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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Aus. 3, 
technicality may not after all be the 
science, me will have it, let us beg 
compare — foregoing 5 with the 
tion 
of it into plain English 
segmen 
of different forms; those in front 
beard 
middle curved and silky, at the 3 fattened, Tesa — — water aloe — 3 en 
club-shaped, ed with bristiy proc 
funnel- presen t every appearance of making a gran 
e | expanding its — nee used in a 
soul of , bulb just covered with the soil ; N — 5 they should 
him to be in a co d pit or 1 to prevent the 
ry ap d dis 
plaited, spurr i inged, with the | There is scarcely — pa which is so much — 
mts extended into tails. Stamens N by liquid manure e Lily, more a — 
In the foregoing digest I have e dealt only with those 
varieties which have obtained a number of : — 
ing 70 north 
which . = 8 and 15, the number se 
Let us intreat the lovers of hard 5 2 explain 3 akya din “beds 1 their | south 2 -a 1 8 — — po 
5 . ve 
in what 0 0 * words as te Bi sie, scing, Mio effect is exceedingly d. Excavate 15 soil 18 inches tra mity prevailing? and th — 
— SEP dentate, „ b 3 deep, and fill in the bottom a foot deep with very coarse falsity of the assertion—the “taste of the north does 
3 rugose, den T san a ae peat, intermixed with one-fifth of decayed manure or not mil that of the south.” W. 
arcuate, barbate, com — e ous, and | leaf mould. The remaining 6 inches may be entirely = Rose grow — ee of Fue Caleeo- 
so forth. These words are, in tru th, Latin and peat. If the bulbs = ~~ enough to bloom, plant | larias, Camellias, Pelargoniums, — a more 
Greek, and it is as absurd for English writers to them 12 inches apart every way, a 2 if be ch | strikin ing — f " Individually, I have 
employ them * translations as it would be for kind are brought into anne with one another, the that the “same faith” existed in the 
neh Agi fk ae st A A g the kinds I cultivate: | Lilium 2 teens mor r 
versati a e 8 be: v. u ne o ese returns, and 
With yo examples as the foregoing, A we thi think it lancifolium album, L. punctatum ciosum, | the ; exhibitions, these assert erences will 
ble to h The old Japonicum is a x well — ins Pharo. vanish, and 
not unreasonable to assert that s Ie the baseless biin of u visi 
branches of science are swamped Pr a — CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES. N 
jargon, uncalled for by any exigency, and e| A cursory view of the Carnation and Picotee returns One other point and then fare sa 5 
repulsive to good taste and common ? recent] ished by you having creat my mind a | stantly reminded that the northerns ha 
yP yy 8 y Z s diatanle for 
verance in its use l the 3 of |s g ins f the “diversity of a “ fall flower —the northerns ‘eater ** colour and 
tural history, we hold to be indisputable, and we opinion“ so repeatedly urged as existing amongst Car- purity ” to “fulness and size.” I was exceedingly struck 
— 5 lish vea nation ie Picotee — . of the no oe peer re- — these oft repeated remarks when analysing the 
e the of public instruction, wi ectively, a singular unanimity iled ; ursued Picotee list, a reference to which will at 
endeavour to put their ideas 0 a which | the subject, and hand you the following brief digest as read at “ Marris’ Prince Albert, 2 acd 
reason offers no objection, and by which the little ce ust premi th turns for the one of gest and fullest of Picotees grown, is 
educated may profit, as well as the highly edu ated ; ms were obtained from orthern and 14 returned by six of the northern cultivators, or three- 
its alone will ible to al — cultivators ; those for the Picotees, from the | fourths of the whole number, whilst only five, or one- 
Eo aithin the reach of all c same number northerns, and 15 southerns. — of the southe: she their votes fi i 
DIGEST oF CARNATION RETURNS, “ Headley’s King James, heavy red, a flower pre- 
A rendant Bete ressed his regret that | „ Returned by eminently distinguished for colour, but small, is re- 
the number of vis er been so small at 37 a gg ** y two, only, e he 
Gs his Joi Y Ener OF THE „Hoartekrenat 2 VARIETIES. Raiser. | 443 | 4: |88 of the whole, whilst of the southern tions it eom- 
8 b ee 58 BE Se = A = maaa of the whole number. Verily, 
or 2 r this, how long ifferences ” exist! 
others frequenting. these Tandon esting, it e Seam, In the original . Wilson’s William IV.” 
for such i id Th yad oundation 3 z à airal — 3 prey ae : i 19 (S. F.), is described as a southern variety. 
or 10 eas, x e 1 18 ced or anc AA 0 ay forma n wh c as ce me. I find that it 
by the examination of official statements ; “for 3 € | ſuas raised at York in 1839, and that it is, consequently, 
ale Society has never “alt it expedient S |Count Pauline e Holmes 4 | 4 of northern o Holliday’s Thomas Hewlett” 
a mystery of a matter in which the public 1 a — ee eden 2 : j 17 (C. B.), by a mi int, is described as northern raised. 
as vane sae as an ody. R a wrig t. 5 t should be south. J. Edwards, Holloway. 
ewlett ............j Holliday .. 4 6 | 10 
The followi e the numbers present in Jul PINK BIZARRES. : =M 
p 2 Y| S [Prince Albert Puxl 6 | nu 
oes oo the fst establishment of the exhibitions, $ Sarah Farne ew See n a THE . 
À : PURPLE FLAKES, co POND as follows: “Be 
1 hed Hen oa E RO So a — ot E — blag 5 | H |16 | enough to inform vie what Ee the variation of the ba- 
% a BORD. aii N Lord 4 | „ | 4 | rometer in conseque: vation, ceteris paribus 5 
To! eee 5612 ehtima 4062 S |Queen of i k instrum 5 
1836 -...+n. 6088 143 5963 N |Squire Meyne FEC 
Letseeges 4 1846 ......... 6083 S | Bishop of Gl e to obviate the necessity of replying to other 
1838 ......... 6546 WAS an 6827 3 . ikl fa teed 
* munn In order to do 
1a 2 507 72 — 8 8 14,084 1 — of Scarlets 3 ? 12 — satisfactorily, we must go in details respect- 
e — 8 1850 | 3 hod ia ing _ e the prineiple 5 Which, 1 as it is, 
io thai is ratiy, sks sal se this year was | $ [Ploras gelandet. ne ae 7 sufficiently understood. T 
i = —— — with the e at 1 = a N |Lovely Ann EY aona a pes - thet complicated action, „instead Ten ing 
win goog u „ the action of w is 
tended, in consequence of the — June mee 77 140 217 ine i the 
mparably more faithful than that of 
having been such a day = — n, that only = Slater, wig remarked, “I do not Enon |} 3 can possibly be Many even 
870 — of 1 500, passed "the gates, the colo principle of the barometer with that of the 
That grea t exhibition did = therefore, at the most, ETE [ar indications of both are us prog 
ee, yond 5000 visitors uly. i ů—ð—ß———ů——ů r ů e ion of a fluid in a +f 
a hove that this ort statoma North, 79, Sites vy S = 9,875 ; South, 140, divided by 14 = but the thermometer acts by the expansion of the fluid 
in * o show how 3 MAY. | 9 — arieties obtaibing 37 North, $6 South ; Total, 93 | p 8 ives its action from the 
to fancies o — es obtaining 40 North, 84 South; Total, 124 Pre e air. Its name implies this, the tem 
— e i barometer being derived from gapos peTpor i * 
VILLA AND SUBURBAN GARDENING. T weight, and meiron, measure. From this its by de 
Few plants of recent introduction are more hand- 8 ` Retarded. by 3 . — ected ; — it —— the weight of the air by 
or at i Ja ili ey come 22 VARIETIES Raise. 3 | 2 33 — — 0 
into bloom at a time when the t majority of E í |gs | SS Great are d 
— a erat aa Sod when an actual a a | cs ee 
the conservatory and gre p 8 —— 3E about 34 inches in 9 — 
be more suitable ? produce a as displa B King James Headley 2 11 | 12 bore, and open at one end ; fill it with pure! : 
oors or out; 2 ee N Prince of Wales. E 6 | 6 12 then el end with the „ invert | 
Wa aay bo liberally silita k „ 8 sates n ona Kane. e 2 3 5 = n i cistern containing meronr) i mag, 
thawatentitate one of ur Balk autumnal S Duchess of Sutherland. f 5 from the end of the 5 
e fower-garden| f Pee e ee 1 8 |fe the tubo upright s attach a scale tot the g d 
g of w at 
ee ps tbe pe The bulbs — — : ; the i „cistern ; and the result will be 3 
fnew bulb. This separation should be effected when | 5 6) 5 ja]! Tinto Noth in not remain 
the flower stems are withered; the scales should be stuck | ` č | 5] 10 | _ The tube, of 34 inches in will 2 The 
— — an placed in a d 8 . 3213 — vi after being ina 31 
After i in this position, they 1 Sis some pou f cer- 
should be i 5 8 412 | 16 | inches; for near the level of the sea, it has never 
planted in a prepared pei er e 8 ~ 3 | 7 Bri 3 T higher th 5 81 inh 
bulbs will soon y to flo = . than 28 in this country, as far as a u 35 
of in pots is by no p 4 | 13 |17 | We shall suppose that the length of the > 
difficult. I shall detail 7 s reen Eara from the surface of the merc™y 
detail the practice I have pursued | § : of the 
with success for some years. Immediately when the ian nes ee € | 10 | 16 | the cistern. space above this and the top 
bulbs go to rest in the autumn is the pro S Lady Dacre .......... 2 Be Garratt ..,...| 2 1 | * void of mercury, air, or aby . 
repot them. By no means destroy the Siah hat S Mrs. Barnard . Barnard ..| 8 | 15 23 derable substance; in short it is a vacuum. OF ad the 
y place ongst the fresh soil. If large | ziy Torricellian vacuum, from Torricelli, who ATTY" Isis 
examples a, pots | Nort, a ee 214 | barometer in the beginning of the 7th century. this 
may (be a and ors — N 3353 “af — evident —.— mercury as was contained 
pot. soil I use iie is rough | F must have been ear y o the cisterns nom 
pa 18 Southern 58N 3 F. dit will be readily à 
The pots should be well drained, and the crown the | ee ee: Toh a rom what has been st: r hb by no means a cor 
