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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONIOLS 
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me Ege am 
utum Moss on Trees. me garden: re is a melan- 
d brilliantly BDT flowered well last ai n; —In 
a ae see emingly a variety or | choty crop fe i Ay ‘Lichen with peri both tress- 
be 
any are 5 promising to need less and fes | Escallonia albo-coccin 
Cedrus , top shoots always in danger from | hybrid of E. rubr: ra( s gone and w vood r muc! ch | |an d bushes vered. ch crops may be usefmè 
frost, unless “horizontally co at ai ‘Pinus ex xeelsa, top | nipped, t fi ie boi T ; but oe nn not’ 
shoots hitherto: protected fro rag $ Fy su dealbata (1), a plant | lost See. sey rough i | | Romans a on bushes oh cine on frui and: 
thriving wl, + a “thickly ‘eared, t this also | although various modes dest ing ry Have- 
more like tke P. s — us th: hey were in a nurs second att empt; Pentstemon cordifolius {Ts uaa. pp a your pages, is yet 
not more tl than a milo the est; Pinus F grga and blasted but recovering; Ceanothus rigidus (l), and |a pl them in many places. Good drain- 
P. pinea, eronica formosa (Ds both ite uninjured. ja abk lime, ‘on lime-water applied from time to 
alrea y los ; Taxodium sempervirens, ripe 1 per IV. Standard Piants—tops covered with cloth hori “tine, ill | Some als are too 
re je and growth quick, but leaves W spring z | zontally bg on “hoop: te of straw or M | Strong for them, „Som me time ago the gases arising 
ost completely browned, as in every other place roun nd lower arts ; withered Spruce branches nik fi iron here! had a strong effet npo > 
ere I have seen e e epa in Scotland ; sin Lichens that were growing upon trees wood > 
ie hardy o wall here, and in oe bur; ell—a plant killed in Ap ril sg 4; Aralia japonica) | they were both killed and bleached by the gases, ana 
red by nurse Setya men hardy a end bi ory" of stem twice lost, but has Carey or | oe stems a the trees and wood et which they y 
Varieties, of the Quercus mm ra three adrairab bly 15 inche: s of safe upright growth Bion seas Weeding pe if they had been whitewashed. P. Mac 
o handsome ae t ever, upressus sempervirens stricta, ge plants kena 
of t the Q °D ex ?) the one the Q. For di, may other “plant, (5 an adop te si in despair as “rubstittes for Irish „Tor rce of | Growth in Plants. —Will Ra? or some 0 
I think, the Q. Shep perdi a Shay 00 sg Quercus 
e, b 
it 
nai 
d 2), a 
Yews, and Peally thriving snd looking w 
ve 
etter | the e oì) der of the t two 5 bet other che o of the y 
the Edinb urgh Bot nic i as ha to ere, and sh Tam- "| the pie of ‘the re cm be oe to en pr of a 
lentiscifolia pendula, grafted 5 5 feet. grema on commo: rtiana (macro car aD, the latter ast g with ae ae 
sh, fine and perfectly hardy ; inodendron an my own fat nt, and both i r words “ie. 
Ailantus, perfectly hardy ; Wistaria sinensis, the lilac- | plants of the last t amne) about to ied again loki thrust ? nay. es. i Or is there any inisel ition upon the 
fiowered (the white I am just about t) thr meria japonica (1 D, mat hibga hat side "during surrounding soil by pi h the soil is caused to expand, 
g better round which it twin yon- | spring gales, full 5 feet high, Sar branches much | and so so a passage pened throu; yeh it for the penpe 
taneously, than on a wall, quite ha row ? nog he upper ones and the whole cluster | ready to eet The marvellous phenomenon of » 
th places; Fortune’s Weigela and Forsythia ; hia | of top shoots e green oo health hy, a young plant | | | young Mushroom bursting throug h the | hard surface 
Jasminum nudiflorum which totally uncovered has | lost previously ; i Pinus | insignis (1), mat as for Crypt 
flowered on a west paz or the w ele er ; | meria, a gcod of | skin has long | nage rote pawi reader, E gunpo 
re ast wall, quite hardy; Pip- 
anu standard, almost perfectly ever- 
this winter, and n = 
green 
Hypericum nep: vale i, Deutzia, Yucca 
ral 
re 
SER riant flowering ; | cedru: 
d irresistibly 
rat pte 3 feet high, ends of many 
but the mass of the Pipe brightly Ross. [Its 
as y shing very freel y, 
s akiienäts Ti), 2 about 24 feet high, very pro misi ising, eres Pears. + “the f fan ijt ts trees, 
nd ‘outer branchlets, what do you think ot grafiing tne centre of stronger 
Pears wth? I think it would Be 
leaves ae 
has lost only the very Ete of lower a 
se, Syri 
gloriosa (freque: verre in sy Spring E any! ; “Mahon ias (several | budding strongly. W. S., St. Andrews, Fifeshire with others of wea vd ah 
species), the M. ee ry M. magnifica, and cre —— an advantage. It may be done aay 
repens, leaves a l hurt; ve nervosa, qui ring the tre ty cut a notch in the si pa 
u! t 5 T isc oli and T. germanica oO weenie 008 nce. branch ; slip the ae under the bark, and in 
latter very hardy ; Hydrang paler unprotected, cebark Tree. Sere plant, deceribed by your | yea place of origi oot. This 
wood now ali foot up ; Euonymus japonica, wall ; | correspo: dent “S.” as being perfectly gr rhe m Dorset- is an old plan, but our modern gardeners seem to hawe 
a elliptica, Buple fruticosum, Menispermum | shire Abbotsbury) i is, if Ia en, Philippo- forgot it. In this way I Tiy nd to put a Forelle centre 
canadense, Austolochia sipho, several Honeysuckles, dend. m, ds were pe eT arter of H 
Catalpa syringæfolia, growth doubtful ; Paulovnia im- born a "few years since under the name of the New| Ancient Trees rial trees have suffered 
perialis, a small t killed to the ground e f | Zealand cebark Tree, together with a cri from the late high gong, "We learn from AE vin eee 
last two winters (in spite of some covering), but now | Howermg shrub from the same try. I purch papers that Wallace's Oak, which stood 
for nd season budding fro e root; Halesia | ® packet of both, but the latter proved to be the well- | turies asa land-mark at Elderslie, uprooted wi 
te , Diospyros: virginiana, Chionanthus vir- | known Clianthus, and the former the tree I name. is | gale, One of the large Silver Firs, which grew in front 
giniar Magnolia t all of which have stood | tolerably hardy with me in th Devon, but certain'y | of pas oH wr House, is upset. It was no doubt 
the last two winters, but the thriving of the paseo o no! w “ prodigiously.” Against an east wall in | an ornamental 1, plany in the days of “ Prince Charlie,” 
: a somewhat e n it was much injured | when he made Bannockburn House his head 
Calampelis scabra, growing up a 
than a foot up, and higher 
y come a Sety short Herbaceous appendix:— 
Dielytsa Sapena, as hardy as a Dandelion ; ai 
ic eg a varieties; and L. eximium, red | 
n plante! ted with small hillocks Mo S8, 
1 
during the cruel winter preceding that we are now |110 years ago. P. Hakaa 
erging from, aa ina pring stabs border more shel- 
tered it stood too have ha ny Indian 
Rhododendrons iiio ai rd and Acacia reign fne piei ye: ence. 
dealbata, 30 feet high, has been a s of flowers. A UNJA Day in tHe Kangna VALLET. =—— 
Deronian. fa 
Parsley in many gardens is liable to disease, and the 
d with some straw, and oc 
pot, ali bat ‘probably pme Ap 
ardia wihiopica, paced las umn in. a small 
demand for it ,& want is felt for some months 
I do not “aes whether the disease to which 
been not ticed in “ Vegetable 
India in the Punjab, I shall not trouble your bron. 
of the | at reser Retr my jontney, from Calcutta to the nor 
west provinces, but shall ask recta n ‘accompany me at 
once to the Kan age Val ey. Itw ark when I reac reached: 
h 
Rich: 
tank, result as yet do doùbtf t 
prety also is, or was, 
? 
in the tank. 
hT} 
One of m; 
had his Parsley ¢ ery 1 uch ¢ up bef 1 Dr. Williams, Early on 
winter, and the frost that followed finished. ity »that he | ing morning ag ore e Arien set ht e a gon 
and the cali for it was | called e ia iNe there is a large Tea plantation 
The treatment which has assisted in preserving ti 
shrubs and trees still to be n ent may deserve to be 
described rather more minutely ; accordingly they are 
ing to o the he ad and amount of p rotec- 
in 
parenthesis, a cyphe zi denoting the number of winters 
the plant has stood i my ground, Plants sen a 
higher figure than 1 have endured the February frosts 
of 1855; 
R 
thon they ha 
me 
rather increased than di ininished, which is often the belongin g to rert Our Wel ed ound the 
rei hen ey is a short s supply o of an article ove ered with Eu phorb! ja heptagona- 
least garden ink so, A large party i Hokie? 
dinner, and 3 a a plentfl: ‘supply of ‘Parsley w a be and useless soil, wih a teens dry sapere daring 
the gardener had n f the genuine ‘article in the | winter months. be? sacra : 
— so hs had to bak abo a i of this hill a very differen scene 
ound ont m EE 
tabl same natural orde: 
“g 
tested al also by t the few hours of frost which ‘sol the 
whole island so Aaaa 6 nee the end of April, 
are on walls, the point is not 
roots, 
an 
ng to there studded with low hills of an irregular form an 
Parsley, stioush the a ves were simply ae and | bo unded o! n the north siria i Himalaya a mountains, whic! 
those of Parsley I think are tripinnate. 
gathered a anini as near the appearance of the article 
ertile and was covered 
I. Slight phe of sti 3 and round wal ct ae ssible, and sent it to the | kitchen, Thearticle crops of “Wheat st Bator, which at, this seaso 
lower part of stem. Jamesoni (1), h y eg e quite gr and just so Wile. 
lifi tered uring the driest weather with- 
flowering ; ; the B. eo killed in spring 1855, 
about Erari procera (2), on east 
y jus 
ti 
id 
Ja 
above the level L of the the žes. 
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f. 
b 
s 
e 
en 
to know where the perie a got such a acing article. | numerous i 
of the "Himalaya. I stood still and 
i bef 
wall, thor rich ; another plant : about to He cho wever kept his thumb on the secret, and he had gazed upon th 
be set out as : pp scene y before me. Valleys #3 
Imost nil ; Gaultheria{Shall Parsley. P. M. ferti meee aea watered T had siit S608 = one 
Bignonia radicans (3), west wa’ os not yet flowering ; Petunia Tn. —Two plants of this neri in the | where they are by no means rare, but this wonderful 
Photinia glabra (serrulata !) (2), on coat wil trie ; | Petunia 7 * been in ee here for the | ra norther Ay De m Snow and whose peaks 
Ligus japonicum o. an invaluable ev ergreen, three w blooms asure corsi siderably ov wer clouds, was- 
which, far from walls, and havi ro gba, re E ite as d 
rope about i roots, has at present scarcely a part any first-rate Carnation, It is very sweet, the scent * As we rode onwards, esis the 2 valley and had 2. 
of any leaf withered or discoloured on either of two | resembling that of a rich Stock. It will p g did ¥ 
plants. acquisition for bouquet making and room decoration, | high idea of eye farming. ves do not seein, 
II. Plants wall but | vi _&e, The habit in pots is dwarf and good, to have that energy which the Ne Chinese rt 
leave much to nature. of Wheat and 
la ls ; covering 
thicker and wider ; withered S, 
fron 
in 
spruce ED anches also in| fi 
ront. — Camellia japonica, double-flowered red (1), 
g looms in the 
future ;" Pittosporum Tobira qd), socom fe ret wh 
ast, flo wers eae till near 
owering early, ze a has every appearance of c 
i a length of time. J. F., Cli dai 
May 3, 1 y sree Ai is Ss oe 
Canopy for the Protection of Wall Trees.—The gar- was poorer still, Perhaps there ma; : 
{ w | dening world is respectfully informed that there is this | excuse for this ia state of things this year, a : 
crops 
Barley, were generally ¥ very poor, and their Vien whieh 
ower-buds now gly in a 
ower of stem ; Ee sy pil 
was obligingly identified in 
5, e ? 
kordate (1), the Plant 
Cardiff, being the fifth yar in which the trees have 
borne plen aari 
page race 1854, we that Peaches and si Nctaripes are | cultivation commences. 
trained i milar manner, 
d, £4 ie op ose te ore pas 
E 
A duce 
5 there wiil be 
} h 
the loose coverings, g 
Small Plants on walls 8. nl Wes straw over 
$] p f the Punjab. corn is also grown largei? , 
se ee cee E E Ssn baa 
_Received opinions it is is sometimes common trees of 
of man eee rrr better ene the arya 
tage of the publie. 
m. 
roots, and a short way up mat fixed as 
or sloping roof above, pide 
worst | and oe sage 
Therefore, let all such doubting giosa ma other species of Fig ; with Bamboos, Wi- 
severnd 
sit St ’, th t delay, ab ‘ ulberries, b Save Wat 
pers 
ney eer (1), totally unburt 
Š justand This list will give an idea of 
W.A B. M. Lise, ILD, St. Fagan’s, May 2, 1836. a sort of gress "which the valley enjoys, —— 
