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Jan. 26, 1856.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
grown in rich manure ed a 
inferior in quality to those 
situations, and so w 
and undrained soils, are very 
grown in poor and dry 
ith many other things. Our cloudy 
be 
porting gre afresh, and cutti 
CHRONICLE. 
een carried on, I might have remedied the evil by 
55 
the work, so far as it 1$ completed, » 
I did not discover it until I had oceasion to throw some 
of 1 them 
reader will 
y perspi us accoun t of the 
euo) 
| laws of attraction and repulsion, of the distribution of 
and damp stmospher re may also an argument away. Now for the Hollyhocks. The seeds presto of magnetic phenomena, of magnetism and 
against t the ¢ een obtained from London, and were sown late in | electric currents, electro- namics, induction, the pro- 
t believe that the e ymher er or early in October in pots placed in a pit, | pagation of electricity, of its calorific, luminous, che- 
ani o dise; n vegetation generally—by | which must inevitably be heated by a flue, in order to | mical, and physiological effects. The fifth t 
sett upati ons “of liquid manures—may be so | exclude frost. The walls of the pit are high, so that no the sources of electricity, viz., heat, mechanical 
pape if not ai oyed ma er attention to hesthiah amount of covering on the glass woul: lants n, chemical action. Some idea may be formed 
drainag lag by mix ures of ¢ red materials to secure | secure without the aid of fir re- heat, would | of the fullness with which th topics are treated, 
ere were two | the fact that the fourth and fifth parts, on the 
folia age as to increase the e produce o val the ground roug gh] ook possession (I did | transmission and sources of electricity, alone 
to almost an incalculable extent. G. M‘E not remove veg well phei that they were sown nearly the whol es the second volume, consisting o! 
Growth of Pinuses at Esher Pi ace, Surrey. months too late, and p 
i Ka yen circumstances would not stand over the winter. ing high The 6th and ith Prieta) 0 whic 
March |Janua: otal dent I d i 
Ai emed pere 2 to an examination of od a cine p 
Year. | enough to admit of a path allround the inside. electricity to natural phenomena, and to an explanation 
s quently not been able to uncover this pit Gt T except Md ro practical ge either to the art on healing 
Ft. In.| Ft. In.) Ft. In.| Ft. In. 
Cedrus Deodara 7 4\|17 6|10 2| ı 5 | the back, which I „pla the chem echanical arts. Although the 
Cryptomeria japonica 2 4/15 §]13 4i 1 11 | bunting hag the openings to exclude frost dea winds g ii 
i — ~ 5 = il A. iit Sil e plants being contiguous to the glass), during t i have ‘pen time to time whore 
inus Coulteri a aes i aa ge of 12 ? days or a ido ce Mo man being y Mea from those who like himself have made ben matters 
>I w nsferring 
ies vedas suffer! g, | to supplemental notes a end of call ‘vale all 
1854. 1856. not administer to their wants, and I con- | abstruse mathematical estoniationsy adapted his work 
cluded that I had better lose a few plants than the |to the wants of non-mathem inquire: t the 
Ft. In.| Ft. In| Ft. In.) Ft. In. | whole ; the means of hav Min spear = e inside would | end of each cha apter t the render will find a full 
Araucaria imbricata 6 7| 8 11) 2 4| 1 2 | have obviated this anxiety and m t list of th ek 4 
ea 5 z j P : = a i 3 plants in this district ed st deny of Deica] is very upon in it, and the text is meee amply instrsted 
» Pyrenaica | MEAT S na H 19°] 2 40:.| poorno To frost and snow are so fain ie f | by wood engravings. rt, no effort has a y 
Taxodium sempervirens 18. 5 | 14 1 0i 0 6 |long dur. What necessity is re for ing | been spared either by the artho or the publisher to 
E icer. Ho oliyhock seed in in lg or fre-heat i is unavoidable rende in every way plete. I 
Disease.—Your correspondent (se ee p. 2 it state da few years ago chapter on the physiological effects of electricity an 
seems to think that ecard there is disease tiné “ gard ; Pifo uch a siate- account will be found o 
t WN ment must a ave a bean i 
we 
ow, without 
innovations 
ong regar 
questioning the rmi experi nce and ability as a| common practice are GEA p light. It would Da 
skilful grower, ther doubtless many gardeners been better to have said Cif we take the above mode, of 
who, like myself, halas Aaa there are other causes 5 g 
besides neglect which engender disease, though they instead of advancing. 5 B. ‘ 
may not be susceptible of satisfactory explanation or The article on the 
easily understood, ev r ful investigation. Girofle e (p. 7) is a confusion of terms. Girofie or gd 
Are not o Cucumber growers troubled e- | falo, Garofano, &c., are corruptions of Caryophyllus, 
times by disease even with t p of | the name of the spice, applied secondarily to various 
Prt it, i a were possible, 2| Dian e. The Clon 
and 2 
ruary I beans jo healthy p plants 
of 1 Walker’ s apeovel Manchester ve year: 
di 
seed in a properly as bed i a e PA 
ho y progressed sa oe. with the ex- 
ception of one plant, and bor of fine fruit 
up to the middle of Nov ember ; “ihe ole a failed | 
flourished oe the others was 7 0 
8 inches in length, they n "Pegan to tar ‘up at the 
ends, cite a piatos Jui ral | 
ce or gum 
places, both on the fruit and plant, the pote affected | 
ah black, and the leaves exhibited yellow spots. 
appears that there are notable differe 
between the action of heat and of electricity, in ape 
and that 
x any other knob-shaped vege- 
table. 2. The Lupine (p. 8), rogers in the south of | t 
Europe, is not our Lupinus albus Thermis, [Wi 
| believe the seed: certai Sa prt of L. al | 
Some are of opinion that L. albus Thermis 
not specifically di ] 3. Whi your | 
ee oe not correct M. Pine Ps 
site 
others up to the time when disease manifested | 
aki neste a — not be attributed to | 
ne of o t experi enced Later 
mnam i er, and was a 
Pipe Flue have a ho re se in sry En grounds 
| which I cannot Th heated because of the unseemliness 
ever beon DEAT w with the Cucumber Tagara and do 
bet m tribut e it to mismanagemen 
, as well as 
eon) somewhat annoying to my neighbours. "To obviate 
is i 
hinese Dodder (p. 6); it tied all ‘the plants in the} j 
ood riddance, S. 
by 6 or 8 in 
R Thetfo rd, Norfolk. 
“Aion glandulosus.—Your remarks ne ter 
Bie D ing i introduced here in 1751 from the north o 
ch clay pipes similar to drain tiles under- 
yeu a nme ie about 70 yards, to a point where 
electricity acts in a way peculiar to m0 The e physio- 
ied edge on 
head is bai limited ; s0 ‘far as they are known me 
appear to be of scarcel: y importance. So that 
bon 
| the vegetable Ramm may, Tor the present at hoy) 
as we have o 
ant the 1 pooper of "the vital forces Sperone he has 
M the nonsense talked 
wi ven remind Mr. W: 
e nch word næud is not equivalent to 
A g word knot, nor foliole to Noon noeud is the 
s comple 
more accessible than they 
usually 
wil of foreign authors. 
Garden Memoranda. 
_ CLIVEDEN, NEAR WINDSOR, ONE OF THE SEATS or His 
any anno; 
ay 
ould e cape ow yanc 2. 
slight elevation the whole way. Now w 
lik whe 
ier with many other gi mi exotics oe whieh this : 
> 
ther sach A omg me is practicable 5 $ 
e led so far under: 
haps you ti 
h tth 
n 
W. M. [Can one answer this ern 3] 
Rain: at 4 py ete Alverton for F Five Years. 
air acres in 
is iasa, M aving iene ae 
d s Gripa 
gs within a few feet of many 
grows Young plants on 
ects of winter, more or less, ed 
ears, ie pote’ Laces tered or 
pected oe 
ed Annual Total „ | 4468| 58.05 | 4292 | 33.12 | 34.71 
18.85 | 
6.50 | i093 910 
795| 10.79| 9.73 
Third 
11.88 | 25:01 | 14.30 
= 
Quarter 
Fourth Quarter 
è alterations Sota 
The fall appears to have been little more than three- 
epps 
Bartes of of Sooks, 
A Treatise on Electri 
oy ea ona and Pract 
A. Dela Rive. "Vols L 
gpn by C. V. Waiter 
wor 
erbenas were dead 5 | 
ed badly. 
| 
Hid 
pet nis oe 
j 
ce made in 
our knowledge of these seer = Tate „years has 
dispensable to the student of natural philosophy. In 
;| the two volumes no 
dona ie few weeks, afterwards to wither and die. 
Had T suspected ef it the time that this ipjudicious 
senate (ih tonlld appa A = same 
zeae 
