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g7 —1845.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 457 
vicultural society ely the t of the | for ordinary kitchen vegetables, and on 
growth of trees is ‘sone within the redi province of | (a P yori as the following Torning, ‘they a pre bes red keekeke Pin Ain Tel ete agtn pes pe; sehr 
SA ome- | (although still alive) to have no of | s 
oo srichould be be done to diffuse correct infor- | and in a week afte ea on ehig e cok e| er apma bir oe ont. a in th aban 
rtain is wa: 
mation on this point—L. E. i tap.’ | the bottle every worm was perfectly dead. It i is i suppl ly of fine young trees has vay an per r 
The Cuckoo. cone the son the ion o li Bi 418, | the bet a was Paes up and placed vhich h it is believed will bear sa tae’ os secon d or 
I beg to say that tl e reason _ young wagtal re | a greenl 3 but i seemed not unreasonable fo coh 
as dead under the t roduced. 
naturally of a very rates a disposition, A and fin nding stinet avoid the por of a substance evidently in, ETEA E DEE 1) E Te as tioned: that many 
b pat t little room in the nest with the wagtails, he peee Now I was at t this Par EE hagtiter Ofp 
them out ; this I ha overt tt this occasion, Mess 
sh and f exp of 
suckoo is a very us bird, and destroys more blight | plant of a < preview crop had been Sel by the ae er sent a: new species of Calar d Mess 1 
is fra eure we Agcy Me = ‘daybreak than persons ee Ape Ane mi Of this second crop I planted out 8 rows, | Ezeren which is Braa, a Gey iae prei Ti 
: kerd thinly, b it conti each pen of ge first t rows | was stated to be bardy, having stood last winter, such 
ly ree, a no} D z is 9 A b! ly. ] ut continuous! iA a ring guan: sit i in Dev: vons! ire, in the open ground th 
te prep o siate ht Tas z r dia of the ring being a t 9 inches, and dibbled | | lest protection, aii in a situa a j no hirirnettang 
t fl Amiga dei’ = vay orohar d. My friend, pei Mendip, who at in about 3 inches, ‘afterwards wate érin ng well. Ay tered. In consequence of want of sun-light 
grime y yi cues Poh palate t exhibition room, owers did not open; one was 
th 4 "i 
a =) night long, when the ce a warm = light rs of the guano only one plant however, fred Sanita eo cory panmi na 
A Word to the Judges ou may fie vate yee are ie 1 lants lef he manure f th 
when I say I give you full credit for a desire to do certainly not injured the plants, but I do not notice seinen of il, it gore ri a bod 
trict na i boib y Se l and the funds of the | perceptible superiority in those treated with the guano. | winters even in a less favourable climate may s A a 
‘sind oe y oy ; e Jast meeting at Chiswick E be: T “it on a be s single barred = from the ma- De read and in order the better ito insu ur 7 
et at i 
Roses the gold al, and I will tell you why. e | found a ver and dimi uti fi hich | t d di } 
pr oprah be oh a fine display was owing entirely to | I infer that ti an © ory Sied to be} to palin ‘them Aria comin 
xi : not i Tn “ ee ether from the exhibition of hatched As the rears for the , experiment ‘Seems in | soil, which i ps apt to injure po age w ah cab an 
het y , F PS, Y e llent for rockwork, where 
rte n the 21st of June. Again, it is thought fair that guano , even Krke heir favourite food. I will m i ne is of beautiful I violet a to the Soi aaa 
ee: gmateurs should be required to produce but half the | tion one other drvatinaked that may be interesting re tage. A Banks ano awarded for it.—From the 
Spa vies you ei ag do. ith a oe int they 40 plants, and oe ts . I prefer to grow Carnations in the open n, ways a contrivance, similar tọ 
sra Tam sure you will agree with m that they would have ground this sprin rehased 12 pair of cl i 
i ba | su wil pring pur choice an 
late Ni for want of opportunity of preparing | a as nue uel used ia Ge 
udag Derserymen, one o om (Lane) th e G. B. was compost, I -plaited ‘them in the sam ekia o soil in many for keeping plants of 
ye: ee aoe again, viy had my gardener 1 no com- which th e Lettuces were grown _ The s we wy, dimensions, such as dwarf 
oa; ecause no other amateur had 12 plants t “il I have Cacti and oth 
bet a cx am sure if you knew m you s give me not lost one plant by the wireworm. It is true, two things, in th Mie oa This 
Mi g it for anor a righ motive n thus dire ing y ily g A ff, and they were taken up and care- is of easy construction, being 
» exhib bitors, after struggling against the diffi ities o th to I wie bee ba paer + om 
| n (ove the same time it is Doh eas of his nae in ie wires having loops at th 
lave proved in urmountable to their mi co: mpe- me bed where oe Carnations grew, there were into which® the potas yee 
Teme al medal which oan censure rather Raiuneulases, Primroses, Polyanthuses, and Stocks containing the plants, are in- 
approval. I throw these remarks before you for | eaten off by wholesale, if Steed, Hadleigh. ert other object con- 
lew them to bavo If I am right 1] a am sure you will "Duration of Varieties. —There seems little reason to nected with gardening was in 
"allow them to hav ve weight ; : if I ‘am wrong, I have laid doubt that the shape of a hose for force- 
‘be semen of duration, which does no ot affec 4 Torgi itself, pumps, garden engines, &c., 
ious us. judges, you have a difficult task ; 80 Many of the fine old keme E Pippin are : om Mr. Vaucher, of King’s- 
ors, extinct ; ag Pippin the 6 Lombard-street is 
asio: tn eason has been ad- ntish Pippin (the ¥ ver, ep at voured Apple I Bre is called Vaucher’s Patent V oven Hose, and is formed 
our productions, we like i e competitors. | known), and some others, This peculiarity also affects | of strong linen without seam, a with India-rubber, 
y d th two more exhibitors on the pia varieties se the Potato, for se atc inds that were | which make ter-tight, experience it has been 
wtih AA A Doh os iam ey vuld n hi igh r eput 30 years ago are now only known as Sowerby be superior to to le eat er —Mr. Fish, gr. to Col. 
o anksian list. — d, but are at pre 
e certainly should not have made the award iat ae 
Bb. Eo phin, 
peni lost. In a wath = The Florists’ Directory,” by | 
ames Maddock, 17 
mens of Peaches and pace They were said to be 
an early forced house.— -From 
tuit at irs Ak: ick. TA letter signal “ Young Hope- athe constitution 3 Anemones undergoes consider: g ; 
e of th e judges of fruit, at the able changes with age, which. is, per! ; h Torre ipirodnehan bed Fedis om 
9 rm him “ by what rules | or smaller degree, the case with all other vegetables. | fl bape nearly related to -Valer It a 
ere; and stating that the judges The Anemone will not last more than 1 5 years batty annual, imi ing a thi shea se of. nik fowt: 
d not act in accordance with the without t degenera ating, — it be frequently removed which almost completely bury the brig ht t green leaves. 
ust be perfectly ripe, an uation ; nor will any removals through France, kai is one of the 
loured,’ having been placed in hands, I| protract or prolong its existence more than 30 or | few things of any consequence from Algiers. From the 
40 years. It s g d serine in 
my 
im that the judges mee e Particularly 
iE x ra of RES k 
s of 
4 Kong 
last week’s Paper ; Musszenda —— sent from rae 
by Mr. Fortune, and I 
PEA 
of perfection from the th 
anen ymo ue pan omes gradu: 
and if the flower was originally very full and double 
1 greenish- veined white bract - | 
e 
eA h 
No ow, ho 
this may 
sort, altho in possession of 
ing at Aei distances from eacli oth 
pear ely lost i in one season, without the gee of ac- 
be made r e 
resting aes to our collections, Alon ng with these 
were also onia Derd. a Cape plant, Teth with 
; the use fal Lyperia pin- 
profusion of white 
hi i tay Mastin A violet bl 
which 
In a foot-note the author observes—“ The 
after cy 
as awarde: a fo: 
3 
it degenerates and perishes,” “It appears that this 
dis rath ossoms 
nearly the whole year ; Spun m primulinum and 
alatum, One idium unicorne, and O. Lanceanu um, the 
ru 
n he ireu 
mstance, 
narks ? 
A ering his query, 
diia pes judged,” I consider it 
Sms ry to ET the partioular ‘eg which 
first-rate rapes, they being 
vege etables, fi ior the or igir 
flourish, as it has done atk its mad ne god Jaras 
Societies. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIE 
very branch of | i 
TY.: 
well] July 1.—R. W. Barc serh in the chair. Mr. 
g | F. Gaine i J. 4 Wood š an . Pearson, were 
ex- | elected Fellows. A paper menni a eea ted by the Cin- 
tirely | cinnati Horticultural ee was read relative to the | 
ion | propagation of dwarf Pear-trees. eo mete ne 
- | cedur e was a modifica tion oe the c method of 
i layers : a w s this. o n October, 
mD ‘a number of Quin uin ice bus du i 
two tiv areal of Achimenes, and a “plant of Sinningia 
guttata ; together with Ruta eras whose rye of 
yellow blossoms contrast well with the bri right green 
foliage ; Phlomis Cashmeriana, a hal lf hardy plant with 
grey leaves and violet flowers not remarkable for oe 
a well- managed ‘Veronica speciosa. 
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 
MENT OF SCIENCE, 
Tue fifteenth meeting of this body was held at Cam- 
[briðge on June the 18th, ia succeeding da lays. The 
hough the time between the last 
I beg to add 
bel ou their award, 
Typha ie exhibition. One 
t the Chiswick Exhibition, 
young ese grew very 
of 1843, „and were 
1 
| meeting “at York a e = present one was little more 
+ 
| than eight iat there was 
the various sections, unless we exc the Mechanical 
tion which, from the absence of Pil engineers on 
“Two or mor 
placed o 
apart. 
railway business, was only thinly attended. The section 
1 History | en and Botany) me et in the 
Tn the 
e wire- 
e been a on sufferer from the | I y dg 
light | inse and | 5 id On rug 
It, in the as the Pea rs attained ris hei, fy: Take es dar the Fos the papers were entirely zoological ; 
Tamer e ats te farther ex experimen Hav ing pring Diab ches en covere ra “aca s sont naar in the | Friday, the 20th, botanical. By ora this arrange. j 
ink in Mr, J ohnson’s « "Gardener ong EE whole length, ment strictly at the, present meeting, this section „was 
bes of October 
afii 
| which were s 
1843 and 1844, res eesti: 
th garden- tioul, 
85 would be p ek was | 
innumerabl 
y, con atinising 
healthy shoots, whith w were budded 
the operation every favourable be 
at any previous meeting of the Association. 
t| rest than 
The first eee read on Friday morning was by the 
ie L, JENY. 
hawt Turf o of the Cambridgeshire Fens. — The 
that the turf of the Cambridgeshire 
itir 
