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Ocronre 15, 1859.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
Holly Tea leaves should be ; as brown as the crust of, is renal the wafting of of the creature alo ng the e air, of evidence as t 5 
well-baked bread, yet not burnt IA like — and givi it an opportunity of pres ring on gnats, and botanical rel relations ? lt “was phe. 1 p —— — then 
31 are n ot fit for food They hav: | many othe 
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ny other means. — window on ur o make e room for 
age fusproves the Tea. Tunt leaves DS ema ntial iall Summer senke ing of Rl and T; : M den velvet. like turf, = n 
E old leaves, and when very young have little I have been much interested in the notices you bave | more than satisfied that it will 
noflavour. Holly-leaf T. published relative to transplanting trees an ni shrubs | predict ed of it, provided it be fairly dealt by. My circle 
— not strong tea ing summer. My rite and shrubberie 
will a nd no queues — "bat etter | men E about 920 feet above the level of the s, dnd are | a feature of the Spergula. Th 
ituated on the north slope of a hill which” rises toa bed 1 3 feet across, and the ring * Spergula measures 
thelr ‘nataral lives, and ene God for ‘bestowing it | height of 1237 feet, nland 4 fee! "der * whole of the 
pon t —4 ut ht say a great deal more respecting be nearly equidistant from the Atlantic and German ground was newly mad 3 feet of maiden 
the p pm re propagation, and the like, | Oceans. ough common evergreens are difficult t f, well | n up, v^ in levelling the ring 
but my T of the 1 a trade, and particu- rear in this neighbourhood, they all grow with me in 2j M" Spergula, 22 ‘half a yard of Hyacinth com- 
larly th nurserymen, need of m ice on the wildest luxuriance; and having occasion to trans- used for a surface dressing, on the principle 
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ibis hend, and I i t to fi i pl l at various or = in forming new cM as all w about it 
the good work. To the landed proprietor I i g old ones, I experienced so | sand and leaf. mould would be the right stuff in which 
of 1 him to plant Hollies of all sorts for their e many uem x or onem to, valuable plants by trans- t Pe it a start. Five shillings’ worth of seed 
fit th plan ting th em oats winter, that three years ago wn in pans in rich sandy compost, and the pans 
will one day prove an inestimable blessing. Alexander i with lass Sa 88 ut on a to vonage : — 
Forsyth, 13, Islington Square, Salford, Manchester summer, when t wth was vigorous. During the | the minute cr dota 
om 2 1 Tinted — "wit 2 young plant varying | then then etm J rt ei when d "iba plané 
ve years old, includi ews, Port: | Jo ring 
P re gesing pii tg busted, to | ferred toa f E i very slow in the 
Abies Douglasii.—* Knollibus“ commences „his re- | deciduous shrubs — trees of the same age, as Ash, | earlier an 
“marks i in 1 Number for August 20, t thus— ** Notwith- | Lime, Horse Ches snut, P ane, Guelder Rose, &c. All before the Tut ps Mt a pam 
sta 1 t balls, with naked roots, nted out on the 25th of Apel aig th "the first ki 
for opi nion on all matters Coniferous, I think he X at as in winter planting, as the ob as to compare the "y plants dist the edge of the Rose bed; cold tring 
ro in n more than one variety of this Fir be A Lr ee ze winter. These | drought followed; the plants were allowed to chance 
2 n takes a rather pla oved at various time: i from the last|it, and in four weeks all had perished. Other ones of 
hills, walleye and forests of his own California, and LA of Máy “till the A of August. To my g great | which the plants had grown | about an inch 22 
tone, he tells us outright that | delight not one of the 88 trees or s 
* wherever a free vigorous growth i is obtained the dark failed; all took root readily ; and some eve the 2d of J hen th } 
g iu i E ee re Es inter. e ey i ma The eth fe seed niat mne to 
uccess, this der ong a t un set e one —— er de circle at poles es apart all over. Duri 
— e Mr. Barron. Knoll bus" we have Made for the purpoe, I transplant ted many shr ubs the whole time the cre o of S rgnla was not supplied 
doubt m. succeeded in convincing himself that he is a from years o ipe was determined to 
Gah e s, Chinese Arbor-vitæ, frei Box, ee nl Ds. id p^ the drought of * 
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have . ed to free and stunted growing | common Tarte and a, hododendrons; also ral — rr it 5 Ane but promising, for though 
s of the same e kind, varying in colour, owing to| Spruce Firs of the same age, a Walln at (which just some of the early plan pieces “9 grown to 
l circumstances, it still does not follow that all ives at this height), and be Lines EUN Silver Firs, | patches 3 inches diameter, the bare ces be- 
of usareidentical. We are here many brethren, and he eodars, from 5 to 10 old. my great Me » — very t esc pa of the peat generally 
have ond og — i — in — same — our | surprise ) not. one "has failed ; "all appear igor a and o pro of a speedy surfacing. But since the 
will perceive by he new soil middle of pese the ronda ha been so rapid that 
ie of latera) ng sett Ger eight trees, four | fi an ed with vigorous new rootlets. W inter » N. has | exc cept on one edge, where yg rains are kept off 2 a 
e dark 3 and four fi from m the Ty warm | never had the same success with me, a and so my it is now a thick close turf of mossy 
* pl 1 Laurel of | felt, the separate plants ing exten dod a 
our leading Es ts of both kinds running fi 23 to | any kind t lf lost 50 horizontally, rooting at every point with great regu- 
4 feet est yearly; generally speaking, the foe” "yariety plants of Portugal Tare) which bad bee n planted | larity, and when meeting mixing eek grants: ord 
makes the longest leaders. Our cones are winter ot having a McGlashan transplanting in the fashion of some textile fabric. Som the 
when young, à Ye form or size when full grown. machine, vd plan I follow is this: Previous d touch- pate h les from „single plants s from the seed pans M now 
Such is our experie A be * to 3 might be ing the or shrub a pit is prepared in l 
| of service to * Knollibus, it has been to m" whom iti is e stand from 18 to 20 inches dip, and the | rooted patches from the best places to plant elsewhere, 
| him. Dougl as Fire, Baton Castle. [W bo! Xttom i is iren about 2 inches «2 with fine loam | My experience so far enables me to advise intending 
<an confidently . > this sta with a equal quanti ity o ell-rotte d manure | planters not to sow in the open ground, for wecds and 
} md no o dou! be lik ther — ie: lecayed 2e lon thos th m und at the worms are powerful enemies to this close growing 
grow. di dias ce t or al ‘The labonr of weedi 
9 (ne only one form of the species 2 old, and dus z MR L alpin Ipine in all its earlier stages. of weed a 
The two above spoken of are permanently dis-|a pick till the tree is — when it is pulled e has its own wa) to tebe above the a, ane 
tmt, the dark green one having leaves whiter on the over. If the soil — moist and adhesive : good ball is | mix "es roots with it; and to use the hoe is out 
por Age We believe that it is the i thus got; but if, a — year, the ground be parched, | of on. is to rari 
y | it is nearly fango to get a ball of soil ; but this | the hd Ae an old dinner-fork, p our ses 
prion di to be of little im f care be taken not to | sera: 5 . Por = 
Mexico, to whieh the name of E Teasa T — has injure the roots. The tree or shrub is then carried to then E he every part of the surface r^ least halfa 
been given, which is by no means the same as Mr. the p d e for it, and Da rae carefully spread | dozen — E orms abound f in el se 22 make 
.. Barron's dark. leaved sort—to which the name taxifolia out covered with soil mixed with their casts u e decumbent ey form 
reel pplied. The latter is by far the finer of the plenty ce being nine — and decayed leaves. miniature male hills, “which the roller pe 
northern. forms. — water are then poured | and hence lim — or some other We must 
morphism in Portulaca.— The enclosed | o — ring the fibres, so as 5 be used to preserve a level surface. If intended to be 
‘flat-leaved Portulaca came up with a sigs bisher of | wel’ it . và p settle the soil about the sown broadcast the ground ought to be got ready 
P. Thellusoni. The peculiarity consists in the plant | the rest of the soil is then — on, and the whole gentis long before to allow time to start all bags age 
producing ripe and apparently perfect seeds without frmed w ith the foot. In the afternoon a panful of | and ct the off before sowing, as also 
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some account of it in the next Wider of fthe Gardeners’ | finished. This year, in consequence f the excessive be of consequence, but I expect weeds 
88 Only two seedling plan ndr e 5550 P drought, every large plant so transplanted was — will always find enco üragement in the moist felt, 
: bed of the P. t watered during the first week after val, E and weeding will be the chief labour in keeping 
rey certain that if the specimen 7 1. Ves ro then left to itself. From my ex yes ence | I hav "no the Spergula in condition. I ought to add that my 
a tion of Portulaca Thellusoni it would b tl is high p , has only the ‘afternoon sun; 
quite ; for a pl broad | summer p g g f mode- | soil deep moist loam, and the circle elevated 9 inches 
Roos ands and no pe appears instead of one with diia rate height is far r4 to winter . Whether abov ve the Lu turf, with the qu turniug over 
leaves and large brilliant petals. It is edge eet the Grass. If we take the mean 
case of dimorphism ; ; for the wy aed is only common yet prepared tos say; though I may mention that the between “the 25th th of April : and the 20 of June, mr 
a e seeds of which had been mized with the planting of the bill ‘above alluded to was ese 
bother. ld fO to a com- 
"Gossamer,—Can you inform me what is the cause of be difficult to meet anywhere. James Si M.D., af Spergula sif era — a period of 
that appearance so ment in autumn, consisting of ee Rr by Biggar, Upper Wa re v Lanarkshire 21 "e Shirley Hibberd, Stoke po ngton. 
threads resem spider webs, commonly called gos dung for his C wil Rh hododendrons flower in A ut umn —1 enclose 
_ Samer? If it be the production of that insect, how do| Meshroome.—Asr regards “ D. F. Cs” 
account for their hanging apparently unsuspended | last beet I would add a meii that thong th — | tion. They were gathered from ies now in full 
à it is seen 50 or 60 feet high, without a tree autum T with promise of a t Mus | flower by the side of a walk in the of 
fe other object near to which it be attached ? | son, Sau: nce of them aid a an at on idi a|stock Park, the seat of the Right Hon. W. F. Tighe. 
irer. [The following passage in Rees's — fangas very difficult to distinguish from he true | The grounds in ion are famed for the quantity and 
l ^ t's enigma :—* The | Mus abounded in our meadows. I ugh | great v qued adm of Rhododendrons which they contain, 
general method of these se cene spinni a feld az td iiri — ny and so promising that Isent|a — remem oA Scarlet 
i the webs is own 45 thread, my man to ‘gather them ; but my cook $ a 
then drawing it reat them, and so disposing as they | wi th them k of distincti more of the varieties have kept up a suc- 
think proper proper ; but the midst “of - werk € of this pointed out, except that they had no fragrance at all cession of bloom. yates years ago Sir James and Lady 
sort, they are ers AR 4 ll be sometimes | Your mark, therefore, — e m — — safest Matheson made —_ eye down to risen 
found to Gann. urning the Uto the con ‘for I assure t of t umn, wh 
othe Sis d thie ng trary ry way and most valuab - Peri dh t Stornaway. pa ay e rrespon — om us 
j d ht to b The | r folks who ther Mush. what success atten e aperiret 
fd in cock. 10 W manner ge continue d bout this t l me the see these | Grass succeeded in the Lews; the sper deep, Tho 
8 whi * bie takes, and aoe it | large fs s abound, which they call * cow Mush- pent nt there may als - — r the — e ia 
forwards, i any yards long. they never find any more of the true Mush- ting 
this the ee will ini herself off from the web, | room, and no more of them appear that season. V. M. R., 
and trusting herself to the air with this long tail, will | Bishop’s Castle, Sal nature to secure a good 
ascend | swiftly and to a great height with it. The Spergula pilifera.— —Qught there not by this time to | M. Donald, Woodstock, xs 
these lines, or the whole lines, and the| be "e from all parts ed the win about this|[The blooms of R. hirsutum sent vue e 
. Spiders s attached to them, though unobserved, make | Spergula? Is it not time we heard ho affected by | munication were bright in ie a 'G s if M nll be 
these air-threads, and the use nature destines them for climate, aspect, soil, and ealtiyation, É had for refer-} Comi nifers at Beauport.—Admirers of Conifers wi 
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