564. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
fAveust 23, 1856. 
has produced the brilliant scarlet of Delphinium | 
cardinale? Whither has gone the Larkspur oe 
the ae mee bei which scarlet could not be 
e have such colours in the 
en HB s (d nilegia), which are first cousins of 
Larkspurs among which the same scarlet breaks 
en 
in a recent 
Mr. Glendinning’ ore Grapes w 
cent. of spirit, is sure to become the basis of much 
so-called Port wine manufactured for sale in the 
English market. 
w the co course of the Tha ames by y Kingston, 
e ord, so on to G 
end, and i in all these places you find excelle T 
baiah = THE “VALLEY OF T THE THAMES. 
leading article relative to 
will no doubt excite 
A 
es pecially among t that ass of 
been , made for planting “them. Perhaps for ¢ 
ns have — ker pia it in Coven 
e various 
sim pce Po Chapman wi n, wile 
quality mo Ro 
pe 
n 
fais Lous will ring home a scarlet Aci m 
Why not? We think it Aticmely. Fi robable al 
all eits the cyanic and xanthic “speculations of 
and expense in preparing Vine borders and planting 
Vines, from which the returns have been, are, and ever 
will be all bu tn il. It will, I think, be admitted by all 
Stones, of eptford, 1 was famous for his G 
before the barre of this was born. Start anal 
Hampton Court, and proc eedby Tein ti 
bea eos ys: Brentford, i 
philosophers must now be laid up in the limbo of 
Baska asant dreams. 
We have Foca, se = il A Bagn DISEASE 
ppearing in any, a 
incurable has been shown by 
called the Souziio, of which a D highly ai di iseased plant 
reason to prope 
T. 
| comitant, Tight, supply all 
ra 
relation to the culture of plants, that the m 
The late My, 
Willmot's extempore way of making a Vine border by 
we deviate from kan poeg mich of nature e, the more 
vario arati 
pra Lt ai not right 
arth, air, ary ahah with their a ne 9 
the requi isites of plan 
ough we may go eru for pati 
gaen for other manurial substances, ii is 
le 
reh the 
ttle soil was put r the roots will be fi iliar 
to many of your g an ;and his description js 
i ang Ta, for I have reason to know that nothing 
s done when the Vines which Peer four 
wo lanted, than ye 
de cover ts with 
by Mr. Pokies, hich is now healthy and 
veri ace ripe Punches i in nthe Garden : nr 
o be a rash opin 
of the are fm Boni i Portual which [3 Tately 
nT ared in the columns of the Times, in whose 
article it is stated “that z ‘the accounts from 
i as any eect substanco equal 
to what fuy 
country gentleman č 
‘the 
tt of Barnes, Chigata of 
Vauxhall, and Mr, Wilmott a. re oly aie told me 
they made no Vine borders b oe trenching 
oad, sia g the grou und i men ty k planted. 
mh 
ike a may n t 
like them too that very plethora will injure 
tution, and by b; 
inat 
rP 
“are discou ging. The A 
DO! 
Amerie an fi 
Sate pada: prepara ripen ? 
ringing on ep sie old bast diese ) impair send their roots deep into the soil and beyond the 
sty vital eyo pa a Ara plant as to influence of ordinary woo sear changes is evident 
o value. Thu is that one man eae a es from the e manner in which m ket garden ers dig and 
e, De rf pane er of foreign sub x Be 
sh, flesh, owl, th ier,|the opa of wi tiini Za 
th ny protect material, 
boiler, the 'butehier the Kennel, aaa the slaughterman and cer corni wii ~ so] 
n most incongruous co He plants his Vines, |} 1 If the roots were near the surface of the 
araU paer vigour re “to nabiy = graa expected | soil such practices could not be persisted in, and I 
reason: 
iets 
think i able to infer that Mr. Atlee’s theory of 
soi j xplained 
ee th 
renk oes it become of that sary and leat bang character | their rooting in the subsoil is just, and now e 
fe bd 4 patie ekorn the are tory demarcation, which would result from slower and smaller growth ? yia in future be more fully appreciated. 
and Metano i is quoted of one on the frontiers of ARS hiany er tes vil gni foent ee a) | reason of Mr. Glendinning’s success, and hen 
Dest wine, and which will now not” produce six | bunches of fruit, Yes, they do so, but somet eal iep mploying similar m 
Pipes. ” ip meis Fe raged rg loa F a = most hae they thing in nei i wit th we Ge 3. 
: a E aguR x that they are not what would gene: 
not know what was szpeci, m the | be the eason ofit? Oh! the border is too dry, it has Maie legi ne Vines, that is, they hav not giria or 
introduction of American Vines, if prt at term is | had to vater, or the stupid gardener has given 
nt, as we believe n V hill the bunches, or the house has a crop of oe of first-rate quality. Aceetea 
not had sufficient air, But never mind, they will Mr Cl 
eultivated in the Fant alae States, for’ the Vine disease 
h 
making nice wood 
do better next year; they are 
and thi all, 
e foliage is unusu ally grass green and watery. 
} 7 3 bs 
and then ‘aie a few pounds, but most “of ee Glew 
ts there, as well as here, as we la om showed 
ion the au rvn of Mr. y sted ned p. 516). | 
At all events we know that the Am Vines were 
grafted i Portuguese s re the result 
Port 
from English Loomer A Of this 
took, and until Jun een an 
what was was very dito, ie, #hscever among them indi 
fhe Olden fruit Be og it was speedily stopped by 
fe! had Jenty me manure pa and it 
eal plenty 9 
g 
of winter snow, “and an additional soaking of manure 
| water cold from the kare of farm yard ; the Vines start 
| irregularly a 
was 
ined. Surely saig must a destroye d the 
site eh horror of horrors! the 
uch money, and thee ugh 
which (it was so light a) pelts} you could thrust 
Bee walking | cane without an effort, is al one 
the ch, however, did not extend t 
the Vitis 
aineta a yes year that in the 
ne dst a alth 
een ad's arently © pany sed the Pion ff yet 
after the raf day they recovered and vegetation 
proceeded with renewed vigour, “leaves and woo 
increasing in quantity and strength i in „proportion as 
the Grapes withered and dro 
favourable 
is passing away even the west of 
Enrope. In _the meanwhile the condition of the 
th. ine 
h the Oidium a peared | 
T 
ine | “ Vines in a the ¥ 
: t they 
spol those of Aspa 
dinning’s which have carried a apenan Grapes do 
not girth that much at the pre me, and ‘om if 
the frui i ere off wo g: even 
from the fine Vi 
Torti establishment of M B 
was in } 1 November, and the ied eer of “Vines was just 
be ne pens is to swell, — they were so w n the stem 
and the wood so small that I ies no ot resist ab 
vohani aithint of surprise that they should 
consider such Vines worth the trouble, not to say 
expense, of forcing so mering the season. 
Well do r recollect the smile that passed 01 vae 
DEY, 
have said, or rather 
cae a sored Reread of brea 
his he subject 4 the apen paper, 
£ 4} 
a 
his companions, “ what an — quantity of sack | preffett, 
for 
Mr. B 
t | & Com e again in April and then pass your opi inion wand 
did call again in ae Mr. Duncan (now of ae 
and thére on ner poor 
iy ae 
colour, thin stem and compact form, and 
the same characteristics to the p ti 
seth af 
illustrated re Mr. e Glendinaisg'e Grapes, also i 
other cases which I may mention agin “Prepared 
Vine bo e tif m 
inthe extreme. For two years past the cultivation | “St 
E e yii ards in many instances has been 
labourer has no employment—the 
proprietor no no prodace, Next os most of the Vines 
from — alone, and not from disease, will 
aes -nig 
ia As thew wine itself f we learn that as there were 
useless. 
rate 
F especially if 
tat if the growth 
soft and pont gy» mal 
nsid 
fitness of a \ 
Vine pmr 
bee: 
EERS 
Sa ps slowly, 
d the roots are 
haps ae ‘of stem should be 
Ee og soft 
Grapes 
been shown at 
para exhibitions from the 
of South Lambeth. Thes 
d Mr. 
ended Ta ayes 
4 Se 4 
, SE Ry SR +h a + ye ey ee ay 
being Made Int 
ts 
+ I } g 
may do that, but ae honir, had 
h the production of these Grapes, for 
atmosphere upon the stem, and almost witho 
bu 
ts something cae those produced 
ed of gt 
t in a properly prepared border form 
fibrous ye and boo porous ae a imio == 
of fibrous roots w 
slower an and of moderate strength, ‘ad the _organizat 
Such a Vine, though apparently not ; so strong 
anted in a rich enters i has the maturing in Br 
aigi FEEN 5 
SE 
ance for pry use of the Portugue: se 
zope The win wine, therefore, as itis called, andat t pre- 
e house into the subsoil below, 
by the front. wall of tl 
root in the border. % 
and [I believ: e there is at 
uality, and 
its use. Accordi 
much sickness has | “4 
gro 
roots of a plant are quite in their Pais ‘clement 
Now the subsoil in the neighbourh ood- PEN gam 
J 
® 
now 
eéatathinig pishabty 50 per 
m 
Vine. The same 
dis- ey a Mr. Glendinning nei T urhood. 
doubt tl es 
, poor to appearance but o0 
well Bags k y hab its of th 
and porous, and hen 
subsoil also pel sist te 
ae no 
hae 
contd. 
sk te Piae tet in 
aa 
and Hampton Court. | 5 
2 Da kshire fs 
e- | Gravesend and Tilbury E Fort, ‘and ou apo ie of the 
| water good Grapes will be found, I will not say 
| prej bor d oubt 
Emay tien allowed the term, more fully de ae ma 
ffl of highly elaborated ins toad t 
Mren sedenie f which results from 
so the ring we: 
ason why rich borders 
ser ager of Mr. Glendinning’s ee “a 
aerer when fruit of first-rate excelle nce is required- 
AP Ws 
ine, allud: esemblani 
* The first fro! antenne, alluding to the resem! 
Peai to the bienn sai an insect; the second from 
moke, and uòss resemblan 
