784 THE 
GARDENERS © CHRONICLE; 
[DECEMBER 19, 1874. 
coloured iš very pretty, being very distinct; gonan 
ohannis and ©: Weismanni, are two 
very best in their class for this kind of se A 
the former places 
er gee soi 
green fos ty. sum 
have Aik, seen grown for talile i ns but. wigs it 
is, its distinct and light appearance makes it at once 
attractive, nda mimoscefolia, -o et. a 
light green, ought to be more grow 
Lomatia keg eg is a distinct and Peal plant 
and og h à se not possessing any i 
cluded in the above list mi ht with kariii ge add 
them to their collections, and I feel satisfi they will 
well oe with their purchase. F Hudson, 
Champion Hill, SA. 
Transplanting Evergreens,—As I observe that 
M: Saul, allows that ‘‘ the 
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Plants Grown in Cornwall.— 
During sn Li season I have had less success than 
usual w ell as 
ed as 
well, but produced very few fruits. in pots, 
unplunged, suffered ie cold winds, and later on from 
want of wa uit of P, pinnatistipula was not 
half the usual size, butt I 
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noides fruits abundantly, if permitted to ettent itself, 
in clusters of three to e small blue or ptirple- ack 
berries. Swainso i, has eet ame and kept 
out for three winters protcted by as t grows 
about 3 fee eet high, and forms a seit ari bush, 
by a hard frost, as I made the mistake 
it, a twiner, earn a a wire trellis, 
y fine indeed this 
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planting 
=r he coccinea has been 
-Th Thiini. Cortical, Dec. 1 
Flowet Shows, apan reading Mr. Shuttleworth’s 
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letter at p. 752, I was reminded of a rebuff I received 
hen p mmittee meeting. 
versation >- into a curious bject, and 
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as 
oi sa were all enjoying a 
hearty laugh, — I bethought me of the busin 
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Then emre re they were veh grown b 
had fiaishet Ie ese plants, they were left until 
both at Bath and South Kensing 
ton, although the men were waiting about some 
time. npa omg lot of ogy ry at Bitmi a 
this season, were they grown by the 
to the matter be “e round men in sq 
ome expeériefice, and must 
exception of once at South Kensington an 
Birmingham (where one of the two others was at sea, 
ut we were able to keep him from ertor), I have 
an Vv 
exhibitor? As 
er saw 
n can grumble, but he would 
find himself as sharply criticised ie he attempted the 
ork. I think it a g but 
any grievance, to state 
happened : then an eehlalistion 
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desirous to please and accomm modate the exhibitors, but 
I believe many exhibitors, upon seeing the name at 
the bottom of Mr. Shuttleworth’s letter will ettiin 
like the man who invented thunder for theatres—the 
managet refused to pay him, but pa 
made the apparatus—who, whenever the re 
That’s my 
oucher, Gr, 
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to F. T. Peacock, Esq., Sudbury PAAGA 
Sanitary Reforms.—I have read with much 
ing i cot- 
t period, we re thee glad to 
or on Ag sebject: 
n and fou water 
t no very dist 
learn anything that wood throw 
ad occurred to us about 
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be properl ept, undergrou rains near 
cottages are oe esting filled up atid causing dis- 
agreeable odou clean-water tank for each 
pF might of vc less costly than one large rain- 
er tank, and les ‘hae to cause disputes among 
the inmates, Æ 0.1 
Matico,—In the communications iñ your issue of 
November 28, abotit Matico, socommonly used in South 
America for wounds, vomiting of blood, leucotrhoea, &c., 
you express some doubts about the name of the plant 
paration of that drug. In the 
case where it Tane Fou expressed the greater doubts, 
namely about Piper elongatum, in my humble opinion 
this is the only hani intended; if I might be allowed to 
that serves for the pre 
judge from the labels with which the drug is accom 
see EN It is cenaially used in Peru as a liqui 
tract, i in small bottles. I believe it is 
epared ima, the capital of Pe 
its way into tia neighbouring c 
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Eupatorium glutinosum, &c., are ase fot the aai 
tion either milar ext act ora p ( 
[The only leaves sold by the druggists, so far as w 
know, are those of the Piper above mentioned. Eps. 5 
Saker (pp. 679 and 720).—‘‘ The secret of 
ozokerit ” mig ve bora known to visitors to the 
Kew Eo a no doubt, faa other museums, 
g before its recent revelatio tion as an oe com- 
A fine specimen of this substance from 
Moldavia, where it is used by the peasants rar greasing 
the axles of their carts, as well as for making candles es, 
is contained in Museum No. 2, In Thomson’s 
ei hig Chemistry, published e naie ozokerit 
rown, substance, 
ope transmitted light, ‘slightly jarai fir in alcohol 
mor ether.” AAJ 
hood of towns or farm birds ar 
beco ing far too numerous. Sf no advocate 
for the indiscriminate destruction of ‘small bi Ido 
think peat garden and uld be greatly 
reduced. No bird c commits so many d ir anes 
is more destructive than, the house. -sparr ma for as 
soon as the corn is fi rmed in the ear he makes un- 
ceasing attacks oS the crop, and follows sh same to 
the farmyard, c tinuing his depredations as long as 
it continues in his reach : and to vay his diet the 
hard and ripe, he divid vides Me favours 
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without some means of protection i is hopeless 
uneral. Some plead for them that they d 
pa a of insects, but of this I have grave d, 
I have wate ed fete 
os ws and finches ge insects. 
parrows, Latte and finc 
gar rden, fot "those 
déstraction, on the s 
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quassia, and soot. his not only keeps every bud 
safe during the winter, but greatly benefits the trees or 
bushes by killing every particle o 
may have formed on them. The lime i 
lumps fresh from the kiln, and slaked with boili 
ater, having previously thrown in a ful or so 
quassia chips to extract the bitter, which the 
f the li ll do effectually. After the lime is 
slaked, ient water must ed t it 
bout the consistency of whitewash, and the whole 
should then be run thr a fine sieve to take 
any lumps that would not pass easily through the 
tube of a common syrin y taking advantage of 
a still day for the mca y Xpert in the 
of a syring able to go over a large number 
of low trees or bushes in a ad, an oroug 
them over with the wash ; and if u i 
advised, it will remain on. till the buds 
spring and throw it off—thus thoroughly ea 
them from the depredation of birds, and ridding the 
trees of moss, S: W: 
Desmodium penduliflorum.—In ‘‘ H.’s” 
marks on the plants on the old walls at Kew, te 
expresses a doubt of the hardiness of Desmodium pen‘ 
da liflo have had it in cultivation during the 
ast four years, and have seen it elsewhere and in les 
Sea localiti = and have no doubt of its pe 
hardiness. It isa plant 
ts, beauty. I 
plant greatly to be recommended, F Tyerman. S 
Primula japonica, —Permit me, from my stande 
ing as a Continental amateur, to state my expa 
and views peerning Primula j Japonica, in answer to 
A E 8 Fig | uiry, All 
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o state, >» frome 
own experie Ea as wel 
deserve also their due Bepteaston, althoug 
this was a mercantile spe ion, 
at a comparatively fo price, and m 
even to the purse of the most modest amateur. 
seems, however, to oe I onl aE 
—that thë artist who made the 
a flow weet Bes, so p deza renidi it, f 
served for 
und ra 
expectations were not realised, they ere 
they were not experienced eno ough in ts. cali 
or that there was some reason for R non jed mmi 
glan ac ast of having = most. ee 
most experie gardeners the gr 
I venture ry “think that ninety-nine 
hundred have come to the wontin that ps 
was not as as they 
as it may the plant is bevertis a seal om, 
and es cultivation as much as many 0 
an 
the trial o chang 
sete to Sabena freely, the ag begins eve! 
to a proper height, and owent ; 
— the ant rises from -introdu 
lea This 
at the. proper time into 
