822 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. Duc. 
of a wall in my garden, Gooseberry and Currant trees 
will also grow upon the tops of walls. Dec. 23. 
Fixed F ier i in Pells.— rving that you „bavo 
referred a corr 
on this subject, at 
Tam 
ion | 
ls 
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49 of the present year’s — 
est t 
ola a strong —— ; probably the daily use of the rr llb. e 
water familiarisi ur palates with its flavour, may 
have oe Hy belief that this b changed: be that 
as it may, it in the filter s aps employed 
— ob this imaginary effeet, ong 
water es, may be neutralised or improved by a 
filter — of the proper chemical ingredients for 
I should feel very much indebted to an 
one of your scientific — — nts who would com- 
munieate or suggest the materials of a filter by which 
wer a an effect could be ca uced. The im 
uld suggest relate to the oceasional pa a 
e 
imply as the 3 ase ost ea 
sily preserved for such 
experiments) it is diffi 
lt, if not impossible, from its 
e the apparatus so 
x of ary d 
to slidesott and in on o 
re it — so, the filter alone m 
barrel or box, 
to ent the pipe a few ine above the top of 
f the ends must then be * 
will a de f one which I have found to 
very suitable, in a former vo N. S., Edinburgh. 
How to keep” — st atier they are —— 
On the G th inst. hree brace of 
than I wanted — — 
keep * fresh — foll : I placed s 
them in my cov dry 
I k — ode 
— — 
e filter and Altho 
with 
e | being jami in the bottom e carrying off the a 
I 
— b 
n filled up»with ee ove 
in oa, making t the reek. | 
The soil must have — exhausted of its „„ 
P 
een taken out of the rock, and that the hole had 19 feet from front sill stone, the leader ramified right 
r which flat stones were laid | and * on the a of the house, making 19 or 20 feet 
more, besides tera Ae which 
were ‘vith fealty mrt within mal reasonable boun 
grow 
t this 
Ee pro 
at 5 and was eye-witness 
which was sometan enormous, 
| Yorkshire. — ren 
790, 1 was 
had the assistance 
"sling, they wer havo w 
They w 
ets seasons, 8 
rocess of 8 
astonished wi 
fav 
5 i 
. saw kesek * quantity of Grapes ona single Vine . — in one house was all work, — by 
he scheming and contriving. F wn part I find no 
ot a iei. one Í never saw). It has a straight | 1 in producing excellent Grapes of both kinds in 
stem about 8 feet in where it branches o e ho nder t ent of W 
| 22 n a ea r to * roof on either side "ot | AR ‘allowing abundance — 
| the The nehes are ter the fruit is well set, hag is my be m an one of 
and — tra — a October, 1845 (the last a I the — a * — coloured Grapes is too . 
saw this Vine), it was completely loaded with fruit, Mr. *K.’s” ap tr respecting 
| although Grapes. had been taken from it n we last May exibition * Chiswie ; 
ick are quite 
table for a long time. In - pre N it furnish dish of Grapes there, at least not 
the house with fruit up to frost set oa 
1 — as 8 * e fruit-room. 
girona ie in 75 shape of th 
ent, I h the printao of d 
the branches 15 apr in length, a ary cir- | and Black Hamburgh, 
mer or out of Een it grew — of exhibition just alluded to. W. T. B. 
gritstone, b This em perature, versus Holkham.—The expla- 
nation as to the position 
re. | appear e to abe for 
two readings, fi m one nig 
when “the sky — paraaan e pep and Ain tem 
ture should ow, it in exces 
several nights, ineluding the oth — 5 Nov 
i a y that 
ion and 
era- 
s, while on 
„ aud 4th 
overcast, and 
course of ten more, 
— rieh —— Vine borders will become a 
I saw one lately that had been made 
mixture of soils; the 
time, but ultimately the fibrous roots es decayed, 
ad hardly strength to 
deep, w 
water. The situation was naturally a As 
vated the evil. W. Cul ramine Thor y 
Phaius * a Perhaps no — — in the m ay, - 
house = stove, better repays a little extra | of their instruments — at the height of 4 feet from 
attent n than. this Phaius, and if induced to the ground, and protected from radiation) at stated 
n of th 2 with the words “maz. or min. in 
— forth its — at this seaso e year, it is e 
to be g 24 hours,” as a heading to the colamn, and cee the 
A lant of it here, at the 
dmired 
— pean, is sending "a 12 e er each er 
d 
S 
* 9. 
from midnight to — That the lowest tempera- 
In ture of a half an hour or an hour 
i highest 
before 
rule—to 
3 feet erena 
in ant givin the 
noble; Paim-like ap s g 
lti 
of 
which I not name the — whic ch your 
anusa nd this seems to be an important point; for 
N be about 0 or previous to 7.30 A. M. you would 
ram the same — temperature recorded on each 
na small p y largest spec 
20 inches wide . 15 inches 
is way for 
aa 
deep. I keep my plant 
about 12 months, at the 
strength en an 
stronger and — will the bloom be. After — m 
nt is ar ain pursued. 
ture I ors — in is from 57° — 75° in winter, = from 
veg ec. 24. 
. mum of — Lr ms 8 and no stated time 
that a little — of discussion o | will ensure this. 
amend a Vine culture I forw ended a Gutta Percha Piping. — well that 
my experience with a young plant of persons have been much injured in theif: health by 
trod inking water — had passed t h, and particu: 
larly . d in, pipes, I wish to ask if any of 
your —— can, from experience, inform me e if 
to water passing through it? or, if any — — 
reason to ve that such would be the 
thoroughly opened out, deprived of 
, difusoa i in planting secundum artem. 
that time was not 2 of an inch 
the roots being t 
and careful 
I believe the 
„ whether rats are 
L. Di, 3 Deo. 23. [There 
: 22 will injure the wa 
as. — ar a different question 8 
— HORTICULTURAL, December 5.— Lord 
Murray in the chair.— On this occasion offi 
were — the ensuing year, and several new 
members elected, — 2 subjects 5 exhibition 
>an awarded three sorts of P 
to p interesting createres with 
„ e is no hope of an English silk trade, 
. Z., Hants. 
se ages Eshto 1 (5 miles hence), ve 
Roberts 1847, ies which took first prizes at the 
Exhibitions both of London and York, weighed only 
e grown a t Castle 
as fi 
— at ieee ayaa k mas 
Bell, gr. to Lord Mackenzie, for Easter 2 
Diel, and Beurré d' Aremberg. Four Marie Louise 
Pears : Ist, Mr. Hamilton, gr. to Sir D. Ki Six 
Table A Apples: — Mr. Calder, Seacliff, for Ribston 
Pippin, Old 
matic, and. Seacliff + 2d, Mr. Addison, gr. to the 
pre- | of W —— —— 
by J 
2 
yet, by comparison, the Pippin, 
Soho tele ever time plant “ould not be less N 
ches r, to gr. to e Earl of H r 5 — 9 
ge. was wint . | dria 3 2d, Mr. Addison, for Eine k Hamburgh. 12 finest- 
Vine growers id pronounce ‘this flo single of Chinese Chrysanthemums € 
sive crop for e to be allowed to Cae meee on, withthe 
a Fe r it 8 i ‘tb d V > 
nt +s varieties — gere, f 
s from it; 
eg such, pe sen Sa moma pay a i. e. 
be = — — 
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