486 THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Max 9, 1862, 
Mad Loui and Madame Laffay, the last might see exactly the e in which the seedsman | plodding. E Large funds and some extent of 
on her own roots, ór ^on on Manetti. ked. 'The next was a of Wheat which had |suitable “land covered with water? would be needed, 
of constitutional Roses. They are Roses for been partially sown with 5. Мы In the spring the | I cannot help thinking that (not to mention clubs) we 
publie generally. I оки to be obliged * wireworms attacked it, but on Moser the roots|have fishery societies enough ; and that if funds Were 
leave out тен А first-class Roses. Bourbons : |І found five wireworms dead in опе piece of oil pend poured in liberally into the coffers of the Fisheries 
Acidalie, Malmaison, Paxton, Louise Odier, Catherine | it sustained but little ЖҮН "produced 8 coombs | Preservation ne A or the Thames Angling 
Guillot ; George Peabody. a better Rose AM has siad (32 bushels) per acre, and, 1 have n0 reason to do ubt, d Бене and e |o the ege — bass be € 
been acknowledged; the raiser, Mr. G. Pentland, s was preserved by the oil-dust." At ‹ 16 would be less в expen. 
me 6 plants from Baltimore. Noisettes : Борат of the following year (1816), the subje 
Loco UH ару Célestine Forestier. Teas: | ъу Lord Albemarle, pho * hoped that Ља could now | third in уаз? т-н Алан Society. Twill support. 
oniensis, Bougére, Safrano, Rubens, Som. bring proof ‹ of what e had Mene respecting the|the proposition to the best of my ability. E. C. 
brenil, gioie de Dijon, pone e ае Souvenir d'un | efficacy of p g тор, [шов ugh it had : €———MMÀ— 
mi. Roses of 1862. P?s: Duc de Rohan, |operated ш а different б m at he ha 
Madame айе: @8 Roles, Басу РА [stated lus t year. For this additional light on the ML eign Segan que rem nts t > 
Madame Clemence —Joigneaux, John Hopper, |заЬўес& he was indebted to the ingenuity of Mr. Paul,| CAPE ot Goop Horz: Colonia? Bot ч iu M 
Alphonse Damaizi Archevéque de aris. hese| who had made a seri of ex eriments, which had In n a ist professing to give the names and officia esige 
are sur v e to decide positively, tha tt the ge entlemen charged v with the сате 
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mend Emile Dulac, and Gloire de Chatillon. Madame | and Wheat, the effect was the that p. 75 of your pr vem E m this 8 
C. Wood is a good Rose for the public, but it is not|the wireworm fed on the P^ ee y EA e беф on the | ment :—** Africa: Cape о оре. — Воѓапіс Gar. 
ircular nor quite right ia the centre, when fully | plant., He. had broken up an old Lucerne and Sainfoin | dens, Cape Town, ig ined: vacant by the decease'of 
ina word, $ ongs tothe - of Anna de layer, Sd it € Mid oil dust, and it had escaped Юг. 1 L. tmm «тт beg o inform you that tlie 
"Diésbach, which is defective in outline and centre.|the wirew Walpole corroborated " late la се, nor 
Ro 1863: Scur des M President тааб, ior statement adding "that he had dressed two pieces| does such ап pv al title exist in the Cap е colony, 
Deuil du Prince Albert, M. Freeman, and La Tour du | of Wheat; опе with long muck, the other with. oil- dust. c during the first year of its existence the Wee c 
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топу are fine growers with goo d foliage. The MD SEE The first was as attacked by the wireworm, t - ber ил ачы se eerie + — 
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Seni soo Ct ye, Peter Lawson, M rs. W. Pan ай age се lv ised R оте official- designation is Superintendent of Botani 
(Bourbon), Alfi nt, Jean Gou ору pal piat her ' and the ardens, 5 
сома де Goliatb, py Madame) Виня [i ien ne tai in hs umps, which were ev Minore destructive to the When the office of “ Colonial Botanist ” was created 
de Nimes and Еси {а nte were cut down be fo ore they | nuns: than the finer particles, as for instance in the for Dr. Pappe three A ih ago, 
came. Ih of the five dead wireworms found by Lord A. in ar Pau i T ma im ** Committee oti the Botanic 
one of which has Машей Тһе bloom was, Shr t he calls a lump of oil. paste; i.e. a piece of rape- | Gardens.?? bod posed -of gentlemen who 
for a чей ү б оп eak plant, first-rate ; | cake. "Thefact i is they eat their way into the cake, m have held the hon зоту distinction since the fou unding 
its colou clear Бану“ red without stain; there they stick, till suffocated; being unable to|of the in stitution, control the e finances, and otherwise 
it blooms тему) and yet without confusion; its peta - extricate themselves from. the pillory in which their | lend their in nfluen еер) Tonikan its interest. This was. 
are close packed era ces I cannot say "whether own gre m ness has placed them. Samuel Taylor, |the simple PE: which connected Dr. Pappe with the 
will Бе а good g f the бы СД 1862, + Glouce. gardens. Tuan M. Gibbon, Superintendent, Зыр De 
have 2 vhs "of these, most of w are in od "Clyde Rose. —Nr. , Wm. Paul says (p. 413) Gardens, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, 
and abundant bud, but, as I hava e proven | that “ Eh. f seedlings I raised, 
them, I ves Ж er your readers to others :—viz., Olivier | but we parted company some three years ago upfo| THE SPRING ке Srcrny: Messina, April ? 7, 1863. 
Delhomme, Simon St. Jean; Francois Lacharme, Charles | which. time it had bloomed in summer only." If this| —Since I wrote from Pales (see p. ied 7 ам 
Lefebvre, Vulcain, La Brillante, Maréchal Vaillant, | is intended to imply that it is а summer-blooming | carefully acere ihe vegetation of the ' eas! past 
M. Ernest Dreol, M. Julie Daran, Professor Koch. The УЛАН: the statement is incorrect; for it is а good |of Sicil from Messina to Catania and rebus On 
two last are as fine plants as you would wish to see, and | autumnal Rose. As it only poeti: Уа the first | ра он southwards, І а become more and more 
well qr with buds. "This information, ана time in August, 1860, when it was cut down ard essed with the influence an A ortance of 
with Mr. W. Paul's река may much ass that |р й timating 
W: F. Radeluffe, Rüsht Season. Аз те regards s colour, it is a rich scarlet 4 pip riw 
Mrs. Gaines's Sale. of Plants.—The whole of Ње | поб a crimson and purple, and п. us be, w Messina i is beautifolly. situated į in X centre of a bay, 
stock of 1 bel to this once celebrated m nar: | assured, poetam Mang ith regard to th | Конной е semicircle of low mountains, on Ше 
sery was Xni of by auetion the other "bm | seedling, aut; of ҮТ ham, &c., lich amed a north-eastern Shore of the strait "T is ior the 
generally feiched satisfactory — Messrs F. T | being im by Mr. Wi. Paul. it should һө [óc tated | nàrrowest par th-east inb Л 
А. жа of Chester, purchas he 1 y were all raised at tbe old nurseries before | ОЁ Sicily is only dts up from the main land or 
Azalea liss Mac-Pher- | he left th . George Paul, * Old? Cheshunt Ñ Nurseries, | Calabrian mountains by a space of. three miles, „Тһе 
воп базе of Седен, was - а orm Ъау of Herts. straits: widen рай until, half а 
pecimen Azaleas, Amongst other purchasers of dye Rhododendron Dilossiasem, Dur plant of this, | Messina, they ir miles across. ioni roce н 
ts were Mr. Bennett, gr. to С. S. Foljambe, Esq., | which bloomed beautifully last th-east n in füll and is protected from the 
. to — Rus » Esq. of 770 trusses of blossom on it thiss season. Some с of the north-west; but val mediately i e the hi, 
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Mr. — =) many other lots. А gentle- | 4 inches deep. James Leith, The Gardens, Balgowen, ` | Aspro monte, where Garibald „shot and taken 
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many years this nursery stood almost un- | Mistletoe growing o on a Ce ex of Lebanon, x sis by the vegetation of the deer а Кт, above 
valled for florist's flowers ; the ‘Auricula, Pansy, | near Taunton, in Somerset . €. Trevi and m Messina. Itis still very backward; the 
alceolaria, Dahlia, and Ge m: have -— been cul- Protecting "Fruit. tree rum —I should be glad | Fig trees are only just beginning to show leaves and 
vated h ла for O years foy to be informed if it is universally admitted that the fruit, anat es жыды ез ч ia st sprouting. Ther 
ersons in the Бс r way had m essary to insu: 
ак the la — ме» Nancy Gai Mm exactly a crop of fruit. M rees have been protected, but м |o Orange trees i in y" iint are small. On й. а ате 
hat period wa vos rs Pat Cov ењ Garden Market. crop has generaly been very scanty; & ре some g down, Pine trees higher 
Lie o many has been used for market plants, | deners, who are а experienced men, attr bate olis situated in the same latitude as Рав, and dis 
„ findi ng he was so surrounded | tlie failure to the protection, therefore І should be glad d from: the north-west, which Palermo is nof, 
with buildings that Оса could not be successfully | to have the experience »" others in this matter, C. W., | but d ity of the cold snow-covered A 
for exhibition, turned his attention almost exclu- | Maids dstone, mountains bring its northern suburbs to the level of 
sively to to the growth of plants for market, The houses, -Pisciculture (see р. 418).—' That * Piscator? -i right Can 
I SA ыг h "Peri. action early next week. in urging the formation of a Piscicultural ociety With t the mountains behind and to the north of 
iiia t ^i e first Geranium possessing really | no one who-has turned his attention for one ыт) H Messina, begins a chain, at first granitic, uid ui 
properties, ent out from this nursery; it | the present depreciated position д our fisheries сап | which runs along the coast for 70 miles south, 
^s King. E. Bennett, Osbérton. doubt. The E riti i 
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(3; 1 ply to the c rre- | great; exten ng care mo ut Salm 
spondent ra Р 25th nlt., respecting the best mode of | Salar for Глаз аш and Salmo Trutta for кыгы bi 
dealing with do better n eei Do el Ge fM add are at this t. also of the utmost 
garden, I cannot do better than s experi- our Tha ecomes 
ment ofthelate Earl of Albemarle, datea by "him | уи уы course o 
ра eorr sheep-shearing oi A815. I took down kei re years, we dia T Pe) тра red to stock Оов 
жы Un i thei dies ie i malin. ТУГА ; уж Ий tots undercliir or Riviera commences at the south MT i 
uie edis pe may with confidence state | [stocking the Thames and all шерл svi with all kinds | Messina, protected from the north and north-west Ni o "d 
.oil-dus destroys wireworm. I und myj|offsh. Truth to tell, such is the pollution ing А ast Nah and gradually less and less ех 
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К 5 y E ust kee north-east as it descends southwards. Тһе infl hebt i 
her on зер ml - other on Wheat. Тһе first was ап | е stock of fish artificially; or we may bid 1 Zoo s s protected situation M d peoga СА nots P 
Sainfoin layer for all part of which Буе to fishing. “Коше was not built in a day,” | m e advan F 
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was sown with oil-dust, at the rate of half a ton to an | neither, were the Thames inter- 
А : pure enough to-morrow to vhi yn tur ah the north-east. "Windy a is in the 
they мек анна loughing for Turnips. When |turn oung salmon into it with a chance of successFare | v ning bays or sheltered. ravines s 
field icd Wes т t pl шоп of rocured an A ibas 
some|storied house, become the rule. E 
а year or two hence to pour : i Xn 30 feet high. The white Мае 
of young d|Almond tree were in full leaf. T3 
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and rob or Es no other river. The any pretension possess. were 
of a Piscicultural Socioty I leave to оге іп the orchardsand- VU sed 
