126 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND са GAZETTE. [ЁввпАвү 7, 1863, 
ls, with light soil composed | which they were eut gives one the question has been put by “А, B," I might have le 
of оГ decayed уе lens p sandy ^ aterial. The to epe | the month a ана — 1, т пагу. This Ае іѕ | шу indulgent readers into grea ater mistakes than 1 
then made secure to rods, ln the first week 400 feet n miles south of Edin- | would have wished to have done, simply b ecause those 
April if the Vines are r removed from the hotbed, it wil burgh. I Me er rire. Fe the vere x gs who wish practically to follow.my suggestions would 
land, where I saw no rops in blo any | have been entirely at the mercy of the workma a 
in е that they are one neon е young fibres. As I appearance of vegetation in ем е most | sheltered hedges. might chance to have been lina cs with the trench. 
have already said, rem a well. новая red | I have been a close observer 0 life, | ing in qu estion, BB LT DUP rvant person knows th 
Меда, heated to about 70°, чу hk them, putting | eagerly а for the bursting of the » first ils in | there is а nig uh different workmen 
wed. anger ball s — - from the hotbed ; give a good spring, bu „А І never remember seeing vegetation so in the use of the spade. I Ene a my ow. 
watering with wa ater, and 1 of January before. ope тайна o f digging—one 1 
one reel and the Hanburghs sanc Let - Lo Admiral ей vit ips ито Де т office and inspect | at all times buries his spade well in, * * past. the hit,» 
be kept moist and cool, from 48° or 50° пећ, | these signs of the her in the north; he may then oe renda d moving the soil, which when the crumbs 
until the Vine buds мМ гч ; after that "im may | foronce "nales right rouer nB Wm ld, fine,” instead | are taken out, е nearly а "dle ar „foot deep trench, 
gradually have a higher temperature, "until you reach | of ће everlasting ** W.N.W. to N.E. and back, andheavy while eite va гу : Ày iu во instead 
65° at night, and 10? higher in the daytime before you Scene of w hich. I eiiis think be Aie be even Бан ы, ш a spit only, or а , spit an tl ле crumbs, T 
give air, Let there be по want of moisture in the house; | tired him ali George Dalry „ Hereford Cas ansv n sA eel ^ or рез 
examine the border frequently to see that the roots are | Dalkeith, Jan. 28. from the surface. W. Ear ey, igswe Welwyn. 
all right; if they are getting dry give a good watering | Grapes. T am sorry to вее so respectable a house аз! Zate versus Fari Jn apes.—With reg 
with warm water. This treatment is for Hamburghs.|that of Paul & Son pushing forward the Muscat of | friendly аве e of arms, in the matter of rape 
For the Muscats gradually rise the temperature of the| Escholata Grape, which I could never find different has taken place рей "Vr. Tillery an 
house until me reach 70° е өм, allowing 10? more | from the Muscat of Ае рди grown oub of doors. | mi prehension exis 
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of moisture, d giving Y" jittie front air at any time. | precise information as to its differences? Vinicola. able to produce new ripe Grapes on New Year’ 
Att end to the т oots the s for Hamburghs ; stop arking Trees.—Is barking likely to prevent young | and that І considered it more difficult 6 
tł Oak roots fi in an er e 186 of March 
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in length ; te the реа and letit grow until it | wood? І have a wood full of young Oak saplinge i|this is w to prove 
s what I laboured 
f about 10 feet in length ; remove | they must be thinned, and I want to make them | quotation from the pages of the Florist, where the dis. 
all е laterala £ feet from the bottom, letting the | produce underwood. If cut over now, no doubt they | cussion commenced, wi 70 
in ; then cut it back | w ; but then ork 
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to 0 eet; in pee or four days remove the other|crop of bark would be M pueros I therefore propose | Davis used to ripen at Oakhill in March, “Wh: 
laterals. "There must be plenty of moisture both at the | to b them felled an d barked next spring. My фаш for is that E 
in th f the eyes wi a w T ri 
use. о е duced ripe Grapes in Jan 
ow plenty of fruit; there will be no danger in growth next year, as he rus observed this to be the tlemselves and a p erne 
рр: the fruit, provided the leaves are kept greeu. | case where Oak of Ns size has been felled.. Please 
Тт { їп огдег y to meet him next year "with - 
is foa psg deal quicker than the general | regrowth, or whether ^it is is possible to yx the crop of | their PENAY ба apes, ар Ето armed with his old. For 
erop--at A. Т т d вис! to be ч е case. The|bark, and also the under R. . [Try the ill my t i 
above relat tes to Mu чи д which were mentioned as experiment wit th a а few. Bar “y dion. as soon as the Ы m before tho Созго. on the 25th of the present 
h ssfully in Norfolk, for most t onth, and whatever may be its decision I н bow to 
garden ers will have фти that when а green shoot of | Mos Sses.—1I MUTA dvise “ Е. у я" ot r5 to study it and there the абра shall ард M. far as І am con- 
a Muscat gets stopped or — some of the principal | the zx by id son, «ыа to obtain Feld Mr. ROG erned. m. Thomson, Dalkeith Par. 
eyes will burst iad show one or two bunches, even | 25, ury, dried specimens, which асо 
ift the laterals are on, and the шө, is аб the top of the| he wo АЫ farnish, perm arranged, аб a moderate | aisun: derstan re iem - "esi digi n od wr 
: де А g might arise — exhibitors of 
ine. I have thus, іб will be seen, given an account of | expense, (from 5s. to any extent). She would find Pre ar p 8 letter лде ке dl 
two systems. In the first the Vine bursts into leaf but | Row тепсе to named specimens greatly aid her yiii ^ P the à I have ventu 
ma es very slow progress during the first month, aud | rches and add to her t ar EOS of this y pe i 
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the following теавоп, ' viz. : because there are no young further pleasure of sending him fresh specimens she Leni; Mia am уос аи ом, Eee 
ith nourishment ; but after it has | could not decidedly name, for his opinion—or of P 
y send- 
1 been planted 10 or 12 weeks its progress is more rapid, | ing occasionally a little basketful of Mosses, ow | ашый t to 13 Ii e „дереу - үү 
for then plenty of mouths have been made to feed it. Done ens, &e., fresh ай, in her rambles, as а very mero goles Wü: ташы Ан bati та o io exceed à ti 
In the other system the Vines burst into leaf with a | acceptable contribution tọ а  botanist's ed but the s шара oli 7 Гечев: obtain 18, 
vigour that is astonishing—the shoot grows aw: op. F. T. » jk Sep princip J pu 
without апу stoppage. "The reason here is the same аз | . Poisonous AMilk,— From an extract'from the Malt 
in the бу ДЕХ it has ро и reds of mouths | Times, which has a ed within the last few days in ie tuo chanter a tho vaefa owen, suak F, a 
waiting and e to supply it with abundance of food. | the daily papers, it appears that the inmates of tw duca mL iHe apininn dh сь? 9 m 
t suppose t the Vine has grown 12 feet; rad principal veis Valetta had been seized with i 
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and it wil be sure to pnis iig "P fruit, and шш win dud 1 take en some, оте ri түши of having ehe tor 1863 of our two Royal Societies ipo. Ч 
16 ёоо. After all the fruit is cut, Mns e the Vine dow last year а are : 
to the bottom; there will s eyes herb. which e E similar cases happened at Sliema, kir ке Japan Fi law.—The enclosed has been imported from _ 
have not broken, and some of E E make a shoot Ае mily of a field officer b ? | Nagasaki as Japan Flax, and recently offered to num — 
ihe second season that will E tha Vines to — mne; and pai e same time other cases LAT serymen as a substitute for bast for tying, for which it - 
that were planted on the old system. I would n officers and men of her SANT ships Marl. | seems admirably adapted. — Will you.kindly tell us the 
howev ver, recommend. ауа Vines to bear on s (borough, pira ind Firebrand, but with no fatal conse- | name of the plant from which it is prepared, and if it 
g ach Vine should carry a | quences. Poisoning by milk, x therefore, appears to be | Would — her 1t looks like a fine ено 
і Malta; but, continues | hemp. Engu 
which are ине зен have their roots previously ex- | tha Malta paper, we are not aware if experiments were 
cited, but n. to pias he before the middle of peii ever made by scientific men to Му beyond doubt 
you can heat th аак fee» mboi item siano |t the Bes cause of the milk таео this dangerous 
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eye in January 1861, au n mi tris rud i pros ss an anin they say рене) the property of rendering | left Brisbane on the 27th of August last, in H.M.S. — 
from that eye. at Christ of the me year. | the milk poisonous to human beings, without inflicting | Pioneer, on an expedition to Si York for the p : 
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à 1 any serious inj imal itself. Оп | of G ment — 
Strelitzia Nicolai.—l hee. at the present time а һапй, we have heard this popular belief ridiculed by | Booby Island, the furthest point in that direction of - 
seedling Maso sending e & its fva: res The | some of the more Warga Maltese p пі ians, А cor- | the Queensland territory, was reached on the 9th of — 
seed was sent me from the Cape some s ago | respondent of the Zimes also points to something of September, and on the lOth the return voyage \ е was 1 
under the name of S. СЩ which Mr. Va Houtte a similar nature as раа ing in »t 1 
says is the same as his S. Nicolai. It is like S. augusta Le ica. He says that n two or three months in the | The Governor and Commodore Burnett spent some 
except that it has no stem, and that. the л аге the milk of the cow becomes а fatal poison. 2 York and its vicinity, - 7 
longer. spathe is upwards of a foot long, in | * Muy of the first settlers f fell victims to it; a person both by sea and land, and ultimately decided that 
form similar to S. Беріп. І have never heard of its | а bowl of milk in the morning would be seized | Port Albany (Albany m would be the best site 
having бонге ii Hane Кобе Сел St. Bertin, yit os n and vomiting during the course of the day, | for the settlement. Thereis g si 7 
St. Omer, France. Nicolai, which is said to be а Dit uà Кета By even. This poisonous quality is | plenty of жер water, good pasturage sheep 
Cape plant, has Кы flowered аб St. z, and attributed to some peculiar herb eaten by the cows at a | and cattle, a Cere SA of land ra for y Л 
named forms a 6 
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there by Dr. Regel. It has large white flowers, ain season of the year, which, though not injurious | ti Y limul in th 
and leaves which are somewhat heart-shaped at their | to fo thes lves, renders their milk poisono paddock mainland by a 
base ; and at le it acquires a tall à and аа every year when the ‘milk disease" Eve oy. опе. third of a is broad. Port mi 
Conifers.—How can the ed Editor of the|com h is discovered by the pilk changing а from Cape York, Тһе towuship. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle admit » ме columns и stuff күз after standing some time, the а up dese s „” in honour of the First Lori ; 
as is quoted at р. 103 from magazine. The |and fe ора What are the TM plants in т, the Admiralty, His ж y also visited nd dn 
writer of that article does s чу why Pitch Pino « M these two e? M 
not come from us rigi e sourc Coloni al B Ж Gardens. — The designation of о poin Е 
thinks (!)it may come from Р. Coulteri bes ium Mr. Walter Hill y CMT лүе" and Direcior of ly be 1 
а very wise idea considering that Р. Coulteri, | Botanical Garden quac Dom ueensland.|oceupied, as colonisation gradually extends its px t 
) Wer are from the West of There is A. e Mu ж tee sim staff. The|northward. anchorage and level ground, Witt : 
merica, while the Piteh Pine comes from the mno supported P4 a de from the Brisbane | plenty of water and timber, were found at the mouth гай 
erhaps ihia. ‘intelligent gentleman imagines Ене of 11887. pes ri sum for an | of the Endeavour River. Тһе two principal streams 
Pine comes hither in balloons.  Faugh! — ко Good Нор which flow into the bay were traced for some 
Ў 7 .—In ans ci x y ба: d asks at what | siderable distance up, but n pede wes 
'ildness of the Season.—1 en nclose for your inspection | dep th 2 thic! of well-deco manure B Ai S INO ie ee 
10 exui А oom, йена leaf, peces should а — E СЯ to say qd i should not be f| grove sw lines the eas up to e A of a L 
and several small раа i 
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hes of Thorn, eeper than 8 inches below the m аз indeed I|range of ж running 
el developed, "but t the | stated at p. 53 ;and for this тена 5 Mi I explained my | Walter Hill, the Government ng 079-4 дссотрӣ! 
inches, Тһе hedge from | meaning in the same workmanlike manner as Ње і е expedition їп his official capacity, and the fol 
