-99,—1845.] 
= those 1 potted, but did no 
struction ; those I potte 
s e poten 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONIC 
LE. 489 
ven 
autumn, t 
esa sir orvtsiat a 
erase 
n I os one 9 
the summer of 1 1842, when | to s sa the result has been v wort hare tacoma 
fengheh yy pete be fy y a the very des are jast alite Gi of | t they ' begin to grow, a this Ya way I fse raised many 
; but taime they were not in health 1, | experime ents by thara Irish Yew.— In iek Sonel I heard the followin 
l out, : e, appear to ha ave eet about equally t of the introduction of the I: t, Aa 
sts without shelter of any kind, ge c t tot the Aaser which Mr. Hoare re- | Florence-court Yew, goes by a three names, 
y t! iine ces he gives to | In the ti i 
eaa gi “thick as those “made ‘three T before by Saet who Vin Feng his system ving “ fe every indies ae Rr ot roving toetnes inti 
arl King- Peete seas do og? role upply ‘of ‘hoe ara eiiis mountain above Florence-court. ug them both 
of my small stock ; but his gardener flavoure d Grape as! we can gathe s | up, and gave one e En 4 Enniskillen who Papacy i sad 
dying plants, Whe: n Mr. Hoare i made | F! ph he pe Ae i e planted the oth n his 
wi Sosa 
t meek 6 
$ d = asure of seeing a splendid E sa surely heie to point out A cause ; ; patched he | ie anted i in the farmer’ 
ll, fowers on the plant, fully ee to, if pe su T rior in | may 1 Gardens, exam: oe expe- | and is me a ecimen. pte il Hon 
e solour, to the magnificent specimen I s out six | riments there, and point out what ma on Be em m the | this is related its truth and accuracy beyond 
im e hs since, i me epg Of np TE ‘Cunning: cause of „want of 8 success kaan opita invite question, The calves soa is “that two plants were 
É of Liv ive rue arboreum. hortieu turists toti iat ect his Vine fou nd. > 
abe. Eppe fortune to aliens are nly | at Shir irley.— ~C., Scotland. {You will f pect | es The tree might hav © grown double, with two 
m the kig ot hardy. a ie so late as wi pauls hi e | not wrong in s akin ver’ cautious} about this matter. Wireworm. Rie} hav 
tie ki = from a injured by our spring frosts, I ef See e PP.. 635 a nd 667 of Tas year s . lae y ad ie res. remedy mi 
in the Cha ent they wi Jan a great acquisition to "uP f 1842 I d f the situati 
r Rober eners of Great itain. I beg to enclose leaves of | some plants | of this from see ac the f| f so sation that I nel fle, T 
for Ke, ifferent plants, of the two last years’ forming, | 1843 they flowered, producing ese usual mie "spikes | garden, that’ w we co sould searcely grow a Potato without 
from Mua those 7 sa not yet being fully developed, as the young | of blossoms ; in 18 44 they did not fl Dur: its being rende: red useless by it; a ongst the 
Js Nadi shoots are not above jong, and growing winter I div ided the r ‘oots by taking spall awa rE i I tried as a prevention, soot appeared 
to the “Hs Seidl, ‘but even in this sta thick as m border 5 both these and te to be the i- al remedy; it H lied to 
Ivo T J. Dillon Croker, “Girit, near m “Cork. | original plant fiowered, but one of the removed ae Potato c: skal e following manner: — instead of 
s frie il FEC > however, appeared sickly from its removal) | planting with the Alber in the usual way, drills suffi- 
other fa |For fae white bl - hile the original had some cient ly deep and the sets laid at the 
very fine spikes ; not, however, of its original p! 
ie Hom Sen ema colour, but t a dingy half- -brown, half- white be Is fficient to cause the drill to assume <n 
ndum my EA of the an: a tok on | this change in the rienced te eae suai t— la Dhock appearance, This ing done, drills were 
the di ect, from a Acre pondent, which has been | Amateur. [We have not rema: filled in in oA usual way, to the natural level, and the 
inson, a oF my hands, I beg to mention that Pinks will Mitosis prow —The > following © aie 5 fact of Nat tural | work was finished, herever soot was applied the 
| root extremely well now the pla: uld advise | His tory ma bed interesti I have two fish-ponds | crops turned out quite clean and g se cely a trace 
di to follow issimply this:—On a spent hot bed, supplied with w: ma aike full of pike ; my lower | of the ravages of wireworm was to be seen, while 
which may have been used for raising idle annuals, | pond is full of eon, and I am desirous of keeping the | those from rows, not dressed with soot, were quite the 
bni OT —, gh ce they may be put in under hand- Pie out of it. They can freely run from the lake to | reverse—the Po ing pierced through very 
f n success ; first p Are the soil, which, if|the upper pond, but to prevent their gett g into the | direction, and fit only for an pigs. This proves 
fot of a tpn en nature, must have equal parts of leaf- lower I have placed immediately under the cascade a | that soot, if it does no at least prevents the 
d and white sand added thereto. e shoots of t, with a lid i _ Refer ations Pelee’ a high | T of ireworm.— C. "Judd 5 
nt year’s growth may then be selected, with ledge of w ood around it, ping o Berberis dulcis.—It is not mon to see this plant 
about three joints; immediate er the lower one, jit. By this boai the | full h ‘fruit, If left to itself, it grows with long 
clean cu h, then gently strip off the two | stream, I ca ths N “of pike, "Notwithstanding | ramb blin ng shoots ; it flowers, , but prod no berries; 
bottom leaves, thus exposing the buds, which they had | this precaution, however, I find my lower pond full of bushy plant is produced, 
it is mos 
uninjured, 
h ha 
w t essential shove 
They may then be gently pressed into 
| pike when 
never I drain it off. Last year I found a pike 
of 5 
ty 
5 Ibs. Maca oe there, although it a only | two years 
t had b 
and plenty of fruit. I saw, at Messrs. "Nu ursery, 
. Paul’s 
Che shunt, several l plants covered with berries, not yet, 
n draine d. I was n able 
A earth, to the depth of half an inch, | 
eae 
y Of ascertain- 
come dry before the hand- glasses are on over. 
e first w eek Ba should be an from ‘ond direct 
7? 
1 
ing whether the fruit is fit for tarts, as is stated.— 
close, to me in my upper pAr da to my surprise, saw 
Dodman 
Toads versus Tadpoles.—In your ak aore for Feb. 
j s j of the sun, with calico, b g, or igh pon sine tome he was of opinion that toads p: 
= , which 2 be with ives b Fe , as t gth, that leaped out of the water of the upper pond | in sta agnan in the spring; and in as Pager ` 
| gin to elongate. ey will want but little 5 het? sani the c: de, which i went over Kanber I expressed a pate opinion, viz., that rogs 
pher attention, except keeping free from s, an head, and pitched safely in the lower pond, at least | changed the eir colo our appearance at he spring 
na “atdening by degrees, taking the glasses off in the |6 feet beyond my chest. I plai ee that it requires | season, 
sone BR when the plants are sufcenty ‘well rooted, higher barrier than is generally supposed to} so as to ately Mislead | many persons. Another ‘year's 
} the dif d be pricked out in _ beds. fi sh, This fact explains to me the loss of my and ind 
fann erent meth iving at Ten end, I | fish Taaiaed a from my lower pond.— +7 ‘avanensis, to believe that the two kinds of spawn fou in ponds 
hieon ivator of P ; as he pre- 0} have my one and ditches are etidinood from the fr pam a ges dew 
18 pipings, pu in water, till he is ready to ‘ih stances mention es columns of the eee only, and not from o not believe that’ 
ws his to remain for a sho: 
eter putting them into th s soil — W bject, on the present occasion, is 
-he Oyster Plant—This used to be called Pulmo- attention to sundry experiments I have heen making | 
jaritina, has that name been changed ?—[Yes, | with fish. Of minnows I had, two years ago, 
mum, and Steenhammera.] -The flavour of | thanh 13, ranging about in a jase globe, and I | 
much resembles that of oysters, but the a them not only to ae ‘me put to cognise t 
à er sauce ; pe: 
iting butte s been melf 
ah the ci be of D urham, 
plant my g 
to 
Tir AS ed in 
tameness “of birds | and beasts, aed I well know, "fom | 
ped 
ed. "Though 
I have not been able 
person scepticabon on 
f as s0; the ducks ate it. ar friend of mine also tried 
been more paar for I have Å angen: beyond a doubt 
ai 
the water, salut 
nt 
okii b 
a tative of this coast, Bata 
pee Litoralis, 
Asparagus —In 
the spring of this s year 
W 
not, howev yer, 
idien said to <n of Northumber- | on 
i 
aris re 
Arira state, whilst others have or their tw sy ves 
legs visible, othe ors their hind gin gà some all their legs, 
which I purpos 
watery habitation—in this p articular jiret the fond- 
about this. About two merske since I sent you ny rod 
toads with their little ones, which were 
ay 
E 
efo; 
mà about 
us in two beds, w. 
ore, n ger 
back ; at 
è 
“Teast, 
erson to evince bec pai 
el your p 
tats ee Dialed The usual fate, case peculiar 
state, not being present at their birth). Since 
havi e set other old toads at liberty from my Cucum| 
bed S, rste 
ar Ba awaited mine ; one by e heat of 
he: ae 
r incre: in inte 
on their hind legs, and on seein gth 
, I find them in ‘bs dae 
sky, they gt fa the 
ase’ lass globe was consigned 
A few months aen my eye a rarae he ‘reat on | 
ps ge om in aigi „the vi 
three little ones each. Now, if 
rmer tiny frie 
e | may guess the conseque: have procure cor 
Setoa en i however, t to three only,; and I lave 
th yhat I did with the 
if an be 
to appl 
May I beg 4 s enlightened 
y; for I have 
S, wile structure, a 
t j 
agin 7“ il; it acquires tt ei fot, 
hg fore feet, loses breath on and gi 
you ng toad. — 
said 
latt Tis 
and m 
and still mor ore 
become young z frogs. I have been told by many of my 
po 
ái 
nstitut 
you must give way to the learn gai 
ors, they must know better than you;” b 
Toots, oon su 
ore ever carefully 
pe cs 
ncteare’s s Bye 
5 Book on 
bo pans ©? 
© experiments w 
e: 
and attention to Mr, Hoa 
ch recently planted A 
yo 
re conduced with the | fi 
Asparagus 
the ea |e se 
A is certain 
T flower-bed and sufieiently Tariy to kasd a modera 
n the 
e it w sae 
| v aoa et + tet negara wood, sprinkle a 
es u 
fear the wo orst. I keep t them in pac 
fess 
reluctant to do 80, unless convicted of error, ‘which al all 
and on taking leave of it I must say, although I had two 
or three h: hits from “R. M.” “J, cute 
and others, I will frankly and freely forgive them, if in 
ern on theoretical 
Would 
m Kidd, vee: ee Hammersmith. 
is all were more u 
tried.— 
I poweria 
lly 
hundreds, 
will promise me not 2 
knowledge alone, as one man’s 
succeeded in 
Willi 
Propagation = eo ap —Having s 
tea A y simpl 
or rn to know hew this was 
uable addition to t ose 
resting to ate tours 
tairi 
s a some tolerably good soll, 
wall ; havin, 
wint 
watered it 
sod Pls 
of soil a. em to we their being 
og water again w se, and cover 
s directions, 
a fine 
a es: H "hand-glass. No ga troalte need be 
—B. Fry. 
Societies. 
Jey te ae ee va et CHISWICK. 
the Hort cultural Soeiety’s 
S, in the ¢ 
ic] 
ZF 
pei of Fellows aud ‘riends was 5963. The 
