[ERAT AGRICULTURAL ae 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRON 
dens, w d them surrounded | as to admit of 
bitions, all notices and other hich f at most kitchen gardens, w — » found ring w 
0 to 16 yer Y" which are accom- | be found as o in ab 
—— = - ee cvy such a 55 d alis, fom 2 ofa Similar Dy , Or Lie ndi ci y be . Ge 15 ul % Sis irem 
m tab e| Turner an s$s Fi 
calars may. be event aliy bos ayau " donithi borders must, asa matter of 2 be reserved a er Ala. May pics f, Pruitist, and Gant 
future reference, Should the Society ba sufficiently for = Mat e crop of Peas, or hand-glass Cauliflowers, 
supported the circular in question may lead to a T y Potatoes, m so with all the rest; they are 17105 
revival of the Journal, the publication of which daea the gardener’s choice of ground, on apes ntis . PEOT 
as now been long discontinued. e de | wh foster n grow anything he Bond e k go all would have said that the fr: 
f distributing plants by ballot is also to he wishes to do better than ordinary. " d | prosp e ged season were most pi nt 
: : al e has Promising 
i bly altered and improved, so that not add that this ‘cots is now universally taken place! Í 
— : Sijan pag ^n chance” of obtaining | ed mned as inimical to the well- pod of d trees, tions of abundant crops aye blighted, a and tow d 
lants which he does not want. and the greater part of April d wn of Meg 
"ello ows of the Society will have a e: of |i our fruit. That the crop has suffered 
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—— them for growing what dem ou may Naas, w with a qu Eg t present repr eS 
Thése unani mistakeable indications of r rell zi AP of pem the tre has in bloom as * noticed think not. Pu the first vide roa 
p will doubtless prove gratifying to "i $ here after. The — gardet walks may be margined | rumour very frequently magnifies matters, i sd 
ve the interest of horticulture really at heart niowi Wi with Curr „Lo, or even with Saler or bed opinion has been the case in the present i 8 
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d lear. we will take a|not been so great as is re d 
CLIMATE IN RESPECT TO FRUIT GROWIN bed render our men aning Aye a gue ah 2 8 hee een. ane heard, ; ula A From i 
[With the permission of the Editor of the Florist we Ee south wall, cropped, say w. 1 the sce gpa ke- 
the following from its able and extremely well-conducted | take the wall 14 feet high, and the border as 14 feet h ry, 
columns. | wide. Let the soil the whole width be duly prepared | many may desire, are on the Be such as tole 
Tue extraor kM 9 7 5 — of our English climate for fruit trees, — — g enerally is near the wall for the | us to believe it will not be much baa the 
haye never wit ory been so 8 Peaches ME. d then throw an arched trellis. | Owing to our variable climate it is not o that's 
realised as in the presint “season. After the frosts | springin ig 2 f cet onn the 1 a at front over the have three or four heavy crops successively, Ss 
which occurred at the end of November we have had border, to within 5 or 6 feet of the wall, under which | frosts, as they did this season, some years 
inter to ak of; indeed December, r r 
a ar a 
absence of lat 
last lish, winter, in fact, might have answered for oct aspects. The accompanying diagram | ix certain localities, but the two princi 
the 5 of Italy, by its immunity from frost, and eee the n id rellis, and "n help - E ow failure are unfavourable springs and 2 "^ : 
generally clear bright w pontia Very early in Feb- | the plan of protection recommende it is we cannot alter or sink ad he seasons, we must do all 
ruary a number of shrubs were fast breaking in nto leaf, | wished to put on the d ing material, ihe ue * 4 ard against these two causes of filtrs, 
and Apricots opening their ond; during all | (, which, however, may rmanent, sh set | Protect: — the only means d 
went on unchecked, so wy Yd that b the „bezinning | [2 to hold the front eae. bar, ses eir 33 ara i spring frosts. Timely disbadding 
April, notwithstanding the severe frost of March 30 — " attention to thinning and stopping tle shoots 
and 31, w ds ani sete E rote presented t to retain one more than is required for next 
allthe appearances usually shown by the first week in chc 8 e" will in ordinary seasons ensure "i 
iption of 
May, a ery rden produce partook bl ripened woo 
also of the general earliness of the st "he Ce fruit crop of 1856 was a bad one owing tothe pre- 
March we had 10° of frost, which, following after a M ussummer and autumn being unfavourable tothe 
evious evening, , did a vast amoun of 2 < ripening of the wo ood. The crop of 1857, notwith- 
ason ps very hot and dry 2 
the crops of apricots s, which were then That s 
thoroughly rene and the — bee. that the crop 
hi cod ell 
several places 
Ae a caged size. Peaches partly set, and 
x r less B che “the country ; — 
early Pan. sad Plum s also. The weather becam 
rly er known. Last season tdi —— vis hot and 
warmer, and tbe 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th of Aem vere 3 | thé wood and fruit buds were again well rj 
remarkable for 9 — the day tem — AW notwithstanding the heavy crops of 1 
having been 82° in this neighbourhood on th, sd A there was every próspect of abundance this coming 
between ‘70° and 80° the greater part ormer| | ; son; indeed, no 
three days, an i the first ot been for the 3 
week of April, by : de 0 weather we have had the erop 
or three hot the month of April, have been most abundant. Upto 
1858. Th next became sensibly colder, and 3 all was promise; on 
on the 14th and following days indications of wint d deal of snow, which 
ir appearance, followe storms, cold followed by 10“ of frost t 
h winds, and frosty ni n the morning e this destroyed 
of the 20th we had 8° of frost, accompanied by a the Apricots, hi 
easterly wind; this frost h: 5 15 — that wer rotec 
55 rr Cherri Cherries, Pears, 
excepting perhaps in some 12 locality, c if exception of a few early 
which had — ka e a thing almost impossible not forward enough to suffer mu 
to effect w where means of an ordinary garden ex- I never saw Apricots, Peaches, 
Lore id nothing of orchards and open garden D tarines set more Ae yt ti 
ts "rers Wherever 
We have 80 miei advocated orchard-houses uaa Wik y t aA of protection. we 
the Florist, as indispensable e perd wal i 1 used, a good cro crop has been save, re 
garden, uk 4 Front ditio Bede cim 5 rost on March 30th and 3: p he raat Ne 
0 e tre ore, h ts, en 
s k |e. Iron iron bar, ora — every 12 feet, to receive a horizontal riche Save eee were porous . 
EET ho a tae d Fa 7 5 lieh N f. Wood d p Qe imr fron fastened to the horizontal bar After the ee, mild winter we we 
at our recommendation for their being adopted was | ^. Tie from mj, to to sla ber) un (9. —.— A cre Meus 8 5 of 33 ai PEN were We 
— borne out by the experience of all those | iron bars, or cordage, run up wees or 10 feet pared for Mee. 3 Ah and highly culpable: 2 9 
who have tried them on rational principles. We ics from the front "horizontal bar to the one un nder the all s h b d x cro are’ 
a te Poppers Seite ealeulation coping (g). If th Si des we have seen abundan pa 
to see it is practicable to ensure crops o f fruit, strong te sustain the covering, w * 
e | ooden h 
E such weather as the present, without the assist- | substituted as a support 1 for the tie (i). Eder eai ord B glass ass sua he 
-arranged garden, surrounded with walls, with | ensily pnr: frame and. supports (o,f, J) can bo | course, very su picker in - tii ane by and 
removed, an ing: P 
is quar 4 furnished with Du bush € or pyramid aten ia 9 Leg 5 in urere KT a foregoing; but fn the absence, ob ee ible pe simpli 
: when the bloom requires ii he spring. t 
URL cod UE ch malt NEL na 
h mise an n turn for all the i - w | the present, if the 25 eee 
trouble. and anxiety they cost. Bat how often, wird mà — — — r 
witnessing 3 9865 
doomed to tO fe such onf as it is necomary that the bloom be kept dry if | protected on the nights of Ma 
m we nave ra experienced, Vu EN on iw ithout epos manufactured sufficiently thin py light mat "x ox wn, herd ie perte 
Ow con we in i H : | erri e sufferi er, 
ern tU — ait 3 e | impervious. t ingore k and letting down, and yet | but on trees against walls they are peg 
for the season, and the W motto of Nit desper- | what can be ge towards supplying this deiieney i crop. x ears N Diei m e 
E et tere al h E in | on walls, viz., Jargonelle, Passe / ngfield, 
ments such as these. It strikes ded we must alter our | Tiffan or We at Shadi mean time Shaw's| Beurré i Easter Beurré, Vicar of WIE 
garden arrangements for fruit trees; true, we may would answer ing dipped in oil and dried, | Glou Morc I have never known theni 
continue to inters ersect our kitchen garden quarters viii on | great deal of rain. yo 9 Senp anid a| to imiss having m in — ste 
ruit trees, in whatever form we may fancy to train; substituting netting gf ‘or — tu a JUN. Len n Mete n and Dv 
m autumn, when birds, wasps, Die, Louise Bonne of Jersey, 080, ; 
ut 
spendi ach money and time for such |t o 
uncertain — P We think 1 d allowing p* all the | carr carrying them out E FE modi pad average crop. Apples 
and | 
— sre which intervene betwe een planting Pi pin nde omi of f f z ab Mut. : — E ‘ai paper ra 
the orma- | abunda: ees, and nothi 
e no difficulty in n. the. 3 iie vig * 
Still. when there tenis, We my, tet the b y at nhe and we are | 27th of — month nes ‘the t 5 
are y, le thing e| iu" sia impressed with the e conviction th €: a be more promising than they are, are al Det 
and, something else besides. Looking | concentration of al our best varieties of fruit tr i, (olen as suffered considerably, and the crop 
