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JOUBNAL OF HORTICTJLTUEE AND COTTAGE GABDEKEB. 



( Febnui; 3, 1676. 



which makes it all the more desirable. L. lanceolatum is 

 worthy of notice, and is a good plant for the shrubbery. Ly thrum 

 lineare, a white variety of much dwarfer habit and of more 

 delicate constitution than the preceding, is seldom met with, 

 but it ought to be sought after. It is a real acquisition to 

 a choice collection of border flowers. 



They are easily increased by division after growth has com- 

 menced in the spring, and are not at all particular as to soil. 

 They thrive in most ordinary soils, and when established last 

 for a long time. All the care they require when established 

 is to leave them alone. Our native species are found on the 

 strongest clay as well as the more genial loam, — Vebitab. 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



Mb. Hunter of Lambton Castle is likely to add to his 

 fame as a grower of Grapes the more rare honour of being 

 a raiser of varieties of Pine Apples. Mr. Hunter states (in 

 " The Gardener") that his first batch of seedlings numbered 

 thirty varieties, which were raised from seed accidentally dis- 

 covered in a fruit. Since then Mr. Hunter has systematically 

 and successfully fertilised the flowers of the Pine Apple and 

 has obtained seeds. He is still continuing his experiments in 

 this unusual fleld of cross-fertilisation and deserves the reward 

 of success, especially as to manipulative skill must be added 

 patience, seeing that " it takes twelve years at least to raise a 

 stock off a single seedling Pine Apple." 



The declared value of Potatoes imported into the 



United Kingdom last year was £1,071,513, against £1,035,589 

 in the previous year. 



The range of size of teees extends from the minute 



form of the Alpine Willow which we have picked on the sum- 

 mit of Skiddaw, of less than 3 inches in height, to the lofty 

 column of the mejeetio Wellingtonia, which towers in the 

 Giant Yosemite Valley to an altitude of 350 feet. A height 

 of 200 feet is attained by the Umbrella Pines of Italy. In 

 Sclavonia the Sapin (Abies pectinata) attains an ordinary 

 height of 275 feet. The Eucalyptus Amygdalina Is described 

 by Dr. Mueller as attaining on the banks of the Yarra River in 

 Victoria the height of 420 feet in many instances. The Cali- 

 fornian Big Tree is said to measure 96 feet in girth. In length 

 of life and rapidity of growth the diversity is no less marked. 

 A Pinus sylvestris from Finland 70 feet in heightj and 72 

 inches in girth, has been found to register the passage of 518 

 seasons by its concentric rings. The venerable Yews that 

 form a majestic avenue at Studley Eoyal, or the yet more 

 magnificent patriarchs of the same species that form a kind of 

 Druidic circle in the sequestered and beautiful glade near 

 Guildford, known by the name of " Fairy Land," must have 

 been in existence when the wood of the Yew decided the fate 

 of battle in Norman or even in Saxon times. The Eucalyptus 

 globulus on the contrary, rapidly attains gigantic dimensions. 

 It has the property of absorbing ten times its weight of water 

 from the soil, and of emitting antiseptic camphorous efliuvia. 

 When sown in marshy ground it will dry it up in a very short 

 time, according to the evidence collected Toy M. Gilbert men- 

 tioned in the Medical Times and Gazette. In the spring of 

 1867 about 13,000 of the Eucalyptus were planted at Pardock, 

 twenty miles from Algiers, in a plain situated on the banks 

 of the Hamyze, and noted for its extremely pestilential air. 

 In July of the same year, being the time when the fever season 

 sets in, not a single case occurred ; the trees were by that time 

 9 feet high. Notwithstanding this rapidity of growth the wood 

 is of great strength and tenacity ; and is to be obtained in any 

 lengths. 



We have the pleasure to announce that the Commis- 

 sioners of the Cologne Exhibition have awarded to T. H. P. 

 Dennis & Co., Mansion House Buildings, London, and at 

 Chelmsford, who were the only British exhibitors of horti- 

 cultural buildings, a diploma, gold medal, and 2000 marks for 

 Victoria hegia house ; also a diploma and 750 marks for heat- 

 ing apparatus for the same. 



M. Chatin has lately called attention in the French 



Academy to some curious periodic movements in the leaves 

 of the Conifer named Abies Nordmanniana, which are whitish 

 on the lower, dark green on the upper surface, and are much 

 admired. If the tree be observed early in the morning, or 

 about sunset, the ensemble of the foliage seems uniformly 

 whitish; whereas, in the course of the day, the green tint 

 seems very general. This is found to result from an altera- 

 tion in the position of the leaves, so that they present now 



their upper, now their under surface to the observer, and a 

 diurnal position can thus be distinguished from a nocturnal 

 one, M. Chatin has been studying these movements, and 

 promises some further details regarding them shortly. 



FBUIT FALLING INTO A NEIGHBOUR'S 

 GABDEN. 



Eecentlt in the Oerkenwell County Court, in the case of 

 Patrick v. Allen, the plaintiff proved.that five Pears worth 6d. 

 each fell from one of his trees into the garden of his neigh- 

 bour Allen. Allen threw them back into Patrick's garden, who 

 sued for the bruising of the Pears occasioned by the throwing. 

 The Judge said that Allen was not justified in so throwing 

 them, and assessed the damage at 0(j.,and the costs were 13s. 



On this case the following remarks have been furnished by 

 a friend : — 



Overhanging boughs and fallen fruit cause frequent disputes 

 among neighbours, particularly in small suburban gardens. 

 Let us consider what the rights of the parties are. 



If A's tree overhangs B's premises, the entire tree and its 

 produce belong to A. If therefore by natural causes the fruit, 

 or a bough, or the tree itself fall on B's land, A has the right 

 of re-capture, and he may get over the fence to recover his 

 property. 



Bat let A beware. When the law gives a man a summary 

 remedy it watches him with such jealousy that if he does the 

 slightest damage, or at all oversteps the absolute necessities 

 of the case, the law withdraws from him the protection she 

 accorded, and treats him as a trespasser from the beginning. 

 It is better therefore to decline where you can the proffered 

 favours of the law, for they are only snares. Distraining for 

 rent, which is a favour of this nature, had become a most 

 perilous proceeding until a statute of George II. restrained the 

 Judges and brought them back to common sense. 



Let A then ask B either to return his property or to show 

 him where he can most conveniently enter the premises for 

 the purpose of re-taking it. 



The words I have used above, " by natural causes," must 

 n*t be passed over as unmeaning. There is a difference 

 between the case of a fruit falling from ripeness or a bough 

 becoming detached by wind, and of a fruit falling by A's 

 shaking the tree or a bough sawn off by him. The former is 

 the act of Providence, the latter of A for which he must be 

 answerable. Browne, in his " Legal Maxims," cites a case, 

 but unfortunately without naming it, where a defendant, in 

 clipping his hedge, had let fall some of the clippings on 

 plaintiff's land. For clearing them off he was adjudged to 

 have committed a trespass. 



But has B no remedy ? Yes, he can cut off the overhanging 

 boughs, but for the reason given above let him not do so — at 

 least until he has atked A to remove them himself. On his 

 refusal let B cut them, taking care not to go a hair's breadth 

 beyond the boundary line. 



Or, as the land beneath the overhanging bough is rendered 

 unfertile, let B commence an action on this ground for trifling 

 damages. If after verdict A stUl defies him, he will, on a 

 second action, get substantial damages. 



No right of prescription can be set up by A, for boughs as 

 well as roots are not fixed, but rove, and change their position 

 and size from year to year. For this reason Gale (" On Ease- 

 ments") says, that there is no prescription as to roots, and 

 the same argument applies to boughs also. 



I have assumed throughout that A and B represent two 

 separate owners. If they are merely tenants holding under one 

 owner, the tree belongs to him and he should settle matters. 



Having thus gone through the chief points as regards the 

 legal rights of A and B, let me conclude by showing them a 

 much more excellent way^ — namely, let A be allowed annually 

 to gather his fruit, and let him leave a hamper of it at B's 

 door as a token of thankfulness and good will. — G. S. 



TUBEEOUS-EOOTED BEGONIAS.— No. 2. 



The claims of these beautiful summer-flowering plants having 

 been noticed, a few notes on their culture may appropriately 

 follow. 



PoT Cdltceb. — The tubers should be potted in February in 

 small pots, in soil consisting of two-thirds of good friable 

 loam, the remaining third being equal moieties of leaf or light 

 peat mould and silver sand. The drainage should be ample 



