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266 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Maron 24, 1860, 
surrounded on all sides with houses five stories high;!in the sa e park, which K a, round the base | resembling it before, and should like to hear go: 
notwithstanding I have at last succeeded and found a |26 fe et; 3 feet from it, 13 lanation of it from those who “read the hea) es a 
means by which h I can afford our drawing-room and Pr otection of Wall Bruit ~The following are par- | Byrkhyrst. vena; 
ats i aches and other wal Dendrobium Falconeri.—Can any o of y 
7 frait which I have adopted wih “complete success for dents favour me with any. information, n respecting eie 
y stock | four successive seasons. The plan is simply this, culture of this Dendrobe? I have 
son the g to e trees being ned and nailed i in, which I gener: erally | plant o of it for PIR or three Fears, but ie 
at the time > appo inted by me. Of course I cannot expect | do in the first w ek oË March, I y rar hat kind of & a place in the Orch’ 
my little greenhouse to supply me with cut flowers, and | pent-house t the e immediately over the trees.. “The should it occupy $ ?—exposed or shaded? 
here again i must t acknowle pe A generosity of horti- | ela i 
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t h and illiberal of als). My conservatory | of wood which is nailed to it v ander a fixed coping of | of. spot appearing on some of the leaves of m my Ore 
is only 9 9 feet in length and. D 5 feet wide, and is s | slate, while in front they are fastened to a wooden rail | I never had. it before, ae hey receive precisely i 
inexpensive principle. t is | which runs — parallel with the wall, and rests on | same kind of treatment they have always 3 had, 
heated by an old-fashioned stove and brick flue (I found | iron brackets at intervals of 6 feet. I place this glass | Amateur, Manchester. 
wapout anaes are Aa i: gu do a and as my Peach trees, as I have stated, enyi ip Bitter Cucumbers. —At one time I had occasion in 
ied my ambitio is to have a Waro, and remove it waly ‘the first week in th 
Dply of i I have, during ae peculiarly two plants of a different variety under each li light, 
“The edia te thee cutting jek my hrs anomie | rae seasons, ‘sav ed each es a very large crop of | were grown in the same kind of soil and subject 
in the early part of January, I set to work to for I fr uit, the only, ‘inl being that of limiting the | the same sort of treatment. They pushed rapi 
had given my old plants a goo od pr ice in nay. I firr nly believe thak eye y blos- in the following March I commenced cutting frui 
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November put ont in ak in an empty cfm oskate of the sin for by this means iy s so | Snow’s Horticultural Prize, which was prolific. This 
garden, some dozen and a half of Van Phol. ce? other thoroughly a that the rein caping as the ey Cucum ber exhibits all the outward qualities that con. 
fanc dw zarf Tulips, together w ith some Hyacit aths. S. | do the ciou caa kor neratin ng variety, but strange to say, concern. 
€: Six wi eeks I took t niformly | ing every fruit of it that was consumed at my employer's 
small fra nee from thence I P hasni healtter stále. T lave Jane Tad SN ‘glass a for the at aa complaint was that they had a bitter taste, 
and fonr to the Beet o, and in this | fifth time over ag bea s, whic ch I am vain enou: ma Im ned the fact to a nurseryman o whom I pro- 
up a succession. have at present what I| think, covere are with blo ain m, would arrest“ a ‘the seeds, and he said th n 
a very respectable display of plants in blossom, | the attention of a aa be ay while pr healthy datz that where two fruit are permitted to grow ata joi 
g of the above-named bulbous roots, and some | notwithstanding the severity of the season, is such the flavour of oe will invariably be bitter. - My 
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i “Im may add that woelaeee. the pla y of this statement. J. F. M‘Elro Y» Stamford 
n th outside our Tae ng-room ; ‘two oad as it has by so me o of myn eghbour i i hasi a Hill. 
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which, with two atal baskets ee prey fv inced, find it well worth their anin as by thesmall| Royat Boranto: March 21.—Anexhibition of: 
ts of the Ivy-leaf Geranium, give the green put ay required (for ~ SA ould be amply repaid flowering plants took AA here on W piheno a 
puse qu ite a gay appearance. Although I attribute in two or three years), vas olute certainty o of a and notwithstanding the backwardness of the 
uch o ad also ly of tl d be insured. I the weather it was as tolara 
tL have found. it solely necessary to pay the repea t I can confident tly ws ite the has, and its S supported. Messrs. Cutbush a large quanti- 
most marked attention tothe regulation of the atmo- setoity and economy will also, I hope, secure the ma of Fae nths, to which was justly awarded a 
sphere | in the house that when we deter- | adoption of it generally. 4 Cornubian Horticulturist. | fips t pri The best of the kinds produced. in üy 
ne not to pote the can ae: daily requirements| Training Vines to upright Rods.—I have read with geeti will be found fully noticed in our last week’ 
f our plants, the ey will not reward us as we desire, | much interest what Mr, Rivers says about growing | Number. her exhibitions of Hyacinths came spi 
om Even under glass that i nveterate e enemy anoke: does | Vines trained to upright rods. I see various advan- i i 
to mar the healthful aspeet of our plants; any | tages in the plan, and perhaps the greatest is the | Hamm rsmith, essrs. Jackson, of ton. 
‘who has Gg na liti tina tp the study of hort leaving hee roof of the house clear, so as to allow of Adag thon: we noticed well-bloomed .plants of. à į 
EPa la t e that seamed, by Natu other thing s being grown with the Vines, which | Pp ilac, a fine kind, Laurens Koster, 
ise the Meeli E ES ofi A should t well with the Vines trained overhead. Oronates, white Alida Jacoba, yellow, Madame Hod- 
from dust or other matter i ieinnopa to a sepeatory | But whet i want Mr. Rivers to te ell me is, whether as | son, pink, striped with white, and Anna Paulowna, 
omah wt secure ies deaig eratum as on the old | white. geet na rs. Dobso on sent a 
to. use the freely ue a day, and I | system; “of course taking it: for, granted rie the border, | collection of- handsomely yi well-bloomed Be 
‘doing so. eres ts maintain their er the management, an tooo f the Vines are the same | They con sted of Brilliant, a good. ‘a 
fal aspect, I must, an warn those who hav in both eases. W. C. : self, x Kokusai Etty, Master B Watson,” 
ischief| | Barbarossa Gra ape— mT e seen this G f d Capt. Sehreiber; the last a good blue, . 
hong Sa would qd}? od g ardeners, and i every instan arious seed ing Cinerarias were exhibited, amo 
am to uyi its Ae 4 ea week, selecting a the at fault have ‘been By nee n their own. roots, which the best. were Flower of Spring (T a 
bright sunny da r, Cait the bla ation of their. favourite would Vavies ail who find a difficulty i in fruiting it le white ki ha 
nts, pon thos o have the advantage of a| satisfactorily to work it on another variety. Mine are centre; Royal Charlie (ditto); Lurline, Mabel, = 
southern a spect, I aoa stool y Wage the usefulness of | upon, the Black Sos mburgh, I ge bad Berbaroeny: bss Miss Eyles (ditto); marginata (Wiggins); 
the syringe. T really believe te He ack Grape for ‘Y | Tyrian Prince and Géant des Batailles (Smith). These 
the health of plants grown in By: midst of dust, smo oke, | and Febr ; the flavour is not frst. nk and iboi were all handsome kinds, anpati ae on 
and all the other disadvantages agua which they s thick, bi at the bunch is rts at present in cultures with a fine 
baye to struggle- in town gardens. E. A. M., Dublin, larger than those of either. the B Tack Prince or Wes olleet età on of Cam oe Ose clam © other 
Effects oe the High Winds o of the 27th and 23t th | St. Pet thereby m: making, as far as display is = Mes . Œ Hend po peter of the pretty 
vebrua g cerned, a much more pear ele, th f the yellow: “eyed pale 1 Pe B mula Fortuni, a 
tive effects o of the high winds we have experien ir ei two Haga just named. W, O. ind in the way of Senne likewise doable Chinese 
this land of trees—the far-famed Dukeries, and on e Suckers.—One of i correspondents bas =n Sil Which w shed by Mr. j 
part of the celebrated forest of Sherwood, North Not. whether allowing three or four large $ suckers tor remain | Fro m Mr ow. came se a an e i 
inghamshire. On the estates of the Duke of Newcastle, a Pine i 
Clumber, and Worksop, Manor, no fewer than 10,000 an: eX “hindnce to the proper development of the fruit. | | 
_ trees were blown n. by the awful storm which| My own experience is, that they are not; I believe grown gree alone use plants (not for competition) ca 
occurred on the dates gt, Be ed, By many it may be | them k: a au advantage. About the first week of . Henderson, Pi } Mr. 
greater part of these trees ae mere | March toar I fad two dozen om showing fruit; | Lawrence, gr, to the Bishop of Winchester. at E: 
poles; but the faet {s quite the contrary, as four out of | they were strong pla nts, from 17 to 18. months old; oj lensa, species wi e 
every five v be fairly counted as trees, Havas of | they wi a out in a ia earth pa hot f , spottec a ched in the centre 
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400 feet of timber | At the time of ji it I reduce the seeker ms pa sh m on it, Bier md Cypripedium villosus, So mn 
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eubie feet of | other dozen I left all the ere rs eties b ruit = ap] 
the ound, which, bs produced ae Ege fruit, each from | 
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heinde i; to say, many cones Allow me of men- Burgt of them weighing more than 44 1bs. I am of 
ion that these calculations werk: Healy e, but | opinion that it matters not how many ang rsare left o1 
matters of fact; the contents havin: Rach Pet = a a fruiting p iste Provided E pia es have sufficient 
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