1042 
more general, my impression is that less would be heard 
of. bad setting, shanking, ee po iba it it be 
true that di best re 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL ee 
m Park, ith the addition of 
bor m is ss Yd t 15 feet wide, 
abo ut.1 foot of brickbats 
at Wro 
tell The 
drained, mas 
Thom: 
burnt ‘oyster 
well 
atten slopes wher 
ae 
esy Inferi erior are aeni thay colder though m 
alluvial soils; surely the merest frim might conclude 
Rome 24, 1860. 
tab) 
tent 
| mites and this way a vith th Dat oo 
ercial immorality which exists in ick inds of 
“ey costae ee. rubbish. 
me 
In the mer of 1859 E kop the 
| about T Fii "3 feet above this Aas mere ene 
to run, a get the Vines well i ctablished, ast, winter 
they we back to about.7 feet, and they have this 
season produced a magnifi p of fruit, from 12 to 
15 bu s eac! eraging ., and this in addition 
ga great length of zoh, PA ther. bor ders 
forks , wet and cold 
ent. A Constant Rea. ik 
Vins nen Covers IU tit —From inquiries which I 
to think that the afer ue 
pa Fihiai, 
nes this season have as EA fine 
is fe astonished to fad eet 
heating r "Vine borders in general res po longere now 
u mayt trav el all 
d made 
oly T Wooterstone Par 
stro ngr 
. [The leaves in que 
es in length and 14. inches a 
the. thickn ess of the 
l rip pen ed. | 
tion measured 
width. The D gia RA 
5 
te: G: are 
the early forcing of the Vine are well area that in 
most cases where Grapes are require ed. before June, 
f 
| have, made, I am induced 
of linen” for the poboniey tte of fruit is not gen rally 
known in hig country, although it is cus ae ary to to be 
iti in aa erica and the Fast. ‘Linen, fro e poro 
very “ attractive of moistere™ wh 
che etree inas the air held within its meshes 
- | when in a dry state; the fruit having its moisture thus 
attracted. from it, ripens equally, an n possesses 
which I shonld 
spe 
is, w. vhat i is 
there i i ao attempt made to supply 
by m of masses of fermenting dioz and leaves 
bo the sinrfabe! Now, though I 
ttempt was nex! 
uncoy: till drenched with cold rains in autumn, and 
would not assert | w] 
al Jess in all cases, I Raet b 
think. that in many aen chen the border is left | the 
ered till 
an 
d how can a steady heat be 
during the oa cold nights of f winteri Theus 
which I would en t 
ed | might able grower: 
alie were more eaen 
manufactured of a dur: 
end their produce to market 
pithout the musty E with which it is too often 
"A lled Anchusa, from Biarritz.—I enclose 
| specimen of a plant whose proper name I am ver, sry desi 
deserv 
‘surface—this practice is next to useless, at all events 
better = in England than it is, as far 
sty chews. 
The blossom struck me at the > tisk e it was 
supplying | heat. from beneath by means of either flues 
or Lettered pipes. The first outlay of expense con- 
ed not 
nected w 
ai arg 
Very gre ab, a a 
rs will soon 
pression is that th 
ply. of h 
saved an boar andir in i tho avoidance of the nuisance of | M | 
aihorderà in the case of applying | and with what succe: 
ni 
en I saw 
a 
halora an it for. the. admission of air, or Tek it shou 
admit: a 
6. Have 
clos 
rts A at the me k of the fire than in front? 
Angio you rrespondents tried the 
oule’s Ara of a drawer fall of water under. the fire, 
ss? 
7. What fuel or 
Rey. Henry | le 
e| fuel will burn steadiest and longest | P If you u think it 
lay is not 
this subject, I thi nk 
H lilat 
&e. The soil is the detritus 
pears 
ath of the range, and 
the plant app to nae er so 
and dry abode, 
when the 
order of the “ batir house” arid tha 
pally will be as ernie as that of Bev the atmo 
eee 
[any o 
I know that. there are ma ny who 
ial t the dea of chambering and hot- water pipes, 
in other respects, it would ante prove quite ay 
ta 
obtain aed, 
f your yakai oe en oa ja Cotta Stoves, 
ald they not answer well to keep t 
of orchard ees in the pring or cool greenhouses in 
winter ?. An Inquire 
Hagg’s Kigin Tile s,—In answer to. “ Hanworth” 
3 
No oane" ye 
arrang ts has been unnecessar 
Y> 
a su int | paias of bottom-heat goa be e supplied at | 
perpa instances the amonit iiet he, 
(see p. 1034) 1 Loog, to say that I used between 5090 
s | and Hogg’s tiles here thr 
Riga Koa from Witham 
very little P expente, and I am about to h 
very simple 
The benefit derivable in me 
o or three 
not entailing any material extra sate sa, 
en of early forced 
tart, eri “the regularity with |: 
neat edging, but. will not. stand one- 
fo ur th of. them were. destr pena 
nsider 
and h tay: continue to crumble ey now 
bad bargain. John Mattison, faa 
lo, Bueks. 
—There is a slight inaccuracy in the |T 
Pine oe I exhibited to the Fruit 
ive have it in our herbarium from 
mburgh Grape. — Haying, lat pg: 
exhibited this Grape, permit me to say. 
wor Sie in its favour. 
us 
1g 
ald. haye done ; never bhelees I exhibited three 
bunches of it in August last, to the Royal. D ablin 
i ultural Society, and they por A 
Paper (p. 1 bunch 
ripen 
as. his re’ remar 
n impressio 
I could name a 
presen 
eat in 
t] e 50 
| fruit now in „igni stages of growth, ras in one house | 
e 
e yO 
in i size ae those exhibited. A parton a tha e planis only | | 
The former 
t 
oubt pede irgi through the very slender and 
o d 
vat tly ¥erbal report I gave at the, Hime bay are two 
Pin 
in aan 
ane 27 in the other, a dozen or more whic h w ill be | i 
pe by the ad of the year, man 
),.80 9 Se 
but I ha a that will 
Pay as early as Black Hambur, oe where how 
been grown under the same circumstances. Samuel 
Johnston, Gardener to Colonel Taylor, M.P., Ardgillan 
| Castle, Dublin 
in you Jast Num Bs, 
ingly interesting 3 of Ne d 
A sind may be 
1 Bones.—The account given 
of Agaricus sampes is exceed- 
ruth of th rk that an 
dropping: 
t portion a Diente ted in 
I exhibited ie fruit te show, w what t may b eose] 
t 
very litt expense an aube; in fact, as your 
Mr. a 
a Els tity 
which I mixed, and covered w 
the purpose ‘ot betas iih 
p 
flue, ide the Vin Th 
Inter hn has the roots of his Vine, iy =s nienely. Ti, ind 
d. outside border, and hence the disparity. I 
expense of heating borde 
h hibit 
siis at the Fruit Exhibit tio 
"3 
g 
four years 
Jamaica Pines T è a thre y 
at Willis’s oms; “I 
or 
I have 
ars. 
obhies.s of more 
crops and 
greater longevi y») to such an extent ai t the. meki 
April w: 
: profitable nanen 
reed Vines b 
Has 
m: 
ould 
fires, 
es. planted i in 
if a bed had been egy spa awne ‘on years ago 
on 
grow them on the lazy Brine les but nevertheless on 
adopting, for 
without | ripe fruit, for t ei three years, a 
m them for two Years, beyon nd |t 
the house and 
order saperphow te of 
C. Ogle, Gardener to the Earl of coal 
| verny, Brie ( Castle, Tunbridge Wells. 
t Gap 
ous rtin ltura periodicals, see see 
j 
es,—Mr, Crab in your Taper 
dee 
ana 
n light soil heated to 
ing with get of the Sehr it would no’ 
nable nthe sii wry t they would 
is Daing 
t be u us reasons, I. beliey e these 
make more root t and takom l but 1 _ know. Mr, "Spencer is 
a en a 
ia Fas 
See nc 
too. a man to 
eir crops with a de; a of impunity 
nót. possible ander laio circumstances 
One thing that strack me very forcibly 1 for the nE 
Men 
£ 
is | 
j | var: ieties, 0 
J 
Dus sefenee, 
in h 
nay to remark upon is the mystery t 
ay 
aa the origin 
called n ew yar arieties of pes. 
forced 
= Coe 
hat | se 
angs 
of nearly all Ba, e wa 8 
Gra: Tho: 
or cultivated t 
superior ‘to Any, ae kind. 
s around e gee y ake 
balls, bu 
fable to. discover 
eee indeed, hardly 
wah bottom heat, bets the small a 
stems of the Vin ew out inside 
atmosphere, as ripear with what I have generally 
This 
Me aiae in the case of early forced Vines. 
how “ Josling’s S vibana: Grape cam me out and. sold 
3 it is now to be nothing else than he old | he 
Chiassolas, ies ‘thong I think ki is aquito possi 
4 
= 
EN v A 
ry ats 
4 
ands 
ah a ee ees “of alt i 
while in a tender state r rid 
had but few, an ee a 
è! Marrow: 
near’ 
Ie oust amount of root action secu red b 
heated border, iA E paa the necessity for oe ay | 
farther — den draw support | 
+r 
mer source. 
| artes | 
Sag ng pla Sok ger tO 
Che the av proof Ha 
sem their scepticism 
Bowo 
red. with 
used. 
uscat that is.on the card, Foti daivise h 
have had incale 
Belgium under the name 
af | anew 
The plants. were masses of 
