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THE GARDENERS’ 
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CLE. 261 
— 
Obliged as we shee are to use 
strongly recom 
vi roduce the ar 
byas 
awl or the sting of an 1 insect 
vs a elass of * ere 
Imost 9 * the work of inse 
de e plant, inserting 
suc ok as an egg. 
aonb 4 ere e in the bark, with the insertion eila 
the te 3 ts the flow o 
nstro eee 
. 
brought about a 
P pierce y eis 
o it 5 2 eo 
corum Latr. lays 
ts eggs in 
articulatus L. at the ee the ae of the flower, | p ants are in the 
r four tim 
— it to s its natural 
size. is olen — ied by an 
8 of the extremities = the 3 which become 
covered with beards o nee received a spe- 
eimen of a sin ms ete e ed piece o Elm wood, 
There was a little cr in the interior, which appeared 
to have e cause of the monstrous lees 
although 15 was unable N to ascertain it 
Home Correspondence 
Ripe Vegetable Marrows. —After two winters 
of ripe Vegetable Marrow as food, having used K 1255 
All I can co onfidently recommen 
n ey 
ripe state, and it may 
‘anivers rsal a acceptance as a a winter vegetable, b n this 
it onl. 
on jem dinner tables. The Potato passed ‘thro ch the 
a weary day did this valuable tuber 
ce. Melis ermee H not qui 
e 
ince 
publie 8 I have had 3 from ee who 
1 
ury | groun 
f | have sought in v 
you 
1 
Have been in e 5 part of t 
rdly any winter ‘vegetable could be ob- 
ethune informs 
as on iron rods, up 3 er hurdles, 
12 . arbours, = ante des agree- 
grown and any- 
where in the United Kingdom. It ~ Bx om ‘cultivated 
in Ireland with adv Mani. bn till o e people throw off 
They thrive 
with m mi 3 or other 
spare food. Roye seed sho 
about the firs il, i 
as it comes 
fru be 2 t of oe 3 the plants 
— ed be 1 to bear the 
wo sorts—a yellow and a 
witir. yellow ; both are Mi * and 
3388 but I prater the 33 
they mus d in a dry plac 
excluded. The under . ones 1 
i { t them up into pieces 
ons alai tated th 5 N pith and seeds, but 
do skin before boiling ; then boil in 
fine 
going long voyages it woul 
egetable Marrow in its young state makes a famous 
pickle, Cut it into 2 or 3 inches in — as s Cucamn- the 
bers are serve several ri s i 
that 
little boiling. Janes ee 8 
Gardens on ds. — As illustrative of 
I ter B. s. 4340 
fire. „In S 
n sub 
tions; its produce comes so rapidly to perfection tba | 
rito p the w 
w | Colley, Tpplepen, Devon 
Wou 
ondon, 
ds, | even 
d een were driven fro 
in is 
driven back 3 
* 
ripe — 
a eea which Fost i is 
be used first. on 
eces of 4 | sto 
es. To o captains | i 
7 most valuable. 
t 
F coal- 
a garden of considerable extent | | 
terraneous 
three crops are harvested re the year. bs og 
ic trees were ver burning coal beds 
another part of a nd; th rep 8 but, on 
attempting to shift them from the heated soil to another | so 
Plani oe Wr Zwickau, hot “a 
ong the lines wher 
— ee the surface of he 
nd, and by means of this unpaid for, but neverthe- 
less expensive, fuel, in plants flourish admirably.” I 
n for the sources of Prof. ery 
information — g the English localities, but ho 
will gra over them, 
nch of the subject. 4. R., Woodsi 
Cottage, 23 
Visit to Mr. Low’s Nees at Clapton.—Mr. Low 
having — for som successful ee 7 
plants from almost ane ‘qua rter, I 
nu . where a person beginning to ee Orchida. 
eee is nee — to find speeim 
a * asonable rate. There not 
minge aoe A gee most of the plants tees at 
rest; but m ry collector this is an advan t 
t state for travellin 
flower, which Mr. Lo rs will be hardy, the 
flowers ee ai like Hoya — 9 sweet; the foliage | k 
evergreen and very some. There are also fin 
Cephalotaxuses from Japan, introduced by . of 
Leyden, which if sanay will be a great ana to the 
Coniferze ; and particularly there ai 
h ised 
good stock of the Thuja chilensis, which if it prove s hardy be more exte 
1 | will 
be an 
by Mr. Low in 1847, and one of them is at . 
le. The stock of Australian plants appeared good 
Dodman. 
Having 
—. 
E 
© 
10 saaan ee days’ operations, is 
y of 2 besides a great Were of 
nale 
anr are m Eroh into the ground edgeways, the better | Kingd 
am employing fresh . c 
worms, an 
for a pig ore Saen of slugs and snails. Thom 
no benefit American Panis, r erias as 
5 or all kinds, and Azaleas? C. H. [H 
any one tried A for such plants 
Unitin —In ae observations (p. 534, 1849) 
on uniting bee — that I had sueceede 
e . by . 
uniting the bees of two hives which 
estruction them 2 an empty 
r circum ofj" 
| uniting bees, and advised your correspondent “ W. G.“ 
it á k 
strengthening a 
by my own 
teeny: saresti one of iiem stocks, 
by the addi addition to it of the b ers within 
the last few days. The plan mages wee similar in 
ost res described by me before. 
three stocks 
other into an empty hive, and when un 
n the case 
only be done by daylight (in the hot sun if possib 
time of day is over), owing to | 
—of driving from 
the assist- 
and further elucidate this st 
ns Bag he | correspondent 
e * Was cau 
s col- | m 
e Ansted, ak om ws m from 
sherry in equal 2 sand a small quantity of salt. 
his, however, the bees did not particularly relish, and 
it went but slowly ; 8 rge some 5 it turned 
r in the zine feeder. a be the case after 
absorption an and 38 transfer to the pay: or would i it nee 
in the hive good and wholesome till the spring? If so, 
and as th will eat it, it 
I bare however park oertain liquid 
they devour greedily, make th 
md m are sealed up already. 
:4 Ibs of e peer S sugar, boiled for a 
in a qua eer, to which is RN 2 Ibs. 
of honey, a glass o —5 and a spoonful of salt. 
P. n 
The « Physicky z To in Rhubarb, of which your 
used b frost 3 a consider- 
5 
oo 
ver 
signed to the piss on re great Rubar the PPA taste they 
E 9 
b consumers here, 
hare wither t one wwo substantial 
which i if p properly m: isen are pE inih and I have never 
n the flavour of fresh red Rhubarb vary unless 
e. Rhub the same species. 
abroad, are very different things. g the stalks 
makes the fruit flavourless, move the outside 
he | depriv crimson tint which well- 
wn Rhubarb should possess . P., Greenwich. 
Acco y experience the “ physicky” taste 
1 — on in dry w. and goes off in wet. 
If I am correct, copious watering would be the remedy. 
e Salad Ground near Erfurt, alluded to at p. 245, 
when I 
ing exaggera 
suppose. Theodore Baubin, 
hatswor ga 
* Stocks. —In an article on Rose stocks which 
appeared in your, Paper of March 23, Mr. 2 
Durdham Down Nu 
on which 
ance. I would add that another and sti 
item 
A. C.“ see 
de Jupiter, , 
ed in the 
2 = 
the lowing Noiscttes 
: Clara s Wendel, Mrs. Si 
ully double that 
Boursault 
