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386: THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
om suffering ) Cashmeriana ; Juniperus me maias $ ae a Gere ther C that a large stock of of at alge seedlin 
; Thuj uja aurea, Ilex latifolia, an ercus | other Cacti and own 
through ‘drought, so that they may by Tere lose their | an and recurva Stier Sones ie ior ore Hans Teun iol thd comer eee en wigon 
he frost will materially Kek the wood t that produces |o only speak poeitiyaly, of Siy arias Don Pı garth Richard. by liy.. e A Dat” the larger numbe 
hoots for. + Having Pp cei ah anm i » and Lowii. Ilex dip na has the hay es mood in the younger and more 
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no ion. Bing fem any in eft es he ering boa: not more, and will Hha nani be papaa foon The older specimens; and especially: of foe 
hem from dyi: again in their season herr a sheet of blue flowe crenatus near 6 feet igh, were sadly cut down, stil] 
„The Fuchsia is à very apesmamodating plant, for it Garrya elliptica, both male and female, very much they are now rt gr Le ae again, An old plant of 
ab a any per: iod after a rest that | browned. Pinus tuber Guata has the leaves browned, | Tecoma jasminoides in a large pot had: all its 
t it but. th end on circum- | bi t 4 real 
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sacs bait are at your command | for „favouring an d OKE suis iA bia Apr os 
in flower. stroyed. Cupressus macrocarpa, often —_ for Lambert. aherwards I i the coach-house, and within the last fór 
I will now say som ething about pruning old plants | iana, is universally half dead; C. M‘Nabiana has the | weeks I put it in an where T Md house, and itis doing 
previustothein ath grow th, Some of the sorts partake young shoots kille Escallonia pieri ca has its a well. Ina cold pit where I had stowed 
w awn er and o y require the ends of their season, but the ood a 
Lof; others % a robust habit w t bear 
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Pinus pes wegii Took very sic I found a Hoya wark an. and a plant 
b yes; but the PaaS d in ng Pia following have been killed: —Abies jezoensis ; y h na el which had been put there P i of 
poet this ope eration mee have an eye to the} Rhododendrons Boothii, Hookeri, argenteum, and Fal- perfectly healthy and oe g, andia quantity: of pots 
shape he intends his;plant A baaga coneri; Podocarpus andina and i nUBi zona; s and Gloxinias, the greater part of whict 
One word more and Ie e my essay. I have not and furcata ; Swammerdamia, M i rbus apiculata, Ericą [e are now coming on well = Evergreens: and shrub 
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—such as the sorts best : aap ‘and the best mode. of | sano te Das proved ly: natum; barbatum, nia fruit trees are “covered with aa A piang of the 
vering. the my; to the exhibition, and | setosum, lepidotum, niveum, lancifolium, cinnaba ; 
Siker ee t Gifts oe ane * tie a * glau i 
ve I-am pajen ali for the PREE mpylocarpum, æruginosum, and Alpine 14, 000 feet, healthy Thomas Ing e, M.D., the Vii 
g during e past season had three first p es | fii cordatis. Not yet proved : virgatum, Campb elli, Ban 
aarded to. me at two of the. principal hortichtura | Hodgsoni, Aucklandii, Wallichii, Wightii, Roylei, anvas Hou ses.—Perceiving in your Paper of last 
may say the world—the | Faleoneri, and argenteum. Greenhouse : Paea week a Sketch of a : Tiffany house, and a letter from Mr, 
al Palace and he Royal Botanic flower paces so | florum,* Dalhousei,* Edgworthi,* and Maddeni:* 2 5 Į g d to: 
that at some future period I shall feel most happy in |marked * have either flowered or are covered with | ta his statement, and to say that I have erected.a 
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vi rience on the above subject. |flower-buds. ‘he flower-buds of ciliatum an h in these gardens m precisely. as 
Ro Robert re Oubridge, oe to J. Foster, Esq., ‘Stam ‘am- | have been killed this year like those of the ayes ee Dy r. S. with rough Larch poles; Dun the 
exce m specimens k near | roof has ea ‘fem ed of wood frames with rained 
Read AME ru g water. I hav gs from Rhododen n to etn g$ ring removal.and re- 
dron formosissimum cros se with. Bdgeworthi that Prelit this canvas hous ve erected.so as to 
—— spondence. show distinctly in the foliage the character of’ cover a row of standard Pear aie which the last, three 
H ects x vey —The hro now parag- S| both parents, and the same crossed with Dal- | seasons have borne no fruit owing to the. severe frosts 
_ ished by you will be of some value in determ housei. HA. R. as Hafoduno, near Llanrwst. === generally prevalent at this. season. of the i 
hardiness of the more recently introduced Coail Among plants injured most here are Abies Morinda, | house is about 12 feet wide and -150 feet long, and 
But such data as will be furnished by this season’s| Cedrus —Deodara and atlantica, Biota aurea and| high enough to cover a tree about 15 feet in height, 
reports cannot be depended upon; for the past winter orientalis, Benthamia fragifera (killed), Abies Bruno- | I have a corresponding row of fruit trees-adjoining, but 
n a most exceptional one. As an oat tae I bona a (ditto 0), Cupressus M‘Nabiana, Goveniana, Cash- uncovered, so that I shall be able to test to a i 
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some common aurels, Hollies, and. vats pics Cryptomeria japonica, very much injured; aoe with 10° of fro ig that my trees 
common Oaks have lost all their last year’s growth, and | Escallonia macrantha and pteroclada, killed; Hedera ‘soe cover were Tooking up boldly, while 
many Laurels and Hollies are literally killed; while at Regneria ae disin. „Clem atis Sieboldi, do.; and C. sed to the pra had suffered ment Isaac 
_ & distance of some 2 garas intei T upon dry heathy | azı andifl browned; | HW, No rbury Park Gardens, near Dorking, 25. 
; » Such p trained | ahdi eld nes, and Apricots, many Kill ed;| Grafting Vasc several, stocks are fg 
s seco, oe chilensis, very m much cu doi take 27 oz. mon: yell i i 
bem Pinus! riana, i Ae e aa muri. } as not to drive off the turpentine, 
and Sabiniana are all verymu ch injured, some oN the consistence of a =e add 10 ‘he o 
iperus hy oe naga a diaid: sempervirens, cut | them 
f robusta, Bupleuram rutitosum, once into a well s stopped bottle. 
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a tinus, Com e Baue On the whole the iepen ted and tied i in its place with a. strand of. matting 
on far si oes anything I can remember, | in the usual way, cover the surface of the whole: with 
pin plants en more or rel ne ured, and my this varnish eee small painter’s brush, Such 
are that as the warmth increases deaths will be more may be any weather, and is neither affected by 
us, eorge Davison, Herefr ‘ord, April 20, heat, ae or wets = believe this to be hog a 
mi, [This is a very extraordinary return for Herefordshire ; cue. years, and found it inall 
and surely is ‘susceptible of some explanation, | respects a very git i and “effective state ir 
n- rents plants entirely destroyed here are some of the the troublesome protection of clay mixtures. 
most brilliant- of the scarlet Rhododendrons, one | Lawrence, , Cirencester. 
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uddlea Lindleyana, and Ozo-| Pae ng a and Keeping Fruit. ter. from 
amnus thyrsiflorus. In the open ground these are | Mr. Tillery, accompanying some well ep Wintel 
ra, ite destroyed, but on a a wall are uninjured, Pears, Me Ai Horticultural Society. 
e | Injury without Tesbediliii of death has been sustained | bran a material for keeping ae for packing 
by E Ugn apicalata, Tapiki i 
faint fob, te sta Lepto. from: Welbeck ; and yet I, for oner ier Bees it 
very | spermum coda is dead to the ground where grown | favo i 
a the shape of bushes, but is u jured on i seth 
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eeping or isouine Pais or — 
Mr. T. says he packs i in a shallow boxes; 3 let an any one 
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harting from beneath the surface, Tasmania a odorata re nd pa 
-| Solanum crispum, and Cupressus funebris areallinjured.|or barrels in bran and ji “venture to. say they will 
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The following pet in ittle or no injury :— scarcely care to perie their disappointment. Ph soon 
5 ees, Rhododendrons, R, arboreum lancifolium (twọoļ|is a fermenting. substance, and eats if pu 
er buds on it rii dead), ca: ri- | with fruit in quanti d doubt fermentation 
m, (ower h buds, I think, uninjured), niveum and | is hastened by the moisture given off by the fruit. I 
and eatin e la EAN bloom the third week in | thi Pears were pat? Od 
mate y atum with smaller fol per, an packed in, fine sawdust, no risk wo 
pink preteen i = orn ing. Some, “pi pe erhaps it 
l nia & tree nearly 30° prac gardeners, still tick to bran, and think 
in » though noi t then apparent, and high, quite ured, 7 ; i 2 i = 
oa do mac a t know w the val ume of ‘it it. My climate | beanti rin Hc 7 E! jia ing rs Sta 
is fayourable e grow’ Rhododendrons in general, i Esca lada, nS wee having prov Aist oy purpose, 
and T a rer refore added a list, that may be i interest- | muc: A Tann peicelaee a large tree whieh | not uga as anythi obg ha ki na a 
ea of what I haye found hs ardy. Entirely uninjured : | flov ear Bel. a nd produced seed las ast yenn; ‘Colletia tissue l's aga moe Who Pesaha and Necta- 
Aye ington en Pinus : excelsa, Sabiniana, | Bictomenbie, Cer sus Joib Skimmia japonica, | rin horace uire different. treatment. J. Bisset, 
e, Padufia, inii, Fremontiana, | Olea ilicifolia, Akebj ni Gard Tores 
a, yi, species from Erz oum, Beardsleyi, M«In |wall, and is flov hie sna ] a im- Hall, Lio $i nd For ERR AETS s 
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Webbiana, and. Pindrow; Abies Pattoni, Kuhtrow en nie a J prowitig in — mellow loam, are | not recommend to ina cy ee 4 
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rly all d troy ed. Desfontainia s nosa, t lants | both: would cond i ecoun’ waste of time 
gehi, Morinda, Whi tleyi, grandis, amabilis, nobilis, rass, uninjured ; ber ed the sam ined nt | it requires ola wnt Be enthusiastic 
— Bm po, taxifolia of apo > Menziesi sii, mon- anà fate as the Fa erus sinensis, Pinus | amateur who ona summer day a ter 
ad æmp. da Douglasii insignis, eaga Bentham miana, muricata; Cupressus night might consider he could not be better. 
i Toa ar Meo se, “hos is pi Cephalo- Lambertiana, Goveniana, torulòsa, and tra 3, it may be inte ting, My process is this:— 
taxus or tuni, FitzRoy: patagonica, Saxegothæa | Picea Nordmanniana, Pinsapo, pe Webbiana; Abies | fro > per feet of 
m the carpen i neea 
ntifol so eee ition, cephalonica and’ Smithiana; Araucaria imbricata and | half’an inch broad and’ well , the paint 
laureola, Liboced i are minjured. Lep m lani horough t3 
thurifera, rum, on a d . | lengths, 
fos chiens, 
Sequoia 
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Janae, Arancarin im- 
0 prevent the 
en- ilay it down dry. I then take another, finish it, thet a 
y onia macrantha, | fruit i for travelling. long distances. From, the ex- 
nymus Piste risa A Aster argophyllus, a perience Mr, T. must have had in fruit and its packing, © 
oe ly from the | his Pki ke is worthy of attention, coming as it does 
srhenentenes: 
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“eer copperas : 
begin at the we vi one’ piece,’ iinr epa siren 
