gras 8, 1858.) 
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can 
ati on of i i grow ing Pines i in g same house the whole of the year 
re in any atm ee ae tig or 1e | COMPARISON OF CLIMATE BETWEEN SYD -| er below 50°. The plan I adopt 
beyond the garden are to form subject NEY, NEW ae PAN T HOBART | is as the Pash es begin to colour to withhold 
ti y and especially where both these , TA | w het HES A NEA aha Pp a little after Christmas, or 
sis combined in a given situation, the | FROM METEOROL bie ot saat ERS ak AT PETER- | whenaver I observe their buds begin to swell; then I 
should be determined by careful SHAM, NEAR SYDNEY, AND IN THE CITY | give a good soaking of manure water _farm 
the ground, ok me capabilities of the aie EE asg ARE. Pact ere | iin me SRA do po PA long : mon y ae re it. 
whe ade the mo: 2 is | I have besides 12 Vines planted outside of the house, 
are, at conceive, ow r important pom for Eria EET owe: Sve | deg each ra ratte er. The sel take i in in hen he fat al 
There walks of a garden: they eee y; th vhen the 
Hon in * , Oy NAPISE ETE EA p za : 7 t 
r artistic lines—they should Monta ag s | aq | is over, and last until Janna these V nes ou 
we rien w the most inter sor parts | E E PE $ 22 | 22 | of the house again as s as the fruit is gan to prevent 
aay should preser nt the best £ 23a sg]|™Z | 32 | them from shading the | Pines when they most require 
be garden vag iyi : d, withal si Ai Henle, at F JET |iight. Tiomas Young, Gardener to Crawshay Bailey 
x t ing views—an hal, $ 
E Erobining the ae Deg. Deg. Esquir , M.P., Aberaman. 
peen le of gardening succeeded to PEARY F: ee Yn prt og 1 ~~ he Proposed Grand National Rose Sho 
a ee > af 433 +9 7 6.69 
Kent, believing that the March LZ 0. 698] 1.04 34 | ‘79 | 439 | remarks on this subject eih a eA per wer ae 
ama e te eeter and yee April à 9. .708| 79 || 63.2 | .87 | 6.04 | perhaps not be unacceptable. I have been a raam 
y were copying Nature by adopting Mey 5 0.24) 728) -19 || 542 |. 78 | Eis | cultivator of the queen of flowers for nearly half 
combin age of Bos which excluded 2 9.3 | _ 88) 842 || 22° |_-77 | 2° | century, and I believe that I a ‘first, Aiii 
ed who mere e imitators, Sums 344.43) 4.379| 8.45 ||379.3 | 4.70 |31.27 | England who worked Roses on Briars (viz., in 1813), 
J ras re E having within the last seven years exhibited R at 
mposed rust produce) Means- SF IA, Sreto rant LE 5 63.2 | -18 | 5.2 | upwards of 100 public exhibitions with unv: 
n blind ly jake hering to the | 470m Tasmanian Proceedings, vol. iii, p. 2. cess. I am therefore sanguine enough to hope that 
at “Nature abhors a straight y suggestions will merit some ne fone the 
urvived some choice examples gentlemen forming the committee in t 
Bee a re proper iy zag walks, practically Home Correspondence. the first place, the show being fixed for the Ist July wih 
this abhorrence of straight Jines 3s, In Orchard Houses v. Garden Walls.—The plan | preclude northern growers from competing with thos 
ing, proposed by “A. P. W.” is a step in the right direction. | of our southern counties; therefore while cordially 
cork-screw, as every n be seen | It ae ly coincides wi e relating to the same | approving of the project, I ld suggest, in order t 
a Seaton the. pie Tenin As | subject proposed by Mr. saa (see annexed wood- make it what its title indicates, that it will only be fair 
becut, reproduced Ap oe 293, 1853). I to give the northern growe’ chance with those o 
which ~ ia ver oe have usually been P- g gr ; 
where traight li “ine es vould be = more | cannot say that I have had much experience in the | more genial CETER and wa % he show at various 
PR ES er neeive | culture of Fruit Sheet in pots; most ay ag of good | places, say— ondon t July; 1859, York, 
Diiw tha pkra rance i such practican howeyar; have had more or less to do in that en July ; 1860, Neweastle, 20th nys Begs Bon. - 
: K keri ikireiiy ridiculed by Brown in | Way; and can re ily form an opinion as to the expense rgh. so 
5 d put one foot upon zig and the other | 0n economy of the pot system. P. W.” thinks |la Heo as I believe the climate is ‘alder pea re than im 
monte ik growing fruit trees in pots “ child’s play.? Ifso, I con- Northumberland or Durham. If some such arrange- 
orm n the met of walks any- | Sider it a very expensive toy, fill orchard houses | ment as this was come to, the “Grand National Rose 
r lil Bian. manifest at present. If any one | With fruit trees in pots is, to say the least of it, a| Show” would be what it professes to be, and i 
st the truth s hg seston, Jet him pe clumsy, expensive, and laborious plan. ere is how- | give all lovers of that loveliest of flowers por. 
ms of the residen n the urbs | ever no doubt that fruit trees can be grown successfull sreity. gfi me ing them in n, and it wi also . 
eh amon: iat Sesi bant in pot de ners s have the time to do it; but wher re | giv o the growers orth, and woald! 
ens of garden Tre find abundant evidence of | they show ow uthern compeers that we not so, far- 
ition. conservatories, gree Ouses, behind them a some le su I beg also to- 
SERR y peop: ppose. ` 
| thousands more ren ee Peek ang st iy semper n 
e south of showing Roses: 
e of placing 
ste which delight hi 
y ihe width of vier 
h n ed 
surd, and apenas the est 
common one, a 
heis brought to 
of being in something Mine Mas the exe 
ural co 
a aonb place, or covered 
articular spot for “the mere 
comi- 
is a matter of importance 
oth unsigh 
sich an extent is 
e excess 
it sometimes cacti ‘that the 
ill afford the room, time, and 
and I am certain that under pr 
unch. I do 
to A setting up ex 
ands, nok fa competition,. 
manner; but for com 
, | friendly spirit in which 
sr the orior — a cheerfully contribu my 
oo Harrison, The Nurseries, 
Darti 
The 
ee ee storin 
oie The mrs pth alluded tod in last 
k’s Ch se sone 
purposes a we 
circumstance of some greet ce to o gardeners “Has 
any one ever cale ulated the "expense of, filling an 
r killing t 
very y good, but ai ‘allow these i pesi et into life- 
at all? A wasp in ear ly sprin ring if not Pakia we all: 
of thousands. The- 
If too wide they ” 
bar 
Compaen it with that of wise the Ke beri in 
If so the inform: would, I e, be 
peeves to those who are a this moment t hesitating | 
which plan to adopt. With 4 to garden walls 
f 
Rose aggot ca in like e be easily kept down. 
by pela baring all prunings at pruning time, aa 
afterwal rds s going over r the Roses with a lo ong needle an 
5 J 
oi pt, a 
J 
1 
time fi 
ments on the s 
rie 
Soden ie, +} e 
ubject. I f 
blow to the further handing of lr ri; the papai of 
protecting and training fruit trees. P. ee Argy s 
Two Crops o; rapes iF one yea iA a 
with interest the remarks bent have ‘ately been made 
culture of the Vine, but as the syst: 
perhaps a s relat my mo 
roceeding may not be without ae nag The house 
aay de to is 48 feet long by 20 wide ; the roof isa semi- | 
] nd the 
the sie a carefull; Fie oved 
or so; sone PEA TER, ra deep ho 
oo it into, tread it hard down; by that means.if ever 
to life it wi 
hoe and serape all off 
bushes into the centre Ten the ro 
pile mould Jeep down. If this is 
not be much troubled with 
front ones 19 feet. There is a border inside the e length 
> 
wall of a Pine ag which is aeri in the AES 3 in this 
2 Vin apa 
where one 
extreme ri 
A great 
scenery. 
‘its approp: riate 
interlude, the 
George 
tive 
subordinate. 
to bear in mind th 
n the sides ar are usually 
peroral mo: “pee 
h lin 
, 4 feet 
the same root escape w. 
which is 1 ot fom me 
with single stems i he high, w 
then branch o 
ridge of £ the house. _ The; ey t 
Sm, extract from it may 
question :—“ i have vote ato 
of bar 
here 
eep and 
at the re of 
des “vi 
a (then 
ears. 
sd to |v 
distance down the Boek ones ; th 
about seven or eight years. Beides 
Vines to 
A 
tha pe tubers nearest 
in another ee ek ‘and most agin ny ina wet 
i) +h 
are five old the back wall 
of on Shake pit just to, which 
left when the pegs underw some a 
pattie e been acted i eiea 
very fine specimen : £ allow to produce 
a30 
at (a sag of Alexania) a a 
are in the coldest 
foliage ; besides, descending 
abundantly to the younger tubers t 
aden ced, and when the ageing 
g 
appendages on a 
Lovell, Bags: 
e walks, as a parsa 
nearly every year I have some bunches over 4 ae ‘ino 
years ago I cu Seek ae. 8 0z.). These Vines com 
tively speaking never get any rest, for owing Pi my 
very fory : 
they are comparatively little 
| injured, a; e above is the kind of explanation I offered 
is fo poe ago, and itis the only one I can give 
now, m of opinion that the only plan of averting: 
