406 THE GARDENERS’ SS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Mar 7, 1859 
"T Tad Hime, 1 trust will , deficieney been - ignable to any cire 
un dly , Sie t moved by time, o r over which the Cone a likely toten tober. 
trol, they might have still en deavoured o oti exercise on. 
difficulties of their position,.aud to carr 
who are 
ko on ula‘ an 
t deem these observa 0 ut of place at the presen 
Col chester, — — ig about, as philosophical a Suggestion: as 
t 0 
«che ie Thomson, F. 
Now it the infiuence of electricity acting “upon e ertain ida 
€ teresting favourable to the ma yo 
form: of matter roduce ve etable life, would not the t Potter Coffins.—It may not be unin y re fe maintenance ote 
: S of your readers to know t dre — — I that, — direct loss was — Garden 
coffins is now being carried into effect liis s 2 direc dre 
f yo 
t 
n f l orders 3 animals may be attribnted | enrthen are a 
sa arta cans 1 A Gard : ner. Yes ; if pl Thorniley’s ‘Tile and Pot Works, Heaton- Mersey, 
produced by electricity so qme an animal, But the if | near Manchester, I had lately occasion to go there t 
is everything. order some flov ver-pots, when I saw some d [in 
1 the kiln—so complete in every point 
ken my Ih 
3 dung frame with linir ngs 22 p front a 
N isease.—Havin oa with interest t tl 
articles by Mr. 23 Mr. F Fr that it was hardty possible to find fault with them. 
Cucumber, I was induced to ld f| TI 
your able corre 25 — inform me sie cd th coffins of our best makers. The e lid falls within well- 
cure of a disease which has tak f 1 and, I was told, is fastened down with 
w 
c Roman cement before being consigned to the grave. 
Mr. Thorniley toll me he has orders for a thousand, 
e gentle bottom heat; the plants were grow — 
ent luxuriantly, the leaves nny of them ME and hopes to be able to make at his own works from place of r 
12 Ta bec way, and the roots all over the frame | 500 to 1000 : week — arrangements are eom 
like packthreads, =e o E attention paid to them as | plete t ed. = Parkinson, a Manchester gentleman an 
to s T, wa 8 and such About three or these coffins, tried many other plastie mental par 
ot i some pes s wee cks in the stems ; pos za materials ; o, found gs answerable in every way been taken to 
ing it — A too much moisture eIl t tho ose made of t e best 7 clay. A 
rather dry sin ain, a t h, s discovered a | 
coming, ani 3 inches in len M ` are gur nming rand — substance or solution, ES Eee fa AE ' | 
dropping off, and some of the fi e leaves are oning renders T hardest materials and substances capable = | 
brown. There are three or Mu ed sorts of Cacum- | of being beautifully and enduringly “ flocked.” ell, pere 0 . 
me, such as Cuthill’s Black Spine, Lord | these is when finished are exceedingly P pretty, just — er parts o 2 ge N M is | 
Kenyon's Favourite, Lynch's Star of the West, &e. - piece ric lvet Crim- | handsofthe Fellows. Andt the Comma i 
have likewise another (rame of equal dimensions, at flock is te e used for Ric. 
nplaint, and likewise a quan- | private — ies who buy 
5 of miigh look to be going in | heard of them it struck me that £ they wou ald be too 
the — 5 tate. Young @ heavy for pre use; but those I saw a = 
Spergula pili * — -Having i idi frequent opportu- | or eight years of age were not too hea T 
present looking hea althy, but I am afraid showing sailors, white for paupers, and _ k = ery 
pioms of the same 11 buy their o 
nities of see seemg M dm. A lawn of Spergula these coffins it forcibly struck me that i 
pilifera during the 15 yn years, I may perhaps be|an effort or two to produce good ance ipes 
tted to offer some e arks upon the plant. for € hot-houses with — ebe, [for w 
i hly as 2s bas been of asa Dwee for syphons, and T’s. Coffins can be made 6 feet long. 
Grass, its. s have not p my opinion t all Surely pipes 6 inches wide and 6 feet and — in | 80 
i t e jointiug could be e by 
to see the lawn, some of whom h gone with Portland or Roman ems —€— answers ve spe for tes alon ie of the inka Bec Of Mens 
conviction Te t the published cud. of it v east metal pipes. I am at liberty to state sid, the charges — — — . 
more fanciful than accurate; and of a e Cir cheaply the coffins can be reste but if M can be | foun that the 
questions that have been asked respecting i I know ma ade at the rate of the coffins our hot-houses could be 
= but x e which ha: s not been satisfacto orily 1 alf the cost of iron pipes. Th e present i been disposed 
I le?” tem of heating is good, but the materials nsed are = 5s. for — and 504 106 
— making all 3061“. 4 60. 
Pee ve (eos die übers at No. 8, MaRrIN's Prach, 
TRAFALGAR SQUARE, — ive been taken ata a total rent ot S 
g and on the present occasion 
Experimenta are in progress for the determination of expensive. A. Pettigrew. 
Last Christmas Aa of Spergula, eere Cases.—I have been much pleased with 
bout 6 by 2 inches, were slept . Hibberd's satisfactory account of obest 
piece of d in Mr. Mon n: these cases. That 
of 12 to 15 Mies Mun): d cae explains the facility of Propagating the 
he ile part of cach pateh bing means described, but if the Lee teh SET 
ap into | im en and planted in the of their comfortable quarters 
H aed Lit riod ue Hs “yous 
Will be Will be sarees (dace end of the I appre- | fear meus = die immediatel oe v s stomp to eee their- 1 
y. Iventure to ask 
hend that the quickest way of ene m would | what plan he suggests to those not enjoyi become inevitable; but they 
be, to prick out seedlings at 2 Tosh ae the oe 1 HUP 
IT prepared surface of loam, a trou! que some job E — plants or 
doubtless, yet one that would well 1 the labour; two or three weeks in their hotbed has expired ? 
for it might be done oy. mere boys, under oceasional | I „ha ave es winter raised several seeds in a dens 
— The eX stion of t with dung, but they shot pt very weakly 
lawn ought not, it seems to me, to be allowed to pre- and 1 Spur died away: such I should — would he 
j the merits of. the iin as — vy do not discard | the fate of the nurslings of the Waltonian cases to 
many perenn mìals a sa e they o bloom the first | those who could not Secure an equal day a 
of Tio a d 2 
N. the Society, if an inion i 
25 pi been n notified 
ing months, Mr. Hibberd Y will perhaps be so obligi 
— — iet. 1 
era does not make al 
suc wn as no Grass ean 
Like most good buings, it will be liable te have [th | 
I have 
an inferior article substituted for it; and as 
good near n dien. didis ou seem Cc O 
XE CIS 
— — a: cna 
erit 0 dis anri 400 n 
Societies. drum dots, 
ie „ Honm Mee L: May 2. Y MzzrING 
1e election of Council a sees for the ensuing | are 
prepared at to tak adva 
an Tor, t the Rev. ernon Harcourt, V. P., in he Chair. Ein rt 
from the Council scr 
causes that 
fod aul pi The Sce Tute. atinually informed of the 
= wile Sagan preserves its pro- | to the heavy ot London and Chi 
3 those of J ‘Exhibitions 
tinual sustained by the 
ground, viri S zgul — | tocol et then 
a 9 at no considera o inpren inth 
four i —.— hes long, mcs the roots of a : Pateh of Spergula Se this | ides a EM tb pon was epe — ni — — — — e is foun Mum 
the 
iom into the stiff clay subsoil of s "Mr. Mongrodienrs | engt si stronsiy s commented as a ma “great the mimber CLE i p 
rdin 
— the ew of the plant for hon purposes 
first, greatest extremes of atmosph 
changes will en ffect the soil deep e j 
it (while Sagina from its limited roothold will not 
heat or draught) an ly, beca: his 
istic secures (as has a beautiful lawn, — 
Perfectly free from cracks in the hottest weather, upon | brought t r. ve how A " : 
a soil it for nothing better than making bricks, E T to savo the | Bocity's Anan are 
a procumbens is such a wi n weed in garden ween, o Exhi'itions of see oving cost more tha e — 
de that it is very likely to be maten for, and pts, exelusi has so long oceupied among the 
even planted with Spergula pilifera; and as a lawn | convenience: d the sone been 
8 will probably be escis steal of | ike Seer the E 1 e year 1 18569 axe Ss having 
months, and thus earn . 
seh 
tae Se ann 500/ beyond 
part of wuich loss is chanzenble to >i Gerd. fea sha. 
thin] that — the 
