best ‘Rose-petalled flowers ie not large, but. their 
oa wil l always give them le e-eminence, where the op- 
avin 
Hallet 
confused col 
by name, and their 
to what we 
iT arp what comprise disqualifications ? Machinies 
at is ata it will be well for | Je 
ork up to the poma here laid 
s florists we may not have be 
importance of s: 
BBY. 
3 
D iss] THE CARDENENS CHRONICLE. 433 
t, spreag, horizontally | refracted and dis This may proceed fi 
ture, the lower ones largest, | yp rom atread this book. Mr. B. is a man of observatio, and 
rg a; oil, i e, over whi h | deficiency in our ed Donia, or from an obtuseness of | states facts within his hg knowledge worth mon’ than 
“the succeeding petals should Fb er ties above tier, | our intellects. Man ride themselves in having | hearsay testimony. The a ois B. has given us is, 
gradually decreasing in Ly one “The mum en og oe cg a a gi eship in a l rd’s garden; they that Larches increase c rably more i bulk (the 
appearance of a flattened cone. p 7. in nurseries and botanic} branches remaining) than those from which the lower 
retained in a flower will depe a great measure on | gardens, and yet pee all that time may not be| branches had been taken off, and this experiment was 
the regularity of its jects, ‘and. the _faney of the ex- ep to tell whether ` the _ Spa they used was a/ made to prove le. I wish“ Sylvanus” to buy and 
itor, bat ak certa ly oug Bay j Paiak a wed, e, or pee y eea fe or eom: read this book, and he will find me eha ; and I have 
Soe ad maoy T ; ; ination o; ical owers ; heel- | yet to = that fashion ie a pm cal ae 
The bp Poul lie perfectly flat, or near y SO, Some | barrow they know as little mee ve ‘the effec op Ps before od never made his wo; pooner teed 
so: ned to re flex Pau, mri ay deity aee Ps, ia the effect, as the marble ji Mr, B. has given us d ; wengs S se d fp ng, 
s the next ar tor consideration, Pink Many ld tal ng, and oth as shown oe nia ne 
cia i shown in Gee vn a cpereres four. They ona level with } ploughmen, and yet many psegbnen who | i by “are a at, an : aea by ignorance Sand 
re red le rown laced, and black and ec yr us further says—“ If he has 
eco, Sg fee good flowers in a Jast than i in the | useful seasons in the usage of their pro as|a c t of Dr. Thackeray’s system of 
other classes. A plain Pink shoul xa spade Sd the plough. Do p A most of | Pruning Mr. Ham rton has no rstood it, not only 
x ne dark crimson wach a dy a whit ground | gardeners» is try rough- diggi ging. know the proper angle not understood i, te 5 oy misunderstood it. - Mr. 
dazzling purity, ch should cover at leas erton ásserts that T. takes off all the lower 
‘ tals, the stud of ea ach isar cor- | be exposed to the influence of the atmos phere oubt | branches,” Thavenotseen Dr. T.’spla: tations, but I have 
responding so as t ub pela the circle o of them would be puzzled how to as % or tel] | good information from a gentleman, whom I o have 
each tier ; hee A eli e to be the Sade 1 good a, it should be done; and yet some old carle crowned | ®¢companied, wh nly last id has 
florists, whether e north or south. In Tased “ower, with a Kilmarnock bonnet, and wearing a gra -grey | given me the dimension } which p 
the nearer the margin aca with the cen Siua at of his wife's spinning would, by circular figures, | that the assertion I x ra was correct ; the Doctor has 
a » and a few letters of the A, B, C, a ate S apart way all the. low n 
them > by the principles of elementary gi r the height of t! es. 
of petals c piron with ak ir so ashi E the | Te by the differential and integral eaieulus, “if hey i Sain : ag high. Height to 
“margins, thus forming a een whole. Ins Some | understood it, that in the turning up of his soil to the j DoT T Gr Mae era 
of the country re p. Silver Fir 2 7 ee 8 feet 
S do. 
the petal, be i bey is the best. It is perhaps not necessary for garde ie Svak A 1 4 i 18 no 30 to 40 
for a slight eing = wre eee und mathe A but there are s many| Ash 3 Tig 20 do. | feet high. 
Sige this I consider to b ene off firma garden sóils i improved by bei 1 10 A 
tensity is the third point, n, as in most | to the influence of the atmosphere; a how to do it in 
ther florists’ flowers, br rightness and *brillianey of the | the best way is sure ely worth knowin h hat would “Quercus” say to ped of all 
ings of whatever shade the: y be, with ‘purity he farmer knows hat the coulter of his plough pe iran branches one-half ai iin two- shi of t an hei an 
the body colour, must certai firs © the preference | should be inclined at an angle of ab he | 7 bse sy sar: 
o those flowers in nee these echo] properties are | plane of the plough’s sole, and he can regulate 
Res 4 i t I need not expatiate, as the pe pag st He x. jal orienta "DS ahs Ay: the ie ves. “Thies re prejudice with Pia 
01 p of draug A e R l princ I ventured tob ttle ina late bli Ithought P 
e bag conclusions | ktiow hoy tp e his hoe or his rake by i principles bad hrén Ae einala Pe "ate thought Sense 
‘comparing the dierent varieties Size is the o as to rm his work t to the bes ead many years ago hed ov 
msidevAation© Série fake ady anced 80 reckless ly t 
oe be without i 
onicle, 
th 
Bae In #4 
wer 
ag Seidi rial an sake! “the 
stil 
Jé 
rts, Still 
trust we shall as have 
ours, 
E ata p 
ite 
es Diet eau 
GARD 
GARDENING at 
its “ seven 
pac 
n th 
with ia 
TS; 
Satis oo ith w 
silted or for 
thesis a wou 
iant tot 
oupas owth 
A 
pat 
N MECHA 
DE 
present day appear: 
a ae be Bootsy” a 
all thick hor pods, serrated 
und: 
e observations on 
f the working classes, that there is no 
€ same station of life pone in aonn- 
“3 ptis 
is ERY teens the weight and the fulcrum.” 
of levi n in the aeult 
the 
25 d | Baye 
These ae jnda 
the whe cs? and 
nature and ca , with their effects in machines, ‘auld 
wrong +} 
ation, and en guided by the es ried of others, If 
transverse sections of Dr, -a were 
robe in a late publication, by. heir 
d others, some improvem 
of an A 
be afforded to the eet It does 
means follow that if a p Besse of, ‘thes 
nourishment given by the roo nch ihe 
Epron fael pe support of the. ile edk of t 
yar 
contrary : this kind o of anatomy m might 
kno ese ies governed by the 
veloaki or the golden rule of Mec Latics; is somethi 
worth kno owing. Some such things may be more fas 
| dwelt upon in another article.—Peter Mackenzie. 
me Corresponden 
ne free- man cane sos 
now, if t seh 
Hor 
lerods diki 
Il their iat ie = 
and I Pr 
| fitted b by any pnei than m one I contend for. Ina 
rt Rh: lately in the Chronicle, yA Dr. Thackeray 
subject of pruning, Bf way of illustration, h 
seated that if a larry has roet ake ae Paste in 
Yow, if a off ; if the branch of z 
A dec llega fy to iy cut tt off ; but I will 
Big e examples that 
n away as a ge 
sane gy: awe I 
Ve | to evi a that these may be setae much langer in 
| bloom, if treated more as greenhouse than 
reus” 
e years since vrine all this cinta she to 
z as som 
, and Hpo a a 
gre 
| when they are approaching eo, Aw and a 
| moist tempera rature are indispensable danig ‘the period 
Cok meee 
f thei flowering con 
for any time they must be 
thom f 
that 
ave observed, and 
aang have w 
mn obtained, perhaps, 
s insufficient for the 
n Me ohn: we shall find that 
ws for the Pop r construc- 
arrow, as pe ain as 
Ataia 
gra uch lower atmosphere than 
: In the greenhouse the; ey | 
will continue „blooming three montane at kat, 3 Wons in 
_In 
work i conser- 
tree, I Ww aP affirm hat its Tif 
| tion, , and while it lives it will obtain only small increase 
a ‘ood. This n would appear to demonstration, if the 
Doctor g 
of his tr hich H 
hey will not, I sus- 
ae also, they 
and for sue ch purposes Revs should be chiefly grown, 
T 
te of 15, 20, and 25 per eba 
as I have arrai iat ‘healthy trees will, having the 
because it is 
of their i. ade Hamerton 
y | almost universally understood and passe that they 
ean only be seen in pereeo on in hou Paha t would 
Strawberries.—At the reque! 
the proportions of the substano 
of the Stra 
st of the public I fo: 
positively broil a any ordinary European 
day. Therefore, to conden all such fee sim 
enjoyable is to brin 
t only 
ar pla ants 
> but where also they can be 
keep | without inconvenience or suffo oca- 
rward 
es employed by me in 
:—The loam fo 
F 
ting a 
phuric aci id, 
This isa subject of 
ators of plants, aa one that see be kept | a 
% atana before them ; for of what use is it to grow 
WF | and bloom plants, and let them “ waste their Sweetness 
or] Ra 
ted a 
a t i 
differe cu 
in 
siti ing twice a è week during summer A 
mn, and whenever the soil requires rents 
spring, ss $ Tuiki pero aake The kind of 
Str erry i n’s Seedling.—J. Elliott, Norton 
ather let us 
de | our collections, and cultivate such as ean be enjoyed, 
provided there is no alternative. But of this I am 
e | qui Ee pertein, that all the race 
ee Ls z 
Glox enias, tl 
of Clerodendrums, | Cathe 
ipon 
Absürd ities —The following i: 
s an old-world plan for 
raising Kail, and similar seeds, by 
n the 
ae 
T be 
oe 
essenti 
Now, 
là be of esn that some rea of 
beautiful can be brou 
into a lower tem- | 
a chi ds, ught 
ie | peratre, and their beauty prolonged, without injury 
o them—in fact, with 2 erase Pa the plants them- 
selvos, by. giving ‘them r nablin, 
; grops th 'produc sod ih 
them to 
in a clo: ead 
arm hothouse.—Dur 
I think i pase Shs PAARE pote | little learning is a 
antage, | is 
rox a mist 
“And! distinctly see 
gerous gae a  Idid not Men P to or ecaped 
“Sylvan » Wick- 
ier 
ome will grow 
s found ina book i in a High Dutch, ogre at Riga, in 
is year 1688, a is d ‘* Lieflandische Giconomia ; ” 
th he author r was s Salm 
is no mis i i 
lington’ rate Planters 
subject sei ‘did I much engage‘ pl: 
Sylvanus” does: hot ence ony whether he has’ 
a thing which | 
y s m, and | 
appears | 
ever | ribs 
berdeenshire e, 
raised o 27th of Ma 
result was a good quanti » fall, ripe seeds, ` 
hard as lead; ‘there were long lines along the veins or 
of the leave, similar to a string of beads, shining 
