3.—1845.] THE GARDENER 
solve some green or blue vitriol, or wood-ashes, or som immediately, 
| mon soda, in the ee r, and to leave it ian e 
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The spro two necessaries are to be had | residing in towns, the lower classes especially, have no 
ch conveniences. In the spring, when the hame 
before emptying it out. A terwards it would ene to pe at eve ery one Lover of Comfort. [As we be begin to grow, they send out long shoots, and whe ent 
orougaly v 4 er r gio elves, we cannot rennan 
dried fa feo in iania Sat they are peste ed in pruning thorn 
Such a gat oala, nA drive o ka: enemy—at | plants. A man might as well put a bag a Sa wack, d 
least, it is worth the tri If any e has a better |a glove on his hand. We do not fancy t tender- fingere d 
method, I T aay he wi S have fe ed nature to| gardeners. Oil-skinc 
| ling, and wasting its substance. An effectual way ot 
killing the re sekr at EE bore? (and no 
sooner), occurred The hea my fe 
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and elevation of tho gr ound, the course pursued | In Mha ia ‘I i. Pot to-plants never had an exuberant | incapable ry poder the full demands of reticulata, 
4 n pruning and thinning, at | fo oliage ; but where this i is the case, the plants thus inti- | which is naturally a s ronger grower than most other 
what t these thi innings and prunings commenced, | mate that they have ano over-excited vigour. This, if not | varieties. If C. reticulata were grown for stocks, on which 
R. in, allo wed to be expended i in the formation of seed, will| to graft our best varieties, I have no doubt we should 
p have been the results. In = gga to all this, that which tu with | soon see a wa improvement in the Camellia; and if it 
| above all satisfies me, that this plain matter-of-fac t way | a still yh development of foliage ; “and these excesses | were grown n its own bottom, we fe should soon ‘lose sight 
r of stating things is well Jere of atte PE is | will be at t this f its unnatural variegation.—James IT NES. 
this, that the public are invited in one instance | = other ees for culture, t the gardener Gost Be it The Tomtit. some have been goon erving a 
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fai de a very 212 eing suficlent. = boil a 
communicate it, for the sake of our fair correspondent, | of necessity, and w wish they were in general use. egg, th he question camé to sty how short a time w ould 
and her beautiful plate-glass fishpond.—R. E. Keep ee body dry, wt the feet warm, and the fingers | effect the present object? ‘and an immersion till a 
Sp mr e e will take care of them ld scone six, seems amply sufficient: this 
a Home Correspondence Florists’ Flower Sceds.— Sethe Be 
i: National Plantations. —In this age oF inquiry, in to you pated te a ~Allow met pon ee Saan il pedometers to dt ee Pes aret 
ling whi i t ublic mind and the public purse are both | Pend to the gardener, ‘alla or simple. Ihave been inthe | keep for many weeks quite plump and fresh, and until 
t actively employed to discover ati ari re teens d nd | new ones could be got in the market at a reasonable 
nati and practice, Ba pe a piain E Eit Të 4.4 the old |7 with a wish to vary rand to improve my stock of Pani price. This plan may also be useful for te tos. 
co school of that family) may be gts ed to address you n the purchase of that seed a ; an d | them longer fit for use at sea, where vegetables are no 
i pas saben: which nothing can occur to prevent being | seeing respectable names and celebrated t | to be had.— Observe 
em: One, throu ough all tim e, of the de pepest interest to alee ite ben = Fae atta ched, ann a for sale packets of| The Misletoe.—I have seen Misletoe = 856, 1844) 
ether as it z siti choice and sele atalas ; ” Pansy ; eed, I = ve gone to them | growing freely on the large branches of the common 
security of t alas! as a 'the produce of the rone Laurel, I also paradne that on the Whitethorn its 
ma, peril. My objec ct is As br De iaa the To rds Com- | an and select” ban been only such as I have disca a d from | fibres extend under the _ and appear to send forth 
missioners of the Woods and Forests the consideration | my borders as rubbish, Really, 5s. and 2s. 6d, is plenty | branches — the plant is broken off, which may 
abia how th i tree es may be, most pro itanly lesa, pruned, | for a tea-spoonful, or h trees being so much infested with this 
i” sa , EAT xe ing db yr s that is in the | better results. And I trust, sar your hear | para oti zN. Ss. H., Bury “si Pape nds. 
| power of m r those impor urposes. Iha may m eet with better tr pune — or the time to come.| Cam Ht men would tu a their attention to find- 
ale p they "ed nae AE this subject font BENEN on, be- n Original Sub- | ing a see th at w g rme 
Me a . 1 havo seen in the Chronicle, and other Agricul- scriber.- [We believe Ke the aka seed is eae honti. and prevent it from becoming variegat 
pers, saved by florists for their own growing. It would not be whe en old, somethi hing of importance pens be efecto 
able degree of variation from other—some worth their while to-sell that. ariegated, a 
a rs seeming to be written physiologically and philo- otato Cult —My expe erience is decisively in fa- | I amri g 
sophically, and others in in matter-of. | vour of ninpiigy off the blossoms, but that experience | or Inarched o on the “Single R Reds, and th f sl 
giving the period when the plantations were made, the 
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ha weaker habit than itself. These arı 
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t circumstances require. The stat is o lumns as to the merits ek; demerits of 
i applicabili ty, but each has its excepti whioh every | Mr. Tom Tit, ond certainly so b that little gentleman 
gardener may discern if he tests it by por Fs of himself | has it. Ihave, however, one accusation more to bring 
l; ; this question—What is its purpose >—G. W. Johnson. | against him, and shall be much obliged to any one who 
le ep e| Potatoes.—I agree with “ E. D. F.” “ns s the injury | will tell me how, in a delicate way, to cure him of his 
| alluded—hature of the soil, its elevation, period of | of removing oes a Potatoes. In the year 1843 | roguery and cannibalism. „T certainly am a lover of ‘ all 
5 pee mode-of training and pruning, “effects resulting : pwa the bloo each alternate a te be taken | the brave birds of the air.’ ae 
up m in regard to the ak nce | of the ese ~> anta- ff as hoon as ‘they made their eA Sgr or by way of ‘ matutini yolucram su ae =e antus» 
; tions as ornaments to the dis about half acre. At the har — I ld | is s particularly delightfu lany pra cept “sub culmine” 
li rticular attention 30 the result, ‘nds far as I could y gardener ‘alls Senet oak te 
ad of labour and general Sa perintendenee To those tie Eig ——t those havi g the bistens pro- | at the bottom of`my kitchen garden abounds with the 
e e attentively read the pa pers to which I have Gen ae k ee crop. Last year I Slanted a few drills | family Tit ; and that he observes ie come down o; 
hat of a| the roof of - 
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ication from what has been written about | Pigeon s me; ; roduct from these was an dant | a bee comes out, when he jumps do own, and „poun es on 
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hese discussions, so exclusively, that I may term them a had a failure in my crop. :At planting tim some extent, and I am almost tempted to let m my man 
th Welsh co trove sy. Namely, whether the mode of | cause the seed to g sso elected, taking our those | have his miei a i have a sho t the thieves,” rather 
n the system there pursued s tubers that — mpto f growth, but not so f: lose more of my industrious little friends. Wi 
; E re p ange r ‘the oaa “Shoot being broken | Me ree, oe some other of Mr. T. need Aas give me 
? Itis clear that those _* ff, ich I cut the seed. | a remedy—bail for his better behav My wooden 
and have reported their opinions respect mot Ses — —4 Subserier paein [This does not convince us.] | bee-hive I am leaving on its stand i ye d d 
sy highly to be approved of, ana Mir ought! Potatoe _ Mr. i ton recommends the hive to be 
‘ dopted; but the strongest gr ground for m one Pot a dry out-house to the roof, 
j i aa adversaries t to | of the correspondents ofthe risalni i have to "ote wrpped i ina i linen cloth. _ Mi ght I not put a mat 
= eae A se woods, a e promised | that it did not at all answer See! desired end. I did it | over sas th, or cover 
Ty assistance by the w od-manager on rE set. nd | by topping note other bed in about 30, and — in up their entrance to keep them in till spring ‘(as they 
ow I come to the point where I think the Commis ssioners | digging them up, that ne unont 29 uce m days and ee — ar s0 
Wi Gei Fores Ti save them from dying of yore ede g the es of 
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peint oran not only as regards PaE grounds | Hawarden i F Tree 
2 emen Potato Plant nting.—From what appeared at p. 801 _ To Secure the Fruiting of a Tree.—The tow 
lanted, and the Specter of | last year’s Chronicle, respecting planting Potatoes > | directions may, probably, be interesting to some ex 
r ds to im | was induce w ant ew e an 
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7 P'antations—nay, who haye on y hedge-row timber to.|on the 2d of Dec., in se goon situation in the | me several ygn ago by se late Lady G. Murray, but I 
k tadvantage. The course I would pre- garden. The tubers mate yaaa only 3 in. below the | confess I am unable , from age coe. 
me mend is as follows: that wherever there | surface, merely as an al cman and I think that we | whether they will bao the desired effect or —Select 
on grounds under their trust, they would | have had quite sufficient frost here to put the thing | a tree well furnis ss with om buds, ju bri they are 
acres, land of equal elevation and equal | fairly = the test. I er mined ee So the 4th of beginning to ex and. Take ry a a Potato. fork and with it 
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hold ents as described by the various up- | in tha lads | th the earth by pressing on the handle, 
soiders and practitioners in their respective systems ; | I planted them ae any horse or cow manure, ‘but a| an ‘with fom exertion ea holes about 18 inches apart. 
ve r each experiment wou , 4 suppose, suffice. | little guano was ma them m. They ha ad no artificial Evie dissolved 1 oz. ge nitr “id 3 gallons of water, fill 
great loss would be sustained, because the defenders pes ection whatever, a t th ith the olu manure must be given. 
ir sys e most beneficial; but even | was frozen both — and doy the Potatoes. They were | Should, after _stoning, “the aes appear Pres to 
„1n any case, the public must benefit, | planted whole ; and sustain pplied 
the experiment will have established what is the ing the experiment mia the last two years, 2i it nting in the same manner. To 1 ga al. of blood ac dd 1i al. of 
A few years would suffice to test the subject, | his early Potatoes in his gardenin Oc to ber and that water and : bth o potasb. Stir the whole well together, 
gards the public forests, but those of pri- | he has found that they are at least a settled, pour off the liquid, and mix 
I beg pardon for exte ending this letter | than those planted in sigs and th ` they Sonis — 1 gii. of ‘this liquid with 1 gal. of water and pour it into 
ength, but the subject of it merits, in my | a better sa Tren Saul, Fort Gree ttage. es made in the manner already described.— M. E. H. 
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h of this country, if they | Keparat which had been made in raising Potatoes ; | rived a a a e ae o h on the western side of the 
© insure to our navy at all times “hearts of oak’’ | and from trials which I have also made, I entertain no | Tama a from Devonport, ag has been 
PS, as well as our men.— One anxious inter | Saas but that planting whole Potatoes of a middling =a proverbial the Tast 30 years as producing the latest 
s by much preferable to — yon: are cut, _ind coli, This sort is brought t to these rer iz in na 
ers’ Clothing. Tt tie si t, and ik 
st pe on and by ardeners es- | very well, but there i is p sa i rep ing in pieces Sistas before the Cauliflowers’ make the eir “appear 
gards prope clothing. We e every day oy wal Potatoes, while ae others are vai. are not so a The seed i is invariably : sold as. ie Bee Willco 
skin, liabl he open air in bad weather, drenched to valuable, and have the skin entire. In damp or wet coli,” s been stated 
te es iable to colds, rheumatism, loss of ime, and | ground not thoroughly drained, y in cold backward | he. advertising columns. ae le od le 
6d. ls miseries, and even death itself, when a | seasons where vegetation is checke , the cut sets parch | grown in great perfection 
a da Drar ea capes would keep them dr ry, warm, |and never grow,.so that blanks of some yards are m Doosan aa adapted ke. it Bra 
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uted, as it is not in the least inconvenient, Poistuen & t ea e | of the following curiou 
noae afha at a ky easily laid angen i teorthog 23 to the best and easiest mode | of Jaune ne HH 
"ae lof pae the one crop of Potatoes in a proper state net of the highest 
at, rather than’ blowing and beating their hands | for use until the following e “eo ready. Persons | ence, and 
could on] ae ols shilling pair of gloves. If | residing in the country who have frames of glass, per 
make, they e cheerless, shabby appearance | can have Potatoes very early ; and they can also have 
7 monid set abou), and -remedy the evil | old Potatoes kept in pits in the earth, &c.; but people 
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