OCTOBER 11, 1856.] THE GARDENERY’ ate URES 677 
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ON LOW TEMPERATURES CONSIDERED AS| Agent M. P. Hayes, Esq., residing Td > township of | conti in pe perfection through October, but it must 
PREJUDICIAL TO VEGETABLE LI IFE. = in or line as we have it, then some idea 
er ee. September last. Agent, T. B ch, cd i Titta: of its superior + ene meai e next 
pina Hadia w the aan Gf alia *) | to wnship of Grattan. JOSEPH Cavcuo wa io wk of interest is the T. signata (or tenui- 
plants were it not rave errors are generally vio w aan n SEARES tasks Government announce. folia), an annual of the a hini bs, bp 
men the | coloured flowers, 
pang fl “ape z Tä in reference to this subject, first-rate quality, Can you say oa Iam to proceed in|a neat bus shy habit of on a sie ie 
and These order to secure such a grant? LZ. N. T. [We could |2 feet; an excellent plant for massing. A great 
qator. ve and compe- |error is often committed in planting out 
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temperatures below w the freezing point iprejedicial © effects |E tent agent in Canada if you were to communicate your | in putting them too close epi thus in the ease of 
which they do not possess, as to overlooking the fact| real name and address. T 
agetes, one plant in ev square fee t of ground is 
ee i, es ea iderably above the Ring Select List of Wall Trees—Subjoined is a ground | quite sufficient. The tl Double White Fever- 
Thus, much has’ Giit n sai ‘debéut ca rupture ai dison $ ud en end eae oe Tes ae the hein covered with | few, an old pena fe piant wa well Bag 2 for 
the ofe old ; no doubt tei On Ni Bi ap Thala A pron 
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trees, rétie A Peni and young Peach, Nec- | late in a autumn. There are two others I ahal M mention 
of water into ice, and the cen of mai solid — tures’ and Aged, a whieh bear abundantly. No 4} | which are very generally used ; but in many places not 
hall injary, Poe pp ds tha has two autumn Ber: o Crassane, One is the Calabrian Soap- 
sao ns jury, b wie a ata reser sale ine Henry Egg and Bon Chrétien Pe aed with some young Peaches. | bec with its pink star-like flowers, one Brtn on 
different manner. Cells are not always gorged with ee ed 309 Wawsseet eee. > pa piens gh the autumn. The other ts tie 
fini i when the accession of cold takes place,and moreover 5 little grien through variegata, a ful plani 
l pert Te 80) = n often a ing and to grow in line, being very hardy, 
rupturing, a now that it is very tinuing to bloom late in the season. Another very fine 
a fissures main rie cold i in the trunks of late flowering plant is the Lobelia ignea. These, 
trees. Now ite Heartsease. 
x mera cern ‘pha are killed by ca before the 2 “> eevee heey Purple, aa duy a tw of 
mercury has descended to the freezing poin 6 summer things have faded, and as y families do 
x 2, That a a multitude of BrT: Ags retain “eet water » not arrive at their country residences before caine 
dice experience no injury or October, in such places hardy late flowering plani 
: deserve our best attention. J. G. 
meas first of these facts is exemplified every time that d rs „ Berte’ Apare a Plate Glass—In reply to 
a hothouse is inadvertently R down to 35° or 40°. $ F > at I ae ve sy Pine stoves well 
F ant is 3 en to 29°, } 4 Pi ty eon with this glass e 
there is no freezing ‘at its cont cont fluids, and yet it squares in one stove are 2 feet i in vt y 1 foot 4 ins., 
non to pronounce whether its death 8 t! t! feet 8 inches by 84 inches thick. My plants 
ed bya partial suspension of certain of its functions, X are very thy and not at all dra I never had 
or by a E ES of its performing certain chemical them in better health than at present. 
operatio ons, by aare action upon that | swell th t well, and it is of the first size and qua- 
side y life ; but the plant dies, and Ss lity ; but in winter I find it inferior both i 
t su enly. x | shy to what I have grown under single crown glass. 
ae second phënomeni was insisted upon in the 3 ii | I shade from the middle of March to the end of August. 
mosi t pos ositivi ve manı r by Peti t-Thouars in 1817, in one Min ore I employed shading my plants were very much 
. ae )»| No. 7 has half Greengages, half Coe’s Golden Drop | burnt. k 
t ias since been fo e en. made the Plums, h all b tely <f Heliotrope * Miss Nightingale."—The Rev. W. M. 
observation in Geneva during the gre at cold of 1838. The other walls are useless, except for two Jargonelle | Allure wrote to me to say that the Heliotrope I 
Dr. Coindet fi further made experiments ag nid opii Pontot and W Bor 1 hich t him in J d by his gardener to be 
s two Magnum m Plums, 
bear. I wish to geta list of Pears and Plums to suit | merely the old Heliotropium peruvian um, This I beg 
af | the aspects and soil (a clayey loam resting on a lime-|to deny, and to ean him oe it was the 
ter a frost phot weeks’ r derbies Th have found ice in lake rock from 2 to å feet below the surface). Some | Heliotropium Miss Nightingale, raised by me, I 
oan ierior GEMON Bias Mido, Wicu notwitsiendidg.| 1 years ago I planted a garden wall, half out of a having grown any other variety. He also states in 
mere noe T eee M. Duval has insisted bs nurseryman”s list, half by direc stions given me in the your columns ov it has only produced a few small 
the same fact, upon Wye ten Morren, and Gardener. 1 + y blos s ; he surely must have forgotten 
di and in what t aspects, The pales Isent it to bim. I therefe 
re “application of this question to) walls pained sagt a to aot ‘directions had trees seoslode ta that ft y not had proper treatment ; I ma; 
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geographical botany, it is of at and excellent cro) which to decide 
mine how far sharp alteration of temperatures affect | |, weep much. I now iP to plant n new trees its merits. The — sale of this Heliotrope has 
plants. <a n this Point agriculturists and phy: eam ally removing the old ones, and ply ag oe ose who have gari I may 
e sun’s rays impinging u organs whic! r m Bra ee, H ei 
have just suffered from ca sid especially hurtful. | , for advice - p aiias natal aa h we The situation a R ention Messrs. igre ae g Lee i mae all of whom 
Sudden falls of temperature are hence always apt to be | the climate moist. Cavanensis. [For Aspect No. 1 take | references may be had. William Field, ee: Kensal 
langerou especially in localities. where the pi of Puti 1 Royal George, 2 ‘Noblesse, 1 Gro dase] Town. [Surely this wo uld ding 
: such as the Mignonne., Nectarin 1 Balgowan, 1 J 
interior of continents and lofty mountains. On ee Hativ e 1 Down Kiar. ‘aan L May Duke, 1 Elton. he Filbert Srawherry— Under is ending eee e p. 663) 
other hand, the effects of the cold are most mtn AS Aprieo Moorpark, 1 Royal. Pears: 1 Glo |ie. hes of Deptford, makessome vien yan 
af moist. places, an staan that akde anin ties Morcen 1 Easier Beurré, 2 Brown Turkey Figs. |now generally known as the ‘ Fite Pin. z ate 
5 conditio: m in marii locali lA i ill to the “ or ys 
and in the bottoms of valley: oe No. i fe degarar iamen i My find ive li ee Mr 
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Lastly, it is to befobserved that the same degree of eo ‘Pears: 1 Jargonelle,} Fondanted’ Automne, | Seckel. | Powell, of tha Banal Gabet, Propi Mis 
does not uniformly produce the same effects at all tim 1 m,n 3,—Apples: 2 Manks Codlin, 2 Keswick | after giving a highly favourable account of the “ Filbert 
ae aa ae re = the seid: (aot Codlin, 3 Tower of Glamis, 2 vaso Quarrenden, | ewe concludes with the following remarks :—“ The 
een thermometer), state of ithe | > Oslin, 2 Kerry Pippin, 2 aed Sega 1 Jar- | origin of this fine ye from Fil is unknown. It was sent 
plant, its age, the moisture of t the soil nid of the air, Pë y% oer i Maiden- 
the nature of the soil, the presence of snow, all exert a “nner 1 Bal- | hea trawberry, was 
considerable influence. i l Breda do. Pears: 2 called the Fiber ? it is also known in the same 
tude of examples of this, and without t repenting These; | ASE sean e FHIR 1 hentionesth, 2 Glou — me eam e title. or we ill be seen that the 
T would say that they should form soma. ga M ye *Knight’s Mita spect No. 5.—|Strawb pom Pa 
of Taone certain questions botanical Apples: 2 Wormsley Pippins, 2 ‘King of the Pippins, |a new variety, , but me re be recommended as 
geography. J. D. H. 2 Blenheim, 2 Hawthornden, 2 Golden Noble, 2 Mère |kind, worthy of general cultivation ; and pt pleased 
St cas EE Ménage, Ribst c to have Mr. Myatt’s e ce in confirmation of this 
Home Correspondence. o. 6.— : 2 Williams’s Bon Chrétien, opinion, and congratulate him as the raiser of so useful 
Our 2 Potato Crop Potat Imar, 1 1 Jargonelle 1 Gansel’s Bergamoh i Antamn sabe enon at variety. a th “Seedling.” however, will not be 
iei d I hear it said on all | Ne Pius Meuris, 2 Beurré Rance, M. having so many | 
p has t r: ae — n ination Bade, : 1 “Beare and if the asaf agentes ee ROE s 
s even in 1845 and 1846, in proportion to the hd | Siac 1 Louise Bonne of Jersey. Aspect name, lyatt sugg prevent con- 
nder cultivation. It would hn ia proportion 1o, interesting | P. 3 Green Gage, 2 Purple Gage, 2 pel one 4 | fusion, y addition to an B ane ge 
> know how this is; and I should Ao on al Co oes Golden — Cherries ae te y Duke, ke, and 2 2 page ar oe pegs age Unser yy = 
orrespondents of the Gardener eners’ Chron Aspect No. 8.—Red Du urrant lack | [We protest on ublie against 
d Kingdom will do. iI] change in the jagaa I had ascertained, befo 
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to post pae ge (epee “gayest occupants have suffered from the | which Mr. Myatt ki t several years ey ou 
what he finds rage ta the ijapo of ee oa preci rains which we have experienced of eo ae pope 
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Canada.—I copy barare their I sano 
from a late f the Montreal He :—“ Ci to bring more into notice two or three plants | abundant bearer 1 
pe oe rowenta, $ s 12th, 1856. Notice pe Seca of mine, which are now n their | producing 10 or 12 large bunches of fruit the following 
is hereby given to emigrants and others, that the under- | glory, and have | summer: 4 
mentioned lines Dee oars nar are pears A and finest of all is the Verbena venosa, a plant [ec lb nk eof you 
iy sea which free grants (limited to 100 oor known, but sage we wnr E be toe highly each, I should be giad i to hi gy nne of your 
Acres) are to be obtained upon application to the|tive purposes, but i erits highly A sig © 
Tespective agents, subject. to actual and pe scar | lorod it is a p g rosy purple berry” has turned ou them. grew 
i i Road running . it, pare aes 1 to 2 feet high, og and een! a a % crop of large 
Kaladar to the river Madawaska, 35 | according to soil and situation ; bears Pegging down handsom e đark red fruit ; but the flavour was very 
in length. A; E. Pe Esq., Flint’s Mills admirably. It is a plant of easy culti being be: i j 
The e s Rond” ranning from from seed in early spring, and planted out the 
ip of Madoc, in a northerly direction 74 on snd of May, when it will begin to flower in August, and ee acs ee i ee 
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