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THE GARDENERS. CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 4, o 
Home Correspondence, 
A Plea fo or an Outing for Gardeners.—As the 
lowed # Chronicle is read by almost all our 
employers, and as the majority of the latter can hardl 
fail to be impressed with the plodding ais 
of their gardeners—a class who are hardly ever out of 
res with them ev A whi 
collar, and who ca 
they | 
a the ways 
ineas, according to 
it would do is a, See vant 
The good 
that 
especially to meres There is - ng 
can touch in poten eries of objec  letio ese 
are to be proved | in a hottieultural ‘subjects at 
Birmingham, re me a so profusely illustrated 
with mister phekes in all branches of cultural ama 
decorative art, the dullest scholar must learn muc 
that standard—will learn almost ‘everything that it is 
And the 
miraria and filled with new air, a 
and physical muscles are brought into play, f 
loo rok into each other’s faces and grasp a other een 
nly gardeners can after a severance o 
mka an gains a fresh impulse ee catches a new a 
Righer inspiration from his fellows. The shov 
poor, 
we bas ai ai ong Te Spe bene- 
London press 
n sneering at the egotism of 
l is—an speaks volumes to their 
sterling worth—that, considering their isolation an 
the small circles the ey m rule 
ey are, as Bwa: the most modest and 
But should any one be tried by 
n as 
or profession whatever. 
CH men dew, Pan the last an months I cay 
of rnifolius under 
© Tave, ey inte erva = 
and ge ta ge 
nch ien when the peA were 
have y spotted with haineyleae 3 ; 
a drop could be observed. In 
pests 
-I have been able to observe them continuous? 
a “Wen We Gs TOF po, neither does the liage of |? 
| pas at Bede 
l s to such ordinary ¢ 
1 iy ee the latter 
cond week in June, he would have perfor 
nt views also, During the 
|an i spre 
eatedly, and as the plants hz 1 | that Peaches can n be brought to su 
by own ee (a my wal siine soaa] ons iy, while Strawberries 
aa Bot, 
| sogo). — Dr P fone remark, hes Co ‘The plant now 
variegatum, and } supposed to be the 
hat the 
prede. that o whole weight of the 
aphides, I think it not improbable that the primary 
has hitherto been entirely over- 
looked— i so far as recently-published investi- 
ations are concerned ; namely, that they are attribut- 
able primarily to a peculiar condition of the atmo- 
sphere, ad always co-existent with such, I have it 
rmly fog on my mind, though at the mye it did 
not occu me to commit the facts to pa = 
ure, in- 
at- 
refer to, was due to extravasated sap, cause 
the long-continued root, and nid em aérial, drought, 
which reached its climax on that dewless night. 
“0. a sho uld bear in mind that sich a state of the 
rat wo their presence, though due to like i deste it 
e than proba in but a very small d 
Seated: such effects as EU arabek Willam 
Earley. 
Fluctuations of Temperature. Ea e, ps 
on ‘‘ Weather Lore,” last week, ‘E. S. D 
that ‘there is an abnormal p P temperature scsi 
February 12 an ey 12. “It e that, at these 
critical ang the therm mater ‘ab s “it go rapidly 
down several ppo š nig; afterwards to its normal 
operas high Tn you Almanac for 1873 you give 
he mean temperature fot every day in the ar jer 
London n). This shows the drop from sa 
2 
during which 
Tay, 
month the average tem nérature rises 
ust be a 
rise in some years, or the exceptional 
drop would affect the average. This appears to dis- 
pose of the aérolite theory. Francis Ram. 
it 
w glass-houses—if 
rarer be laid upon the surface ‘of t the ground (pre- 
Mec fl well filled up and rammed), and a course of 
bricks be laid upon these a and the wall built 
e will certainly belong 
m y ree- 
o mortar nor cement 
m to affix to the freehold), aid | is 
hold by the boards Lidet have 
above or below 
therefore 
A glass-hottses, 
is Tet int a , wall bebini to the freehold, 
or natied, to it, passes with the freehold ; whatever is 
ed Wig h sctews may removi «. JR this 
principle I w vised to erect a lean-to te” 
which is ineralies removable. Henry Robert Boy. 
from 
cumference, Of the later varieties, which are yet 
great deal 
hard, the fruit when fully ripe must bea 
larger. The variet ety that swells. to the 
Budding mem on the Chetry Laurel.— 
Some time back some correspondence arose in the 
Ginder” Chronicle as to budding the a A upon 
the Cherry Laure >], and wice versd, Just yanin 
had tried the former, and and this year fruit 
matured very well, except being ‘pit with the He 
coe Daien a specimen or two by this ao Ol I have 
stones— come u 
De EF T II W. Marsh. 
arkinsoni ( Mag., 
the sooner the 
j| eating away the interior. I did not detect what 
them at the same time turnin 
scriptions come to my father’s account“ aF 
erlauterudem text und anleitung zur culfur vat 
H. G. Ludwig Reichenbach.” My fat me editor 3 VGI 
Hofmeister, had purchased, Jond fide, t kag 
r particulars. After all, 
een more naw w ctory to learn who g 
the Colchiew m Parkinsoni. Æ. G. Rchd. f. he 
ibledgidl use of illustrations, directly or indir 
URR from other works, as also of literary matter, 
journals, in spite of its kn 
with the public and an eed to the original od licgk 
tion, ~ $f 
Caterpillars on Cabbages.—As this p 
_ caterpillars are rife cer Cabbage the a : 
ing plan of ge Lis ing rid of t t be genera 
abel: and m of use Pa some of the cade 
the Gardeners’ - “Girone —Sad o 
made among Cabbages by ts larvee of Pieris 
sicee (large Garden-white), P 
white), and Mamestra brassicæ 
bage in its wild state is a maritim 
fore co sonia surrounded 
m that n 
have adopted the cae remedy scarcely a - 
as been seen, whereas before adopting it 
greatly plagued with them. NV. B. 
Beschorneria yuccoides,—Can you o 
your c Cae amare rags hi any information 
the cultivation, &e. of Beschorneria oe 
Baas plant i isa name of Mexi co, and i Bi a gre 
bject. eet found that plants ‘coll 
dimet (excepting C 
r ; in fact, 
acti) do not like to bev 
should be kept growing 
a 
with a dash of s sh 
June ‘being the batt” season to shift them, 
growing it reauires water ae and though | 
ves, it will not 
o su 
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In potting-off av 
roots, and keep aM established | in stove tem 
When the plants flower they will thro 
doe be if not over mateni Treated se J if 
well. 7. Croucher.) 
Plant Showing and Judging at the 
Botanic,— 
denies; thrown open to n 
gardeners will bring plants a at distance when 
feel mero they will be beaten b 
open clas: 
This | point requis fort conside! 
urserym 
ia iets tot because the e the best 
br Priestly son 
judges of p 
ecisions the better 
rs S 
j aA Park. N. W. Sun as 
Vines and Winé aft siete in Engla 
Vopiscus, a Roman writer of the second 
quoted t 
ee Gal 
ut vites haberen 
plain proof at 
a natura tT 
then hot 
oe emini hr iret r 
EA Louies weshiode, 1 ches 
thas 4 pad herer itself at the base of the 
oots, and fe a tunnel o 
began to 
brown, when 
ere a 
is are in 
