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OcroseR 13, 1860. ] 
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or cubic nitre, as nitrate of soda is sometimes called, 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
only will last from 20 to 30 years without needing any 
915 
iato. the mu ach more valuable salt, nitrate of pot tash. 
condition is not oN Both bunches and berries | 
are sma ph than 
hR om the > p | 
l th at they be regu gr eY and care- 
fall 
wood it has made, 
1 A: 
aaan m 
quantities o of chloride of potassium 
gen pre y 
of * {i 4 +1] } 
bt 
aloe bre not help to 
found their way i into that — For some time no 
tice was go 
however that we may be mistaken. p 
o that we 
te its crane This i is more par rti icularly true of 
to be declared contraband of war. Event mally it was| Jardin Royal de Zoologie ° Horticult Tl 
und that it was es used in Russia ras the | is near the i E haa Station, Brussels; the 
wine being of a stronger species, exhaust the > soil m 
y, and the land would ae sooner an 
— of affording rate of pot: tash, by the process aoe attraction her 
described. need scarcely 
sed circular platform of ‘hickwork s k surrounded by a 
req 
cases, materially 
alter the flavour of the Grape and the taste. of the wine, 
Vine-dresser should guard against 
it 
wode. through the eatin of our own chloride of'| rais 
potassium, was employed against our troops in the Tarat piaba ai Verben 
So gin ar supporting a canop: 
h Hops. 
gu the strong 
manures of mn pants ara chert leaves, = 
taken wher 1e8, straw, horse and cow: 
aah sae d 
At the further end of this s garden are ra 
Lists RECEIVED. — Lovis | VAN HOUTTE, e. and hotho ouse sof M. Li nden that 
mide sett f ear 
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M. Funck. The first A we 
ne honea; it contained | 
ined: well | 
by his brother-in-law, 
entered might be called the sho 
Palms, Ferns, &c., of the large class 
and tastefully arranged, also several mod as. One 
of tl plants in this is house | 
was -Cibotinm princeps, a ve beautiful and mag 
ique). 
e plei in air, contenant les Arbre t arbrisseaux de 
eine terre, les arbustes ecommerce oe Coniféres de 
lein air, les Rosiers; les articles de terre de bruyère, | 
Is qu Andromeda, on de pleine terre, Erica, 
almia, Ledum, M: as, Pivoines en arbre, Rhodo- 
endrons rustiques, A 
i , 
ciently “oe tiful and cheai the waste lime of the 
reat val ne now entleman 
giapp ra vivaces - de pleine 
urs Spécialit telles que: Collec 
eap, 
oap po (whi as is prineipally paeng of lime), 
l aie a ge 
ery 
q ti , having singular furry r 
spans irémidres), Bellis (PAquerettes), | stem, leaves, and ronds; AJo some fine R s ‘of 
hrysanthèmes, wert ner (Œille ts), Filices (Fougères | Qeraxylon A a er a very h o 
rustiques), Irisà Rhiz about 80 feet Jone 2 a | 22 feet 
4 Oat oie oD = 
af 
Phlox decussata, et Fi quelq té use No. 2.—Her saw Fteris ind Angio: 
poiriers et autres ee | u me both fine specimens Pteris sp. nova, 
haying ia padi edge hey leaf. 
ia ats bs a from San Paul’s. 
den Bremer nines Ta No. 4 the beaut T ERa rem: mark- | 
able for pom set appears nce and handsome leaves 
ee 7g aS s alse 2 ts nena ane 
cel h shows that the 
| Vine, if popes € cultivated, very 800) 
. Belperro ond, another priz: 
| wrikes as R RE on the same subject: 
com aiedip the best seaso: lies rier after pruning 
and „before the fehoing i the beneficial 
TON Co Pa: Gar —This h 
season of little else tk. inilo and ntana, a 
alit; eo: 
Sen ‘fan 
anes together 
all | cro; 
The variety c of mani 
Grapes 
n come sooner to sere and the second year, 
- | double the quantity of bunches ma; 
expected : 
will be a “eae five or six years afterwards. 
crops too 
suitable for racer Aon, me 
Pa a's 
h the generality of flower gar- er with i ao a eee Th 
deners, and really in many places there has bee phrasta imperialis, T. macrophy] Bt, ilis, 
or it. , however, at Hampton Court. plants of 3_ the last variety is very 
Here the wet weather seems to have been favourable | rare, Ane ith peculiar wooly 
' for many things. Verbena beds in ge re a 1| stem and 1 ety. also grow ng here ; ikewise Aralia 
filled and as healthy as ever we remember to have seen | Lindenia d A. reticulata, aE ugh not new, yet |as 
em, — are wry ee one mass a of flower; Pu a beautiful. Of Greqcenit b reels ae was a very fine 
ing, André, r an, 
Mr. Holford, and Madeline appear ppeomen, a 1 Sia il sily frora pine; pe 
l 
mmon salt suits Ca very 
Co 
well ‘particularly iy asc e and I suppose road kind of 
urk of Grap es comin ag from th still, or 
iety 
here, and d ly so, for they alias koe Isotvpus rosiflorus f tl 
as larias were also very good; conspic uous aa 2 we nd stem; Guarea aren a, a very iy speci- 
aeng them were Kayi, angustifolia, integrifolia nd 
urea floribunda and amplexicaulis; the latter mized Coke Commersont Musca! ate ciao 
y i looks extremely w e No. 5 were magnificent specimens of | from 
ell, and when _ In 
s 
a Verbena has a fin ne effec 
o has been tried at Berramon ngo for 
pegge covered the beds 4 was in beanti- | yery pei Palm, We also noticed about 20 oars 
y= the 
| pana the first year of its application it had no visible 
the second it 
justapsition with 
erilla d dow: 
fully ; j Tropæolum Lobbianam elegans li ewise was very 
WI 
of Pa ndanus, of which elegantissimus was the 
ee a ets of all white beds, however, House No. 6 is ly occupi 
. inthe same 5 Mil 
Gerauiums Tom Thumb seemed as good as any, ETEA ae ae “cn 
ontoglossam 
especially under the Yew Geer whi cht line the principal good 
walks. Thea re Z e eo a yc does Kan egzed Sen moagem f eS: e 
čown under ort, vell have out-doo: BaT fl at finely dotted; also 
plants oer nite ths pie ie tint it is dient to mitre pia pt 
jr Bern has done best. In e of the is devoted to panes ait officinal or 
We noticed tock of the rare 
Galactodendron yong or oe Tree, and the 
rinci: 
cmt 
at Mee 
two rainbow beds ; each of sion consist of seven poy 
2 fect in — planted thus—First, ie., next the 
Grass, To b Ge 
edicinal. 
and curious 
scarlet Sowerts 
fourth, Cal- In Aralia integri- 
every other 
have a been planted oe the 
is arranged with a view to effect, t, both near a 
The border, , half a mile in P DE which 
t of th a liins in 
New 
drils at the end of ea 
| and composite yellow ie and eee Jaini the 
of which have a contral red line. 
No. 9 was mostly occupied with Orchids; 
a new Asplenium and the great 
lage 9 
a ia ‘distance, among whi 
Musa aate 
In o. 10 was a beautiful plant resembling Ciss 
alled Mikan nia splendens, and a pretty AMtoptedtas 
Schlim 
“4h +h 
which there is kortars to "obstruct the, 
the walk. Here each bed represents — of stint 
eolours. Perilla i is placed between A b Ge era- 
ed thé 
No. 11 was a yery fine sto ck of the remark- 
bea ntifal vt teris tricolor, which we Cetak | 
“the ene beloved of 
n 
ably 
| to predict will Derome one of 
26 beds, three or four, altho! ougl n N piant y 
as the others, a Ph similar plants, v 
good Cypri get 
handsome Knmetoobsiuel h 
new Columnea erythrophæa, with handsome long |o 
oA ZA 
handsome leaves ; 
of | b 
produ 
and large berries, but no inoran “quantity of bunches; ee 
_to observe 
their aie’ yet ains to be proved, 
whether it will Faen — or sor if it will increase 
ruit, without injuring the fine 
—The co 
ache ment 
dire ection, | we cing every blade o 
certainty of aim 
“mouse that mny be foolish 
hole while the 
ken 
upon any unha appy fi 
mough to poke di ret tin out of his 
Kestrel is on the w The marvellous powers of the 
| Kestrel’s eye may me easily imagined by any one who 
| has any experience of the field- -mouse and thee xtreme 
quito ec, : on "blended and | 
al 
variegated, t 
young serials develope fronds; it has a broad. silve 
oa leaf and 
is dork, nT Per 
the eye. anot l; so bright. 
colour, which was said to be owing on, betay fis 
impatient of syringing. In In the same house was the 
lobot is, a plant 
e 
een trenched ; al the 
og three times during these 
; tom of ma Se 
bas et yam: in th ond of leaves, n | 
3 they were were swept from under th ho trees 
one as soon icsi frost eee s the p 
also put 
large ‘variegated leav es of the colour 
wi Saccolabium AES in bloom. 
efbeautiful Ang 
van ntages. In di Pi 
ne retains uch No. 12 was gka wholly to the culture of Bego- 
ai besiege ck this was abun-|nias. It ee ned several very fine plants of B. ii 
ing | Leopoldi, and p. Dac Sg e de Brabant, the last a plan 
f y. H. 
pi. ee AA 
oe 
getable Miscellaneous 
nter P in Vineyards.— d the follow- 
in it. |: 
ment therefore cannot 
Manuring 
- Vine in’ the Colon of Vietoria (N. Holland) :— 
too extensively pra of the 1 eir country will not require manuring for 
As regards the great ines we regret to say that its | many years, for those which are grown for wine-making 
rib. being of 7 a ish red, as also the 
oe ik the waa aye wo ere ont. ‘The 
striking to | its - je locality were poi . ‘The nu 
finding t 
d pei ap little pesee a 
Kestral 
| the "te 
ctochilus (Macodes) ‘ich, iid bit. 
—We fin 
by Mr. Pettavel upon the aaa m 
| Kes! 
Its ruddy coat blends: so 
blades bend .20 
sta oft: far, that an 
among the Grass straws. 
well with the mould, and ihe Grass 
ht the pressure 
is_hardly 
without 
t the 
guiltless of chicken-stealing, or ev 
nges i 
—_ of rem 
Pence 
pAs a 
Kestrel had reared her youn oung 
| hares have sometimes fallen victims to the hunger of 
e to carr, 
ing their earli 
ow Reptiles 3 of different kinds, such as frogs, 
| on a 
