DECEMBER 5, 1874.] LHi 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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tubercle thrown out by the roots will make 
there is no a in propagating it ; it can 
Loge} raised from seed. 
t the meeting of the ee of Sur- 
Monday evening, Decembe 
will be rea Mr. W. 
icultural Geology ae western District).” 
x ear to be iken at 8 o’cloc 
—— Weare requ uested to state that the Council of 
oubt, will be duly 
The initiation of ane movement is due 
othe Secretary, Mr, W. A. LINDSAY. 
_ —— We understand that Mr. Forp, late gardener 
a to the Duke of MANCHESTER at Kimbolton Castle, 
succeeds Mr, Wo OODFORD at the Duke 
ese houses from 2,70 mian 
ants are Anail ani to the value of 
oia to 7,705,000 fran 
We have received from the Hon. and Rev. J. 
Boscawen, of Lamorran, Cornwall, flowers of 
ut-of-doors, and a 
» plant Producing t them a 
faisedii in this country. - Are pesmi 
flowers of Parochetus nari a lovely 
the Leguminous family 
rst 
r. G. W. n our age naei s volume at 
were fou ee on No mber in a Rose-bed 
Penrhos, sag Holyhead, the seat 
on. W. O, STANL is is the more inte- 
as it aes weloelieve, reise only been found 
din the Rhododendrons at the Marquis of 
F AMPTON’S, Castle Ahy. 
e. They have cater? es. oa d upwards 
ae this project.” It w Canet that the 
climate -=n = soil are peculiarly adapted 
h of t -cane. The chief difficulty 
to its cultivation to any extent has been the 
of labo the above-mentioned 
gar-cane in this 
and with th a 
ar on of slave labour in Cuba, it is 
Production i in Carthagena will beie till 
The Bota nical Magazine is this year dedicated 
G. Maw Bent 
of hall Hall, Broseley, as a 
Dr, 1 HOOKER to the value of xer- 
y herbaceous plants into 
of late years, or perhap 
his own hands any of 
em 
äs or distributed them with more 
tt Aon Pages of this work to some 
BRITISH GARDENERS,—VII. 
MONTGOMERY HENDERSON, 
Mr. M. HENDERSON, whose fam 
cig near Pr At the 
left in December, 
M 
seat of Ear owe. 
‘owl plenty a friends, a have never once 
of a situation. Had I 
higher in the profession than I have op ea when 
then feel Rent “confident to oc 
ce I have been 
have always treated me mo nd than 
have never — of ‘leaving them so | 
r three years in one o 
went for two years into Messrs. James 
Sons’ nursery at Inverleith, at the end of which time 
r. Dickson sent him to Lochend, the seat of Sir 
George Warrender, in t Lothian, where he 
Sin at Cliveden, or Cliefden, as it was also called, 
in Buckinghamshire, he sent Henderson to his father’s 
Hall, a 
at Salton 
ear Lass the seat of Lord Melville, but re- 
mained only ten months—his old master, Mr. J. D 
having sent for him in 1830, to come to 
ter ; but finding this not = re a pr to settle in, he 
1834, t to be foreman under 
r. Neil Wilson, at Copal ‘Hall, Leicestershire, the 
This situation he left in March, 
1838, and obtained employment in the nursery of Mr. 
‘night, of Chelsea. In June of the same year Mr. 
Knight sent him to his present situation as gardener 
o Sir Geor rge e H. Panami Bart., eni ton. ae 
r, 
“jł to leami ¢ 5 airs ee ge? 
writes, “for 7 love of the buia. 
er I should cote maps in it, as I had no friends 
n that line to help m ut I persevered, and 
been out 
desired, I could have risen 
at Gopsall ae late Earl Howe offered m oas 
rdener to Queen Adelaide at Bushey, but I ‘did not 
inent a 
servant, that I 
long as I had strength to car 
“My s 
easa Grape 
grower is well-known, was born in March, 1808, in 
the village of Swanston, at the foot of the Pentland | 
market 
Ba n of a city, where he was -EE initiated 
into the laborious part of the business, He then 
Di 
Dods leaving to take charge of Sir George's s 
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p aea aa 
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; he fact tha my Grapes are so well coloured 
¥ The winter of 1837-8 was a very severe one, and 
the thermometer en to 7° below zero. 
The Vines were planted outside t the houses, and had 
bare stems 2 feet long e border before they 
entered t M apa- had got the Vi 
into leaf, but had not nood either the stems or the 
rder, so one very cold night they were 
= hs When I menm in June, some of them bet 
again from the base of the stems, 
bet 6 others were totally killed. 
I encouraged the live 
ones in I could to make growth, and thus 
filled up the or S and I succeeded so 
that they were carrying heavy crops, 
with rep of fro from 4 b. to 6ólb, weight. This first 
o adopt what has since been called the 
B 
® 
exten- 
ta great mistake to destroy old Vines. 
Renovate A ote and r will pay you back with a 
full crop of fine Grapes m er than you can 
such an voor from young ines. 
“On age with my early V 
We had 9° “of frost at the of October, 
mi 5 Bamir I m men to put a 
de 
as it was a mass of 
them not to disturb it, but to put careful 
etop, and I co oncluded that the Vines would break 
vay oes fromha mag daem, toh esh roots in ae 
However, it turned out very differently. ook a 
they did start they broke very wea 
roots n formed from the sap up 
branches, and which should have gone to develope 
the lea Ever since then I have allowed th 
leaves to make the fresh roots, and consider it damag- 
ak a a plant to make it grow roots when it has no 
lea 
Tiii been also very successful in the poe 
of the Pine-a apple, having roe thirty years when 
lar mileo hr pa bes so pa 
cultivation? No doubt, if pu a lover of thi 
lovely family, it is pon to answer, and 
haps such an oi he better do 
justice were he asked to name the best . Still 
one may have his particular fancies. I have heard of 
w ere he called upon to grow 
— the very things 
but not the best, for it is not so durable as some 
ume not so grateful. In choosing my favour- 
ite I must say it is with reluctance I leave the 
Cattleyas and lias, so many of these 
are really beautiful ; Ti for "a 
durability and perfum ow of n qual 
grows freely wh 
the dark days “of 
feet high, which 
tion) 
of as ila this to filla 
fade, no surpass l 
bow and send to to your gar pat or a lining See 
new no’ 
when on the nike al aa you 
ou may have seen and 
for three months, Some one 
ies a quite within bounds, givi a guide the 
dried spike, which more co flowers. 
Seein at can be done with this pian. I shall not 
be su 
r o hear of a panicle of 3 
a plant only second hes this, I am inclined to to ties bin m 
met it in tigrinnin, 
