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GARDENERS' 
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coloured leaves are, 
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in market exe and sorts that | leaves in beds as substitutes for flowers is to mea n Drying Botanical Specimens in Plas Я 
аге pna puma able for tn training, Woul ery vis fashion. Тһе result is gaudiness and 6 Daria. —In drying leafy sprays of trees or on і 
single upright cordons or oblique - be best ? or | mality, the very reverse of the graceful and picturesque coated bulbs for museum азе ration there is often a _ 
ould it be better to plant a strong tree at each up- | о e looks for in flowers and trees. ew rat | great difficulty in preserving the any tolerable - 
ight, to ined horiz r paliers? and | this vitiated taste for the queer and gaudy having so approach to their natural appearance and dispositions | 
which would be the best stocks for the pu i£ I ntirely taken up the place of the natural productions о S1 in exceptional cases that they 
single cordons were planted, what distance should cultivated to their highes ural attainment of | canbecharacteristically displayed laid flat as for theher. - 
they be from each other? About six kinds would be | healthy for d colour possible for garde a. | barium ; and, acting on the hints conv а some of | 
asa xe — and plenty of produce is best ent. The beauty of Nat nsists in the contrast | the earlier numbers of the Gardeners’ Chronicle of the — 
in et s . The beautiful сеа ofthe | of the natural brilliant colours of natural healthy | present year, with regard to the chief point in pre- 
R achan Apple 'I have recently seen me | flowers wi e natural various shades of green on | paring specimens being to secure their rapid drying 1 — 
to ask whether that variety is suitable for cordon work, | their healthy — and the и чац" grace of their | have recently tried substituting ge laster of Paris in 
ow that many kinds are sparing of fruit ifclosely | natural gro wth = : —— : о «cis -= к ipud — em "t : 
Га ы n а , j 
A. D., Middlesex. [We a gladly re- | ficial and perverte абре opment t e place ay dri such па сн Ook a ae тоа | 
штей. 
ceive any hints on these subjects from 
ырай ents who may have practical sonst Eps. ] 
orn,—Referring to Maize (р. 20, July z 
1875, eng anaes Chronicle), by far the best way o 
g greencorn is the Indian one, viz., as as “Bho ottas.” 
The с deprived of the к pistillary 
hairs, and roasted whole, till the grains are slightly 
browned. W hot, smear with butter, geras with 
pepper and salt, and eat the grains off the b, hold- 
i end in hand. The corn oad. be half 
in 
ripe, sweet, and milky. Those who have not tried it 
ndian fashion need not make any objections till they 
have done so. Æ. B., Lucknow, 
Snowflake and Eureka Potatos,—Having seen 
the crops raised from 
same weigh 
I am a competitor rizes offered by Messrs, 
So & Co., the Potatos en Arce! were weighed, 
e presence of their den em a pereat of 
other witnesses, They were planted on April 13, and 
aris e was lifted on August 13, e produce 
Eur lifted А. week later, and 
the e iR quantity of 1082} 1Ь. was the weight 
of 
wn from І lb, of seed. S ds d is a remarkably 
Ене Potato, but with i it has suffered severely 
disease. Eureka is a later and more robust 
less from 
Ford, The DAMES Capesthorne, Chatora, i, Cheshire. 
Potato Crops. — Having seen a good many 
accounts of the Potato — I enclose you an 
account of the which I 
lante trial—1 lb. 
Eri "er day, and 
eve result was as follows :—Snowflake, 
2715. елу Кою, 5651Ь.; York Бейм, 5341Ь.; 
Hundredfold Fluke, Ld 9 Ib ; Jersey Blue, 34 lb. ; 
Paterson's Victoria, 2 —total, 2901 Ib. 2. 
Brown, Bagshot. 
Botanic a —On reading over a 
very interesting article the Glasgow Botanic 
саа 326) I find it p on жылы” that the 
founded in 1817, is “ 
min 
rection in claiming precedence for t 
Garden, when 
Isayt 
very shortly after that of Liverpool, and зя 
the honourable title of ies second provi 
ormed in Britain—always, of course, excepti those 
connected with our Universities. The present garden, 
which, when far in the country, 
purposes. I 
pleased to жт that the plans for a siete Md un ten- 
prepared, and within the jns 
aw days the i negotiations for the purchase of between 
до an acres has assumed such a tangible shape, 
lc I trust before rupes year elapses 
some prog 
be made in its removal. Having had, in my 
juvenile any е g ations with th 
Glasgow garden, I dingly pleased to learn 
's Pp Е red are again, 
their d interest. Fa. 2. p "NE wen, Hull. 
antum concinnum,—If ‘ fom " ге 
On Coloured Leaves.—In richly 
shaded leaves, I try to forget that they are really 
disease and im perfectly loped Nature. I confess 
that the present ag of арш a such glaring 
each so “The | 
had pe same treatment in 
of all this 
а. m only 
natural beauty: 
iseas 
ard s have cult 
а multipl 
as 
ied en masse gardens so laid 
out ic 3 of geometrical regularity, give 
me no real pleasure, It is a 
no eas dazzling glare, that tires 
the eye instead of асл it, as le g 
rich colours and pure green leaves does ; and, as to 
i cultivation more 
es peeping o a more 
utiful cheat’ du the a of pee "without a leaf 
y exhibi flow: 
intende 
-— 
Bienen jasminoides.—In ey to 
“at 
the inquiry of “Н. Н.” on p. 272, and to substan- 
iate what P. H. Gosse has wri i Gardeners 
Chronicle, p. 298, I beg to state that four large plan 
of thi ies are growing in conserva- 
ory at Lady Prescott’s, Stroud Park, Herne, Kent. 
receive no protection except a mulching o 
long litter in winter, the a picture to 
behold, eir snow-w. bloo: 
otted over their healthy bright green foliage, and to 
ver 
rdy any 
when planted in a dry, sandy, or жегш soll i in 
as cep situation, it is quite a success, and proves 
itself on of the best and most ornamental Soppen 
e have С, Miles 
The Royal Sorela L Boccia the 
letter you were good enough to 1 there 
“ап —— ? show. allow me to 
only interests I have thought of in the matter are those 
of the Society itself? А Well Wisher 
pes at punais —I planted two Vines 
mall greenhouse, April, 1873, one named 
Buckland Sweetwater, hie other Mrs, Pince, The 
ct ear the Vin 
wn to two or tin r 
Vines se MEO. acy wood up to the top of a 
house. Living at a distance, when the leaf was fallen 
I went to prune them, but first consulted the ун E 
the house about the quantity of — asIsawt 
white one ge sufficiently strong to bear I 
‘ ext summer I aked if she would like 
nches, р 
1 possesses down the pow with judgment, having 
an eye to the twenty-four bunches. The Vines 
slept through the v^ I pruned bsg three times 
in the summer, e first pru was sur- 
plant 
o border, on a poor 
soil. е“ Baker, gw bie ier lene 
hat is 
Б | any me со correspondents s sh 
es grew but little wood, so i t 
ind | 
guar of the Rose, a bulb with all but the external - 
aei emoved, e milar specimens, such as chanced _ 
to be required. at пе Шуга апа mr a far аз a few 
plaster all round insures 
position т. the le 
layer of good and dry plaster of Paris powder at the - 
bottom of a box (just to Кёр it Mer cie laying “| 
ray to be dried оп it—or, sticking 
upright in the powder—then eie inkling ы | К 
plaster from above, driving it in amongst the leaves - 
from the sides and up from below, ti shaking and - 
pressing firmly in every direction the spray is fixed in 
a solidly compressed mass, so y driven together - 
that it is impossible for the leaves to move Ls 
cu 
moisture from the specimen, and if it 
the powder in about three days, to тес any wrongly - 
me 
to the dried speciei, the white powder E 
away from their beauty, if allowed to remain; but 
his can be almost entire f wih 
water Kur applied by a pee und pencil, or роз - 
sibly dusting the leaves with any adherent and darker 
powder, so as to forestall the adhesiveness of th 
ightly da 
rights, In the case of llow soft bulb like an 
Onion the shape can o the 
racteristic smoothness of the outer coats, in a gr 
degree, by removing as r possible of the inside, 
and then replacing it with plaster powder, driving i | 
in as firmly as possible, till the outside has its quite - 
correct shape again, lying quite S cellar WA 3 
mooth overthe contained mass of 
binding - 
und with threads before lacing. it iy b A 
is an additional security. 
method e 
Qu 
o 
men! the same path, an E: 
A: - mention their success, or what might be ol 
servic rly, the benefit of their ne 
would: be a great obligation, O. 
Artichoke Oak Galls.—Referring back 
Gardeners Chronicle for November 25, 1871, p 
and other p emm Muller's 
inner cell ma: 
may be those that do not protrude, TX a 
Aotices of d 
Vorlesungen uber Dendrologie, 1874-75. © 
tures от Dendrology,) Von Karl Koch, 5 to à 
F. Enke. 1875. | 
The Upper Ten Thousa: 
last аец. É как ч 
in Berlin 
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