22 - THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 4, 18 
Little Pixie, King Coffee, and the Dwarf Ulm, 
which are one and the same thing. Eps.] 
Eugenia Ugni.—'*S. D. A.’s” account of his 
large shrub of Eugenia Ugni would be more instructive 
if we knew his пета апа вне it received pro- 
tection кун the winter. A, К. 
e Mistleto in Perthshire.— I see that in some 
your pap 
us e trees ые our 
pue eris. perge ugh 
strike on the bark. Upon is pis 
Ж дыз fragifera,—I enclose a few specimens 
of the fruit of Benthamia n s 
a 
thebirds. From this, and the being “© eat 
inhabitants of the Himalayan hills," it seems as if 
it might be tu to some u ut the fruit in itself 
November ornament 
t I send iton to you as possibly of interest. O. 
The Rector of Мон and Red.skinned 
e gr 
Flourball Potato mh have Aetas sort 
for the t ast Aum in 
the garden han The | 
former is a very fine кый: early sort, а. "distinct 
= produces a g 
om any other we know. 
of equal medium-sized rich 
boiled. The only tault we find i is in its liability at a 
rather early stage to attacks of the destructive Pero- 
nospora, ever, very. early, and wor 
i T is the best we have to 
À disease, wl has p: 
astrous - — pe The crops ny sorts in 
gardens are fully one half useless, American sorts, 
altho ough generally py корвет, are not appro 
of around here, and will soon be all discarded, 
Ж» ее, Сой. Castle. 
La Карата macrantha, — In my reply to Mr. 
Baines at p. 592, I said that I had no desire to hold 
an 
rdener, ought have initiat 
knowledge of the Aline af stove plants, 
ing the whole bee 
wW- 
nd it was not the matter of 
d 
time that ants bloomed that was mentione 
eib Bemis wi e sie; lants would 
саше ык ы bloom at almost any of the 
ing in the same all precisely alike under 
my charge in the most perfect health and ty, 
S experience, 
growing 
re healthy and better Hooking than 
do in the seit house under my 
Bylaugh Park, East Dereham. 
. Heat without Cost.—I Sao I niet to be 
icon ihe DON ag S. E."—sorry, 
| the above made en dit 
. William Bishop, 
think. venture to affirm that if "57 i 
‘make his appearance at Garston with a ier which acquaintance, and 
find in the Agricultural Gazette for October 9 that 
Ж have not by any means been Apos of the far- 
aching benefits of ref us It may also be news 
interesting у S E eed to “all your readers, 
to e that it is propos жа = dis all the machinery 
manufacture of hothouses, &c., at ton by 
vieni ud rked from a boiler over the lime- 
. Did the subject require it, some exception 
ight also be taken to ** S. E.'s" science. He seems 
mi be М 
to confound the mixing of lime or chalk іп а common 
furnace with the conversion of lime or chalk into caustic 
lime in a kiln. There is a wide distinction between 
the two processes. In order also to pull up the loss 
of heat as much as possible in UM burning, 1 he speaks 
heat, when o mplo oyed. 
= red heat do that ied Supposing ** 
Misi eee tal lesson 
оте т а limekiln at a red bait 
ted with carbonic acid ut. Again, the lime can- 
dot аву add to the amount of heat, because it is 
not combustible. "N o doubt this is the general teach- 
ing of science ; but what is the driving out of carbonic 
acid if not a species of combustion? Limestone is a 
bep inedite тен full of organic remains, and there 
y be a species of combustion without consumption. 
бав says ie A it is hardly fifty ye — ар t € 
> humble collier drove his locomoti ong s 
d 
ared the thing impossible: 
еден wonderful that lim 
parting with 
ng 1, 
det рае represents part of the heat taken from the 
coal when the chalk was burnt. oes he mean 
the heat of the чирк w 
water woke it up ? 
common 
heat of lim e king has m оку been 
a to chemical changes, rather a mere giving 
ack of the co al heat put into it in the 
хе E.'s I 
arbonic acid fai a rea lot ih a lo eked up in 
the burnt lime to let some gas in again by slacking 
with water, and of course кеш little ‘of the heat of 
the coal reaches the t facts, fi 
Wi 
pleading and spurious ce asthis. Th 
— — the bo boi ie making 
and very soon - ko 
hare n the plac True, “5, E." says that gas 
cannot v made гед si cost for fire to convert the coal 
into coke and gas, is. iue та over {һе kiln 
waste no € but they augmen th 
this was ointed out in my first v 
c ee 
er, was the most powerfi 
in proportion. to its size, В 
limekiln heating, 
communication, and whi 
. E. " seems to i ignore, 
is that it saves 
the heat that would otherwise be 
Seni sets it, I have elsewhere ex 
pressed it, a second job as it finishes the first at the 
cures of осы Б. Surely your correspondent сап hay 
поје do. а to mere о of free caloric to 
useful Poe as that I have already in- 
са ed, such. as ing of | es, бс. ғ 
"a pays people fairly well—and it does—to 
burn lime as a matter of and waste all this heat 
at the crown of the kiln, it must surely pay better to 
r flaw in the Cowan patent system of warmi 
and lighting buildings of i s lime, ru 
heat, and light, and driving force must be had 
are zem ыи s separately by n ds t follows that n 
all e had from the one process of lime- 
babii, some of this will hes of cost. Mr, 
Cowan uses re coal to e li 
ers, consequently his lime, or his heat, 
E." will 
he says will effect a much greater s 
effected by the limekiln, Mr Cow. =n will sin oe 
h 
s tw 
the heat pine ; 
aur one, sepes ally some o гора 
А 
aT Re 
that the strata were porous 
water wanted to come in. athan” goes on to say 
hat he has a goo nion of the invention, and 
his employer contemplates adopting it, but that Mr, | 
ennett’s rre that his titre at Rabley a already ; 
heated, е is within 2 he line 
e 
virtually cries **Tonathan." Well, Benn 
already, E m e aeo of most people, but where 
e» n" found а ‘гака, way cul - 
Meus repe ected b lea 
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ES 
Eas 8 
t for Mr. Bennett’s err ah re eae but 
sir that limekiln heat well estab: 
lished. for its merits 
that means іп the North of England. D. T. Fish 
Beet, Endive, and Dg m 
three most useful articles, 
pens in the esta 
is one oft the chief ingredients of th 
the winter months, and is also вай; wi 
Cucumbers are not proc 
of diet it is necessary that it should e 
succulent, not о se and fibrous. It should 
get the Pine. opis Short-top true t 
anything approaching its likeness, 
Henderson when he lived at the Pin 
о bough 
his year 
uu Wurzel of a red R 
Ih esae 
corey article n 
ance. that" sow, i 
plait pues should be true to ait, In some en i 
ts the proprietor is quite a connoisseur b 
as in other things, and will detect the difference in x | 
ioi asa t. 
Em sorts, 
гі to any 
are more pre tied up 
others blanched E ina by bei 
or tiles ; and in growing? — 
there are as 
with mine. I now come to the Cauliflower, 
15 OC! it am 
of the Gardeners’ Chronicle at the 
eitch's Autu 
this autumn, 
und the ens during the last 
