THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONIC 
LE. 
[Mar. 15; 
- hrown upon the bed, and „Boil t 
the iasa nis of cold, is, after all, the great | —L. S. — Horticultura. den, Chiswick.—Fri poi were tl upo hrowal 
= <i the a her is so severe e I never stn day, Mand, en areata)". —R.Thompson. r them; they 12 inss f 
all at once, ae it the sun shines, I take off the| -Statice arborea.— “ Duro” ri ee = t he has rarely peach them a fortnight ago, and found them Sound, 
covers, an ad about an hour ng remove the me with well-grown specimen ave never the lo wermost ones vegeta ating. The frost has Son 
but li do not uncover at all, | found any difficulty in 'cnltivating it, ou! I have now a | 4 inches in some parts of my aren 31: ¥ 
excep put i in a fresh cai oo In summer I shade pr awendn 4 feet in ae ory - rect health and vigour, | Hffect of Frost on Roots.—Having observed ies the f 
with a. cover of very thin eps piny with a loop at — tares Leg rge are ee ery. SP» and last two or three winters tha t my Dahlias, whic $ had 
each corner, filled ng, a ent differs T inter, 
water, “ Dur tte o pr es 4 
saye-all, When very ag ng T ba e oes maior consists of peat t, leaf-mould, silver- = acs from great | loss those I Y up, I siok res the cc conclusion. 
Cattages.— Three correspondents have on 4 ‘us chs rcoal, and I prt keep sso! i her p t my Dahlias in the 
with AINT to“ Deis an’s” inquiry about the plans o; a than from 40° to 44° : in r tight , air, and mois- ground, only taking care to earth them well up, and 
Mr.G. 
Johnston 
pencer, } Merewo rth 
aes states that 
s Le Des 
wy fre I entirely PEER | 
grown in 
wit th uro, h it may be 
lower aan than that which he 
J. L. a yar mien Gardens. 
a much 
cottages sof Ser ERa A pa appy to 
communicate with ‘‘Dodman” on the oe ee plans, | m 
Prof, Donaldson saw lately at East Mailing, in 
cover 
— Plant; is st 
ntin ron pp 
pte and ear ave ae aaa bt that this is right 
in 
Er iy accords 
— ent. I ee ied aon oy the 
he f r thaw that occur: at Chri ooi 
I RAG them very little i njoreds ix w af the 
ut the 
Pot 
ende a a 
tiare, but ke am afraid that it would not do in 
h “ 
ges in the p plain old English | practice. 1 imagine that if Potatoes were planted in all £ sound. : They were covered carefully up agi 
pray which might suit ‘* Dodman’s”’ purpose.——A | autumn at the cae depth, ordi inary winters a not opened until last week. I am sorry to say not. 
Constant Reader states that there is a work, which re- | kill them, unless they le: tte ey ar rag complete] 
ceived the Highland Society’s prize, cottages, by some such aterial, sufficiently thick t Je In a gard 
George Smith, which contains working wel from 30/, frost, and the exclusion of which hia l ‘hia be in- reel a former meer had 1 left a patch of Potatoes 
to 300/., and some l hints. It is published 24 ås. | jurious to the land. The following is rse I fc jeonoheg: y had been set with a dibble d 
in Glasgow, bat y be, had of i d. Prepare the ground in zone umn by m hoed since setting, consequently they could n 
ksellers.—— Pin aly, Agrestis elite him to aa nopert nuring and deep. ae On no account touch the bene been, at the utmost, more. than three incl 
“on th sanatory published in 184 land, or tread up g, unless ii ground, a a fakon yp at te p time me: 
ble plans of cottages on an face, whic h, in ordinary season i ut not more than one-sixt! 
À me os he er Leice : stery in Norfolk, an d o f| will be f t th uary, or in Poni the effectsof the frost. The others were u 
March re on as the soil is so dry that it will not | destroyed.—_H. 
tal cl ill ob or e, plant even as earl the Ist of le an at Trentham.—At p Mr. Flemi 
nich have been erected in the EAT village of he presen ie chs weather is open and ARTS and a good aae a kuopas on the subject o of Vin pom whicl 
ixton, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, ao Mr. Gregory crop w will in all probability be the result, if the land | no g mphreys’s made hort latter mode 
r. H 
regory. For the sum named by “ n” (1094), accus F. of H ultural bull, 
ewill build excellent 4-roomed men wit th ther requi- | have s eded in growing g good c rops for 22 yea rs, in | Now, what is generally ma a e term b 
If the cottages are built in a Since; Waisoenhecieiiien nd Somersetshire, by grat blunder so palpable as to carry e its o 
row, ets wil fod one e large tank made circular, of brick, this course. _ The e pla ants cer grew well in spring, | tation; and I, for one, can see nothing in Mr. 
cemen by Spied sens as | that can legitimately come under that definition. 
oo Te os ould be e Potato, is Sener na wit vat tion » or makin ng such a charge e, Mr, H. should have consid 
kept well al within e ee every the rest of late planting ,in land dig motion of the sap, even to thee x. 
three years ; it is far prefe re A N or sapak ne h | par wet state late in spring, “te wil at “the | tent of passing from one branch to another, be so 
the first cost is sr _ anon » he cannot use planting being a mass of dry, hard clods, imper. He should also have se 
better implement a pu aes ly i dt and h sea hetl otion exista or not, Mr. F. mak 
parer. modianic, Mr. Cheavin, of Donington, near Spald- such as that ol. 1844, „the sets, or tubers, bx from ant no such assertion, but mere ly presumes ‘that sea ic 
ncolnshir 
r tubers were "planted in friable soil, as they would | spurs, are, in the of other outlet, attracted 
the: = at the j ‘of. ‘the same shoots. IfIun 
a metallic valye floating on the rarace of the mater by 
there root spas and consequently would be much less 
ought... Dry-rot f 
r. F. ar’ e he does tpos 
aui his opini nion 
men ys to be found in rain-wa a It will ing oroeadl by another cause. _ if Potatoes are not 
also {purify ¢ i yai if a square frame, about 2 fe 
square, is fixed on the roof of the tank, and fille ed with or sets, are kept out of the ground long after the time 
Ww gravel or charcoal h Nature has pointed o s the best season fo: or 
it into the tank, n” will find i hain visahle to | planting them, namel sg "aes first show signs 
provide thes one bes ay es, that n sg growth. The work of dest eion now commences, 
s have their young shoot tly rubbed 
hous 
may — e fixtures on change of t pes ncy. 
Tange e living-room, consisting a a grate, ath 
oven ar ‘er seached, ~~ be had a 
sens, at a price from 20. 10s. o 3i. 
size 
5 
sth Ja 
P 
1 
; æ teed it is bet 
Elati n 
— of ae or  begtanley of May, 
r for | case, thie di S ddin om ort 
d | w e bee 
ever ‘opinions may be Sead eps 
Mr. F.'s theory, there appears 
bee! 
in question, or the hav 
and well-flav 
uber: s 
of, which mol be done, teh. once, “without doing 
great ose to the tuber, and weakening its powers of 
ticulture. Sa 
red Grapes 
February, be fairly called a retrograde moyement in 
pre a charge likely tol be ma ia 
erting the tenal 
o be noi 
8 
ad 
| reproduc 
which is too often the 
ubbing off the 
ill ha 
sh 
d be m 
casements, or we 
lity and the sag “ot the materials em 
“ Dodman” a find t 
ae eek on lo- 
ployed ; but 
ength left in the tubers to produce 
through nis toutes whi the las 
sis ae e have a letter a h 
all ‘and room for it ne: 
SEUA, —The follomingisa rh 
know, from experience, to 
smother shoot Hen oe dey rot ensues, sd ae 
whole tubers experience has taught me em. —_ -= 
t culti vation, 
ry way ; worth 
earvings which 
ca 
be 
Por his wn good inte rest; 1s, ps r week is quite enough 
Ash-leaved kidney, for instance—and cut sets of a 
strong- growing or coarser kinds, “* TT has been done 
rent for a labourer ; 
althovgh, no doubt, far igh rents are often exacted 
says an old a I have grown 
pha tly me ns ok a Sie rat sot Si Sige to 
refor a ie 
of rin 
—I have been talking to a merchant 
mary Marseilles, where he lives. 
stro 
growing kinds.— W. T.——I have read the notices with 
reference to autumn and winter “planting of Mola 
all his ‘Orange Sgn = e bee en by the late frost, 
and t that wh n he e dow 
at Tu 
th Fah disembasts yet there 
n so ay pose t in sy rma that at Carclew 
to 
the aea of deep dry sandy soil, with Kidneys, set 
as | whol 
the 23d of January, I planted 10 roods, (64 yards 
d Fox’s Seedlings partly ‘whole, and part cut 
into res sets, covering the whole with about 5 
inches of soi}. I shoul “hy at t all times prefer, whether 
uror: King 
'olvillii Myrtifolia 
onspicua 
oronata 
elestina 
on 
sle; 
xi a 
lorid 
Fimbriata 
Francofurtensis 
Hume’s Blu 
Imbricata 
The last four me 
arked thus f, 
Imbricata as fg 
ri 
Pa oo Perfec- 
Swe 
Pee "Bele 
Willbonetriana 
t3 a ere r- 
Fief g on this 
x cok. i 
list of 36 Heiss 
goo od, distinc 
may Chandini 
F 
eter. = © 
are said to be fist 
1 
as been 
as only damaged the — a "the Nepal Rhodo. 
lendrons, flowering in open penah and apparently 
e frost of last week, 
ourhood of 
place, in order that the plant may commence and grow | 
in its natural way. But there are girs why I pre eS 
the former time to i latter, and also why I may e 
Lo ng: 
minimu 
nter r plantin the pr incipal che? is 
armed the mea mae 
h, thi 
26°, » 22°,and 24°. Since shen ta 
rost has pane | psi weiter and the e air; though 
ani e old, has become more seasonable. 
` i a re 
pores Lindy soil, on form it ok a more compac t body, |t 
f Rho dode: ndron arboreum there were ral 
whereby the set nd defended from sudden changes of 
p whic | destroy it, and which I; shoul id ex- 
Mealy- önge-My aea er having now had the 
’s Liquid” five oon nths, 
d 
Mr. Hereman Tane from horticul 
the haha compliment they can hi 
e 
le 
n the stove, and h 
Ts. 
„and it is now near 
award 
be- tro 
y ne ioctl 
ll of which were frozen, and have since withered pam: 
men ‘but he — on cg pla: ants, which were e for- 
unate! 
vance 
fi of heat t, still, 
by the tell dwar} law af the Aa of gases, that 
surrounding the Potato would „soon be of the 
oth, ee, pon all. aoe: ts here 
ee iied, certainly a all the maia apr 
my Aca 
stems, of as from St — 
I am informed that if a frozen Potato is 
to thaw, it will remain uninjured ; 
we ha d, as it was unatten de “= pane 
s placed in 
if so, the first troet 
ow or rain, would be 
d; than 
J 
Herbert, Spoffor rth. 
The late Frost.—Mr. Chat 
s thermometer, h 
about 3 feet 
gardener with Hereman’s huid- tere 
ter, of Saffron Wa 
anging € on a poste 
that his 
| of the in Feb. n 3 Aae freezing, and thai 
ns that the yabr 
i Mareh, — ose therm 
End it fe 
that cate was po oh 
is aud a osan 
not a 
Metr arnee Sida 
two varieties of the marina adr 
ppe ta have 
Escal 
Eu uealyptus 
the last would, when we had both. Might not vex 
sit te se “A Kentish Subscriber's my tubers hay 
and my hedge of 70 varieties of Fac a 
8 8% high, ar are sal beginning to start. My tenon |1 
all, as on nly down to 20°, v ing fi 
ie I name these circumstances, in order t show 
parties conducting experiments of this ceeipton, the 
3 for In 
M.D., ine Since the dere was in n type, t he a 
lowing ome have come in: Millon Hill near Abing 
ursday, at 8 P.M., therm. 11° against a nor! 
7 
ant upon them, and in particular to 
nature of the soil, and whether 
aor it lai ly mh mu st 
the ki ad 
uhai under-drained or | 
r 
don.—Th agai 
wall.—R. H. Bette teridge.—— > Witchingham, Norfolk. 
Tuesday, March Il, therm. ; Wednesday, March | 
sult meteor aros, 
Hiag 
of the Po Tekes hn Thom em, Sal 
i giat edi in November some rol vor ces tes at dif. | | 
fell nearly below 
and in other: ; the ther: 
Feb. 13.—Mr, 
jou cna oe 
a 
th 
n to the eastward ond the la 
to ‘the westward of Kingsto 
12, therm. 16°, snow 9 inches” “eit with a cutting wind. 
mber 
ferent depths, for experiment. :: A few which I had to 
t 
consisting of stately Beeches, 
In ardens, 10 
nsigibourhood, the V piak teni fell ry below freezim 
mometers being fully exP 
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF uso 
( oe from p. 1 
—T 
n appeared very denses a 
tat A 
tter place : 
growing in ric: 
