REMEDY FOE GIRDLED FRUIT TREES. 



Such as they arc, wc have included tlu'iii in tlic specific character; and we regret 

 we have not the oii])ortunity of consultinfi; the Flore dcs Serrcs, wlierc this s])ecies 

 is cstablislied by INI. rianclion. It is, we presume, like W. rosea, a native of 

 China or Japan, but by whom introduced to Europe, we have no means of knowinp^. 



Descr. a shrub, prol)ably ('(pially hardy with Weir/ehi rosea (though our plant 

 blossomed in a cool frame in May), and with entirely the same habit : the younger 

 branches and foliage are more or less hairy. Leaves opposite, larger than those 

 of IV. rosea ; rather obovate than ovate, acuminated, serrated, tapering below into 

 a moderately long petiole. The surface is much and reticulately veined, with 

 impressed lines above, prominent on the nerves beneath. Flowers sessile, or on 

 very short, simple petioles, bearing two opposite, minute bracts, solitary in the 

 axils of the upper leaves, or in a terminal, many-flowered timhel, of beautiful rose- 

 colored powers. Calyx hairy, the tube adherent with the ovary, so slender as to 

 resemble a peduncle, angular : limb of five, erect, linear, appressed segments, 

 unequal in height. Corolla with the tube narrow, scarcely longer than the seg- 

 ments of the calyx : the limb campanulate, cut into five, nearly equal, spreading, 

 waved, and crenated, obtuse, broadly ovate lobes : the tube is, within, hairy, and 

 has a clavate, short, downy, conspicuous gland, attached to the base on one side. 

 Stamens inserted at the top of the tube, shorter than the limb : anther oblongo- 

 sagittate. Style shorter than the corolla, included. Stigma two to three-lobed, 

 lobes downy. — Curtis'' s Bot. Magazine. 



[This plant flowers more than once during the season, and is a very decided 

 acquisition, lately introduced, and now for sale in many nurseries. — Ed.] 



REMEDY FOR GIRDLED FRUIT TREES. 



BY n. B. LUM, SANDUSKY, OHIO. 



Believing that a few words on the above subject will be of interest to those 

 who may have suffered from the depredations of mice in their young orchards 

 during th6 past severe winter, I make the following communication, knowing, 

 however, that my theory of saving trees injured by mice, or from other causes, is 

 well understood, at the present time, by many experienced cultivators ; yet the 

 modus operandi, perhaps, may not be fully known by some of your readers whose 

 young trees have been completely girdled by mice. 



For the benefit of such persons, I will describe a plan adopted by me some 

 years ago, for saving a girdled tree. 



A friend, some time in April, expressed his regret at having lost the finest peach- 

 tree in his garden ; a tree of three inches in diameter, which had been girdled for 

 a space of six inches near the ground. I informed him that there was a possi- 

 bility of saving the tree ; he furnished me with a small i inch chisel, a piece of 

 coarse cloth, and a stout cord. I then proceeded to make three half-inch grooves 

 in the tree, equidistant from each other, and running from two inches above the 

 girdled part to two inches below. 



