22.—1845.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONI 
CLE. £63 
n less tha 
From the paren 
meh ros ant ed 
the. lant in the pot and of roan the 
of “faing “ han a fortnight ave ped niente 
tl ed 
anthers, however, wer re 
nd flow 
rose-leaved pel Picotee, if any s About | 
a uch exist. 
the same time I a ted to impregnate three flowers 
the 
eggs, she probably would not be able to feed them all. 
I hay seen a pair of wagtails employed from mo rning 
mpte 
Ig Ely’s Criterion, ‘rel light- -cdg ed, with 
Sharp’s Wellington, re ok en aie ed 
e able 
ha 
nia gole anys a will Nees Senate ape mui te 
to bear full exposu 
tles, fi 
Marine Glue a Su bstitule f for Pu utl in Glan, 
a. |'The abolition vd the du 
plunged 
g Befor 
T, sand ma eighty pest > with litter, i if the 
a will be greatly ane, there still mina nsa per- 
There is now but little doubt of cuckoos dro opping an 
egi ney could not get into 
wers seems only to tai rodeo seedlings. In wi it, en after removing the eggs which were already in 
th sI beli lieve the impre; ion to have a com- | the nest, taking up her own sepin of ‘her fret, and 
eth em resembling the ote then ica it there ane is way $ they -are su p- 
parent. In the whole batch there are some pleasing warie- po egg inte a -wren’s 
a, ILD. 
snes Coverings for Wall-trees.—Last Mar 
was Sntioeed; by ‘the representations published 
Chronicle, to try th 
r of oil, resin, and -£ 
E. ae of pres os ving fag z jai hat garden for es sna 9 lead, which rende ered the ‘calico perfotly ‘transparenty 
=" pots; whi “ines rack ards spring by aes m | from yarious causes, against same ofw wall over an 
‘a top-dressing “of loam and : perphosphate, which | ment I h ree, and were not removed till the first-we a 
C they like, sprinkling on the surface a liti = offers, considerable protection. It is notorious that Sime, The Tigo of this a ° appe ared to be rendered 
| coal. They are then Peach-ho i l and the fru arlier, and continued 
" shelves, near the light, re they have the same damage ‘from water lying” upon them, and insinuating in aon = another heey "medite adjoining, till 
"temperature as the Peaches, viz., 50° by night and |itself first under the dried paint, and removed ; but ultimately the ripening 
4 75° by day ; I keep up a humid atmo- | beneath the putty, which sooner or later becomes s sepa- of the fruit. coul searcely be regarded as having been 
E sphere, watering the plants frequently with weak solu- Fated from „the nt Eppe process rapidly hastened by | hastened, cer’ riainly not more than a week, if so much. 
~ tions of ammonia and penta. acid. _As-soon as t y to .re- | But th 
fruit becomes so large that the stem is not able to heera new "the paint t short inter ndeed, recom- | not so perceptible last spring, a season unusually free 
‘it, it is propped up or tied to sticks. By attending to end one coat panali. Tn ‘howe frames the lights of sudden -changes from rain to frost, as may be 
; poe ant Iam able to gather from 40 to ol esa full the h 
; Elliot, ‘hele anyata, Rip 
bbits from a 
soot, on of flowers of sulph 
oft: 
are  fequent lifted off the frame, 
ble 
nd o0 
reacties ason. 
ked for in the average of that proverbially e 
L.also eo vered a ’Peach-tree in same 
| Manner, excepting» that ins tead of ofis Tu coarse 
us 
red to present | 
“they acquire Es pat ata of “thick. paint, then aa 
ve 
effry’s e glue 
ome qualities high wo ould be ar adapted to ezing 
of aty, and acoortiing gly i si A. o. lights 
of 5 ft. yoi by 
Cucum ber. -fram 
de pur. 
the tree was far more ‘infested by the aphis fban 
iksa which were uncovered, and so much so 
ai leaves _ fruit were sadly destroyed, a sion. 
of whic h I observed others complain. Still, I 
that th 
Pa. 5. f these vermin. ‘The trees should be ‘gone 
over tha ae of winter or on the first via 
ance of 1 frost, 
a 
so slender Bs ‘her rai y 
unsafe for glazing with putty. “The wos melte 
ss gee Foiz pot with oil ts i 
out 
l, and according t 
p ae Tihe ArAnA) 
is Ade iari to måke 
aed Khem stick to the trees. 
h an e n tried s sulphur 
bu 
ted d 
vans e inventor, and ie perfectly melted the 
tee was applied ‘by an iron spoon as quickly as el 
sible ; the superfluous glue which flowed 0 over the glass 
i d off neatly with a knife a pa A i paps 
k of the eir e fficacy. With the read ae 
ted numbers of Laburnums near the yee hen ne 
» for 16 years, with the greatest success, where 
u? f} 
n breadt h, 
e-quarter of at in 
ood, | slo 
p te ce about on 
ha ng 
trial of an experiment, unless et principle be & 
| be.in itself bad, which I hav Api ia diaper 9 ‘oa 
e that so far as he 
hes found my ga 
e to be cor: rect ; 
When oo from 
tinkiy was introduced 
in is a matter, so faras I know, oft pure con- 
jecture ; ; but. it seems that “Pinus es Ivestris” himself 
mmunicatio 
ded v 
n, to the exclusion 
} 
F 
/ 
ropagatio 
Binke their appearance ; except when the mix ure ge badar the eatin of an a and ie frost in Februar ry | of the pae variety ; for ie asserts that the majority 
"been washed off by heavy rains before being pee perly] and March ne cae effect upon it ; and so far a as the | of ithe mbers of ‘the Highland and Agricultural So- 
< dry, one eo catio served for a whole year. ‘heat of the fi y Sagen = ah ori ge of course. 
“Drummond, Blair Ei Enpi Garde glue has been “telling, jar its casi i in a prev ening pr pen common white w wood. ar that 
4 naeng Seedling. Fr uits.. — With the reining ak new eg from me the e lights phout, hies your co stoip oaiit ean refer to const oe like 
80: ~~ hail of fruits, is f the that rv of Beeston Par t and Stratto os $ 
d tl ‘i i nd!ọn th e whole I tly id » that the Highla: d Pi ‘ines m 
fi tigati ts ado option." The marine ah ak is, 
Bs paaa rtaining: pes raan ifthese-aressatis- costly han Ree i hi it ie 
in, a marae ed an improved varie „we jis almost im and does not require the ex- reena Plant. oe the ‘I sw suppose t the 
inssuċh-anlinteresting, and | pense of frequent pattie L. Lithospermum ‘maritimum ‘of Smith, Beea miera 
ikonene arerfruite of infe- ngi.—In my wanderings, I lately observed a ci | itima ef Reichenbach and ington (Man. 207), 
| some “12 liameter, formed by a helt of white | the leaves of which have a flavour resembling that of 
gi inches‘ e width, thickly studded to- to; It is called #0 lant” on some of the 
ba- | gether, so ‘ane “indeed, that the finger could ‘scarcely where ‘it abouvds.— Charles O. Babin ton, St. 
There in inserted bet circle -was pel a hy ae ceo Cellege, tea ce ogg. ie = pr 
such .experime’ t GE a ave ‘have commenced |the beltin lar ii I ‘have attempte correspondent’s at p. 348 e. is is oe mbelli- 
em eae aac wo hw o a find = | Ae of this, but T am re al you fer allied to Scandix, and is from’Canada ; we cannot 
E c e ł— zA de an Poort Si wwe re ng recognise the fragments he has sent us, 
G spawn 3that spawn radiates from a centre he Transparent Apple.-—When at 
made particular we ceeds 
is 
Currants, require tho 
great stock of patience: yale 
g! 
n autumn will produce fruit ond season, 
the. 
4 ts seedling ind show a = fe atures indicative of an 
ampro 
a im 
tH f +} 
spe al, many 
o the mode 
Apple; i learned th: a 
when their natural. qualities 
red to bere 
irekiko y r merits or deme: Seeds of the 
crag varieties. of the parent ead 
: most Frequently o er o the original stock, ‘i 
E- “selecting — valuable for ‘its'habit-of 
growth spro- 
aueti pidas mpre; _ ted with an 
spring w koni 
eep“o 
eseria eh from the soil? ? “ ve hes 
er | of ‘this kind w 
Jos Ban 
Has any one tried, with a 
to k of 
rowing. really wel ed 
by ahatia or piisata 8 all w 
s not some saci 
orth tryin: ecollect some plan Sir 
ne ad Bt a’ Grape koue for turning the 
it, so 2s to feed the roots 
Border 
eph] iks 
the off: 
erit ‘the good tails of the ‘parents “in 
jor degree It is aeee by the 'eross-im- 
oft 
— 
h- moisture and. manure, with some or pat for 
trees, ed is qu wite Fia that the main secret as | ‘as soil of the Apple orchards ee is almost a pur 
fg ripening of wood in fruit-trees is an early ma- sand, but that it is customa ary ‘t o add to i it so mu h 
t stopping the autumna hgh i g be said 
ont, ‘and taking off superfluous leave! tof ‘The friend with whom T% was sta T 
rom over-manuring will do much ; but ‘the e riea, batt ftl 
to fight i is-against the hasi: autumns, wih keep the t 
Hl potent: not in blotches, but oai AAE so “that held to 
the s ht, a ips om 
thes 
might be every part; 
ere juicy.as.2 Peach, at pout thesize of a 
of very a veur and ae 
oar n e „Apple: of Reval ‘is: thagght to to be the 
"Maen, Th have forwardeil-asspecimen 
phology. in the shape of Sit can be in acre 
nan 
Megs breeding. fo f 
3 = y true when applied t D thei improvement of fruits 
[ind -vegetables, — P 
s ago'l deopegetiad l 
o 
wagtail, 
| ing,* chafinch, greenfince'’ 
Martin's s aaa) with the > pollen of a 
[from th 
of :the Jeaves:toiflewers is very 
apparent and. conclusive-; 5 T opoe ahncree a fi 
Ackermanni,: 
ft 
robi 
the 
tethroat, w warbler, pied 
meadow pipit, otk Pipit, oy atk, peri ie 
, linnet, and blackbird, and 
‘of a pair of red -backed pire 
he hedge-sparro 
in, ‘the Bedat 
et reg e 
cireumstance 
Picotee, tena ip ing that 
y it is pro’ 
eased very few 
he se eg 
by 
‘that te cuckoo sometimes deposits its Rhos 
of res birds. -See’Mr. aaa ~ «British Birds” 
“ Quere 
fi ea 
a sit upon and hath. Mirów 
ane 
i 
Tt 
for the eere e Te aad 
‘hav ve. been wn to 
mn eggs. 
P 
nests of several Ltn They have: been fount in those | partially.coloure 
w bunt- | a) 
iphyllum come 
iphylloms, and. are no dobt over-exeited flomer-buds, 
Billington. {Futhtiasarewery subject to dis- 
Primro. Sioned time aes I noticed a rc- 
ark t by a correspondent that pleased m e; it drew the 
it of th rim arose, 
ev a it is supposed 
ear the and be NRN of the 
which, whilst flowering - early i in the spring, is fully ex- 
nest, 
ct oie ‘nei it ‘eaves < Si 
ari Arah before the “arrival Py die atko, but it 
afte 
shela 4 from the -mere ,powerfully-increased r 
mays by 
that then surrounds 
it. jas erwards, and it is is “by no | hi ‘itself 
t in a| it. not, in gue take a hint fro oh igs 
sd-that, ei aaen ofa yellow,’ Th ad got z robin’s nest, ‘Indeed, ey art hes been seen ‘to take, we who have no north border under $ south n wal 
oe D with a petal eter les: “ib i Might we not sow sade dais to the south ; oan. 
orm, nd with sl parent, which it-al paire Ri n egg in it. “A euckoo will: lay four and gos. goe se adjoining, pone row of double Primroses or Foly- 
o Sn x ugh ry good ne but by no means ‘This ‘has Sell ata itis ve eae would grow, and, when needed, form 
Presucie 1 a in peta Tor the a | histo istory of the sa binds is curions. It is the largest of a sear Truto ¢ e heat of summer ; if so 
ought to 
and if she hatched all her own'| would answer'the purpose \— 
» Wh at anny uals 
Arion, Gos, osfort rth, 
