13—1850.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
na and Apricot, should be from a end of June during 
rs, Apples, and — 
2 upwa: 
econd species. peee RY ÅMPUTATIONS.— There are 
h 
many case ere 
lately requires A tation course alone can 
t be freed from ulcers, eareinom v, or Vene — e; or 
f ors lacerations, pune- 
he plan N entirely 
resume i rate it may thus * 
— toa life of many years, and may fructify almost 
as before 
me to enter into the subject with some detail. 
I refer to Roger Schabol’s 9 e 2 5 
who love to compare the opera urgeon 
animals to those of the 2 on ep ia they will 
ep find, that 7 to this sede what happens 
ing of wounds occurs sie, in 
of 82 It will “oye e * ae k carne 
ot disdain to underta 
ks of Leyde 
cure certain Fe 
such aan is € 555 
ot they touch a 
Nature does not always take the same time for this pur- 
pose, it is sometimes the work of a few months, some- 
times of a year or more; if the wound is large it 
never closes. It must be ae ae also, that when 
any portion ue is carer’ = is never 
cured, but merely eg pa over = * 
as muc: sim- 
Let the . of the wound be pared clea, so 
not to leave any loose strips 
— ons, j —cutting with a 
und to a smooth surface, and if possible inclined, sı 
that ie, A shall be so directed as to be least ekdik 
vailing 
sharp knife the whole 
is to apply some one of the cements I am about 
In all in injuries, where any humours are exuded, 
where Lier ay isany rotten prepri the injured part Ae 
be care fully cut ou e 8 the quick. is nothing sbould be given to 
more ce „ by experience than | Watering by driblets is the wors 
that vegetable 8 cannot be cured unless all the dis- such a one u of t 
eased portion out. drought, while the other is surfeited wi 
All agricu writers reco ‘erent det in refore 
kind of plaster for covering wounds of all pr and if | so difficul may at first appear. 
roposers, lasters | when the surface soil on dry 
we believe their different 
equall 
ood-ashes, 
ass 
the consistence 
into ay mould, For pi Purpose i it 
a. pay Spar pan e. 
a 
cement m then be 
of e omy eighth of an —— with a little bru-h. When 
on it must be ee over with a powder 
peel nara five parts of wood-ashes to one o 
bones. Every half hour this sprinkling of the gre 
must be repeated till the whole surface is dry a 
N in the first num ber of his 
i 
may -e in an earthen , keeping 
lime rubbish is not to 
A of the plant abso- 
By T 
of bark or fibres, any ` 
n old, thick-barked | 4 
tems 
d 
not alwa; 
t 
8. in rt “ascertain 5 
the thickness 
that 
their natural 
this practice. 
of the 
diseased sta 
be 
cement must be st 
revent the wet 
raĩsed beyo nd the diameter of ec root, 
to facilitate = draining off o 
being so inclined as 
water, and the piolo covered up aga 
Some mix up a portion of fine 
position, 
0 
The . erigan of Dondi, and many others, have disfigure 
with u 2. e 8 the ad va 
ve 
nown under the 
we 
that they may bir ge the winter frost 
have had no opportunity of judging of the success of 
accidental N 
I myse 
self | s 
Forsyth strongly recommends attention to the state | a 
f 
ra ve be placed. kach hive should be of m 
b 
he month of Ma ay. 
esides producing fruit for the tab ble. , will 
wh 
ral ce ee in with 
n with good soil. 
gy Aret with the com 
antage of the above- 
Some cultivators er the woun 
large lim with cow-dung ay, but 
without n . This is a bad practice, because 
above all to 
the tree. 
nsects, who will soon do much mischi ef to 
VILLA AND SUBURAAN GARDENING, 
WATERING 
but it is one in which it is di 
inte 
is an important operation in gardening, 
ficult to give precise 
aes be watere 1 7 
capes E pre plant t 
7 
— 
nt or their aii position, ramen in 
— 
eand cau 
u d 
mined, the nature of the soil in which it is growing 
the bondio hide er which it is potted, whether in a 
state of rapid or slow growth, the s of the y 
the ure to which it is renee are all 
matters of great importance, requiring con- 
sideration. ‘Nevertheless, watering generally is 7 2 
lessly d incau iously performed, 
: e 
ives a check, and i 
violently paralysed. No immediate ill effe ay b 
o | Visible, but ultimate injury is certain an question- 
Anot wing W 3 8 be e down in 
in never giving 
atering pla 
ants in pots ists 
—— until it is Ee — and ae enough 
that 3 and to administer 
ould be, to say the leas 
l 
will frequently indicate its 
7 ad judicious to wait 
— it 
nice sore the on, in 
is occasion 
avoided. A little careful obse 
practice, ae 
mere 
plant. Pharo. 
San a plant requires water 
=f yas ds 8 
fidera care in their cultivation. The plant tel 
wants in this but i 
ally anaes * in ‘general 
observation is of co 
of the bail. 
It is not always 
that the roots are 
water on that evidence 
t of it, a bad pra 
which require 
or such 
rudent to turn the plant out of the Pots |e 
oe gene 
especi 
practice sit i is to be 
ome Correspondence. 
Curate’s Garden (see p. 188). —In reply 
Country 
to hg request made 
le, as 
nee 
ve erg to be planted with ea a 
and other herbs, 
and patches of Mi tte, and other flowers suitable 
iloi every bash, tbo let a 
ja seasonable = 
con repast for the bees, 
t blossoms in bing: 
supply when they are dear in price 
their firs 
Cabba 
. ting, and | wi 
. | richer ma 
this | an 
b trial 
mn, or in the — spring. The pigs “ bees 
calli to a far better account than that of maintaining 
ap ultry ; it is a far waa rofitable and et gy 
interesting amusement to a cultivated min 
gure a garden, o much injury to ail its fruit. 
Bees, on the other hand, are al n as 
ell to rich man’s nice parterre, vod ba ore 
t. | humble cottager’s dear little plot—and n h 
the prod ither, Their — is ever to 
eable luxury, it being 5 of 
old, the chiefest of all sweet things, and to the poorer 
man, besides am e in sickness, is, when 
hives are properly managed, an anuual source of profit. 
But in order to obtain this profit, the bees must, like 
everything else, be attended to; there are some little 
keeping 
ou deer guarding them from any 
nnoyance — 2 daily i inno- 
ne e disturbed 
e | thing ey * done wi them em. For 
ce, if after having w a a taiea time in 
-a hive, they appear t om, a raiser 
may be added, 1 ~ = roles 
ficial swarm may 
or the hive go be lifted . el b 
in the hand at any time; or 5 bees may be fed ; or 
asses — d 
Wighton, on the ral management, 
which ‘ay be be had of any of "the London boo 
Apiarius, 
Death “of large Elm Trees at Southampton: Vines 
Killed by Gas.—The remarks 
destruction of Elms by us influe 
to my recollection a fact I learnt at Plymouth from a 
gentlem suffered through the escape o 
into his Vine-house (the back of this house torms the 
8 boundary, along which ‘was led a gas- pipe in the 
usual way). His Vines a year or so since began to flag, 
e gardener was considered the culprit and d 
for neglect; another took his place, still the Vines did 
not improve, of 
ut he observed a strong sr W gas on 
A his master, 
he 
e gas rus 
created, literally eating its way onward, by means 
of yet shrinking process, until it had destro; pants Vine, 
d found its way into the house a Pergo! > 
ot the Neng from * would be ‘willingly confirmed 
—— Some three an four years 
EE 
de 
tavo aed. kad Í 
mirant 
4 the shoulders xo tae chia destructor. C. Wood, 
Wan 
an 
State 5 the Thermometer against a north wall, at 
Killerton, , between March 7 and 13, inclusive š 
* gea 
am 48 — | Iith 
OBS se as — 12th 
For 11 — 5 Isch 
oer: “hat. Fiia. r complain that it is 
useless. Perhaps is its being used when old 
: S 
een very eminen z . 
built frames have given protection to. t am therefore 
naturally interested in the which this 
flower has receiv 
in your two last numbers, par- 
a ticularly “ Wiseingham’s” suggestion of doubling and 
