with me 
abet 
leaves, This 
02 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[OCTOBER 4, 1856. 
, much liked ay cattle, or for windy weather has made it more agreeable to have jhe Dgry r 
The By t cannot say. 0. A 
this treatment my Peaches have not | 
o early as they would 
the 
ST bciog i wher by frost pans ‘of the of ce 
s being employed in the winter season, Bu t | 
fi d thi 
s y 
yet y had the Eariy Yor k ripe the first week in 
August last, and _ the rcs Grosse pe ci ~~ the 
nth, but 
specimen, was cu 
bin IH eaver and his work Į 
eens Dallipers Hall, ee pee 
Hybri d Melon—The Melon, of ehh tk send you a 
t from a plant raised from a seed of 
green-fle shed ‘Beechwood Melon ; ‘it had no — 
whilst we participate in the hopes 
ject by M essrs, Sace and Huzard, we must peal 
this plant. 
~The Skirre t requires a sa that is soft, light, sony, 
well worked, rich, moist, even rather damp. 
ows ig ‘kably well in gists which “ha bee 
SON vig at ious season with cow-dung, such as 
that which een cro with Cabbage or Broad 
aee of the length of the roots the soil 
of good flav nd 
clean as sii Ay to be like those of Peach tre On | 
several o of my trees in 13-in ch p ots, a nd ea 
I} 
AT develo oped bicssom buds a ‘another yea 
burthen 5 3 in 1855 
Beans. ube 
should be rather at trenched. 
ai lant $ pre gated by seed, or by divisions of 
reserve their germinative 
year. This y my c y fai 
severe frost of March Slat (thermometer at 18° 
he blos: 
5 
gr rai anes 
eee or two years, ees o M. „Vilmorin, and fo 
three or four years accordin 
ot A _Apint 
858 seeds. 
seed is sown rd eee better in Sohne to 
uary i 
b 
t of the seed weighs 5} oz. oo grains ; A 
growi ng finer crops of Apricots tha a 
The see 
allow of hoeing and weeding. Februa 
March in 
fore, that Apricots may be grown in ore 
central portions, and SAR in the north: Neverthe- 
rcha 
I am in clined to think Mr. Rivers quite correct in 
the 
less, it r be also 
quir ds 
Pa 
h 
hich 
ees with aes es so o large and | parer ooa of it in the same house. An opinion of 
meri 
rits would gee oblige. W. I., Cranmer Hall, 
Fokalisa) Norfolk [The a sent was ovali 
shape, measuring 14} inches in girth the one way and 
164 inches the other, Skin smooth, ties nbbed, 
thick. inch in 
perai poi er por ang pA aeara pmi a 
first-class variet, 
Cynips Quercus “sug oa —When at Dawlish in 
Devon, in March 1853, I was struck with the profuse 
occurrence of an O ” gal the e, on all 
serubby Oak bushes which about Dawlish form so large 
a proportion of some of the badly man 
gall, which has 
| That it is so spreading m 
pio wing notes. Se ae to Y sabe 13. 353 I was staying 
mee tim eston- super-Mare, ‘but though 
When the seedli ings hav 
land, for in an orchard are in the vale of | 
ite hard ac uf. 
ficient atrengib, they should be ¢hinnea to 6 or í 
inches apart. The sur plus plants may be used fo 
E 5 3 
cation, ¢ and settee more aA to the warmer th 
fF 
h abound 
vs ay any of 
sed m 
on “the neighbouring heights, I did n 
Ta m, however, inform 
Gloucester, 
Sood y divisions of the roots, planted at 8 inches well ventilated through the crevices the boards as | | Cha att that place 
apart every way. Each division, i to givea good | well as by its regular ventilators, Peaches have not | | this eh mf er the e gall is there met with at present 
erop, should ed a bud, and should be | ripened well, but Plums (Greengages, Jefferson’s, and | in consthienatis abundance. Since ta I have me 
en from a cluster recently dug up, say the evening | others,) have been of the most delicious flavour, and a | most vany for any oen of the pest in Glou 
before, or still e day it is to be planted. an vad Reine enis de Bavay pla } i | but in vain, until the present month, tag in one 
The plants so pr te usually more forwar 5, was dese ribed as quite repre | Roe, the rambles of f the Cotteswold Clu ub T. B. Lloyd Baker, 
ir vegetation ised from seed ; but th i | F Pa ldsi 
latter produce the largest r tenderest roots. Heri This seems to tell gup l F 1 
roots have bee: used, the « crowns me be a we have in the near bere of London bur y Wood d h emi 
d t t by planti tin | Pears and P! thei ` Bathurst, at one ester : poe 
the kind of soil above recommended. The; ey grow in 
winter, yt in early Apg pge tufts, nd yield | 
some seeds from whi "i gather a sown imme- 
diately, a root as thick a ie E er n be obtained; 
thi. ahs oh oe Bo d as the è precedi ng. 
Hoe : and 7; 
| fruit t with advantage. I may mention here how neces- 
sary it is to “ leave well alone.” Afi 
the Ear! 
la slight spr inkling o 
the wo 
the Piatt n of a nursery was ' advi sed to take h 
Pit of the pots, to cut off all the ro 
e tw isted round the pots and to repot 
at the proper time encourages the growth ‘of the roots 
ol yeaa ie inch sper o and havi 
been shifted for fore eee i 
more vigorous 
large or la arger than in any previous year. Many of 
hey ea 
than ever, A their fruit ryt oo as |i 
increase is I think a subject worthy of attention, I beg 
| to offer the fol oinpe ugge stions as me of adoption in 
progress of the pest. At the 
AEn t to obtain them tender and 
delicate, which is most desirable, frequent but moderate 
waterings seme be given, eal or drei tf hot 
weather, e plan is 
agood noe oak rage like: “a in ; as 
the flower stem is produced the first year, Lk 
authors dit cut off in order to inere: 
se|¢S. Bm 
e | Which I inves found id nice white Fig and a 
ene) vee H. 
measures from 7 to 9 inches in circumferen ayaa 
| pean moment the larva of the = which is the 
nee. 
regard to Figs, as me as my experience has gon 
pt me: at E 
for the orch and perhaps the Angelique, 
a great 
v. Reason.—I was sitting in my di 
| pishay afternoon (Sept. 25), when there sary 
Tv. 
ith it tbe ag eect that m 
from the | perfected insect. Now it has bee 
the 
cattle, however be taken 
uncut 
_ The roots are taken up with a fork, This operation 
is ——* ar ten and continued throug ghe ut 
the winter case of 
—_ sient quantity ment be taken vp and kept in the 
seen seed rij in September, but later 
in the north. That of t is to be pre- 
ferred. After gathering it should be dried for some 
days in the sun. ned, and stored in a dry place. 
- From want of sufficient d we cannot state the 
produce per acre of Skirre M. zard thinks it 
cannot be inferior to that of the Potato; M. Sa 
‘ota 
ers it superior to that of any other root crop. In 
his experiments, made, it is true, upon a es small 
cale, and 
| under the most fa vourable circum mens | 
| from my seat and went to the window to observe t 
effect on the trees in mys am 
ter | towards the north as froi 
once m; y ome small o aje roe 
| runnin: proved to be a alee darting 
towiirdi Be canna of i ty peonienttea? web which was 
rne: 
he | nut- 
a As window oe fe! 
e N.W. 
nearly . “not identical wi 
oq 
em. 
seems | advisa ble to 
which 
| a oe tr pieri ely eòin the west co of th 
way as to be aiy ‘pata sheltered 
ook here,” I said to my 
4 oa, and on an sine ip a 143 i ‘hi voula 
make the produce the en of 79 ton 
saw his jaws at work; a 
athe gry aro another—a here m of the rien 
I | prematu nwo nee; 
once, can “easily be kept i ina state. This operat 
whilst it will check the spread of the evil will, at te 
tim each individual — er it m 
be forgotten i kade 
e igore' 
impossible if the sap of ae wi is thus to ae expended 
n the produc 
ep tion of the ex nees forming the gall, 
as these, like early fraiting, will assuredly bri bout 
thus the King of the Bentat 
seems in borage cy in = te whilst the 
property of the fairer pr to suffer mueh fro 
Tete] 
= 
het 
2 
s, 
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3 
i 
8 
Onward che ma on bu iae | 
WAI. 
be pi ptly atten ded 
Doubtless the subject w as receive seer frie 
tion by and bye; but necessary 
A font he idable for 
call this plant Chervis, it is 
remark that i it has nothing to do with our 
s, OR TE. 
there. “After the lapse of perhaps a veers a third part 
but not a single thread 
CHERVIL, 
Cerefolium, alias Scandix Cerefolium), which is merely 
a small salad named in French Cerfeuil.] 
Home pega vee oe 
Orchard He Houses.—It is 
oe 
failed in obtaining full crops of 
Nectarnes, wae. pare n never been troubled with paa 
prn formed the substantial 
oyang of poe to he done. J. B 
Early Grosse Migueess | Peach. — Your correspon- 
. B.” errs judging 
Pourprée Hative 1 Véritable; many years 
thi 
process the ns oF 
tion had 
decided that his gpa would be 
Aa machinery in order to save Po rte 
ch | and has always borne a high momen. 
e a m; 
but F apaapa of consulting ei 
if a ng 
highest intellectual daripa bad mee fiil y 
How coe 
Hative Véritable seems 
s Patent Rough Plate Glass—Ñ beg to inform 
55 sae a therefore 
| cannot a: 
a 
he 
ve carried out Ace intention eas skilfully t yarat did | 
hie poor hairy spinner. latter was 
> this has not 
the | this is a simple, unadorned, 
aggerated narrative of facts, related i ty oe ect 
guided merely by instinct, will one of 3 Pe learned l 
| wi wacko perfectly 
ihe condition of the 
ths. eaves, | ipri Tari eee Aaler 
forcibly used to the under surface of 
| when he 1 Arado ingen 
male 
| seca 
sia alg gem bony To- 
aken droner A 
which you 
fund plants nt pron ipago h rbe oA pn 
Sania t for sheet glass unless the 
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