722 THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. [Ocr. 25; 
Mammillaria: — I cannot omit | steady, it is im ossible to keep the hygrometer so too. | they fall, while those seeds falling from the f 
song i San the intention of your r ones ers, an in-| A li tile aie ough to be admitted as soon as the sun | outer margin o of the mi will fall where fungi on th he 
genious ethod of propagat ing sueh song plants : | raises the hese ta few degrees, a nd i in an hour or twoa| decayed ;' they will be i uninjured, an ilk 
i Tin T, cura’ hes of the Botanic Garden, Bury little more, or as much as you think will cause: æ suffi- | be formed. It will continue to enlarge by the t 
St. Edmund's, received he So niyo ithout putting it out of your power fungi rg aa the seeds on the inner margi e 
speeimen of Echinocactus, which was decay o keep up a suffleloney of moisture. ile those upon the outer m 3 
base, and would not emit fresh roots ; e therefore that I piece ‘oo much mois isture , but Tdo say | fresh ground, will form ~~ > 
hich degree o ‘a moisture is necessary, or ieee: ‘bess >| pro — of this s; that w n two rings meet, thesides of 
after I } H fa I believe, i ne gardener | the rings comin g i n co rei are both deat trope as the 
plants feng summit ; a second species, penere may s eep his Vines much drier tham ano ther, and yet be —— approach each other, the poin nts a soom 
deemed incurable, was cut transversely and pla aisd have as good Grapes ; all that I insist on is, that, what- | destro, yed, t : 
ona shelf in the succulent-house, and a fixed on a | ever degree of moisture is kept up, it must be as |T n one p e yesterday where four of ‘oad ng 
of soil soon made a strong plan mt. He has also | steadily maintained as possible-—.A Practical Observer. Sea “havin ng a fur-omered figure, composed of f parts. 
rac- of the four rings, the re 
increased, to a considerable ~~ some fe the — Suse call vo writer a sound, sensible, as well as 
a illaria by cutting o off t e protu! tuberances o: bo 
+ 
eal obse vers] In addition to the above, “J. sl 
i n order to hav 
Mammillaria, which after 
perfect plants under a iene with bottom-he: 
N. S. Hodson. 
‘at.— | 
nb. 
e goo sod Gra 
goed ernard at = time of colouring: is absolutely 
cessary, taking care Ro t to adn nit cold winds, for it is 
If 
Vine E uluno a Mich ies been written on this's sub 
a 
y h E 
each other ‘they will disap- 
pear altogether. oa I think D this theory will ae. 
count ae your Fifeshire correspondent’s woodland ring 
going round the trees.— An Inquirer, Montrose: 
Retentio ion of Moist ure Heute s.—The re remarks of 
= of badli; 
tudi 
the nature of pana y and te tied ti oriana pais down 
Paeahi w e would hear less of Braap at g7 Pad 
colour, &e. te to aga ders, e 
written. on them to enable every readin ng . 
aoe 
J 
‘The appearance of water on some 
‘others, 2 undoubtedly, connected with their pee 
structur ; but what that structure may be it would 
in the year—when the su g 
very prospect of a fine cx put he rin imme- 
ee e 
y | diately, and as the su 3 the parks in the 
house to 76°, give pe lng half an. inch of air toevery 
15} s 
ash at top, but none in front upon any aceount’; and 
hen the heat rises to 78° ive as much air a ain, and 
z a 
re 
giv 
o on until the thermometer stands at 85°. Be sur 
by Mr. Mackenzie; b 
his observatio ons, ssn mnect ome wa o ase 
the soil ‘the lants: grow 
Pp 
matter will er be afforded for a at me correct 
explanation. In the volume of Re on the pr 
of Bota nity ant ooog publi hed by the 
s 
not to aliow the heat to decline without takin ing the 
away by deg 
ei ‘ 1 3 A PPSI 
closing the sashes the house is a ast 
l hal pin 
Twill a to point out a few of regi — 
system of Grape-growing practised t leas 
tenths of cultivators. _ First, then, rant is ter re 
" The |o 
Tittle 
on each ihe “ace the heat is sat 85°, and you suffer 
grees r it was given ; ogra ees su 
t At the I 
d on the cotyledons, the } eaves; and the flow were, 
bject. He made his observations on. ‘the: Toga tie 
noli tangere. lant ap 
largest on the first. The water of which they 
the temperature 
air a little, then the berry y shanks, M March and A Apri ril, 
day’s sunshine is very suena, and the gardeners 
in the air of Viner, it mings almost always to 
hygrometer is: just as n — asa 
dry ; ? 
and, secondly, fresh air ae. iisjudisioesly, A 
ther- 
throw open their houses and allow them open 
until the heat is only 70° or 76° ; EE then dee the 
house and the heat rises: again, a 
com josed was perfeetly seentless and tasteless, 
te pizar pe yiana 
periments on a thi sabe Finding 
d dee 
than, the sun has done good ; depend upon. it tot is 
y 
tached a Hop of water te a vein where: there was 
a ad is drop rem inod me? a a long inn fi 
Hier off ad 
E 
tth 
j| in order to produce good fruit, Of this, from long 
e ese dr = can poet with dockage 
e Bord: takin 
—In 
that had canals teens pereita oni 
| a Hey in vot oid Vinery, I Giarto that some i them | als i 
had r rooted into the front wall, and that those which 
he 
only on aes that bore o fruit. This 
f, and attached it to peg ce: Be T the o lls x 
d - Revs er- drops h 
+ thane 
pare T formed a new Vine-border, and I a 
18, 
a aN e. A 
Ə, Di © 
= 
= nae et almostinvarialily do we see air ad- 
mitted MERES the slightest vogue ie effects on the | 
sangeet osphere, farther than keeping down the 
hea ang us. imagine, for a moment, what has bee! 
the i atment of many Vineries, in this ate aaa | P 
thi In the 
een 
a with its good effect, that i sonny | 
mend: its a in all composts for Vine borders. IT} tissue, the 
heo nes 
il secreted in the shape 0 
temporarily % het of! 
parser t 
under very paea antageous circumstances, yas wad 
have produced a a crop o bt ea Sae thay- peck 
allowed } but of cou ree a « * shows 
z 
plant. He serene similar experiments í ot the le 
of = Soxomgtetg! its, Althoug 
the velit” on the Cauliflower, they di 
cold weather, the h d 
sequently more moisture was- ret tained than ual; = 
the shoots and leaves were tender, and wo sone 
injury from sudden change ; but ass 
Wr Wl 
ties of lime-rubbish i 
Tagetes tenuifolia. his is one of the best orange- 
ad coloured annuals for flower-beds _ which I am ae- 
a strong, clear ae the houses were re opened en nted. The plants m 
e 
ome nite fruit.—J. J. ' Genghegan Peporony "The 5; 
Societies. zs 
perira ekarna SOCIET 
. S. Bow rns D Esq., F.R.S, a 
na, 
the 
Oct. 
the cain T paper, gä Ha 
; this continues as fresh and blooming = S 
them, as is — om y the case, the 
quence is the reed out the evil, I 
= doubt led ‘the n aid a. every raara t ra 
hec! 
cold at the roots, or a. too — withdrawal of moisture 
re and 
have 
The Tears have a very agreeable balsamic 
= 
Rings.—In a late Numberyou suggested th 
Paint das of a a ring oin from a sing 
to | fungus, and that the robable f the formation of | m 
Te: ‘is to be maintained : 
Vin strictest atten 
paid t to e miniti air, and to its effects on the 
ter; 3 in cloudy, wet weather, short fires are to 
—From the time the 
attention ought 1 to bi 
pe put 8 
angus ; falling in a circle, 
Tn oe Sanab aca = 2 pring: ee truth of 
night temperature, and a little air admitted bo 
r- ont and back g the house, taking care to 
— of on on the pipes; for a strong eae 
with 
arms of all appear to 
these pke T arrived ous conclu- | not tubular, as has been sup ma 
sions ; but which agree beantifa ally. ai ie facts. | of some of the flint specimens under p 
The seeds of a fang falling i ina circle will produce a | between two pieces of g Tey 
> of fang Now, | in the same mann horny’ wa 
h fall fi 1 _inner-sides of the fungi of stance would’ be, and the arms m 
Sm this circle will pyag lass were ‘pent sE some, after 
falling from the outer edg quently, the | water for seve weeks, beeame qu 
e | nically. Their shape is that of a flattened’ 
air es n unsparingly eep down the heat Se nd ne; they were then 6 is in hei n os 
£ e pes m; the n cover e ground, emerin 
3 hen th colou ring, as it did been full of bloom ever since. To its other th F Xanthidia per 
in many cases this year, a do no more good, but as- | fications, this plant possesses the good raga et Chalk, eae an ter a » tried summary 0 of the 
sume a dull brown colour, viz., the dingy hue so well|of not looking littery, ai as soon as the „flow wers paper, in in 1 which he stated that various: species 
} and so much dreaded by eners; and when | begin to fade, the shoots branch out ag: i n found 2 hinr in e ; 
t nothing will er them o: fre- | ‘crop T cht r, ~ hide the deeaying gore oms. It is stone oinlic: r. Deane went on t tate that t! 
quent practice of keeping on strong fires with the view now a mass, about a foot i in height, and though covery, by? affording the means of pan and = 
of the evil, only tes it ot fl various ways: for examination, 
i H sa 
7 
es pre 
e | consequently, they pace nly be 
major part of them ey — mbling sont s 
lesof es, most of them es 
a es of sponges, =e 
enlarg 
n to suppose 
tention is necessa a for, if a 
deal of air is Neaduitead's to keep down the heat, it ak 
possible to keep the. atmosphere nero moist, con- 
Air 
sequently the Vines ‘suffer. 
ineulans mass n fang The seeds y Friera in circles g% 
t th f the Snaim of the a 
the Links of Montrose, there are a great 
dis sapjas their silicious 
reason 
PEE at. 
h 
of air in the houses, nae et ning =; 
and back are que sufficient for that = ae 
fot 
h I have examined, and upon all o arate I have 
beni the Grass, € Clover, efor other ebro lly in 
the centre, in a sickly or dying condition, The ¢ Gra 
ro- o- | touchin ng the decaying fungi was Pesi as if f charred, 
bodies 
hich ap 
from 
ss | be som 
development 
ll of 
besen the Grass — the same sickly or diaga appen 
there is but Tite heat in — > pipes, they t 
E hidi in poia so gas 
d with water when pra Now ius | 
attention m ust be paid to | 
ventilators e peii ne | 
| left the ground’ es bare. From ac. re E chink it it 
is eraai that the decay ed fungi cause this. disease and 
er 
t from 
Sle brought ted that regen te 
‘passes over the oak “panty ae 
on tive. See e fangi u 
map ey ines fall? Prone this rine t à ne wae = 
The fungi Sen 
may be kept pretty te cen wily te soed» fhe fangi pan 
whether by d 
acid more satisfactory 
ex 
