THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[January 93. 
52 
all directions, and it was with no small Neng of the Aphis powder will 
that we heard that the Duke had no guests. 
were strangers, using the park as if Sats own, 
The strong appreciation of the Duke of DEVON- 
SHI wers was shown ly in th 
noble conservatory constructed under the advice 
and he designs no SEP. 
ener, GIB ta 
Eicon: pate se ges ringing back w 
stores of rare and tiny plants. 
i emon: 
TES gee kenge re Fh [cay terres art 
which always formed his Grace’s greatest fav u- | pro ted by men of science, but because kept „ccording to ti les for trees of that 
ites. The costly waterworks and fountains, rai is etl a gar belief i iu many minds that EET ra Deka bys, 2 jet smal] 
especially ‘‘ The Emperor,” set a great example vegetable must be a ro oot, as it is commonly pas emlek rod.» Tha best were p bi- 
the importance of such ornaments in archi alled. S ate aptr near the stem, REE on t fi 
gardens, even in this watery kingdom, and may be elie g omnia ro 
said to have led to those still greater hydra lie | Ps monster before us will wae it, for it ‘tei un- | four years on a m "The third year, 
| mistakeable evidence of being an underground |the was produ 
may indeed 
Soia proportions of the Victoria Lily would have 
ever been fully ee had not that Seg 
flower been first b ught out in all its natural 
- Tothe very lest the love of a ies ae evan 
manifested in this meer oblem: ; the VP 
oe be said to h 
f his 
i en a: iwélanitholy attack of ii 
Teocht on a debility which z incurable, his 
e wh me obje 
— was to 
u 
B 
mii it aitin ltural naaa 
cen since the death of Mr. Tuomas ANDREW 
v 
e ago (p. 520, 1857) an account was th 
Some 
given of a AO contrived by the gentleman who 
writes under the ig area on anon for de fe 
ing APHIDES, one of the t of the 
ven by bare Ms 
led them oh Wallets: that w action was 
effectual th: 
But to o 
proved almost Seti the is eles 
eases objecting to be killed, 1 that St bur: 
s fai 
little eines with large ones it aii like a 
shell, which iy hit a house to-day and iiss a 
town to- -mort 
Jees SS, afa the course of last year, we again | ® 
heard of the prodigious effi As the — n; 
no satisfactory information to 
ers we declined occupying 
vey 
occup:; fae ties 
ject. Itnow however a 
with the su , from 
the follo 
atimta A Si— 
“I have asce: e aan why = Se 
powder failed i ae me ins In making the 
n 
We ere 
© 
unless well dried 
este i aloes the fire, which would seem to destroy | no 
its effects, bu A n does not, 
All | clusively one way or the 
of this Spes whi ch | assumin 
y fi e 
a” | branch covered with buds. 
n 
eee the question con- 
other 
z admirers of ejje a FORMATIONS will 
i production wh 
porcini ure, 
a | ing; besides it bears its i fruit at ie 
[have not heard a . single complaint as 
its fruit. to the qu P 
Against a wall, the fruit Pang: 
handsome. It is not, how st 
oo aries 3 hardy that it shoal b be grown 
en gainst aw wall, but o ie SA. He nr 
gro wits 00 flexible, an 
pe a 
1d shoo} 
| Pot 
ds of 2 fe tin _— and large in pee ia 
Li atlrer divetie former z volume (p. 4, 18 349) 
iti is necesi ii E 
as a pyramid, with a tall stem, 
Ls such flag Et order to mai ntain rel 
g the appear eae hand, but this 
is far more instructive 5 ‘because it ae in d 
otato ; 
bran y training against a wall fh 
aise al ah the excessive vigour of t 
kept in che ck. 
How it was formed is 
e | uncertain 
tree ee fruit w: 
terminal shoo 
The 
pean aeia wip a i Fz ee yn hae) 
obtains amongst wing i 
measure to its productiveness, the prolong 
its ripening, a uality of the f 
withstanding these 
qualifications th 
w bi and t that is the want of be 
e th 
riety is now eclipse sed by 0 
a its ‘merits with a more elegant for 
“S. B” 
+, EN O, 9 ae ra 
it i is metati tiat to base s 
, the 
by ourselves ; $ but 
ewhere about *, se hat it was | 
rowths. 
the tuber was s 
sara what the new varieties are ie whi i 
to consti 
er The part 
ne Pry os he seems a have 
Ba 
E 
e is in a condition 
g bee 
beon tem) porary suspended, 
e formed, and they y being aeo 
tuall 
oan hf pions that the mys- 
word he 
Ate ale 
JOSEPHINE DE MALINES Bana 
SS. Be Ses = to know ae opinion me of y 
rst fruit from 
co 
With h regard to the variety Josephine de Malines, 
| it was in ae that I found it announced in 
urseryman who was commissioned at that | 
period wp pagate the varieties raised from seed by |q 
Major Esperen, of a Mechlin. These are the terms of the | 
notice :—Jose osephi ne de arrar for cultivation on — 
ens ized, ripe 
we have always found it ay socesttal when 
ary and now rT do not Ea e should d 
without it in our o E 
A ng ebruary to DES T 
opti adapted f for ciation as a pyramid 
all with a south aspect i 
pres day- day—but which 
| having ` ee ie Be 
| plantation—an 
obtained a 
m that time, 1844, we 
yramid. This variety 
in our experimental garden as 
ry a the Pear stock, and asa dwarf on the 
ajor vital the strong tree which is there at 
eee not Pe 
variety in oe ursery rial round, - 
I have ae to “the rien “that it Boro to 
be culti against a wall, is Ts 
to have the f fruit in _ perfection. 3 have 
dly i 
| WHAT ARE a ripe Aes THE UN 
n TUR 
m 
t 
the cata- 
of the best | cont 
frui 
ving examined in the gardens of the late 
the 1 
original tree, that | son bintan all 
uence se ms- | man 
twig ER a pag pe ginny opr igs, 
ether 
merir rini or not. Lastly, mistakes may be 1 
to the t of gathering, and the proper] 
| keeping ri fruit. J. De Jonghe, Brussels. | 
add, that small differences in climate produce y 
ifference in quality. } A 
TEMPERA’ 
NESS OF LAST SUMMER ON 
BY haar 
autumn, w. spring 
ing in tho a end ea eE or in August an 
they were not deficient Some ten 
seen, 
rong of the 
Aremberg, pee Nelis e 
Pieke and yes W@ Harden wien which 
e fruit ye 
pee either 
exce] 
ruit o 
| se nee a pe cateii than 
droug 
to the Pears which ripen in 
be et 
y- oree 
eir time of ripening, they lose 
east and a south-west one, and up to the prese: 
* There is a Léon le Clere, a late 
1, 
W basen 
keeping gs Po but 
totally different from the Van Mons, Léon le Clerc. 
fi i 
n | walls, not only witi tha south aspect, but also Mez : sul Khous 
me I 
Gathered at the exact es a 
etached from the 
amount of saccharine globules in the 
elaboration continues sometimes from 5 to 
| cording as the fruit has been placed in a pr 
