630 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Ocr. 5, 
clusion, the author mentioned that his orn dug in last November; it was tn a planted in | but it richly deserves the protection of a greenhouse in 
differ from those of Mr. Randall, made with Fuchsias. | February with early sorts. The crop was undiseased, cold climates, I imagine that it 75 — most of the 
But as Mr. Randall used a water from a par — abundant, and good in all respects. The tops of all oP family, a very shy bloomer; but w it does flower 
and not fare welt water, and may have contained | Potatoes in this neighbourhood were attacked wi well it is really beautiful. J. Cole, Ol ijord 2 
other poisonous substances, it is the opinion of the black speck on many of the leaves on the 3d of 1 8 The Proper Season for Planting Evergreens. —1 
author that so . a quantity of ait as that contained The disease spread from leaf to leaf, 8 until all believe that there cannot be a more mistaken practieg 
the water with which Mr. Randall exper cabal, were Ane leaving the principal stalks almost un- | than the common one, of planting evergreens at the same 
cannot, be regarded as the cause of the observed ured, Our soil is a strong clay, but in * soils the | season as deciduous trees. ver trary’ to 
poisonous effects. Professor Balfour stated that some romult is tes ‘the same. The following may be taken | received opinion it may be, I do not hesitate to say, 
oelcker. w is nei e iles | that the w i t 
iti 20 th brought 
plants which — bear larger e 2 salt than tried diseased Pia sets in arash rows with | fine live chinysatids of Acheronta Atropos, which ‘she 
those which were produced away from the sound ones, from the 125 lot or the last two years, found in her Potato be in an earthy sort of nest. She 
Se both cut and uncut. The result has been that, while | had kept them for a day or two and fed them with 
a . some of the diseased sets grew, and produced a good Potato leaves, of which she declared they had eaten! 
Couve 7 gal Cabbage. — It is erop, others eame to nothing. In 1849 the sound sets Now, t is is the sort of evidence from whence arises the 
stated in oir > Pipe of the lach ult., p. 581, that the produced as great a weight of tubers in 8 yards, as the hedgehog and viper stories of which we hear so much. 
Conve: Tronchuda does not heart. I beg leave to assure | diseased ones did in 12 yards, and this year. as six to This woman believed that the pupæ had fed upon the 
vou that it does heart; and it has hearted with me, nine; 3 quality alike in both cases, 1 have found Soden’s | Potato-top, and thought she was giving me some useful 
and also with — other amateur gardeners near this, E ; Forsyth’s | information as to their future management. B. 
who have been so fortunate as to obtain some plants of Early sg pt isa good dungen but the eyes are deep, Hoya bella,—This plant grows with me very freely, 
the true sort, raised from seed sent by Dr. Lindley to a and there is much waste in preparing it. H., Ludlow. | and produces abundance of flower buds, but they all 
gentleman, a friend of his, and a neighbour of mine, My Po 20 toes wens 3 d with eae as usual, | fall off without expanding. Have any of your corres 
some years since ; and from which ‘plants I have saved — the third week in Augu ats and in a few ‘days | spondents N the sama owe or can they 
excellent seed, and do so every year, by merely pro- every top was 8 I directed my gardener to suggest a remedy? My plant rowing in a pot in a 
teeting the plants from frost during the winter months, keep three rows of Thurston's “Conqueror of equal | cool. Orchid house, with eng ot light and air, and 
under la Melon frame, not otherwise than required. | length, distinct pa the rest, and to leave 5 1 15 on moderate moisture, Other Hoyas flower under the 
r that I have in some degree acclimatised this one row ; mow off the 2d, and pall them up on same treatment, but it does not. I have lately 
it is i i se, imp 
8 to a r . 
now more capable of enduring hardship than the first taken up the first week in September: haulm left | look more healthy than it has done in its former abode. 
venr I had it. I then lost nearly half of the plants on, 37 lbs.; haulm pulled up, 33 lbs.; haulm It appears to differ in habit from Hoya carnosa, as the 
under the frame, and now I do not lose one in twenty, cut off, 34 Ibs. There were very few diseased pedunele itself falls off after the buds have fallen, 
and the Cabbage is equally oh and pure in every tubers in any of the rows, and, he says, about equal, | instead of Kae va out fresh buds as that peaa 2 
peet as the first year I had it. I believe that there Of course the experiment is incomplete, = the This how En be peculiar to the unhealthy state 
is not much of the genuine ema of this Cabbage to be | diseased tubers in each row ought to have been my 5 5 
urchased in Britain, and that an hybridised article weighed. The disease in this neighbourhood Be The Willi Leaved Lr bots FG alicifolia).— A plant 
ing been son, has induced some persons to believe be leaving the tuber and expending all its virulence on 1 in Legon here has of flowers on it which 
that it does not heart. The r — the haul re this? I shall be Bs ad to try the s 16 in shies in ena I am m 
from on direct. It ws near and about Bra- experiment planting diseased and healthy sets in desea “with is Ixo ora, and I am sure, when it 
ganza. Mediensis, Ireland. [We can assure our cor- the an Will you pe mas us a short schedule, that have peons er known, it will be a greater favourite 
Age N ah b 8 ; 8 
responden pp res 
Couve eta n from Portugal. 8 to hearting, our the same model 1 G R. Bree, e ee pals beg to for 3 esa It appears to be worked” on 
observati as made with reference to the solid hearts forward you a sample of Potatoes taken up to-day, | Ixora coccinea ; but this is not a good stock for it, for 
of N Cabbagen: It hearts, no o doubt, but ees which appear 8 be very much infected with disease. we all know that the Ixora tribe throws up ground 
I have to thank you for your insertion of a letter | They are called eville’s - Defiance, an early Potato, } shoots, which renders them unfit for stocks. I have 
i i in t ith | iged to a 5 
judieiot ey di up till the G. di 
éinselves with some book on routine garden- | usual time, but they were cut down by the frost just | weaker kinds than the former. Da 
‘ork is to i hey have — _ 
met with as will give the information my letter sought ? come uP again they have all along appeare red health 
> ae 2 8 Sorieti es. 
erombie's “ Every Man his own Gardener,” Paxton's indication of disease m. . Owing to the HORTICULTURAL; Oct, 1.— E. eh Esq., in the 
2 — ttagers Calendar,” and Rennies „ Alphabet of weather the — i very much, but still it is in chair. Sir R. Burdett, Port, J. 8 Seren Est wand 
Gardening; but none of them give the de- good health, Have you heard ofa similar case? [No.] | L. B. Foster, pa, z 7 elected Fellows: 
of the vegetables in the form when fit for V. J. Ward, Gardener, Prospeot Hill, near Reading. | Medal was awarded o Mr. Turner, of Sous, for pe 
: et equi ave read with u i i 
fi PS at —— nearest to the point required. 1 Pelargoniums.—l your xhibition of D Enis consisting o exq 
‘matter T sought for, but in | seription of the“ Wilmore Surprise,’ einen will, hi site blooms from plants that were stated to have been 
whic chit would: least nd; less, prove an acquisition, and will certainly be so in flower for nearly two months. The sorts Were as 
and, for the 0 ers, ibe it. It will | thing different from anything at „ in wb ee ollows : j Th ank 
t Eneyelopzedia of Domestic Economy,” | I wish we could rely as much on the descriptions of the | Fearless, John Edw. gnificent, Earl of Claren- 
by We a kes: 2426. The Couve Tron- | so-called new varieties that are cont: y making a don, Rie Cobden, Mrs. Seldon (Turner), Essex 
chuda costata) or Portuguese Cabbage, from noise in the world; when one uinea has Triumph, Queen of Lilaes (Turner), r. i 
Portugal, is much cultivated on the Conti- been paid for a plant, it is mortifying to find it so much (Turner), Toison d'Or, Snowflake, Scarlet Gem (Turner r); 
nent, and was introduced here in 1821; it is grown like some you already possess, that if you accidentally | Seraph, Mynn, Queen of Pri 3 Black 11 Mr. 
chiefly for the midribs of the outward large leaves, lose the name, you will take it for one of your old Palmer; R Alda, Grandis, Model, Miss Ho 
which, 1 their green parts, N 1l] f. j sh alike, I have in my | and Goliah; the last six being seedlings. The same 
boiled, make a good dish; somewhat resembling Sea- p a single flower with 13 petals; when fully | grower also showed 12 fancy, flowers, viz. : Belle de 
kale. The heart, or middle part of the plant is, how- expanded it measured 3} inches across; it was hot quite | Nogent, Highland Chief, Mrs, Hansard ` (Edwards), 
ever, the ‘best for use ; it is j delicate, tender, so good in shape pain war area te Ppi, but Freund Schmidt, General Cavaignac, Gasparini, Non- 
and agreeably flavoured, without any of the coarseness | nearly so. Unfortun e to get such (Turner), Dulcinée, Rainbow, Mrs. Labouchere, 
which often belongs to the € Cabbage tribe. It would: Í | the plant, or the ee + hie I N pe Penick it | Striata Perfeeta, and Pretty Polly (Turner); a the la 
nk, be well if upon horticulture -would grew, to produce me such another monster. I have a a seedling of e onsiderable promise. — Mr. ; of 
take a lesson — p precede every article the | blue Cineraria raised from seed, which has two of, its | Slough, — RA a Certificate of Merit for “The l 
culture of which they undertake to instruct in, with a | flowers quite double. I have removed all the single | Mrs. Ashley, a beautiful n light 2 
deseription of the article’ itself. Medieal men in their blossoms but one which has a few extra petals, and I | tipped and shaded with rose. It is a flower of 
i a s of ‘diseases; in the first place de- hope I shall be able to ripen seed from it, and thus form, but unfortuna 
elementary treatises of n th 5 imperfect | 
seribe them, and point out the features ‘by whieh they | obtain a good addition to this favourite race of plants. —J. Edwards; Es- of Holloway, hay six blooms of his 
are to be distinguished from any other similar disease, | H., Lud/ow.——I saw an article in last.week’s Chro- beautiful white-tipped yellow fancy seedling 
before they begin to prescribe the remedies’ or mode of We on the Wilmore Surprise, by Mr. Rosier, of Mrs. Hansard; and Mr, e exhibited the E; towing 
t ent. Such should be the treatment of -horticul- | Brooklands Nursery, Bla ekheath, in which he supposes | three sees, raised by Mr. Stein : Nil Despet 15 
fal subjeets in an elementary work. Bat where will Mont Blane to be the same thing as A bum -planum of scarlet; Nepaulese Prin maroon both! 
find 1 — between the Cauli- Mr. E. G. Henderson's — gdh ih this state- flowers 3 and New e and white f 
md I remember nowhere, except in t lead some into error, I beg to say that Album Other florists’ flowers consisted of 12 spikes of Me 
work of (Webster and Pikka and here I fell planum was grown, at the Wellington hocks from Mr. Bragg, for which a Certificate of Mr. 
mere accident. Let Mr. Mntosh take a least two years before Mont Blane was nt out, and is was awarded, mg me nice looking Petunias tt nith 
‘this in any new edition of his work he may | quite a are habited plant. Mr. R. does nat men- Gadd, gr. to Lenox, Esq; of Hamm x 
B? C. [The: difference between Broccoli | tion that are two distinct varieties of Mont Blane, | Flowering examples of the new Chilian climber, I 
has been ‘fully poirited out at p. 299 of 2 of — were raised by Mr. Sirga sent out geria- rosea, exhibited: by Mr. Selkirk, ge. teh „J. 
184 h Mr. Beck under the Nos. | and 2. The former | Meyers, . Shenley, and by Messrs ee gent by 
tg — completed taking a — (No. J) is the oy that produces 1 semidouble Son, of Exeter. It was stated to have, beet ent 
i flowers, and is of no value; the latter (No. 2) is an ex- Mr. Lobb, from“ ‘Concsption,” to the Exeter NN 
. They were planted in Feb cellent —— and worthy of being in every col- where it has blossomed in a conserva conservatory ; bul 
en up from Grass, the turf | lection. T. S. Somerville, Welling ton-soad | Nursery, the opinion of Messrs. Veitch that it will prove 
; manure, + This — s Woo T rowing 
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tten leaves was put in the  Incarvillea grandifloramNovelties in the way of but whether or not it will turn out to be 4 
were men ‘covered’ with about | * being on the tapis, brings to mind a plant I | bloomer remains to be seen. +! blossoms; “ple the 
eatery ad some t tthe Potatoes | saw a short time since, whieh, although not new, will | ally, are extremely handsome, and exactly and, clo 
hag Some ground that has barmot the less availabley it being one ofthe most lovely | published drawings of them ‘both in shape 
des, without A ee seen of late, namely Incarvillea gran- except that the minute white. N 
manure e eee | sented as being spread over the interior of the 
