THE 
broad, smooth on the margin, 
the guard- -leaves rising well out 
p the pod, a 
assuming a horizo ntal direction, ea 
eupping. It is also 
and = aes substance, 
l 
rgin, and without ; serrature— | ice-houses s 
efficiency of our best English oy 
plese h 
CHRONICLE. 
GARDENERS 
T sides, in the centre re of this | 
a to the ry a sun, t00, zey | 
experience in E 
ich would try hi 
as bt as it | 
in Chin 
The Chinaman, characteristic 
tand on the ri with i 
manages also to sil i i are honik in 
Aro 
enh 
winter before the cold e aan Tt then a 
, 
t ‘ir 
at we 
and—clear, fierce, and burnin 
y supply 
i fi We consi mi six rows 
eria peta too many in the Carnation, for this simple 
A ge we wish to see the marking o’ of each leaf dis- 
tinctly, and when so double, this can hardly y be done, in 
consequence of the upper ones hiding the lower ones. 
As for the pod, it ought t to be long, and sufficiently | arge | 
e cannot, however, boast 
many possessing this desirable qualit y5 some ‘few of 
into the 
fi pl 
ee 
on 
y at the door. Agai 
ghed a p 
| with Rice ; 
of the 
and any w 
ice- house i is hie! into them mire 
Of course here, 
the ice is carefully co covered up with a thi 
straw when Mor: house is filled 
with little 
economica ag 
the purpos 
=| d 
it, manages to secure an ii 
p Yorkshire and bacon will do 
supply for preserving his fish during the hot 
nths. Th is I b 
and late blooms are wit th m this season ‘better than 
‘thich icx ly 
Bas aa 
nglish hay: ta 
usual. Still, I 
who, by assiduit y and ronpi 
will bring psan e 
ed Beeri in A a Biata p nope 
bag those a 
more table nai dation ; and I 
think that doe is : oi it which ae maidavadiont in 
all ar where two flowers in 
every rae: 
been most 
I hav e now w enumerated what we consider the neces- 
to form a good Carnation. I do not claim 
Ba 
? 
to the number of ye ars they 
CULTURE OF sag CHILIAN ALSTRCGEMERIA 
‘tage en er nts more ornament to ou: 
sta ni Ant 
is the mien structure hes keeps ice so well piee 
the summer months, under the bar ning sun of China ! 
try, and never A oolag Y wine, nee or spat ices, i 
as we do in Euro 
en ga la portion ca ie fag gn econ this It is i is now, I think, a aaeain: meether we could zei will enable you to form an idea of the appearance whid 
tiful “proauction, © whose flowe nee t i more efficient hese ice-} i t to the traveller, in going up th 
did ing ea e more | the Chinese plan than upon the wa under-gronad sys- | Ningpo river.—R. Fortune, Ningpo-foo, August, 18 
easy than its culture and sdipaeston The t ousand | tem common in England. The accompanying sketch 
_ varied, but always charming tints, = h ing the 
corollas of these Alstroemerias, pre: a difficulty in 
establishing a j horticultural elai em, 
as, like their brilliant rivals the Calceolarias, they would bees i arkaa | dition, and the be meg ey farmers make a simil 
defy on that point the most rigi mination. One to Blig y pre ence to my ti I ob here 
may affirm without = i ee: a “this ‘abject S I think it well to add that | been first affected ; that the haulm smells rem ar! 
and one may also infer that they will soon become as ahs “es ime the type is chan tint in odified. Though | like new-made hay, and that the whole of the p 
popular as the Wallforer, the Mignonte, the ei tea tion is a almost universal, and is ee essentially . le 
nation. i cut for eas a o grace the same as I it d now run | not, I however, ascertain that. as yet ay hate 
hat I 
4 7 Sa 
do I think reaches to the same extent. In fout 
other respects, this disease in ‘ed Ab irai va ee 
2 
fot 
a eee oF 
j | Julys sligh p 
roots eee o under p mies in the | not more my than frequently pees ae certainly 
] ati on grou in the free air, nimal king whe pest r as heey ac or sh mals. | sufficient per se att ract not ice or rem ark, 
i to the following can | In this = ty most certainly the first atta | ti 
brave with i me A bed is dug about 14 ins. deep, | ety b hoth the ge fatal and the A k apid; mayn his have arisen from the Potato be eing u 
in in length and breadth proportioned to the number of f As regards what proportion of gh weg tato erop is| and unfit for Sg instead of being conse 
ts required to be planted, os — yras heel | destroyed in ‘his neighbourhood, I would | ardener calls the disease the dry rote 
Eaa. ; the bottom of. the tre fil ith Pell ‘Salt ter, Ryde. ‘hi kable disease, 
iad Pe otsherds, fragments g poy tiles, &c., 
rubble 
in order ompt and easy drainage. | It i is 
yd mela Petworth 
say that the pest tilence mentioned by Dr. Salter T, ech | is v 
has seized Me Potato p in ths Isle of Wight, 
sss poe ot cade hog earth, and eng a Ps 
E 
l of dar pes eto our Potato at in the | 
island of toon but, thank hea aven, not as | yet the visitation, 
dung, and some such strong manure as 
ded, in the proportion of 1-36th of the whole 1 mass. 
ole is to be mixed well preies a — ih in 
p. It ed n 
tention first draw 
weeks ago, I first perceived the mischief in a Potato- 
fe of mine et an arok and I at once 
o the eas erly > wi inds, an took cno more notice of it ; 
et t a few day 
in the same plight, and ise taken notice that those 
in the k 
garden ; but supposing t them to be ripe, pee Bees 
Patat, 
following day, however, on passing 
ag sc ae and pore ded 
thro agh. ou fell 
tatoos I was surprised ‘see ip pateies0 n jpe 
winds had not escaped the va I Oar ak 
rib 
ometer may “not be below 32° Fahr. We 
those of bi Easy Frame. én aes mining “tes a ts 
foun d to 
Hav v 
under the hedges, and i in the coldest pre of the fi fields 
therm 
joria however, known the cold to descend to 25°, and 
. the roots not to be inj ereby. 
As long 
3 
of a dull eovaish ja F 
jured | by y fr ‘ost. oes ee was ine 
s€ ch hadh 
} 1 Tat x 
the severe frost }: 
sts, th 
i - 4 ee he 
= as a serious investigatio, aa 
are alread are left perfeetly free to all 
atmosp finally a like „other | 
perennials. They must be verysparingly 
the rp must | 
e cold rights which we have | 
ate With us the 
not as yet suffered. I duga few roots the 
and | though unripe, they 
will be fou 
® great deal o of 
tubers have | 
other day. 
o far 
possib ple to When 
| siete we = ag probably b 
| malady, but at peaa at thine it would 
| Cer is, that it has 
h 
+} at 1 
D 
H 
t 
same as mentioned by Dr. Salter, and 
after seeds are |, they must universal through our island. P.S. I have Potatoes in! pa am sorry to say that ‘the bit you 
b, the frames to prevent the rot. € rot. Ther Toots are to be | a field, A ground, where | occurring to the Potato-crop in the Isle © 
ta pee y, the rhi no pto of bee disease, and this | neral de , all between 
ra Į g B my opinion, goes far tò prove that the | er and that neighbour 
NEA very a ep place, t of | stat a the atmosphere Peck the summer has| other places. It -ea 
replanting. hawt is Van Houtte, of Ghent. had a gront deal to 2 in bringing the dreadful | tavë given it here the of r 5 gi ki 
an aoe calamity eo mplaine ed a = = — a ued Belle- | that it has — ed the late Potatoes at on, on 
‘age, Beaumon ‘ersey.——The | mine yesterda, ening som 
‘ay pute ie before I I left i aar you published in | perusal of the article = a Potato i ies me black, but that might have been ti 
Chronicle a number of letters and plans | to > trouble you wit th a arks o the subj ect, high h win ed any will 
for the iion of Sa cei but, as as I can J a ha d it be ge 
— aber, nothing at ell peony dap Son ee A on the ag or e f some of my hia leaves. On land (an i hear Pit pA nof in 
of | amination I also found s get ni a simil very distressing. 
the Nines river, proceeding upwards from stalk ; but on trying the roo ` tubers o aa an tie that the alan under rye 
"m ‘ane of Chinghai, and i = yarious other parts i in aac | le enki find no percepti mey wi t This ated Il not become so? an 
of China , I have met with these ice-hous - When morning I have been induce xamine a variety of need be taken up, as the 
. sorts in different situations and soils. sh- able, and the disease wi 
. construction and situation differed so much from what I Kidney ; 2, July ; 3, Fox’s or Cox’s ie vee, cae ie stalk is cut o 
had been accustomed to consider ry essentials of an ice- | 5, Lancashire Red ; 6, Canada Pine; 7, a Potato kindly Potato. Mine are not 50 bad 
at I had great doubts of their effi- | sent me by Dr. Henderson; and 8, M gold Wurzel. of Wight, as only a very small, po 
e, wbich is end of | All the sorts in all the situations appear to bes similarly infected—in some in two or 
anes are Fe ice, | affected, except No. 8, which nn to th ‘ol d it about a week, an 
end most admirably. You are | entirely eseaped, vt ugh the tal spot is peiaiiaally | | served that, apparently in in one ni 
PAER of t ible on the leaf, the tor growing very luxuri- Potatoes had turned as Be. ape’ 
3 e ee in the midst antly. een add, thit. every plot i in my allotment-field, , Meant posto them since, though 4 
mil cross. g yesterday said that 
