THE GARDENERS 



CHRONICLE 



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Mr.Cuthill remarks 



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arid, u I J annoteet on without it^ 

 Aat certain ft wances are - 

 flow, for these three /ears past, an I 

 tmrlr I hare never bad a plant run 

 Sdaiioo. I am unable to give the ali which per- 

 tain to »ndwhi< 



no mean recom 



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the Vine at Nettle- 



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fface Cor ITollowai. 



Brownta c< /«€». — 1 1 is somewhat surprising 

 this fine stove shrub is not more generally cultivated, 

 for the flowers are rich and brilliant, and the foliage 

 fceantifuL It is certainly one of the finest flowering 

 dtrnbs in cultivation, and may be almost ranked with 

 the noble Amherstia itself. The flowers are naturally 

 produced during the winter months, when few things 

 areinbl ,m, which enhances its value and makes it 

 cmmentlv a pted for decoratin the stove at this dreary 

 season. V* rhaps the high degi • of temperature and 



iphere necessary to bring it to perfection 

 form tlie greatest objections to ita general cultivation, 



rt some believe that it will not produce Bowers until it 



feas ittainci • considerable size ; this however is a mis- 

 take. Spet « bare, about Q feet high, liave flowered 

 abundanth regard* propagation, young shoots 



taken off with a pen on of well ripened wood adhering 

 to their ba* . root readily if firmly planted in silver 

 Band, placed under a bell-glass, and plunged in bottom 



heat. The beat abtl for it is a mixture of rough peat 

 and tarfy loam, with the addition of a little aand. In 



ah tognaa good sized pott, for it <1. 'lights b having 



plenty of root room. Being an inhabitant of the hottest 

 porta erf South Amer i and the West Indies, a strong 



neat, well saturated with moisture indispensable at the 

 respective r« rub of flowering an- 1 growth ; at the 

 former a temperature ranging from 65° to 75° suits it ; 

 dur { the latter, which takes place in the spring and 

 early oart of th- miner, the temperature may be 

 allowed to mrrenee to W° or even 100° by the heat of 

 the flan ; and the a it this period can scarcely be too 

 «meb saturated with humidity. It will bear expo- 



here hav not been 



^olid to prevent their sinking, and a common level oi 

 Ee applied to get them down even so that the end, of 

 the different pieces of slate would fit closely together. 



A.D., Arundel. 



Out-door Vines.— As respec_ _ . . . 



combe, I beg to refer Mr. Elworthy again to the article 

 at page 822 * he says that I assert « it is impossible to 

 rive ft any assistance in the shape of nourishment, and 

 adds that « it receives a great deal of nourishment from 

 rain water, ;&c.» Now everybody must have known 

 that a Vine, in the open air, coflld not well escape that. 



«— •— y, and children play tneir 



wamoT^mes^ve itewots. The surface is firm, and 

 on a sharp declivity, so that the water passes readily 

 away. As to mortar, I had Mr. Bs. own words on that 

 point, as well as regards its name. Mr E. sajrc your 

 correspondent is right in stating that the fruit is very 

 fine," but I could not say that, for the berries are far too 

 small. The garden contains different kinds of stones-- 

 one part is on a fine lime-stone rock covered with grit- 

 I stone. I glean from my scrap-book for 1844 and 1845, 

 that the Vine was winter pruned to two eyes, and 

 aummer pruned in the end of dime. The shoots were 

 a good length ; it would strengthen the bunch to pinch 

 the top off the shoot soon after the bunch had formed, 

 and to remove all uaeless buds aa soon as possible. W. 



Culverwett. 



Early fttftp*-- 1 have grown these for many years, 



two and thrte in a pot ; but when blooming time has 



arrived I have often been disappointed ; for they seldom 



all En an equally forward state. This season, 



« William Jesse." This is, with me, a very favourite 

 Rose ; but I have always considered it to be its o% 

 fault, that it is not a perpetual, though called so. I n ^1 

 garden, and in others which 1 am acquainted with, j£ 

 other counties, it proves very little better, in point of 

 duration, than a summer Rose. I named the circum- 

 stance some time ago to Messrs. Paul, and asked why 

 they classed it as a perpetual. They replied, that some 

 had found fault at its being called a perpetual, and others 

 at its being classed among the hybrid Chinas ; and that 

 he had, consequently, placed it in both classes. In fl^ 

 list for the present year we find it in both. This seems 

 to me to throw a great doubt upon our ever being aife 

 to accomplish that very great desideratum, which m ft* 

 subject of " Crito's" communication. I am 

 the evil which he deprecates, of having a number of 

 blanks in our Rose beds, from some of the varieties, in 



" g so late as the rest, will proie 

 it least) unavoidable. « Crito* 

 stating that the Bourbons, 





afraid 



ain 



were 



however, I have managed things better ; I planted 

 in shallow pans, and moved them into pots after they 

 came into blossom. I find that they maybe trans- 

 planted tfithout risk; and in this way I have had 

 chari rig pots of well-flowered Van Thols, which were 

 quite the admiration of the neighbourhood. /. M. H. 



f Co .—At page 22, Cereus triangularis is 



strongly recommended as a stock for C. flagelliformis, 



n account of its rapidity of growth, and comparative 



hardihood. I have no experience with it as a stock, but 



1 have grafted C. flagelliformis, on C. specieaissimus. 



to the aun. Hants of it here have not been I find it difficult to retain the scions in their position 



abactfcl even during fee hottest days of aummer. when inserted in the angle of the stem, and therefore I 



'Watttfcp at the roots *1 1 be carefully attended to, tried the following method. I cut the top off the stocks 





Chinas, and Noisettes, are the sorts most to be depended 

 on, especially the varieties he has named. 0mkm> 



Ashby-de-la-Zoucti. , m , 



How to moke a Greenhouse effectually .—I have* tried 



the plan mentioned at page 38, and have much pleasure 

 in adding my testimony to its excellence. My house 

 being rather large, I used six rolls of tobacco in touch- 

 paper, placed them in various parts of the house, and 

 the result has been the entire destruction of the green 

 fly. I beg to express my gratitude to Mr. Huggins for 

 making public this simple and effectual remedy. J.JJ t) 



D&VIZ6S 



Heracleum giganteum.— This is the proper season fir 

 sowing the seed of the fine herbaceous plant, Heraclem 

 giganteum. For rough scenery, this is one oi the be* 

 plants that can be grown, and in a moist situation ma 

 garden, its appearance is very striking* Hardy, am tip, 



Maldon. ■ «•, , 



Prize Gooseberries.— Thinking it might be usetul, I 

 have ventured to send you the names of the following 

 Gooseberries, six varieties in each colour, and 

 number of prizes each has won the last season, rntJ 

 wAicrht. nf the. hPAviest hemes attached to each van 



and an oOiiatonai appBca' not weax uqum manure win 



fee beneficiat. in the latter part of the summer, water 



should be grMially withheld and the tempt ratine low- 



aa to gi iw plants a rest, when little care m 

 required. Th Hduce flower-buds to be formed 



they are pro&n 1 in m^-hes along the main stem and 

 near the extremities of tho branches. When the buck 

 begin to swell, heat and m« <rt> should again be gra- 

 dually given. Under the above rh^tment a large plant 

 fcere is now flowering profusely. Salter Bill, lioyul 

 Gardens, A'ew. 



Lmgili $ Fibwm Roois of Annuals.— I yas invited 

 a short time since by a gentleman of this^wn to 



the roots of a plant of Mignonette, which 4iad 

 tinted through several co arses of bricks, afri 



oUar. Over the cellar, which 

 was oats- dwelling-bouts- was a brick pavement, 



between the jfltita of % ich Mignonette seed had been 

 town frooi year to year. At Hbe extreme end a small 

 portion of soil was allowed, a I here a plant or two 

 grew more \ irously than the rest, though not 

 xuriantly 





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horizontally, and then inserted the grafts, which were 

 about 2 inches in length, and wedge-shaped at the base ; 

 as many ware placed on each stock as could con- 

 veniently be inserted. In my opinion they are more 

 interesting when grafted in this manner than in any 

 other; and, by stopping, the shoots may be multiplied 

 » a great extent. W. J?., Chesterfield. 

 Market Gardening round London. — In his article of 

 the 4th inst., I consider Mr. Cuthill to have fallen into 

 an error, which 1 venture to correct. He states that 

 " when the 5 acre piece is cleared of Coleworts, say by 

 the 1st of March, it is dunged and trenched two spades I 

 deep, and sown with Onions ; and often Lettuces are 

 planted on the beds as well as in the alleys." I do not 

 know where he has seen Onions, which are intended to 

 Wlb, grown on the bed system, but I am certain not at 

 Ftilham. If he wishes to infer that that is the best plan 

 for a private grower, I hold with him ; but he is writin 

 about the market-gardeners' plan, and I can assure him 

 that that is not their system. I was brought up in the 

 parish of Fulham to market gardening, which my father 



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 toots of these plants had penetrated through 1 « i inches 

 of brickwork, and some of them were hanging inside 

 the arched roof, nourished by the damp atmosphere 

 only. A few, more favourably situated, were attached 

 to the end wall of the cellar, and had descended 5 feet 

 5 inches down the wall into the decaying sawdust of the 

 wine bin. Others were beautifully spread over the wall, 

 witi a thousand ramifying rootlets, bespangled with 

 minute .chrystalrlike damp drops, and extending over a 

 apace of * feet in width. It was difficult to trace the 

 brittle rook that had penetrated the sawdust, but I 



nav ing naa years oi experience m the busmess myselt 

 under my relations, who carry on market gardening 

 now, and having assisted both to sow and hoe many an 

 acre, I think myself qualified to give your readers the 

 exact plan adopted, w Inch is as Mows. In autumn, the 

 ground which is intended for Onions, is dunged and 

 dug, and planted with Coleworts. About Christmas 

 they commence taking them to market ; and as fast as 

 the ground is cleared, it is either dug up roughly, or 

 else ridge-trenched (but not again dunged) ; it is all 

 *n<««™«wi .„™ r * - r £"*■—, — ' ™ * cleared and dug by the beginning of March, and in the 



STTS T Upw ^ b l of teet , below ** s ^ce of ( middle of that month it is forked down. It is then 

 r„ JTr S w n JH pUntS WCTe S™^* ^an-harrowed lengthways and crossways ; then it is 



fB^&R r Vf ° r h -, Ti )lled with a wooden **te* »wed broadcast, and 

 ™iT2L i ^W'T 1 K ?r e an ^ that the harrowed again twice over. After this it is tod bv 

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best colour, 

 those taken from marl 



iSext to them j operation. It is true that 



The soil in the borders being 



*h« walks, use ball-shaped stones for the sharp 

 es^and egg-shaped ones in straight lines 

 If your East Norfolk correspondent 

 i visit, I will show him, in my ow 



ropenor\jgi D g f or j^^ flower beds 



Thorpe 1 



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near Norwich 



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 ;arden, a 



Thar old f 

 ommend 



»ot tne Kind in common use 

 t that of 



the adoption oi>^ te M a D€at md darable 

 cott B garden- 



the rooft of buijuuig^t th.t of ^ of an ^ fa ^ 



The width, or w^_. oal( f be ^ . fa 

 set up, need not be moreX,.., /? ;„„u aa K, u i \ 

 he rounded off a little on that^ j"!^S J* shou ! d 

 above ground. In order to make^ t0 renisun 



in its place, the ends of the different 



made to rest on small blocks of weB-_ 



let into a groove cut perpendicularly 

 inch**. This would allow the block to 



firmly fi 

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be coverea^! I 3ervea lim a particular variety will he a very late 

 soil 2 inches deep, leaving 1| inches of the slate abov>- bI °° nler " ° De gard °" "*" ^ "^ ~" ~~~^ " "~ 

 ground for the edging. This would necessarily take a 



little more time than planting a Box edging, which is, , uii« strasuiw •„ * i - -• Al - . - 



for several reasons, objectionable ; but it might be well instance ofXJ! 0t . y l d °v the • Same ' A strikiD ? 

 enough executed by an intelligent labourer. The ground Roses which he^$£L m 5?* Lst P v ? n h J " Crito," of 

 under the blocks would require to be rammed down as peraetual bkttnWMi^ stto Jf depended upon 



r ^ w"«4*. "^««g others, he names 



Companion 

 Wouderiul «. 

 Conquering Hero 

 Slaughterman 

 Lion's Provider 



Yellow. 



Leader 

 Catherine 



Brill 



Peru ... 

 Pilot ... 

 Broom Girl 



Green. 



Thumper 

 Queen Victoria 

 Turn Out 

 General 

 Weathercock 

 Overall 



White. 



Freedom 



Queen of Trumps 



Lady Leicester 



Eagle 

 Snowball 

 Lady Stanley 



— E. T. 



Potatoes. — Every year since the Potato 

 I have sorted my Potatoes, and boiled those whici un- 

 infected, and when soft, beat them down with salt m * 

 tight casks. The knowledge of this induced ajela** 

 of mine to try if there was any degree of heat that wop 

 stop the disease without destroying life in the P<* 

 This was done by placing diseased Potatoes in water* 

 130°, and keeping them there for 10 minutes, 

 is evidently life in them, as they are now growing &/* 

 drawer in which they have been kept. (7. A. A. l^r 

 Whittington, Oswestry, # 9 ^ 



Saving Cucumber Seed. — Many have failed in safj 

 seed from good varieties ; they expect that the sej» 

 of long fruit will produce long Cucumbers : but m W 

 opinion it does not matter whether the fruit is 1° D | 

 short. My plan is to save fruit on the first, second,^ 



third joints. 

 out of 20 the 



sort is lost. Seed certainly may be obtained J*P 

 these joints in the more common kinds, but sewp ^ 

 the case of a good sort. If I have a choice Jufl 

 Cucumber I like to save the first fruit I can get >& 

 of these joints. This I have proved to be a sa* e r 

 H. Stillwell, Frogmore 9 St. Alban's, Herts. .^ 



White Fruit not Attractive to Birds.— Birds apf^ 

 prefer red or purple fruit to white. The white i*J 

 rian Cherry, a native of the Crimea, and a fi*® ^ 

 flavoured fruit, is not subject to their depreoaj 

 XT , . M « , .--, while the May duke, Bigarreau, and other varieties^ 



JNothing would more tend to improve from their attacks. The white-fruited Elder es*r 



the notice of blackbirds, even when they hare sttijr 

 bushes of the common purple fruit ; and wua ^^ 

 striking, if not so r,nlat*hl^ in flavour as »L^ 



pose of making preserves* avqi^ 

 sugar, they form a very tine dainty. Fruit y** ^ 

 1 colour, not having the appearance of being n P e ^>> 

 to be the reason why those epicures of Nature*^ 

 tempted to try it C. May, Hope Nursery, & d< Z'\llt 

 Winter Gardens (Jardins c^er).~Wby sboiu^ 

 every square in London have a portion of " 



and^ chalk pits, little Lettuce seed with their Onions, but this is merely 



, . dom> ]n order tfaat . f the 0nions ghould fail Jn a ^ par _ 



ticular spot, the men, when hoeing, may have an oppor- 

 tunity of leaving a Lettuce or two to fill up, but if the 

 Onions prove a regular crop they have orders to cut up 

 all Lettuces, for if left they would injure the Oni 

 which are the most valuable of the two. "~ 



latter joint, 19 *J 

 prf and thenar 



ions. 



They are hoed 



out to 4 mches apart, leaving the plants singly and free 

 from weeds. /. Si I, Clithcroe. 



Eases m cemtinuo-us Bloom. — The subject of " Crito's" 

 letter, at p. 5, on continuous blooming Roses, is a very 

 interesting one. Nothing would more tend " " 

 the beauty of our Rose borders than such a classifica- 

 tion as he suggests, and which I have myself, for several 

 years, been taking much pains to effect. I greatly fear, 



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 ths is Russell-square, and -90" r 



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