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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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Koh-i-Xoor.— In the Chronicle of last 



advertisement from Mr. 





the ground must be well fenced and protected, ingenious apparatus far^ppivinT'lr 

 tinning or pruning is ever required— the thriving with moisture, which would reonij. 



May 



week, tliere appear- d an » u > <=*...= 



Edward Tiley, of Bath, in which I am mentioned as 

 one of the parties highly approving of his new J? nchsia, 

 Koh-i-Noor. My name was so made use of without my 

 knowledge or sanction ; and, in justice to myself I hope 

 that you will allow the fact to be stated in your columns. 

 M«nhtw Cole, late Gardener to Miss Baylcy, oj Bath. 



Tea Rom.— The Tea Rose, on account of its beautiful 

 tints and peculiar fragrance, is a general favourite ; yet 



ith 'amateur cultivators, who, like myself, reside within 



glass _ m 



season or two. We may be successful 



Wl 



a few miles of the 

 sarily to grow it ui 



plete failure after a „ 



with most kinds of plants, but this one proves always 

 more than our match. With great care, I get at first 

 certainly very satisfactory specimens, but I find it im- 

 possible to keep the plants in the same state, and the 

 blooms speedily deteriorate. However, before giving up 

 this vexatious and disappointing culture, I have made a 

 new attempt, which has been quite successful, and it is to 

 make this plan known that I trouble you with these 

 lines :-— I planted about 50 half- standards and dwarfs 

 in the autumn, consisting of Souvenir d*un Ami, 

 Elise Sauvage, Adam, Devoniensis, &c. &c, in a 

 well-prepared compost, and I erected a low span-roofed 

 house over them, having glass sides to the ground, and 

 side windows for ventilation, and I find it to answer 

 admirably ; the plants are looking remarkably healthy 

 and promise well. The shoots are most vigorous and 

 are covered with buds. W. 6., Stoke Neu gton, May 2i). 

 Gardeners' Benevolent I astitutioa. — I perceive, by "an. 

 advertisement in your last week's Number, tharthe 

 annual dinner in aid of the funds of this institution will 

 take place on the Oth of June next, with that distin- 

 guished member of our craft, Mr. Pax ton, in the chair. 

 I trust that upon this occasion gardeners in the country 

 will assist the labours and endeavours of tiie committee 



can 



own and 



| No thinning or pruning , a 



plants kill all the weak ones, and the under branches 

 decay and die by reason of the want of light and sun- 

 shine, in proportion as the top branches strive up- 

 wards in order to reach the benefit of the sun. Just as 

 many trees will stand for a -crop as the tops can 

 find an upward existence, like an umbrella or an 

 inverted cone. This is true nature, and a legiti- 

 mate proceeding; it will supersede nurseries and 

 nurserymen, and very much simplify the important 

 department of raising timber. In the Highlands of 

 Scotland, the workman who manufactures the timber 

 tell if the tree was grown from seed or the nursery 

 plant, by the superiority which attends the former pro- 

 duction. Thick planting has been known for some 

 time as a substitute for the mangling knife and hatchet 

 of the pruner, and the sowing of seeds will soon usurp 

 the place of the planter. /. D. [We doubt that.] 



Polmaise Heating.— Although little has been said for 

 some time past in the Chronicle regarding the Polmaise 

 system of heating, it is nevertheless still working and 

 getting more into favour by those who know how to 

 use it. I recollect that one of the objections brought 

 forth against the heating of hot-houses by means of 

 heated air was, that the system could not be applied to 

 a range of buildings without separate stoves ; but these 

 are critics that have been compared to the boughs of 

 a baneful and a barren tree, that shoots across a fruit 



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air 



properly understood. 



of 



k 



tree, at once to screen the sun from it and hinder it by 

 its droppings from producing anything of value. In 

 the gardens of W. Wilson, Esq., of Bannockburn, there 

 lias lately been erected a house for stove-plants, two 

 Vineries, and a greenhouse, all heated by means of one 

 stove. From the nature of the ground there were 



is well satisfied with the working of n. ** **^, 

 prefers it to any other mode of hen in u" y **^I 

 manage. The time is g 0ne 1* JP he *ti 

 sprigs of Rue by way of prevents *", ** H 

 made of the hoof of a wttlT^ff'.?! ** * 



.. ^ ~^*-^. «« a iww, mat a man baa 7 

 resolution from reason to stand by a Tj . 

 than obstinacy from perverted nature totf* 

 bad one. P. Mackenzie. to ■**• 



Rhododendron arboreum.—Ob&ervi 

 wishes to be informed as to whether the Rh«^ - 

 arboreum, from Nepaul, flowers in anv nth"^ 1 

 England except in Cornwall, I feel glad t*Z 

 satisfy him on that point, as this foododtM: 

 blossomed regularly and most profusely he£fi? * 

 years, and without receiving any protection ? .* 

 whatever. The tree is 9 feet high and Al 

 cumference It has not bloomed so well tlf i* 

 usual, but still it has had 230 trusses onT? 1 

 taining from 14 to 21 blossoms. I should ^ 

 colour is decidedly a bright brilliant crimson* 2l 

 scarlet. R Dixon, Dolaurethy, Carmartk m }dr t 



New instrument for Budding.—! beg to suW 

 your notice an instrument which I think is wellSlS 

 for cleaning and inserting buds. For several 31 



wing, alr W fc 

 failure to the heart of the bud having been remo^ 



to all appearance, they have taken well. 



in securing a large muster to support the chairman^ 

 and I would suggest that those gardeners, who have it 



in their power, should represent the advantages of the 



institution to their several employers, and solicit per- 

 mission (and I feel confident it would not, in most 



instances, be withheld) to contribute a dish of fruit for 



the dinner. The benefits that would result to the society 



"would, in my opinion, be very great, as possibly it would 



stimulate those gentlemen who honour the dinner with 



their presence to contribute more largely, and induce 



them to patronise the society upon future occasions, I 



am given to understand that the trouble of getting up a 



dinner is very great, and I do think the least that gar- 

 deners at a distance can do is to assist and further the 



exertions of the committee by producing specimens of 



horticultural skill. I hope that this hint will not be lost 



upon my brother gardeners. One of the Oldest Subscribers. 

 Asparagus (see p. 277). — 1 remark that a corre- 

 spondent has noticed the system which I follow in 



forcing Asparagus, and that he has also detailed his 



own method ; but as it is necessary, before we can com- 

 pare one plan with another, not only to have details 



of practice but also the results, your correspondent will 



perhaps be kind enough to give us the quantity of 



ground he has for forcing, the commencement of 



cutting of his first and second beds, the number of good 



heads cut, and the weight per 100 ; how often he forces 



his early bed, and other matters likely to assist us in 



arriving at a correct conclusion, respecting the value of 



the different methods employed. I have two beds of 



30 feet long each for forcing alternately, exactly on 

 your correspondent's plan, but they are only used during 

 the months of March and April, just to keep up the 

 supply between the forced and open air cutting. /. P 

 Stoke Rochford. 



Planting of Forest Trees.— In the operations of art, 

 we must imitate the processes of nature, and can only 

 cautiously observe, and slowly discover the modes by 

 which the natural world is sustained in the everlasting 

 progression. The seeds of vegetables are matured, 

 and fall to the ground, where they sprout and vegetate] 

 take a hold of the earth, and grow into specimens of 

 the original productions. The huge trees of the vast 



forests of America grow from Hie ripened seeds that Tinerie8 ; c > greenhouse ; d d d 

 are dropped and scattered about by the winds and re S uIator3 for return of cold 



accidents, and the Fir trees of the highlands of Scotland " * " " 



are reared from the self-sown cones of the ripened 



The seeds fall to the ground in any promiscuous 



quantity, they grow in any number as chance directs - 



accident directs a certain number to outstrip the others 



in growth, and which grow into trees, cover the whole 



ground, and smother all the others under their shade 



I>jo attention is required, and nature directs the results 



Jrom these examples, it may be inferred, that land 



intended to be planted with trees, be sown with the 



seeds of the plants in a varied mixture, at the rate of 



three or four bushels on an acre, where they will grow 



on the vegetable sward, and where the proper number 

 of trees which the land can sustain for a crop will be 

 reared into a covering for the ground, and smother all 

 others below the shade. For this purpose, the Grass on 

 the land should not be eaten for 8 ome vears previous 

 to the seeds being sown, as the yearly decomposition of 

 the herbage will produce a stratum of mould, in which 

 the seeds will find a very agreeable bed. In low 

 situations of access, a top dressing of earths or com- 

 posts will be very beneficial to the seeds when sown 

 but large extents will prohibit the 

 limited cases it mav be used. To * 





cleaning out the wood. To avoid this I have 7ontri? d 

 the instrument, of which the accompanying is a Jn! 

 sentation, and which I use as follows:— When lb 

 taken off the bud, I take the instrument in m?ri* 

 hand, holding it by putting my forefinger throHiS 

 ring, and my thumb upon the hollow at the bottom of 

 the long gouge ; I hold the bud in my left hand betwfo 

 my thumb and fingers, I then clean out the wood h 

 passing the instrument] betwixt it and the bark. Urn 



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Description of Woodcut. 

 a t house for stove plants ; bb 9 



fruit. 



air 



valve 



e t valve for regulating 

 the admission of cold air • f$ 

 external cold air drain ; g t 

 beating apparatus; hhh, hot 

 air; Hi t cold air drain \}}) % 

 openings for the admission of 

 hot air into the houses ; fe, 

 section of hot air stove. 



what 



scooping it out sooner than with the point of a knife, and rt 

 is not so liable to tear out the bud. I use the small goup 

 for inserting the bud ; after I have made the cuynfe 

 the bark at the top with the point of my knife, in ortfer 

 to admit the point of the instrument, I then p* « 

 down the cut, and in this way the bark is raised mncn 

 1 etter than by an ivory budder, audit is less h^ew 

 et bruised. While the instrument is thus inserted, i 

 ave my bud prepared, and slide it down the groove j 

 the instrument may then be taken out, and the Wif 

 be fixed. Whilst tying in the bud, the wstn^W 

 be held in the left hand, by putting the httk > Hj£ 

 through the ring, and allowing the small g°V ™ 

 outside, while the large one will lie across tne dou 

 of the fingers, and will not be at ail inconveme ni. 

 this way the operation may be performed mucii q 

 than by the ordinary method, and I think ™u* 

 more certainty of the buds growing. It you . 



that the instrument will be useful, I should fed odijj 

 by your noticing it. Wm. Foulstonc, Cidler,^^ 



application. In 



some would call engineering difficulties to 



surmount, but they have all been overcome, as far 



as the heating is concerned, by Mr. Sharp, f 



Stirling, who made the stove and other tfuusrs 



connected with the warming and ventilation of the 



houses. A knowledge of his business and his extensive 



practice m heating churches, private houses, and garden 



erections by means of heated air, enables him to work 



his way through difficulties that others would be afraid 



to encounter By referring to the ground plan of the 



houses, it will be seen that the stove is not placed in the 



centre of the houses--if it had been so, the heated air 



would have had a shorter space to travel ; neither is it at 



the back of the houses, where they are commonly placed 



but is under the floor of one of t in, and from an 



rfjkld. [As will be seen, 



this 



contrivance 

 the W 



consists of, 1st, a longish gouge for separate ^ 



and bark attached thereto from the vvooa. -^ 

 smaller gouge for ploughing open the Da 

 stock, and bo* retaining it till the bud ^J^£^ 

 the hollow of the gouge, the latter being thea ^ l ceeding Iy 

 3d, a ring connection between the gouges ext ^ 

 convenient, for holding the instrument * ^ rf fc 

 mediately in use. The first is not new in P^ ^ 

 Similar gouges have been successfully ^'^^ ne ** ; 



seeds must be thickly sown, and in a varied mixture ©*— -— -*««**«^ *"H»f*sewi out to warm 



have 



practical 



part 



we 



wedgin 



used 



ty of ;th» pan |_o. -—^ , 



referred lifting 



-. C v. fe „, B up the bark of tne siock i <- £ thebbfc 



it, by a small portion taken ho d of ^f^V. m]j ob- 



- • - -• • The ring part, «J^ J ^ 



.ient deVRv- A» £ V ^ in 



others.] 



of the knife and thumb. 



ery suiij: 



Jole instrument is a very nice one h»t » . 



but ' some cases it may be used advantageous j j 



