ee 
49.—1845.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 705 
same treat as the Chinese Prim- | as po re ier 
want ne ogre the latter omar io Saad enjoy both more | If I 
lin aii a ali ie aii 
VSS EEE 
in refusing to make any reply to e shown, there is this other advantage over 
todien mpt = task, it would necessarily jok that a Me. gs 's—that when water is poured down 
light and air than the former. The most forward will | very Tengen one, and at the same time, perhaps, not | the feeding tubes, it spreads arrg Daa stones, and 
require a shift about t the first week of September—not | very temperate, and would after all be only a war of | then diffuses itse tself regularly over the surface 
later—into their egy po using the ees Homers i | utterly bes which wo uld be r pe to all parties, and Met When it is Shaor bed i and evaporated 
tate. A erl 
be placed in thumbs, to receive their last d et ae 
the end of oe eng those. „potted i charae 
= al 
producing those effects at once desirable and most 
J — my former communications, you cannot | beneficial would i 
thumbs in August will wan p to purs _ Let 
x di t 
e otenber. By. area satis: commande howere se ny oth 5. lispu ably be the ease in ‘te homey voghrfiarh ern L. ia 
may be insured, from the e fint, weak of Novem A They we: ro put up in June, 1845, for tempor ry and red by heati g in contact with the 
E May łe | experimental pur and n ent erections heated. urface i 
ead | of winter like ga as ‘of light and moderate | for fruiting Vines And as they wor te send an oe 
i Sat intended qui parand Pg the two plans are ver 
erin ngs ; but with the return of spring they require | to remain lon mger than t three years, or E a tinct, rd one being an te n step in wf Hered 
ter. a proper site could th ate for the erection} of Mr. Moore’s, although I am not by a y means 
no D 
santhemum holds a most important place | of a series of pillars of an ornamental character, | satisfied - its being ‘the most malate mode that 
ongst the autumn flowers ; indeed, they may be sa id they were not carried higher than about 4 ft., and could be devised, foi am quite persuaded our 
E irm the great connecti ing link between the old year | were left _unfin ished, the tops being covered his subject is greatly in arrear ; itis, 
d'the new. slates, and in thi hey | which Melons can be a ra segres 
udy flowers, I have found the one best | al . The very inappropriate site on which | more stacy afm by dung ich are 
lan to be, transi pose the cuttings when struck they stand proves at once that mnan were rr 8 of a | abom tet a garden, Altern. frere of ec oaa 
-the month of July, into beds i nuie open ground p y depre cia tin ae the flavour of the Melon. My 
a them abo pi eight inches y y ta th VW force of eti ia h $ 
ain thus until the middle of hae (the grossest expected to arrive a tera on vag The ior | i Xo ? à 
ts E boing mopped occasionally) when they pi- potted | of these columns was filled with broken bricks, d one who aspires a garden 
nh their shift, peg ean fully as | nothing else Joes Vines ara in them were one year aarre byt the use a hot water only, “te reserv- 
rti ra A or ea ae en t ra are i red gradu- | old and no more; and havi ing been lay ying loosely i ina ing the stable in an unex hansis d state to be 
5 iw ie andes It is well, however, to D all the | heap of potting mould for t a, 
and weakest plants thre ee in a 5 inch Pot, of course pus some young fibres, and in this state] Destructive Dal —My nu Ses was visited on 
out; these may have a final shift sy hems ze, planted in the direi their roots arare, bri laid Friday afternoon with a v destructive hailsto 
end of enh -a mi by these mean be is rhich bro! ke upwards of ri ousand squares of g 
i rs, and will found very d is small, per prin- 
be r - 
Gobletiions sec ecnstantly clear liquid the patra of ae ike, One of the Vines died ae cipal 6 by 4, 6 by 3, and s by 3. Ih = 
bundance of light and il ed 
ad 
e, Wi t and air, are all the/ this treatment ; Da the “reed two fg aap during pa Ae house emg with 4 700 feet of “Epics 
isites henceforth, with the exception of sticks ; they | the short period t the n that season, | fore sheet glass, 17 inches by 6 inches, only o 
every main shoot, disposed in a} shoots about six and ve sae a Siig: respectively, | sq va which was bro re amas and eight s 
hese are particularly fond of clear| They were cut hard back in the autumn, and last|—Charles Woodroffe, Westbourne Nursery, Harrow- 
should have it abundantly the mo- | year the shoots more than doubled the length of| road, Paddington, Oct, 134 
ent they show the flower bud. They should constantly | those of the former year. In the autumn, these were , Quercus sessi liflora. ~in compliance - o request 
e all suckers pulled from them, and the shoot p and although I | pt. 27, that pete be might be 
ned judiciously, until the end of August. As a aram = ma orn of them during the past| sent in of fine trees of frodam ses a rep. 
three principal shoots may be left to a 6 inch pot, w before me written testimony to | shortly afterwards with a party pf my pun to Lisgnto 
an 8 inch, and five to a 9 inch pot, and so on- e iet ee in the | last week of June, these Vines had | common, Littleworth, a portion of the estate of W. 
'h plants should have sn E AE of ss produced “strong shoots, nearly three feet long.” If} Stent, Esq. On the border of a wood on these broad 
in an airy situation, after the month of July, | they ri : been accidentally destroyed shortly after- | sandy heaths, stands a young and beau tiful specimen = 
shoul be under over. in some light and airy struc- | wards, but reasonable to suppose that they would f this mi isappreciated tree 
r They should have | now deri been eight or nine feet long. Pretty good | to attract attention long before the specific daeaiia 
1 s syringings every evenin g, when in doors, with | work, this, cae Vines oe upon prem but, briek- of the leaves and folia ge are distinguishable. aren 
ju of air, day and night, until the blossoms bats _ Teo end t 
en sc not only syringing must be discontinued gtl 2 inches in girth 3 feet from the ground, 
tall condensation of moisture on the leaf or flower be | at once in ept next Chronicle in correcti A p d g 
ped. Bins this end all waterings must be | former statement.—Clement era me 16, 845.— oa a bough, an dvantage, beget which pna ma 
ing, and a omer fire eae the ee ave abc to observe u n this sitesi \e es to the woo dodana ral 
with * free circulation of air, to way all tha tw consci ious us of having said 2 Sage. more bough v me = = — ego inline clegantly 
tmosphere by ll r. and that if the pr pre 
after which period nye re must be only such as | not think fit to ive me ex lanation we a suggested, reye aike p S form. a true sylvan canopy ‘a's a 
k sites: Soa and it is well ‘to a is little x it ES Why cl sme a ich the pind trunk is the central 
88 of air at the ses "of the house for the it should be sen very lengthened,” or “not very | supporter. "The same tendency to symmetry is observ- 
pherie moisture all night. A good sane covering: temperate,” w unable to discover. Our enquiry | able in the whole outline of the tree, which exhibits a 
shen of a fire, would no doubt be excellent, an was sufficiently PE sal the shorter the answer the fina ske aa unbroken by the extrusion of protu- 
event condense re pa more satisfactory it would be to the public. For a "The tree is exactly 39 feet high, but 
I have found the following everything that can | cloud of words in eee. we have, in fact, no being young aa vigoro us, will push to a much higher 
ed, viz., one half rotten turf of strong and fat| room. We observe that Mr. Hoare here — the | “ stage of treeship though whether it will attain the 
and the other half pm Sey of e oma ual parts leaf paepe of orit that. the Shirley Vines | almost oy eodeni height of 118 feet stated by Mr. 
rotten manure, to which add a good | were planted in broken bricks. We have, therefore, | Jukes, I must say I entertain doubts. In conclusion, 
ing of rough charcoal dust, and another of sharp nothing more ‘to say on that subject, except that we I consider it to be but due to this prt Oak i ale 
3 wh — ym . EDER or two of fine bone waste. | naturally looked to Mr. H firm, that if the common stalked-cu = is cu i 
is success, and our informant could not have sup- "E in parks and pleasure-grounds fi state 
posed the only instances of rose ae ing At nA be d and robust magnificence, zap should > Ses- 
Hom e Correspondence pomi to have been at re GA, it ions sileflowered Oak be neglected by the rapes ted wi 5 
oare’s Vine C ee reference i your corre- | given in Mr. H.’s book. e shall cy aid that if we = er in eo E nas ough. We s — 
ondent’ tic d us elegance.—F. A. Malleson, 
aps public shoal be two Vines | in the hollow have done this Taak ë any injustic ive — oa ntaa of ti ae 5 ee 8 
J teen redu ced to their presen e by the a piP of the Melon.—It may be inferred from an i i 3 
mey of the ma terials oa eia bes bricks) t ie article of a corrective kind, in last week’s Paper, that I|- Salvias.—The Salvias generally gromi mh parah nae 
then parera growth—an inference | am guilty. of the sin of p as Iam there bo not hardy, and only in very favourable situations s evr 
sey to be made by m rsons—but solely to the | formed that the system of si uation wa water to the roo the frosts of winter. o think, Dae seg ae cn = 
ts of the present year having been steko bitten | of Melons, as described by me at p. 624, te o ar en vari seen 
Mitte: F aaw + How | made known by Mr. T. Moore nearly tw S. Verbena h grows wild in mai ar es a ion k 
might, at all 
g ars ago. 
they had bee: ted I know not Their appear- That Iam not Y ailty of robbing Mr. T. ase of this Banin. a wa pret at the same tim varie 
indicated ab abou 3 a ect a I have ali the disco bid A is ae true, from the fact that I never saw | might be pr ar $ —— at 
wang since, c% following summer they grew as eres in my life, and, if my memory opti sd e | events, be fried. —G. L 5 1 ee i 
as the sanguine could expect. My im- diar = have never so much as heard of its ex Pine-growing t p 609, a —— 
rigorous pruning to a single ence until now; although s oc most certainly, bat | ent, — g of es Bieton Pin exh o 
Mr. Hoare, for three or f PP mo o the roots of Melons they not exhibited at ye Horticultural e i —_ 
roduce eum e very fine wood, an | and plants, wee i , has n pursued | Lon ported by that somebody could be measured, wi ed, 
EA extent, has advan ntageously - for a number | of years, and conse- : n Aa at he wen sare t 
sahig 
hy were 
bition 
re- 
r 3 
nat Pines 
ii 3 
had If| his ideas upon the s Iti 1 ] 
ence ached age him ae ae on that = and 1 shall “gladly vel | my- | Now this might b be the ease, but I have not 
eighth. 
not heard of 
found in 
1 eatabli f th mld be likely to 
rrespond- | of ch interesi ball ate eners. I may further o h wou. 
conditions eonte Sis by Mr. oe fT and rstand Mr. Moore aries (rth find ie aE eS weighed as well as mine. piae 
f the system, my | out seeing his e it differs from that g in | known to the Horticultural my life ; T know nothing of those 
_ rrespondent. | the Gardeners’ Chro nicle, inasmuc ch as as he is oad o f | hibite be eed ‘Sete ai the summer of 843. 
Sg I heard that Pines were exhibi nt pur- 
to Shirley will be 1 th lied towards the tanks, “where they would mip 
{ vith this ides, T Supe as continually be injured by aein ge its heated | pose, Pieces or her cena ee e : aras 
with your readers. — | surface,” Now, in my arrangemen roots | taken them aE ` ci 
vestigator ” e in con all heated a 
answered 
npn ware that the weight of a pame n, 
aeoea eke I B most certain] ‘without producing any injurious a 
mater sec The observa- y water in| and is still, doubted. Mr. Wilmot, of Isleworth, and 
ph ge Soaps sorting meen oh oth ag eo nigel arsine cali, aan so far as to state publicly, without an 
