season, and that in two or three years I should not be 

 able to procure a dish of Asparagus fit to be presented 

 at table. Why not leave well alone, and only cut the 

 strongest ? Now, who is right in this matter, me or my 

 employer 1 Cymro. [You are quite right in permitting 

 the weak plants to grow.] 



t -ihjiers' Newspapers. — I have had several gardeners 

 here lately who subscribe to a certain gardening paper, 

 requesting to know what is done with the overplus money 

 whicli was intended for gardeners and their widows. 

 Not one of those men are aware that this paper changed 

 hands two years ago, and that those who had shares in 

 it lost all ; nor was even a notice sent to them upon the 

 occasion of its breaking up. A Disappointed Old Cabbage. 

 f We know nothing about the matter.] 



Forcing Strawberries. — The following is the mode of 

 treatment to which my Strawberries have been sub- 

 jected. As soon as the plants were well rooted, I 

 raised them carefully with a small ball, and potted them 

 into the fruiting pots at once. I never layer the runners, 

 as is usually done, as I consider that practice to be only 

 waste of time. I would, however, recommend the 

 plants to be potted in damp weather ; I use 6-inch pots, 

 and I only pot one plant in each pot. The soil I employ 

 consists of two parts of Wimbledon loam, one part well 

 rotted duns: and charcoal, the latter in proportion of one 

 to six ; I also place a good portion of charcoal in the 

 bottom of the pots, so as to ensure good drainage. The 

 loam should be mellow, and in a rough state. After the 

 plants are potted, I remo\;e them to a south border, on 

 which I have spread some coal ashes and quick lime, to 

 prevent worms from entering the pots ; I give plenty of 

 manure water during the period of growth ; and also 

 When the fruit is swelling. In making the dung water, 

 I employ only sheep droppings for the purpose ; I would 

 recommend the water to be prepared a considerable 

 time previously to being used, and when u d to be 

 clear ; I stack my plants in winter in coal ashes : but 

 care must be taken that they do not then become too 

 dry. At fprcing time, I put them in a pit, with a gentle 

 bottom heat, and remove the glass at all favourable 

 opportunities untii the fruit is all set ; then I give them 

 a shelter at the back of my Vineries, where they get 

 plenty of heat and air. I have this season fruited a 

 thousand plants under the above treatment with uniform 

 success The kind is Keens' Seedling. John Kcmuu 

 Copse Hill, June 4. Ji 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



but I presume there are few places in which the 

 Calceolarias are cultivated where such is the case, even 

 in districts where chalk abounds; and this mixed with 

 some of the best surface soil, answers every useful pur- 

 pose. I have found this treatment, with frequent 

 applications of liquid manure, to answer admirably, 

 even in what might be termed chalky districts, and 

 I consider that if Mr. Gilbert were to follow the 

 method above described he would be enabled to keep 

 his plants in such health as to procure abundance 



of cuttings from them. George Gorrie, Hassop. 



Havincr a collection of Calceolarias in cold frames, 



insects are to be seen. WherTTf 1 ^?^ 

 nor confined in a hedge, J t is %£\^ 



i 





the 1 or 

 before 9 in the 



After this date, Potatoes ought to hi l * * *l 

 or 2 o'clock dinner and f J? i . peeled « 

 9 in the morning £J»* ***** 1 £ 

 riment many times, and the i m T * peatol th«%r 

 of the Potato is very Jreti ?T ^"t in th? 



in the spring of 1846, 1 took a portion of them and 

 placed saucers under them containing liquid manure, 

 for the purpose of testing its advantages, if it had any. 

 The pots were well drained, so that the ball of soil was 

 quite clear of the manure- water. I watched their pro- 

 gress with much interest, and soon perceived that they 

 assumed a more vigorous appearance than those not so 

 treated, and the flowers likewise well repaid the extra 

 labour bestowed upon the plants. I have followed the 

 same plan ever since, and with much success. I should 

 not omit to mention, that both the plants experimented 

 upon, and the others, occasionally received waterings of 

 weak liquid manure. Omega. 



Penny Savings' Banks- In reference to the Penny 

 Save, Penny Get Club, alluded to at page 310, the plan 

 is the following : — In my school is a box with P. S. ( 

 P. G. painted on the top, in which there is a slit to 

 admit pence being dropped into it. Each child wishing 

 to become a member of the Club, receives from me a 

 card, of which this is a 



On tli is card 



specimen. 



I write the date and tjie 

 money put by the child 

 into the box. The child 



No. 10. 



SARAH SAVEPENNY. 



Date. 



£ 



owing to the inher^^ 



in spite of every precaution w Potat °,it*|? 

 ^ very s^^ 



out of it. By Melius ami If. . the *ater exb£2 I 

 for ten or tw2e £%£%%£ » «« *$2 

 failed, however limpy the tuber ™t I he ^ UtT I 

 cess of boiling, thij; ChZR^J 1 ^ 2j 

 taking with it all bad 'flavour ^s welLS,,^ 

 he dark spots which are often found £ f& * J 

 them steeped in salt and water th\ n \? i?* 068 ' 1 

 the salt would remain in the c ^feS ^ 

 *e Potato a better flavour, but T^H^fi 

 outside very brown, and did not £k ij"?> 

 also steeped cut sets, which in twelw I U * 



firm; and, like steeping seeds, no doubt r 

 would have a beneficial effect Zn^'t^ 

 Water will however, not pewtrie^ft?* 



Skin of a wlinlo P^*+„ t ,. .,.,. ,a n «ie trt 



park, numbered 208 A, Class 9/by M?£ft 

 Highway, as a new invention ; but as I ^ILVZ 

 some friends, had tried the principle long shj 

 upon reference to the Gardners' Chronide for NoJff 

 1844, that a person named Smartt, of EnfiftU ; 

 duced it. T *•**— *~ **- -'-- - - m<1 > l 



Beehives. 



s. 



d. 





1851. 

 May 17 



\, 26 



„ 30 



June 2 



1 



4 



H 



Hardy Emcd ti— Perhaps it may J>e interesting to 



Know that a variety of Eucalyptus grows in Essex in 



the open ground. The plants were raised from seed 



sent here by the late Dr. Norris, of Hackney, in 1842 



llxey were kept in pots for two years. They were then 



planted in the American garden, where five are still 



alive and growing freely. They have flowered these 



last three years, and are showing bloom again this 



season The largest is 25 feet high, and girths at 1 foot 



trom the ground, 1 foot 3 inches ; ditto 4 feet— 10 ins • 



ditto 8 feet— 8 inches ; ditto 12 feet-6 inches. They 



certainly are interesting objects growing amongst other 



keeps the card and I keep 

 a book in which I enter 

 the name of each deposi- 

 tor, and his or her ac- 

 count. The rector (Rev. 



Francis Gierke) keeps the key of the box, and occasion- 

 ally compares the cards, the book, and the money in 

 the box, and certifies the correctness of the card and book 

 accounts with the money in the box. The money 

 he puts into the Savings' Bank, at Banbury, where 

 it receives interest. Once a year this interest 

 is divided amongst the depositors according to the 

 amount of their respective accounts. As soon as a 

 depositor's account amounts to 5*. 8d. 9 such depositor's 

 money is taken from the general account, and placed in 

 the savings' bank, in his or her own private account. In 

 description, this may appear complicated and troublesome, 

 but in practice it is surprising how little of either it is.' 

 By this plan all the money received during the year, 

 being put into the savings' bank in one account, obtains 

 interest, which is divided proportionately amongst all 

 the depositors, and as soon as any child has 5s. 8tf., he 

 or she has a private account in the savings' bank, which 



, ,. . P lan n °w to prevent, pr^fo 



much disappointment, as it proved an entire S 

 and was afterwards admitted to be so by its „ 

 lhe principle consists m having two floors, one 3 indJ 

 above the other, the hive case being 30 or more i 

 long. On the upper floor is placed a stock of bm m 

 a large hole, with smaller holes on each side for gla$* 



i tlielup 

 cannot k 



7 ****** vuuiiui U, 



taken by the master ; and as the bees keep onJv in the 

 stock hive in winter, the other becomes milde vudud 

 mouldy in nine cases out of ten, creating serious disease 

 among the inmates. Charles Wildman, Loul<m. 



trppc and «™ hi ' © ^ -© "'" v "6 sl vuivr or sue nas a p 



Bive nothing more than the inters* rf * lctoria regia. Both were presented by thepobfaMt 



imposition. 1 



three rails each I think, however, that after this season 



iffi? £fes** J /" 6 £° support ****£ ^ 



JM7 or 1848 we had a sharp winter ; the trees were 

 then released from their supports, and allowed to blow 

 about amongst the Rhododendrons. Dnrin ff the same 

 *mter one that was trained to a west wall was destroyed 



tL r , 5 - mCe that Peri0d the stands have been 

 ijept to their supports. Braxted Park is about five or 



much it „ above ,ts level. Geor U e laber, Gardener to 



mStStSX g " Bmxt i *J* Witha " 1 - f The ,eaf 



sent mth this corresponds with that of Eucalyptus 



conacea from Van Diemen's Land ; but the absence of 



flowers prevents its exact determination.] ^ ° f 



Cloth of irM Eos e .~I am told that when this Rose was 



felon 3* m*- myer l gave a ^y fl^-S 



hnrTn» v , Many on *»* account purchased it 



but ,t never reahsed their expectations, for thev could not 

 flower ,t at all satisfactorily, and some even termed it « an 



m» ♦„ *i e ' however . ™uch pleasure in testifv- 



mg to the correctness of Mr. Rivers' statement The 

 plant here covers 176 feet of wall, and is lamented 

 with nearly 200 flowers, 80 or .00 being open Tnh *t 



wit ctr^ hi : t at stood for some y™° 



extent 1 ' «L« I g ™ er > or even growing to any 



mv own oDinion tLf a ■% y ^P 10 ^ 1 "^ as well as 



the south of England. Havin ™oJo' SLJI, ' kj ' ^ in 



J i« ouKoro i ao* of ^SSaftSSSKS 

 of the country, espec a ly in the sontf, t ~f truit P a . rtb 

 that I have exceed no m h .liffi u iJ .ffij « 

 speaks of at p. 341. Ah./fi II » ttr r ;i \ 'T 6 ^ 

 well involuntarily exclaim, if bo"" W s ^1 T i 2*P 



*• where l^f % vegetable mo, ^21^* 



&otittit& 



LiNx\ean Anniversary, May 24.— The Presiit&t i 

 the chair. The Secretary read a short notice of lb 

 members who had died during the year. Of these, i 

 were Fellows, three foreign Fellows, and one A*3Qcife 



The Treasurer read the cash report, when it appeared 

 that there was only a few shillings difference betsat 

 the expenditure and income of the last and the pzmn 

 year. Among the presents on the table, was the id 

 part of Dr. Hooker's Rhododendrons of die Siikini 

 Himalaya, and the splendidly illustrated work on lhe 



their own money, with any present the rector may please 

 to give them at Christmas. It teaches them provident 

 habits, and they value the plan very highly. I have 

 four children who have been members from "the com- 

 mencement. They have deposited upwards of 2! ; and 

 I canauswer for it, had not the rector, who is continually 

 contriving something for the benefit of his parishioners, 

 who established this "penny save, penny get club," that 

 instead of their being worth upwards of 2/., they would 

 not have had two pence. They are, since thev have had 

 a bank book, equally as ready to put their pence into the 

 m penny save, penny get club/' as they used formerly to be 

 in spending it. The present number of members is 



47, and they have deposited, chiefly in pence and half- 

 pence nearly the sum of 107. ~ 



Daventry. 



Winter Peas.- 





William Grijjia, Eydon. 



Messrs. Reeve and Benham. The members present pro- 



_ _ _ _ — . . . * >m* m . \ * ^ 



0/ f - -- — - - - — — - * ~* x * 



W r . Yarrell , Esq., Treasurer, J. J. Bennett, Esq.,Se«lBJ, 

 and Richard Taylor, Esq., Assistant Secretary. Tte 

 following five members of the Council were removed :- 

 P. Boott, Esq., M.D., E. Forbes, Esq., ( I I^*"> 

 Esq., M.D., E. Newman, Esq., and Sir G. T. bmsm 

 Bart. ; and the following five elected into the Cound :- 

 G. Busk, Esq., Lord Goderich, S. Hanky, Esq., J. W. 

 Hooker, Esq., M.D., and J. Miers, Esq. 



J ime 3.— The President in the chair. J.S.Louell,^ 

 was elected a Fellow. A letter was read from ProWjr 

 Treviranus to Dr. Wall ich, inclosing sever,** kttentf» 



n • ™ »7 In the art,cle at P' 324 ' on Foreign 



Gleamngs, M. Masson says, « the Russians keep the 

 Peas through the winter. We ourselves tasted Peas 

 thus kept, and, to our taste, they were as good as any we 

 ever met with.- Will any of your correspondents be 

 so good as to inform your readers how the Peas are to 

 be treated, so as to be thus kept through the winter I 

 By so domg, they will much oblige F. If S 



ttff/ablou- I Cere™ ( C. grantfiftorw^-Tkia delight- 

 ful plant, which has for many yea past bloomed pro- 

 fusely here was last evening quite an object of admira- 

 tion. No less than 17 fully expanded blossoms were 

 open on it at one time. The flowers, which are verv 

 fragran , began to expand about 6 o'clock, p.m., and by 



a SftfifiE ^. fully deVelf * ed - The plant occupies 

 a pot 14 mches in diameter, and has produced annually 

 between 20 and .'50 flowers, for these last 5 years .T * 

 Nicteov garde, r to Viscount Middkton, $dah 



Hint to Advertisers- ™™ — - ' • mmmj. 



botanist Sel.reber, whose life andwritingsliadashortow 



ed the subject of a communication »--- 

 Wallichto the Society. Mr. Wertwood stated «i«l»JJ 



from ft- 



since formed the subject of a 



Wallich to the Society. -Mr.Ww ^ 



received further intelligence of the wingless »^.**T 

 he had described at a former meeting, as an intiamB" 

 Lord Howe's Island, of its being found on a spot j» 

 " Cato's reef." Mr. Newport gave an f^"™"^ 

 recent researches upon the embryology of W iro& 

 stated that bis recent researches had quite con 

 all the results he had arrived at in his paper ten. ■ 

 the Royal Society last session. Tne reading <r 

 paper led to a discussion, in which the /resident^ 

 that although he was not able to confirm sen 

 view of the pollen cell becoming the new -p^ ^ 

 ascertained most certainly that the contact <x ^ 

 cell with the ovule was necessary to the grow 



embryo. 



Caledo 

 ''"™, ers » Ior "icse last ,5 years. Josq lxu 



to Vucouat Middkton, Qodah ,. * „ r 



iters— Will vou liavA th* i.:„,»„_._ , \ l 

 Messi 



10, 



A 



many fine plants were produced on tins ou* 

 prize of two guineas, offered for the four fane 



jrd*f 



S? T, U 2EL tb .L ki - ln - ^ (ireenhon^ f'lants, was gained by to. B «JJ. ^ 



t^nece' f 55 * ^^ W^f^*58 



the necessity of doing so a little earlier another season 



as most persons like myself, have long ne e S 

 their purchases. I have lately been buywTZ^t 

 if. and Us. per dozen, not "strong and\gor^»bu 

 the very worst I ever put into th* V6 orou * but 



appears I might, had 1 known it, Lave purchased the ' 

 ame descnption of plants, vi" ( ,roiLs <nrl ,™,i Ti,, 

 the sums. /. Old Subscribe?, T^ g °° d ' ^ hal1 



Yew' n-f t J " Th ,T ? soraetl "'»K too matter with my 

 Yew-tree Ledges, lhe leaves are Falling iron, the moiv 

 compact parts, and the dead twigs look * id * d 



are covered wuh an unusual cpiiitity of cob'weL ^no 



lessor Syme, with tine specimens i» - '—^ Ac? a» 

 Leschenaul tia formosa, Eutaxia P" yrtiiolia, w ^ 

 grandis. For the finest Rhododendron, tne ^ fc % 

 awarded to Mr. Crocket, gr. to Colonel r erg _ pJtf( . 

 formosum. The prize for the four Joe* ^. £ 

 - . was gained by Mr. Ritchie, gr. to VV .. *j. ^ 



ground ; whereas it ! who produced large specimens of t?esn e^j w , 



bia sph ndens. 'fiie award of one gun bW j^ -J- 

 four finest Cai 



Mr 



:;fdes superl*, f*V 



IlUtP- 



Kiica acistatn niaiox, L\ wmiJ , 



i. A second pr* ; 

 -Mr. Crocket, forlPavoides ele^aii« 

 dhshii. aiid ve«tita aiba. 



For the fin*** 



flowed ^ 





