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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, 
a better Potato either for cropping or for table than the | 
[oran 8, 1856. 
I may expeet my swans to swim through a culvert or 
he would put it to ray meeting rite’ Miss yo Se en John $ ete Gardener, — ivern rar Solihull. | two her it will be heseimady to build to carry a 
drine ws eteff had a green or not? The Wellingtonia gigantea: —I r Paper | parish road a way or t my cut. (I 
Duchess of Norfolk must excuse him for saying that he | the description (see Ab ome a ‘the sy  Wellingtonia™ as | am told there is yet a lady who will not travel per 
did no pe. General Jacqueminot | found at the Mam , California ; in most | railway from Bath to London, but posts hippenham 
t he wanted aa a ane account of those = cm of the Box tunnel.) If swansare not afraid of 
wie nothing of ray He had lived for tw D 
door to G 
respects z gives meget al 
t | great n but I think I can furnish you 
vert about 30 feet long, I should be obliged by 
at you may cons! 
o Lord Ex | 
the top water line and the soffit of the arch. Citizen, 
Lo prp 8 — Will any of on correspondents be good 
the 
nd our mit “yi ons realised 
WwW 
— near the inn. We) 
tump of thi: is tree, from 
e had | gre 
ing the height oan any of t them | 
loire de France, and had not ad with some ad i 
bloom yet. As for La Reine and Madame. “Campbell interesting. Mr. 
d’Islay, he would onl y 
were dulia Rose: Mada yan eT of California in Mar 
Tare but k slight and slim for his t He | Grove, and fou: 
n good blooms of a Dupuy, but ihe “gene- by a sight of that magnificent 
ity bored “an eye. or Prince Chip zikoff, not the means of measurin 
in his opinion he was Rirroyi asa pede He 
that their mutual friend, the ener, be also counted the aha on nthe 
to light his pipe yn A Descriptive Cata 
of ed "Sy h 
ogue select Mr. Thomas Rivers. 
(* No, no,” and tise of disapprobation .) 
Po pee in all her vig and so 
to be 1568. My friend and myself ‘ascended to the 
height of 120 feet the tree that the bark has been | 
y aid of s 
w. ich gi gives “no ee of blossoming. What is the- 
best eile of trea it? F. [It wiit hag a i 
| grown in a warm veel til h It 
in the ground. A “large tub will, io 
ever, do as well. e.] 
hae tree 
prion. 
—Carrion 
ter on the 
stripped from, by the takes driven into the | | isccseaiienb by one 
a perfume f ar mt e incensed air, that it did | tree. The first branch i me t above this Vine, while penne ee with ge I apprehend, s think ie 
ky arora Fo yor height. The tree did not appear t ve suffered forently. I have ead = uried in a Vine 
“ Die of a Rose in aromatic pain.” rn the loss of its bark, although more t border, and I hate ik seen ner prio te the 
She a TRF a years lapsed since it was stripp arrion was decomposed that all the roots near i 
j d mii piin She "i is its t profoun We picked up several cones, principally from the | dead—could any other result have been expected? If 
Psa pa ae Dat a8 as an Bogie “Mo ther of the Forest” (the tree kae the bark has | people would but consider under what circu 
sala lpg a4 EEE e E part of which I brought to England | the Vine is found growing in a wild state, and also 
E ages air Ie > h hs PAE E N ak bound to — and gave to Mr. Dice; of Exeter. whe Ties now in his’ w it does best in wine growing countries, they 
E Ers meaag t upon the great | nursery a large number of thriving young plants from | would, I think, the idea of using carriow 
English Rose. _ Aud A f all she would ask | them. ` I also o ve on my return to San cisco | altogether. It has appeared e that 
tke of flo a no the Rose, | a lithographed view of those trees, which is most accu- | much attention = coat bestowed on stems of the 
ft and eW i country 1 (Loud eries — and which I forward to you with the nn Vine z too little on the formation of a dry, porous, 
b vers!” and “We love him!” from the ladies, i @ also a small bran ch with cones attached to it) and warm bo: cer Ta the roots ; if the formation of the 
removed in a fainting state.) Let tfi: A ff t fi ore attended to, at wl 
orget | a ere go oe the only way to get ab it. ~ Kelly , | less about shanking and of Brown Ham! hs. It 
Their debt of a ade. Ñor should they ong how he | Filleigh House, Audleigh, Tose 8 fi Huded | pp AT Maa VEN oes uired inside 
their founder and benefactor, had, with v only regret t that our | the house if ae toon were kept in ee of the 
sistency, rej from his catal ue those vuntless | is ts forbid its insertion. By permision « - Mr. Kelly top, as Nature teache: they at to be. Th 
ang 5 e of late years from France to Pre will be exhibited at the ing of the| common method of heating early Vin “girl 
H. re P. ka public. There ere not more | Horticultural oe ] iable to many objections ; it is cinsightly, it atten 
ybrid Perpetuals in this year’s list than in the last ; New Zealand.—Can you inform me whether the| with a great deal of labour, and as nrg aay a 
five had retired, and five had been ould ot set it pri nds, he p! an 
it not an error in the right direction, if | 4 aa 
Chi 
more r sent ot tha than 
effie 
Kis +) 
.» Was 
Mr, Rivers had pruned be 
2 She 
who had 
ee would add the name of I Mr. . Jos eph 
e ei oe hi ace) wit 
pe “eat — other i the 
dy 
A 
a soo of ho pianis 
rity are. A quantity | of dung ‘yng aro s 
border’ ioe a a: va 
terine 
letters N. or S. for orth o 
the soil. Tt has always appeared pees, to me that 
14 + 
to be in the phat class, e would pao them 
that they were distant many i iea mile from Saw- 
eih Sa that in different soils saad situations 
the same Rose esented. very differe aspects. 
She believed that if Mr. R 
ants as they bloomed there in 
haye declar 
agint lain- 
the summer, he aaa 
ed them to be JS quite first-rate ;” and she — 
object of my hin is that onsen a little e plant | 
Apples as to haye the bottom heat for them on vationab 
growing) _ — ae = 
climate of th ing that Azaleas, wrest 
with the Vine ; at least such is seldom the case. 
| there will always be A of shanking while such 
| treatment is adopte ed n eed n t be wondered at, Itrust 
was equally 
those Roses which he had ai attempted to 
would have Tags from uttering his 
Furthermore, Mr. Rivers had tol 
re between A 
dent Mr. Gadd) at page 709; if there are an 
y of 
made their borders with carri 
in 
rouy; 
inundations of the pag place should damage the 
_ Why not let 
| their ras be depended rg Y 
| benefit oi 
Mi 
onk’s 
| to resemble that of Sydney, without its drought and ex- 
he first 
when fairly and fully prove 
: Rogers Co Conical Boilers and fising the joints of Iron 
Catsup, al about of your correspondents 
inquires, is PANY an Indian word. See Johnsons 
Dicti onary: D. . C&L. A LWS Ea not find the wort! in the 
| one of vane boilers for | heating a large Vinery, and I 
e need fear the aphis of jo eg or the 
Ci of 
P 
r 
I 
> but I must allow it has 
Cadi 
y good Ros 
mildew ofi Ep el 
speech w ived with general applause, 
ding which the. "previous dissentients rose on masse, |a 
t boiler, 
urpassed my expectations. "I never before knew a 
boiler which could be left for 24 hours without any | s 
e ( nn either have | 
time (with the exception of Mr. William pisaid who 
h consumes so trifling a ad tity of 
fuel (Welsh noah i cinders), o r in which the heating | a 
i 
to be ... “cupped” 
satisfactory. Mine is — 
against the back wall without any shed, and merel ly 
srt cher 1 — Observing in your columns 
“oe T and many 
standard by 
Myatt’s Pine 20 ¥ ago, 
recent nin “Queen ia nateilies in ge a Carolits, 
and several o Strawberries, 
old reer valuable r 
are to e tby» ich pr ll be judged, 
tend thatit wi in no r the raien comparison 
Sii th 
Soomaali grate r. Rivers, I awoke to fini 
sherry. S. R. H., in Turner an a Flor 
Fruitist, and Garden Miscellany for 3 
after Lynch White’s pattern with an iron chimne ey, no 
other brickwork is required, After the fire is lit the 
damper is shut oa the fuel is _ 2 st at a red | 
Tio paida 0 of these boiler: only 50s., raini fa 
id +h 
hich the kinds just aorta ‘abound. Neverthe- 
jae it is an pert Strawberry and well worth ex- 
tensive cultiv: ch improved Keens” 
ation ; itis a very mu 
ae ee its parent) with all the ll 
uice of that old and jesty’ esteenve 
nt pees 
23-inch. The price of 4-inch pipes is ls. ld. per foot, s 
t to LIL Qe 
Iwas an early purchaser of it 
A ly decreasing i ; th Could anything be more economieal | and have fruited it two years (in ’55 and’56), and Ihave 
year it has prevailed to a P h hard d house as Tecommended in the | now above half con g many thousands $ 
of the p ing y Gardeners’ Ch 1]th he above prices | I therefore do not write in i rere character. 
two | h hite, whose boiler at 50s. is | Would you be enough to say’ what in meer 
Saks eetuivthting 30 it. The yield raranga he | one of the nae aers things pie can imagine, and | constitutes flavour in s Strawberry im ae 
quality of the Potatoes first-rate, quite like what hey requires no attention n for 12 hours, „My pipes are all acceptation of the term? Richard S. Yates, sate, G aa 
used to be. ore Carclew, j [High flavour im a Strawberry is, we 4 
ti per Bennett offers seg p- ape po re-| A cheap apparatus of the above description ‘(and n ot | peeuli of sweetness, acidity, and aroma ; ted 
oe ly ch p mena d thoroughly exclude all | any these qualities is deficient high flavour 
piam frost; a è if requi heentt 
useful to on sey oho or Portland cement I Cloth of Gold Rose,—Seeing your secount of the 
trying experiments on an exi scale. Si forj joining sl ~ iguanas n pipes. Sigma span Gold Rose Gace — ps Hethel, I think 
i bruary and taking up in July we | trom Water Pipes—In the month of April 1 last I may not be unsatisfac' to you to know that such is ie 
disease with early Ashlea fs for the last aan es for conducting to my house not Yaltogetber a rarity i a: this © county. aa have 
' present stock of this ee seed | water aana river. Itis used for w linens Felicit: ity stock in ie awe 
abt Rate haw: m0 one as well as for other domestic "At first the red- the second year, n ures St ine ie 
hem, while withi di y preads over a surface of 19 feet by 18 foot I 
ate of ground open to dhe ath purpose. In the course of a few weeks this defect sub-| 1855 I counted on it one day 128 fl A 
ided, but even yet the red or yellow colour, derived Sco pege r & scort, 
evidently from the pipes, t f of I attribo 
the laundrymaid and from the members of my family iis rapid growth to'a copious rs 
whose ed in this water. Can tag nett oer 
| suggest use of substance in the washi whieh, it me 
Baii pena oui t= Gat icles suffer | gigantic growth of the Hethel Rose. "and T have 
linen. Me observed a similar effect in other cases. C ly 
ster pan me-c.rs {hase atom Se ay 
| for a satisfactory and practical answer to my question. | much larger one than mine in the 
p psani Sereia or to any other corre- | Esq, of Stalham, in this eounty. Nii R P. Kemps 
with | spondent who will be kind enough to inform me whether | Erpi s Norwich. 
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