The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-09 00:00:00

HORTICULTURE.

STOVE, CONSERVATORY, &c.—Many of our choice stove,-
plants will now be benefited by liberal applications of
liquid manure, especially free-growing sorts, such as
stephanotes, allamandas, clerodendrons, and similar plants-.
The azaleas are now in full bloom, and may have a lower
temperature, which will tend to prolong their season of
beauty ; these lovely plants are worthy of every care, they
require nice management, and when they receive it, amply
repay it ; as they go out of bloom, they should be cleared
of all insect enemies, and allowed to rest in a cold house
for a short time.

FLOWER 6ARDEN.—The late frosts will have rendered.
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reddish lettuce ; prepare
ground for the celery trenches—which year after year are
required earlier—for the table. Wall-fruits still require
protection.
THE LATE FROSTS, according to the Gardeners' Chro-
nicle, have Committed terrible destruction among the fruit
crops. On the night of the 24th the thermometer fell to
18 deg., or 14 deg. below freezing, the frost being what iS
termed a black frost, of the most pervading description.
Apple, pear, plum, and cherry blossoms were everywhere
killed. There may be a few from later blossoms, and a fess
naturally late-blooming apples, but all the most valuable
are completely destroyed. The shoots of walnuts are hang-
ing wet, black, and soft, as if parboiled. There is no record.
of the thermometer having been thus low in April, near
London, in the present century at least. Accounts front
the surrounding counties are to the same effect. Near
Tunbridge Wells the most abundant young crop of apri-
cots, peaches, and pears which had been seen for several
years was entirely destroyed. In Hampshire the whole
of the blooms on the cherries, pears, plums and apples
totally perished ; also the young apricots, which were
larger than damsons, and all the greengage plums, as well
as rhubarb, and every asparagus head which was above
ground. At Sawbridgeworth all the wall fruit which was
not well covered, all the standard pear, plum, and cherry
blossoms, and the greater part of the apples, if not
utterly perished.

GIGANTIC BORING 31A.CIIINE IN GLASGOW.—On no
occasion have we been more impressed with the magnitude
of the operations carried on in the Glasgow ship-building
yards or steam-engine factories than when looking on a,
newly-finished boring machine. This magnificent toot;
which has been made for one of Mr. Robert NapierW
engine shops, weighs no less than 30 tons, and stands 25
feet high. The height of the entablature of the frame is
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15 feet, and the width s. no less than 14 feet. The frame—
work of this grand boring machine is composed of two •
upright columns, surmounted by. an elegant entablature*
below which the wheelsa
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crossbeam of ve powergrtheatthoeizboo ring
tool are supported
strength. This tool, which can work at all speeds, fat
one revolution in 2i minutes to 16 revolutions in one
minute, is capable of boring a hole in solid iron of 10
inches, or a cylinder of seven feet diameter, and
of the
any feed, from 1-40th to *of an inch per revolution
spindle ; and it is capable of boring a hole 7 feet 8 inches
in length. We may mention in conclusion, that this tool
is to be used for boring
raodnds,faccyilinngdeinauele thatani
cross-heads, connecting
marine engines,—Glasgow Herald, Puni)s) 1*(147 r

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