The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

HORTICULTURE.

ALTERNATE wet and frosty weather, like that oft
has prevailed during the last week, is one of the "fber
evils the gardener has to contend with—dry frosty w,e;, cli'
of double the intensity we usually experience in tis
mate would be much less injurious. Unless fire rot be
applied with great judgment, many good plants
spoiled. The stove, being maintained at a regular tewnerej
rature during the winter, will not be so much inane ea'
by external weather, as the conservatory
house, where artificial heat is only applied aecorcli."'
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circumstances. When fire heat islet be to
required,„,„„ ,
plied by day, taking care to let sufficient be reut—coou
keep off frost at night, and bright days pre"'
on , p
firing and open the sashes to expel damp : if tne:ettbo,
cautions are not attended to, such plants as ma the
epacrises, and other hard-wooded plants, and nian3s,' ill be
herbaceous ones, as calceolarias, cinerarias, the
destroyed by the damp. In the open ground cont'&c•
and gr....,
routine operations of pruning, digging, trenching:
TRUFFLES.—The cultivation of the trutne,
deemed an imposibility, has at length been aer,
The discovery was made at Macon, where gaurhas
proprietress of a chateau in the neighbourhoo",
number
f
autumn, succeeded in producing a large 4,°the cult
in her garden; All the conditions under wneekoasvn, ranet
vation of this product must be prosecuted are "..-ind
nothing more is required than to improve/./OT•jir
them by experiment. The Macon Horticuitto a e forij;
says :---Like other cryptogamic plants of the 011;601 c,"0,1;
truffles are parasites, requiring humus of 3 SP tit oraS
racter. For example, a sub-stratum of chesto. ;list
leaves, mixed with an argillo-calcareous soil, Is °roe°.
to the ce al of
necessary to them as a bed of horse-dung bran „lie
mushroom. We are satisfied that, if this nes!' of ""t
culture were seriously studied, the produetlo
1"'" most
truffle would be as easy and profitable as that of
rose
ordinary vegetables.—Bath Chronicle.
A NEW DOUBLE YELLOW ROSE.—Wre
bushes bearing double yellow roses, both near the
and also in the vicinity of this village (Lattlerest,,,
county of Ladak). The leaf is a briar, very
ventures of a Lady in Tartary. u. 9.1 t
is eq • 0
PROTECTING PITS, FRAMES, Nothing&O.-- tO Int6'
or so effectual and inexpensive as a protectioll
and
frames, &c., as glass crates stuffed with shaviTn.con'
placed all round these structures ; they are drYi.lidy aP'
ductors, and when packed together have a neau,,,jogs,
pearance. Trellis shutters also, stuffed with so?__ oat
when laid over the lights are very efficient in keepintuebr
frost. As mats are scarce and dear, and we are .1'
oteetiar
to have a sharp winter, the above method of p!, advo-
saw ee,
plants, &e., might become very general
„la; with frneuely di;
tage, it has three essential
bility, cheapness, and simplicity to recommend
Gardener's Chronicle. _

11.•••••111•1111.....
A ROYAL FAMILY.—There is in the County of,P4;;voil
tingham an extensive tribe of gipsies, headed bY
ch
Boswell, who is styled the Gipsy King, a distinetion.re'." of
he is said to have lineally inherited from a long line of
ancestors. Four of the tribe—viz., Elijah and th_567,,,,,,
his sons—got "into trouble" last week on account of
eZe
little matter of meum and tuum, and were brought 13!
the Retford bench of magistrates on Saturday, on a q'fivg
of felony, which ended in Elijah and two of his sons, ni,g.
sent to the treadmill for a month, and the other so vv_ire;:i
committed for trial. The Gipsy King has been 01Libr
three times, and the following -enumeration of his fan've
is supplied from his own archives :-1. Eliza, ball:Nil:el'
the ling in Mansfield forest ; 2. Henrietta, born inlw„,,,,e 'well
dale-lane, near Osberton ; 3. Alfred, born in 7,kde-
Back-lane ; 4. Walter, born on Kneesall-green ;
laißrdeeek,
;b9orn.
Winaliama lan,e between Langwith and Pleasiel,l;el,
Henry, born in a lane near West Stoekwith ; ,7*,-aiesbY
a Newarkms to
born under Firbeck-park-side ;8. Adam, born on " vies,
born in Layard's Leabop,rbnetlinveeGn
Elijah, born near Sturton High-house ; 12. Magn,
in a lane near Langford; 13. Riley, born near BoAe „
post; 14. Alice, born in a lane near Mattersey 0013's
nWa°°dnd S; lelaf(lor;o" 101"