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Jan. 16.]. THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 35 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. | become gros bois, or timber. It is upon this point only h mired with impurities, but has a very sweet taste 
oe AT THE GARDEN. hat we have any remarks to make. mucilaginous quality of gum, and the stickiness 
Noric dayne rit that ps aroneine —— eae _ Te appears, from the observations of De Candolle, bgp sf ola sugar. At a temperature much below that 
the Boe: ante ee ane Epes the best we that ng = it becomes fluid, and 7 be easi 
es h ted Re- P possess, 5 y 
Sete se viz.—May 15, June 12, and July 10. The prin jg BR into cakes it is isa ipsid Tad 
es 
gulations a aa» va Hohl upon application at this Office. 
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1841, 
MEETINGS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. 
ticultural ». 2... 2 BM 
se bsasriage Aaah Re U ee PORORIN a nnn we me & BPM. 
Wednesday ..-..... logical wee eee eee 8} v. or. 
In the Court of Chancery, on 
4" 
e. 
arty the figures of the Red ‘and White Oak, 
number, 
1 which bad Deen Feld. hacia Morges i in France, sithough it 
120 7 ng wi 
gh aah ay eb: ‘4 th, and that in given in A our first was that of a fragment of this 
athiargt Seas } Oak, which th r of the Botanical er 
a) at ry ; wercus 
e inches ; so that, when twent: ee old, its wood, | mannifer A ond segs plant 
exclusive et, must ios iliac’ nearly 24 feet in cir- | sent by Dr. Dickson to a friend, and I doubt if it is really 
ference. Now as oaks, ii d from acorns,do not at ber ace oy oe oi ore Its leaves indeed are much 
most , under ordinary circumstances, a greater | /arger than they usually are in this country, and the 
eter 3 inches in the first twenty years of their marco so sir aman A eh have been of a deep 
growth, it is probable that the tree at Annecy was the | j, the Res Ok still it has  gorraetae! are y noticed 
pearance of 
produce ol of : a stool : for all ra-and fo the that I am sceptical as to its specific difference. 
t by dling t | Now that I am upon this subject it is as well to add that 
twenty years o ll Pp k (Q. Mongholica) is also to all appear- 
with that of sh from aa old stump. orm of the Red Oak, with leaves however 
The same author found that an Elm Tree, 33 old, ch tapering to ~ base, and dilated towards the upper 
at p has the pera" ees footstalks and 
shoots of the Red oak.— J 
inches ad- 
on the 16th of last De- 
cember, the Lord Chancellor delivered a judgment 
— mportance me ca owners of timber or of tithes ; 3 the 
13 
ditional wood between its 30th and 60th geal Now this 
ON GARDENS —_ GARDENING. 
To the mechanic, the sedentary person, the man who is 
day t e 
£ hich 
pon coppice- -wood of more than ing years ’ growth, upon 
its lo oppineys or its, bark, The case as reported in the 
~ Lozon v. Pryse. —A bill was filed by the Rector of a 
Cera 
g compelled d most ore o breathe the con! 
uch tre ging fron old'st ri the | air of a crowded manufactory or warehouse, it is highly 
iret Seielty years, it is probable that th fere 1 eations should be of an active and 
ach an Elm, ae . ‘ stirring nature. Now to such (2 one no employment can 
| least three feet ‘by the time it attained its ath year. 
furnish exercise of the most 
a small garden. 
arish in the eine of Cardigan, to 
in favour of his wir ben he tithe of wood of above 
enty growtl 
tation. 
a lim ib from the trunk 
24h ahs 
A. shock from ston i is in fact ang 
of a 
This will 
2 RPE yeh bet cars 
ample matter to amuse a templative 
not stan 
time provide 
The 
years’ h, if 
_ pai not the — produce of the acorn, 
argued 
geod anne into a few shoots, 
the la grow faster om big > ny in mbs staf tres 
under common circum Now 
before us collected at pandas, show the following ra rte yr 
growth: The White Oak 
or nearly 9 inches in 20 years ; the he As ria? 
the Hertfordshire > Elm 63 ee 
Walnut 
or now ‘gave his a are _ His 
4 inches } 
£, 3 
- 
in 11 ; 
and the Lime Tree 4 inches in 8 years. 
been shoots from health 
the under the statute of | 
a 45th : Baer Mh, a oe Pp 
gros bois fro m payment of tithe, 
of twenty. years. Court was, 
whether ti trees of above twenty years’ growth were 
titheable, because growing from old stools. The statute 
1 
case 
a — v. Hayward (1775) was the first in opposition to a 
: struction ge Sa ogg eee ee ae | 
pact met of view under which this 
nsider What is sylva cedua, or 
Tsit it wood that has been once cut down 
ich springs up from the sto la of trees 
_ We presume it to be be 
1 w: 
ll Aat ag = ge 
—_ 
om 
wood of that vicarrntion, pis fos eestotlos sae 
tat, 
two to four or more years without pruning, —_ es 
yt, 
th when, of the ot: 
for the sake of hi: alth 3 pe o him also, a garden, 
ides being a souree of goad re ero Poors, as 9 
s life, wi Seg vide al ent 
order ind not the least id nioomy pes a 
garden i saber that it will feria employment to him in his 
leisure or when he t of 
may be out of work, and serve 
tox wank at 
y stools they would ai grown | 
? | 
potaon shee beers tno ane. pena thee leans agetio 
expense of their health, tation, 3 
But the cottager adorns the little plot of ground 
before his house, not only to his ow 
provides an invigorating employment to i t 
he assists to raise the aa a of his country in the eyes 
of , and | duces i. favourable opinion of 
his own character passers-by. ‘I we 
by the field of the ghee and het the vineyard of the 
man void of understan: ong 3 
former, and : it is the stoo 
five or five hundred gl old. Now in rest ae 
which prsivtar Pp it is the oe 
with thorns, and nett “ha pene the face thereof.”” 
And as it was int the eer of Solomon so o it is now; the 
of the character of “he ne ere IF “the garden is 
lected,-dirty, cultivated, it is rare that industry, 
will be found within. While on this 
subject, 1 cannot mp expressing my regret that public 
gardens, 1 are in themselves calculated to 
tion of the statute 
As the question 
an, abd ent wel a 
abovi 
and Spanish Chesnuts that have been planted in this 
half 
ove case; andif so, all the Oaks | 
spring up, one is selected, to form the stem. It one pt of the inhabitants of our a towns, should by i impolitie 
ors See ris have become in — abt otter and 
acorn,” but must be regarded as coppicé-wood in the sense a ee ae ‘hip PP satin Iechuitaly 
| in which that a seems to have been cine take tale thems them 30 
mechanic , and where 
stron or pure so little dange 
these e stablishments, where is end is vaapeioes pore 
cited, ot Bes € fo! 
country for timbe: 
n liable to tithes, if the decision atest the ‘Lord Chan- 
cellor had not negatived the plaintifi’s 
a 
THE ARBORETUM. 
No, I.—Taz ys Oax.—lr is now generally 
d its produ ucts 
| bark with 
the sugary i to the surface. We 
are not with the honey dew of tl 
unacquainted t y de 
country, but we know nothing of its occurrence 
the extent Saye of the Manna Oak in Armenia, - 
| Mr. Brant, H. M. Consul at Erzeroum. Hear what he 
one eons « of the 
and steep them 
from 
fittest scene 
and virtue which he was to nade 4 
exhibited, groani 
meee 
"| Spring cucumbers, Ta 
=| aan my gent 
