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the result? If the practice is ‘is followed as given i in my 
y | case, he should add a few words on the ature ‘of the 
, and what was the “usual way ” 
THE GARDEN ‘ERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL 
"June 16, 1860. 
GAZETTE. 
stone, ga gave av y, ‘appropriate address, and the | bishop 
RE AR EIRE aei September (p. 774), I fi 
that not o pi fter a few lit. Was 
fact af it newly painted ; „was it stuffed half fall of 
the sora sig n of us herb; it 
some poisono 1se, OF 
5 a 
This bat place for a gentleman without some 
n | profession for which er is a decided want; common 
aboure 
long one. 
eing the effects of the | a thorou ghly clean l tion ? labour nd artisans a he peo ey. 
winter on recently Seud shrnbs, ba ama wer Roses in Ireland. a he south of oe must be a | and who find themselves decidedly better off than S 
I have stated i oses, as ni following ule their native homes. 001 ket garde’ with 
e removed a great number last year, an nd in ne — recently received from a ip will “ Cork, | capital would soon realise a fortune, as would also a 
every month in the year. Of those planted in June, Ma, ay 30. We ha ve a fiov show Nets es and | dair ry far rm and keeper o fowls, Aihame tp Pdetniliy no 
J aly: and aket particularly the two latter mon it E Tea R in tł t Potatoes, O. rots, an 
nothing can look better, whilst of those d s you ae desire to see; also plenty of Turni S3 ; twice b the reatest ood. p a 
that time, every plant more or less gives unmistakable |} Noisettes Ea dozens of Cloth of Go 1.” T dia 4 ‘i F jortane Loban 
poraa of too late removal. The i al of a few plants | Roses in England in the open air are things to dre ou an idea ttle oi ae <r 
any time betwixt now and the about, pare not to be seen to any extent this summer. 
vik, 
Wizard of the North Strauberry.—Observing in your Paper of 
ed a 
To give y of our li 
we aa ve two or three friends, I 
sample our fare of eb —ls iled fsb, with 
toes; 2d 
W ~~ 
bo: 
ed bu atte T and P |, roast sirloin of aer, 
3; 8d, a 
he 9th inst. that the British Pomological Soci iety has offer: 
Di iseased Peach Trees.—Are the ravages of the frost € 
in October nae generally felt pagers: hout the country, R 
dis: 
g| with sweet 
afterwards a Ja 
my bag lesser vi my port an 
a puddi ing 
chee accaroni ; 
oak at pid ont Dates, Raisins Nuts, 
and sherry i in the way of 
or in attributing t hat pia se a disease | no g At the sa e I deem it due t 
-which has see He my Baii rava | self and to the interest of Stra raw eet growers to call} 
ha: Uinakior that not a single plant of my see 
ated per 
pepas wie tos a d- 
n of other unfavourable circum- | jin England until the LEN oL Septon bes 
ecord oi to a gentlem 
such a state of barbarism as ] an 
stances, 08 n from the fol valine 
: ces e followin, nd dozen hem | pated sitors also wi 
a ons which the trees are place ed: Nearly | count ty, and gore e a ie had b ‘been sent to | and neatly dressed as Tita been din: gi ra yn 
all of them are maiden: plants?! which: have England on the Ist of November last. I have, however, ie " y ng ‘gee vite soma 
ramaan inthe pa large quan me of Paaa to various pats o of En re a in London. e have bee ing much lately from 
= in their present situation. t bulk ot which was sent between the 19th of April per weak eyes. I have had bad aids sore Peh and bad 
ey grew over l antly last summer, but the | the 21st o , the cove ty of the weather and the condition ie ever since I have an he Eas been 
we had ea of being fairly ripened of the plants preventing me from executing orders sooner. I £ $ to 
sid certainly noth otha D f th 1 ti feel confident that these plants will well next y tain bad of an evening as no SAN xcept as 
aata y g e_ loo i e plants | the high character which my seedling has established for itself throu ugh a fog. The tips of my a k terribly 
indicate’ re their Psi into anything | here, and it is almost unnecessary to remark that it-is only | y ith the hard water, but all pate, PETE are 
wrong. tides) arly all of ay pba, well, we ain ell tig E Din ants of any MER sS Tg? ro- Á re oap I brought out iniiao 
%3 » uce erfection as may fairly exhibit its true 
but ery 1 few ‘set “hea althily, which I attributed at | Suse ahaa Taking StS aada rA lsira f the period at able. ye don’t think these is any aoe ai ap in the 
| whi ich sosen was first sent into England, the un- | colony. 
En and 
following, experience: 
prevalence of ey ria easterly winds, together with | usuall 
Strawberry growers will not page ng that plants so haters ae 
pro 
‘hoa: r frosts igen BS the a per iod. Shortly after 
e fruit anything like a fair sample of what the 
WoT is Minak pre dae ng. Taod Saden the Ai E sit gé 
abs matey nporible. es isn beg to observe tnak altho neo ibe 
Many of the Haan were twice and some even thrice the | 21st of ut the ordi 
a e 
LS: June 9.—As this is the season generally 
a nė tourists for visiting the continent, I would 
commence g 
publie si pE in 1 this city. Having an cretion 
to M. Linden, I availed myself of it to visit his collec- 
tion of tropical plants, and felt much gratified to have 
an Hehe iar of making the *nequaintance of this 
se of tei Banat = z of the Peach. B sides being a E EA ak- datenoas LOE ctha’! ream JOASA 
thick and | must not be overlooked. The plant of Wizard to which 
ale ri wa in pre usually quite entire, but | a certificate of merit was awarded by the Pai ned Horticul- 
penned deeply serrated, and even "in ate, in oe Bt a from which pie the Boys at pa 
a which in health h have ntire leav Insects | the Nth of. July 1857 + E k ae ear Sea 
rA appear Hig after the ine T so debilitated 4 hee further to refer to my Parganas heal im your Pa R 
P: p 
a maT easy prey t thei attacks. In a| of last October, wherein I stated a fact which had then for 
= ‘tin rown sp titak the So a become e Leh e me, bh Sia Sea bakty 
as them being sold in England under the n: aye hg 
t chaise on both ung wood, | of the North,” o raiser’s nae i iven, w 
Eem which a mm e ooze t ates has drawn the attention of Strawberry growers, pr 
These gu y be nouncing it a worthless ty. Ni Eronen, Pr 
of the Spy t nd b numerous in all merits or demerits of this ‘‘ Wizard” of “unknown origin |? 
pai most severely d trees; on old wood y be, L know nothing of it. For the guidance of th 
they were mostly coma’ to join hile on new panic I ertised, the names of the, nmeerymen Who: wero 
age a few aking the above statements into consideration, I submit. tha 
“Shoots began dying On cutting off | the prize offered by the British Pomol is 
some on the branches the T gi pie were found to | ture, and if any award is made I would weutet haar tho om: 
be quite dead and black, as in ba en x able to lose | petitors for Robertson’s Wizard of the Nor ould be 
b: mmine.” Thou hs y tree on the wall i required to poda certificates showing Ea ‘they obtained | 
Bs: m5 1S | their plants, and from whom they obtained oes Sed I| 
more or less affected with this RER thre ee parte have | deem necessary i t no sppriqus y be 
zard. I have s ate Toots rif my 
a Horticuit ural Society’s Gardens, 
met dou ara be fairly and openly 
Aaa So con do I feel 
stain its ERRATE me only as a Jost valu- 
a an ci ind for 
died outright, which is rem oc ge erap a gtr passed 
pines 
uite ores and ce ill su: 
oots laid aie eaters tor general cules. bùt 
late forcing, that in o r fa ally and 
yten I beg to Aao that a will aie ine following 
o-be competed for at the meetings of the London Horti- 
—In P pn Apt pr the best pares 
Best three S planta 
in pots or baskets—lst, 2/.; 2d, 1l. 
iel Ro stint a, Linside fe sery, Paisley. 
eign i Gare esponden 
that the | €xpens 
the pepes 
a senna it ts well a onl oe 
as a has, fo = I 
any 
years of his life, to say nothing of his peta, in gered 
ible w of Nature. The 
araea ai ‘to ttenti tho 
which 
of which he is “directeur,” and which are in connec- 
tion with “the Royal Zoological and Horticultural 
Soeiety,” supported by the public, the mae of than, 
toor ahd wo sk my friends t mpany m 
yM alae his own Pal atin = 
entirely Foes with eae oe kept up at his own 
o enter more sage ae details, I 
shall ais by poticing hisy Fen rns, of which a more ex- 
tensive collection could cely ve a nd, I might 
almost say, in ae His "Tree Ferns are truly noble, 
and when we consider that Mr. Linden 
4 | present a aa bigs of ‘this cae class ue 
s known ist in the ents age a few years 
i e pa not spared 
Then 
M. 
nden has Sa supply, is that Te one 
“ Pteris trieolor;” nos introduced by him, and which 
unless an scare ely be realised ; the. deli 
1} 
‘base of ee wall with  Cauliflow ‘occoli,| LIFE IN Sug RITISH CoLOMBIA.—The Sieh 
, &e., all of which, of course, re frequent | from a lady newly arrived in this distant land will be 
and heavy applications of manure. a i 
l southe = one, | ewe, a ya itself is brick. T have 
hat I, as wel ll as 
„ Victoria, Good Friday, April 20, 1860. ied 
a four-wheeled cart ag 3 
the | one e horse, and much we all enjoyed it; the priate 
tk ly, the road through the Indian encampm ment 
ht fn) 
was m 
TER similarly situated, S 
a master hand. M. Linden has within the last yd 
weeks sent out some dozen plants of this Fern, and has 
+ | another stock nearly ready for ge iecnpt-ngs Orna- 
ch: than any oth 
I am of opinion that the 
epth of pe at but se ‘scene. agani us most povel and. genei 
with, £0 9 _ their ir under ips, and “many | 
cers with large ings, o their fingers and ankles. 
awbherry,—1 see that Mr. Yates s They a re very smart in Fp) way, and lavish a large 
ount of pearl buttons me DA on the ne of 
healthy Pi 
sc Bpo 
e Str ask 
miether this Strawberry will be exhibited from the 
ter 
2 
who Sager te $ 
of this cit; y without ever oe seen, or 
perhaps without owing that such a treat is within 
their blankets. Our drive ugh the wa: 
nteresting ; once or twi } 
J n get fruit of a fair average | fallen ray en the road, 
ie i “sol does not produce Straw- whi ile the KEHA cart ¥ 
air. It is my in ntention to show it at the meet- 
£4} s4 1 yli 
had 
‘and were o piged to ee 
were led over. Although the 
alit; 
berries sa erally e-dry enough for. dust to be flying, 
Wi th reference to its withdrawal I was advised | yet every now A ‘the e e to places about 
(after my vidth of a room ninio whic horse k up to hi 
-stock ke another year, as it h nly been. ex xhibited | knees in thiek ; but mene: custom: it, 
once, and ag ae is very limited. Willis Reeve, Roch- | and “pr pe us s bravely t throu; We first called at the 
ford, house of a settler, a ptt s ours, who gave us 
is | Spiders i in Sone saya “O. L., Worthing,” | some bal sed bu uns. „On o way hom ya: in the 
would like- a half 
2 to 
wg money-spinners, I will oe send from where we had apar the day, so we — saga 
asI bai, a colony o he ospitable friends pen plan the |s 
C may. corres e if he Last w wee ad the eventful ceremony of 
~ London whieh they n may aes sent for. himi in 3 pei | laying the fost ene of the bishop’s new church, 
d, Stoke Newington. herin; g W 
” J _ Suddenly.— Before ger Constant | Fier at 
ened to a consideration of his curious | themselv 
s| HORTICULTURAL 
this meeting two s 
Societies. 
age 
Fruit Committee, June 12. 
eedlivg Strawberries were «hibited, 
one by Mr. Small, of Colnbrook, and the other by Mr. 
ett of een ear - first 
‘ood sha near Alton. The fi 
med P rthur; it was of fair average size, 
had the bright re re. clon oi C. Napier, and as regards 
ae vour was co ; the second .was 
much injur: be that no correct opinion 
of ite merits oe be formed. Adish of Lemons was 
e|also shown at this meeting Mr. Lockyer, | 
| Plymouth, 
Floral Committee : June 14.—On this occasion 
_Mr. 
Standish, of Bagshot, showed two beautiful Iie Fas 
j 
