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1859.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, : 969 
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the case 
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, from a poisonous —— exercised by ich it is produced, to the very — manner in oS ef Loe permanent buildings pe erected in various 
their own aroma, especially when too too closely planted, which the plants are raised and cultivated, and to the | cannot doubt that there are man gehi iomon halding 
m these causes Lav ther tto 
times destroyed. Late frosts in| the trade, where it is commonly quoted — the j thousands of mechanics i 
Lom — as aa the pn of April or 3 of May, ad e Hitchin oil of Lavender. We believe that A satisfied, ics oe effe pre —— t publie benefit.” 
do very great injury, as was especially there o doubt that the best Hitchin oil is at ui QS e en rather than wi hen dis en case were Ito 
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. When the plants are in flower | least equa al y" pe produced elsewhere. Its excellent | Broome ; but I would remark that, i 
e to a kind of disease, arising, as — : Dn to the favourable character of the soil in | may be carrying him too far when he permits himself to 
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ender is rather an uncertain fa ct of the flowers being either used sioe for distilla- | business premises in and about London who would no 
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M eventa d wi ve " unwilling to allow a portion of those premises to be 
or, at a mixe th a ry small portion applied to so truly useful a purpose. To the leadin, ng 
ero h occasionally 
ET of x essential oil, of the stalk. We are convinced that nothing injures | for example, I would beg to suggest that it might Sais 
o afford thi 
EN sta EI of tho oil. so much as the admixture of any much to restore peace with their men were — 
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in a great 
peers I wel 
Lavender is — E egre to the foreign oil, ev 
e latter is obtained fi the 
doubt, influence taper "$^ M 0 U 
the oil. Good English oil of — monly | culated to become an inestim able benefit ede m. alude x4 | the soil being thro A 1 
1 known 2 English cil Z large proportion of “stalks with flowers. Pharmaceutical 20 d . 22 their sympathy and good-will. . id — 
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n eil is, however, commonly ob-| ENCOURAGEMENT OF FLORICULTURE Home D onde 
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tained from another species—namely, from the Spike or A THE OPERATIVE CLASSES a oM rea jae s.—I shall feel much obliged by 
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the Lavandula spica, D.C. en Ix these troublesome times when — — e lock-outs jar of your correspondents who have cultivated this 
same species the difference between | upon the ear, and are causing want and misery to thousands | es pro tae informing me how they manage to take it up 
es,—in these ti mes, I say, it is pleasing to turn aside o 
the oils of home — foreign nem n is due probably | whose only — has been that they have tiated their € we without breaking the root to pieces? M. a 
easure to ou vn climate. The mie ado opts the å 
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character — Lod —— also, without There is a movement commencing among those classes which | Paper of digging a deep hole at the x gus. e the 
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ve the quality of does them the highest honour, and which is, I think, cal- | po, v, and proc 
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that derived. from the | the growing tasto for floriculture,’ whic vated yet 
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believe is gradually, yet onien, ele bing itself a among | iret urge mpi. all his care in this way he can only 
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ly or eo Tan yi 3 e my varying a week |, It is most gra to find how many families are render- 
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the operatives, not only o of other large | ge " out i in little bits, occu te a 
— is gathered at the end of provincial 75 — A ons. 1 spud Ge ud e are merely 
ol iba seasons... At | ing their ped cr — . py and comfortable by this new editis but n “they descend 3 feet, à as a portion of 
Um and permanent source of p — which can be indulged in mine do, or I may say even half that length, the job 
abont the 20th of July in seasons, the eaten ode with perfect innocence, ab very tifling cost, and with the f ; 
cra have a bexutiful a dee and exhale a — social ce Tig an this Puck olere ome tome prota 
cious pe 
; they are then well worth a visit. — could say something dá nni s ubject of what = come | feld c 
: : f th under my own — ut I prefer transeribing the words oP, r 
ers yield m in oil and of the er of one Hr Petter informed: Banu uel Broome, the well ene respondents, when so much labour and expense are 
e Laven 
pond 
— when gathered in showery weather. A lon gardener in — Temple, who spam is the mai n-spring of ine — 5 — in raising it? 
nye a more or less 
The 
be * vhs fully 8 as it is pine to lose | reat metropolis, I visit hundreds in the 3 
afew from 
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hot dry weather preceding the this s happ. py movement, writes to me as follows exi n my garden for —— 10 e 
then aving some y: tical ft the increasin; i 
Rs. terrd | love of floriculture cate the rl experienco ‘ — this vegetable for the the table it i ri ir LA ioe dias i 
regar 
sometimes at public meetings called for the earing | much signify whether ane roots be brought into 
P falling off the e a the process of | conversation as to the best mode of cultivating their show is 
gathering, consequence of thei peness, than to | flowers; at other times at their private homes 2 their te vi W m or otherw tho: 23 boe " lti DM 
cvi med * young, as the oil is d Thea fully - def eimi and > a are the happiest hours I enjoy, as A no 15 : iude manner 5 hose T cu dn e » e 
f . The plan adopted by. the two cultivators at when conversation 1 Cot er ag 17 Any attain à p 5 pese! 1 it de P acil 1 the * 
Hitel the other subject is brought under notice, such as polities, stri x; 18 E EE pmo P 4 es ey I 
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cultivator erent to t try-and 
ed Lavender = in the field as to | Tell me where you live; I will come and look 
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ill is di . Thus, one has the flower-stalke ent nst employers, &., then I find a different spiri — xtreme 
— the plants with a short reaping-hook or sickle ; directly, as there are not two of the same hy poate DUE quite | brittleness, for even the e head being allow bend 
Eo eibi the reverse on floriculture, for they all feel like brothers, and | over during the process of digging, frequently snaps the 
are then tied up in undles or sh each ot | their cp rivalry ne — x —— bad feeling. The on towards its extremit Wit t dt 
which weighs about 35 Ibs. These are removed from | that e third p as pleased as his neighbour h F g rey 
the field and carried to the still-house, where they are | 9^ is the tet C 
goon 5 Allow me to give a few instances of what has come under ve or six minu € n wi 
wise the tede B ees 5 erga E with 2 to some of their — For some unmelted butter, lik Pe it is the most eligible 
u e Potatoes, most 
t Mr. Dale and myself have cul . ; i 
or less injured. In order to prepare Lavender for rami in | in the two 8 Gardens it axtenatvely, aa ae nee -— as they thus become dry an oury, instead 
the still the flowers are stripp ed _ Altogether from the rally have been successful in having a good blaze of bloom in of being soft ripe aR as they are when m V 
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nenn ovember, when our gentlemen very liberally throw open the dk course most of your readers are aware that only 
te performed by i ats ng: placed to Visited by deen of rende, tbe, majority being tho | po C the thinner 
s are "filled 8 are emptied u operative class, composed of all trades, and 1 mu =, 1 Po portion at th e top bang r rved fo P 5 when 
odes the flowers ux fr gos ntly 2 rarely have a flower touched by — They i nspect i ‘the lte eat into seta of 20 sich es, +) H., 
suffici foy till. Th é time 2 —.— gestin t interest, and ask all sorts of questions as to the | JV hitland. Lite great point in a ckm 1 
Obtain a giona Fron them m exactly ten minutes.] 2; 
is possible; it the & into sacks | address, and stre sure enough when I go, it is like a dust- 
tied Into bundles and conveyed at once to | of ashes old Ando den bish. d: mess 
A Vai vocans ipped the | Trench it up well, put in jore, aud maka 
from the stalks mer to the DART with some and y verted from a rubbish | Very 
e, but has found terial difference in | place into a garden at e dence in wbat I tell 
. It is ily e expensive to see them.’ I go and find it the case. The next neighbour gustibus, 
— etain the flo alone for till at. last they Ana the * Leia SE to form a 5 : « Tw 
distillation, as the labour of preparing the Lavender for | society to show their productions to the publi. The wives ther things. J have ary tig a ten the “ Blewi 
the still i i ned by “M. J. B. hou 
Lin the latter case is greater than in the former, | begin to find their husbands, instead of going to a public-house | (A. personatus) mentio! y." without any 
and the oil which br ces 8 is also then lost, after taking their tea, are employed at home among the inconvenience, and this autumn 4 had several dishes 
although the am oBtet from the stalks | lowers. She also keeps her house cl for visitors calling | of the variety “silvicola” of the common M. 
is nable from the stalks to inspect them The children are clean, and are delighted to which grew i ead Firt ed 
Ted small as compared with 75 yield of the flowers. | see the visitors come to see their father's garden ; and this | Which grew in a wood, under Spruce Fir trees, withou 
expense of the oil obtained by using the | teaches them not to touch the flowers at hom. M 3 14 — any bad e! effects. In gathering Fungi for the table too 
estimated . per Ib. The m e ui s vi to do it it ee bes in Tery places, T 2 ve been | much attention cannot be paid to the state they are in. 
talk pec not piel Ei bed of | their 3 Sowers, it being the 3 If. at all old, or in the least — — by insects d the 
dose is very importan uard | them at home. As they say, it takes up all - time at of whieh all the larger Fungi are very liable), 
4 any ount Sing xi mised with ia eevee: after them, and prevents them g many a 1 — they should at once be rejected ; and only those speci- 
: as a rule, the greater proportion of the Pound to | arn shilling in a beer house. But 1 must here state 
dae latter th FFC ak, (or youth). I think also that Fungi should 
does it kerha that of forei 
eign o 5 í 
ing case the ordinary fire-still is employed for dis- | being of an active mind, must have something to employ it at cautions are attended to, there are many species 
mi -—- 
ore, in are ith man that w flowers. The more in- 
dic 8 the better I taltivates his flowers; he| always be partaken of with moderation. 2 — 5 
in the other, the distillation is performed | au times after leaving work ; and what 7 try which might be used with perfect safety, — 
ne productions they show at their exhi- 
see the fi 
This plan is consi y some to biklons repa surprise many good cultivators. I often feel which would add a c to 1 os read e di " * 
antages over the former, as by such a ashamed of mine, after seeing what they have produced in nerease the general food of the unity. 4. 
has no chance of getting burned, | ? — the — confin bored. have seldom scen n this plant 10 6 
H8 S2 E “Im pologise for going so much into detail that I fear I | the "t viande that in "Sy onion 3i: der 
g any empyreumatie odour the may — dh — e in reading; but every word I state is a pini 
great heat. On an average it is There ha been within the last three years no less | When well grown it is one of the — He 
ela i vender flow wers yield than 10 of these socie es started, consisting of frm 100 to 200 greenhouse plant ts that T know a 
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employed for scenting soaps and Plai a ii ball "n = Mord M nd by: they begi grow in April 
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or any other. pots t ar in and put them in a smal! 
of Lavender has a remarkably fine, | the end, for Would not h winter rates; When they 
begin o y. have 
sweet odour, being free fon 5 ink nl. we Shout bi * 2 — te youn them, as sometimes put them into a slight heat Xo start Te 
8 belonging to our horticultural sostes pat ee — as s apt to “draw” them. 
om * strong | be Prose t 8 public houses Í 
f fally Ae in rae they aro be a. ^ promote this object among the are fond o m and the soil well mixed with 
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