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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[OCTOBER 10, 1874, 
ing}{well,{so] that,{ while} athel Retell Theses are a 
poor crop, the com mips are as good, if 
Now, as it is well known that the Swede is more 
relied upon for its ‘* proof,” that i is, feeding ai 
not better, than usual, 
than the common Turnip, and is, 
as m 
largely and more carefully cultivated in conseqjuence 
than it otherwise would be, a partial failure in the 
Swede crop must necessitate considerable thought as 
to how we with the Turnip crop as a whole. 
confirmed 
and next in their di 
nutrient matter; hence the following tabli 
T of 
e, 
Dr. Voelcker’s analyses of White Globe and Norfolk. 
Bell Turnips, men iex EARNE Tuthip may serve to 
illustrate this ma 
í pe Composition in 100 parts. 
In Natural State. 
| 
} 
| White | Norfolk! 
Globe. | Bell. | 
Water , e pose 92. 280! 
Sugars gum, pectin, ke sa} + 4-697) 2.137 
ial 1.143 1.737 
Vegetable | 3.to2! 2,825 
Inorganic spr ' aiy. 628 1.021| 
| 100.000} 100,000! 
89.460 
j §6 
Swede. 
100.000 
ap subatanses are arranged by this author as 
(O) Comportondaranged arting se tio preat Classes 
-of Alimenta 
s In Natural State; 
c White | Norfolk 
Globe. | Bell, | Swede: 
Water i: 90.430 | 92:280 | 89.260 
Ni itrogenised ma mais capable of 
producing flesh 1.443 | 2.737] 1:443 
5 Non-nitrogenised substansi fitted! 
be sophett ee nore to lay 
n fat “| 7-799 | 4:962 8.474 
Pa isna miy, | -628 > 4.021 3 
| 
| I00.000 | 100,000 | 100.000 
i 
Now it will be seen from these tables that, aimam. 
7m 
matter of weien which is greatl 
My 
er power 
action of cold and. wet in fact, it vc keeps”” 
~- than the common 
Tha grant port of 
ite mild to allow of the Swedes g left in 
the winter, and so 
the reaso 
Swedes have .” But besides this 
there is another quality i in the Swede AN or not 
be overlooked. 
ist the 
hoe 
England the climate is eaer $ 
n the fields all 
appearance, blossoms put on a woe- begone aspect in 
the absence of solar — the leaves are falling 
thickly in woodland ways, and a general decay nae 
set in. As the poras days close in around us we 
instinctively feel that we must now begin to turn our 
ntio on indoors, if we would pee ha com- 
of the bright and glowing flow 
e gr sde srai is yet gay, and the waning days 
appear to bring out wi 
early summer. lorious pot plant for a 
conservatory : better still if it can be planted o 
bed or tub and trained ü 
stems, which in their turn are beginn ing to bloom 
nicely. Itis a plant that seth be in every Villa 
Garden greenhouse atid rva the 
summer months. Itis so sitagdihier distinct in lea 
d m any of the ordinar sias in 
it soseldom finds a place in a select soe 
soon as the first crop of flower was ov 
soil in the pot was reduced to the pitied of an inch 
or so, = kpr fresh added ; the young roots came 
upwar feed on it, and charming terminal 
clusters a flowers have appeared. Fuchsia corymbi- 
flora is now stri y handsome—a splendid species 
with very large bold leaves, giving it the appearance 
of a foliaged plant, and with a long corymb of flowers 
which Somes — of the stem at the axil formed bya 
shoot. The ae 
34 feet, then Ler appeared to ‘be the I leader of th th em 
from the sides of which three mor 
own; and were the plant in a house ficiently 
arm t e the requisite assistance, there is n 
doubt these would flower during the winter. It is 
the best the of Fuchsias— 
Spei. me Alexandrine, Arabella Pept 
look quite so striking in F. corymbi- 
flora is the. re pale, tu tubed flowers, the rosy pink 
sepals, and the vermilion corolla. There is x Fuchsia 
Dominiana, also a fine hybrid, raised at Chelsea 
some years , with 1 eathery lea cove olive- 
green on top, Ei E wie beneath, an 
which throws out large, long, tube- biased: divers 
from the teatas near rth tops of the shoots. The 
flowers are red in colour, and singularly fine and 
beautiful. These three Fuchsias should occupy a 
place in every Villa Garden conservatory, for they are 
so striking in character, and yet so easily cultivated, 
A large number of the present generation of amateur 
ener knows nothing about them. A 
hence, when the plants have done blooming and are 
showing signs of resting, wat er will be withheld, and 
they will be placed in the warmest the 
house, the wi 
eu 
removed to 
t penetrate, and wiere they can be kept 
Next spring, as soon as signs of a new 
growth appear, the pann will have a good deal of 
the old soil s from ~ Dei any long, strag- 
cut away, 
did badly after being repotted, and were some 
breaking into growth. Being unsi 
use, they were 
north side of the house, 
weather, 
ê 
; they rapidly pall i 
now literally “clothed with flow 
proved a 
tion at midstmmer, as they do now under i sh 
of a dais toa exposed to the north an 
or weeks yet. If villa 
deners would give the eir Puchsias less of house 
when the weather is eME » they w a. be 
truck with the results 
to put 
harms every one with j 
its simple yet striking vents ot flowers. Byitsside | 
pa pirea gracilis, _ growing in a 48-pot, and 
wo — as winie 
a 6o- -pot a 
pretty, so distinct in character, ai n 
as to be the very plant for a cool h 
sum x nia Weltoniensis a a fitting 
ant ause so 
panion, a true amateur’s p 
mag and blooms so Pedy ‘through the 
The. Potting of some a Tulips, and | 
cuses, müst now be done. The 
weeks in Ortober i is ‘os best 
unless the bulbs are 
into flower, then 
as they are received from the Contin 
plan to mix th boo for these — a 
using it, and gi ccasional t 
tel oar,” plenty of leata 1 r fair qanl of 
silver me decayed manure, 
decéh pot ito mble readily to pieces in the 
will make an excellent soil. S 
n d with E ane le. by ee aA 
y, and without any trouble by forming 
ng bank of inst the wall of a 
oe Sia suitable place, and planting the offsets 
and so form n rm a lean-t maget 
w 
ee to the Echeverias when 1 -d 
ter by rain n them, So ney A 
the plants, followed by frost. By planting 
il banks the rain falls away 
roots are dry, and hundreds can 
way without in injury. 
Law Notes. 
DISPUTED SALESMAN’ s ACCOUNT.—THE Cv! 
W THE hapman we Bo wde 
estminster County C t i 
was heard d before the. siding. SP. Baj 
sought to recover from the 
defendant, 2 s2 
Manchester, the sum of £9 8, veg i 
