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THE: GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Mar. 29, 
Fotections in the spring. Again, I akam uch may 
e done in this way of forcing dwarf-tr 
n low wooden pa 
a ot "igy 
p 3 
soap 
snow, 
puffed 
papers. 
Im 
ou give a pa 
{We fo not think this soap mystery inexplicable. When 
is 50. treated (setting aside. APS, Deans; kettler and 
7} lbs. from the 2 lbs, of soap. Can 
mical explanation ?—Eaperto Crede,— 
an up, and contains much -w 
volatile oil, _ When. first patinto water the ‘talt j is igus 
3 h 
oe esi 
ather lasolring n the 
water, as 
soap is “insoluble in het ; henc: 
i softens, absorbs water, and greatly increases in bu lk. [o 
Ay soap | 
doors ; but, in order to judge of the c comparative F 
of this and other Aat I must await the ia £ 
[other correspondents.—J. K. H., Castle House, W 
‘ord, í 
t present, in my fruiting- house 
ihirps Wine ae feet in 
n-44 well set and large sized ie ; 
| The parent ‘em (an old plant), pn naini an 
wall, and bene my is brought under a py th into the 
of the hou down the eros and to this do 
ini nh — 
hay. 
f fhe 
n 
with lights, ¥ will 
be. the re sneer for eats and Grapes. I 
believe most of the sot tch si are 80 grown.. All 
ow considered, b th 
i of sash, pe the best mode of 
pa; 
o 
oO 
the Highland Pin e bea 
it is so much solid ae or soap full of water and 
vapour,] 
af rue phang Pine.— Your 
ndent ‘‘ 
ree known 
cot tch Fir, 
f; d 
oy nat 
eems to doubt fa 
distinct colar. of Se 
hese are poin's 
cheapest and best kin 
„managing tr cir roumstan At present, 
ees under such c 
-I believe, w ese matters. 
that plants from Highland seeds have been nade eit 
eek consequently 
tain ed, I attribute the Deme Ppears to aff 
instance of extraordinary, ‘bearing.—J. K . i 
tdi 
a 
—In the Report of the } s: 
e Horticultural Society, o of the 18th inst., it inn 
m ted that, i ad ssa were crossed b 
a 
vores goo d mi et be exp ected. The see see dingin ing 
It is either common walls, or regular oy foreing 
is practised here. Some years ago, in the publik eer 
ere large 
north of Scotland ; but that this has 
F 
i 4 
£ 1842 I bl 
5 
than to ar 
carded, by very sapaar 
r 
timber.” 
being rew 
A litle more „inquiry | 
ing 
on the subjec will 
ee an 
e plants are invariably. higher than those for et 
seedings, ms no erage of gran nora 
; the whole, with v 
way i 
Jy at ome groning i e the open De Dodman 
_ Pe aches.—Can of your pi Bi nts give 
Peaches, on eR maa 
1 prre on pales ? 'i have little wall, but much com 
deal paling, with south, cast, and west as pect. The 
border well drained, will. this do for Peaches, &c., and 
Dodman 
mmon tree, 
of Scotland have for the last 10 — 
to the Sha st 
Highla 
Pine se ts. 
5 
3 
g, 
$ 
should. r ear the 
1 
# 
riority pas the common soft-woode rf tre 
inqui iry will elicit the fact “that the attenti 
of He ef 
si 
of the 
Th 
arly Peaches. Notwithstanding the many 
Ay 
Ageng. s Woods eae Khe 
ted to this Pine, and that. they 
aw mbacks occasioned 
succeeded a ripe Peach this day (22d 
March). This i is yr) ays earlier tham g AT last SaR 
having then gathered t 7th of Apr ril. | 
Q 
pai 
ave a stoc e 
being ogowin oop. of its claims as a 
p, sylve tris 
ted out, a rt 
a timber-tree ozer the 
_ Your correspondent asks, ‘f If se s of 
to plan 
Had the season been porga con 
ral oo earlie 
Ka 
= 
F 
Sg 
` 
e 
he 
ie 
3 
o 
+. t 
ose ec which they are taken, and. 
is aiae vf Lebanon, 
aos T Aagi 
Pin 
th 
a 
1 
arther 
plant has Seas ' white tube with a 
ne opiaten of the granichildren oe gradi 
how does it 
y» I have no he: 
phont a yg and Scotland oy the Sco 
infer when it is 
clear ane all the pint 
mo n Pine, as it i ed, o 
8 p 
tulips from Se ‘ced. —An 
in the Gardene rand Pract ic 
s bee 
cal. Florist, respecting rais- 
W ie the 
the 
from s i 
equal in apa to. those from whi ch | they | we 
of the “A 
re PH 
Site that cents ae aided r DAM 
ridi ; 
neral cultivation and public 
T 
els. p. 180) 
mention that stakes failed with me pne theu 
of the ‘sta kes. or la bels came in contact y 
o follows out plan recommende a 
coun in haa ik recommends pox seeds E be s 
September or October, a a as 
voyer them a little 
wary, and was mo 
quantity of pe 
Fi sti 
t En ngland 
inferior quality, as ane represents it to oP 
inquiry enabled me to find tr 
in 
ere grow ing in 
wi n Bee: 
of N. ac A Eea. + along 
mon tre 
and Scotland of the aks Pine” is not of 
A very Hite 
ing 
xcepti Gh ose trees: have since 
e wie 
ae che pry, REF NR of the wood of both sorts 
din presented to me by the propmakor:, “AN ak he Maghinang 
moie to ds above the reach of moisture from thes 
JL nee 
The er.— We haye received reports fr 
parts Ga the. eg concerning the severity off 
frost. Mr. Drummond, Blair. Dr rompa nd- Gai 
near paing, gives ihe following account of the st 
a thermometer, on a north aspect, 10 
SARE for tl d M: 
ruary, papas wa 
continued to so in 
neglected to Pio some seeds a t the ep 
not ns them until e: month of April, and upon ex- 
aminin them Iw muc ch struck „with their size, 
as the 
cription 
if painted, full of turpentine, and a 
wood of the Oa rii The oth 
by n, whit 
Friday 14th . 103° min. 
Sat Toth,..20. 29 
R 
ld 
Tue: sday, 18th 
Wednesday, I 19th 23 
Thursday, 20th. 19 
ean nd so The ths were of ay 
agi 
i-d 
a: 
my Aah gr ew 
and upon we ee those sown in February, the 
Ingest weighed only two grains; but, 
this result, PAPRAT si latha Ra 
s Stratton Strawless, the seat of R. 
Esq., s where pere gid trees of the same character, the 
rts 
soil. 
Ma Aoshi 
lowing year they did not. take up ai 
out. 
en 
cing sand vere te thr rou, igh 
red.” 
thos 
were much smaller when planted, although i in the same 
compost. Again, the writer in the 
have no doubt Hi ihe Pisce a are 
nd i p 
hitton, Kes- 
work ae could not. have written from actual ex- 
mi cover them deeper. 
she eo 
Ea 
wick, Bling, Horsford, Basialeigh "thirkiehy, Ham- 
nd, 
nd Clar emont, 
t Muswell-hill 
Int er landa; of Seok 
ame. 
” 
hy . 21 
17th . 21 
Qa the afternoon of the ie peobebigis about 9 
pth rps pen ell in 4 hours, anda 
the might e 15th. The i ae ain py ' 
e. hak fallen E Shas part o of Perthshi 
below zero, Fahr... This red on the night o 
Januar 
mae 
E5 
Ri 
onar 
eepi In 
p at the top of the foliage 
Fat Tittle progress s dow 
Tt then zener y sinks t 
raed and Dalmeny Park 
r “‘ clear that all the plantations of ED 
Hi ighl 
A It ager any ‘means 
common igs owe 
and fo rests? 2? for 
rom 3 to 4 inches , and then t the end of ets es 
tain that some fe! them 
ona Potato, and which is called knitting, which increases 
in size till it Seine maturity, The Tulip bulb or mather 
the germ, doe: ays m the firs 
wa 
y, & 
1828, "Sir Walter Scott asserts 
S n E 
Thursday, 13th . 
Friday, À 
Sa viral 15th ` 
Sun day con 
d, Russia, Spe eaa 
Quarten. E for Oct, 
that he. white- 
ooded } i 
ake the so pale st fibre cotch Fir, "4 Biers alen ngland “i 
d, 3 are brown, and apparently dead. — Mr. 
ay Te AnS and, la pt gon oubt, der all t er a inferior variet». hrgught t from cin ae artham, Sussex, ae that the coldest night 
rotate ae mation oa sand inaron ase ‘ott Be ES bulb. from EA Pm ag gee ip = a” bul anh witho sy quarter urred on the 13th and 14th inst. 
to be Aas it | > t 
ae fibres, and make, in some instances, Wo. Smail ‘off. | is soos ds fot for me to ‘establi sh the fact, as. already done, ; opal ‘a to sr on ‘th he ost of tie 
firth’ sag Fans aE w may bloom in the) that the Highland Pine maintains its supe riority situation is distant the sea «about 
that eight Se INA TER esa tia den And 3dly eee TAIRE Fo and. darable wood. | Brown, Rockingham ‘Cue, mentions that on the 1 
show tain that 
raed fies ns phapa, In Re DN instances, as I keep Highland | Pine is ung neti i kyete neg “ it avi tel e-uphes t ee aon ar ea of a 
s well as I can nerea each separately, I | 2 he rem ti i k 
pened a ahn Sater, F ia Payer age the anapi ba Ss sa stenci a a P o0 of. DA High idee Beeston I zen in an e 3 sr he it fell 4 fell to blow ze pr 
$ s eetham Hill, near of Boilers.—The comparative merits of re it 
eg the different Eee woul Sy easily and ean tala |e zero see Braen as es the Di although 
ia _corymbiflora—tI had last year a splendid | determined, if su ah Rene sun shone bri ghtl it till tood at t the same pou 
pee of this; the plant had attained to the height of PERFO sp GaN APPARATUS, F A AE I denen k, states ti 
Ofeet. . By co Cow tan ty picking out the flower-shoots in “Internal Temperate eae antag f E from niin ‘ í 
hia ucceeded in o EN an immense head, and a a a a k 
great profusion of bloom he autumn, The plant was 1845] ete Er a R brite Bats feet pital ao ile ra aoaaa although i ee aa shelte 
altogether a splendid spectacle, md, l Jmsgine ‘hat y Mar, erature, | 110 feet of wp of 3-inch |12 hrs., 24 2 "a Toth a a t da 
7 Schl 1” could seen it, he would hay “a [3inch piping. in omg: piping. |Moira coa 80° at eb eran e, hot sun ert d pit 
ean his opinio on respecting the eae ty of this oa 9 33 67 57 56 Fous |b Raie; seit i cares had cease 
32 67 56 5 ” fit, it fell below 40°! hi 
pre s a —The following is a receipt for making} 47 26 66 56 36 H imi ii the es a ten s 
ip, that has succeeded well with me :—Slice 2 lbs. of | 192 24 67 6 2 H tbr 7 
yellow soap, put it with 7 lbs. of snow in a brass kettle; | 13 12 6l ° - + Sebati Fallen again “ar wh he — y 
when dissolved, add 2 table-spoonfuls of salt. Let it) 34 23 63 = 7 2 e nigh, 3t vlell 40: 055 
merfor three hours without stirring; then boil it} j5 24 ry : ¢ gt or pin aga oan 
t half an hour, stirring it frequently.. Take it off the “A > ep P wieka : 
fire and. add sizpennyworth of oil of lavender, ditto S O ann mak aN sii Meare on se Senet ani tasya sro 
ambergri lf chm of cassia, and six grains of poner aa piti dowti (Sylvester's patent); without itt shop Man bthage nce f ae 
musk; stir it w and pour. it shes, | th hecking 
= or a few days turn it out and the rapid draught, I found tho: boiler in question ex being large, th 
moiit. inte eee y ered wasteful of fuel. To ht been from 40° noe excepting. wh 
at into pieces; dry, them gradually, wrapped. in ex his cep ns ac 
patent 
