OO 
Ill. FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
and Auriculas must have wa eee attention and 
—When out of 
sufficient size. Pinks. — Where intended for exhibition, the 
bu ust be removed, and only tw t 
sem. Prepare‘beds for pipings, &c. Pansies.—Continue to put ou 
seedlings, this showery w: er being peculiarly congenial to the 
young plants. Ranuncul noes p the beds free fro ds; 
occasionally examining the plants, see the soilis not cracked, 
so that the crowns are exposed re the as Beagrie E t all 
e es down, and as the plants len; , tie them with 
ite Segre VINERIES, 
&e. 
want a continual succession, and more 
treatment, prove “good shows” in the of December and 
through January. ch of the difficulty in getting Pines to 
show arises from not giving the final shift in due e, or from 
i i thout inci, Those 
ur, Taas for 
pase Santas. 
sp jemne es esi Don 
as regards mois ture t pok hos maturity 
Soares the priy —Stop young wood as before, as well a 
other matters.—D. 
V.—HARDY FRUIT AND KITCH GARDEN. 
Hardy Fruit and Kitchen Garden.—Proceed kimi thinning the 
a o: 
ain as such to form fruit-spurs be induced to break into 
They ought, however, to have as much light as 
possible ; and, therefore, the most advanced of the fore-right 
shoots fee be si d by merely cutting off an inch or two 
from their points. It is now a good time to serub the stems of 
_ fruit-trees infested with scale, for the young broods are issuing 
their fastnesses, and are as nal tender as mites. 
Kitchen Garden.—Dress Aspara; ure-water or 
salt: 5 Ibs. of the latter to a ood, and there 
Peas, € aoe ‘es, Lettuces, ste 
ee ut enap 
TOS PE ARBORICULTURE. 
„>See last week’s directions. Nursery, 
3 growing grafts, and re tie “and stake 
budded stocks; destroy’ weeds Sac nay boi apie 
U S lestroy wee an entl, 
the depredations of birds vermin. Fo See 
State of the Weather near London, for the week ending June 5, 1845, asI 
observed at the Horticultural Garden, Chiswick. 
HERMOMETER. Wind. |Rain® 
‘re. Max. ; Min. | Max. | Min. | Mean. |___ 
Frid. 3 24 | 30.045 | 29.751 | 64 39 51.5 
an 31 25 30.181 166 43 56.0 | S.V 
Sun 1 26 «| 30.1 30.042 | 72 | 43 5 -W. 
Mon. 2 27 29.951 | 29.761 | BL 46 5 sS. 
Tues. 3 28 | 29.690 | 29.367 | 81 4 | 625 W. |p 
Wed. 4 29 | 3. 29.516 | 70 | 49 59.5 | S.W. | .05 
Thurs. 5 99.507 | 29.543 | 68 | 55 | 61.5 | S.W. | .08 
Average [39.076 | g9.785 | 721| 455| 688 E ee 19 
May 30—Cold overcast; fine, with few clouds; clear at night 
31—Very fine; cloudless, with slight dry haze; $ ri overcast 
10v t and fine ei 
2— r r sultry ; 
3—Slight fog; v pests Deegan nites aie ARRA : rain 
4—Overcast; any clouds and showers; slightly bvercast 
5—Slij quorals s cloody, r Show ers; Sne in afternoon’ we tni 
Mean ture of the week } deg. above the a a 
State of the Weather at Chiswick dr during the 1 
Week ending June 14, 1845. 
a ü anng, Winds. 
Mean Yoani E ae lsi 
June igen dames oantity lf 
st Temp which it | © y ži TAa 
Temp. which it | Of Rain. zi alee 
Sas. 8| 703 a5 a 6 0.10 in. | 3 4 ajaj 
Mon. 9| 718 | 0.3 8 0.60 PEE 5| 3| 2 
Tues. 10| 72-7 $9.2 60.9 8 0.34 1s 5| 4| 2 
Wed. 1 72:3 60.5 | 61.4 7 0.47 — 5 4) 5) 
Thur.12| 726 | 49.9 | 60.9 8 oseo |= 5 s| 3| ı 
Fri. 13| 738 | 50.3 |621 7 0.56 V2 5| 4) 2 
Bat. 740 | 611 | 62.5 7 0.50 y| 1 5| 6) 1 
r 
The highest temperature during the above period occurred 
and 13th, 1842—therm 90°; and the lowest on the Sth, incon 
Sape ices to Correspondents. 
E ana OO COTTAGERS’ CALENDAR 
Copy. An Inde paremias yg: 
“ae 
to this | eon n. Parties wish erin ae 
distribution their tenantry can h t the 
of 25 for 5s. 
A enae's Ch An fine show Auriculas are, green-edged : | Names 0 
s—J M 
Champion, and Lee’s Col. te ua ee Ken- 
gons R ’s Biugleniir, ai Oliver’s ne White-edged : 
aylor’s Glory, and Leigh’s Bright Vi 
bor 
arr AUCKLAND—W S, rarte We. are not at liberty to 
e you 
THE GAEDENERS 
half the quantity actually e! 
Mo: 
charges in bettering the Cotton cultivation in India, 
te Satie out preci seeds sigs American planters ? and 
tatui quality of Indian Cotton has become very greatly 
ved in consequence? You will find Bee he of informa- 
kerk subj PEEN n the proceedings of t ri-Horticul- 
tur: ociety o 
S S A ay— Such inquiries as you: only be 
answered after actual EDan at the time w! nen the pr 
8 plants may have been inferior in point 
The result a month 
an 
a digg wat Chiswick ‘any ie stants n, who is known to 
bea ca pokes adm: see before half sant 8, even although 
fro 
CHRONICLE. 
ntHus—J M R—Procure the following s rieties + 
‘Plerkou’s Alexander, Buck’s George the Be “Hufton’s 
ui : x’s Rege Lord Ran and 
Squire Ray, mt, Hufton’s cliffe, 
Clegg’s Earl G ay 
Sr tes gm We have sown the seeds of Brompton stocks 
at different are: s, ot ki x UN ays considered the three or 
four-yea: A ed t We have raised plants from 
seed nine years ink e the viene neyer grow lu 
xuriantly ; 
the seed should be ee. ripened, and left in the pods 
until it is wante d for sowing. F. 
TRUFFLES—J L.S—Next cheeks 
MISCELLANEOUS—Nescia will find full and authentic informa. — 
tion upon Pall matters connected with fhe aa astor 3 
in the “Bible Cyclopedia,” ‘ul book, — 
a 
n 
im 
e 
to t 
he has not reipas of the Socie ety. All the 
good petir on are accessible to respectable 
gardeners. 
uncI—S F e will ed Po ey 
We never mety with such a 
GREENHOUSES—A Constant er e presume that for such 
purposes as you you will have hea en oa h; to Ore 
boilers. ate 
tif 
o pleasure ? 
tand ; it is said that they 
inkle the the cricket: 
n, R— pelam s are the larve of the 
Elater PEPR and of some gnat of the genus Tipula. R. 
—” — Your Copper Beech appears to be infested with 
aphides, but your rotected leaves wer shed, it was 
impossible to speak with certainty. If it be an aphis, great 
trouble and perseverance will be required to rae rid of it, 
viz., repe y dusting S leaves bo powdere bona R. 
—G@ W P—Your Lettuces are attacked by the wire- 
orm, whose history, de. ou will find diab. he fe 
LS ge is the s Rose which pies Bac tree. Nothing 
te itt bat. scraping the iep eia fF and burning 
The tree — mwa be heare thickish 
wW 
is 
th Tobacco 
those infes ted 
f good | gian 20, me 
d, RAA make an excellent 
that Melons like better than 
gu 
onsolidate their tissue, Pa 
nae appens, ning consequadend as you describe 
bably you woud whee + so benefit by using only 
oy 
RPHOLOGY— T' B Elliot—The EORR is very subject to de- 
angement of the Beis 
ek s, and often aff 
excellent Morphological 
evidence. Such a case is 
found i in the annexed cut, 
gro 
henev 
Bose e. Pro 
F Prants—C F—Y our 
produced one of its Serre val sports, in the form of a branch of 
Oyti 1 find the history of this produc- 
bse py P- ag our “ian for 1841,——-A E—1, 
similarly affe: 
to use an infusion of sheep- as 
u the information esire. trees 
te H C—All the i dae that can be ay ee upon planted; ite ure Arita So = eae tne 
the cultivation of the Pe! yy me a is to be found in the first | velutina, af nothing: quite new, and worth money. 
volume f ti al, no work poies on the —Ajuga reptans.——A Novice—-Asarum europæum 
subject that wi rec B L—Try Knight’s | Panstgs—S— Some varieties appe: be constitutional 
“ Guide to Service, ener,” lately published. You will | weaker than others ; but we have seen this se many which 
et more information within the a; Sr peso ae have been = in a similar manner to those you describe. 
“ Cottagers’ Calendar,” and y The evil from the extremely cold winds and dry 
hie weather = have had Jaded to the middle of May, and the plants 
u 
cases to be Baoa with the 0 ouieivedion mpr e p tg under thait aie ts oh spalatiy Son Bony rat ana Son 
canvass: Itis not of common occurrence, but appears to be vey ji eted in our vf he col + the Fen 
-wal i 
n 
will find the drainage of your pots gie nat 
» Just co 
evidently a effect, poe po a gentle stimulant. 
a 
Ma La 
ent Plant va - in a cold part of 
g 
Soie No St ne has yet been ‘discovered on which the ~ 
afted ; it would Sia Wiese: per. om 
“Your Labur: 
he 
manly sporting. 
ned ; we sho 
} s b 
white ground, ey ri 
—«¢ D—Parsley forms the best 
a a kitchen-garden ; but it is not used for ma rigs We cana 
suggest nothing better than Strawberry lea’ 
DLING FLO . 
9, 11, 16, iei. 45, 46, 47, 99—th 
ich as ev in person is in the habit 
7, 60, ae 205, a 213, 10, 12, 
all upo: 
SEE 
pape sre. Sag aie 
self; = ta and 45 are good varietie 
seedlings ha ave pee finely gern 
ini da half i in di 
cate flower, not g ; 3, 
thing but the outline, which is’ too 
of them sho greenhouse ‘asietie, 
front of the bloom.*°——J 
bet yellow, of good shape 
aa 
ted varieties ; 
Lelie ae ve: 
flower Ee 
No. 2 is the only seedling worth 
; 3i is St bp oti sox this, with 5, are 
small; 4 and 1 are comi tW W W—No. 1 is p 
but a repetition ; 2, EIEN Ta 8 a i rich SAA with broad ye oo 
om the petals placed irregularly round the centre; 3 
Pansies you have sent a 
No 2is the 
veo 
mall.* 
Piss oF C—The 
compared to those now grown. 
substance and form.°——H T sie 
edges to the petals, the union of the 
tals with the Pet ects is too Raed, ‘and th 
Bo e li m into the lower E 
è eye: foi 
re poor flo 
best ; 3and1 
seedling has 
in mite Ge io r 
flov ower, in pag dees aR =e substan 
here are on Ar ‘flowers out similar U 
rm, and in the 
a better flower, but the upper pe want a 
flatness ; they are too Ect the colour wants si pry 
and both flowers have thè petals thin and uneven 
oa dark seedling is 
form and colour hich wants ‘puri 
D—In 
fine variety, superior to the w. 
anpes the balls with the and sa tance.® sit 
afew we since. 2 a pea but on flourish without the pr pairan von Pees oe AONAN. San ah of yor sn oye not 
Guicklime ll rid you of your| buds killed, as happened this year at a formed, and deficient in Terre ka the Ao 
Es into the bargain. > Pinxs—J M R—Norman’s Henry, Defiance, Brown’s Garland, | back to your seedling Rhododendron i 
eerie of fais E Tea Aun ham, Creed’ "President, Garret’s | form, the divisions in the corolla being too 
le a are you sa Ibbet’s Triumphant, Barret’s Conquero: ror, Hodge’s ents narrow Sees rot bed 9:3 and 
incurred em, Legg’s Prince Albert, and White’s Warden, u dark an 
