The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

HORTICULTURE.

Tbe t
STOVE, CONSERVATORY, AND GREENHOUSE.--
sent season is one of considerable activity in the P'',-,g
houses. Those flowering shrubs intended for sPti'i-0,
decoration of the conservatory, such as lilacs, roses, de„the
weigelas,,forsythias, &c., require looking over. ,-evAr.sa
the pots and soil are perfectly free from moss, and in a pt,
sweet state ; they should be placed in a dry pit with frosl
ing apparatus, so that the plants may be forward, earl!
time to time as required. The great value 01 005
flowering deciduous shrubs for this purpose isi,„bst
beginning to be appreciated. Very many, which raal"anci
a poor show in the shrubbery, acquire a brillian
delicacy in the conservatory which would hardlY,l„ i 8 a
posed possible. Thus clethra alnifolia in the garlr, its
plant of little beauty, \but, forced and well cared
_Air be
upright racemes of delicate white flowers can
surpassed ; they have a pearly lustre truly beautifw. land
American azaleas, too, are charming objects, if liftet„ 01.49
potted for the conservatory ; their fragrance is tor'ecjoar
a match for the much-esteemed honeysuckle. VW 0.0
that of the rose : both are increased by placing
of these plants has a remarkable effect in combination 0e•
thetnats;
ther. Gardeners should study the odoriferous Pjt iS
they are the most valuable, if well arranged' fiev;el
too common to huddle all sorts of sweet scented .s
together without discrimination. The cons n
eve cecliheate
the odours of bouquets are often too heavy for et Ole
io
persons. Look over the chysanthemums, and thin °ter
buds where too thick. Decrease the supply of !LOP
the stove and conservatory. This should be done gr'diatelli
and with judgment. Bulbs should be planted inan,,„.
if required for conservatory or greenhouse decoratrina
•
KITCHEN AND FLOWER GARDEN.—The violenleoria
storms have given abundance of work to do in c
away the wreck of trees and plants.
WHITE IVY-LEAVED PELARGONIUM.-10—
n pith!
to scramble freely over the surface of the soil,Lertic;"
invisible peg here and there, this is one of fbe_Sst
bedding plants we have. Its short petioles rn,jjoslees
mirably with the long flower stems, giving tl,tie prolf by
a charming effect. It is of good habit, and ;etpet
abundance of flowers, the latter being so n it of'eve
the stout, glossy, horse-shoe foliage, that I tnw,„ol g
possibly fail to please those who may be Lila"
it.—Gardener's Chronicle.
Ac cad of
MULBERRY DISEASE.—At a meeting of - one
dei Georgofili (of Florence), held on June thSherrY-trriertee'
the members exhibited branches of the 11-7, the e',f
the leaves of which were completely spoiled
of what is here called fersa, seccume, or 03-
t of longZif
disease is well known • it formed the subjecueny in 1174,0,
cussions in the scientific meetings held WI sore
•dered by first Cede`
before the events of 1848 • it is cons].
caused by the presence of' a parasitical flll—The daw7„t
scribed about ten years ago by Dr. Sandri• tbe.l7.;
is usually limited to a small portion of the .!.(7 be gi
of which remains untouched, and can therel re
„vbole
ear the oten
for food the silworms ; but this Y han
and to suc
face of theto leaf has been attacked, to twvee
that breeders of silkworms have been iinulilnara beea:tie
away a considerable quantity of the terP
either they had no food at all to girucesathp
rice. It is to
that was left had risen to an enorm9
of the PhilpPines
remarked that the mulberry-tre
the common one,
resisted the disease much better than
of
vine have deoi;e
the same way that the American kinds
The mulberrY c 112.1.6 of
compared to the European species.
the southern P'—iat;
has also made its appearance in he
_eenipaw,v,
em, or the I'
France ; according to Moutagne,.th fungus von
it in that country is the fisPor,
iim
Hooker's Journal of Botany.

IN TILE CITY OP LONDON, it is said that there e 5;„.,),
grain for six days' consumptionwhereas, before the aucio`o
tion of " unrestricted competition" JO
or free trade,
was never without a stock to last six months.
A NOVEL BARER'S BA:ren.—A few days since a 1531:,,,f;
at Angouleme, in demolishing an old oven, found aToot
3
:100 live snakes. He also found nearly 400 egg', AI
the size of pigeons' eggs, enclosing serpents almost re'''"'
to break the shell. active
STEAM FIRE ENGINE.—The prevalence of destr of
fires in America is diminished very much by the
use
lore"
the steam fire-engine. It is somewhat similar bouts .nO,
motive, throws upwards of a 200 feet jet, and a;.
barrels in an hour, in from one to six streams of vemutes,
The machine may be put in operation in five tid
requiring four men and four horses, and is calculated , I es.
said, to do as much as six of the ordinary build ,e1g:.,,„ ry,
At a fire in May last, in Cincinnati, of a large of
the engine discharged a cataract of 15,000 barrels of the
ill eight hours, and nothing but this could have savcrics,
entire square in which the brewery was frQuz cic§tnicw