THE GARDENERS 



CHRONICLE 



the 



inch 



till 



and the 



or three 



As respects sowing on a hotbed I can say but little, never 



{SSRea that plan practised ; but in my opinion, , is 



ding and labour thrown away. When a succession has 



been re 4 uired, I have made up a bed about the middle f 



January (in the same way as before), and sown it witli 



horn Carrots and short top Radishes; thinning 



Radishes to about 2 inches, and the Carrots to l 



apart, managing them in the same way as the others till 



the Hatter end of February, between which, 



time the Radishes were fit for use, they had two 



good waterings ; the lights were continued on at night 



till the Radfshes were all off; the Carrots were then 



thinned to 3 inches apart, and the frame taken away. 



For a crop to succeed them, some may be sown on a 



warm border about the same time, sowing Radishes with 



the Carrots, and covering at night with stable litter. 



Your correspondent is quite right as regards Onions. 



The best sort for the purpose I ever found is the White 



Lisbon ; if planted out in March it will grow to a large 



size, but it is not a good keeper. It is extensively grown 



by market gardeners. If large bulbs are desired, the 



best way to grow them is to sow a small bed (of either 



the Reading or New White Globe), very thickly about 



the middle of May, on a warm border. They will form 



bulbs about as large as Peas ; they will be ripe about the 



same time as those sown in March ; dry in the same 



way ; then spread them thinly on the floor of a dry 



room till February, when shallow drills should be drawn 



across a rich piece of land, 6 inches apart. Plant the 



smallest bulbs 4 inches apart in rows, and just cover 



them with earth. Keep them free from weeds, and they 



will grow very large, and if dried they will keep for 



Bome time, though they cannot be depended on so surely 



as those sown in March. A bed should be sown in 



every kitchen garden, either as above, or else in August; 



as, by having a supply of them, the gardener is enabled 



to; thin his spring sownl ones out to the required 



distance at once, by which means they arrive at greater 



perfection. J. Steel, Clitheroc 1 have been in the 





were brighter and deeper coloured than ours, with much 

 more variety in the colour and marking of the edgings. 

 Indeed, if a little more regularity of shape could be 

 obtained, some of them would be very striking flowers. 

 Why cannot we have in England, as they have now (Oct. 2) 

 at Paris, abundance of Strawberries and Artichokes in all 

 the markets \ What struck me most was the great pro- 

 fusion of fine ripe Pears exhibited. While we can only 

 obtain two or three good kinds at this season, there are 

 at least eight or ten at Paris. L. H. 9 IpmicK 



traveller. ^n"Z: ^ -^ 



Societies- 



Westwood, Esq., 

 An extensive list 



contact witli the vegetable'Skin^ 6 an> ' ,,ne cm* 



benefited. By simply mJCST ** *& 

 would instantly have the scien fit ,Ve «^«? 

 to farther inn,,!™* OccaS • ap P €lU «?4.^ 



occur. 



inquiries. 



But these are the exception 



rally supposed. 



" Ufc «ie ruU 





Entomological, October 6*. 

 F.L.S., President, in the chair, 



of donations to the library from the Royal Societies 

 of London and Madrid, the Royal Agricultural Society, 

 the Entomological Society of Stettin, the Natural His- 

 1 tory Society of Geneva, the Literary Society of Liver- 

 pool, and various other donors, as well as a number of 



rare British 

 Mr. Barlow 



returned for 



Captain Lodder, were elected members of th 

 The President announced that copies of the bye-laws, 

 as amended at a special general meeting, recently 

 held for that purpose, were ready for distribution. 

 Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited fine specimens of 

 Heliophobus hispidus, and other rare moths, from 

 the Isle of Portland, also Deiopeia pulchella, from 

 Somersetshire ; Mr. Edwin Shepherd, a new species of 

 Peronea, reared from Spiraea ulmaria ; Mr. F. Smith, ' 

 an assemblage of the cocoons of Ilythia sociella ; Mr. 

 Shepherd, a remarkable cocoon of Saturnia Carpini, and 

 various rare moths from the New Forest and Fulham ; 

 Mr. Thompson, a case of insects from Morocco ; and the 

 President, several larvae of the Fox Moth (Lasiocampa 

 Rubi), found on the Wild Rose, near Swansea. Mr. 

 Young presented a quantity of Coleoptera, from 

 Renfrewshire, including the rare Tetratoma ancora. 

 Mr. Stainton read a notice of the distinctions of three 

 nearly allied species of Lithocolletes, one of which was 

 new to the British lists. Mr. Adam White gave an 

 account of various early collectors of, and authors upon, 

 spiders in this country, including Lister, Albin and 

 Martyn, whose works had been recorded by Walcke- 

 naer, and also Dandridge, overlooked by the French 

 arachnologist, but whose manuscripts, containing de- 

 scriptions of 500 species of Arachnida (including Acari, 

 &c), found near London, were preserved in the British 

 I sow Museum, and from which it appeared that Albin had 



copied many of his descriptions without acknowledgment. 

 Baron Walckenaer had complained that Latreille had 

 in the same manner adopted his sections of spiders as 

 well as those of Kirby of bees, and had merely given 

 them generic names ; a remark which called forth 

 much 



Parahiba of his country and he will 

 versicolor ; inform a Chilenian tW p0UU te $**Z 

 see the Pichinilla, and to^^^-ft 

 viscosa ; or ask an Esquimaux to br£rf * F ** 

 Ma-shu, and he will fetch that of Poll X ^***Z 

 "These considerations led to the J ^ **5 

 Popular Nomenclature of tte A^S^'S 

 would have completed the task had not Jk! * ' 

 detained me, and had not afterwards the \ • l ** 

 forced upon me that it would be advisST** 1 * 

 confining myself to America, to extendi 5** 



certain depw tf 



of many, still I am convinced i ___ 

 pleteness is attainable. At present, how^M* 

 unable to execute this plan ; want of time and il! 

 prevent me. ^^ 



■ 



habit of occasionally sowing Carrots in autumn for these 

 last 15 years, in the various situations in which I have 

 been located ; but I have never in any case found them 

 to answer my expectations, or to enable me to dispense 

 with forced Carrots in spring. They were always of a 

 sticky character, and white in colour, running to seed 

 soon. From frequently seeing them recommended to 

 be sown in autumn, I had concluded that our northern 

 climate was too severe for them to stand the winter and 

 arrive at perfection. In the case of Onions, I find the 

 Tripoli to be one of the most useful sorts we have ; large 

 Onions at an early period being in request here. " 

 it mixed with Strasburgh about the 12th of August, on 

 an early border," in soil deeply dry or trenched, and well 

 pianured. The result gives me every satisfaction ; but 

 if the Tripoli is not used soon after being pulled, it does 

 not keep equal to the Strasburgh. R y Aberdce7ishire,N.B. 

 Expeditious Grctpe Growing.— Seeing, by the report of 

 the last meeting of the Horticultural Society, that my 

 brother has succeeded in fruiting and ripenino- wood 

 and fruit of the Black Hamburgh Grape from eyes 



struck in February last, I beg to state that I have got ~ — j — — ^.^ ,*, « m limh mey 



good bunches and well-swelled berries of Muscat of have regular rounds for flight ; both which statements 



Alexandria, on Vines struck from eyes in March last. 



The Vines were not stopped at 15 inches high, as his 



were, but at 8 feet, consequently the fruit is produced 



on the laterals. I would particularly recommend those 



about planting Vineries, if they have the convenience to 



strike their own plants in February or March, and plant 



them out m May or June. Some which I have treated 



,., ;; : :: t, *"*"*«» into *««& 



like a dictionary, one containing the vernaeula ' 

 the other the scientific-vernacular names. Thefc 

 are arranged in alphabetical order, and s^lteiftlJi 

 cording to the prevailing language of the corafrtt 

 which they are current or that to which theyfctj 

 They are given as popular currency has rendered 4? 

 and are neither corrected because they are not ktl 

 cordance with their derivation, nor altered on %om 

 of their erroneous grammatical construction, 1W 

 never translated from one language into the other 

 have any translated names—the useless encumbnaa < 

 scientific works — been received. One and 



name being oiten applied to several plants in difag 

 countries, each name is followed by that of the m 

 in which it has currency, and succeeded by the mot** 



generic names ; 



discussion in justification of the writings of 

 Latreille. A further memoir, by Mr. Newman, of 

 Stroud, on the Bombinatrices was read, in which the 

 writer reasserted that the male Bombi never re-enter 

 the nest after they have once quitted it, and that they 



in this way here in our new Vineries, surpass two-year- 

 old plants planted in April. R. ElpMmtone, Flixton 

 am, Harlestoyi, 16th Oct. 



Borden's Meat Bisuit- At page 629, a correspondent 

 mentions that « four ounces of biscuit make from a pint 

 to a quart of excellent soup." Would you have the 

 goodness to correct the passage, saying-one ounce of 

 the ^ biscuit makes a pint of most nutritious soup. Wm. 

 Mollaert, St. Peter's Alley, ComhilL P 



« tTcf '? wf A r~i In ? 0Ur " Notic€S t0 Correspondents" 



Sib?) te *JS 5,? 1 ! larV * ° f thi9 moth (^iocampa 

 rubi) are difhcalt to rear, especially so late in the 



season. I beg to say that this is the best time of 



Z^SST** ? em -> astl,ey are nowat their fu » 



lie least difficulty- all that is required is to have a box 

 15 IT* °^ f ° r a few da ? s *** then 



were combatted by Mr. F. Smith, who had received 

 observations confirmatory of his statements from Mr. 

 Wallcot, of Bristol. Mr. Stainton communicated a 

 translation of a remarkable memoir by Dr. Von Siebold 

 in which that author suggested the probability that 

 some of the Psychidse underwent an alternation of 

 generations, the alternate hjood producing only female 

 wingless individuals, whilst the other gave birth to or- 

 dinary males and females. 



this mode of quotation I have succeeded in soWajiJ 

 puzzle which hitherto seems to have deferred minj a 

 author from attempting the task I have undertake*/ 



We have only to add that the author has perSoratf 

 this part of his task well, and as fully as could be a. 

 pected from a first attempt. The volume, when ikiW, 

 will be of real valu e. 



Garden Memoranda. 



Messrs. Rollisson's Nursery, Twice. -fa 



nurseries contain a more extensive collection rfftoil 

 than this does. It possesses a fine range of iw% 

 three of which have been built expressly for Qn» 

 The first is span-roofed, and of considerate 1«A 

 with a table up the centre, and one on 

 There are some hundreds of plants in this to®** 

 of them being fine specimens ; and there are Mi 

 in bloom. Miltonia Clowesii is beautifully m ■* 

 There are three varieties of this plant taji 

 of them, a fine kind, was imported a gw* m 



■fa 



ago 



M 



Th 



flotittS of 23oofes 



By 



Along with it was Miitoma spectabins, w 

 which was at the Chiswick flower show on tee i»» 

 Jul/, and yet it has, at the present ^i^JJL 

 hundred blooms on it. It is a very fine ptot tm 



In the same house was a variety ^ » 



kind. 



larft 





a turf 

 exposed 





certainly 



imp" P vLe J s n th tlToi TT* -^V- 1 th ° Ught) 

 hated four days ; my vZ ^ Cond « ctin g tins fete. It 



to ha. JZ&S ?JS£yZ& t - 



-' flowers exhibited, but 12 ^S 7 -"Zfr* 



*- and fruits, or n a m e„^\re?-^ e \ a a r 1 ,ficiai 

 ^truments, miniature drawing-room and tonf f n, " g 

 huis, for keeping bouquets fref h,^ ^ n ^r fotui- 



hrda and gold fish, the show of 1^^ "J?*"** 





and 



Berthold Seeman. (Die' Volksnamen, dr.) A pamphlet 

 8vo, pp. 54. Hanover : Part 1. 



This little work, seems by anticipation, to show how 

 important to everybody will be M. Alphonse Do 

 Landolle's Dictionary of the vernacular names of plants, 

 whenever it appears. 



We cannot do better than let Mr. Seeman explain his 

 views in his own words : 



"Whoever has paid attention to botany will have 

 observed that in every country-whatever may be the 

 degree of civilisation it has attained- the people have 

 made some advance in discovering the manifold uses to 

 which plants may be applied, the medicinal and economic 

 virtues they possess, or the noxious qualities, odour, 



S. y .i" r " 1 ' and other prominent peculiarities by 

 winch they are distinguished. Wherever this is the 



tw mVe J ?I ant8 haVe aUrac tcd popular attention, 

 it has given birth to vernacular names! Such names 



kir, 7 t0 thousandfi > a "<>, white the%cientific appeU 



ICost unah g0 W tmUed ChaDgeS ' thG f ° rmer deSC ^« 



almost unaltered from generation to generation and 

 become only extinct when the race that one? p^ 

 nounced them has itself disappeared. P 



• In an age like the present when it is one of »1ip 

 great a,ms to render science popular, names of such a 

 nature ought to receive due consideration. Ba" ^ 



of not sii? m , bemg r Many boto,li8t8 thi "k th m 

 of not sufficient importance to be enrolled in the books 



yetTaTtemnt ^ ^ ^ 1 ^ valueon S 



relkte A?h^ €W been m&de to collect * U > "> d * 

 regulate the heterogeneous mass. A well arranged 



Synopsis of the vernacular with the wrnZE 



Slfthe^aT Tf? VTMto ~STT£ "a 

 ^^^S^^ hu !» df 1 ««« ac^nted 



iDg 



Associated wi 



bilis, with purple flowers. 



as spectabilis, and the biw»v"» •»- •-* Jk'Jm 



measuring 3 or 4 inches across, and of ^Jj^a 



white and purple flowers ; Galeanara BJJl* 

 specimen of Sobralia macrantba, PewW» eatr ' 



ove-plai 

 inbidin u ^ 

 «id of this house was a fine 



Skinneri 



0*4 

 ,BrassiaLanr 



Cymbidium' giganteum, and ty^^Jjfagj* 

 al'l h."e"xceTlen t"condition. The pots were f^fi 



num in 



Rafflesiana, W . nooKei ^-_ ^ t 

 saving this bouse, » few 2 j^ 



led to another, which wa6 



filled chiefly 



Lwlias, and Odontoglossuns, & 5,- ; . /Jj** 1 * 

 was making luxuriant growth 1 •«» * ^ & t 

 ficult plant to manage ; *}£*», by its <*jj 



ft 



this Liel 



Cattleyaviolacea, C. I^digesji^e"'^ 







requires is anply comp--^ ^ j 

 spikes of purple blossoms, ine m » 

 V at Chiswick, when m WJJ 



travellinjr miles to see. .. Odootos W»_ 



togf 



chrysantbum, were all in n """ hi ;V «HXbe 



Contiguous to .this i ^ 



house of coasidejj^ ^ 

 taining on a raised platform at tn^ m 



' Pitcher- plants, 



several others, 

 roofed Orchid 







10 



o, ritel.er- P .an Sffl; ^^;aJ*J 



ng ht wa l^iKir^ 



was 



were 



x\epentnesaioo-iiu"K'"— -> - . . „t 

 left of these was a nice collection ot 

 under bell glasses, while on tM 

 aquatics. ^OnAid.mJ^gr. 



I-4»t Indian kinds. We . WD Ticli b* 9 , 

 Van.la tricolor and sua^s, ™ ^ the 



from Java. Ther 





was 



with 



countrv 



received from Java. *"" v nneeB of tf ""JS! 

 Phalienopsis grandiflora, the > JP* * «**%* 

 Several plante of Burhngton*^ &a ^ 

 beautifully here ; some of then i time. -^ 

 spikes of flowers open on them at J ^ «&* 

 very useful Orchid, and ought to 



