36.—1845. 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
607 
c 
p a STOCK OF GERANIUMS. 
ered with earth, well worked in between them ; 
| tion contains species 0 f Rubus, Potentill: Anemone, 
then mene layer should ne fs + eee imbedded rg ulus Parbet: try, Alchemilla Silai , Agri- 
s before ; an dso o fs sgh dig: we | mony, Hype ericam, Heraclen: um, Bee. wig rum dign 
Id evel be inclined to catch the S, so as | is, Viola, a oy of uties o 
zy, 
en air we s draw ted round them suspect that it k different as the Nepaul plant. 
riced Catalogus are now rea So as to carry off all the water. Wetis favourable to | It 1s Scattered in great abundance through the plain, 
decay, and also to the — of mould plants; | and often reaches t o the height _of fro om 20 to 30 
> ryness is an enemy to e “te rier, there- | feet, re! Same 4 fi 
The GatBeners’ Chronicle, nae rd re pa can be k thir ‘ite the} Thes tements certamly lead to the inference 
te — | more chance there “i be of keeping s soun d those that the Ceylon Rhododendron will possess hard 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, rt that maa so when lai Ve can habits, and most especially its ele amidst H4 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING ate impre ssi irten. thë extreme importance. of ve & forms te) common EO aod vegetation. 
E E ROE this ets tion. must r oo mu such Seer 
EERE IR acorns epee Taa, It een observed that some varieties of th The constitution ot uaii is “affected by 
Tavra, enga 11 Berkshire m Floral and Hordeuin: Pota p are more attacked by the murrain than cumst. aooi, of jien ave no ad of judging 
a aa pan r Botanical and Hort. others, an etworth ‘ily. erga gives a| accurately, tinh we can ¢ only say, in this case ode 
We We ted. an or vend Of the! Pori: siking —_— ie nd may ty well = rth oe is in favour 
gor, convinces us that the extent of mjury which |, in st no ld nd ch a padding an Rage AANE 
en it 38 in nó > but thel ci ieties, and whether newly-raised k are not| CULTURE OF CHILIA N ALSTREM 5. 
ntrary, an nd that there is no present help for it. domed atively free. Perhaps our correspondents Mr. Van Hourte’s mien though ors for 
topping the urrain by Will bé so lig Rib ie to turn their attention to this Chilian — generally, are probably founded merely 
betieve that the best thing to amt. For if Pit should “That Will Ba a on culture of his hybrid room 
der th “aa 2 to let the crops alone, povre fl a iiei meaai of raising oh ak Po- SM Houttei. “They = not applicaisle to the species gene- 
consuming them imme- raty ; nor do I believe the his o 
; and in that case they should be taken up and ne p a much greater Sree thks pas hithe a “i abt vi oe Inded te met par oth 
. me cause of in par 0 
= eari ris ay f eee we have frequently insisted, withont. reference to beds, and the ee: ace rate: halitide aia 
me M Crs are | the murrain. All old varieties of t iiie of great superiority in the yigour of 
Hacked, it will be better for the GA he lt i be- | plants which are propag pated by aioe of on! i some port 
more ria gee hat remain are sorted stem, and not by seed m to become feeble The pre ag Alstroameria of Chiloe is perfectly hardy 
d pitted. If an s exist for consuming those inia = fière bispin: in this respect some Eik. a- |in our climate, ue that of Valparaiso not much less ; 
r! to decay, it will be prudent lë between plants Wid. aiai: -Feebleness of orp if we could obtain those from the moun untain pastures 
ake a bin them ; for unless. the rot A Sy > PARA 1 ie alike “Antu uco hiad Eerik where ing to 
en dee into the tubers the ay certai : ae ; E a Ben they vary with every sl ilión 
Pp a Neil i Yh fety |In cases of murrain and a c dies ; and, orange, lemon colour, and white, no English frosts 
giv ` r tae R | Chateau it would seem that the constant introduc- i isi 
hey arè ‘boiled steamed, and mixed | € > a ; would injurethem. This species grows with surprising 
bi hed EAA tion of newly raised a vigorous varieties would vigour, and as close as the stems can stan , in peat, i 
i offer some guarantee e Pig such calamities, the dampest part of the garden, where water does not 
owledge e have ourselves eate —n tually stagnate. In loam it is vigorous and 
ed Potatoes i in ‘hich the canker was only skin] A gs tim ne of our correspondents healthy, and is onei skeen hened by a winter top- 
idle reports are current on this sub- gey aitentoa me the Tieas of the EYLON TREE | dressi ung. In peat it sows itself so ‘as to be 
HODODENDRON ; and as his. account is a med by | troublesome Algtræmeria „hæmantha and its varieties, 
Tti is some consolation to know that ees tubers parses we have thought it worth emo Sg suc ch a s Bare clayi, &c., an I 
ere soun acts elating me to our ow! ne h, but not so 
being attacked. We The species has been generally regarde en as a freely 2 in all situations as auren. fe ay Cuming- 
ples bite by in a dry Ps sod mere vari ae of ae tree Rhod odendron of Conti- oR, ee i i fron hs anie 
hich were sound at the time of | nenta In our gardens it is commonly called | i kag reathe = a * ae winter, peat ae = night, and in 
while, on the contrary, those | Rhodo ond ron Rollisson ; and inthe “ cane z not 5 th ae G the winte h je” saa A. puchen 
d on tself 7 Register,” a 1843, engai s figu red at t. 25 unde ert a peat border, with leaves thro inter, 
ʻe decaying Tast. name, uspic ion, however, rotted ; ina dy — i ot sandy en Presi stood 
reset not seem to | expressed that it os oeh be the Ceylon Rhododen seven or eight rg ted, but requires to be 
re persuaded that if we h ad | d vin cp mrna frost seems 
il would have gone no! st m h 
het. Unfortunately, however, the gloomy stato Solas d ied to the supposition i R. Rolison . Van tipoa has nof had sufficient experience of 
low temperature, have- been | was no t identical with a Cayioip lant. We | his mules to know how they should be best cultivated in 
mpensated for by absence of rain. eive, however, that of the leaves is oe even a ae ome = T 
m Mr. B ELEY, in another column, variable, for upon e o vi lume of Ceylon quality w "e nie tem ae e inapplioani a 
Potato murrain with attacks of a drawings, executed by an artist employed in the Pease and iar narat climate of England. It 
" i gous to that which Mr. | Botanic Garden there, one of the leaves is repre- Se ae hi P 
IL attributes the destruction of decaying | sente being brow The Ceylon plant and had destro, ed man and in, jured others amon: cew 
es pa P. 771, 1842), and Professor Berr has Rhododendron Rollissonii may be regarded, then y y 3 ar 
4 ith some observations which entirely | as identical. is also Rhododendron n0- | ticular vigourin those beds. fa nthe oo cee 
narm this opinion. And this i is only what was to | bile; but we do not find it described anywhere l roa 
expecte ae for as soon as living matter Joses its under that name, which is understood to have merias, perhaps from the vicinit y of a peculiar loam, 
as diminished vit Min ated wit ALLICH, like that of Norwood, would protabiy a ae give us 
ur, all sorts of par i aa ir first knowl l of thi m e pappe 
its destruction. It is so w ith on d from the late Mr. ear who man years | Peregrina 
—even with man himself. since EHM specimens of it with the draw- snag es pe Yorkshire whs ow lave thrown —* 
next incipient decay, and ing abo lluded to. At ter period, Mrs. ———— 
ads of creatures whose life can | Wat R, in her entertaining narrative of the ascent | ULTURE OF THE PINE-APPLE, 
he decomposing bodies of| of Adam’s Peak, the highest mountain in Ceylon, Warn the oars gone! r failed in in his attempts to burn 
Cold and wet, acting upon the | mentioned s particulars about it, which are} the diamond he 
ed by excessive and sudde important. This lady found it growing on the cone | from his sa. oie of a pe of the subject, that 
diminution of Vitality, por-| which terminates the mountain, associated with a the d ay would. come when tia rape! hese 
d communicated the| low Bamboo, and species of the hardy European fulfilled. And wher ea oat President of the Hos. 
1n contact with them ; nera Valerian, Houndstongue, and Sium. On 
$ 5 à tala So aee the os T. A. Knight, Esq., tried to 
which the mouldiness could | the 4th February the vom a tood at 54° at grow goo without the aid of bottom-lea his fives 
1 the moment this w the | daybreak on it o ruled ayes eo pet ver Hc ars signal failures. Yet such 
i gour; for once in ession of a | climate where d t so ag e of the rinciples of the that, like 
ed thi e g p P oah 
I e © spawn (or mycelium oft the mouldi-| mild as it would the philosopher ahve alluded to, if Mr. Knight had not 
area ie aia into parts to al appearance | for on another o Mrs R speaks of felt assured that it oie i accomplished Pi negate 
v And thus = evil in itself too great | the ite diffi cay iie o eijera i in Á kehin ng h : p X + al a eae ee have 
ea self wa etween theory a 
ght ld that even th g gardeners 
sy atte be tu reka avelling failed i Mr. Knight’s time, ri pnra fh his page ever te a T 
ure p ings had rallying po oint and the gnaire, et for the of pre a 
| ka hl ce had loc 
| been scorched, and’ not one of the common vege-| chel 
| table productions, which gen erally blossom all the | one 
es on k 
iE thero be 
t day 
that 
More recently the Rhododend dron tracts have of bot- 
been visited by Mr. Gar nee Bee one of thie 
uld be} 
be | great variet 
t this the Gods in later times perform.”— 
Ster-week I undertook a 
pally to see that celebrated 
Pine- ot 
three 
nig to a friend in sextet s 
‘Bicton 
fen, where, among 
x engaged m 
re just showing 
splendid show ley ay at not satisfied 
phe ee irom] A ha 
nae in Which 
aay niche I founå Me vee were ise 
‘standing on pillars of ‘brick, with a 
nu be alt with: a wi wc Thus my orie ens but 
