218 TH 
E CAAD E NIRE 
Pes oe ERE. 
and retains no cold, 
| eu re 
a 
These remarks w ill fully ; apply t 
“Tin mothy,” who asks for educat f oe re ners, F thot that “they w ro be | not 
glazed L Aea o and there is no doubt with me thst | e the they would try t w sprigs | here has a path 
they will prove far more satisfaet« ory in every point =e natural [ philosophy upon their tree of is e. An | which forms anice aesa nade in w 
view than ee best wall it is possible to build, and | acquaintance with light and its properties, especially John J rris, TR o Tay, 
glazed promenades ought especially to be reco aandaa lar lig its fluence u egetation, would be | Esg., Winer iita Wethersfield, Bese 
for Scotland ; as rds expense, much will depend or of considerable ee to mers. s action on Holly Hedyes.—I have been acs 
the price of timb labour and the way in “which | ne oe es of plants, its effects on the colour of leaves, | growing thine by planting the at 
they are built. mce well done” i | yim changing the:seeretion of fruits, its effects seedlings out of the seed-bed into the h 
is “ twice done, a and I think vhis t tl the fluids of plants, nan ever that the H 
apie fear of si e res bash Let it impart ing flavour to fruits; these and other things | fence sooner and at less cost than Qui 
be once well passa bay the prize is sure. William Bar- —— — light a o ap tse to gardené Much | other plant. T shonld say that * J, 2 
won, Sketty, be said "e ri erties of lighikoa and |'a good and handsome fence of Quie 
Gra wi ane als: an old ae page shall Praca ce have Me ir attention to the! Berberis agian, or all three. 
be greatly obli to “Devonia” (P: Mare F be “agg of opties "a m ‘ant solar light refracted | cially if plan at a sho 
41858,) to explain exactly what he means | iy by prism or other body is ‘separated -into | woo d) il myin part near the gr 
spurs close e of :,” as bet rautitride. of rays of different colours, each of | nat habit = Thi 
part of the house the Vines are to be tr ae a hihi atterwar ds proceeds in its ts independently | very well. There are ot 
and as would be about ea required heights and how | of all the others. ‘These differently ed rays possess | have named, w hich wo 
or to what are the four shoo our upper 
buds to be trained and tied, ra < nET spur on in two or 
three years to p se three bunches. I am interested 
in an Vin the yf pa way, and 
different physical porie mg “ferent degrees of 
prs bility. ‘to this e ration of 
light by sr a that wre all I the pAn derived 
from the variegated hues of natural bodies Much might 
tried these two: 
b 
Si lection o 
—Staying at ate, last autumn on 
Paris, i in ae th 
“Devonia” appea have s 
new hat L. would be la to Soke understand W.B. 
Hurw anor, Higham, rfolk 
I foar that the statement made by ke Devorla* atp 
Jasim a 
h, a_i 
I find that a beautiful solar 
c — class $8-room. 
ant 
pectrum may be obtain 
wW ho tay be an 
experimentalist only, or who may be endeavouring to 
tind out the most profitable ert o Vine cultivation. 
All who cultivate the fags Vine are more or les 
anxious to produce, and are glad ry be rewarded with, 
first- rate excellence, That is the aim of all, 
| they beco ourless 
a acts rea the fixa 
rays of 
ows 
athe ees of chlorophagll 
tion of carbon. The 
ta = was nine om: 
wW P 
+] 
chasion that while tine sion rays had the g 
co 1 
different | ness, 
r a of the plants, by the 
test wholly to themselves 1 
ongi to'a gen 
hame oe rodai Emons ille, who was kind 
ea eee pond we e it. I availed ae 0 
sd Hg sed b 
veils how wn, LHE the mode of ea 
the 
et long by 
hat in the ae fr i age moment y 
e bearing 
igh, eate ed in a winti 
fair crops are sacrificed to iow rays were those chiefly f 
b green colour. unt seems to agree wiih Sebi her of individual plants 
í oa ta iy pra he bold array of figures in | Other experimenters, co. wever, aubeny, | clothed with young and healthy branches from 
nias” calculation to ae credit of £ s. d. may Sayre and Pegg te le ink t pe a are the | top, and furnished with ai 
posibi b be a teppei, to some hich hoy active ‘in producing the green colour. By means | points. They are arran 
founded and he reasons which he gives of simple ana, gate sot rs may try experiments} end of the house you see 
for recommending his method of planting appear | and judge for themselves; young gardeners iy eave plants Tab the alleys are from 18 to above 
strongly in its favour, and if backed by several by By: themselves in such a way may become | high ranch ange 
years of experience would be quite satisfactory. He nted with some of the ediately 
mted a Vinery ate years ago last May. | 
h 
Ni ewton, Herschell, and other philosophers. They would 
ts 
place where hew. ante it, an ai 
ted with the 
on a 
what age his 
» 185: 
the 
d [Aui ian 
of Hay and become: acquainted with the pry that 
rays may be said to be com sed of t three 
grafts by “approche.” 
t has unit stem at the pot wi where he wis 
it to be, he panë the toe 
it has uni ited, and immediate 
ments the 
are 16 are 
ps ap close 
rods ? Tor p ‘Woe hae 
bunches anust I think be = pe Mf fe long, and that 
f pruned 
e 
would be rather a novelty on the 
shórt spur system. He then Sol a to Be pe bones 
should be made inside ris the Vine 
apart, which gives 16 square feet fi 
If a better variety of the same aha imi 
down aa and Soo by 
who reckon themselyes suns in the scientific | firmament. 
zie 
Saomewi s Sio Atis DRONI 
| P. Mackenzie. 
neither made 
said of some 
a qu 
there was ~~ 
grafting, th 
Boil vin, 
nor supplied auey ilers which gene sevice 
t | defective i in Me Veiteh’s establishm: wie d 
f their failure, b 
mitted to state that I have e supplied ı oe aa of 300 0 of 
o] the E gai dere eed 
graft. 
as Bre used on 
your columns by Mr, Bl lendy), bes ides having, 
in my 
own practice as a horticultural 
pennedt, erected and 
of all thi 
aro! 
20 Ibs. wi mid ay a small average crop o Baines f is well one fi a “cold shots” in the | abou years old; the g 
healthy Vine, an pl if planted 4 feet apt hy rained | casting, and the other from a rivet having been im- |“ Pindk.” Ni only i$ every space in 
system, 25 plants on dh Sid of | proper] ed. These y ill perceive are defects to | filled with Camel 
Me. W. er’s en tponn cuse would allow them 24| which all cast-iron wor iable and against which | there is a small h 
square feet of root room, and 12 g R rafter; and a experience alone can guard E admits of demo: stration | Camellia stocks in, from whi 
the rate of 20 Ibs. each they d in a few years | that no far don boiler Sign them in thumb 
uce 1000 lbs. of Grapes. which at 7p (which is inom likely to be so dural he gan Retorts pa) my they | soon as these cuttings 
ie rejonh wouid amount to paaa are properly seri Era Meiklejon, Westfield Trond grafts on them in tl 
& Devonia’s ” es is Horka Dazkeit | thus he gets an a 
ae a vee fn d f ‘border will Lissa abhor 4 and Orchari Sagx —In fruit culture we appear in- fand er 
for a longer period, than one in 16 feet, where ina very | clined to run es extremes! Be oo poat po ates a seeds. He says that double Cam 
oo it must hae the Eal get pot-bound, and panting a] E aS which is the best? Mr. Rivers ffrom cuttings; th 
require a shift— ere ? to grow for profit admi or large families oh markets placing times they have meyer thr 
cr market T should lat the ale arrangement ; for | out is ant i S i 5 n orchard house was | they have lived for two years, and 
with equal success the 50 Vines would produce ahi igher built here and plante ring of 1851. It was} marble at + ae 
80 feet long and 12 jones aay with ney back. Eleven | The single 
having 8 square feet more of fr pr red “ea ig | trees were planted for perma: and standards | spring on those ‘that were cuttings 
to be infeed that that s and these dae braneo to fill the top of the t ‘began to r | previous year, on 
returns will be more aan Watt, Aswarby Park. |in the following year, aid in Mr. Rivers} growth or ie 
Wardian Cases.—It appears to me that the his foreman (Mr. Perry) to see them, Hej he takes in grafting the older trees 
which I have practised with regard to substitutes for | said we had between $i and 6000 fruit on the/to take from t 
Wardian Fern eases is cheaper and safer than that of | trees. About a month after we een owth. Hecuts the bra o 
Mr. Forsyth, mentioned in your Paper last week. | gathering, Mr. Rivers himself called, and said that isoon a r they have done teva The 
T have bo ght Fst sali earthenware milk pans, costing number upon the trees the en. “th always remain in the span house, 
according rom 8d. to 16d.; I have filled these tere poner to nea, heavy crops yearly sin windows at the top, and allows 1 Me orn 
with silver T phe plunged the F in pots in the | promise Having built a range rt th r there is r 
sand, 9 : ering the gr with g : ng up to Cai Substantial houses behind the orchard ree, § as | also th 
brim o fig. ts so that my structures look exactly | vethe fi Me This <>. beaut: sanie ae > 
like those of Mr. Forsyth, of he Si: Bel ge - and A ig aa g Fani Maggs a Ee fd tut a ‘at i 
The spaces b pee vered wi s jand another row ee ish trees was | strongly recommend ever 
or seedling Ferns, always.a ota to be picked spi in planted to-cover the trellis on aay pe To this house | Abbeville, and who is an 
the Fernery. The outside of "the pan s a. be orn: 45 feet have been added duri winter, and | to govand see the + 
me painting brush. By thes I an ‘Sous planted with ange Apricot trees, w hich are just coming | I was so struck by 
indoor: s such _of the choicer pae, as may be re- | fato blossom ; l it is intended to add 30 fect more for ie i 
For the benefit of ms, but 1 aa 
eof it, T will still add that] endini tee your correspondent “ B, Q. X.” to t two of 
sn ap o my egere ience nothing seems to favour the uce an equal ity and quality of fruit rt presented them to him. 
well in a mall Pannou ee | pots under the same quantity of glass as I from w and Red 
ag tes sate ety plants into other emp ouse (Mr. Ri tobe he judge). This place ace is always | permit me to say that 
pin Kaie I Tape keeps t the | tenpora ae to r able eee 2 nr mrs one ge da to | the experiment he alludes to was a 
at oa more even—cooler in summer, i warm er inspect i y doso. In would g y {Pi 30 
in winter—and allow: eal og Saar! ater hal f Vines trained up the rafters, <i Paca oti 
more fr: seal, F, AENT, rch 8. dent escribes as a private sect a teary But some- | nan was.a trellis under om te Vins with q Royal Got 
Light, its Properties yflueaces ding or Ep my these “wonder workers” with pot trees | on the back wall w 
