SEPTEMBER 29, 1860.) 
old friend under a 
the pla e put 
out and some in aasian ae be a kind. which had 
been gro unde: 
THE - GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
w remaining plants were submerged 
pared, a y few 
the liaid. for about eight minutes. 
end 
This also we 
authors it should 
arae excellent goat as the t 
that 
E 
n Kent er the name a eg fighter. biceps eed for at pl of a fortnight scale was which the fre piney confounded. 
It is foliage than m Thu mb, | agai ule on every pla : present species Teast ay be ronoun ced do oubtful, 
uces numerous small trusses of flowers, and mi ht 1st of July a further mixture wi in = morira t taste indicatin 
nöt "inappropriately He called an ‘u right. -growing the follow ing ‘proportions; viz., 8 lbs. of soft | soap rnd would make it Ba ien to palate. It 
variety of mb. P of peni of it have | 4 lbs. flowers of sulphur were incorporated together ; | should however be remarke y! th: at ahate says of his 
been sent eat by t he Lon e for umb, | 16 gallons of boiling water were When the | Cla avaria flava, which he assigns to t the ochre- pt 
and I have reason to know that t Mr * * "failin in | temperatu: ad recede 112°, me ‘the | series, though it is clear otrytis 
be necessary supply of the pall ‘thing, sent out some | soap had dissolved, the plants were imme or a|to the same series, that he is not to b ted im- 
dreds of this Prizefighter. Nor did he do q d afterwards placed in a sunny cms in ne report, that at its ill 
te for SEn t superior it is certainly quite equal t ane = dry. They are now perfectly clean, and aron wh ien raw, it acqu ires a delic when 
Tom himself, while in constitution it is much'stronger, | consider ng the ordeal to “which abe h ad ‘been sub- i Yy 
and not so liable to e diseased or yellow in the jected, tolerably healthy ; '| y p ATB ip 
becom 
I ics received this variety from Mr. Fry, eni 
it m't 
Lee ny aaa the Cryst thi hat i he first season 
To those T are placed i 
end a few hundreds of blooming 
“Benth Por“ bie Toss skank This he did;a p: 
portion of them pee Prizefighter, from which no doubt 
tlio č - Palace 
7 he 
spot. -A hy seasons more like the present, and Tom 
ware cease ‘to be the universal favourite it has hitherto 
been 
some cuits: 
I ‘can vouch: for the result, and wher e'pla ants are in- 
Koto x recommend its early adoption "and erie pub- 
A edb, 
jke Edith | 
ae 
td 
LOGY, No. 
MYCO XXX. 
CDAVÄRIA meet Schum.—The speciés of ‘Cla 
fillin; ng a a bed,-perhaps it will be difficult to 
rior to Tom mor 
=, spec 
varia are ae very SREM or determin 
vague e charaet 
pide in 
uenc: ers 0 
their eapo" ‘distinction cent: 
n w 
w 
ndap pe: 
Of variegated kinds ‘Alma threatens to ‘displace 
tie of the Day, Tae: Tane, E RS OD, and Bijou 
re- pushi: ng hard at Alma. -All thes 
are exce nae 
n “Brilliant. eds | PO 
f the spor 
naturally remote ‘trom each oer, 
ores canhot ‘besa’ ae determined. 
f -ascer rtaining the > poin is ‘to 
4 
in «a “similar ‘disagreeable 
e foregoing information, ‘I trust, will be of 
followed 
con- 
hich 
Indeed, without 
es, ‘Specie ea"hith: are | 
we sa 
e best way | so 
acne h | to the 
pao TREES IN BELGIUM. 
N Avaost 25TH, 1860. 
ng the gar f Brussels and its vicinity, as well as 
other parts Sof Belgium which we have just visited, 
the ane fruit trees are everywhere beari 
abundantl, E ‘fruit is generally best i py soil which 
is rather A maser or s sb aa and in situations 
where the eae is somewhat westerly. bt the 10th 
to the 15th of May the Oberon might s „5ce masses of 
t 
n 
when 
ects an 
of _paper half of whick i is Diack and. half white, 
M ulti- 
oe 
whi ch hal had 
mp 
ey — Zo generally “ seen they 
ye be worthy ‘of yi place in the flow 
ill give up the 
en Chain will ‘really becom me 
erbens T "would recommend Lord Elgin as a 
most distinct and desirable variety. The colour is deep 
purple fest n; the truss’ large, saad i nds the wet 
tii aa well. een, Palmerston in the way of Leviathan | 3 
Thave very useful. The want of th in} 4 
bedding pi aata of all kinds this season is most ark- 
ab! not more than ` igh when it 
fike a 
o difference, and t 
be > questi on. 
may i ae fay 
may. 
The want of bott tom- heat had peón t hepret whack 
this year; we have neither had heat for "peor nor 
on to pro oduce flowers, and t the sy ae an been 
HOW TO rca i? A ea ON PINES. 
pest is one of the greates he gardener has to 
mtend with, and cti 
ieai is A commit the plants to 
he aries, ‘the t total ae of _ lence ‘being 
onsidered an I 
© 
So mS eto 
Si b 
: 
he n, ly 
mwen ster to anin ‘he weal 1 from spreading 
Various | experimenits have been E “during ~ ‘the 
nt year to eradicate the nialande, and with ‘what 
Success the pian report will testi 
Early in ibid! , before my fate plants were 
my foreman to prepare a tan 
e 
the 
‘All that A can nie fori is that another 
urable, h i 
aes or’spores 
colour on op comparison of them 
b 
tained. The 
of ‘some importance in 
at which we everywhere arriv: 
erik or less wigan collections of frui ruit trees. 
The question may probably be asked—to what causes 
do lo yous attribute the large crops borne 2 by well- I-managed 
5 
spored Agari 
í > 
CLAVARIA ABIETINA, ‘Schum 
Copied by permission from Greville’s SRSA Flora. 
ary a little 
character as those « is the present year Ae i 
a are igte a ead 
‘| less immedia tome n with this result. The co: 
f tinuous donatii in the. ira ed n deve Bre 
ur 
full-grown trees, these were consequen ically 
He atait to fruitfulness, and this i is gendtally admitted 
by practical men as one of the causes of an abundant 
er E 
When the sap was sòlidifyi ying towards the end-of last 
| Sexitember, pe on ue X Re me As ae ch, the barome- 
ter indicated a oon, rain, wind, 
heavy rain, or Toran Sreathan eiodialy i in autumn 
and winter. The fall of the bar es “sind was succeeded by 
or sno 1, pene patie the soil 
anoite 
w fe 
toa reat de th, we oe 
Paper Erisa TH shad never Kimi 
pr 
j the same a ie 
j autumn 
‘| notwithstand ing t the e frost, t, the pni? 
| was Meare! Promising, * and ord fruit buds ads were 
Another and media! 
duration o of the 
since, _ Farther, about t 
sated s from going pron or hera taa their 
ogee in thed Dis and young fruit, and es pecially the 
aires of a very destructive caterpillar, to which in 
great oa o sek aop fell a prey. 
” These , then, are in anit the different causes to 
which, taken’ in éorkibination, we owe the enormous 
sE 
The ne aa of these must likewise be, qa buted in 
some measure to the alternations mi rain 
with occasionally, though rarely, days of righi sun- 
ae 
hen 
dt 
eolation of of G Gisharst Are KEDLEN say about 6o . toa meren X to the ‘ground y whieh i is used. This being shine e. _ An obs ervant sibs faces gardener, in wal 
on of w: 
thinking fi abietina, though it varies a good deal i 
time in i your“ clans that it would prove a et dierent localities. It grows amongst loose fallen Fir | ni months’ the thermometer, rei somebinnes i ap tay the 
antidote for th | nig ht fell as s low 5S9 44°, 46", 48° Fab., ATSR. Be 
My oe AM were illusor hile tł l A Wh direct: 
of pie shone destroyed £ Eoi the effects of | of a sad size and ne dot londa i it is one of the most of re ina. eth s gA the exception of three days 
o again ‘appeared, and | beautiful of our Fungi. “A little white: cottony matter [and four nig hts, has co; yore Kariler ma 
vo in rs on ‘as before; subse- a satan hs aera r “ae: from pi oe ee I 
ow" plants were ersed for a short time in | m urm or spawn from w. arises kish trunk | felt uneasiness at times as to the perfeet 
Page’s compos chien lot ith Ww ite down -at the ba age eons ‘fruit; indced, in the case of Apples and 
Feelin hig disgtiited ge Seine well confess; | above al “branch are | not take place till the last ‘01 in 
ashamed Se mh a and ha ig bene informed that re in ane rae grate into numerous, crowded The roots having a moist to 
was bruited a the county th that the Pines at Stoke | straight bi lets wi tan alps = forked and rather | the supply of sap being consequently p. 
Edith were hey I determined to eradicate ih e pest, |acute. ‘The ‘branches, when itudinally | fruit grown and young beari 
even at the risk bad E my stock. ‘I allude to wrin ed. The colour is y and | attained a high ; 
some specimens, especially in an aiy of | present time Apples, 
bruise 
stage 
feest oe assume 
ersa! al. 
h h Cl ) great abandan 
t e same wit! herries) are in as 
. Ifno hail-st 
a| 
= Ba eat ag, ica k men me ly set es with wih evi = Ta a i; ve eiat inise ake rA tenb rp tig pE 
Besa ie mi planis neat nin | Garner, tot tine Mia mada pore eh, ci in te ah 
aa da pructioal Punazse d oe ine id not know where to | pikes snk 3 process, though’ this perhaps is not a | na sande the Peer, wh 5 y looked upon sd upon 
that e aa. nae of nae es bas ana val rte ore CI ore any öf the vert opine are | e I study its numerous varieties es tore oT am 
have the desired effect ; R fear tym a omeo pre ret sls of a tinitble to “f. From tlie evidence of Avni that it is absolutely necessary, when the 
