194. THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Marcu 22, 1856. 
every seyen and a half feet, ) lation of the hothouses at Drayton Manor, a in th the comfort and welfare of of 
t 18 inches in length, all b hol g d construction of those houses I| the wearer even in the Ban “ extreme” occasions, and 
ted | interfered with—and shackled—only by ea own | by those too who need not be what “G, S.” is Pleased 
firmly bs ; the ell 
for climbing we although w have aa phe — for | inability or want of knowledge to BRE them more | to call Gulliver's Philosopher” I may here state that 
that purpose, The house is glazed with 15 oz. sheet| perfect. The late Sir Robert Peel never knew of, or | before the earth banks, &c., can prove generally use. 
glass, th inches in length, saw the ventilating drain-pipes until they were laid and | fal for the purposes shadowed forth, experiments should 
and one foot six inches in width. The spond afer of in operation, when they were pointed out and their | extend over at least two years. correspondent thus 
half inch round iro This house was in | effect, as to altering the temperature of the air, shown | writes—* My Strawberries and French Beans were all 
September, 1855, the pte all being bec ay jen kkaa to him, by the application of two thermometers, one in | cut down in June last year—these are sad difficulties,” 
Som the neighbouring village under plans devised and | the descending pipe outside, and the other in the Well, but just as you will plant Strawberries and French 
i 1 i the banks because 
rintended exclusively by ourselves. It is much |a scending one inside (the difference being ful 10°). | Beans as before, so do not give up 
ligh ter than ap any house we have either seen or heard of, | The lat e Sir Robert adopted the mode of Tt your hopes may be blasted once or twice, But learn 
present hothouses at Drayton r from | where your plans fail, and rectify them for the 
structure, and it is quite rong enough. The bottom | his having ro homes seen m I believe approved sf) future. It requires no foresight to see that it would 
ventilation is in the sides aie _ He AE ma mana to plant fruit trees, unless in fay x 
ground, the slepi ventilation in the ridge in the shape | the able situations, close against those banks without 
of small rising lights, mast aa emeni and when Mr. Spamy Sario attending to preventives to retard the action of E thasp 
open there i is a fine gentle ‘breeze e passing ly | ce th Pao buds, as shading w th leafy 
through the house. I h ae us b 1 the then pardoner (Mr. Milne), a confi- | | boughs, &c., while such as Peach trees and Pihenni 
first house that has peen semn pe dence w trust th I ha ave not the | be oe “entirely un til, say the middle of April, and 
this light, elegant, and ec 0 Bi De ipei 5p honour of Ping “acting eng e pretty certain that the summer and autumn 
Gardeur to Abraham oe gi ain Birches Green, Fy ompany, that ‘office being Set isien filled by Mr. | heats, and - night dews, for which we have a great 
oe „Co oke, CE. J. Jones, Clerk of Works Office, — will more than make up for a late start, 
Er Aiaia, near Birmingham. in, 
ixing See ds. —Asi investigations are no P P. denham. by means of broad shutters made be fold back by day, 
f articles of “i fo od, I k edy St treams.— In the name of all that is natural, | or temporary copings as applied to walls on ae 
am am grated to “find that through your exertions the tasteful, oni picturesque, what can your “ Amateur” | even by calico, erage might Rominy Another 
gh hs i gs ral and a correspon nde ent t be _thinkin ng of, when he cements the way, which may be useful, but only applicable where 
pi tural seeds which has been on fi is carri jed ahl is this—an can 
_ po ag Nna oa to me years ane will not be allowed s SAA keep it clean,” and asks for a chemical 1 compound from experience, both in Scotland and rey rmn: that to 
n this country we are ne weeds from eron ing ! | ses, when 
eet, a, for our supply of seeds on pan windi ing rocky stream to some one w. > } hat to | el d of thei n 
and it is orien matter of serious moment to us to| do with it, and go and buy a place near some well-| fully. The vi peat ge ina eae of mayeymigh 
find that this disreputable prose. at 4 ‘eooking,”” as | filtered water rey wee fet can Tead through Port- | have the use of the sashes. However these are only 
some of Fyi rrespondents aptly term it, is so well |land cemen t banks as clean water as he likes, sugge stions, and enlightened praetica acenting« diferent 
understood and so extensively practised there, But I ith sturb its Sania or hide | plans to different circumstance: ately 
png nearienaven yt sb gn an = f cement” pes ‘ioe sit from “ contact with decide I may path that last pa i Pas y 
If he will Bas do this, let him try fish,/ ripened Vines and Strawberry plants i pots o 
A kas 
1| t sh, | ripen y n 
laour o = purchasing and killing fave s2 to. mix with ce mses of = s, or waterfowl, to keep down|such banks, long after the sun had lost it 
g may b g iok f orm t their natural pabu ulum, power „in the Bhs _ garden and sheltere d border, 
a ge lower figure than the The t | rat hi 
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sorts of Turnip seed can, in pages! rang ere be — and t $ 
at a very reduced rate; four or five years ie for Rabbit Fence.— A cheap ‘and effective method of empliy the principle. We have tried experiments 
instance, Swedish Turnip could be had at Ma e | keeping rabbits from burrowing und g h coloured glass, why not coloured and uncoloured 
* pin or 90s. per quarter, and th varieties even |an upright wooden frame, is as follows :—Take a| banks? Covered and orcas paiak Perhaps I 
uch less than this, and pewrgingiy at that tim m| nd dig out a rut under the wire i y that in mporary 
oe e quantites were purchased and have been kept in | from 9 to 12 centr deep, and fill the rut with broken | 2 and 3 inches, e mn a , foot oan | the soil, may be neces- 
stock ever since, this is species “9 stock being known by the | brick-bats or rough gravel, then pae in thin hot lime | sary, and thai tthe more sheltered the situation is the 
or 6 trio, accord- | grout till all ry space is ’ complete ly filled. I have| better. Geo. M' 
ing | to its age, and is always at hand to mix with the been in the „habit for these last 20 i ears of walling in See d En stg Much has been written in your 
I|J al about the adulteration and mixing of seeds, 
latter artic I also find P grde these | Adulteration of all kinds should be most strenuously 
by machine, te a up, with the addition of a ett walls are veh pond for forming oon for | opposed, but there of late years sheen such a mania 
little oi to give the n y polish and new appear illiam eee unkeld, | for cheap seeds that some houses in the trade have been 
article goes forth to the world| Zra splanting Evergreens. aa shall feel obliged by | tempted, in order to compete with others, to reduce the 
ce., as the "cons ity of their =~ An of seed 
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may be, ý re 
Last, year afforded a good example of this; Swedish | middle of April the suitable — for removing c: formed in Scotland some years ago to prevent the 
and 70s. a pio). though | mon Yews, The strong reasons he has given ‘for moving gt and ad amen of seeds, and every member 
É the orizi cost ef the e half of i not exceed | Hollies in April, instead of November, induce pledg hai a nothing but neat and genuine seeds, 
“Sire this inquiry. 0. B. [We cannot wit a most excellent thing if at the present 
lanti kind of | Pe Ae i an n association of English seedsmen could be 
formed to ut this most desirable object, I feel 
a 
price lis tao ts the iio London wh ans eel h uses, | spr ing. Why ta take the risks of spring when you have 
they will find that the quotations of this year, shen Gerotik without risks? assured that 5 ct a = would be hailed with the 
under those of last, are still vı very high, especially when | Pea-leaf Sowp,—From what has been stated in your | greatest onsas by all the respectable houses in the 
how sag at an ingredient th columns we ha ave been induced to H y this, Our first | trade. ae would be doing the “ State much service” 
nips o fE opr 
The qonatty of Clover sold every year is pers and 
nora trade m isplayes 
uninitiated in their account of the Rape | cooking ih: "we casei sears substance, and that I am happy to to | are and samples during the present season can 
‘oposal to i s fully{obtained in the third attempt. At the | to vary nos 60s. up to pen pere ewt. haet Red, sale 
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ity of seed gh r, | st a first-rate cook, we boiled a small quantity | to 1)5s White Cl of the best will 
too impracticable to be entertained. In niga or oe blue tract of Pea (the Prussian blue), put them | so sory a as pessa p wt a as = or 4 Ibs, of 
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state of things, the only remedy the urebaser bam through the tammy, mixed the two well together, and | the worst samples. The competition in the Clove 
should lhe harabe with a spurious article, is to | | the Pea à soup for colour, flavour, a and body could not be trade is so severe that retailers do not get much mor 
on at law for aa amount of I i quantity | than from T to 1d, per lb. profit, This w sree 
on the de doficieney of the ero P- There is another point t suficient to serye a party of l4 „can be raised at bog be believed by yo E rorreapondeni ER 
in connection with t j I to 2s. that seedsmen who sell Mangel seed at 6d. é, Ib. do 
to allude, and one aa I should like to see deter- | One e qual the s trong growing varieties is enough for 80 at les s than cost price. He eviden ntly knows little of 
mined. It is well known that a large quantity of gas is mrtel hd ‘pai? a pint of Prussian blue or any i al seed Pa era because it can be proved 
burned in e stores, and as gas is proved to | blue variety of Peas to boil s separately, t | th l Wurzel seed retailed at 6d. per lb. vil give 
be detrimental to books and furniture, there is some | to be used ; aT tg artificial it is hi better. "Peale Peo of ae an 60 per cent. over the price paid 
reason to fear that it may also act prejudicially on the | @ , Herefords ê. | to th ab £ seedsmen could get even piz 
vital powers of seeds ; rene events, it isa point worth Cheag Why er they would be very con- 
the attention of those interested in having good seeds, | è nts d I pr opo: se doing, open “thet infant schools |ie tent. he pen en eas ea hope that much good 
and might “try easily set pet rest by any of our eminent the evening from 6 to to 9, an y may e from the e corr srar napred in your Journal— 
ists. Veritas, Dublin. Tuis in her i and Ca g 
The Bar omer in N. 8. Wales.—In a recent (??) work | coi ees n, who, whatever farmers or! formati des 
on New South Wales, the author, Mr. Barron Fie w e ers, have a morbid dislike. A patai with hard} Hints to Wot =a an Amateur—The b 
se, ie in that country, where many things se ash. wens verset. for any tree but large Oak or Elm (which ante ze 
axe 
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to be the ents with Charcoal, Sloping Bank: with the axe TRAA Abe, ite , with — inch 
the globe, “the T barometer rises before bad weather and | || epee iia to inform “G. S.” (see Maea that ay handle. I have hada 5 and 8 lbs. axe with me, and 
falis before good.” Can any of your correspondents give | pe oo in dire ctin ng attention to this” as | have always found | the, ma axe Ay apne work, and 8 
i cal i IB. ted, to show is ; 
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Whut to do with Sand.—A correspondent wants t k if prop li I also said that it might b it shoes with very protruding Holly » without which it 
know what to do with an acre of sand in th h of | found fi cient under eines or coverings of some | steep ground you cannot jah a firm 58 z 
Ireland, near the coast. hy not set Liquorice ?— | kind, and that it was in sg weather yes bays effect Boned as the small of the back is a > senden, and i 
there is a ready sale greed quantity, as it is v a were xr felt. „Bu at fro e figur es given—fro exposed ; gr n waisteoat with short flanne 
r , not b: 
gees us, j 
on sand would be inaster, if pto- nee sn that some practical good ree It from | flannel 
from mi eat tbe thickly, w ee I pay well in part eated experiments. The figures in fact de pia Roe raia y an pare —At Springwood Park, Rox- 
pure sa x limate ; in Peran n (Corn-|strated the heating and radiating powers, and al so | burghshire, the seat of Sir George Douglas, Barta thero 
wall) miig sand rises some feet up the om a the trees, | showed their difference under ae ae = h agi g 
and yet they are quite vigorous. Somerset. i n done I do not see the aim of remarks | Portugal Laurel, the dimensions of whieh io a 
othouses at Drayton Manor.—At page 152 you have |as the following: “And so far onl rs it has, follows: paiiar ane əf trunk 10} feet, height 
done me the unsolicited kindness of mentioning the | an equally great power of radiation so that it will pro-| 22 feet, extreme cireumference 122 feet. I may men- 
plans I took the liberty of submitting to you, of an | duce the greatest extremes of heat and cold *| tion that it vou doubtless have covered a much 
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grateful thanks. On perusing the article in Il, if it pleases « | 
“ puisii I not well, if it plea: G. S.” better ; but hem ust know | the pai in p ccm 1855, when the 
think most of your readers would consider that Mr, what everybody ie knows, that though a Black ¢ coat is here to 7° below me G. Wo Roxburghshire. L 
P g and the coldest in winter, ver Wasps:—I send you a. .sketeh .of a weapon which 
t And again it p nsteady t inniaians greater sı not that n 
way that l cannot resist the feeling to return y than where it was not applied.” So far well, or so far| had for years been annually eut off, It was killed 4 
thermometer 
