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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE, 
[JULY 27, 
and Arbutuses, looked in th 
ter, who 
fs days the labour and hope of years, to ane himself 
such emergencies ; and, if his plantations 
* avall himself of mats, eloths, rik ae straw, 
House for Succulents.—I have in course of 
en 
small greenhouse, 12 feet long ty about 8 feet v ride, > 
y 
me ray if 
talende for the gr 
exterminate ? and 2d, as to heating. For more reasons 
than one I could only have it — with a brick stove 
8 
and the air of the house too low a temperature 
(of — air-drains and acon vould, be hid nie of d 
ear 
Tho idea 
bof | pit in the the C. 
of semi natural state, which | I think 
ra — greatly improve 
— 
gnac was the preserve 
3 for their be gg - 
great depth of soil; 2 f good rich garden mould 
was the usual dept th of * for it at St. Petersburgh. B. 
Exhibition of 1851: Garden Pots 2 hint for the 
re e of garden po n from some 
t 
ae requires 
may 
use there 
with the generality of plan 
eaf only. The price of So unglazed 
the same at Montpellier as 
ed ones = furnished at 
ice. Or kx 
eE 
® 
the glaz 
that of some antiguae vase, a N 
orm aceo to the taste of the potter; 8, 10, 
inch pots are frequently vase-shaped, so ge are 
some few of small size, for su ch plants as in 
paaria 
apia round, 
8 tool for taking up plants for 1 3 it 
also shadi 
The sa 
tain seed i 
raising, in naa of crosses between the je 
- | is task as 
their agricultural slaves’ in addition to | more 
* 2 
| seedling bal, 92 — to — — 
anufactured in the neighbourhood of Mont- wil 
a “ymin! Buphane. 
ha 
of the hundreds of seeds I obtained, none produced any. 
eduneulatum. I — — — ol 
but ae never : 
in the reverse manner. I imagin 
unp as any experim 
. 3 In Herbert’s “Am ma — 
made of some se raised omy 
by A. Josephiniana, Aa 1843 Mr. 
of ese bulbs, 
which was then, — told me, 20 years old, and was not 
egg. It would not 
in Euglan 
pected to 
a pot 
germinate 
w 
believe that crosses may be easil 
i n any of “the plants of the genus 
Amaryllis, and the false (as I — pe genera 
m I believe = 
crosses 0 n Bellado — ge all of them 
2 — 
m more — btful — Nerine, although I do not 
wa 
failure op nn rest with the p Su — Thi e pressed perpendicularly 85 the ground any positive  charact distinguishin 
July 23. IW. ould plant a „Cast * in t 5 man- | surrounding the plant to-be removed, gave the cylinder — W as most surprised me 
r you wit ar of the e unless from more or less of a quick turn, and brought up the plant plants, is that I could neve: a 
the want.of ibe inter i n the without derangement of the mould surrounding its — Lycoris and Nerine, — they ge so very 
blesome ; bu 8 roots. ae m5 in almost everything exeept 
— when planted out, there is no — why th = _ Quantity of Rain ee in een, Dockyard| J. C. B., New ales 
should become foul. afterwards. om January to June ine one in the North of Seotland. — Potatoes are quite 
The Effect of the Steam-kiin on ihe larve of the: b free from disease in this locality. All ste are of 
Limeaylon in the Italian Oak timber, arn tn. ae average ge quality ; but Grass is sadly burned up, Peru- 
yed, even in the IW, above pe ea pound Thermometer. — Bey is almost fit to cut. J. Mackenzie, M. D., 
z x * ** un 3 
of the wood was 3 ahn of Pollen. —I think Mr. Beaton is rather too 
ar J 2.083 1.964 51 = 21 | Sanguine about the possibility of preserving pollen for 
Will “A Friend to Pure | February 2.146 1.414 53 — 33 any great length of time. I have tried great numbers 
me ie ee ite 15 — 58 — 22 of experiments on the subject, and the result I have 
— I could get sub- 3.261 3.070 88 obtained c ly any pollen ens 
er és a a ht May 5n. ts . 4 — as its —.— —5 having sar Bt — 
rst thoug : l — pollen of En ap 0 Its po ; 
of a tank ‘under the pond, as ee proposed, but gave i | tilisation for a considerable — — have te 
4 nd to leak; district su ervi — e 
universal belief that it is most dangerous to T. S. P., July — afte ge 8 bebte. | Crinum from one — to another, even when kept 50 
!!!...... we" Diya ana | have found thew two genera to ain their vitali 
e 
nently under water acting — at 2 — nanas = — r Arabis saxatilis — — — never found dry 
derations m * s organic matt empervivum tectorum Asplenium Ruta-muraria n of Iridace Caci h the si le exception 
is concerned, ‘the aeration of the fi — — matter —— — — 5 A 3 — by po ol which, two months ol 
important lement in their hey tree action. There are D trat Vinea minor I have a one „ bland The pollen 
— er on w I am anxious for informa- Homing ares Saxifraga — ig Lilies be kept at all, it will mould. would 
Se ae come gman mesang i lt | RANGERER EA S sin ai trp to mech eee 
not a tank holding only 500 or 600 gallons do 2e Ee Ami llids.—In the Chronicle of July 28, 2 ease in whi t with success (the 
the | 3000 gallons t Dol 1 obesrved à comm a e h | died th us. I never had an 
tering e %% 
Dg | — inds of these plants — 5 
— — being had a great fancy for Amaryllids, but I have lost the dition of its and it i very possible — poe 
erspace | i ] ception fay: 
n the two stones ? J trust that “A — — —— n — eal 8 . The best method I have found — 
— —— expe- interest to whom I can communicate my results. i cen pollen i is to place the 3 on 
no — of my have tried several of the experiments ich corre. ce tin box, Fg ee 
„P e 
bseri iptions micht 
ere certain, 
"answers —— Yew tree U. J. C. L. 
— | 
— Water-melon might be 
fully — in this ‘country ; it i i oo at e St. — 
burgh, where the 
— — ee 
may be eaten in considerable quantity without danger, | 
n co : 
and is miaran —— — Indeed, 
many Ango 1 En- 
glish garden, hough a much less care had been bestowed 
upon it than is usually taken for the Melon _ There are 
for several days before the expansion of the flower, yet | 
ce eg — vof flannel which should be thoroughly B. 
before the fire every time the box is opened. J. © 
— — — — 
hy Nid: — good stibjests | 
r tne — the bed, because he m p 5 77 
(in ; . ee 
8 — I also believe that : CALEDONIAN HORTICULTURAL, July Saam bor 
Crinums — — ble of beating sed withoat true im- extra cr ‘compe ; ‘the fo wing Nr. Walker, 
preguatio ww thi ting than to | awarded. Fuchsias (dark and light) : Ist, We Sanden; 
wait . or n years, and then — find out that — gr. to J. Mood, Esq.,for Dr. Jephson -e for Scarletina 
have a pure plant, I am quite convinced | 24, Mr. Gordon, gr. to Ca : Ist, Mr. Thomson, 
that in a many 3 when I app We pellen of Hæ- reflexa and Elizabeth. Orchids: Bi and Aerides 
manthus, Am erine, Ammorchari, and gr. to Dr, Neill, ſor O on, gr. to Se 
vigia to the stigmas sof 5 Crinum pedun- * 
| culatum i info : 
for several miles, and that 1 e aiithers | 
