Decemser a, ch THE GARDENERS’ 
viens Ce a AND ee 2e 
mullion 
eae a brick pillar 14 Ponce by 9 inches, whict ng Bras and "Flowers ; a Table Decoration. | | hane ce. The fru uit and leaves fell off prema ature ly ear 
runs down to the bottom of the Vine border; on the | — e 
stone cap d underneath the front lights, iron sill asl e| b ut it is still alive and will probably make ness 
etw 
| Hor aeiae Socie hra oF London next year. I pier 
: “especial ask the committees of all local tay to | 
‘cots. The fe be hel 
d| 
| struggle for life in _ spring, and then terminate its 
Ww) 
existence, Thorp Perrow. 
Mushroom Culture. —At this season vot the year, when 
there is no obatefiction for the gutters are | no a ru pla age down for the ee: to 
alllined with lead, and empty tl iron O.G. | in paka pecial prizes are offered for the 
oup “of rea ge A of fruit _ lowers for ‘the 
he dinner table. It may te observed | 
tE F TEP Y 
TT a 
e] 
on the dinner r table, and a 
gladly welcome s Mushrooms 
grown where the advantage of a cellar or out- 
of t may b 
in 3859, we ‘en reduce the temperatare within of that eon fruit or flo owers are nrg nf manded. jana) joan ie is ‘obtainable with a temperature of from 48° to 
tent out < os Lee we a petiti It is mit | 559, „I would d recommend those who posses hae at advan- 
any other vein This ai is heated by means of o decorate ith fi o ti ul Iw irn a! 
two saddle Boilers” fixed tonto, so that in cases of that it redid eit art t ange Son 
mergen rk both together, or in <q sot be aste, and we all know "that it olite ae le to | they ma 
‘accident we tar Ei g Iy Pto tu urn the taps and the r | make pe erfect ; therefore I think it would be wise on the iat a (eh from the paer bedt, if to be had, ii this i is 
Ti = the wor 1 f vital fit eset as will make a bed 16 inches 
troduced her hrow this into a heap for 
ap merit in this art. I one mal be Fe appy to m 
end; it- was intr e by 
Beside} heating the h housei in n question, the cies on are 
ed boi t ee and to offer a prize of the of Pe 
also iler, viz.:—A Muscat |a 
a ef days to heat and dis spel the greater part of tie 
moisture it BRAL then spread it out for fe 
two to en and cool down; ARET it ap 
da ays; 
house, 40 feet ‘ong. "io. feet wide, 10 feet togn] 
at the back wall, and 1 fost 
ri the Royal RURA aea u of ln provided | 
=< e Soci 
‘a Camellia house of the > 
hey adopt the 
which ž have alluded. Æ. Da 
Pea rees a 2 Having 
Weevilen- seen in your 
g gardene ers, in 
pages i in the early part of last summer ret com- | 
at thro 
generally ORE byl ve 
It will now be fit t 
the Ted n mE let the size be what it may, ead 
be, as I ha ave e said, about 16 inches deep. In pret et 
or beat it —— Pa 
rm. 
pyre and a p 
frost, I 
risen avd declined t 
A. Henderson, The Gar- 
dexs, Trentham Hall, Staffordshire. 
oe red. Here n the gardens of Sir Willi iam n Max- 
ell, Bart., a ight or nine young Peach trees, which 
in May and e lost all leaves from eal young pee: 
ee a fe Ji i thie ints of each shoot, oan gum 
nt 
on ahs eid pian? 
l ha 
spa wn, for eia h I find Cutbush’s ‘of Hight) a 
; 14 bushel will spawn a mee 
seas this, shies en into pieces the size he 
s| Apples, will, placed jus ed in the du ne and covered 
oil, w eat down, produce 
Hom 
Botanieal Name: erstand as vule for 
bea proper athe, the termination ius, 
oa be ig ot for, and n ys d 
ld 
ing o I saw that no m aie 
heath the year before. asked m my ‘pre 
1 w he got on with the Peach trees. « Oh,” if 
Mushrooms of first fav n a tem- 
perature of A bed thus treated, 12 feet 10 ong by 
50°. 
Vf feet wide, spawned with t bushel of jerai p 
each trees will never do here; that i is the 
Rts made; the di 
by piece, although planted in good fresh loam.” I made 
consonant the Pag ntation of Apples, all young maiden son 
weighing 4 o and is full Ww 
y | Young, Es , West Hill House, 
Highgate, 17. [We pes seen these Mushrooms 
and that the bark in many fread was | 
sre off vit d the shoot. For some 
time I thought that tomtits „were a ig heap 
sulphur, lime. 
s, gen. Hooker 
pe quite as har. 
It euphony, js Ae be 
and the trami itself, and can bear testimony to the ex- 
cellence of both. 
Flowers now in Bloom.—Thinking it may interest, 
vers of out-door gardens in different parts A rah 
cnious as Lobbii 
considered ‘ the o 
only safe gui 
our rsa nomenclature mn 2s how little indivi- | cow a g, with which I pai 
‘dual taste be trusted. Take 
for instance Abild- 
country to know how flowers are in bloom on, 
this day, Dec. 9, cme this nak ma ier wet season, T` 
T A of tho e I gath es-y-dderwen, _ 
it 
oses, 
$ grik oa pan Gao to see many fresh 
It tn il 
so many as amon; 
for in this way, 
dilisi the < 
ett the "lete a 
ey have ever had bined tle 
without flavour ; the Po tatoes yna 
Tho Scason AN PANEER 
been the aoe extraordinary peas 
unt 
to 
appea red; Grape Vines (in the ope TA with berries 
scarcely the. size of small shot, and m 
encounter. Frui ts 
exposu = gees Fag poet: al bloomed. 
The question which, I pery to bring un under notice is. 
destroy tl 
; how 
am I to these dev astators? Ido not think it 
some hundreds 
as t 
ere are 
here covered with Moss and rough 
hat the Kit cir of these 
and | of old A pple trees 
bark. I may add t 
s | venir d 
Dr. 
had g came A greta uae de Rosaméne, 
Safranot, Crimson Boursault (Spring Rose), com 
| China, Ile de Bourbon, Cerise 
Ai i da 
ue 
wet ee Gaillardia picta, Rud Ta 
wer Salvi n Mka pong ee fe, > news Cow: f 
Pentstemon ca es 28 50 um, a a 
hocks s (poor), se eral Cstnaticnk i 
y i me, Mig. 
af 
id bay not been confi go each and R yap —_ 
A even but have extended to S aer planted lasi 
Willi Mon et Masts Stewart, 
C ight ni oo they feed. 
r beati 
u may do it 
Neal’s Pas tils.—I have tried these an 
You 
g the branches over a white 
of 
eronica Andersoni ses 
„tall White 
dlp? Cs M blue iiini do. lilac di 
thr rts of 
£D, 
nd’ a 
satisfied with the result that I think ens atta? Goan 
I burnt three cakes in a grees- | 
notice. 
a Maly 
the time se for their expansion. is house, 40 feet long by on Ae T “The plants were | p ana Arbutus, Hellebore o) ris 
me truth in this, I VTR still e hav e ha d no infested with green- fly. ing © gini tock, Malop da, Anchusa Italica; Linum, . 
ly frost, or such a state e ind all crimson, blue, white, yellow; (E£nothera “i 
been most disastrous; a d there is seldom a Ie ste ile inven veep C is lanceolata, three sorts of Erodiums, Arabis ~ 
gloomy as to preclude the feeling of hope he Rose | s |s sens as it is- not only cheap See mgr T B. alpina, Michaelmas Daisy; Alyssum, white, variegated 
and | Dunn, 10, St. James’ Street, West er Mar d yei an ow; Aubrietia purpurea, and Marigolds. M. 
‘should a frost, now set in, plants are much better one How to Mend ‘Bark ed A. ti arry 
pa e resist it than they were a month or so ago. grafting and inarching va nog gr aphieally 
voted the embellishment of parks and garde ens is described in your former Numbers, and all of them Here Ns il te voile ont ts foes 
on ed different names. surp at the manufacturers of heating a SEG bp not 
gr iis “erp so-called euen ae that would retain | following g process I must leave yoar jae m to give it | long "ago Provided us with portable furnaces, is odd 
their beauty of foliage eve o Christmas. Without | any name they think p proier: In the very severe | aas in eT Ee Foeni, d ait bi ro ees} ang ‘ther plam, 
going ond my own niurser + we have the Naples weather of December, 1859, rabbits iuto an | we must make the frecholder a present of t the furnaces "asd 
Alder in full, deep, rich foliag tl , The rchard sod bein ageren) Peis trees; two they | boilers which m by the necessity of fixin; 
andy Pear of China has scarce l of bark, Ma part of the sap on olid foundau a da ping up house lately on the - 
ty the Nap! der. But what tI R de Eth in is peer ite hog of 10 To the it: | Seadoo arhinie of heating which should involve no o! 
the Kedbrook Elm, whose leaves from the deep green | The s of one of these two boty serious matter, future litigation ; Starla tat furnace be a „I 
of summer ages a glowing yellow orange, | as it was a valuable kind of so a it years’ growth, I| think I may say “« Eureka,” sod devi Se Stoo OF Date: 
and equally profuse as in the height of sammer. sa rd ey tech grt ent Slow Cok basik neve Be nS Mea 
an: sinc I passed by an estate wher eI had grouped as disco’ my gh a oe so pee Mar advi ent in the PPARA 
t ur and e even with h eloth, i "remained in that. ti rie until last | Chronicle, and I ordered one arin Aeria ber aei sar sE 
with the slightest possible ray of the sun tl pril. When t a to move Tout a large | "nich J keep. number of foreign birds whignd peta ao ey 
I A neighbonring Aie tree, and took the Eugenia 1 Ugni ani ae ee nearly hardy plants out of doors, and 
wat Albio soy ed the Berb tod | hask cot ee * out 2 inches wide, | E lift ed the | my observation the action ot the stove in the 
St. Peter’s Wort, and even rink s are n | bark aoe atom of oe ing: gives convinced, “me eye nis i as: 
Oc ober. Nor should the Hawthorn Age Oitted from (krifo, and Said th rk over the wound, in Shih I have placed the stove tor the coming winter 
the list of trees and shrub: foliage is as perfec ea ra roghi ioely under key whic 5 s had | is a lean-to, 24 feet by 9 feet. There is a sunk path the 
as ever, irrespective of their brilliant fruit, Such t the extremities of the w ugh back, and a border of earth alongthe front, and the stock is of 
dja? Mest Thori, tthe Art utus- =] ‘a, ct gt ingen will require only ordinary greenhouse temperature, 
2 4 oa ©. | so thai I expect of the stove is to keep out 
coccinea, and the Stranvæsia. I t The whole was | then bound ‘tightly shad with a a tec frost an March, and then keep the house at 55° to 60°. 
q ” complete, | The stove is placed i in the centre of the house, and stands 
over; the process was n p pipa fixing of any kind, on the pavement as the sunk path. 
scape gardeners, by aiea such as i ee i The tree never received the slightest heaks it ripened ich how g y ie TISA AS oon tks border 
Jandsca 
may, when the frost holds off till Christm: 
as, produce fi by learning that 20 
effects that up to the present I have now han eean kı and aes oon he PIENI x apts 
ago, Peaches were good and plentiful here. 
zontal iron 
nesry to the front Jat and then along the border to. 
e end of the house, where it terminates in a 4-inch glazed, 
