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272 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. Fined 
ee ta Unfortunately, y 
a 
t is to be hoped that yo experiment, tji in the best Tegulated qoelbiies; anise your ” gubseriber to observe for hit soll 
rahi es will occasionally be taken. i have known, | whether po did n 
and othersalready announ d okewharo; ae bee othe instance, w wher ve a fine head of Aur ric ula had sev yerai | herbage: Asr Si nS lawn, - yon agree with tm 00 
a a short pe “hee ious to staging, perfect pips w vere pe | 
regar¢ 
oss improves the sward, tel x 
u ent 
d from other flowers, and i 
ree 
will, now see that the 
his Aasi. fel 
Mo oss is “fading away, and i 
al shes mee of sich experiments 
is, to say + the least of it, prematur 
6m AURICULA.—No. II. 
In contin r on the properties and 
5 
Lint 
P Ocasional Ke taa flowers have been x 
nd will pic z: 
P 
It is to be. premise ed though, ti 
a camel-hair brush 
name given to e Sir When these thinks are dis- 
covered, 
¢ 
ll influe 
of sun ng air 5 ge as you say, under trees ‘some nal 
by. 
of my pa the 
beaan n asrivng at just bgeesiamaoe as to the 
erits , 
5 
r flower, as the case may be, leaving it with the 
I put the question toa grazier the other day, of 
epl, 
of Auri culas i ompetition, I se pan o 
it hibition, society to adopt ulterior Sianta I Hi 
he _jodses rea dy to de ae, on thei qualities. Whey parti es, as they in their wisdom see fit.— WP. “I do not think we take muci 
hould, PTEI to entering on their duty, ascertain - cure is a good coat of dressing » 
from tary if it is the custom of the Society to HOW “TO SIRE SURTEP this answer is, in the first place, that the appe: 
‘ lepart from any of the usuall ished rules. The Moss is a er of no great mo 
nust inquire the es lest number of pips which are| No, XII.— Cuttings by Piece s of f the T —This | Second place, that if it be, instead of bestowing 
a truss; whether shown in pans | mode of multiplication, Which I first published seven | labour and pains in eradicating the M 
of four , or exhibited i in pairs ; ; if i classes, ho w many | y ears ago, i isn ina all „count ries, mployed, be taken to improve the growth o and 
of ea he rbs in place of the Mops; by the application 
variet: ether it is cu ig greer ESen table manure. In truth S a a nt dressing "i 
tomary to allow nha eds. o be Kl ns, &e. It Z For this por: not stop | the growth of the M but it encou 
is perfectly necessary to be Vorminted wit these little pose pws oe 
matters, and on receiving the proper information, they | some slips ee of those of the grosser e, and so the a 
se “business. * sn, | perhaps before its aes) = natural decay, or 
t often happen s that some fine well- haat flower ., | cated and destroyed by them. 
I got a similar reply yesterday from a Soke 
either in the pans or sever eilenn tands so pro- 
minently forward as imm TE to banah ‘i the eye and 
arrest the atte! seldom indeed that in 
any one ifi all good pro} ties are cman 
then, should be Boeh ferent toa small table, and the 
Lewd or collection, as the case maybe, 
should now undergo a and other flowers | 
should be brought aa pi agai nst co oo com- 
mences the frien cal disputation ; each censor freely ex. 
his opini de fects o or E Deant i in 
t i 
n 
was grazing his sheep in 
ur 
turage less us, 
A that am ia oe Aen 
d 
down 
p 
s, in which geya wage Moss was vis whl 
an adjoining c iene 
ost abu by ey ia hom 
"His word e“ the reason 
signs 
whilst i in tho mer na ld the; 
; and fi 
each censor individually, or the points so nearly balanced | and t lites and well im 
as to cause some doubt as hich really is the best, seo The § s! ephord: was of oni ‘ath that 
they should examine the properties seriatim, allowing a | bad field wanted draining. Now here is no evidence! 
certain number of — for each, by which means they fan f ot | the n o me 
cannot fail in coming to a proper decision. My system | Fig.11. Section of the'trunk of Cycas circinalis. the = iar but only that it luxuriated there and e 
in . ee a eae og cya a at roots, and show sts between ieoueales 11). pars a yhieh would otherwise be nitootp ai 
pers Meer eeu ac f m ete E a a y ar Eo hen a d, bed ed cedar! a te — and Trefoils, Lamb’s-tongue, 
just distribution cat Ants pees SAE piesi ANa hr cuttin gs, which developed themselves, as well Mocs, ‘bse Seach vee were ` pushing through 
dog, oe poi: to unift mity, poe: IRA k <> Plant which served to make the cuttin I dia | Moss, and, x: doubt not, in a few weeks will entir 
an S poina t Data ee ae porat po iot then t that, in dividing these slices of Cycas like | "SUP its plae ote ears 
Sabias by wate of ill on; that the e two heads aac Pen lownia a, I should obtain the same results ; nà 
onein ed Be Be ustra T ee eat a tlt ge cut them into several pieces (d ¢, fig. 11), each = all equally well exposed ti o sun and air, n hero i 
gs No. TS wit it gee ven pips, from ae Aber to biain ne! g ko Hie Gre ke ayda praat found ee g e 
r had cut to o si 
plant; No. 2 with five, rather larger. | Soar been exposed to aoe of the toe for at °T | field. There is little or no perce tible difference 
colour they are acknow dged equal ; but No. T pir = weeks ; T did not t aeS general aspe! hi ti f th 
of the pips i n wi ich t ie groun nd or dark colour has Rete i 22) avy nos drom ie; paa field ; fete dsressed 
~ N | tiat io young; but, in the follow M year, i perceived eld ; but it is a little depressed, and I suspect ancient 
gh to ge, this head had taken root, a roduced keai sa Ploughe a rhein sal e 
PAi on: Perii of c Aen wni- “a i : ae pranks ae: 
parts before cut. It is aan one year be parts, a bage is richer 
spog and size ; SEES a and thus :— | these cuttings take root. p cate nal be able we. of my pana ce every spring, TE Eue, 
— part o ave visited it to- and obs 
Harm = ony é al : ony “ais ith which this anay is prov. Lagi he herbage i is pushing through the Moss, wi 
x wE y + equa ntenaity x seat _ Peg Cuttings. ae hag Aidei see ae: of all cut- itsel growing brown and fading in the cusi 
niformity -3 Uni eee rmity . — | tings is known under the name of peg-cutting ; it is way. I may add that the field in. questio: 
Size : — Siz that generally use aed for mult; ply ng trees which grow Er year, apart d in the autumn and Mene 
ae r water, such as Osiers, Po &e. Forthis pur. | 228 4 coat of well-rotted stable-dung every t 
pose we employ bran ple in sen gth, a GR Of the protecting influence of N 
No. 2 would thus be cis the first place, nail | cut the lower end to a point, ey n early spring, I shall have more 
by two points. Again of Colonel Taylor, v. Galloway’s | We then force it into a hole in the — ‘orward a parallel case in the matted coverin 
Oldham. previous! byas r, lands, to be observed in early sp 
former would be ari ferable, into a hole larger than the rience p it is inj s to rem 
inform . = -5f The latter best in cutting, and which we then fili with earth Sin above was written, I ieee read the 
Distribution Sie ‘| e = . 2| Pressing it down as soo he cutting is tions given in the agricultural part of last a eee 
Colour . . . ] | put in its e. Everybody knows that (in the “ Notices to Correspondents” 
fy mE goings root more easily in a light viet oss’ on Grass lan 
an in one too compact ; it is for exactly in accordance with what 
Again, we will suppose other two flowers, No. reason that I advise this last method again inculeate—that the improveme! 
best inform and colour; which would be 5 and 3. No, 2 | ought notice, among the Po green-sward, should be the object of the cultivait 
in distribution, daoen and size ; wheko vorh Re a and P. argentea, which not the mere destruction of t 
perdi 4, 2, l. No2 would ti sat ibe 8) one point, take root m cuttings with aiseulty, facilitate the ee of th hy 
Another example will be sufficient to show the work- They are, therefore , bette r graft SRON io it, i be useful to pati 
ing of this at Noi harmony or distribu- | to which the, have more analogy. ahs the t me of their a app ag eee but noes 
tion, in chore sian would be 4 and 3. No.2,| _ Cwltings; of the Trunk. — This n that detai 
on e same ad of its Moss in sin etc ‘s injurious toth 
k t 
ing flowers should = 
sd have not decided revision (especiali to make the pio- 
priety of their ralig “ doubly sure ;” for on this point 
es, and the comfort and confidence of 
mE can co 
rg | (00k roo! 
a spe. 
ru japon which 
of M. Jacques, at Neui 
cimen H „Sophora 
in this m 
priat ARE EER 
MOSS ON LAWNS AND PASTUR 
_ SINcE the publication of my zasiene Lass. 
k plants it serves at that season to pro otect a 
nourish. —P. P. ; 
PAN ome a eee 4 
sed with yo 
carrying i it t into effec muc 
he of his intention becoming k nown 
“bane and suri 
better information 
not only to msn the pb a to 
ore urers, but is glowing a 
normous dumitity of glass that w 
é Mepis up to PETA eR springs,” h he has 
a among 
at for py 
leas statemet nt oe aril 
injure £ glass Sia 
antic ipations 
ould be req 
uired f i 
aren, >i with ith thelr fellow men. 
eyes his article I would just hint the pro- | 
lands, I have observed amongst ‘ Notices t 
| Pondents” that some inquiries have been showin 
ready dew é o 
and obtained an advance 7 from = 20 ~ 25 per cenna 
their former wages. He stated that a manufa 
