754 THE GARDENERS CERON AND — GAZETTE, [Avavsr ar 2%, "зае 
f 1 wii нта 79 3 ts full of li . Nothing helps | error or about Poa, I believe that oi others ] 
that os vp d. worm о Pers a pleasure, we are|to en єер o ld or meld а. к in health more | ће same in the ease of Carrots. Th У 
iad i useful little book* devoted to | than washing ; and throughout the sum er season | \ for four ears past I have "red M d b p 
this i subjeot, т h гаа recently been published, | this can hardly be done vete те prolong чай үүн М. моцу, 
те t, | bloomin time every fading flower shou 
be ае ита mb under esc manag hnali V ut off. To ax Azalea flowers from emain fe үт arie si = but ii Carrot 
be 
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e cost may, at first Rope appear $ a serious | falling a sing gle drop of strong gum-water is to . LMORIN saw them chan ngin dms 
consideration, but it is so o n the of those | dropped ERR ee the flow: Nx where T сач into | yellow, and поем " uh changes must haye bee: 
who will do nothing éd з апі pokriky as | the calyx. ‘“ German Ivy," ‚ыс a hede- brought about by accidental crossing, Inseofg 
І до, by my own experience, what a display of r2folia, but by w which we susp he wild С ultivated 
flowering plants may be kept up throughout the | nioides, sometimes age d prem odorata, and lox e wild ones, an thns intermediate conditions 
ear for a sum within 127, I cannot believe that p — palmata, is meant, is strongly recom Á 
any persons who really care for flowers will on ded for the n of forming a pai screen | "* May I add t that Ihave no confidence in th 
this account be withheld from having them. in a phai сазе. So the writer gossips on, and the discovery of a Broccoli on the cliffs of Cornwall. 
Indeed, I fully believe that 2L, well laid out, | reader will read on in pleasant companio onship am perfectly acquainted with the wild Cabb 
ld suffice to prod i t, and I cannot bri 
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than 10 times larger by the ga demi Mie contracts | water cure " for eut ;Wers comes $i Tr mentin. owever we shall learn in time, {борү 
e farnish [ire of flowerieg plants for the stands | When ‘cut flowers have faded after having been S for several years in e experimenting 
f London residents. То those adio are fond of|plaoed in a реше о ог r petan а a: whole subjee 
futs: DU. itis vexatious, just when they evening in a hend-dress, they may ђе теуіүе in| Su я our learned friend's 0 
have begun to watch some plant with interest, and | the morning by cu ting half an уау Eom the | curious ЫЕ As to a Broccoli m M ) 
to observe its growth, to hear that the man has|lower end of the stem, and putting this епа | же сап easily conceiv h a stra 
been to change the plants, and to find that they |instantly into boiling мла The thiekest tex- | withouttracing his pedigree up to ilio d 
have lost it!” E flowers amend most readily. Flowers that | of Brassica oleracea, ү ay Ње 
Written as нод book obviously is for well-to-do | have lain the whole night or A a нч А S pem or may it not have been a poor runaw 
lovers of flow с stimate of from 21. to 127, | been worn for hours, have Mu ted next | Penzance, where acres of Broccoli are cultiv. 
per win e eontinuous supply of flowering | morni ing in this way bya upfall of h ot waler, the London market ? wild plants 
plan ste & serious obstacle. „to the €: arnations, Azaleas, Ros - ve onec eas may be | “broken ” in the hands of one obs түег 
е of ЖА gardening us tre ated, and ы een known to keep fresh obstinately unehanged in thos 
whom it is 4 зей. ier ards, pres as long as if they had been|very possible that that whic 
And then as to the К HR for the requi- | newly gathered. "por keeping flowers in water, | cases a matter of mere acci 
site attention ev these pet plants, we find the|firmly-powdered charcoal in which the stalks сап | now and then to some fo 
— v duit summed je with a tone of expe- | be stuck, placed аб the bottom of the vase, із а | We know for certain that Сок” 
enced assurance thus :—'' Opening a window, | wonderful preservative, rendering o water free | Plum was a seedling from a Green Ga 
giving supply jj water, a nd ti devoting | fı obnoxious impurities. What 1 has not | тапу seedlings have been оу 
an о po tting and re- potting, or to | experienced the unpleasantness | andi insinveniene — piece of good fortune. believe it 
LES niit ings and sowing seeds maid ац gen uzzle e 
I we шз ; |1п summer, when no such preservative kak en iem x — МЧ 
indeed, опе half-hour daily, well ешр! toyed, modli н „йет . ———— 
amply suffice for all such — duties." e shall shortly recuríothissubjectof window-| THE bit ve cups, said to be made of Quasi 
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lode of dn: ies Eod in order Paid Iv de beginning of last year (Gard. Chron., | seen, for the most part made o 
DALA her own in-door or window flower- Ls 9 we drew attention to some extraordinary materials, the outer portion being not 
dh is i small 
Pisos en forsolution, "This said to have been obtained by Prof. Воск- | sap, which must contain | 
BEES D the book: to be very well| tion of owed He sumus. | paratively of the bitter principle, b 
which : TU. à and often hi 
is ito ject. The|Vation Poa ‹ Jiuitans, two мен A . 
je т? — -— Ж vary T operations widely different species, x their distinctions and | p эы thereto? "xy ан rm 
Ern ps wa watering, and the various дез, x b. E me identic mi, me thing d Co = 
the ts inae the several грома of the woen n te z ese es called. perra and pratensis ; Mein Fungus, whi 
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whioh wo soot à few scraps o осаат E» er his han ES del m" way as the wild We ei e Fungi 
e beginner is strongly advised to adopt a few ios музга TUM х management of the t f i ither the sume 
good old-fashioned plaate--well-knowa т ар- elder brace rd ааа k wem чс prie 
proved shrubs and flow. па he is ЖЫТТАН Ө. pape йә allo profossor of Agriculture in |in collections of i from e warmer parts o D 
that when these are flourishing it will be time фо experimental de RAN nt of the Garden - the дит World. Itisa a pretty species of Sim — 
н ті 
enough to seek newer subjects; for “al, enis a stt Ке itd most aeute of livin with a grey stem and a flesh- coloured head im - 
ag n 
. too, sho sunk i ily 
packed in it up to their rims. This saves ыйаан reques est that he тош duni them; and in the 
уйй all its attendant ills, Cuttings may be of| spring a small par arcel was forwarded to Paris (It is the s li is 
wo kinds; woody pieces к strike root, though 8 
slowly, eyen without heat, lmost without| 9u* hands 8 we were prevented by other oceupations | intl gent Vus TY 
ыы Эш Шел from examining it). "We have now bef. 
pt : калене ARGE NE TREES. 
b dire be'treated by jteport on the subject from M. Decatsye himself. пасон 
à sh is to tolay them amongst I was very much obliged to you for не peer I v 
m lightly into guis of Glyceria (Poa) aquatica which you were B SEM E - p базу = ai 
eie d emata of damp: fna e10174 to -send over from Mr. BY д MAN. [каш Ыру and wi will bo dna 
E this authentic ТРЦ the rd as adapted £ маа seems re eric P 
“mentioned dest n the Р коба чей small 
appear. Toward |fulbgrown trees in large houses. 
зе sonnig Sem | toa extent, and 
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оиы a и Гн а аа аяк 
; in mon saucers AMEE А UB TORTE oi some P. ine, and 
: ‚ y are to be planted into silver wc particular. Each plant forms s close tuft, from | trees, from 8 to 10 уема p^ had been 
aninch deep or less, and water en nough is to which arise —— flowering branches, which s pread fom six to eight years in 13-inch pots im I 
water 
poured in to make a thin sheet of it over the ground just as they ван Lam d Tee y 
sand; the lower leaves are to be pd & dba e the have — in this instance, mo emer ùigh ъ= à i tins f n 
stalks of the little inch-long tops of the young ‘i Аа 40:60 я wer 21 E Iv these. trees, s noy I bare 
shoots stuck well down into the sand. "They are but its ptis Несеј ghiek к quovis green | sel vet wide. та E^ feet high?” I replied 
better for some sort of shade and heat, if it be PEN nd broad leaves w sheaths leave pots re enis by promptly procuring some 19 
only the warmth of a chimney-pieco ; or they may | ^^. 9 ubt as to y^ Шешу vid its Бе “Му о lie borile (adt Көй ir 
be put over a basin of hot water refilled twice i ie nta He therefore that Glyceria fluitans Men (005: ише 
glass for shade, or with a rolled up] "29 91. spectabilis re ч хора auc varii 
iü curious cireamstanee ttending the | their vel doin for the 1 jh ba 
ot trans stes related Mr. om dio rai oots was 80 solid, d at the lower part 
і т ar it rests poe = popes mistake, The two | 799 so large and so comi # 
пз he was so good as send me in neither |^ fond it im impossible to loosen 
iuit Nn to the genus Glyceria, but are in bot mpost among them, Visi 
ка Poa sudet'ea! This brings zs down the acco а to Ms. Barron's theory a 
d whole. : i - vey а to 
scaffolding with which his theory was con- | ик: то enisi ree of вар — 
otee XM h еге. 
CETT 9H, lowoyer, Mr, Воскмах has fallen into аа! "Ж WC er 
