully the poet | fire was discontinued. I am sure that 24 hours after | sugar ; alla and fruit trees 
distinguishes between the home of man, where art | the reduction was only 3°, and th the neem! morning, | where the sade are most numerous, isi, ae re very 
should be visible, and the wild range of nature, where ~ hours after, only 3° more! The houses rewained in | fond of this mixture, and to make it attractive, 
no pl e same condition the third dam and 2° more were | I place over the moih of the bottles. a A Plam or — 
In fact, the English have always loved gardens; ere ion of 8°, from 56° to 48°, in 72 hours, | that has been mer eaten by them —— 
and it is im le to fix a date when ing was | with a mean temperature outside of about 25°. Nothing | ever, be taken to leave sufficient rom dor € om to got 
l as an art. The Romans h their gardens | was injured. Is not this a 2 of the value —€ the bottles. f pl th 
|. in Britain, and introd f double glazing? It saved nore than I ever ttles assists in the destruction of wasps in two ways. 
plants, Every Saxon gentleman h mpi anion h' f pent in thi , for I must hav " lost my plants w ith- | more — m r à wasp 
pleasure, and his ort-garth (orchard y E vegetables ; | out it; beca e lon ng n he abov t iti is once in t flutters 
- n e Norman Kings (tem : Nu ry IL), the | dre Arena ‘of an ordinary house ge have pe Ed in inthe bottle eier it falls in ingee liqui nid. In 
of Lon don had gardens to other TS d below ron point. With such a system a gar rden che nd place , many wasps s will be found to prefer 
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me ‘of the > alleged | during the darden frosts, ese few siet in the | they. eat of the fruit until they become helpless, and 
snes st; when of -5s uch earlier date; | hope that they may prove interesting to some of your | red es into Fagen m Per aud are drowned, In this en 
uite certain that ti fae Dutch style, with cut | readers, a cs ind - them to turn thei " attention to I des y from 150 t 
M sight avenues, and canal-like ponds, prevailed | double glazing, rne tie no doubt a day p ini night, and as I have more 
in EL ; that the ‘ Natural or Tc style was | try thias system m. "ue regret it. To ree who doubt | sas 30 bottles I daneoy 4 about ae ned every day. 
at Babylon for the celebra ing | it, I have only to * Come and see the results, and | And now there appears to be just as many as there 
zerrin made by Nebuchadnezzar for his vem qarar har judge for TOTAS Thos. Bewley, yon le, = before a wasp 2 DN athoagh MÀ nest 
were laid out to imitate the mountains tural| Black Rock, near Dublin, ay A e destroyed a s found, G. G., 
sce! of her altos portend Media ; didi thet seulp-| Flower Shows.—In loo kin ng back t rough the vista of Covent 
tures represent similar gardens at a er a — date past years, I find that n" invariably pri are taken Aer. —Ca an any of yonr readers tell me whether 
in Assyria. But we Soars Ber agen on oi ring into| in certain classes by the same = uals. The com-| they ever — a frog squeak? A large and muc 
|... 80 pedantic an inquiry, o. Lon. ioni travel to v: is left to two or tite, who claim Ist, 2d, and 3d di ste nded oi s e 
China and Peru for ries "illastra rizes, How does this happen y are ered a most distinct squeak. 
(To be cont cents Mo so A qid of the subjects | exhibited ? No. Is It was very sluggiah, but itr took three or four leaps, 
mie Ifi sq n irte with every jump. never heard such a 
Tt d simply this. A. menced growing | thing before, I should be np to know whether it has 
Home Correspondence "eni some 20 years back, B. ny and C. 10, but t | ever been noticed. F. H. H., 
Loren. —According poy promise I| D., E., and F. only commenced fo y 
beg to send y ist of plants pt the group | unfortunately 
to which the. Silver Cup was awarded a icester | } yet, as A] otí 
Ha bow Vi held the other day. ll Ider and 1 comsequentty much larger, though Rovan HORTICULTURAL: Sept. 6.— Exhibition d 
a space of 40 feet in M pan 7 Ra in| more skill m may td n bestowed on those in the | Autumn Flowers.—Cut Roses were ig on a his oc 
and was exhibi y A. Turner, ^T . o possession of D., E., LE. De only way of remedying | sion by Messrs. P. 
Leicester. I ble pecim an evil), i 
Norfolk Island Pine, upwards of 13 feet h h t 
either side of this stood fine examples of Seatoriin standard en dien some of the sizes nin hin many Paul & Son 
which were fine specimens of : es ‘at present to plants or frs nd pois bo | exhibited Jr Panl Son 
viz,: Vanda suavis and tricolor, Oncidium m, | given to those in a size fixed upon, rench Asters; M. 
Cattleya bicolor, lia elegans, and Dendrobium | given to those in any sized pots, as it would perhaps Hon derson & Co. a "gap. 
T nthum. In other available space stood|be unfair to exclude the latter al G 2 
slong ueste carefally arranged, they have been exhibited so often, that most of them gated variety of "Rh 'nchospe jasm 
io produ best possi! are well known to the public. In short, it has been Men vue Ferns, eee Marat 
plants. 
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road, they would find their god without difficulty to contributed Allama V sitial 
elegantissimus, Pandanus javanicus v: variegatus, Oroi es any of the London shows. It via rnb cm that ^ d flowering variety E. he way of Schottii, as far 
in t 
po moar iag Mr geriamn Alocasia i metallicaand macrorhiza drift of these remarks will not be misunde as the blossoms are concerned, but with foliage 
hos argyræa, like that of  cathartica. This received, 
ra ai Wightii, dernier um, Belleymoi, 7) be competition, greater il displayed, as it well deserved, a First-class Certificate ; 
betskoi, and Lowii; Lilium cifolium ed introductions would doubtless thus be | as did also the large orange-stained white blossomed 
and album; Disa plan sagi ranthemum need een before the public in the shape of specimens| Dendrobium formosum giganteum from Mr. Bull, 
nervi i e latter ui than have hitherto been submitted to public inspection, | King’s Road. To Pelargonium té rennes, 
large bell-glasses); the J à Ipswi 
ne rose, from Mr. Sal as d Fir. 
losum, reply from. any | Certificate, and Verbena Purple Prince from Mr. 
Anemia fraxinifolia, Asplenium lucidum, Nephrodium | experienced garden to the. following Drm a Norford, of Brompton, received a label of Com a- 
Platycerium and|a Vinery auswer in which the house is composed ege Another Verbena called Minerva, pink with 
Pteris pe reae These plants formed in themselves lights that have the glass put in without t la aps? The mson eye, from Mr. Stalker, of — am, was 
a forest of most beautiful vegetation. An Old D d af Vinery were originally of the - fashioned | ddal a Second-class Certificate. Pentstemon Mrs. 
being in venil squares, each overla p | Moore, a — variety eet Mt to d us, 
Double Glazing.—In your Paper of the e ult. you | ping (3 cen leaving a small rit hn ré bitót received a Firs ertificate, and M i: — 
- done me the honour of alludin xperi- | While in that state the Vines prospered, dad italiens |k Boroni d-class Certificate, Thess came p^ 
men — and of quoting a Arkia of Gode were usually obtained. Bat the then owner, | Downie, Laird & xm as did also other on varietios 
e d d fth flow f Pri 
tten for the information of my friend Mr. | considering that harm was done by g wer. Dahlia Queen ot 
^w by him laid before the British Association aan with a south wind, thou ught to obviate tl i S ti V heeler, 
the close you invite me ive my |evil by inserting thicker glass in strips of 18 i pt plish h shaded lilac, a First-class Certificate, 
further experience, and I have now much pleasure in | long, the edges of vr merid "on Pere ns were |as did also Champion, a variety in the way of Lord 
her year’s trial has confirmed me still put end to en ert os een 80 as to render E Derbys: jet Macs of Sports, a caration striped 
double glazing, and of its perfect } pats t, had a d-class Certificate. These w 
inds of plant growing. With me, time of ootis i of Salisbury. Tus cs 
continue to flourish and increase | Vines have evid s 
r to a degree beyond w xpected when | and subject to 1 
» L t has followed | small, while t| 
of annoyance from dwi t ri 
ET s of various kinds, | avoided f per c fights, t 1 ms ' proper 
* ut rarel r, and i hts which swi upper rone Med 
Tire aro fow d ie siot. of which ich slide? or would it be advisable to reglaze the | Certi eae mon of the e URA Gok adver: 
number 
From this I infer that when plants are P kde int the glass to overlap so as to admit of | tisement in another column. 
1 n of atmosphere suited to maintain entilation ? I should observe that I always 
. them in perfect health, they are but little liable ed my Vines early in the year, eo as to have the| CRYSTAL PALACE  HORTICULTULAL 
l Put “4 ch so impair their beau! 
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ttacks, whi ripe by August and September. An opinion on | Sept. 7 and 8.—Lhe autumnal Fruit and Dahlia 
A ost remarkable f feature arising from double | this aint wil greatly oblige. B. show, which was held on Wednesday ursday 
; s the extraordinary length ot time heat is asps.— any of your pondents tell me | last, was well attended. The display of fruit was 
_ Tetained in a house so treated, I ve you an interest- | what is the ation that there are so many wasps this | fim .and in many instances excellent 
b; the first week of edd last we had | year? A gen man, speaking to me one day on the | especially in the case of Black Grapes, which were all 
“thera days and nights of contin tinued severe frost, the | su Racers the | that could be desired. 
í not rising d uring these days to 32°, and | blakbird, but T doabted his word, for [have closely | Collections of ha ishes of 1 Fruit.—These were not 
eu ding to abont 18 atched the habits of birds at all seasons of the year, | numerous; but were some excellent 
‘Ment of this frost an acc be RESTE to the apparatus | land I have never seen a bird or any other bird| examples of skilful. ealtivation In the different 
heats m 
5 y stove [ers 130 feet long, and a range | attempt to des a wasp; and the blackbird is the | exhibitions were very fine Black Hamburgh, Muscat, 
;* About 60 feet for Orchids. On etene n the latter pe "t odd Lok. to Ule such an action, for black- ' and Trebbiano Grapes, good Barrington Peaches, Moor 
