THE 
GARDENERS’ 
— — 
[Supr. 7, 
Ulva, or some such plant oo would be 
; but instead of this it has s that 
ouses kept elea 
and sweet, is a grand preventive ‘ 
stivioaplierie Nee have a grea 
eal to 
in Vina, 
pate its 
Hore after Aang wet 
und it 7 much worse a a aie 
sr; and, in Vineries, affecting 
aa bed rm of Grapes ; even 
under the 
wie h à 
A 
dure ti 
Water Melons.—1 beg to offer a few he ge on 
Water Melons, ib grown them and see 
in one of the western islands for 
] ad 
5 or 6 feet 1 T 
Melons, but t 
examine 
one mass of leaves 
i 
fruit at all. Thi 
them 
I found I 82 it aps 
ruit except from strong shoots from 10 to 
Last year I tried various other bse 
all of which | proved that stro; of the above 
he — 
we Hippophae rhaminolded 
commonly € 1 ; in fact they showed no wer . 
ced m of | road Nursery, St. John’s Wood ens, | 
with a long feather-like spike of scarlet aa leaves ; 
n | Beaufortia purpurea, a b bearing | 
f | some variegat 
t in an 
greens to afford shelter ty le the sea breezes. Cerni- 
waidd, Aug. 31. will grow near the sea 
Tamarix — Colletia horri 
Eryngium 
anica 
Atriplex — 
Salsola 8 ametbystinum 
Arabis albida 
Helleborus niger 
viridis 
Arum mackie 
Veratrum niger 
Cineraria maritima 
rbutus Unedo 
maritimum 
rithm m 
Convotvalus — a 
The Fuchsia N he cal r- s probably vir- 
a. J. Rogers.——The b sé shitub fo * pie by the 
sea side is Fass risk ; it hn a bch appearance, is 
hs ii rt or training. 
Kidney.—I planted 1 
leaved Kidneys, ee a E 
haraeter. The 
Preserve.— 
Mae for 8 slugs a 
cia ily: among Strawberries ; eirian 
= 
Robert 
ey Feng in in s as if they had been made for thi 
urpose. for 
vermin that any man could A 
man asked a St: * grower the other day how he 
liked the tiles. ey are first-rate for N N slugs, 
and affording a harbour for vermin,” was reply ; 
“but, for other ; purposes oy are worthless. 3 “ Well,” 
n, “I had some, in order to test their 
dap 
i.e., make slug-traps of them.” Jas. Cuthili, 9 
d .. MDD RL PEARED aa 
Sorteties, 
HORTICULTURAL, Sept. 3—E. Brande, Es 
chair, On this 
e pro 
nt Vriesia splen 
a small Swan River 
—.— W tufts of purple flowers near * ends e the 
; Erio ie tr marmoratum and eneum, two 
N pla able for their hand- 
no Tuige ns ; the . 5 ey of pan 
menes iongifiora si aureguia ; ; plants of Tigridia ca 
ther occasion I may give 
> with the Water 
own, Chelse 
I have 
in preserving my sound Potatoes pal till 
spring since the Potato disenso of 1845, is by putting a 
w or r of Potatoes about 8 or 10 
below Pa "ae of the ground, ina dry 3 
ta out are equally as good and 
hen first taken up. W., Griffin 
Lape rosea, — It may 
that thi plant may now be seen in flower in Mr. Skir- 
wags Ny Walton n, near Liverpool. J, M., Walton 
[It has also flowered in the garden 
peared in the crops about 
August; but, up to this time ome 3d), 
sound, with a few exceptions, rently 
ion of 8 son tg have scm- 
again on 
inches | 
and then | of its 
be interesting to 8 | 
we are 1 
riensis, se flowers had unfortanately closed 3 
the time apy e -s a bri salmon-coloured, 
called “ Bea of ag Parterre; pril. 
esnera pieta 
e 
santhies colubrina), a "tral which posse 
a namental whe 
n the neig hbourhood of certain sta 
| Specimens of the r 
r | Bri 
— distinct speeies 
e 
West W ickham, &e.; 
e Serpent Cucumber e 
w 
called Roscoea 
Grapes: Black 
The pat is deseri 
al of pia Society, ba iii., 5 
somethin 
ck- Prince 
07. It i 
like ‘tlie a Bweotwate 
the 
but it has got the — character of 
h — 9 er, that the cause of 
ure in the border, &., at a 
80 an 
it ra too small 
who are fond of m 
B. It is stated to be — productive. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL, Sept, 2.—J. F. weenie so VP yy 
in the chair. Donations to the library were 
from — ay os pan $ — London, the Imperial Society 
Mos the Entom Society of Stettin, &., 
1 a — —— on the late Dr. 
Erichson by Dr. Klug, a — te paper on the 
blind Annulosa of — St 
25 
bourhood 
also specimens of t 
nalis — a new Blachista, by Mr. Shepherd, from New 
Mr. S. Stevens exhibited specimens of an 
— eee taken at 
— by Captain Parry; th sexes 
f a fine variety 0 of Papilio — — Priamus, from 
Ri chmond river, on t 
——— and 
from Perthshire by Mr. 
beni 
bited a very in 
series pa minute Lepidopterafrom aan ne, Mickleham, 
many of them bred from the 
Callidium ae knd ia m, e 
as He likewise exhibited a box of interesting Indian insects 
n venusta, 
Pi diflora, were exhibited by Mr. Dob- 
oster, Esq. 55 
nee and 1 and some ripe Mangoes, were furnishe 
d| by Mr. eae gr. to Sir George tg 2 Leigh. 
or 
deny Havant, Hants. wo of the Mangoes 
3 Pine. apple exhi- | a 
bited 123 Mr. 5 —— pine Pe Teddington. 
was an example of one 
er 
try. Nothing can be sta 
as to its quality, for the fruit was not eut up.— Mr. 
ott, 
of Westbourne. sei Bays- 
as 
Bentham-hill, 
i has been introduced 
the prepara tages of Lepidopterous insects, as 
as to the — value of the characters derived pees 
the larva or perfect state of this order of insects, N. 
Society held its 
the mee on the 27th ult. It was 
riod of the season ouse 
nd m at of the fotisto flowers were 
petition did not, th 
classes. 
and 
wed. onii: 2 fal 
Orehid. | atsged, but in ‘such quantity as might 
