THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[JANUARY 24, 1863. 
16 
New Dwarf Bouquet Ln week, 8 , splendid rasa 
Earliest-lowered Autumn, 8 varieties; Maie 
leaved Autumnal, 5 var івбев; Newest Earl 
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flowered Brompton, 12 быва: Winter or Biennial | 
Brompton, 12 fine v: каз, ў, bes үн EN Te «d 
| astonishment, and look to lunacy for an explanation. 
Nor is our suspicion removed when we think of this 
|gentleman's book called Xenia and the 
fi 
- Me us | 
| mention this rude way о f planting io contrast it with 
the management of good fruit gardeners, who, like 
the French, , may, if the y plant trees on oes r Me 
gures therein, which seem to belong t 
centur ту о of o ur era rather than the Pr us io Es 
annearin classes apart 
Cape, 6 bad" eh besides С 
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hides.” it n 
тстаез, 
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Permit me to а Шр» cad % few trifling d н 
ing to 
and Sul phu orts whic 
Here we [e 194 * varieties" ! t Only 
ye geometricians who have been fius up 
of your ‚ parterres with some Һа E 
monotonous. 
ks, 
ida tin ташы rain no authority gi ven p 
xe s, of which the matter mainly consists, an and 
misprints without a parallel, seem 
Bedl amite, not. of a sane professor of Bon 
y-four * var rietie s? of Stoc 
P ics t Cr Mind 
у 
these treasures lie unheeded at your 
while des are EE groun 
x As to the 
but шо 
па | 
Stocks 
aomh of vari 
uch 
аве inei 
х looking over абан а varieties! of. Apples, 
К, бөгү in that of n Но rg „Society, 
my last A at my not having а 
, and my wer being——crabbed. Thos, 
Rivers. 
депвег а m ng. 
ago, І was gre 
tormented de heari ing “роду y" such deli 
and I d i et spr ra 
entirely till — x make us suddenly feel the 
imme edi ate wan nt o The в eed rearing especially 
1831, or in Dr. Hogg's immen 
arieties Чебен аз t firs icon quality, 
seems almos st impossible t that any sower of Apple 
provida 
tints as slaty- tre sides -buffs, din dir 
picks d en ralon copper-colour, dui ntu. ps and y 
hite—which can't look beau! жогы howe 
реа and floriferous the plant, and however fine nd. 
The whole set of thao wretched- | 
ina 
looking colours are abominati ions 
garde n, hideous i 
Rib: 
et Ia 
i gros ied. іо s 80, 
experiment, Yes, it must be forty years since, 
that, impressed ith a vague idea that I could 
improve ап ovate the olden and the 
ibston Pippins, increase the size and prolo 
tolerable. Away with them, therefore, гапа let us have 
the pue without the chaff. A good в strain of the so-calle d 
scarle 
Wyken Рірр їп, procure 
canker, 
a Nonp areil not likely t 
ed 
is work ee "hole веб of German “ varieties " Which 
are poured in upon us like an overw whelming 
The esa extensivo d the groups, that called ко 
теп Сег an Ten , out 
a dozen would | A 
of which w 
ipoluda all the rely podes peo and would, 
in fact, be all that w worth gr owing g gene erally 
These are the m 
that I raised a batch of pips of а m 
young trees had made some growth, plan i Than. ые 
ап — — till се bore ОЧ їп ж 
f ti his io pass, а 
many у Ww 
ed. E not repens, tho 
а spare room. 
aic wind ма v 
i h cold things "n loss in 
seed raising therefore is by no ns а tende 
usin bundant air gi light are the great things 
requir 
Lar weet Peas, for example, Nemophila, 
arge pots of S 
| е | Nasturtiums, and Canariensis, сап ha rdly be sown “ 
The seeds of all these thi 
I had n 
PY EISE at iyd: 
ger sown in the borders, and when енй Yi 
early they grow stout and strong, and m 2 to 
when absolute frosts | шр! рок, 
"e 
Asters and Stoc ks гэе everybody's flo 
of that 
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two or enda ашны o 
us that 
me of our ionga sight ted E 
rn ° rebellious an 
re is, we popa very little sign of this 
ег e “ collection 
Other flowers 
owers, advan- | stock. 
nglis, 
break troagh this German | flav 
of Golden сега varying in 
old во: 
had numbers 
Nonpareils, much like parent; the ваше with 
Wyken Meg and others, but none TE с test of 
and so I gave e them. up, and had 
m grafted | the se 
well. 
amis bu filling 
up a window, or maki E deni in чү balcony, whose 
се cid дё Em gro 
the v tender seeds too, and especial 
as heat to t them, 16 is no small 
tage to as that Ун quirs early, taking ай- 
ies tha se for ern up 
be soon brought on, 
with 8 Sturmer Pip dias 
and bore во abundantly here, although since A row and | & 
1860, the «d 
nd the en when sell up o rius e to x тосны in 
time to afford space for cuttings to succeed. And : 
r two suc 
isian Са arnations, | us 
colours, in 11 
i n three 
Balsams, 
Al ъ 
у. declined, : and 
very inoffensive, а in some warm 
used to do. 
to —— our old kinds of voee hie from my 
ha aving se n those стын X d only аз standards. and 
h 
à and 
ankered 
our classes; 
Соо іа 12 у varieties ; ‚Соп volvulus, major, in in 
10 varie 
are 
кш. ог under a little Moss, til the tiny plants begin 
to p 
бе the plants that thus require heat to start them, 
state, I had i E pe worn out—the gene- 
idea 
ne then thought 
hera i in віх varieties ; ар in eight varieties ; Hd 
Корона in 10 vari eties; Larkspurs, 40 varieties, їп 
аг: ; and so ‚ Ап this at a time ner 
1 nem 
tocks and root-pruning were 
мча поа 
SELECTION has properly mem the place of COLLECTIO 
and cultivators would -— grow a dozen Lie ads si 
, than a dozen sorts beca 
variety, and those who 
Mee ene and more 
urse ther char 
cannot айога to provide this olens in their gardens e 
Th 
foi m my ех ds t, for amı 
hree that eges the autumn pu 
ir shoots ; 
surface and дач pi the soil. 
gs were = лт preserved, but for 
g the choi 
endurin ring € с losses of cultivated plants, 
some years the peculiarity was ove оке, апа not till 
T d d ge [9 
ong s me seedlings raised | ha 
from that very od ex most esos "Apple, the Мол үп 
ut 
none that I am acquainted with are more worth growing 
than the beauti le 
flower; but if they e [рода 
И "liforent 
bro 
bell 
isplay of bell-shaped flo 
pec cts like which аг easily : acquired. But 
dien for precem repe and for such dude в as theirs 
these endless | collec! tions are utterly unsuitable. | Bad 
vas found t two among them 
that 
for a robust growth, and that кет ын us planted | 
imr is и ав reel | be well worth a little ТОШ U 
be abundant compensativ es, the wretched miserabl 
1р 
dingy or else indistinct colours which form their bulk v 
e cases where they must be |! 
ort they are intolerable an; 
. As a practical application 7E ro subject, we advise 
everybody to beam of buying these Hc А ollec- 
tions of seeds. Ifthey won't sell, we shall not long be 
baee а them. gardens will be infinitely 
d ee 
rer ds d branch of their] business, ы are far behind 
ch brethren. Some of the latter, very expe- | 
en, saw this Жо stock last August, 
m and at once said it t was the most 
may afford delight and not у кс to look upon. 
DIES ORCHIDIAN;E 
said, 
wait 
| К twenty trees on the Paradise 
ese gentle- | w 
тае Койын. iue t a [Эче P 
; they may not last во long as yours, but if they 
: French nurserymen а certain ex 
m. for, as far as I misi planters of 1 kait 
as cuttings roo у, occur | to me that шү 
would bo luabl tock e year before last my own plant stands were made _ 
he sort grown by the cy: stock gr miren aree by these things growing over t em—and last 
tock. One of these has the habit. of the others who bad see y own, adopted them, 
Nonsuch Apple, in having short spurs on its aud at the very time when I was reading hard words — 
but instead of being liable to canker like its parent, it в to the — б, mi there were windows near - 
emar robust and healthy in its growth, | me that I was re beautiful with their flowers. 
having stout shoots and broad leaves. Тһе French| Mine were sown E oti of light leaf-mould—4 or 5- 
ivators have a far more knowledge of|inch pots—and were kept in my heat plant case 
the kinds of stocks шө. iod uae kinds of two leaves were well ex d, and till а little shoot 
trees than the English men, who seem to|with more leaves was clearly to be distin ished about 
мн ап inch above. They were not watered at all, 
The heat was поб great, оп]. 
t | soil feel slightly warm. They had a 
ways n p ы m t 
when they were removed to 
my secca gie зы went on thriv iiam ee were 
blosso: the first бы ent of 
plants went peo amy wi 
and ела well in Nae open air, but the 
К сле yed inside. Ee 
oceans of ЖАШ! ! Tu w A S green, an d leafy, and 
during the hottest ai li their saucers were filled 
Sd 
THE recent Peres of n Reichenbach lead to -— 
шен of his sanity. Cert. of all the books I 
saw that n Orchide es in W: 
Once a кз nus-maker dol ith the 1 pio А 
rein, he has now pulled up with the hardest bii bit a publish 
piantà а from | ч generation to generation," and 
, The packets of these seeds cost from twopence to 
us; had he been equally sharp with species, especially 
his. чч ЕР: > Roms ~ е when we “eaten up” in planting Gloucester- rieties in seed lists are so very оао 
find the n as Pseuder ecd hire : ng stocks But if e seed i is got of ie varieties of Quamoclity, 
a Romi lies Miltonias with stout stems 7 to 8 fee : sre which tal 
iew та Mesospinidium, and n | about ten увага t0 rear, ted out in grass fields, | Тһе seedling eara are а 
о ПО сезен declar- | and after standing „ four, or y they are | to get up. Even if unfortunately we have no 
as, Br: Scho: graft by the «d of the - Pee the planter, if he to them, the Ес li 
it would 
any window gardener to give them one more fair ИИ trial. 
worthless, because 
че live a woes The enormous amount of ti 
orchards in 
arme 2d. 
e pause in 
ed ; 
live to а good old age, the 
beautiful for 
who Pais Rok jim aed plant cases, . 
w to make vA ND 
and kemut I think, bow h while for. 
Ae 
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