130 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. aaa 1835, | 
matter that it is useless to speculate "e pema mn 5 3 | keep the plates of the ground or brick lumps from a | would gny end to 
perhaps “John Jones” can giro us g | kiln, before described every 20 phica 1 distribution’ atv gettin aa 
very good won this knotty subject. . Flem Ve | feet The li inc ch by t bar which I reco ommend on habits of the various subjec iur er his care, thy 
not. h r, John aaa | | under p rasure im 2 climates, Ee. sa a a knosiaign dA 
ma the catini ction of ag ‘correspondent just ‘alluded | ing by their nding” un and at the > vegetation 
I beg to sarge a remarks on my late c crops of | same time to connect every pet - the Traling well ine os map f cultivation, ome oe ines a the “ty i 
aa wet h idee sail fs row Ì ‘ead W pis t des oy of | dening on a higher level than it has hitherto os 
by Mr. Füming in the artiele at 10 to air h Mr. | showing how gentlemen may s pa aaian t the | Gleanings 
Jones refers. From these houses s, a the year 1856, of depriving builders of pe India n Melon Seeds.—In furtherance ot the : 
cut 225 ches of J ats and 275 aiaiaa of Black | fair share of profit i in passe se Vin ; but my main | ments Ara to be undertaken at the Jarda 
m d it was to some of these oe first | | purpose is to prove that market gar ores mers can še they |in Paris, towards which you in 
prizes were awarded by the Hortic rea Socie Melon seeds, I beg to enclose two 
1857 we 218 bunches of Muscat: } mporting such “vast quantities from the hap to have retained since I 
of Black Hamburgh ; and as each of of en “ade contin mrse I expect them buy their | 18 y f 
Vine will I t isten 
— 18 Vines, the e average — T bed ba inches on n cach 
early 14 
“en 
of nin aad this rage alee fro uses. 
not that the west nd of the | vaka house and the east | is just what was manked. The ‘folowing is an esti- 
ae of the reo Hamar house _ so much shaded | mate of a house 100 feet in length as furnished b 
by the conserv; which stands between them, tha | working carpenter in this county. “The Vinery just 
three or four of a Vines in sp hows do not succeed | alluded to was 100 ft. long, 12 ft. wide, and 12 ft. 
nearly so well as ee — Since siw) a Jan yaar I | from ridge ‘oot of rafters or bars; the ends studd 
i neve cond these two houses fle ‘| and weatherboarded = i-inch weathe rboard, with 
n 
exhil itoi “fas on aaa ry “oe part o of 
fee crop. The last Black Hamburghs were sent 
loyer on the 8th inst.; and we have still fees 
40 los: of Muscats left. The Vines were : all planted i in | ho — tural 
1 of 
ent, ‘OF co 
res materials and a jo 
l| ank eee! rs for 
einen 
8 simple plan for 
a rape-houses. It 
one es door and e 
rafters were to be 14 x : 3 inch yellow batten rebated 4 
receive the glass — 4} x 8, and glazed w 
. Zin. x 20 a. The building 
o be 12 aria re the aoe and supported 
6 in. Oak pos 
rriad There means of giving heat to these either by brick = 9 in. square or 
borders fro in Daves but they are a otected P wo iron bars were to be carried the whole legal = 
wooden shatter William Hill. ». 100 is a/ serve as purline, the same to be s inch wide and 4 inch 
most unjust attack u upon Mr. Hill with regard j “his a thick. Also six tie banard in kng h of bui ilding. The 
conti inually making Vine borders and merely growing glass except with 
mabe of ae at Keele Hall Gardens three o 
times ev 
gre 
I beg to state that I Bi in the | | Stockholm tar, and all labour 
four | p plied, and the bui lding í in all raaes to r pres 
Allow me 
sta 
ere up, mark a stage in 
n, ma pretty far back 
natural ea a state. 
b; 
a a 
$ 
the 
These heights are 
sone covered with a olin coating. of reddish 
vel; ba 
ery year during the Grape season, an 
the Vines under his manage- 
I have often said, “I am sure you | 
jie Why should not every farmer i in the south of raer 
? Robert Warner, 
In fact, 
too many on, "you ie ruin your Vines.” There 
many more gardeners besides moadi? that I ga i 
can bear testimony to what Is nae 
ae ass 
ion a Batatas.—Sir Archibald Alison (on Bee Ti 
latior on, i. 2), affirms yg the as islands are a 
1 fo than 180,000,000 o: 
I consider ta matter pe taste as 
he 1 23 lbs. in 9 or 20 Aan ches. 
or 
of fruit is sufficient for any Vine ot whe sons. Whether this event is 
whe ther r | cannot sa say 5 far 
ke Sa or pis we 
goes, the me 
hood 
whence the of co 
bably shed from the par te of the pre preva 
so perhaps the produce of acci 
o human habitation was near. 
mon in India th 
k he 
J une or J uly, ripen their fruit , varying 
Octo 
s ever tot im 
but as my e 
was to do as their tread 
, they 
cbtained tubers ‘from the rater and the soy 
full blaze of the su 
Ore gers Ss farther 
niini I beg te to st state that. a th 1 knocking out” p 
November, when vrai 
was firmly pressed into the ig and the plants 
' away for the winter out of doors, ro rough litt 
serted 
10 gh som 
picked off before ripe), and 8 mee Plans = Orias), “A 
15-inch pot bore the 16 anaes 
reason aver it ‘should not n ‘consigned t to tt t oblivion 
— has alread 
Fra ra eens i 
joscorea 
ariniy skill as as large sm 
Parsnip ; ifo at as we have formerly explained they 
a Potato. Perhaps you live on the top of | season 
Plinlimmmon, Jo 
Azaleas — Leaves—Will you inform 
is the f the Indian Azalea losing its ional 
in pees ? tl pate wing i “ara of Iveryana, sanguinea, 
&e., the former havin nearly all its leaves, and 
s | begun n to apres 
land pea istry of pes Mon it must be: 
have 
sappear. Not long ago you gave place toa 
aloes from me wth of the Melon ini 
n, from February to May, aaa 
falls ‘(except in an accidental thun 
naturally. The seats 
r fra mes and bothouses 
e induced 
ed cult 
from those dfi 
aom 
| ance an wanie oy be Spear 
scarce ip cared so diff 
bade nar y by a 
treme ini of f atmosphere, drench: 
T ht suns, eo a 
times) ie Ba Ne tmosphere. 
from eeN ei “hat the Melon t 
tropical ¢ climates, and i s natural ral season of 
o grow while the 
as I 
from a wie ng cane thrown 
wate 
(a very jrape if ‘well grown) Do bunches 
This Vine sed helar out 
p 12 
ok to6 
ood it would hav 
bam 
T Tha. 
Scotch Snu acci: 
dentally that a “aight po par of amo ‘Scotch 
snuff dest estroys green ta and thrips. I should fe el 
hy 1 
ould also like to know what is the rep no 
1s 
gE 
UO eS 
wT 
pi 
eres 
that I 
a 
with — so nt e seJ; pi S,” z 
the raag 
est used 
g 
because 
furnished with pe ac 
e —* unless its ‘habe effect on 3 ‘a is 
eapest an 
held the rose with thie pre. 
J 
voi 8 
shoots, when I have found the insects in ra fi 
as abundant as pay ea Powder alone seem: 
the crevices ee rrer nate ev a ad old. I 
put pots and o ani if | sa’ 
mat 
days | pent 
very dry, but not still a 
stages ( 
1 go 
and an one who whew ey itu upon ror bud or young we 
iia h the well a will have at re oe 
action _ of seeing th 
great fai 
water be i supplied ; ees inu 
whole force 
‘ace of the pot in — ain minutes, 
engi you — that it is dangerous. A 
y kinkin a during the latter 
H. 
H 
Rain tn 1857 at J. Œ. Marshalls, Esq., Monk 
Coniston Park, North Lancashire.— 
ate 
Seana a —It is sa oeren to find such a 
an as Mr. Rivers sta ting hisopinion that my 
saasaa cheap. Vin inery is “a move in the right direction.” | A 
to Grapes i in the early stages of their 
rabllity o of 
Juo 
Cre Having T 
Inches. Tenths. 
eanna » 
i 
SAH wero 
January 
February 
March .. 
ee 
. vos . 
Hian. 
orward 37 
Dist. Aitken. 
Education o assure you 
Gardeners. —I can that 
many gardeners. of my acquaintance, as well as myself, | 
exceeds any other boiler T 
ag pa aaraa of those who 
derom ition would not quickly 
“rar amak can state as the 
he it will _ ae this ‘effect, 
by you you oe 
—_ 
; wer r trust ER 
, howeve 
bran 
wach, cee to be 
a [should tot ong experi to Oak nties where 
p, large rough pieces might be used to 
geography, the use regen = the globes, &e. 
every gardon ener, vi „ | casting or 
-» Which | on which the he boiler is pce 
