THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. p 
578 
=~ both salt it and vinegar ‘on the plate where bread , tb 
4 
is to feed. 
our large towns carry a great-amount 
The sewers = ane into rivers, &c., and final] 
it back in valu eas albu: umen, 
TA > 
| ys nd coc a 
) ed ted their Grass land with “A and showed the 
oe me that = th o e town was the 
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were of no service whatever to the manu- phe lvania, extending as high as Can: anada, anu as fre. 
Fadtaivers entl so virulent as almost to mak . f 
When "Napoleon the First made up his middens f i lä foe sane 
filth, dead animals, offal 
only in 
d 
The Oakhil from middens ex- | muc 
rd turfy loam and old lime mortar, to make saltpetre | m as thick an ae like th à. The 
r his gunpowder, he little weg po a had ome — panona) which so often ia te dy mè ve 
a mink stride in horticulture, for e bed w: even when it raria seo 2 kill the fruit ies di it 
very pattern o ine tarde er, a seit thie: ‘gael tati uneatable, te some yea is difficult to find a a single 
ings = essential Ao the powder maker are equally so to | berry which is zts = reo 
T E 
x the pr er. ga member the same section 
of 
“* Many a shaft at dom sent 
a= me the archer never meant.” iEn Seah. is eae liko Her’ 4 belo po. zd 
ch by fiera con. 
actly like di en ee when the materials hai i bt ne taini: ning ao ri tage sate i me ‘erie i- 
lnd to l and dar 
gald gro gree at or two The primary or Oidioid state of the species eao 
ear, wiro onl Seres cattle | so changed that they might have yielded either gun- 
from three to five crops a = teabe Ae that but | powder or Gravee ie i as ie esc a mani eg ed. en paces: -Ths tips eae 
and sheep could now ge y p 
sad o one ened the strength of what Milton calls 
the Asparagus wa tered in its native rte bank with | “nitrous ea” 
water sli hth brackish ov notte well and gets its he blaze ”— 
ord clement ns milar t at Battersea or | but th eS E ee i 
a i sandy fia 1 the | nm tenet gives il td Mi is not to be lost a ale of, for mandy is 
jts; but similar t applied to Fir t d in tl we breathe, and turf st acks and 
s le crop, adt the crows might look in vain for Sov — A dew _ er it in. 
trees to nestle Da roost in, and Fir cones to feed on rokes of gardening require good materials 
marshes had plenty of fat earth and salt] an oa ote: >i ja igment in the working; — it is only 
end of water—all good things in their 9 with such plants as haelt get e the markings of a 
place easured dose for certain t is the corolla for example, that we find ou errors mä 
same with the filth of towns ; the DN materials that v would otherwise 
mo manure at all, nor is it of any ioe Ww whatever er to | noticed venoms se be ot tell. Things th that ar are tes 
Whale tribes Sarge but on the cophery; is highly | obdurate e used as food for plants as they stand 
hem ; and no oe aoe , | must rng violent means used to get them into the 
ical work: the London sewage | harness, for example, wood and sort rag ió of this 
maidan higher « jie of vlan Berean that i isso | class. Sugar and faggot wood are said to be made up 
difficult to be come at in the first gerne nd ha t it| of very similar materials, and lime is said to be seed 
is 90 orton to convince e people of eget t has| both for man a east, an pt e must get 
been ascertained sci scien “sor and practically for sea, supply of wood and lime thro the re, and Rat hreads which spri from the circumference of the 
“the great Vi l means will do, sulphuric iaid diluted „with at perit mona ps i aes tint, as indeed some- 
communication ith rae ryp! 1, ] d ti s the case wi vith t e wh ole mass. We have long 
we hear fe manure, pres Sony the cheapest and cleanest that 
The truth is, that the ose ore a great | can be from the Schweinitzian eee, but in so bad a 
amount of ill , and like the cue Famil w. a f the strength of sulpl g with them. — 2 
adapt itself sonar. to very different — its ‘oily loo Yos ae double ed hehe of t the Erysiphe necator, which grows on the berries of 
and whilst the ete from en be ear bulk of ieee “and its ugly n oil of vitri brusca in ineyards, is so rare that it has not been 
excellent manure for the Vine, and e atts sew ark it out as a fearful agent Pr dapib: but NS gathered by any of the intelligent collectors who are 
water from ordinary household works, hes articles imagine hit a burnt stick—ay, when burnt to ashes— | ng on the illustration of the mycology of the 
must not be confounded with the wash of London street will yield United State: he llections have be 
here ammonia tr re for potassa is the strongest base | extensive thi that we have now nearly 6400 species or 
tiers of carriage w. and horse-shoe iron gro ound on tree pa ons shes, dry dust from burnt w ers k JO Ig 
i sens pe shoo lost 2 e ae i Se eer bai applied $ = to Grass Iana a. oona: on “cage ee should take a lesson from the 
his ins why first-rate fruit growers are found 
uying and carting it, whilst you may see a filthy 
mmon sewer in their grounds carrying its contents to 
he sea, a en is sauce for the ‘oose ” 
jrass) is not always “sauce for the gander” (fruit). 
The at the London Horticultural 1 Society’s 
a a ee 
ly to gu 
long before guano was used i in ur 
this ay ‘the Devonshire farmer had housed his | Grape milde 
wood-ashes to keep them dry, and used then em along | disease, in its first stage like the Grape mildew 1s an 
hic lime for a dressing to Turnip land, and alone to Oidium, there is every reason to believe that ma same 
and; and I have seen both treatment will have similar and as 
his Gives only. 
n behalf of their Gooseberries As the 
are able to distinguish, p 
(at u 
rely time to save wood ashes from being remedy in the one case, we have no doubt about its 
h attacks Gooseberries. 
on the table, what kind of treatment has best agreed 
ne f all burnt vegetable matter, such for example ER ye M a Gal injar and peril A> is 
, assum) 
boron the “wi — be ;” and the fruit 
oh: Gari pes precisely after 
og vm ~~ . thej pike a a Chiswick Bh, BR =. 
of m 
Grapes a aod whether | it please j oend. 1 F arii = wal 
E an. 
most garden of little service as manure , indeed in | the dense matted form-ot the ee 
— instances injurious, and when its reat service r figure 
Turni p manure is known and appre- | PT magnified 
ments to be deduced from them, 
; lens, East Bai eee Rian: 
have Leer finest bunch o amburgh 
trical samy 
Grapes that h p pnih, been exited in on beta It | an 
weighed a be Macsi and was an exceedi ngly s ayara me- 
ch of G ie 
as rocesses i m 
cated, inca simple looking and unlikely the article | highly magnified s minutely granulated (this 
C! ar > 
ighly 
ex Be bas powder was laughed at as a manure owl to} asci with thei 
its dryness, and the ae Pen f oo tht its end os ie ional the plant in the Oidioid state 
nage even in that s eae was 
of w 
oa 
essenc ashes t be hind thor j 
chemicals as a solvent, a $ may be ei oy the following CULTURE OF THE PETUNIA FROM SEED. 
“Blue vitriol ‘Goaiphate of copper) disso eh i Ir is but within these last ten years that this class of 
a 
Pee air of heaps te <a a aa round, 
ye sold in Covent 
v 57 x of the 
pene cabal f o part ts sulphuric acid wh flowers has been brought into general notice, and 
solution of caustic ae ay of potash and time) i is during that time great improvement has taken gu in 
added, for here the right of the strongest is the law, | the e symmetry ataks of the blossoms, which has 
It ed much to their beauty, and rendered them still 
tlis quite lamentable t to see gentlemen si Vines with | more attractive. The „present mode of cultivating 
tof dark | th R: h th 
e can 
earth i in soe th evi 
id to the atm siphtee: in hich th ‘l vex = eae, 
4 Segoe they pote nel e dalta wh: ate: ever 
ine may endure and yet live, , this t shone 
on € ment, &e., 
ten the what A aries and when I state that I have 
m 
dtt p eee 
Market rapes were ‘sold in the Cov ent Garden 
lantern under the nicknames of a Vine | border and a — pun unlike any other T in enero has 
Vinery, 
the name of Grass— a acris, for example A 
millious of plants in every nd herbag: ne some a 
of a few inches high only got ffm good land for want | in rt aed pre with their noble ns o 
of manure and tillage. It was all very well i m the days es Da toes po foliowing successful mode of their 
of the wandering tribes to dig a well and watch the | culture from seed will, I trust, be “ie begin those 
floc! ck whilst the cow cut_ the Grass with her fine teeth | who admire the Petunia, About of 
16s, per Ib those fro: 
che e very reasonable price of 1s, 6d. 
_ The quantity of 
$ any place i: - 
terion cots of Aas ea or or ‘hei Bae for pinche 
n of Grapes in a 
i 
reper stand dt he's bales sa 
r ton, prale the pone of nearly 
he same weit, Oouthgate stands under 
3z 
Pi 
stery is not lessened e fact 
materials that when | ou 
$ a gett ni 
. 
Hi 
with her ivory mill of b but in | March Lao» as much compost as- Ei expect w be 
these days. of edge tools, ‘skill, and capital, surely corn wanted for the 
peat, and a pirma 
by 
a, two. pirts zich 
Alex, F 100, Quay Street, Manchester. silver-sand. E the same time I cleanse the ap 
os ana ns intended for use, —— N 
«œ GOOSEBERRY MILDEW by "the time the res is to SEE 
AMONGST _ matters connected with the history of | I commence first sifting a 
the Grape m the description of two species of | soil for sowing the seed upon, and carefully etg z 
Aner by. Sekweinita as his Synopsis of North all grubs and worms before using the same. en pul 
Ct ee oy 
bottom of 
im Fite who have undertaken t them with a little Moss or or coarse peat, i 
o 
i th ject. inted however | anae ne from between, and a 
invstgnte S bie ig! Race 7 ome ed E up w ith the above compost, gently pressing it down 
E 
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toget 
service to the Vine, and I must > 
, for cannot see 
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mass of informatio: 
which has been laid before the wie Unfortunately sible, and place the 
- | the e species heat 
individuals ot ot one of them aen Montreal H bled be a dstibating Be agan w pages 
o fill up a little gap in sprinkle on the seed, di ok or frame os: oat met 
with a sweet and humid 
the manu 
tests. n e 
of potassa it is well known 
Lae 
di to illustra from to 65°, 
whic h we have now un ertaken = ranges : 
into th ti lants will t secon when care m 
e that 
converted into ammonia, and M 
H 
a the ert ne 
ace Purpose to show thebadieneine 
fn ne fi 
itl T, sihe and sell | i 
Se 
° 
28 
ct, 
=a 
A Bi ose rom s! slugs, woodlice. 
+ k uli 
| th h 
Ie namely Erysip he Mors Uve. it has however Solik to shale pan of 
Ui 
ntained | o; 
tor 
may be devoured in one sight, 
do with the Gains and refers merely to ad va gre al ive = ofa air; Era, in order to kee p them strong 
var’ riety of th effect on that | pi ‘ocky, yan 
ae is so curious that a record of iti is quite Arorthy As soon as the vim begin to get crow ded, I prepare 
f a place in this Journal. It is extremely common in į more pans, filled after the manner described above; 
