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to some laws in connection with the processes of assi- character of its parent, and the best t plan will be to cut ; circumference, and has been in flower, more or less, 
milation of ni materials hen growing vegetables, | it off from all communication with the parent, and so | since the middle of June. Has any one a finer speci- 
—Dr. R. D. Thomson offered some objections to the | force it to form a community of its own on The | men? is plant was received from Messrs. eitch, 
reception of the doctrine that nitrogen was the principal] branch was was accordingly cut off, cuttings made of it, and | last year, when it was 
source of nutrition, since it is found that blood and the | now they are all safely ro rooted, = eae they will | complain of Fuchsi 0 
other animal constituents contain many other sub- show double blossoms remains to be seen. I a them. I flower plants of that species both in a 
stances.— Dr. L. Playfair was pleased that Dr. Voelcker they will; indeed, I have no doubt on the point. I and te. y plant 
had pointed out a source of error in the determination took the do uble blosso som round the garden, but — of 3 inches high, by 9 feet 4 inches in circumference. 
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Z more to do with its doubleness than all the Hollyhocks which would be under 10 feet in hei eight. Fuchsia 
VILLA AND SUBURBAN GARDENING. in the 1 and I wonder that he should allow such | Comte de Beaulieu is another fine variety. My finest 
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can only be 2 in perfection in deep, — with gratitude. Moreover, he is the only young man and many who have visited Garnstone-park can bear 
I ever had to whom I could confide the i issue of an ex- testimony to the correctness of my statements. If any 
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may require, so that 8 1 e this double unia, the double mr Aneh. i pak pubescens | tions as to the a ment of Fuchsias in pots. At 
from China turned single with me, and a ve retty — 4 I shall have much pleasure in giving my 
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N wards ee am well pleased to learn that your worthy corre- grower. D. Kidd, gardener to D. P. Pia Esq., Garn- 
— — this magnificent 1 Herend, Sept. 3. 
jah : it | Clumber, or rather twiner, in his conservatory. ose ae a of Garden a —I am inclined to think 
2 n PS aay 2 n ige to 5 eme, 3 who try to flower it in the stove are fighting against the that — are in a garden purely mischievous, keeping 
frost. gree “a 4 Y | air, and yet I have ing Pc it per in = Orchid | the surface of the soil in a pari ill-suited to what grows 
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t e i ter quarters. In the | its roots thus cram ed in 
p the stove, and the top carried | neat, and to pre und for seed. ] 
p 122 „ manure heaps, a era salt may | into the intermediate house, does very well, producing Luminous Tistih; 2 — night, about 10 o'clock, as 
2 occasio sprinkled over ae also | fruit and I and my son were passing i's dirk land weak 
— 9 Eea exterminating ting slugs and other insects, and — Zender it almost troublesome under more favour- | this village (North-house, near Bideford), my attention 
crop afterwards. ee able mstances ; being a free grower it receives the | was attracted by two well-defined orescent spots 
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1 ited mar ene ya — rri 2 — The ridge — should | branch of the Beaumontia from the toplof the conser- | ground, and which, on being rubbed upon my hands, 
rag n — is, the = „ uti into vatory with 29 flowers on one head, 17 of which were | covered them with light becoming for a time brighter 
<< Were P nesai . ee 1 my "posing open at once ; but he must be aware that these flower- | by friction, but gradually dying away, and in less than 
Sm “Thi yt T A — * * tion, but ing branches should be cut back to a couple of joints in two minutes becoming extinct. On proceeding to 
oh oe TORF ͤ — A- eee Si i — ut | succession as they are done flowering. I do not know examine the other spot, I was somewhat startled at 
kimea — esideratum, of any novelty in conservatory climbers, but there is a seeing it glide away in a serpentine course across 
the eee wall ‘will be empr ropi 3 Fhe st the | road like a little stream of quicksilver. 
time to sow ova principa crop is from t Beni forests, some of which would also do in our | On putting my fi upon it its progress was at once 
20th of March to about the 10th of April. Much, how. conservatories = well as this Beaumontia. D. Beaton. 83 found it was an insect, and 
ever, will depend upon the weather. If heavy rains, pot on Geraniums.—It is now very generally ac- too dark to see its character as such, I felt sure it was 
or boisterous weather prevail, the work had better be knowledged that this disease is a fi , generated pro- | no glow-worm from its gront en mparative strength, and 
delayed until the land is in proper di/th, The perform- bably by exposure to wet and cold, and curable, I also from ite ts persevering atte my hand. On 
aye seinen ate of 22 kind Soden givers weather, | believe, not by any nostrums, but by better treatment, pee pn my captive to ee i found it to be, as 
Aa propa * gis ; d be a i ©, NO opera-] as my . K ea to confirm. The annoyance | I had indeed alread f the centi 
Home Correspondence i of them remained un or | be 
aaron pa .—I too have a deaiiofonteing Ge- | the last eight months, in full health, free from the the insect, that you may inform me and your non- 
more surprising than “ Willmer’s Surprise,” “ spot,” and without being drawn up, ee standing | entomological readers of its species. M. [The luminous 
— Ik 2 3 the: “ matter of high gardening inte- all the while upon the floor; while others not diseased sed, | properties of Scolopendra (Geophilus) electrica have 
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for — out, as — a question of time, and I take facing the south, have, in six weeks only, lost much of name. The insect above alluded to, however, is dis- 
blame to myself for not having double Geraniums in | their vigour, and become drawn up. Such appear to est 2 the Scolopendra (Lithobius) foreipata, 
À abundance by this time, for I have repeatedly seen] be the advantages of equable treatment and of span not hitherto been observed to emit light. 
t seedlings — gas from six to nine petals, but never with | roofs. I ma may add "s 3 bees have been care- This fight is * we a fluid secretion from the 
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ouses, shading not | animal, uring pairing time. W.] 
bedders, and I destroyed them; for, to say the truth, II been resorted to in either and that the petals of the The large Vine at Sillwood Park, Sunninghill.—This 
overlooked the idea of “ the tendency to become double | Geraniums so treated have, r sas e off fine old G rape Vine was planted in the year 1815, = 
ing increased.” But now that you have ve pointedly | earlier or faster than when shadin erly prac- | its trunk is now 21 inches in circumference. It 
made the suggestion, breeders will be more mei ae ee tised ae lean-to house. C. [Who San Ar Por anted inside and near the contre of a lean-to houso = 
i subject. I ought to have said, however, that I did keep | fun ur it has nine horizontal branches, which extend 
; one seedling with, I think, seven petals ; — a vay ‘oes.—Our Potatoes were planted here (th fi in st the area they cover is ie 
beautiful bedder it will be; it is from an only seed ob- of p eren in March, via ‘is — late for by — = vas re now colouring without the 
—— Years’ lass ereus with Diadematum planting them. They were well manured with t st artificial heat having pplied to them ; there 
s, flower 3 [i is not Grapes. Imay 
— finest —_ all — bedding Geraniums. If any of pe * pigs in the pig- "yd, a mixed with goo cod eo | add that I should be most ier to show the Vine to 
y — ä dung. When the first P 9 lifted, they were any one who may be inclined to pay us a visit. g. 
take in originate a new race of double Geraniums, or very sound, and they continued in that condition — Brown, Gardener to Mrs. Forbes, Siliwood Park, Sun- 
improved race myers ome ones, this should be the — the 22d of August, when it was found that two lines, ninghill, Berkshire. 
plant; — sor climate is too moist for it to perfect | each about 20 yards in length, were attacked by disease,| Potato Disease.—With respect to wg otato disease, 
the ee summer of 1846 that I ob- and we feared that the whole would soon become | which is very bad in this parish heavy soi 
— th je — from it which produced my | affected, for the tops were 3 ing to die down to the | allow me to say that both last year ‘ma this I planted 
favourite seedling, which I have called Diadematum ground, We were, however, agreeably surprised to | my i 
i regium. I tried many ex — with the mother a on a thorough — that the whole, with einder d covering the set with a 
pasi; 5 my I 3 thus overcome its aversion e above exception, were as sound as a a 
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latter is a wrong notion, although many of us believe | still examined every day), and we are led to think that 4. F., Bedale.——Potatoes planted in the beginning 
in it. “Whethe er it was — the effects of these, or any they will now escape. The two lines referred to as of April have this year proved a most 2 and 
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I observed a curious formation of the stipules on one shade of a row of tall Poplars, which, when there is | the tops; notwithstanding this, however, the tubers are 
like the j —_ in your figure | rain, throw the drip upon t Potatoes,’ and render the | not diseased, the only defect is the size, ag 
ae 515), and 3 3 ds appeared with ground sour and heavy. This, I think, is sufficient to the time they were planted, as the blight made its 
fringed envelopes, and at a perfect double flower | cause the 1 increase of disease. S. F., Gateshead | appearance here in the beginning of August, and, as a 
ow w was the time e collect all my 38 Nursery, Du matter of course, as the tops were 
to one point. — to be done? Here as the Fuchsia speotabilis and other sorts. —Few, if any, tubers eigen riage grow no larger. They are, however, 
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slip the —— of the monstrosi ene 7 teste — 8 best plant-men Pond Weeds.—We have a small pond in our garden 
the — TE ane this genera — complain that xe Messrs. Veitch | which used to be supplied by pumping from a well ; 
“ Thinks eet,” Vat last, something Mb geese p | have never woh it to — thing ng lik e perfection. Many | but in order to have better water for gold fish and some 
e of the parts; but as might therefore be led to believe that it is uncultivable; | aquatics in pots, we lately, at some A s 
; EEE inga the plant gains more strength, | but I have 2 reverse to be the fact, My plant | | constant stream from a higher level, which keeps con- 
—— may possibly be able to regain the wonted | measures 6 feet 6 inches in height, 9 feet 3 inches instantly dripping in and out; ve, therefore, hoped the 
