OCTOBER 24, 1874] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 529 
called by that name is not the same. I used | and climate of America, the results are quite attainable. | King and Gloria Mundi are quite distinct varieties. 
formerly to grow this fine keeping Celery, and | R. Farquhar, Gr., Fyvie Castle. Eps. ] 
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out of it b wing er sorts, Whe 
eh a a Celery Be: this name it had not Pampas-grass.—The character of Be Pampas- Viburnum Awafurki, — Your correspondent, 
the same hardiness ping qualities as my | grass is so fully established as a nearly hardy, orna- “W. E. G.,” writes of the “peantifal autumn colour- 
old friend, for in our rich, heavy soil we could not | mental plant, that to say anything in its qoe eppes ing of this plan t, which is very fine at present, It is 
it from rotting, and after Christmas we could | like endorsing a Bank of England note, but ll who | one of those shrubs that ought to have a more exten- 
ly get more th head in six fit for use. ve nit in its natural beauty, nd where | sive cultivation, for not be too highly spoken of 
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Some few years ago I was turning out a drawer | itis most effective, I would say plant, if possible, in for early forcing, for cut flowers, or con 
> found the remains of a packet of old Celery seed, | such situations as it is in at Orwell Park, It is almost decoration. The profusion and purity of its flowers 
= marked Ivery’s Pink. That must have been there | impossible to put a plant of such graceful beauty and | make it quite a ladies’ favourite, and will well repay 
~ more than ten years. I was highly pleased to find | easy outline as this Pampas in the wron; lace, | the cultivator by its attractiveness. W. F. Bow 
my old friend again, and thought if time had not de- | but planted as it is at Orwell Park, near the margin | Zevbourne Grange, Kent. 
aps i of eed we w i i 
he growing po t e would | of a placid-looking lake, where all the surroundings 
not part company again in a hurry. e seed was | are in character, and associated as it K there with Outdoor Autumn Flowers.—I have now bloom- 
in a very dry place, and every one grew. I pro- | American and other plants, it helps to make up | ing freely on a south wall Abutilon Duc de Mala- 
vided myself with plenty of seed, and d have grown | one of the most pleasing and k piia ral bite, of scenery | koff, a grand variety, the flowers being very large 
this Celery ever since, an and find that it stands the damp | I have seen for a lon e Pampas- andsome. It sto t winter quite unpro- 
and frost better than a other that I have ae grass is sufficiently hardy to üi an ordinary tected, and I am hopeful that it will remain so during 
It is solid, crisp, and fine in flavour, but not so winter in sheltered situations wihont any protection; | the ensuing winter. Salvia patens, that most richly 
in growth as ere that I grow. William Fe ae but severe winters like 1861 mak Om havoc ppones. sae all blue flowers, is also blooming abund- 
well, Thorpe Perr them, and it is, therefore, advi to protect an So p are spring sown East Lothian Stocks, 
pecimens by shaking a Sale half-rotten ay ane even if killed y the winter’s frost they will have 
ee moo bearing Raspberries.—This autumn | mould round te collar of the plant, as it is less un- | prov ieee for the bloom they now yield. 
the ing varieties of Raspberries have done well | sightly than straw or fern, and a better non-con- Then the Pentstemons that have once been cut over 
here, seule the large pe r shes Autumn Black, | ductor. Arun a conspicua is another plant of almost | continue to throw up freely medium sized spikes of 
and the October Red and Yellow. I had these | equal jes and beauty, and as it flowers much earlier flower, that are most acceptable either for nosegays or 
varieties from Mr. Rivers some years ago, — as-grass, that is an additional recom- | in vases. Also the Antirrhinums are blooming most 
them very useful supplying in favourable seasons endatio’ pan adds much to its value as an autumnal- | profusely from side e ot 
like the present nice di either for the dessert or iaoiai peen $. Sheppard, Woolverstone Park. oan Baers «Ae : bed of late lepida Mignonette, from 
g p passing antama Biad somes Tt would be prudent to speak of the hardi- | Which handfuls of sweet an Saige ia. aD 
k true from seed, and is chary in mak ewa f Gynerium argenteu ith a reservation. | 4); l any ren n 
them the best way is to cut them down in I aioi, knowing whence it mgs we might 
» and in May, w pw — begin to make shoots, | wonder at its turning out so hard i t M bryanth difoli 
to thin all out except t r three of the strongest | South of France and at the foot of "he Pyrenees, as esembryanthemum cordifolium variega- 
pees. $ plants require “beral treatment by top- | 2+ Tarbes and Pau, it attains magnificent proportions ; f thi Eee biaa oi ma 
dressing the ground with a quantity of well rotted | ; sala rance, whose climate differs arias of this moh g = ing plant wi develope 
manure. ne of the mos ul autumn-fruiting | little from that of the South-east of England, it does ree times as were ipa an rns ring the 
bushes is the Parsley-leaved Bramble or Blackberry, ell, although less luxuriant, and gets through ordi- = su ie sum me He -e cto : pla * nts. 
which I have grown for the four or five years in ary winters uninjured ; ts extraordinary winters — edge of this fact may useful where it is 
the same way as Raspberries. The fruit makes an | ;, iş kille 4. In that ‘of dina gaa for instance, plants res os e - t : zet ss — owt des 
excellent preserve if mixed with a few g sauce | protected with a coverin arvived, while | i the ot op Se er ma It. Loge show a Bo 
Apples. i he ts e originally from Fisher | those an unprotected me ei y i fom say that no | €? i ese results here in E ing ans a walk, 
Holmes’ nursery, worth, near eld. | uncovered PE 6 escaped, but enough were destroyed | Sf i E rg = niwe mats have DYE © 
The fruit is far larger and nak than the common ii p cautious, And as we cannot yet | ° bem on > “ara in ert other c gue to 
Bramble, so the plants never fail in bearing well. | {ell beforehand what the winter will be, it may be | 2 W! “r 18 inches. ‘is is at ee p pe a an 
W. Til he C id Hi ills wise (except in mild localities, such as the South-west pe co ae pend onhets 4 te ‘oli ‘ie cal > TE 
— Your r correspondent on the aot Eps , of England and Ireland) to protect in emar apes 4 3 il par this oltaged’ plants. 1t ku 
mentions an autumn-bearing berry, every winter, such plant neni TET been -= i remar a ve nse t re 
n T Nearly teny” yens owner sets a store by. A pompèrcial horticaltnrist it is the best Yanepatec-ioliage ing plant ot t 
the Gyneri This is one 
Present day—easy to propagate, easy to grow, and 
ost effective in its results. 4. D. 
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ber 19) sy wanted early retain the old (last 
year’s) wood, as in the ordinary way, but if late cut 
t down to within 2 feet of the ground, which allows 
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them off by scores and hundreds, and then they have | € ss va hat it Ki pa nciple o TA T thet 
to come and buy fresh plants of us. I protect all my tib, m} fou 4 rijp ovr A rand changes into 
Gyneriums every pei a order to be able to meet 7 ie steps, oe in still finds in me a great 
the possible demand.” Æ. S. D. earn something more about 
Moa aiklok H rooms, induced me to visit the show- 
ooms of Dietz & Co. (Carter Lane, St. Paul’s), who 
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Heavy Crop of Pot tatos.—I was interested in Paterson’s Victoria phage —To “C. C.’s” | are wubtenitb: ‘teat manufacturers, and there I saw 
reading the notice of a heavy crop of Potatos at te query respecting the specks he finds in the tubers of some prettily-fo vases, suitable for holding a small 
in your columns a fortnight since, and it may beworth | this mnit I reply that it is undoubted! y the disease | quantity of tall and bold flowers and foliage, but which 
while to a similarly remarkable one a field | wit ich we are too familiar, but seen onlyina | were primarily intended by oF mse as 
f y reclaimed land on the farm of Fairnington | mild form. Ihave frequently found the same appear- lamp-staridi, T wbi urpose they answer equally 
near Jedburgh. The whole crop is uncommonly good, | ance this season in tubers of Dawes’ Matchless, | well, The lamp, which Mopper fato a top of the 
but as a specimen I give the produce of two shaws, | Regents, and other soft-fleshed kinds, “whilst the skins | vase, was of the size, and something like the form, of 
one of them of the rock species, at which were no | have been apparently perfectly clean; and it is n a broth basin with its cover on ; upon this 
few -nine well peculiar to any one . Thay doubt brass fittings of the burner, with its chimney an 
weight of which was upwards of 17 lb. The but for the forbearan the elements the ase | of same lamp mig laced in a wire 
shaw was a Pat ’s Vi which yielded fifty- | in all the tu affected would have been m suspender hung from the ce in 
two Potatos, nearly all of a moderate size, but the | virulent, and that complete rottenness would have | 4, i houses for putting pots upon 
weight of which was not tested. 7:, Roxburghshire. then resulted. One of the peculiarities of the disease | the walls, hung on a nail. e spirit. burned in it 
e Nadie rve in = ie wat that “A. Hera writing is its diverse gs of appearance in ener sorts = is the best mineral oil ; and the editor of the Field hes 
under the he: “Large Crops of Potatos,” re- | Potatos. Thus in some it is found wholly in t reported fespering t the lamp, that it will pre d 
marks that he ha cwt. of tubers being pro- | flesh, and not observed. in 1 the ia In light of twenty to -three. es for si ae 
duced from 11 : appears in blotches in the skin, chiefly at the ex- | eisht ho . $ f 
obtained 1 lb. of | tremity of the tu Sikei rs—the 4 
-produce family—the disease is found entirely at the end of the — Æ thë cost ol 
: - ou š ad; sony. 2a | fer tats tached fo the soe Ta seo the Car sill Ya about 6% Fado as 
; eaviest P anes rigai I 120z., but ni ie comparative from disease our presen ign accom 
would be about 140z. each. Perhaps some other of | season’s crops have psi g I hear of disease in many mai spec at ti vl yg = light asim 
your correspondents (who have grown this variety) | q warters, and in varieties that are esteemed an adipi. to me that it would be a wonderfully economic 
will be able to favour your readers with the result but delicate, Curiously enough however, there ar arrangement i ld night, hang this 
their experience. G. A. Marris Clerk and large breadths of Regeats be ing lifted in the pi i tan an house from S P.M. to g A on pi 
Steward, Borough Lunatic Asylum, Humberstone, ens yee a the paaie o of Jame n pring a keep out the frost for Your correspond 
near Leicester ne.crop, but wit ya ” id z 
duis: Ti of RR the remarks made by “ A. D.” | found, and yet the Regent is usually the a i to exhibit Sait ley Rae aea = mapioger het 
tanaan Chohecivot Gin 17h ist. as to what | evidences.of doeme. Owing to the extent and ne kaming o ; ae eis does no not aera 
I lb. of cut sets of the Potato will poks I, as well | general goodness of the crop, lifting goes on but | purpose trying one of these eee mps in the r areca 
pin aia dubious as to the fact of our American | slowly, as Potatos are now very cheap, a a ee this winter, and will endeavour to arrive Pg correct 
cousins obtaining 5114 lb, from 1 1b. of Compton’s | the reach of the very poorest ; and as the price of | 2 return of their heat-givin wer as th Field i 
. Spip; so to put it to trial I obtained this | bread is also considera! ably reduced, poor indee ed must February last gave of hee lightgiving asia a 
1 Ib, of that sort, which I Se into Pes peer be the person who cannot get a good hearty meal of | yr 7 p A 8 ) al) 
lanted them 1 foot a ood. A. D: 
eye: Ba Pp wholesome f 
The result was 135$1b. "Mie weak Lowe 6 fe abd 
, so that a Sealer gona da 
„ and my distance 2 or 3 feet instead of 
have much greater. As 
Suspended Animation in 
Large Warners King Apple.—I was shown an | this n e1 two se 
Sprie Warner’s King, by Mr. n, of Kelso, 
