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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



are not secured should have exhibited his Roses simply as Qxieeii Victoria, 



Robert Burns, a 1 Prince Albert, without the addition 

 of u Paul's." A few words on this point, from the 

 officials of the National Floricultural Society in your 

 columns, will be of great interest to many growers, as 

 many florists buy seedlings of amateurs. Mr. Foster, 



Having never 







in the pond. 



hope in its new situation it may. I fear the handsome 

 Crinum Gowenium, and the cruento-capense raised at 

 Spofforth, are plants no longer in existence. For all 

 such the water is the proper place. I also regret that 

 one cannot procure the species Crinum aquaticum, 

 fttfa* campanulatum. For I own myself unconvinced 

 bv the argument in " Amaryllidaeese," page 270, that 

 Burchell must have mistaken a temporary inundation 

 for a permanent pool, because they would not stand 

 * the cold dampness of the winter" in the border^ or 

 profuse autumnal watering in a pot. I do not think 

 immersion is either cold or damp, in reference to those 

 alternations of wet and dry, warm and cold, by which 

 many plants are made to rot. Therefore the testimony 

 of Dr. Burchell should, I think, be tried by its own con- 

 ditions — not by questionable analogies. It is desirable 

 to plant capense and its mules far enough from the edge, 

 that no leaf may rest upon it, and so form a bridge for 

 the snails * 

 the corolla 



flaw and v t 



some things have turned up quite unexpectedly (such 

 as Hemerocallis fulva), the tubers of herbaceous 

 Pseonies, and the Anemone vitifolia, may be worth th 

 small trouble of the experiment. For chances of success, 

 and for beauty, if you do succeed, plants of some 

 little stature are the best. A. II. 



Garden Walks. — It has always appeared to me that 

 the grand principle of prevention of weeds on walks 

 has been overlooked ; and, in a late visit to Shrubland, 

 I put the question to Mr. Beaton, whose experience in 

 such matters is great, and he at once took me to some 

 new walks then making, where a solid bottom of con- 

 crete, formed of marl and coarse gravel, was first 

 rammed down hard, before the dress gravel was laid on ; 

 after this few or no weeds will grow ; and I may observe 

 that my own walks are formed in the same way, and 

 there is scarce a weed to be seen on them. W. T/iorold, 

 Norwich. 



African Cotton grows not only on lofty forest trees, 

 but wild, on plants of apparently different varieties, If my 

 memory serves me aright, I saw cotton of a lovely yellow 

 hue. Each year the Cotton tree yields its silky produce. 

 Often have I pulled it from the half yielding envelope.. A 

 Cotton tree, after the capsules burst, is a charming spec- 

 tacle. It looks as if it were covered with a fall of snow ! 

 The negroes convert it into a tissue, sometimes white, 

 often dyed blue, from the native indigo. These tissues 

 last many years. ^ The web is not more than six inches 

 in width, and during the simple process of weaving, the 

 warp is often extended from tree to tree. These webs 

 are sewn together, then cut into garments, table covers, 

 coverlets, some of which I have had in my possession 

 for years, ffennj M'Cormac, M.D. 



Draining Land to be Plan L— I cannot help thinking 

 that, in your recommendation lately given, to drain 

 land intended for planting, one most important point 

 has been overlooked, which must make such a pro- 

 ceeding a mere waste of money. I mean that, as it is 

 impossible to make drains deep enough to be beyond 

 the reach of the roots, in the course of a few years all 

 such drains would be choked by roots and rendered 

 entirely useless. B. B.'JB. [But suppose the drains are 



[The following throw their blooms well up above the 

 foliage, and arc of smod habit. There are but few kinds 



Duke of Cambridge, lilac 



Eari of Clarendon, orange 

 Essex Triumph, maroon 

 Fearless, lilac 

 John Edwards, scarlet 

 Le«ta, buff 



Model, brown 

 Mr, Palmer, salmon 

 Mr, ft el don, lilac 

 ^Irs. C. Bacon, blush 



iinson 

 Princess Radziville, white 



and purple 

 R ivndhea.i, buff 

 Koval Chancellor, claret 

 Seraph, orange 

 Sir F. frathxirst, crimson 

 Sulphuren pallida, Ittlphwr 

 Sir ft. Peel scarlet 

 Thames Hank Hero, 



crimson.] 



Orchard Houses- — The following is the temperature of 

 a span-roofed orchard house, 1 8 feet wide, side and end 

 walls formed by Yew hedges, for the month of June, 

 1851, taken at 2 o'clock, p.m. The thermometer out of 

 doors is suspended under a tree and over* a hedge, 5 feet 

 from the ground ; that in the house is well protected 

 from the sun by a bag of moss, so as to hang completely 

 in the shade, 5 feet from the floor of the house : 



Outside. Inside, 

 Bee. 



June!... 72 

 2. ..70 



3. ..68 



4. ..GO 



it 



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99 



99 



eg. 

 83 



86 

 70 



Outride. Inside. 



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tt 



5. ..50 



6. ..51: 



7. ..60 



8...M 



9. ..52 

 10. ..50 



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50 



62 

 G8 



7-' 



f wini'ly 



& 



rainy. 



bowery. 

 Tf\ 

 Windy, 



with 



clouds. 



open ditches or cuttings ?] 



Rot in] Larch. — The 

 Larch-trees is, no doubt, 

 led to form 



cause of the heart rot in 



I have been 





11. ..50 

 12...— 



(with ram. 



1? 



o. 



Jan. 15J64 

 16.. .64 



17.. M 

 13. ..57 



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99 



19.. .70 



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99 

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 99 



14. ..6i 



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99 

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20.. .72 

 21. ..80 



21 ...62 



2*.. .64 



25 . 70 



2G...75 



27... 80 



28. ..7n 



29.. 75 

 30... 70 



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74 Do. do. 



74 Do. do, 



16 Do. do. 



60 Cloudy. 



( BrMc 



80 < tvi ■ <!,wi<h 



( sunshine. 



I sunshine 



98 Do. do. 

 74 



76 



80 

 82 

 91 

 100 

 9 



9^ 

 95 



Cloudless. 



July 3.. .62 



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SO 

 90 



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The following account of 1 rows of Pota- 



m 



in England. 



very obscure, 

 an opinion (which appears to be just 

 the reverse of yours) viz., that this disease is caused 

 by want of moisture. Any one who has observed the Larch 

 m its native habitat on the flanks of a Swiss mountain, 

 might recollect that such situations commonly abound in 

 moisture, and are as different as possible from the dry 

 — - " commons on which Larch is so commonly planted 

 jland. I believe there is no situation iu which 

 the heart-rot has been more destructive than on the dry 

 sands of Cheshire. Sir Charles Menteath had much 

 experience in planting Larch. He found that the 

 disease was very prevalent on the sandy parts of hi 

 property, ^ Me the Larch on the slaty mountain 

 escaped B. B B [But on the flank of a mountain 

 water will not lodge.] 



i£f°l Fl 7 ^-°W'ing the award of a cer- 

 tificate the other day by the National Floricultural 

 Society to Mr Paul, for "Seedling Rosa*" and havin<r 

 beard Mr. Paul state openly that he bought these Roses 

 in I* ranee last summer, I wish to ask the committee 

 it tne above award is to form a precedent, and if it will 

 be allowed as such, in a case as follows :— A makes a 

 journey into Devonshire, and finds a seedling Rose in 

 the garden of B, which he, A, purchases, propagate 

 and exhibits in the neigh ,urhood of London; now. 

 according to our present floricultural code, with the above 

 as a precedent, A can take a prize for it as a seedling 

 by afhxmg his name to it, as in this instance Mr. Paul 

 has done I do not by any means wish to impugn 

 Mr. Paul's right to do so ; I only wish to know the 

 law upon the subject. I i -member that when Lucomhe 

 and Pince bought the Rosa Devoniensis 



52 Do. d> 



— Do. do, 



— Do. do. 



Glrama of 



sunshine. 

 July commenced as under : 



(Hrisk NE. j July 4. ..66 



7t? / wind win „ 5. ..72 

 t sun. I 



T. R> rs, Nurseries, Stnrhridgeworth, Ilcrt , 



Po j 'oes. 

 toes may be interesting. They were plan* I 

 April, and taken op yesterday (August 12th), as" the 

 haulm showed disease to a considerable extent. I found 

 only three tubers affected, all these being in the bone- 

 dust rows : my soil is a poor, hot, sandy material. I am 

 surprised to find that the loam rows are worse than th<« 

 "no <lr ing" rows. I tried this small experiment 

 with a view to coming to some conclusion ab ;t earthing 

 up or not, but I do not make much of my results : 



STABLE MANPRE. 



1<>4 tubers 

 115 



irly 





Unearthed {* ;;;; ;-J *** 



• ♦ ♦ 



Earthed np 3 21 



Unearthed i 21 



Earthed up 5 21 



Unearthed 6 20 



Earthed up 7 21 



Unearthed 8 21 



>* 



it ... -*~ ,, 



NO DRESSING. 

 • > ... 1 



,, ... 102 „ 



BURNT RFFCSE. 



103 

 07 



LOAM. 



68 



102 



1<U lbs. weight. 

 17 



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99 

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99 



99 



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99 

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97 



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99 

 it 



Earthed up 9 18 



Unearthed 10 20 





it 



99 



17* 

 15J 



99 



15 

 99 



of th 



named it, but did not call it * Devoniensis 

 i an addition -would have implied tha 



e raiser, 



ri that they raised 

 m*:u, „™i ox wiiac is called "biding the 



Taking this view of the question, Mr Paul 



BO-'E DUST. 

 ... 103 

 . ... 97 



C. E. C.j Shirley, Croydon. 



Aloes.— K specimen of a similar Aloe to that I send 

 yon has lived for two 3 irs in a limestone quarry, in a 

 crevice of the rock. It is now in flower. It is the 

 Aloe lingue ; is it not 1 Is it not generally considered 

 as tender ? (, i cus. [This kw s more like a morsel of 

 the pearl Aloe, A. margaritifera. In any case, that 

 rach a plant should live through two winters, even in 



Flmt-shire, is a very unexpected fact.] 



CoUage Stove.— Since the drawing and description of 

 niycotta-o stove appeared in the bardenert C/irmicl 

 pi the inth of July , I have made several improvement 

 in it; and being fully convinced of its utility. I have 

 therefore, ordered of Mr. Samuelson,of Banbury Oxon' 



me new castings with which to fit it up. In reply to' 

 the several persons from whom I have received commu- 

 nications respectii it I beg to say, that so soon as Mr. 

 bam, son has made the castings, and ir has been fitted 

 uj > andtned, the price, &c , shall then be advertised in 



a JL T h K ermom <:' el ? aro frequently pUced , Rhaf! hut 



some bare path, thP reHecion from wh'ch oft< n makes a ", t 

 ^fference: m-peniM ir, th- shade ovrr Gr.»« S or *ha* U 

 batter, over a clionedhpdirii. tli-tfoi—— ..*.!:..»:: °» " nat ] 



oth t hand, if too shallow, the r< 



from frost. I am still trying. It is a pity the Crinum 



c. use is so discolor. And the root-shops take no 



is to import the riparium variety with more colour. 



Few people have it. Having been moved, my two 



lants have not flowered. Hereafter I will attend to , _ „ 



ing the seeds. Crinum revoluto-capense does well I think, sells his Pelargoniums, but has his name retained 



flowered in the border, I as the raiser. Enquirer. 



Fleming's Tar Pal id. — I have used it extensively here 

 for these last two years, but I find it will not btand expo- 

 sure to the sea winds. After it has been on the iron 

 for a few months, it becomes pale and ugly in colour. 

 I have given it up, and have again taken to the anti- 

 septic kind of paint, which has also a great deal of tar 



in it. C. E. 



Dahlias.— "Every grower of this favourite, flower will 

 have noticed that some kinds possess a great advantage 

 over others, both by expanding their blooms earlier, and 

 also by throwing them out on extended footstalks from 

 the foliage, so that they may be said to hang pendulous 

 in the air. These advantages are possessed, in a 

 remarkable degree by the Dahlia called Cleopatra ; and 

 I should be much obliged by your carefully naming other 

 kinds that possess them in an equal degree. Cartmel. 



this paper. 



. . The 



the emigrant, who wiahe 



I 



beg 



, ' wishes to 

 to say, that it is at>nKn»i 1 V' v l " 

 intends it. WiUiam <?,^ P fe ble f <* the 

 Precocious Spruce Fin. 



take one J £ 



n ^fyd'onVLl 



'«■*— Isth~* -» 

 ;ious gro-, 



pnice tree 

 , . , . was strucl 

 pearance which several of the l eadil 



monstrous and precocious growths ^ 

 a clump of young ^n^fffft" 

 neighbour of mine, I was struck -- *? « 

 pearance which several of 1 

 shoots had assumed, terminat 



4 

 Isthefnn7 tr '-' H,:8f " 

 rowftic. t .,, ** u *»u^ ^ 



to you 



r* - m 



81n ?ai»r.. 



w 'ith the 



r ^ i,lar and ^y'SSS an!i eaf ; bndj -^ 



appearance was observable "onTom** 5^'^ * 5 

 young trees, and the number of coZ ^ Vl *Z 

 to four or five. Tl„> f~„„ ,.. , c ? ne8 Var «a fien £ 



disproportionate to the height of rt« ^ of a «i» J 





Lved from a poor j^SSfJK 

 ba S,f r ^ . fr ° n l th ? ir bei »8 bunted intJe ^ 



Foe 

 "i vigour and r„i. n1 >> . 



Tall growing Fuchsias (seep. 486) 

 ill, I believe, find the very pretty &" F £?t 

 ;scens equal to Corallina ■- ■--- - tu **» 



growth. S. S. 

 Peat Charcoal. 



I 



% 



^ iave Wed 1 cwt nf iv 

 hgl^of a Melon frame, without\nTa^ 



The Potato Disease has come on vow nmi 

 locality (Eydon) within the last week. '£ {*& 

 early varieties in several instances are campkl *! 

 oil. I saw some taken up the other day, nine-toLC 

 which were diseased. The late varices, whiff: 

 days ago were looking vigorous and heaithv Jl 

 completely covered with the black spot on the lei 

 a preventive, I am pulling the tops off mine kn£ 

 the Potatoes in the ground, on which I intend mm 

 early Six- week Turnips immediately. The leaf of2 

 the late sown Peas and spring Beans appear to k 

 affected with the same disease. Wm. Grifa 



Daventry, Northampton. The disease hasrenaS 



to a very serious extent near Dublin. It first elttU 

 itself in small patches about two yards in diufe 

 and night after night, since the 3d inst, the ev3h 

 spread rapidly. The sorts which appear to be m 

 affected are the Forty-folds. No manure was mi 

 previous to planting, except a sprinkling of soot al 

 salt. D. Pressly, Gardener, near Dublin. 



Irish Larks. — If Mr. Kidd will venture bUi 

 Ireland, though " such a land," having dropped all b 

 m tears," since, thanks to English and Irislimanagemc: 

 we do not need to import any, I shall kindly wektM 

 him ; and some dewy morning, if in spring, treat him to 

 a concert of Irish larks, that shall ravish his v ml 









with joy ! 



paim. 





or what I should rather designate the skinless Pea, re- 

 sembles somewhat the mucilaginous occra of the V 

 Indies and of Western Africa, in its properties i 

 thickening soup. «/. M 6 Cormac, M.D., Belj3st,A#gJ* 



orittie& 



Caledonian Horticultural, July 5.— There mi 

 good show on this occasion, and the day being faa, * 

 large company attended. The Prize of Two Gnu 

 offered for the finest four Shrubby Greenhouse Piatt, 

 was gained by Mr. Reid, gr. to Professor Sjme,«i 

 specimens of Epaorifl miniata. Kalosanthes mm 



nitida, measuring 4 ft. 6 in. through, and be&rog-* 

 heads of flowers, Polygala oordifolia, and PimekMe* 

 sata. A second premium was assigned to Mr. K*iJ 

 c;r. to W. XL limes, Esq., who produced CamuataW 

 Statice mucronata, Pimelea hispida, and *ff*r 



The Prize of One Guinea, offered for if 



miniata. x**o n«^ v* w- v , , c 



Heaths, was aw 



"'a. In the competition - 



3 from Mr. Smith, gr. to J- «J 



Fate 



dishii,and Bothwelliana. In the competition 



the best set, which wi *" %f " G " llf 1 



1 i., was disqualified, no declaration navHig-. 



with the plants. The prize was therefore 

 Mr. Young, gr. to T. Oliver, Esq., the vanetie^ 

 Comte de Beaulieu and Elizabeth. 1M ^ 

 Silver Medal was awarded as first prize iovbto^ 

 to Mr. Reid, for Clerodendrcm infortoatum, ri 

 angusti folia, /Echmea fulgens, and Aliamanda w 

 the latter forming an excellent specimen abiui , 

 height and 3 ft. 8 in. in diameter. 



iarvifoli^ ** 



r>« 1 



F 



coccinea, Combretum purpureum, auu w»j, - $ 

 In the competition for Stage Pelargonium^ 



8-inch pots," the Silver Medal ™*^~ 



to S. ha), r. : , 



t. to Lidy Hay, for Crusader, »^X'»* 

 lind, Rosy Circle, and Lady CJarc. J W^ ^ ^ | 





Deeomfc 



id D 



f0* 



n Mr Came** 

 A second premium was voteu to ^ y 



Amelia, Maid of Anjou, Ytolinski, and .* for # 



No competitor appeared for the P ri * j iiitro*^ 

 finest grown specimen of any 1 ^' to fpeatS^ 

 perennial herbaceous plant ; but a p» ^ &* 

 Kellermam in excellent cond'Uow, , Ua> \\ l ^ ^ 

 exhibition by Mr. Pender, gr. to U a ftf ^b» 

 honorarv award was voted to luni. £ ll ^ y[v u,t>a& 



12 Pinks, cut blooms, was gain 

 to C. K. Sivewright, Esq-i 



cry 



with tne fijjjj 



DouUe X, Laura, Jenny Linu, tv J m)0urri ble^ 



Monies, Alfred Morrison, >- i rr ho ' !l " ,. e titi^ * w 

 Herbert. There was no proper co t 



varietie 



