134 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, [MARCH 2, 
Oaks freq are, by the portant point ag land i is scarce or high-rented. My , sown with the early Dun Beans, the transplanted — 
ok was ‘ther Sea Tni 80 8 . little value. plan aye foll when I have sown my oye — . d badly for a ‘fortnight or so, but almost as Soon ag 
The roofs of Westminster Abb e Parlia a (banat adast in March), a pae tee bade. ase pee ss rh ant) ey bem do owed b s rand came into 
inburgh, many other ancient 3 | hed, and plant the Straw- | g b was 
3 t has ae shown over and : — is in the us y, regardless of the Onions, 2 a warm garden ento — the T ames belonging 
again net to contain a word of truth; it is one of the | leaving 2 feet between the rows, and 18 inches between of m Ak oep Cuthill, Florist, 
most vulgar of errors] to be constructed of it, and th ts in the row, Both grow very nicely together, en. [Care must 
of the timber to have been too well esta- but care must be taken to keep the beds free from | They are poisonous. pm 
: during so many ages to be now shaken by its weeds and Strawberry runners, When the Onions are * -Bs m 1 gt egonias, is 3 
resent assailant. Professor; Martyn, however, and ripe and removed, the beds are cleaned and some good very desira le plant, om account of i flowering in 
Es arrington, according to Loudon, saia, that ure forked in ; the plants, by this time, will yr all I 2 3 8 2 now — 
fi 
mplete 
m tnut is onl of a| have become io established, as in a fit state to pro- one especially mple 
different grain. [Certainly.) T. H., Feb. Th have — ce a full c p the followin a. a they bloom tae ig upwards of I 100 i pies ; 5 is, plant is abont hae 
read “ U. L.’s” remarks, p. 102, and haye to state that year, d be n off with the | years o rits, A 4 — om 
my ware of the woo Spanish Chestnut is finger a and 4 in order to — tthe pe healthy | eannot be too e~ t pointed e a = a E = ly alma 
o his, I el it in bulldin 3 17 years n Economist. in flower. ve be loom, 
3 sgl and sound en it = placed Rain which fell at Cobham Lodge, Cobham, Surrey, | and they have been * 1 pae sines 
there. Man ad f trans- in 1849, as Howard's rain guage : summer; two of t 
vata > phy “That of Abe San ee January” me August inches—0 7 B. nitida and B. insignis are very desirable plants on 
nut is 13 inch thick and 11 inches eter, — = uae en a —— his account, and ought to be in every collection, C. 
i ing the white w and ark. April . 3.15 | November, 1.00 son, Newlon-house i i 
white wood is an i wide, and has been a little | May... 2.78 December 1.57 The Forcing of the common Laburnum, for the deeg. 
, but the rest of the wood is quite 3 2 * 24.43 ration of the e — is sak 15 
d sound, as is the bark. The white wood in my] Ditto at Swaffham Baibect Cambridgeshire : — asi — Aan z p k mos —_ e plant 
specimen of Oak has suffered more from worms t January inches 1. 117 7 | Au AE. a inches—2. 782 for this purpose. j nei 
my spe n of Spanish Chestnut, I have lately made | Febru 2.4 September 3 = bloom, one of them bearing u cemes of 
fi t ith th ts of S hestnut, and March been | Oe October ... „ 2.365) flowers. The plants are young, and about 4 feet in 
SNIPE ERI WER. MACE: DOM. OF Opa “is April 1.653 | November — 1135 height, dwarf stand C. Hewson, Newton-house, . 
ut a year ago put up several planks for Vines ay 2.993 | December — 2,650 eight, 7 * e 
climb, and hares are as much exposed to the weather | June 0.577 | ipers.—Th of v pw ing 4 us in 
ey can The Spanish Chestnut has very Jug 25.657 an inverted state, may be satisfactorily proved by the 
less eh whi te raed than Oak of the same „ Ditto at bene, Devon inspection of one whieh | has recently come into m 
mneh on an January 3.09 eee nn, 47 session, 4 
iameter. I would not recommend that they should be Pa February ° 1.86 | September — 3.02 1 
planted on damp woe as my exp is agai Mar 1.49 October 2.27 twas shed by a Cob — cape and is 47 ine length, 
it; the young trees having died when thus pen al = ovember.., and 6 inches in mfere nee in the lar — The 
My ish Chestant trees grow on a deep sandy soil, — Os or ae markings on it gee a most beautiful appearance, 
and are very much Oak trees planted at the July... 2.74 31,21 and it does present a fractu K any description, 
same time, viz., 1810, in the ə plantation. In| Henry H. reby. The delieate scale that anpes * es, appearing con 
ter’s notes on Evelyn’s “ Sylva,” it is stated tha To make Skeleton Nests for Canaries to Build o cave on the oniside, will decide the gy ja vui 
& This beautiful tree deserves to be ra with timber Get a piece of wood turned so as to fit exactly the inside the tile d east garment from body, 
ees of the „whether we consider its orua- of a nest, then procure a piece of soft cow hide. The E. . B., ; Brighton, Januar A ii 
mental 8 when growing, or its uses when | in- sole eres or eee part is the best, and cut it to the Tohii n's Gard Almanach. — It is curious to 
felled,” « superior to the Oak for the making | size required ; put to water to soften, and after — . various — * 2 — a x 
tubs to male liquor, because — en seasoned 3 will not that place it on the block, ing it up and stretching | writ ose who profess to abe p the sub- 
shrink © For purposes has its it well, ape ck it * the block ali round, and rub the n ects on i whio they irn, "e pale hus Johnson, 
tog Poles. of this tree for 1 creases in with a round piece of wood or bone. When is ‘í Gardeners 
life o 
oft ha? benutifal and useful Spanish Chestnut, C, A. A 
ojd Osw 
try. 
‘The Cireuation sh the Sap. “ee circulation of the 
sap in plants. ately co ted with vegetable 
deve’ 
r a 
gree, The existence 5 — an upward 
i8 he question is, 
— mere np pert oe 
every part of its structure form nding 
current, 
I would not nan to decide side thi but my own opinion | 
escent is the me- 
is, that it rent d 
pamaen aetion — a dense 2 
sides ofthe question, that in 
There are 
of the 
ny | the fir 
ma 
r again, I would make large l 
* — a mere 8 vs question, oe 
emineni 
2 of 
do the ela- 
t is to build up | winter-flowe 
on both 
‘the present Hornig Fon 
I think it would be difficult to decide. 
Azedarach 
t in the 
the pes are all well sm poothed down, leave it near 
e to dr to the 
upp” ed with proper m 3 to build 
with, in the 3 am nests, or aeh shells, than they 
| experience * y other method of treatment. John 
Pell, Athlon 
m celestinum is, I fear much 
neglected plant, except, pertapes for _ bedding out aan 
I have season to be a valuable 
ring W plant, 12 3 blue 
„ tr Salvia 
s 8 se: n “deficient 
„ and g 
n nests when s 
flowers 
ity ep as possible, I 
ers, and amongst 
ote y plants from 
them A. ccelestinum, and 
king them up from 
1 eut — all the old phe crooked 
* * 
produced, risin 
tween the bark and the al 
il, both being dead for 
8 
TER 
sap from 
not the — of a 
which 
Id no we at the 
ro than a an Runners), were so 
su 
buds, 
he leaves of a plant this 
a grafted 
in March or early in 
— half a an piin aE the surface. 
rows 
laute — aa into beari 
before the sown seed, 
orget ; 
old, but one ia particular I 
this one I si tog at the May show 
1834. Many were surp 
feet high full of flowers and Sinem; th 
pine forced i in a Vine ery. 
u 
My? 
hey should be replanted i fresh in Id 
mention here that if fine —— are at oy for in — 
care should be taken not to 
eget P 
this my A nning o 
April ; Len ied — nearly Ulle — “frost and — 
for them sou 
S 
on Onion-beds, and 
. 
ariety. C 
. succeed Planted- 
this system a season in their 
Y „ & C.; groun was 
Bris tll ating were ped i rn 
brimstone water, in alive 
being 48 
ll, 3 — added 2500 Cee to the quantity 
3 et , there will be 740 
acre. . — 
e will really contain! A. B 
Mistletoe on the Oak.—Some time ago there was à 
deal said on this subject. A few degree singe fire 
bunehes of it — an in Sain ials farm, 
ish 
0 
instance in which Lever — 1 on the 
Oak. U. L. 
let) 35 inches in 
the . of frit when in its Rea state, w 
at 80 lbs. The plant is 8 
lar ect i in alivian and i one of the a prolific, 
— — ripenin ivel, 
T 
. T. Syme, Esq. 
2 of Hippuris vulgaria. By J.S. Sandera 
ecount excursion Simla to 
e. — a 
* dane ty 
th this season 
in case any spider should be 
on them; two rows were 3 two rows were u 
of 
ery differen 
siliftora i — "this district, I think it — be — the End 
tree which was the only 
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