70 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONIC 
LE. (Fes. 2, 1856, 
at Paine’s Hill, and at Claremont ; 3” and this so 
spring oi of 1810 they almost all died, especialy u the 
older ones. _ And again Loudon says, the — 
i 1 Pla: 
ich es the severe frost of 1869, so that the tree e| 
is now comparatively rare e thr roughout (€ Great Bri itain. 
te ie Nib g 
d h 
give an impetus tọ 
ulness, 
to be slo ow, and it may ultimately even 
iaeei to rag of them. O. Walton, Victoria Park, 
South Haci 
Late Sown ee Seeds, —A me to bring under 
or 
Geo. M‘Ewe 
Beurré d@'Amanlis Pear—Mr. Rivers, I o 
speaks we ell of this Pear, iets says “ ‘it is ever pets 
cies of Pee owbich i is 
gonr notice . spe 
e seedsin P Walkin ng ro ound a ‘garden this morning, 
such were really 
kind of Plane in this part of the great valley ay Eas 
Thames agp a a oe P. orientalis, namely, | 
he o can poi 
inted out vere sown with 
N biennials, and perennials at the end of 
last October, but none of which had made their appear. 
f a few Antirrhinums. She 
oo i dell astical bens ff Mone 
ds + of 
tain if this pect Eikin 
were described under any Me the varieties of the two 
but I e oe expec 
what best agrees with it in Loudon der the 
Ke 
orienta! t. 
ted | m 
si of 
> a.: 
zaga me if there wa possibility of their germi- 
at 
shortly. I told aon no, erm they were sown 
as a 
| very diferent i in ap 
perfumed. 1s 
n the Quince stock I as from rasan in 1853 feme.. 
Jast year , the first I had ever seen of the 
kind, and I c: n assure you they were as high flavoureg 
good J. argonelle, and pery li ke it, in taste ean- 
pearan 
flavour ave oped is season ; though that 
does oe sage much, cep a I oo Cra» them pe 
sof m, wth b 
ting y 
“vom season, bei 
she purchased 5l. worth 
an’s in etapa te ape 
Oct ober. Now. 
t seeds a 
the 
fle rent seeds- Gowen 
— to sow ribet in she: end | 
ed. 1, a iii, į not indeed that — is any si 
racter given by which it can be distinguis shed from 
known that it would lead to vag eral " This 
system cannot be too m uch repre ehended, as it not only 
P. RAR SA ika the leaves 
rom that m 
ge P 
coni tion as it were of thi to his 
figure of Mr. Salvin’s tree, vol. viii., tab. 724,t which 
is a most faithful and correct portrait of our tree, and 
, but causes disa ppoint- 
o purchasers. This case is not solitary, as 1 could 
in | men 
sae Cs many. Rusticus, Newcastle. 
n 
Hoitzia Coccinea (see P. 104, 1854). —After two 
seasons’ 
z came up against the 
pas speedily ne over two of the wal ae 
(and bears I believe) large crops without a 
canker. Jota, 
Peas.—In mee barrie Fairbeard’s se takes the 
lead wit ER EPES 
ird 
TE Pe crop 
superi any, being 
wth, nat ne to mildew, pubes the flavour 
or Pe ee 9-ineh 
pots, with upwar 100 bonnes of bloom on eae! ch, the 
tallest spikes eer pj pirewai peer Ppa reil a grem them 
ee 
ee more of the Marrowfat than the extreme 
sweetness. c “se many of on wrinkled varieties. John 
m 
entalis, itis quite clear that the “ general le Barton, 
and of growth” are zey tr different from. old cow hie I shifted t pria vite — oy con- "Falling k —A lan aN proprietor having seen 
that species, vi soem s to Joe of it iually kep id f Ju ly. _ They some per’ iodical that the best time for cutting eeu is 
rally known plan «Phere. an us youn; me re fre at which period the wood does not 
sg mr Horticultural Soning? s Garden, Tai a reg speci. spider. ae pens thie. S Hant ' in the sna and | worm-eaten, as it invariably does in a little time when 
e grounds of A. Salvi » Esq. ; at Finchley.” open peal = I find that , tried the by cutting a tree and 
pepe wena "i your rea maa tion. When hav: done flow ES having it used as a beam in an old cottage, having the 
to agree with M. Spach, who says (Hist. oe hro ae the oldest, and cut the young x dear cut in 1830, “It has never been painted or white- 
vol. xiii., p. 77), “ Nousavons acquis la conviction, and after they have made shoots about 1 inc! ch = I | washed, and is now as fr sound as if just put up. 
recherc! 
erches, que les deux ron > 
Willdenow — ) pretendurs espèces des auteur 
doivent être tou considérées comme N os 
P espèce an herr naw } rin “a . 
this he varieti his 
our plant, in all pro bability “ € acerifolia, “Spach > 
opens eee Aiton), whose n do 
pts, reiterating, the : VANO nagar 
when 
shake them out, prune their roots a little, and repot 
them in the same soil, as above. J. Archbell, Feltwell 
m ndon, olk. 
or 
‘Pipe Plues.—it i _ re fp cst ast n smoke ee 
flue could be conv 
t: me 0 would 
e Hor —Permit me, x= foie spils 
sinh «X. ” (p. 54) remark that I am not s 
ta that he re a ” establishing, or rather oniy 
(applied b 
rep a onthe. smoke 
d heavier in proportion to its distance 
| from ¢ the fi dee so so that by the nye od ag the base 
aoe den 
e contents kiana with | 
clear to any one, for. “he ae 
seein Wima lid. » which i is no thin ng more, as Willdenow 
tells us, than “ P. Ait? 
saying “ “itis 2s to the anman obse; r that gar- 
enter the furnace and w 
| would be little or no 5: te sight dra 
e certainly in: — by the iat dis 
a i a 
further “aa eos Tenore ( an Willd. 2) though he de- 
scribes the 
owever, 
a 
small fire situated at or caa base of the shaft 
leaves, “à 
eng he a Platanus occidentalis 
x, Fi. Bor. Am » and st tes the ttobea 
sa tas aeey 
Ciiswiek but, on the contrary, gone to =e Botanic, | 
imply t tl f y was gr eater Nis 
Karit 
its interior, R. 7.— 
| During tha last SIX | or eight es 
s I „have heated my 
bo that some of 
those of the e Bota nic ; ran ta very ‘ server” | 
n that though t the Hortieultural "Society | 
ubled the amount of a a Ee eF 
England, that 
ceess requ ory to justify the storna 
p of the exhibitions at Chiswick. It has been appar 
arent | sa 
my purpose ver ry well. The furnace is outside on the 
south, and finding the sellin an nanneyanee, I took down 
| the chimney 5 soun with the stove a 
earthen pipes which I ca; ~ aio Aei 
upwards of 40 feet, Spe 
of 
dass les ore et „parait prop re T ‘PAmérique.” 
| tunate, andithat no generalship, however skilful, could | 
K 
Take, 
as 3 exhibit E very co us down on the young leaf 
shoots, and while dong y looking very prent from 
The gage 
rates its srctninalty: tard Kasy gra vastly improved 
—its distance from London—the remarkable —_ 
tunate weather on the fête days— thy e} very con 
ombat successfully Denga m s 38 ga which has | i 
for ting. for | whi 
what we here take for acerifoli DS, me, thon 
- Do 
al old trees pad 
hara eters of E occidentalis of Linn ea a pe 
authors exist in England ? 
st to bear 
Lon in conjunction with t 
is sinha PARE employed for ornamentin 
arks. uld be studi 
Sydenham is holding 
en esa which has 
ete increasing inducements which 
3 take into account, opr ou 
porter the Botanic and C wick making a 
visitor who sees the one awe of secing the fess 
and the wonder will not be og ha ena aa Ko n up, 
but — how it has been ab maintain ts pla 
lon 
ong. “X” admits “ that 
procee s fro 
w rizontal ski pee afterw: 
ol sah o 9 
| ehinay e 
| the fo ot of the chimney. 
ss to themselves ; ig > but _adds, “it. is notorious that | 
vd 
ae creation of a draught by an race fire. 
expenses to a sing, frana if these are ‘likely to exceed 
ey say at once, ‘I must ee at 
hom e, this ’t pay.’ ms “Why “poor Richard ”? 
not st Ae a better advice. Does “X.” and his ätadjütore 
think that all gardeners are such fools as to work hard 
? Where are the lectur: 
upon t well as in 
rand autumn, pon “the leaves and flowers are 
Hooker 
ers or 
teachers on any subject who do not or ought not first 
uld | fire by means of an underground 
an o Bis bt. 
and other vegetables upon se flues. 7. H.— 
Of ree practicability of convey ing the s RAA of a hothous 
pipe flue Sa abot 
pan 
with p 
adh aid is taken 
satisfaction, and I may add t that 
e ground over the flue | for growing early TER 
the 
summer 
in sag W.J. 
Vict a Pa rk—Y You ask dE bes Deciduons Cypress | t 
$ da mpar It has been 
growing ere these four pi, pr 
t. Mr. Berrat 
o do more than they? Think you that that van of 
week 
than on any other part of the garden. Colo.—I vot 
: 
TEER haB Z8] 
plants which you say is “hawked about’ 
by magic? Is it not a fact that 12 months—aye, and 
as many years 
conveyance of his smoke, as he will ive have cls $ 
appears be doing well, 
makes so’ 
of o 
trees in the 1 metropolitan parks, which he says 
e next — he is in 
th 
jae physical toil, was daily and nightly spent —_ 
them before they were ft for exhibition, and no 
by one man only, but by a staff of hard workin; pg, il 
remunerated. 
a good brick fiue he may heat his house by 
70 yards underground as effectually as as if i va ow ae 
at hand. I have built and heated two houses upon the 
London if he will pay a visit to this 5 park he will fin 1d, 
all t 
names, and many others e eq ually good and much more 
yet they answered perfectly. s The aa enter a he 
No, no, if exhibit ii al ve erred a tall, it has pees in 
making t their services too cheap. Allow me in | 
The collection of trees and shrubs here is large 
Council 
and nd varied, but i 
It is evident that the early and Inte fife 
seaso 
d, and go out at the back wall ; th ey were then Wi 
ducted 50 yards underground to the garden wall. I 
to deciduous. kinds. Conifers da not grow at all, on | f the season spoken of will give rise to me mproy ed ructed a range of pits for bedding out panji over 
account y the smoke. Of C upwards th y heat for the 
of 50 varieties ; P and a host of plea which have never pan a pang range. ld b made s0 4" 
eh apeeine. Ae io in pi Come an represent ted. ‘Then instead of collections of plants, | it will throw offas much vant io ora aa eee 
tions ar ian S bei f H , | is unfavourable to a „good draught. J, N, Woo 
Mane iene eh Sgn po Hee Cat HG electron: eae 
the east inds, not the least shelter, and the west wind | | improved Moss; there would be then no “ make-up ” w quite led underground the distance 
plants, nor expenaive ¢ carriage expenses, and a urse, | he mentions. As a case in point, I may mention that 
“There are, however, still large trees,” Loudo with prizes in proportion, which might suffice to com- | th ke fi he kitchen fire in mansion at this 
the Chelsea Garden, in the grounds of Lambeth. "ioe at | boa sole ok beauty, and economy. Perhaps eal the | p. is conducted d for ‘about 150 yards 
ac Romain on cnr tee Places.” —But, query, are these the nt “ horticultural rooms,” which have about them | rising in a chi behind. The 
et ie specimens of their kind, P. orientalis, may | 8° sepia Se cee iations, might avail- elevation of the grounds behind the house $ 
be seen Prete a ep praet Tae of = able, Q. I } } ds in | h id li in the 
old Arboretamy the gate leading in ill thankfully pay, and not raps two of the Vineries here that are 
a A 
dep a thie plate ice eats called Placanas per iloa the ie Maple one for pade rhes —— s of instruction and | each about 15 yards long, the "smoka after traversing 
identi Pins toon 
enjoyment, particularly at 
nee EE 
see oa 
