THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[FEB. 2 
Four barrow-loads of hot gravel, oie of quicklime, and | 
as much of the tar as will moisten and colour the * 
i hese walks s 
down several years, and — 
mocth and sound. R. G. 
* be continued. 
ERRATUx.—In I article, col. b, line 14 from bottom, ſor 
late Duke of Bedford, read “present Duke of Bedford.” 
NOTES OF A TRAVELLER.—No. VII. 
THE UsES To WHICH IT IS APPLIED 
is 
so amusing that I send it to you for the readers of the 
Chro 
sed in eee b e —4 gas — i 
Bamboo is u 
umbrellas, soles of shoes, 
water to the land 
rt of the celebrated water Wheel, as well as the | 
he harrow, 
th 
making aquedu ucts for conveying 
— 
folow from the causes we have mentioned. 
com cumstance will account for the fact that e me tia 
s in Pruning is a aon 
A AND S SUBURBAN GARDENING. 
of _ 2 the — 
which h 
of — — 
5 in their 
m 
When I speak of proper m 
usually exhibited in in aat n 
i three 
815 
se 
of everything ne moreover, 
generally anything but e for such gardens, The 
Williams’ Bon Chretien, and the 
Sweetmeats are 
in - joints called N ery s 
ying aad in sand Tas, th rolling tables, 
baskets sieves last th ot leas 
o sph ist deel 
tumn 
* — frequently occur in 
ere these a la 
— — et Tittle alae for they are over ina 
few days. Instea a bushel of one kind 
of Pear, this quantity in 10 
in domestic use—are j 
Gentle reader, nina incredulous 
carry you a step further, gue} tell you 
have not arya tine one-half of the uses to which the 
appli ould be 
as difficult to say what it is not used for as what 
It is in universal 
you may be, I 
barb, but we cannot co: e Chinese are as a 
nation, or indeed at ‘all, ‘without the Bamboo. 
DISEASES OF PLANTS. 
— 
n page 5t. 
Genus XII.; 2 or Fall of the Leaves. 
Pe 
e year, as the eo 
trees 
ed 
written upon with 
season 
what 0 are n soils, which have 
h 
want of nutriment w age 
yellowness wil * rr 
assures us that in of w 
eee 
Plenek 
nas 
that I The aai 
t Pini 
have been 
most frequ ene a 
mmon observation will the 
n ar aa r one to determine whether the soil is is 
stock or the other. 
mode * training is another subject sotis 
it m 
anches, from which the leaves have thus prematurely i 
end | statisti 
he | and produerion c of flow 
been 
able to save a oe of fine-looking seeds, 
of which are alread 
its bein i 
some 
* will probably prevent 
Sent The follo 
marks on the state 3 of om growth of leaves, 
i n of those 
2 of last m volume 5 E will be seen 
at en t time 15 kava ii on 
e plan eat is now developing itself, 
pker the En ali unfolding. Joseph Pazton, 
[ e hope t able to find r for the statistical 
tables i ina hark time; ‘for the . we are unable 
season of 
<n 
large 
e crop of Pears, they me 
to do 80.] 
Polatoes.— Plant good early kinds, for it is important 
to combine nee and well selected varieties, a 
a for producing early and fine produce 
finally in open com 
May. A small 
be transplanted with se 
m the whole ones should be slipped off, p 
being a 
raising 
m selected seed. Hardy and Son, 
cc A. H.“ will me it hardy 
n border, 
grow- 
Potatoes early 
M, aldon. 
gapanthus umbellatus.— 
ugh te withstand our winters in the o 
hand- 
— Kidd's lament- 
beautiful 
deeply hise with him. 
great to Himself } but to all v tet love 
of these winged choristers. 
uainted here, rather too —— with the 
shag titer ae habits of — ish rat, 
ing l ead by their 
destructive ‘agency In a single night — will carry 
chicks, They a are well known to come at 
these expensive props. 
drained—an essenti 
ening, for “« quickly” read quiet 
TRADE coger ig Sang 
WILL any one inform us who Messrs. George Boden, 
and Co., of Hindle a Man 
eaton Norris, Stockport. 
referees will Riia us with the i ee 
e Corresponden 
t its growth has never 
= con- 
as flowers 
pa ee N when fully 
arsenic, cobalt, or silat me prepared, 
issuing even from is will instantly “destroy 
not only the leaves of trees, but all the herbage whieh 
covers the 
The same precautions which tend to prevent yellow- 
also applicable to stop the fall of leaves. 
and woody plants are the most liable to 
2 
P 
| aT a spring. All these ex; 
may prove delusive ; our know 
arini, we = parag By or 
equently incurred. Dwarf „in 
managed, will obviate ‘the use of 
£ grou 
ome 
e plant has appeared to enjoy a partial rest, 
Ww 
which feed 
y upon the 
young pple pe I have little doubt 
is 
r in size; mn 
| z Privet a and Whitethorn ; Be on jon the opposite si 
th is a Lanrel 
carry them away bodily. And I have seen 
the hen pursuing the rat that nada 
Mr. Kidd d laid down a 
oi 
ings, pan 
an instance of 
t that has tasted flesh, and a ce of finding 
ore, will not stop to eat pills or corn of any kind. The 
only method eating is with ferrets and 
terriers; the country aro 8 with 
vermin ; they come from — fields, hedges, and eopses. 
For — e y these means kept up a 
have caused nearly 200 of them 
o giv ve us b 
ee 
‘p ‘but 
Save a Season 
ould enable us to 
— tara out well. Tas aps ete 
| . Amicus 
i the res 
. 
subject, I have never raised insect 
myself, but I must quite dissent from 
opinion, that the rind of the Pear is the com 
of the larva ; that it will eat it I do not abt, s bat ! 
believe it to 
Mr. 
le tree, 3 
tar lien spin a pon the Apple t fruit, an 
the leaf or r ermi 
this was the 
by Mr, 
wn garden it swarms 
EE 
suit Forts it aai e in epee 
