THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[May 3, 
down on thi 
s head for the exact 
oung cu: 
add, that in each instance the nests were y the aie | 
and r 
ported, "yet such report may convey very uncertain | 
A ton om: coke agr > house kept up to P at all t 
1 las 
guidance of oer, 
mes, 
ted 7 10 never. 
68 days ; once 
D t 
of the Hull a and Peat oan hoa trains are con 
Iam 
the economical | performance of any given ae: 
ki 
it 
less than 655 ‘and T de sure that = 
t fro: 
difference 
certain from my 
t de 
the eng 
< 
eggs indise: lat in ‘the “nest of the first bird that | perly adapting his apparatus to ‘the e pre ye ne sake fe exac Her I estima 
eap mi in her way, of hes for a congenerous nu | Be the structure to be operated upon t how fre- | ton to Hae 10 kes which, at 20s. per ton, is 25, a 
with whom to entrust her young. Acco ngly we | quently, are the best efforts an i judgment pes ‘the skilful wee ek. and 9 fe turning of ma nure for a pit, 30 feet in 
never find _the yo ung ig of this interesting bird i ie parsimony o! of the employer tin width 
g to soft-billed inseetivorous bad eae Creed situation todas? Tel improper week, say Tunis o the hauling and pu tting pA 
i differe ce in th dly-fitted sashes, &c. Ihave | row und. Se ch ag ee peat re, there is nothing to — 
ard» | 
“ence here one fi 
h | 100 a feet of revel to ist ie eye a bon Yr 
pic 5 na 5 
exper’ 
temperature and 
‘oot of 4-inch pipe to the | be compared to hot 
ater, well applied. I give the | 
ex 383 en 
esu! m of m EMA winter’s rie nis E order that the 
ck par 
Ch iui 
ta ntity w. 
mages &e., and various seeds. een a puzzle | 
to p! ilosophers to ascertain the reason why the cuckoo | 
ffice 
duce the same amoun 
same apparatus in 
onderful one, and i in the o 
or temperature ; ; Nhe for Phe 
one ease would be does a} 
ther ree The pu ublic | si 
d e for correct 
tive to the EP n exercise f sec 
their mothers, I 
“The T 
ed by to ads on 
beg leave to state, upon frequent ob 
ervation, that og ne old one is weak and unable to 
he of of incubation he: rself,— | w 
Yorkshire. 
g ones, | sometimes even to the 
and i 
H. imi Ni rt, 
Effects of the Winter in Devon. te nearly half a 
en the south ev een visited bor 
of ledge and adaitted t of the parties using tian 
© i 
of their inlay toi 
“Te x |e Been 
rt 31. 
1 
In 
s reas barbarous manner, as it woul 
feet ir S 
sque eeze it to dea 
month of March. Being absent from 
s of the engineer o: 
h. 
egree was not tested” in my garden, but it} 
Bint 
ei andi 
und opie gre the injury to our tender plants has 
eat. Among the shrubs in my own an 
oe è lad 
‘dal, sear in all new discoverie 
roba 
shar ies 
of we kind has fre quently to endure a long probation 
a pe 
I should think at Teast. 50 mangled remains of toad 
Ia 
yuh me get ee “of all ga 
ite. 
“pH ngm n the TE of 00) oy of wA 
peah and in some respects 
of sad disa appoint tments and vexatious 
leep- 
re three spiendid specimens ‘of Acacia—dealba 
and a broad-leaved variety of ver rtieillata, 
less agers has SOR a golden harvest to those only | 
taught him the right method, and too | 406 hor 
d | should state it as at paar that the reas 
deva paon a a 
rrible to am no ee but if asked, 
that toads oid mu pea t ' 
acce: 
oxylon, 
iia het never had a leaf injured before, m gop wholly | who follow, without one effort of the mind \ whate e their deaths not thos 
pe any sce My r were planted, but not trained, ag h Ei t teful f. R: 
outh walls, and the former was “more I g d pparat is maA FEPNA: “by the neglect aa of Trees in sp seats Park. pet . desi ‘. 
30 30 feet i in sr huight, andi in the month of Ap ril | literal ly f j; imple air-pipe in | veyor of the royal paie Fores, in his“ Gieanings i 
mass of bloom. rg? S wr ae in the | Natural History’— The trees which at present forms 
likewise perished, as liave Leptospermum andi prum, | pipes, bya Sa relive er leaving obstr ns in | much of the beauty of Green wich Par k wer 
Comarostaphylis arbutoides, Arbutus ce SRN his fines, which the > most diay care or forethonght Evelyn, and if } see them he wou 
tender species of Cytisus, Co: s, and or being compelled to work into call them 6 goodly trees, at least some of them. 
Hydrangea japonica. The following eN ais ived old and impe ras ey ‘already. existing. those only | Chestnuts, however, though they produce some fi 
such a sea nay, I think, be el: among those | know ge bates had much experience in this depart- fruit proportion w with A 
shrubs that ar tually acelimatised in this district, ment of tl Ey would s suggest that all these dif- Elm ms.’ This will help to fix oe Si of tho i 
though a ace : them have had o foliage slightly in- | ficul I 0. A. Johns, E 
pe us tomentosa, notlius Bs siflorus, | and a correct conclusion be arrived at, as to the par- Gold fish. at have Pats with some e the 
ponent 2), Tasmannia aromat l its of tl i pp ing l J whose gold-fish wert 
alpina, Correa rufa, Viburnum odoratisinum, Poin- I would d ti Itural Society ( fi ith a kind of , thoes, t that no doubt has by 
cana Gini iesii, illea sulphurea and rosmarinifolia lt I have observed tha 
the 
Fabiana imbricata, Ue multiflory 
S, and 
x Eo aaa oe Poe PESA te of h 
ee dite or some other public-spirited body, Having | f 
fish a tol Lhe water from cer tai 
ed in im 
Sienie 1 Eero 
Janicu 
> spal an-roofed house erected, of usefu 1 pro- 
R 
a. roseu! Roylii; 
an a Akti 
| iiti ‘at dc! it placed a given. quantity | of|k 
iati ing surfi 
om wells 
ds from ar 
both in foliage 
f 
not live longer 
| and along one side of it 
tha 
well set x = to, and with the 
ads ; st Eho hybrids 
"Rhododendron Smithi aureum 
z would have the pipes with connexions 80 ictus 
suitable water, which a o be changed dais o 
bee ka 
Shaddocks 
under precisely the same conditions (easily done) ; 1 
li boiler-makers to come in, and at 
thei: and c 
| peculiar arrangements, with such connexion: 
as ad eat time. hi prevention i is bette 
to 
eir own expense ost, erect and attach thor 
as 
my advice to a a dy is, to procure a dierent ‘kind 
of water: pon river-water is the best, oa i 
not 
from tubs will not do; ; if pond o r river- water: ¢ 
ut of c! 
1 flue to be cut off 
lifi ifed during 
ut any sand at all), facing the north-east 5 and 
+h 
nace could be fairly tested. J 
en | an nade experience, with a ail engin 
| or other apparatus within the house, so that wach’ inr- 
would ihai 
or gravel free from iron. To encourage the e lady 1 
ee Dal 
the latter, I may S 
ted ania 
poe uninte: 
| rested person, to oe and P a fa ithful series of | 
experi riments, Iw d have the whole oe worked | a 
fu d 
more t f upon 
partly to their being under the drip of a slits of a 
pice ah which 1 made them very dirty and smutty), 
oe same fuel, viz., the whole trie 
y 
with 
Nec topes be en filled with fish er years brine: i 
cas et in diameter, 
are peinp h water, one from a well in the ch 
nd the onek Trom = New nel the third i is of largi 
dimensio: y 18 inche n depth ; a well in 
first with citi A bit tuminons coal, bs the whole | 
it ith coke, then with cinders 
Whish (t th only fuel jon 
ery 1 
twa) ov all cut by the continual east wind is Dan iel- 
siana, which, t though at present et a a itik e wisht, I 
n I removed them 
e only fuel consign 
the use oat the kardar j gosh An tly I Hpne have 
tried with wo i as fi I can sear 
any o other series of experiments pad more ser- 
from the bed in which they had Hee first plan ted, 
several ¢ 
order to avoid the drip, I ak: that they had an made 
_ The are of 
thi his particular ‘period, now 
| that the science g and the cultivation 
com 
th 
ical fruits 
hi ursul 
pu and 
tter, mn posible than in a rotas, and flowering now, when, Sir spi Peel ae thought. it E pennant 
op’ 
so all atatebin g 
o 
ga 
The R 10 miles from town, on the road to Darifon 
— Este 
— supplies tid ey: 8 psom 
—We have killed, within the 
last week, intl 
rd aa Sod adjoining fiel , more than 30 
Soci shah 
Eigse abe ae SOCIE fa io ones one 
y l z The 36th Ánniversary M eetin y 
fatha Auditors it appeared er 
n dise an 
rofusion 
ass. I, for my part, 
Wt 
w ould I be f 
an’ pro! 
would succeed, “but I am happy to say that 3 have | most 
ging t hi bonds 
P 
ing ky per cent. interes, by tho 
: and that t the d 
tee willing J y 
a e fair ge but that the truth mig a t be arrived at—feel ng 
‘orms.—A fe ks since, one of your correspon- fete eatisfied that the t true interest a a par was anounced Uinta new Past ofthe Transaction 
of such 
b 
after which a nen ee the Co 
baie 
ra of we ather. After tl the “Tate frost a friend asce: ertaining and adopting ‘the est, ie eat enerally ciety was © 
notice that the most eco-| Col. Challoner trusted that the Basten orde 
heaps of gravels ER very cleanly taken vp, some from | nomical in fuel may not be the most economical in published. The meeting then proceede Tithe seein 
distances of 9 re irches, and piled up from 2 to 3 time, management, and Ton ; and I would make ee and Office nid oo the ensuing eer when 
inches in height. O apparatus should be left at- , H, Pown d C. B. tt 
ing from 2 10 3 ounces) a worm hole house, as a reward to the successful can- 
found. Is this common, and have any of Jour readers a neo a monument t of his skill. No merkra Bart., R H. ‘Solly, Esq. per ee oe der H 
ever seen worms car’ rying be ee na ld be amply re Duke of Devonshire was re-¢ 
plished, and whet! dt i 7 ; 
th ld ident ; Th Ed E Treasurer ; 
ika heips ee ate a protection from ae ey wou rape for all the | sident ; T homas shes: rhe = 2i gis year ensuing 
rr 
Tail 
aa ea 
rain, of which this worm has 
Anon. 
Misletoe. a teres beautifully picturesque park, t 
seat of Sir W. cote, Bart., M.P., at Awe 
some rey aint res ape o 
kapis of trees, but par ticularly | on the 
ecimen., however. 
this growing on vatios 
Whi e Thor 
fovn ms of 2 
f co ourse, all the ne of provin 
and reporting shouldbe borne yy the parties ‘abet a 
rent waking Bae Edwards, Southampton, 
e tree, beautifully studded with fine bushes 
è oferi 
Sen, is at Eist Tyt! herly, where there isa “pend 
oe a striki ing proo of (in this instance, 4 
inj ure the facie of 
eaking of Bu rbidge and Healy’s boiler 
which aes a house 30 feet in Y length,.9 9 feet in width, | a deme wifo ot opi ee Nek Mr. Fitt pee 
. | and 8 feet in height— . hi kes ge the fire admirably ;| s ota vireys the, commonly cons! cel 
yi ; tw: the 24 ho nd it it e botanis No on “is 
sch bn oad Da 15 "beens beautifully, and has pmpinlaides by (Gin, of f Babingtors «M 
he wi 
coke whole, and do a break it at ef a Is patie rage eran ae bo ants s 
NDON. — 
Mr. S. Gib 
Linn.) ¥ 
| prese: foh k a specimen of Scirpus sil (Linn; ion 
ETAN ore SOCIETY or a 
a thes, when well managed, whole, than if reduced to 
Tapa of Boilers.—After reading the reports | 
to say, the ae is ti 
"tae de foe a apes. Teng th of tim eae tial 
of Hudson. Four of t the specimens 
Society’s herbarium, as showing Y 
depends « on the Rood managem ent of the fre and, with 
ere 
pisos SA aga 210), | 
p- ») cannot | 
feeling impressed with the SuAviction that, 
how ever 
course ches tier s0 ek no ned rule can be Lid! 
branched; sume approximated to is ose scot Smit 
on > in Aig thicker and shorter Wii 
On o in the 
ordir 
