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Vee! na such (om at oe same time. 
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ae erhaps 
six inches are 
road flaccid 
back upon 
last sp at Chiswick. Its numerous b 
bright pun leaves, v ery little s spotted, fall 
the while its stately purple-speckled 
in small quantity, opened ill, or would not | you may not recollect how much s ground, scapes, 
at all. In vai a r ouse watered, and | cut, ares 4 a joper circle as Wis as ae oa ength | sometimes fee ee Tan y upwards, loaded with 
ventilated, and s c up according to the pi columns—earr magnifi oe These fowere the jega — he and with. 
ost a practice; the bushes but | ae pa of as in 
ged b and that which was ex prove | Seb is the es of Detia rE treatment foo or nak patie ee yer erry nepecies to which it 
a verdant, t, luxuriant Elysi nly a|for bad. It is clear that Roses like to be ~_ pein wholly Gabelar, the very oes only of the 
shabby, dried-up, half starved, mildewed t À thicket | lodged, and well fed, aa well attended—like their | widening enough just at produce something o petale 
Instead of | “a ga arden o f Gu Ti as | betters. e s are a little pibous at 
Byron i ad ppe im And now for the receipt to make such a house as base, and sometimes ets —_ a a 
better came of the experiment than ar might is :— wo on their surface. No . Lachenalia 
have been found in the dirty anteroom of a London 
The house was evidently unsuited to such plants, 
ine the borders were ill contrived. No light came 
e Rose is a child of 
5 
essential condi f heal 
the roots were ill spol with the moisture which 
such plants = f the 
beds cai to ae EAP into the sunken paths as 
fast as it Saa. Droi ght to them; and finally the 
Roses could not breathe ; imperfect 
t ventilation at w. 
1. Let the mt ins iraganen loam, or any such 
oil, and old cow 
2, ag hard tae at Christmas. 
3. ff the dead flower stalks as soon as 
flowering i is dian 
4. Water once a week in 
5. Given no water in wter o or Pak least never let 
ee surface a be wet at that season. 
. Let all the plants be on their own bottoms, 
| an not ibtlind. 
7. If mildew a innata dust Lig ene 
oa! uslin. 
waved by ever breeze, to be steeped in dew 
J 2, 3 
rs 
8. Sulphur i in the evening ; and wash all off n 
GARDENERS’ ROYAL BENEVOLENP 
eee late 
iae anniversary dinner of this charity 
took place e Lond sony 5 Hin on Wedn yo 
2e lith sor Sir Seem gar] _ cf = in 1 
upported by ‘Sir Ch 
Crossley, Esq, M.P., Lieat, oak e Mochi 
rench, and a large number of nurserymen 
gal ee eners. © 
After the cloth was removed apa fen psal l loyal 
proposed and drunk, the chai 
and Navy,” which ieut, 
A. Anderson, Esq., then gave Hie tae = 
o be 
be to feed greedily upon a rapidly shifting mornin ng. If the mildew does not go, ERA the 8 Devonshire, President of the Institution. ” y 
atm replied to by Sir C. Fox. c 
So the house was emptied of its Roses . Give tobacco smoke once a week when the | his Grace bo d not a 
altered hy "atk orchard house, for which it is be Rose are growing. erson in ir same who more nape EE supported the 
fectly well adapted. It ae gean s fruit success- 0. Give air to the utmost of your power, always | characte of an old Row jr h gentleman. _ His 
fully, although the e f the Reve refused to hi deh and at night also if the weather is warm. | desire was o ‘see bout him comfortable $ as 
appe: pear beneath its 11. But shut ha close at night if cold; and keep | to the interest he eet in Horticulture i 
t chanced at this ‘time that another wooden | close the ventile igs next a sharp east wind. mment. ‘Ihe C said he would have 
nck pty near it, equally unwarmed} 12. Never ra De thet rad cttw his Gram 
artificially, but in other se of the| Such is tia nay to grow tender Roses well in ka the rips hi ‘ a ra ance ti pa 
orchard ho It had tall glass sides as well as`a | England. ound him that morning carefully inspecting 
tl of s ubscripti ions to the Toadtaciee Sr rene 
glazed ridge and of ; the transparent sides pe 
opened to ttom ; but the roof was fi i ew Plant What was termed the toast.of the evening, vi 
had been presented to the argh Aoa Mr. 176. LacHENALIA AUREA. “ Suecess to the Gardeners’ Ro oyal Benevolent Institution 
the eminent glass nt of Sunderland, as a L. foliis pluribus longis flace' cidis obtusis recurvatis inequalibus, | and long mayit pr Rr aaa gas n by the airman. 
model of a cheap greenhouse ; and a model Rosg | racemo multifioro elongato apice  Abortiento, foribus pendulis | He sought assistance from ne in ey behalf, anc 
Houss it has proved itself to be. a ae oe apice | stated that if each nite pre pe amn 
Within this building, on a level with the floor,| Of a beautiful Cape genus, far too little cultivated, when he we torg join 
several flat brick-edged beds were made, and planted | although as manageable in a ete as a Hyacinth | it» its funds would soon bee Au stato- 
with Roses in 1854. As before, the sorts were p% A ENES Jor aes = ace pisitan 
s 3 o; e charity, furni e was 
opioa yM A R ad rE then From this it appeared that the average 
OF eo pants were. senate Vian ih of es now deriving relief from the 
former place ; ld mode of manage Institution was 80, and that of the fe 7 
was repeated. Bu this time with very different Sir Joseph then went on to say that he thought the 
result, No more bligh and ineradicable ension was % ; instead l. a year for 
mildew; no more sl rivelled leaves, no more males, he would give them 207, ; and instead of 12/. 
dwindling spindl ` Niga apparent as at present for females, it should increased to: 
the first ; strong wood, as clean as it came 162. a year. The subj es in general was 
== the hand of nature ; ine broad lucid leaves then adverted to; he was —_ t griene 
wi aired tinge of health in the we ry much under paid, ees ‘i 
inni Rte D * sha Aicha st and deepest attributed to supply being eater the de ste 
green as for flowers. the bushes were loaded 28, com aneration they received with th 
: given b; Chi Jos F to ds of his mechanics, 
WHR AD Shey “could weg and poi out the difference which existed: 
fe ks to bright light, copious ventilatio on, th was sure tha en looked over i 
ht 
> 
eee heat, and a 
nothing w! hich i it received except to the p 
which what it received was inte: eve Th wa was 
firstfruit of growing Roses in 
ste 
os ig nage 
adapted to por baer sh sucess “of the first pene 
trust they would find ers were the 
= i This, coupled with often a wage family and 
other r difficulties, re ndered them ill able to save pagan 4 
and therefore late in life the ey were compel 
relief from this et which nee been setablished 
for the purpose that account had a _ peor 
nd gar- 
dening. He ner herefore, that st mach era 
wol be exhibited that evening towards cause 
as adv the institution 
karen dora t the funds of 
The health of the Chairman toca! proposed by 
Mr. Mechi. He believed that not eae = but in days: 
to come, his name honoured. He agreed with 
Lord Braybrooke, when aa t there was nothing 
to prevent the v4 dividual from becoming 
was, e realm, and Sir J. Paxton was 
t Brn ertion. -bet 
he vast, strueture: 
any one go to pido and se 
erected there, and he will be at no aa how to-esti! 
itects, he said, were fond of masses 
was nothing of the 
e poA “aay the morenas was piled up with 
gigantic Roses, s tie than the sweetest of the 
Eastern world ; men were wheeling away barrow 
Joads of ye peal Devoniensis seemed to have 
borrowed the shape and size of a Cabbage, and as to 
Forrune’s landing ellow China, its rich Nankin 
col actually glowing with salm We 
caus me of bog larges Ga a bx measured on the 
3d of . of J une. _ Here 
| Number of 
ct Flower, Flowers 
open. 
| Inches. | 
Vicomtesse des Cazes ... +++ f; 
Madame St. Joseph ... + | 5} 
Princess Marie... «-. --- 4h 
4 80 
4 30 
5} 
q 
4 
3h 50 
rs ee ee 
ies eet 
t 
= bp 
z of flowers in which the | j 
fragrance ; of Devoni- | minidan is by far the finest species yet known. 
ais, Madame | It purchased by the Horticultural er of a 
Grae Duke of Devonshire, 21/..; Sir os e] 
Paxton, 261. 5s. ; Lieut. Paxton, 102. 108:5 J-a C. Lee, 
10/. 10s. ; F. Crossley, 3 fe — 
Fox, Henderson, & Co. R. 
