 10.—1845.] 
THE GARDENERS 
cote, 
CHRONIC 
LE. 149 
out the | the growth of which 
g season. Havi w pointed es of which it is supposed to postpone or to|the striki f th 
dvantages which t the plan ai te in their prevent it is truly the decus et tutamen of the Gra we ino Hye Mpls as gr see uh a ra H 
ve country, I will proceed to verse their manage-| plot and the pasture-field. I h N1 head, in Fig. 6, and whic Sige in height 
nt as ractised with much success for yea Sd thse i 1s yello this moment thick mih Moss of the most ripon to the length of the pth a ss should T 
he wht can be procured in 3 0 N ii with 4, 6, | Without it th an be y open like arree rin pinse upon the pot in such a manner that it excludes 
tr iiy ce would ard and meagre, with | all communication with th t r; this ma 
oe “the latter must be we h e exterior air; this may 
Sae i rong S ay oe salvia aban: ¢ pee ew "sprouts only of sickly Grass struggl ling for exist- done 2 by not lea aving any empty space between the glass 
February. To facili ate the apse ae of side Shoot giving pi everywhere to Kaie nd Dan RLT bored 
nd also p acc rate the eir developmen Qe part Aidt Í JE other i arse herbs. In a month or E ik- eni ‘Mos bell- hid we must alw: s proportion the size of the 
thre four ) Popara en give place Adis a tds es decline, | cylinders to the quantity “ot the emanate and their 
t of its affording akio to the herb it strength : thus, ot be covered b 
may here pahi that in future, when ow Shelters and defe ds? t = y 
he stopping of the plants, I also wish the d serin b PERE pand aii eami slone bs glass ; ‘and in this last it it will a grow so well 
l m mame branc H are erp ay eae reciprocity of Nat eats is wisintai ši: s on to tho 
e found that is means shoots are muc I have, also, some nae upland cow-pastur CHi oportion to the 
more certainly and quickly produced than if the leaves thickly-covered with Mos Poa Some ye z am ago, rapi nT i yw to EOT ya: 
> allowed to remain. this time the plants are in a > COMPOS’ 
state to be potted, and here it must be determined at | sons, I was persuaded | to harrow up the Moss, under the Tus being the Prete at which ijwa i —_— 
pr.: size they are to podus ce eisd wers: if plants in a| id composts and lay down ple ns for the pi offer 
e desired, they must not | Grass. The consequence was a sensible deterioration of á few of soiis 
o produce flowers until the third year from | that pt of th hstiwdatrindccs backward fos the purposes s eo potting ; and as a “preliminary 
is potting; but if plants with from | 20 heads of | and scanty growth of Grass, with a larger proportion of tép Iw ill g 
oom are sufficient for the cultivator’s purposes, they the c courier kinds of plants—Seabious, Rumex, Planta ago À. The great improvement in 
be allowed to produce flowers in th ond season | 3 the saitivation ot choice plants is undoubtedly owing, 
their growth. The best compost fa these plants whioh ae feld usually ; mre I say, therefore, make in a great degre superior 
ts of three parts very turfy peat, and one part of mical and mec nic ios „powers of composts, more espe- 
o ve gen may be adde © well portion of | this season. Ler the ‘the repress only the coarse | “lly the latter 
charcoal, and a liberal supply of gritty sare and obtrusive foliage of weeds, „if there be “any apprec ted. he riddle was a most redoubtable foe to 
These should b uch; and by and bye wil f choice piante! by it those valuable masses of vegetable 
before they are “used, and ould e as the np itary te Me ote er "hie been by no Spro; 
e compo: ein , take a| mean ed by ie AEk Siiehion whith. AoW compost, were carefully — for the rubbish yard. 
fill it three pacts! full of the compost, an 
to stand; then eet ah sma 
plant g of its pot, and with a a pointed rege orion the 
f roots round the ball, place it in its situation 
a fill up with the prepared. ae ‘taki ing c aie make the 
i tter solid, and to give a soaking of water to settle it 
: gare Bs ball. This completes the potting, after whi ch 
ee 
} challenges os para 
and to eit 
hood to brave a little cold to tread 
P: 
of 
HOW TO STRIKE CUTTINGS. 
ei 
aie eel Sbirka on this head 
ety be 
the and n share either; I have tried 
fees thay 
een aop sufficient to paei out the necessity of 
l 
 thep 
7 the ng it rising to 70° or 80° 
with cate ol 
moisture in the day, ou e 
oe ay 
AEE I care to expose 
o keep them 
lass. In this iy rap! will grow vigor 
s and -may be assisted o wice a week with 
f d. ioiek the hottest inir 
s por odaya à temporary shade may be throw wn over the 
Y. NEUMANN. increased attention to the above principles. 
‘sa ae —Pots for Cuttings. —The pots which we My po ig he i is fitted up with binns, of which the 
choose fi 
we prefer pots with wee | bottome, bo that when we tur 2. Loam of No. 1, in sqrs. 
tiag ine pie Keni is| 2. Amden ateken 13. -inch Mixed drainage 
no thing to s top the bal ming out. I submitted | 3. Heath soil 14. 2-inch Mixed drainage 
to the Horticultural t aiak of; Paris some time ago,a| 4. Horse-manure 15. Mixed drainage ‘small’ 
model of a cutting-pot which has since been common. Ij 5, Cow-manure 16. l-inch Bottom-crocks 
am gl ave made it known, because i Charcoal & wood-ashes | 17. 2-inch Bottom-crocks 
tribute the success of this part of horticultural ine bone-manure 18. sepia Boe E 
sċience, is now so generally appreciated. Fig. Sharp san 19. Char large lumps 
will enable this simple proceeding t understood : | 9. Burnt turf of No. 1. 20. Linch Boiled Bone, for 
A is an earthen pot, 23—33 in a on in, | 10. Spremo well — | bot 
high; in the bottom there is a hole n pot; | 11. oma of No. 3, in | 
ssi be age must par p abá tedbteäb i a ihe is the | <4 
but ‘we Bin 1. (Strong pega Loam).—This sound loam 
inside a little Pot, wine 
| is obtained from 
old r est land, on a clayey or marly 
ld Gr 
and old coarse Grass it con- 
peg the earth in the | 
pot, as in he cut. This u 
little pot is to receive r 
the heat. e hot efflu- 6 
t of course taking the prena ‘to have the shoots 
o pre 
through seh to place the plants in the open air, | vium of th 
subsoil > the 
tains ba better it is cae ‘the potting-shed—this is piled 
d 
p in a sharp ridge out of doors, so as to exclude 
ain; it ato ee used for general purposes, when from 
to 12 m : I house a smaller portion w 
e sun, and this 
Pe d to small sticks ent their be eing b roken. | hot-water pipes, enters ng to 
By the first week in August t the hole of the earthen pot, lodges in the pot which is | state; and for these purposes it is pi into squares 
growth as can be panting ¢ the first season, | inverted, and Leni the cuttings, which are planted cir- | for Binn 12, This loam is chopped down from a per- 
therefore from this an > thie ripening or maturing | cularly around it, in the condition most, favourable to ienaa facing ite cutting hay), wh ated for 
must be commenced by gradually exposing the | their vegetation; this arrangement p nl, mewhat mellow, a considerable 
; plants to all the sun and light possible, until, a x last, advantage, viz., that the roots of cuttings do not force paidon iy the ue sal re out loose in the act of 
and y Ppa wood is thoroughly ripened, at the foot of y is is and the masses of chopped 
wall. may easily be separated afterwar turf alone fill Bin 
oe > nay. aid remark that it will be as well for No. VII. — Bell- Tan or a tings.—The green| Binn 2. (Ha alf ro iten Leaf-mould).—This leaf-mould 
> amateur to bear in mind, that the flowering bell-gl elon bell-glasses are gre used is generally slightly mixed with rotten dung, inasmuch 
fae th dickipaletok sap in a highly | for propagation ; but ase and repeated trials, as it is ut pit linings, which have apange 
d that this e i frequent observation, have given the pr reference to the little ents blended with the hot leaves. By lyin 
er. 
ce the plants, m 
owers at the So of compac 
aac Tomkins, Walton-le-Grand. 
MOSS ON LAWNS. 
king some of die peat out 
coloured glasses, 
ei 
mainte ai Tach ri rid 
at leas t 1 inch i int the mesh, and what comes 
s thro 
r sha 
Pire it is passed through a sieve of 
ugh this 
cuttin 
= forms ofthe glasses 
sed in the _ green- 
nn 3. Trah. —As there has been much con- 
terms 
fasion arising from the indiscriminate use of the 
bog and peat 
Heath-soil, as “it is obtained from Delamere Forest, in 
parts where the Heather is cut for making besoms. 
Portions of this mret are burnt at intervals for agri- 
endeavour tọ follow in the wake 
N of Natural His story. 
NN Fig. 3i is a Melon bell- 
Ñ glass; it is useful, in- 
i AY $ 
ood many 
little. cats oo also = | 
cuttin: 
of the burners 8, 8 months er ards. ~_ upper 
surface n this Heath-soil i is of course composed of Heath 
leaves and Moss, in a raw or half decomposed beneath this an 
wee ings. 
terly y other bell- glasses 
G. 3.—A MELON BELL-GLASS | 
too fresh for the purposes of potting ober 
gular (à fac 
aa om diamete 
nese ais 
tings of mee 
is a wide but 
ow 
3 of sunshine 
nursing oth HRI and ot i is pots pen 
ules scene of summer, 
re | cris, 
Wheni itis 
matter ee of the roots of reciiess possessing little 
sand, a Sie 
| when dirat ted of the dirty sand under it, and*šť the 
and raw matter on the surface, is ag in Binn 3, 
f dried. I mak e { 
sige Foe ter being hal little doubt, 
tiomelée: that it would be much better so t increase the 
| burning on the surface, that the whole of undecom- 
d matter should be reduced to vegetable ashes. 
Binn 4. (Horse-mai . — Much as old Cucumber 
linings &c. have been recommended, the best 
for the purpose of pot I prefer horse-d 
a little age, and for two ons : first, they 
obtained before high fermentation, an | 
high degree s it, nahn ge 
in the 
e gases), wi 
required to ipai a delicate wi eri ality 
stan in this way a slight fermentation takes p 
