March 13.] 
THE GARDENERS 
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Same gpg SOCIETY OF LONDON.— 
TIONS AT THE GARDEN.—All Fellows 
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amet Society’s Office, 21, Regent-st: 
Tie Gardeners “ €broniele. 
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1841. 
MEETINGS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. 
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THE inual abstraction from a garden of the 
flowers, branches, bushes, trees, mo wings of grass, and 
dead lea 
of soil ; for all these are formed by plants, in a great 
measure, the soil, independently of the 
sphere. and soil a bees ie power of renovating i 
kitche arg yy! as 
loss to t g nure; but in kept 
gardens, especially the little squares in front of ho 
in the neighbourhood of Lond uch is yearly 
wasted, and nothing is restored e soil. As this 
arises partly out of an idea that manure is required 
only by farmers and -gardeters, and partly from 
a practical diffi procuring fertilisin te. 
rials, it seems desirabl this point. 
t is tal plants are i 
and our favourite flowers, 
are oe bee changed by 
cultivation, except in the s’ flowers. 
the contrary, th a 4 as a = ti turnip, a 
even grapes atid corn themselves, are so unlike the bn 
races, that one can hardly fancy "ext to be the same, 
Now is an a ote ig 
cess; and seems unknown in natu 
first sight appear that wild plants, when ‘ealvated 
races. — T' s idea 
error Jn realy, plants 
be is more importat, me kind which is most 
al ma- 
that tri ‘0 man ate 
n gett abundance than i natural ; 
oub 
become 
oozes from bene 
? a fitting nest e their 
of 
—s warm: 
ving tissue for ean 
shes, and at 
asted tr 
h 
hausted—and 
ow in. 
gr 
But Beng should trees in Laos wear out the soil 
faster 
ur; and it 
by a stortn, themselves crumble bi gery the fruit 
stunted, the leaves smaller and 
h an 
he ; 
¥g 
vigour are exchan for | 
te per 3 increasing the prot of 
| shoots the strength of * ee nutritious ae is rendered 
To act the devia 
m 
stery ; bran pe- 
las ie sae a Pages mem a broken 
arged Dic. 
perfect. foram and to confine oe the production of one 
93 rromenn 
In all 
rift 
mm out, ex- 
that the London bit nb tee $ will 
einen. pre is the main nevi of the pa here pd 
cated. Pruning is only of much advantage w when perform med 
proportion to the leading — ao modifying ‘the 
tree, and directing its energies gradually to the top, pre- 
serving at the — — a su! ficient quantity of fo oliage. 
Where hedge-row trees and ns are 
ppg: for rae hig chen — Should com mence 
an early at of their growth, e couraging the leading 
natural forest, | Tian 
| shape of av 
oO 
é-shoots, by ripping off buds likely to 
pico Tak the ener, gradually clearing the lower part 
e-shoo 
of the stem or jeer and forming the ty 
das 
into the 
ery yet cone, _ While e trees 
sae at last b 
2 t 5 
of 
as he = coummes till samme = when about 30 years 
gth of stem 
at minnt 
all, but 
the cone or top may occupy from a thi: 
of the whole — 
portion which 
grows into pe plant, rots” and re- 
e operations 0. 
bou 
ceiving pat + 
Let it no 
formation ; mer “ life is Fe sais main tained by 
eath. 
tees give up all t 
ly provides te their renovation, without re- 
they exceed an inch in diameter. 
thus managed will Peete ~— -— ogc — wich 
any interior blemish, and be tra 
altitude, according to the soil, s — 
whi ch they _ bu t if migietad such is the re 
noah i 
‘sake 
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tion the foliage will b the roots; 
4s} t [4 fy] +t 
hat nature 
ng in 
{ at we are advo- 
nd of slovenly gardening. We 
to call attention to a class of 
considered. tness main- 
N 
a garden would cease to be a garden if 
will e 
The “only rule to attend to is to keep the top taper, 
preserving the leading shoot clear and free from —- 
are yo . Only keep 0 page that are 
ew te, ground. What 
mi if we rob 
fF 
offends our ey: 
THE M ANAGEMENT OF FOREST TREES. 
@ would insist = is, | 
plants - ol ‘wind of food because it 
é them some other to 
ial when young, the gong of the growth is 
| creased, on —o of 
left thereon 
o injure the a when 
becomes timber. By phectr rs trees being 
useful poin 
Oy atte og to these ord ees 
| the operation of pruning being —— Sen. year, — 
at the 
ie attention o 
tivation of woods, plantations, e hedge-row tim 
are Deen in ordinary ea 
of w 
ea nie annually. 
pentyl who take an interest in the ree 
grand object attained, viz., the prod tion of sow 
blemished timber. The ‘proportion which will be "found 
to 35 feet - head. 
_Itis of the utmost importance that trees should have 
es does not Seen 
whi ch are 
bulk or Weight © » yet trees 
If the circumference is one inch for every 15 inches in 
| height, so on the viene Trees should bee xamined 
every the 
2? 
uality, increased in their wasial dimensions and ey timate | 
value, and a greater Pare 
or ce. Thé value 
n be grown on a Piven 
of a tim r tree is y= Beer eee | 
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z 
nal 
h ico to kee} vegetation active and 
healthy. What is indispensable for plants seems to 
trees that fall 
upon them, ead stems of annual herbs 
borne down by the winter's snow, are 
had tien oved. a 
suburban garden—puny, wéakly, dying creatures, 
starved 1 by the neatness that surrounds them, robbed 
‘4 
assid uity of the 
by Fas prene 
hich if patpaity Fitvected | 
a Ped to Start gre titnber in 
like it, aft 
abel 
sees 
i heal 
pag eesialte ptui ing. 
ing co 
t an -gtown 
may be considered natural ptaning, to produce the 
test and clean 
Ate ought 
r to piodites id most bénétielal effects, the pro- 
of prur er should b 
ereat 
Thitnit usly prevents 
ick planting and 
me the nearest possible to the unassisted 
natural causes towards the formation of 
timber. Now, when we find this, | 
ese t be too 
n Fir plan sien iad thickly 
peed. Hee S gehen tlle, will be improved by 
ha peso all the dead wood 
and ‘the whole of the 
branches are enabled to esis: their 
live for any length of time in luxuriant beauty. * By a dif- 
est timber (when this 5-3 the objet 
appearance of so many tufted ror aes no pcnphers 
we not in artificial 
ery of nature, ahd ofslesbont to lita 
as wi 
begin n early, and not earried to 
1 ender the ground so 
vecome unhealthy. 
reserve mois ture in th 
6 arrive at great 
Bat toy this athena the prven esa 
gone se der and 
Provi se proper 
aa 2 * 
t at once », bat § ren eve the 
care must be fakes ws sélect a leader that 
is not of very mal aterial consequence w wha 
6r the operation ; and the smaller wounds eased cs 
the prudent and gradual pruning above 
pec ag er time and without any great names 
it any season of the year. 
There wat acns much to learn respecting the manage- 
fhent of woods: Experto rto crede.—Philo-Syiva, Kileyn. 
* RURAL Mig og pee v. 
_ We now comé to the consi or 
which h than once 
clearing young 
certain height 
a, only on Ye 
0 produce 
trees Foti ‘of he das ipaches up toa} 
at the site prunted, and git rds to 
of th This 
ae ee AF Stop and 
wie Cates than thie leader. When this 
of 
tised in Hd ecg laces ce real not es in @ bg 
red ever 
ae 
i Needles 
the grow 
nowy and cofiimon é ettse to cut off in 
perhaps of 14 feet 
Wes 
te Be ppeiialae o 
th of the 
large or yey t is one 
this is done the trees remain nearly | C 
often Fee te eS 
sc 
alluded a namely, carbon or ch 
Sota of of car bon, 
f old 
the ey a tree, ty. feprivng 
rh icy Of sap is secure 
y which 
ds conteted i into 
Adc Poo shoot is destroyed, 
ry imp It is the ¢ danger | 
eally pure carbon, there 
ical diffe that pe 
There are many substances in nate 
ing hardly any cl 
— charcoal. 
Tifferent appearances, but being really chemically. 
game. Thus, chalk and marble are very different-looki 
