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seedlings 
so pre-eminently distinguished. The 
THE GARDENERY’ 
Chancellor, Of the Nectarines, the bes 
Se 
Sonn 11, 1856. 
ly pass through the fil 
are In your tank we should 
season was favourable, and the fruit of the British | orange Pitmaston ; on one tree I had nine ipa fine, o: mend a pipe for this meni Tt b) in each of the 
Queen and Omar Pacha, g upon a portion of the | the other twenty-five very sweet _The ther | divisions 1 and 5. They may be fixed as near the top 
same ground, was msc a fine-flavoured, I wish to | Nectarine is the Violette Hative. ill possible, so as to allow much room as may be 
ascertain whether “Sir Harry” had done better in a | do; the house is too col sides, on this soil, clay on | thought ssary between them and the opening ” fn 
different soil. Henry Doble, Epping, ( Oct. 8. chalk, we grow the finest Figs I ever beheld, psy Plums | the filters into = ain div We do not think the 
i che wa Ss f porde and of all sorts succeed apima maot the protecti on of filtering material need be place d l and 5 as well as 
plant you: ina ES of a jaia Tw ach tr s (Ba rri pgto on and in 2 and kj f the filtering compart- 
have never aoe successfully grown, 3 the i fret place Roy d S, ial I i 
I intend d on well, and pla my Pa rrant water aus is likely to pass through 
3 feet from the back wall inside to the walk in front Plum tree fill every inch available. er he Gar cor pew “A re af washed coal cinders we think wil 
which is in all #4 fes et. Zhen mies mare ea good. ork bottom | Bentworth Hall, Alton.—— About „the middle of Sep- | found of great advantage, the 
to c: 
y the the n front, 
hich will te 1 foot Auer ch than ihe Border, aped, wit ith 
e drai the ae 
in addition to 
B. 
Be 
tember last I paid a visit to Sawl 
Riv. 
Mr. ers's orchard parte. magne usly to build ing 
ak Ww, 
2 largo rain tile 
t 9 inch in the 
r oyer which I shall ken “as lt to 
aie 
depth of 2 feet 3 inches, composed of one-half of 
od lo oamy soil w with its turf (from old pasture), one 
rubbish, ae night soil, bones, and blood. 
ant Vines one year old struck from eyes, one Plant 
nder each raft 
EPE BERTE 
I shall 
as 
o the te 
last 3 year I held the situation of ind 
Red Spider —In your Number of the 27th alt. 
“Nem that of water in a conser- 
vatory i is Pp tg by a freedom 
mdent that 
from this pest. F 
woth 1 is not always 
pry confidently a this wee | p 
r fore 
and train on the 
h 
a fall of 1 foot t in 40 toward 
fl 
s tin were en this year, so that Ic 
much of a crop. 
f 
site 
ould not expect 
we had rte yh 
some ms snc wo) in every house for the itoen a 
rain w. N ond withstandiog this, however, red spider 
was plentiful Rs in almost pie house, the conser- 
vatory not exe A Lowland Lad, [Were the tanks 
level of the, houses, 
TUEA fro t which 
ae Nn e 
2 feet from 
carries off all back ‘water from the garı 
ebr uary in small pots have Be Abe ed six fine 
bunches of very “highly -flavoured Grapes ; likewise the 
uncovered ? 
3] 
Araucaria imbricata. — As 
Dropmore W. J. 
Hooker y” sehen E se ga to know te hig of 
e have here, I beg to urnish y 
gly 
the flavour will be I cannot tell, b but 
well heated with hot re are 12 feet wide, f front lights 
3 feet and a half hig h, and back k wall 1 
what 
roid are ‘eerily as handsome fruit as I have ever 
n En gland or on the Continent 
I hav 
f Plums, all planted ae year, as 
this 
ei “ers am a at the same time. The height of ou our: 
paeas specimen is 38 feet 2 inches; diam 
g p s | branches 20 feet l inch ; girth of stem near th e cule k 
with success Pate g the above nm fi N. T.|many as two dozen on a tree, and a time | 5 feet a from ditto, 4 feet 3 inches. This superb 
[No plan can promise better. But we should certainly | I have little tree of Co A olden rop, | tree ee grow a raised mound , which is the 
exclude blood fro: e border. the whole fo ich I could cover with my hat, with very — ah biaidh for it; it is in most compre 
ee a letter in the Gardeners’ Chro- | 16 beautiful transparent Plums thoroughly ripe, and the lth, clothed with brane! hes down close 
vee d of Sept, 27, on “ Orchard Houses,” signed “S.B.,” | one I tasted of delicious flavour ; the Black Diamond | ground, r i pyramid. Philip word 
other papers, there has lums have also l en literally laden with fruit. My Dropm more, 
damp, no only apprenne houses, but on | trees are now fast going to rest for Ay siege! the Shanking of Grapes, — Perhaps the follo: 
Te ali 
rather fallen, i t 
with Mr. Pires, respecting the house itself, and ` with 
| ripening of the wo 
ng or 
1 having been ripened more fan any 
seen out of doors, and I consider the thorough 
od the chief cause of the success of 
orchard houses 
wing remarks 
he causes of shanking may be inter- 
esting to Grape pomas ers. My old gardener, who h 
for ne early 30 years grown me excellent Grapes, has this 
for a house from 60 to 90 feet ‘ong. An unfortunate 
as regards the holes in the pots fl 
The cause of 
f af ither Peaches, Necta- 
DENRA T s ote I do not ‘place much faith on 
“S.B.’s” report, as moat ER a the fault ash be 
either in a badly con: wae house or in ind et 
bes 
the centre hole at ye ae we make 
near the bottom w onsider ‚that 
AT of l 
zana a noa 
we 
g 
mishap he attributes to 
i having unfortunately 
watered the Vin 
ing rain 
he outside, and to the 
drench 
0. 
the bai! we at ies roots at the side to check a too 
luxuriant growth, I consider also that the nearer the 
says chilled the roots and Aint an obstruction 
sa] oe t the scor! ching sun wh ich set 
en! dedol eney ; "bat si sincer 
n } 
the bet 
pero appeared ii in your oal in ivis of Ra garden 
structures, Westmeath. gS haye pia our ' opinion 
J 
air, and fres 
ing of the Fairy My ‘ait i A petar every 
night and morning, which with me is a very short 
the berries in hone mri turned ad instead Ai pro- 
in no one particular, Whether i hieus 
succeed, nds lik scutes on ski 
have known them to | ba condemned e a gardener who, 
cr 
a pressure 2 feet be thrown over the house in 
any exe re never saw trees in a more healthy 
than 
that he was spray behindhand with e operation ; 
that he the trees unskilfully, pic them to be 
mine, with ary. pronpeet of an sogad aot 
crop next season. ka are ced that your 
spondent “ S. B.” bode some ace error aie 
ducin ng saccharine matter, The few s that have 
very . An Old Subs beri 
The late Mr. Otto. —Iti is =, cr aa h have to ee 
= death of Mr. Otto, which took t Berlin 
e was 
of the Royal Botanic Gardens 
also chief tar Pe of the A whe eine Gaienielowadl vot 
whi ch he / was the originator, and was well known asa 
has commit: 
eaten up with red spider, and more often forgot |in last year’s Sia or this. Sigm 
his ventilation than rei bered it. We would refer} Filteri tering Apparatus.—I } ea 
rana a leading article in to-day’s Chronicle.] y p S 27, 
an orchard house DI estimate four y I ga fil i 
since. ‘Mr. Rivers s book was the guide, and here > 
me say, that did I build another s should prefer brick to de a 
Peasd +] 
ever, the last, on a Sa soil, Ta am 
"few gti in the hope “of obtaining in in 
the 
biect If, 
] la 
J J 
be a irifl 
t higher, 
“In nyo seam Ripe ou 
i compartment, but surely by 
4 fo 
for on the hacer ade you cannot p: t the 
ane the glass, thereby shading ate int, and is 
no comparison between the flav 
KF the u on the higher ‘ide of the ‘ae peig so | fro 
far superior ing 
vour | mu 
n No. 
so pad ae you would lose much of the fresh rain wlan 
because in a flush of a to No, 1 
7 
He died in his 73d year. S. 
Rebicws, 
ments = mology ; an Outline 
ur knowl 
. 3, introductions, desultor: 
to that on the lower. Next, , agre with | empty when in began ; eryo, the small s works, society would be as ivi na rer re the 
your f the 27th, if you depen nea No. 1 from the water line to the waste pipe 4 will soon | scien Botany as it now is that of Entomology. No 
po sores wall fruit—if soil, aea aa be filled, and th ag the fresh rain water will fi an alive can remem time when vi 
Any ty build a Viery away down pipe; whereas ng y tt gr ve r, Bi 
i u? Of course you would not waste pipe in the main compartment you get all the | tion, n l omplete, of all the mei known 
the top of these Hampshire hills, where sane cann a rain water pt it, and it does not overflow till quite | inhat d From the time of Wither. 
geta crop of Peaches or Nectarines one year in sever | full. My tank is thus :— and ‘Suid to the present day men of science have 
with all the care in the world, here t h pip Rain water pipe. | aways S formed i indoatsiene enough to collect into a 
is invaluable. The e is nothing: with brick pal | ert bi ethodieal ai t whatever was known of our 
foundation, the first outlay is the last ; no fire, no flue pa ‘5 wild plants a = rN present hour no entomologist 
no glazing, for such gl Hartley’s Rough Plate} 5] 1 | 2 * 3 4 | 5 |, |has done e for of seience. 
pis Marsham indeed attempted it ; but his work, e; 
ft ki cd for its time, came to an end with a single volume of 
spike tas | Coleoptera, and from that time forward no one: to 
Grav 10 „ deep ,, Grav | have ventured on the task. The consequence is that ss 
Chey à there classified descriptive account of British 
hs Sivek iia epee E insects, no one, pt a few 
thinks of getting beyond aga s Zoology, Or 
Milne Edwards, or some entary works of ihat 
for a small family is that ye supply is continuous, Nom d would skris ki ak ge ig filter only in | nature. If it is asked, as it dent is of us, “ Where 
for you your sorts secure it. The first 2 and 4 of the tank, or in Nos. l and 5 
Apricots were gathe sok lst of August (for re- Where is it ee F ace the waste pipe? In what |of insects as Smith’s English Flo: lora, or Babiogien® 
member this is a very cline country). The last | proportions would you put th gravet and charcoal | Manual, or gg fe Pynepein, ox Ss wane s 
Peaches red this morning | each, and how much prs sme ? and would you add a | Flora give us of plants r unavoidably is 
Deen, and of are respectively four ape of w gipderg N pais I am told is good | “ nowhe: et i hop t this diseredi 
d three dozen in tl a * t cause + attention to he dition of systematical pi is not 1 a _ 
week. As in ofthe ri i t f which 3 ee nk th xtance is | longer, and that some one will have spirit, ta qa’ 
—halfa dozen, As tothe flavour, | not at presen ntly appr ay Inquirer. v no do for his own subject 
dozen on or four 
you must not imagine ine this wil be equat to the best out- 
aini,» 
t all suffici 
[The beg ‘of ‘heving the waste pipe in No.1 
perseverance e 
1 (as 
Natural 
ural History. 
+ ashi hs he ‘inconvenience that was found to i trate pireng upon a great ae a ae than to waste 
is as good look rice a eS rpg lacing the filterin rests in | it in detail upon gossip, 4 
kia a rots 2 A i = ay ering | Perhaps the task is be: strength spot 9 4 
; ‘the best early. Chan- | the filtered water pal This will pes be th th 1 com! settle a eae whom all all 
late, and the Téton de Venus has not done | when the waste pipe is Plgerd. fe in the filtered-water | exactly to it; first a] tor under 
still you must have two trees of each | ci stern, and no provision mad the water to escape | should act, and whose unquestionable scientific, mee 
vdm-awcetesion, but Lsbould-omit the | when there ere happens to Cages ae gaa arta bo arm with authority to keep his varie 
