

EB. 22 



1 ias, quite na hardy and beautiful as those in cultiva- 

 tion, and a vast number of others. 1 he quick and COO- 

 Btant communication with North America would render 

 it easy to procure all plants from thence, if y« u could 

 ©nee turn tito powerful tide of fashion in their favour. 

 A list of a few of the best from time to time in your 

 I uld be most useful, and also hints of where the 



best collections of plants of this description can bo pro- 

 cured. < ta onsequence of the small demand for tin 

 class of plants in that they are, when found in a mnsery- 

 man's collection, in g> neral much dearer than thev would 

 be if n re frequently enq red for. A lover of a Gay 



Flower Garden. 



T Variegated /lolly.— This plant, properly a shrub, 

 seldom assumes the importance of a timl r tree. 

 Indeed, the only instance of this which I have ever seen 

 is at this [.lace, and o doubt many of your readers who 

 have visited the -niton Nurseries will recollect the 

 tree— a few yards from the front carriage entrance gate to 

 Mr. Jackh residence. Its length, from the ground 

 to the first branches, is 12 feet ; the circumfe} ice of 

 the bob , 6 feet from the gr* ml, is 4 feet, and the 

 1 ^ht i tfeet. I r is nearly 300 years old. /. t negi 

 th Yunerkt truton, . 



Lycaste 8k inncri . — Th\- < ) r chid ought to have a place 

 in every stove, for it us truly a beautiful object. I Hiring 

 these two year* past, a young plant has ilowered here 

 in January, and tile blossoms remain in perfection for 

 six weeks at a time ; at present it lias seven open blooms 

 en it, each about 4 indies across. It grows freely in 

 peat from which the earthy matter has 1 n shaken, but 

 v ikes plenty of drains , a moist atmosphere, and 

 Shading h m the snn in very hot weather. Tbe tem- 

 perature I have grown It in has been from ">° to 70° 



themselves* and boast of the number of their visitors. 



done by all ranks in New York." J. Little, 



i 



The table which 



in winter, and from 



Pan/ v. hunt. 



w 



•° to D*) Q in summer. /. Jtust, 



i wipcro wmte Broccoli — With me tins has 

 Moved by far the most valuable winter Bj oli thai 1 

 have ever mem or cultivated. With it 1 have been 



bled t 



Tn one of your recent Numbers 



pj y employe] table every day .sine. 



the bepm mbcr with heads eqeal, or nearly 



so, to any Cauliflower, boweva . In feci -■ ral 



efcaiaeter partaken i. i of the Cauliflower tiffin the 



Br tg dwarf, close, and a pact. When it 



approachrfi maturity numerous small leaves fold over 



I " ss envi lup the head and pn t it in a 

 vw nuilrable < ;ra from front ; hut this has not 

 been a m m for testing its hardit *. l had it 

 eaeelh nt in tl j quar but the principal part of 



m crop was car* My ^ red b< »nd the reach of frost 

 nowp >»tt it ht have been. To those who 



ftrfrr pood Broccoli in the d h of winter, this variety 



will e found an acquisition. 0. J >, 31 lot House 

 / - t Km/ ' 



I sa an arti t t T sf u I flowering of this 



Begonia r pot ultum I have a very fine specimen 



some i mi old aft least, Town in abed m a eon' 

 servatorv, and trained up a rafter, but no means have 

 yet been able to ftmke it ft r, with the exception of 

 one sun): r a very hot one; q it was quite a show. 



Ferhap* some of your correspondents can give me some 

 Wftd hints on t! ul I A. M. [We are not aware 

 IRft' »y I > r dir can be gi\ a than those at 



p. »/ of tho current year's volume. J 



MnharA.— l am in. in. I to offer vou a few remarks 

 on the merits of Mitchell's Prince Albert Rhubarb. i„ 

 Febmary, 1340, I bought lOstron roots oft * variety 

 from Messrs L f Clapton ; these were divided into 

 as many ,. to bud I planted each bud 3 feet apart 

 ^ry waj „ a south b r, which had been previously 



II trenched and manure*!. They grew rapidly. 

 During the season I rave the roots twice a soakin- of 

 hqtud manure; and in the following summer" 1 we 

 gtfienri several dhhvs from them. In the latter part 

 of Octob< over halt u roots, I p/aced Seakale pots, 

 and covered the latter with leaves, and by the third 



This is done by 



Lanyholme, N. B. 



Cfc ich Temperature v. HolVlam. 

 ace tnies this contains the Chiswick observations for 

 January, as -ivcu in the Chronicle, and the comparison 

 of the Holkham observations of minimum thermo- 

 meters in three different positions ; the first column 

 being those taken according to the Chiswick method, 

 and the remaining t\so by our usual plan for minimum 

 observations. The result shown at the foot of the first 

 column appears to corroborate the remark in my last 

 communication, giving a higher night temperature at 

 Holkham than Chiswick, which our proximity to the sea 

 would h I us to expect, while the series display the 

 singular fact of the reading'of a thermometer placed but 

 a foot above the ground, and fully exposed to the sky, 

 being but 0.2° below one placed at 4 feet from the 

 ground, protectedjfully from radiation, and nearly 4£° 

 igher than another thermometer on the Grass imme- 

 diately beneath it. The occurrence, however, of an 

 overcast or a perfectly cloudless night, we find, fcas a 

 material effect on the difference between the first two, 

 while the difference between the readings of the exposed 

 thermometer is much more constant. The points, how- 

 ever, with which we originally started, the remarkable 

 difference occasionally between the temperature of the 

 two places, do not seem to receive any satisfactory ex- 

 planation at present, nor does the number of the discre- 

 pancies decrease as the readings of the 4th, 9 th, 10th, 

 13th! 16th, 18th, 19th, and 23d sufficiently testify, 

 although the occurrence of the + sign in clusters, with 

 the greatest difference on the intermediate day, would 

 seem to point to a more satisfactory result than the 

 suspicion of error or negligent observation. In the 

 table I have placed the several temperatures opposite to 

 the days on which they are read off, according to the 

 plan we adopt, and on each day throughout the lowest 

 reading has occun 1 previous to 9 a.m., the time of ob- 

 servation. The following is the table alluded to : 



respecting the management of the earhTp^r^^^ 

 After shutting up the Peach-house, pruni " h °**- 



tying may be proceeded with, and should th k^ 

 contain old trees which have long been forced *t ^* 

 be advisable to paint them over with the Vp ^ 

 composition, viz., four gallons of soft water, one *** 



train or whale oil, half a pound of flowers of 



sulph 



<m* 



pounds of soft soap, one quart of tobacco water ♦ ^ 

 with sufficient clay to give the whole the PAn ft L^ 



,.*,« ^u.v.vu, v.™ w b v,^ * H v ""^ me consisted 



paste. Apply the mixture with a sponge or soft \r* 



soft b** 



made of bast, keep the composition well stir a 

 from the bottom, dip your sponge or brush intcTt ^ 

 gently draw it up the branches two or three time 

 to give them a good coating of the material, more ^ 

 cially the older branches, closely examining all ^ 

 and apertures where the larvae of insects are lib?* 

 be found. This operation being accomplished fjt 

 over the borders carefully, so as not to injure the r 

 and at the same time mulch inside and outside with frS 

 cow manure, giving the whole a supply f soft w v 



Sufficient + ^ ^^Mo+^af«a +f\ +1-IA l\r\+f rv«r% ^4" +U ~ V , "*S| 



h owe ver 



t to penetrate to the bottom of the borders T 

 -, they have been previously properly attend 

 to, they will not require such a deluge at this th* 

 The house having been shut up since the middle of D? 

 cember, in order to have ripe Peaches about the mi^u 

 of June, light the first fire early in January, and shotS 

 frosty weather prevail, maintain a temperature betwai 

 45° and 48° as a minimum, allowing a range of ]2 



higher before you admit the external air, of which 

 favourable weather, you can hardly have too much rm 

 vided the inside temperature is not permitted to fall ^ 



and tb 



Chiswick. 



Minimum— recorded between 



If) and 11 a.m. on each 



day named. 



1861. 



Holkham. 



Minimum— recorded at 9 a.m. 



on each day named. 



a * 



5i 



C C 



1 ft. above 



Grass. 

 4- Higher. 



— Lower. 



January 



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8 



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13 



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 17 

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2*4 

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25 

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'28 

 40 

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 28 



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 30 

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36 



29 



28 

 27 

 39 

 32 

 30 



+ 



4- 



— 1.8 



+ 05 



_ 6.5 



+ 7.2 

 + 18 



— 1.0 



— 75 



4.2 



7.0 



8.5 



0.2 



1.0 

 —15.8 



— 65 



— 2.2 

 + 7.5 



— 8 8 

 7 



80 

 1.2 



— 4.2 



+ 2.6 



+ 9-0 

 4- 5 2 



— 0.8 



+ 4.6 

 + 63 



4- 2.7 



— 10 

 + 2.8 



4-, 1.8 



4 ft. above 



soil, pro- 

 tected 



from rarii 



aiion. 

 4- Higher 

 — Lower. 



4- 



4- 



3.3 

 0.4 



2.8 

 0.8 



4- 12 



2.7 



4.8 

 6.0 



6.3 

 8.0 

 0.2 



+ 



+ 

 4- 



4- 



4- 



4- 



4- 



+ 

 4- 0.2 



—12.0 



— 9.0 



— 2.0 

 4- 7.8 



— 3,8 

 4- 8.0 

 + 7.2 

 4- 0.8 



— 3.5 



4- 3.0 

 4- 9.4 

 4-80 

 4-20 

 4- 2.3 



On Grass. 

 4- Higher. 

 — Lower, 



4- 



4- 



4- 

 4- 



4- 



4- 



5.8 

 5.0 

 1.4 

 1.6 



0.S 



M fl ar»9 



2S5 !^S *<£*l W ^™* hr «"*» ^ the samt 



S. S. t Holkham^ Feb. 

 above table, that in 



-37 4. 1? 



10. 





4- 1 CA 



- 6.8 



- 3.2 



- 8.7 

 4- 4.7 



- 3.5 



- 2.0 



- 8.0 

 0.6 



4- 2G 

 + 3.0 



- 3.5 



- 4.5 

 -1^.0 



- 8.2 



- 8,2 

 1.3 



- 8.0 

 4- 2.5 



2.5 

 4.6 

 8.0 



1.7 

 4.5 



1 2 

 3.' 



2 2 



0.4 



2 



7.2 



3.0 

 3.0 



3.H7 



low. If frost is excluded, the slower the sap is p^ 

 motion the stronger will the flower-buds break, and fe 

 wood-buds will push with greater regularity and 

 strength. The maintenance of a steady temperature n 

 of the utmost importance, both to the trees 

 crop. The fire heat should never be so great » 

 to compel you to give air before the external 

 temperature has been warmed by the ray g nf 

 the morning sun. By that kind of overheat^ 

 you are forced to ventilate, in order to prevent hwnw 

 and thus you expose your tender shoots to cutt 

 wintry winds. About the middle of the month tl 

 temperature may be raised some 4°, using the syriBft 

 morning and evening, with a view to facilitate the exm. 

 sion of the buds. About the beginning of February 

 the temperature may be slightly increased, and, as soo 

 as the buds begin to expand, the use of the syringe 

 must be discontinued, for a superabundant supply i 

 water, either at the roots or over the branches, 

 would prove injurious. In order, however, to keej 

 the ah' moist, sprinkle all pathways, &c., but do not 

 allow any water to fall upon the hot flues or pipe? 

 This latter would cause a burning steam to ascend, v 

 which would be injurious to vegetation. The house 

 ought now to assume a gay appearance. Air should be 

 admitted freely upon every bright day, and also oqU 

 days, if the weather is mild, using a little extra fee to 

 keep up the heat. Airing materially strengthens the 

 blossom, and insures its setting. About the middle of 

 the month, if all has gone on well, the fruit will begin 

 to exhibit itself. The temperature may now be 

 raised 2 Q or 3 Q with safety. The syringe may It 



applied gently, night and morning; k 



again 



+ 



+ 



+ 



never use it in the morning until the sun's rays m 

 sensibly raising the temperature of the house. From 

 the 26th of February to the beginning of March tk 

 fruit ought to be swelled to the size of large Peas. At 

 this stage, syringing may be employed freely until, say, 

 the 6th of April, about which time the fruit will begin 

 to stone ; and from that time until the 12th of May tie 

 syringe and watering-pot must be sparingly used, or tbe 

 fruit will drop off. I would not advise a higher tem- 



perature to be maintained yet than 60°, for theP 

 is very impatient of much heat and close confinement 

 By the end of 



yield up to the 



period ; and they have continued to _ 



present time The roots which have nVbeeii excited 



have now Mb issuing from them 6 inches in fiSt 



SSdJS~. p °!t ns Khu,)ar • •* " xcellcnt > ™* h is ^ 



rr , . n , „ | completed ; 



[It will be seen, from the should be 

 r r some instances the indications 



of our correspondent's three differently situated ther- 



^°^!!f ^ r]y **** with each ot &* J but that 



they differ as much as 7°. 



at other times 



This 



£*£* 6w„«; „ >r. j. to»TJ5rc: 



ford-MU. 



/huquet Tra in Xew Tori: 

 rv letter from 



The following extract of 



»>„ •„. .- a * vm ' n & a^aintance »* New York mav 

 be , mere* ,,,, to ,e of your readers :-« New Yor£ 



i«ri r V t. La8t *' eek l made «P a bouquet for the 

 world s fair. It was put into a patent metal ic safe ! 



Ld screwed ( W and the air extracted. I fc J? w ll 

 not answer l„, t the patenteesays he has proved 

 iT\ \ H d to ** i4 deposited, and then made 



parts of the country. 



being the case he cannot be much surprised at an 



acted upon by a north-east wind, and the other by a 

 south-west. At all events such discrepancy will cause 

 h tie astomshm fI1 t to those who have long been in "he 

 habit of companng returns of temperature from many 



correct • and *,» " The observations at Chiswick are 



Z^Z\™SLT a t0 doubt the C01Tectuess 



Beech ZVaa-Observbg at p. 07 some interesting 



raJaps,sorae of your readers could hiform me what 

 would be the proper food for Beech trees. Th^plaatt 

 t.oa („uer mi xed withafewOaks and Firs) isTsu^ 



It is situated on the side' 



May the stoning process will lie 



and, if fine fruits are wanted, thej 



thinned out to or 10 inches apart, 



but weakly trees ought not to be 



permitted to produce above half that quantity, e 



temperature may he gradually raised to 65*, giving^ 



or even more 



2= l" J ";"*-? vi » ■» »•» . as * Z* 



Camelhas ,n ,t ; of course, it wiiJ be shown, 



%S^ ? f ; ° ur i 5 uo"^ bouauets. It has fine white 



iown ai 

 ican d< 



worth of flowers, arranged in bouquets, baskets 

 Six of us were at work all ™L* ' vv .... ' 



Kpw Vnrh e t -^ a- i ."~''' "*" uc o»«»'u omonzst the 



n!V v , : n of the American department 



On New Year's morm ;_we sent out above 20?SR 



and\ 



'ases. 



^^ w* us* were at work a mvht Thnn. 



cipaily ordered by yoone wntleL. ^ re *3" 



SSdSSScSS 



runnuig about, fron, house to house • there lS ffn 

 liberty to take and introduce anTof SSiJSS. 



h the gentlemen. 1'he ladies, on their part/pridl 



nearly a hundred years old 



of a hill in a sandy soil, and invariably "when "the 



Forcing Peaches^ 



™ to throw out a few useful hints to r^il^^Z 



9 



My object in the following remarks 



when the house is raised to 75° by sun heat, and the 

 fruit will now be in its last stage of swelling, when*!** 

 may be liberally supplied, both to root and top. Tfe 

 wdl have the effect of keeping down red spider ; andil 

 green fly appears, fumigate with Tobacco before the 

 Irint begins to ripen. By the beginning of Juue the fi* 

 wil begin to change colour. Relieve any that are covered 

 with leaves, and admit air freely as maturity approach* 

 by which means fine flavour and high colour will 1* 

 obtained. Watering must now be discontinued ; b*» 

 hrst by withholding it from the roots, and sp* 8 

 by degrees the use of the syringe, until the whole « 

 lett off. R )pe fruit may oe gathered about the and* 

 ol June, if the above hints have been carefully put »» 

 practice. J. M., Eardeston. 



Cyclamens.— Permit mo to direct attention to r tW 

 much neglected, but really beautiful plant, the sin* 

 scented Persian Cyclamen. Surely it must be an«» 

 wat it is difficult to cultivate that keeps it so much » 

 stranger to our greenhouses and window-gardens } «• 

 plants, however, are more easily managed or W» 

 repay the attention they receive. The Cyclamen ban* 

 a tieshy bulb, and never throwing out any off-sets, * 

 can only be propagate* from seed. It naturally flowej 

 about this season of the year ; but if it is placed in *» 

 it may be bloomed much earlier. While they «« J 

 flower, those who possess a few bulbs should select th«J 

 which are sweet scented (for some of them ha^ 

 scent at all), and place them in a greenhouse or fl»» 





