17-1845.) TH 
sande I hess: 
doty es the 
E GARDENERS’ CHRONI 
CLE. us 
O the 
e the protectors 
the nest And fm latter is by far 
to that circumstance cane -à hed indebted, no reese 
atir tapes are —D. 
Propagation of Pianis fm Roots. — Observing that 
that any Arta haky can 
plete. To the third 
‘be ‘er evi sed, for hak is com 
ts?” it is ans 
estion, “is it necessar: i9 gal. 
? . 
from 
I beg to name the Seakale, whose roots 
po sf 
roots 
sy innumerable shoots at both ends wherever 
que 
vanize snails to keep ve from pe 
it is not necessary to ir Fd 
= | yet han nging is a mo: 
r to kill fe 
i 
whole r ang 
superio lity for the best E r purposes, and 
or be = higher price. In furni ma 
Thr 
e of the pet ngdom, there is meth ng 
80 tempting to the taste of snails (if one may ju dge by 
Pak th 
ough the | 
d by bleeding it is gene- 
ts beire. they break. The chief cause “of it is late 
po Mr. 
med as sen 
f 
fP 
l ou say, “that in this instance As public 
pe mage a sap" of the repealed duties” (though 
there is nothing like t two-thirds of a vo tren in price), 
xf stated t edt te are not 
the need leaves of sean uluses ; | 
yet, th iou gh my ga ed ba nd snails, 
th e re- 
Mr. R berti — and disbuds sith the leat on, 
| usbanding a it we „the ener rgies of the plan _ The 
of s 
emee) my many bréit en “the toads, 
gom a EE or more in length, as practised by. Mr. 
of | Wa lk 
mòs 
I aL choice oy pee ya and ra aimed 
ities ing Ranu ses in the open n * bord but 
amputation, the scars of 
}; m +, >ei] 
ng t 
4 1 3 
plan o 
which may pig seen for ‘oa or more years afterwards. 
Speier 
By pruning close up to the yo nea or new wood 
my terri But the experimentum 
s the hope 24 nia ne latter sen met for 
A de 
by the late Mr, Loudon „ He e placed three. gs witout 
3 he 
food within the ted that 
covers quite so if the 
| Vines are you 
ng.— W. Bro A 
M hit hiriset Ii t ma 
TOWN, ‘Mere eva 
r interest the amateur 
J 
to know 
a” “This may be sport for , but it is | they remained there man da; ays, and were no ” ‘able to how difficult it is to obtain a really fine see Pelar- 
death to us, and whilst we see these thin ings done get but. T.. Horner, M.D., Hull. P. mund Foster, Esq., grows annually about 
3 in the agricultural and horticultural world sand, with a little tow, is what I use for the purpose | 2000 ; Rev arth, several apg Captain 
ollowing such worthy of conting them, when put into use. Thurtle, re 1000 ; Mr. Lyne, many hundreds ; ; Mr. 
i overt “Why not as well hope that the House of Potatoes versus Frost.—Much has been said respect- | Beck as ; Mr, "Cock, 200 ; and os Catleugh 
had met for the last time ; but we, like your | ing the influence ‘otatoes, aioe more 
rer from 
we do not wish a “scape goa e 
men or oe A ene who are as essential to us 
salesman d the butcher are to the feeders of 
any g rof the ho 
once closed a ‘the whole period not eve 
private growers whose numbers uainted 
with. a roiti tkáblo te ‘Chat with hut few 
t | exceptions, ho elaracter of the flowers of each raiser 
o di ffere nt t i ge eye is able at once 
other singular circumstance is, 
that 
the se severe nights l 
29 e skah 
; iati any one submits to be imposed upon by such 
os as you have furnished, with such means of 
mn information at hand, they fairly deserve it. The 
restrictio’ t 
Potatoes remained uninjured. Thi i is a cae bai 
a they will bear much more cold weather than is 
nerally suppose ed, and particularly when, we g dried 
St. 
lass 3 at least, such was not the 
winter.—A ood. | 
The Toad. —(See p. 258). — In Dore tshire, “several 
hi ears a ZO, 
I have peko a tr’ ied to iy Satie a fine rites 
Ppp, Matilda, Erectum, and pate of 
have never succeeded. There is ning to desire in 
| the Seg of them, Sylph b urns soa 
pees Matilda wants more =i the same point ; 
Bor, Bolg 2 
0 pay their workmen full 
he 
d with dead toads, and others in a languishing | 
t nd t 
of = pea they made far os thas was re- 
made, a very meet duty was 
hias 
ing state. Most of the latter carried 
one ee smaller (though not very small) size, on his back. 
I too! k _ particular noti ice of bah circumstance, but im- 
e part 
er sold or 
of the > large one, 
Erectum is too small H and 
always cramped, wants reise ina 
para! collection, Yet with all "their faults, "some | it 
of t 
NIHIL 
this i is, after all, the great test of th f 
When true, what ugh Riv er is there than Fayourite ? 
more ‘than one-fourth of the g 
| of hish i (thon gh not ten ‘re I sabr to produce | 
Bik 
the e epidemic. a of the same fact may have | 
ie Eicgdom had ceased | to exist, the survivors | 
sing 
death ng whic i 
rns as to quantity, and to make in 
kia as the legitimate wants of the 
From this you will perceive, and m 
be DNS of production ee! et inte 
re only Sic: 
ude requ oe 
paints 9 Some full extent, and my fi is, | smaller toad on the back o 
Bhat let the dem at as eas arte ieee the female. They remain hop togeth er till oe 
that we shall be able to meet it. At | female has laid all her apa, "wits e male impreg- 
ing for it, so far as the present | nates as it leaves the female. Frog: will sometimes 
h ispositi ll permit, | remain between 30 and 4 together, mt I do not 
ope not only in time to keep out foreigners, | know how long toads — up their interco [We] 
vi f our superior | did noi nd the inquiry to alade! 6: this cit- 
which must = only reduce the product and in- | cumstance.]|——The mi toads are the males, whic 
ir man e oe. b igh trust, with- | leave the PERT unhurt, after the latter have depo- 
ends here, may probably | sited their eggs in the water. a es, ENEE the 
mouse is sidom seen dead e 
gravel They or hard path, though “rarely seen th ere 
| Lec 
to such a degree that no exhibiter can 
afford to risk its it oe Veritas. 
A ianen a passage in Prof. Playfair’s 
ures, it seem a that "Pota oe ee e 
tion poti for the Giese a e seed, should 
able ingredient in compost. have some which ‘ad 
green about five years since, and has been a soil for a 
Tim —— e there is 
te] 
ve 
nda 
+ he”, ‘i 
Tre depastment pe I further 
with the Board, of|n 
times, 
ustion, especially when 
or I have known 
me dead female. | 
were the Tast 
not e. paoor eA to Ti sng 
appear to eee, faster than E EA i: 
“ 
Sotieties. wi ghee 
ROYAL SOUTH Society. FLORICULTURAL 
sve, Kemngton for the 
ee 
mado [r Pawley, of of Brom for th best 
collection of miceli aneous plan n this were 
several well-grown Cape Hais, ‘among w 
whi ig large 
a was particularly remarkable, on account 
the same co) col- 
April ety) 
E. vas tita rose: 
of its handsome gh Sach blossoms ; from 
ak b y one or 
s throughout the whole tiie ‘aa he 
William Sa s 
Ee Sheet, and. Plate- Glass Works, 
Fee meas, mas il 23. 
ae —The York Floral Society 
having n out a challenge that they 
against any, Society in fa, Kage 
and it was proposed 5 
ok of ol Vienna 
dices 
: vob 
for Talis w ere henkauca 
Te Soat. to show any six of the 
me olo ones’ ore ‘il T latter die.— W. 
the soundness of } 
Leschena‘ 
the bad effect on 
ulti 
gees Bowing Hove 
and a goo od Euphorbia splendens, whose brilliant 
7 
some 
suggest a pias of wall for those 
uredly t: ere Lin wan 
pea be cheap, and, the bricks ceed mortar be eing 
on strong also. The dotted lines are the founda- 
| Azaleas, stag 3 a fine effect.—A large Silver r Medal 
was to Mr. i ambag g. i B. boom he io a 
Prekid ealeton of pe hich were 
specimens of go 
large 
° Thes y Fpi a 
managem 
Euphorbia a splendens: a í ‘fine plant of e gg 
Aphe 
Society at ton, for not lessthan 257. This spectabilis; a well lexis humilis ; tl 
eir frie t bein ec ce ee teeeeeseeeees m prrarseeesesr reene | showy Ixora coccinea ; ST pæ tricolor ; Fond 
na it sugge: y one of _...... | grandinosa, a useful species covered with multitudes of 
at the Coppice, near Notting- ae ae beta EE a day 4 small snow-white blossoms ; two species of Acacia ; Cac- 
e: tered for that exhi- aE a A ia ET Oe eee Ba insoni ; and a spreading bushy plant of Gnidia 
to state that they will show pinifolia, sen an abundant display of white 
wn Society’s show, York, or any other | | er ial H tained fa second Prize for a 
por as soon as the |*= serr No cove seers Peces | smal up, comprising, among 0 ers, 
ual’s hands ; s trusting | | ee sus 5 us rge Azalea indica alba in full blossom 5 Clero- 
‘sh r seg he York Societ soa aeeE Boas À 
ed Toke Slater, Cheetham Hill, ge n- ‘‘ culata 5 ‘two Boro ronas and Ruellia formos. ppa 
i.—The follow; g ae à nala the others the wall ; goi sta Ao from ‘Pillar t to| J. Pag i ef fen rapa dee ee 
wera ia th Il, are al at es gardener aler present from J. C ‘ox, Esq., s Stockwell, n Pawley, 
were destroyed ed and E A off off. | In buildi whole bricks and halt ga cks | of Bromley ; from the former was a spec men of Dendro- 
dow pipaa diumber about 10 dozen :— | must be used te Saou, ‘that the hole of the work whose gracefully branches 
ites bu uried u up to the leaves; one of may be properly tied in toget r.—W. ere clothed d with largs lilac Peona single 
treated in the same way; Millar’s| The Robin.—Soft-billed birds being seldom or never | specimens Mr. Fairbairn, of Clapham, rr 
1 much up round the stems; Sprouting | domesticated in Scotland, at least, in any part of it with | plant of Erica favoides a capil which, although no 
uch injured, mostly destroyed.— Este, | which I am acquainted, Mr d inform an| of the handsomest of the genus, as deserves ` 
: ier anxious northern reader of the m: in whi in every collection; Mr.. a os a4 
; ag i the sen =f li Bi i Mr. Barnes to | generally treats these birds, the food they like, propendens, p X prn pn 
where t de- | pecially how nestlings are dealt with? With regard to bell-shaped blosso: Mr. Dickson, j ER i € 
ta hits plates (accom-| the cuckoo, allow me to piam that the hedge-spa: | Brixton, a small, but handsome al o! “ sae 
lates infinitely | is not the “usually favoured ee ees In al variety of E. aristata ; and finally fi ag . MA AR 
T. poe as any | experience I never found, nor he ly, of a young a pretty go trellis. e. W x 
cuckoo being discovered i 
e | sparrow or r robin 5 the tit-lark < being | the only favo: 
Peckham, was 
color, covering a ci 
of Nor pene sent a collection of named Alpines,— 
a ee 
with any 0 or 
uriculas, taking into "consideration the 
expectations, 
re three. But | late cane season, surpassed 0 
