464 
He was presen 
„from this Melon before it n the table. In 1858 
— 
merous 
„... — losure containing spiral spring fitted inside a hollo x 
well be more . oe in the results at which — in a go à rj joes ig 1 pe. black, with] constraction Lat RestaQUptel wie oe ee mt = 
ay afrived. Ses . os sae taka ind and burnt clay, helped with a register the daily work of a stock of Es 
experieneed o wre: astonished at the | morsels of c Emu nami "ud against the regm iments -— careful observations haye toy 
chi in AER brad ht about by change in he watering or two of liqu nure, h E adoptio a definite plan resulted i 
conn è cer y ak he Melons called | wall of a dwelling mre AE i" of 1857 Slows -G a hollow pillar of re 
; 'G b the Persian | wee specimen was planted in the s : ¿|2 feet 10 inches. huc , and inch 
emer e see ls of v nich were sent for trial In 1858 it grew away with much Maced iu fit the inside of this ery loosely, contrat eias 
fr m tho Hortioulturel Society, the Garden howed no flowers. The pruning knife he A fl a pillar of the shape shown in the diagram, The 
Chronicle, and other sources, proved to be scarcely Riga á Af 8 ‘the eod, bat > ith un cde : ipe able a reg tod 3 i pe 1 foot square, 1 
f , ds 
eatable in P N pe be versally condemned | was observed, pinched by , Pel ut diat r shape an size may 
TL takeable cce of beauty to com i 0 nderneath a is a shot 
as being inferi very worst market sorts, mis h the vein “of 53 inches square, which falls on th m 
but were pro A able at Bordeaux. On the another is Tek yae 3 tho autumn Piles. an à below this za RE A 4 te E 
a in! in Pan — ed ite at Bordeaux. fore success still rede at eda lady" 8 3 1 e des Tq Dio edie eet idi 
The "d din es are ascribed by Messrs. DECAISNE at Torquay, as will be seen ‘by pres Solis Hose. it tl vork, let it be undent d pum 
and Nav na to ¢ bapa e and the nature of the € | which accompanied a nice specimen of -— Editor, éódistrdction fee r is intend 9 
and possibly als logical e 8 Maie nts za g ami s 0T and down freely within the outer ps and nd 
į g hat the chang ges are sends him post a ber -n brass wheels are let in just und 
Ferial quet ‘of t he Vine, wh Tha ella Grey Rose, grown against a south Wall | put are not represented in the cut, n jus 82 T em 
so remarkably affteted for the better or s worse s ji above the sea. The buds declined aee pillar — be e 
the place h which they are em till a warm sun came. The Rose is on its own apiston, and - 
The detail ecount gi M. DURIEU DE | roots its third | year, grew ae v Pa year, : iy the Paes 
ti uality of buds on it, m Ww e are rapi one the pis- 
Malons tried b là m ae E 4 eL of | e tpe statement E e Editor is x cues — ei 9 587 
t. | thi Pe atement, suppressing € | 
Tix s e uncis e : not vut anticipate similar communications ot thee re | 
HoxrER's Lone Boxgmana. Small, very sugary fr sn lationship 
—Paris. Long, —. large, su ugary—Bor rdea A like result gr be -€—À here the famous Instead dfi a iem spring | 
SEKPENT CUCUMBER CROSSED BY THE Qus CLorf or Gorp Rose, which so many persons I u se, as far 
MELON. buena table F aris.  Eatable but not think eve e to ies In a sim ne of An elliptic cn | 
—Bordea double-walled enclosure in the same Middlesex z, which hang: 
VILMORIN'S Prnstax Mzrox. Delicious, rather | garden, but facing the south-east, a very weak | cross-bolt c to the piston- 
small— Paris, rge, weighing i 10 lbs. | plant was placed in the autumn of 1857. Attempts rod, and presses down- 
ds: od Micrel, very good, but not better at making it even grow ha previously failed in| ward on another bolt ; 
than o f the same T: race—Bord eaux. | the same garden, as elsewhere. This time however | which pa 4 t : E 
Moe Very good in 1857—Paris. Insipid, the plant took, survived the winter, and grew 4 ie a : C 
scarcely sweet, ba. . = rapidly in 1858, no pruning being allowed. It is If the top vans cast -dA 
: i i healthy dark purple and west the VT. 1 
mare., Must be cooked ; raw uneatable— | now in 1859 making vigorous healthy s p will be placed id and | 
Paris. Flesh melting era Sugary, very good te and will "hes btless be covered with Roses by — — 
ray — Borde the ag of July. be of first-rate meta 
E Cov: RS. Enormous, fine and very| Hence it would seem that Roses . — ie Cloth | and of a proper tem 
good—Paris. Pretty large. l t tasted. | of Gold wi Isabella ‘Grey demand four things; 1, a to play kindly under a range of from 20 to 6) o: 
Not worth ke — Bordeaux (See Aun. de la | warm ; 2, a southern —.— ; i time; 80 Ibs. — well japanned die weather will not uf 
Soc. Hort. de la Gironde.) 4, to be pituta from the pruning knife. May not The man who can get so far in the — on 
: us add that the Melon of Archangel, a sort | these so the conditions — by the a t il find no MS 
hi d | famous old Double Yellow Rose her o Im 
o cq Bier io de gre mec 3 nep ice nd 
eee 3 hing on the Poir ande as We observe that the annual dinner of the motion. As made bylt, 
„and measuring 16 or 17 inches in CARD M BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION will this a cog regt 
e Dore a of the Paris Horti- year 15 505 at the Crystal Palace, and there is ap bo 6 
kx al Society, Sept. 10, 1851) gain with us any 1 to t it prove an unusually front ai 
such weight and dimensi 1008. eeable meeting, especially since the tickets of bands. 0 
a € faets should not be lost sight of by Melon eee e di bonc Dam that day f d Flower ese works omi 
gro who are too apt to blame their seedsmen | Sh ey e or - 2 d x . Any. as the spring i 2 
or eheu when they find that their fruit, raised peat has been ma gardeners who are y means 2 
d eed of which the ve had a very high | s batons; asking th ob the permission of | 2 
ace turns out of in ality. It was only | of their employers assist the dinner by con- inc 
last year that the following case was reported to us, tributing some fruit, Ko., to form the dessert, and eee d 
A very zealous wealthy amateur tasted at a table kd is ue bred e that an inteventing display will be hin e d 
4n Prussia a scarlet-fleshed Mel ost remark- |* work iu 
able sweetness, —.— — of rind. om Washington mention the for- a sinks dum 8 
the seed was placed i han his gardener ts an other valuable Chin 
_a careful and experienc an, with 8 to vegetable bishment ie. tid fh = m Mr. 2 Lm singh 
ise. e enough of that sort only for the ed ra Booth Link whic itis fixed registers the weigh - reer 
supply of the family. The order was obeyed ; tor de ble ie 
2 plentiful crop was — * ins Epe e of red spider, ina — — anner importar uty iom any number to show the dead weight hive with A 
by which less in the trusted to him itt i understood H or ths — first put on the stand. Suppose the i f 
hood allowed their Melons sto be dest estroyed. But — € render the inte nded visi r. FORTUNE | to weigh "20 ]bs, the loose hand is * 
e fruit was 80 . t from which the to d States unnecessa ie prese w 20 lbs. The other t o as the store 
had been saved tha —— would not believe| —— It is al — d authority that f the ratchet E "t 
fhe latter not to De wA changed. He found | the Indian Council has commissioned Mr. CLEMENT * it indicates the dead weight 
—— smoother and amni. and thicker in 
the rind, with the flesh wate 
zo RKHAM, à 8 we — — ie — of i 
; firm, and —— * salmon coloured. 
e that 8 br d 
- Should have r . — — 
1| Finds of ——. or «Peruvian 1 bark’ = en d for |; 
moved on to correspo 
is at 40 and the other = 25, 2x 
the Ty the un 
pes ea was 
rig d 
et there nes no doubt whatever that — 
as really mei and th com- 
plained óf . it yan Se m is: 
what has jus = related 
committed so inju ustide as to throw on his 
gardener the 
— he € 3 
this un — in quality i is 
W — It may be owing to dif- 
ferences in soil, or in clima dis 2 in 8 
ed oes ; or, "whi eh is Lane as likely, to unsus- 
eed contamination by hybridising. For the j 
. y in nt to the facts, and beg 
Hat feriam. rx 
what is quite beyond their control. 
THE IsaBELLA GREY ped a fine double yellow 
an nst ds 80 much 
consequences of a deterioration 
be made axi vede for 
of practical knowledge in gardening, as well as 
much botani — 
INDICATOR —— STAND. 
ten indicator bee stand w 
— 
support of such a 
E indebted to Mr. Cox, of 5, ] 5, 
men hi out of my views, 
I merely to say that | i 
Barbican, London, for 
orto add that t Mr. Cox| 
only great energy, but a very consi vide Table sis — 
n 
of spring 22 index, 
. gir 
e final 2 
ust be sli rmed with the “tar o 
20 Ib. 
points to 20; 
ou have the 
patience w. 
and sal. they W vs 
tell a true tale on the e dial the thing is‘ 
rr Cox is a. 
to avoid 
— 9 
Mh rin Tez 
ire y whioh is the y ded 
lengthening th "re 
or 30s. for 
vantages : 
f the Stewarton, which ns 
ordinary 
| man aa 
for 
Mn Ct 
| Lei 
In the adum ‘of h 
— — Mace the construction as dieit as I 
ith the help of a working diagram, so that an| 
amateur skilled i in the use of tools may —— 
self. I advised t — “ai 
4 
s thern swarms: , d 
re Mieres few of the ee D» 
bee Jour : are t 
year, to show eno interesting te 
| the dead weight was cae Be 
