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166 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. (N° 4, 
‘hus baggin ng the bunches is saved ; eaneh bags are | with slate; and I shall run a tile drain along the middle 
8 course some hours ssary to pro oldaat ne ot use, as wasps will eat through them of the border at the bottom, and then add a layer of 
change. With regard tof o fuel i hae ie found any dif- etable gts. Sear White Camelli ia japonica was | brick-rub and fill up with loam, urf, and dung; 
th ; the consumption in nary transplanted ~ _continued for several years to bear and pla at pears, apples, and plums, a keep the 
appears much the rser pm Beg rnigacch I am inclined to | white blosso roots prune od tre me forward, I shall 
i a blush, some streaked with pink, | take aw ay the old o which, from growing in clay, pro- 
drain below ea th wales the air in pea obtains = some with b exactly one half pink a and the othe: ro half | duee bad crops of ‘il. flavoured fruit. Rides com crete will 
ite. Several trees I g 'y, and keep them 
wn to bear porn blossoms each year ; but the 
the floor 
as it is difficult to get a pete — “air constant ly. 
tof P. arimnes 
Maiden _plants should always “be mevmtes8 = s they may be 
why should the variety now occur 
the blossoms having been tesa whe Pago being trans. | th 
6-48 ge omen 
com 
planted, and for several years after ? 
jd are adverte 
m than e supposed, and oo apts en = Pate some 
fixed varieties. “ “Peach tree will occasionally bear — 
arine sports 
lila 
No one has ever accounted for so a. a sisontin 
urface 3 and the slates at th 
a your correspondents can suggest pe Per or more 
ectual mode of effecting a. object, I shall be obliged. 
i. K. 
Root-pruning Pear-trees—Having had my attention 
called ws gis root-pruning of oo 
by Mr. Rivers, 
who rec ber 
ends p erformi ing tha it operation in Novem! 
Ifthe varieties are handsome, M. C. had be! 
pear- -trees were growing very pet eseen-p in the summer, 
a £ th 
them by ——— or inarching. ] 
Mus a Coecinea.—I cultivate this plant successfully i 
cock should 
have a clear stem, with but few I 
PRS a 
rT found that the trees were in nowise > injured thereby, aa 
it. os will never 
, ae A 
or 6i in. in n diameter well drained 
A Pee a hich = 
1 sey oy 
swell out well; 
a loom buds; at least, I infer this from 
of 
e trees of t! e kin 
and it 
34 teet high, cecording to the het of ¢ 
which the tree is placed ; f bu dea aoe those 
the “seantuirsse~ar water one carried off, 
wet and <— which causes the bark to crack and the | 
branches to decay. budded hi 
the tt, between 60° and 70°, until 
the plants begin to fill them = wake I water freely, but 
than th 
brane ches will radiate in every direction, and those ‘that de- 
any y 
e plants can take up from the 
I then plunge | 
which 
th 
no bloo; oom- — on ry th I observe that root- pruning o! ‘of 
pears in June is rage ere in the lst volum € of = 
ala of the Cale — rer tea tural 
p- 197. I sho 
ald observe tha he trees meted 
thos 5 luxu- 
soil. 
llow the water to pass freely sy a in 
pen ndicular 
the ends of ‘he paket tesichan, ould may be short- 
the fo ed with roots I ‘shift the plant into ‘a pot a a 
Sone without Putty.— Cc. E. . says that the mode of 
| glazing witho at putty, 1 mentioned in Pp. 121, is already in 
T-pruning, an and they 
wall the eg r season. th 
q After 
t be cut back to 9 inchesor 1 foot 
the prtorner§ of the plant. _ During the following summer, 
a pot 
at ob sa 16 inches in y be given, and two or 
pia 
rs may then be left on 
apart, and p d th ding winter to make them 
Ge cmmnmiaiee wos of shoots the next year; and 
both with plate-glass and sheet- -glass. The only cement 
used for the joints is white lead, but the i are cut to 
suckers a its plant, which will 
succeed the centre or pe plant in blooming. At pas ty bate very much the pte rsh: of 
this last shifting I pot as ploying this sort of glazing f il sq) ] 
as may be ar RB yo for succession m plants. When I per- 
ceive the plant growing vigorously i in this pot, I cover the 
OCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
On the upper side of each principal 
in the summer, shoots at about six inches 
roo and mt ee lowing ‘winter cut “every other one 
pan of water, and water it at least once or twice a day. 
Baten pti of Edinburgh.—Feb. 11.—Several donations 
€ presented, especially—1. From the late Plinian Society, 
aoe 60 volumes of Pevorks on Natural > and 
page Be seo = prea ies a cent flower ap- 
earing wood of the preceding } 
mer. In 
summer should b vee oma back oh a sox bud to the | 
Trapt branch, shortening th er shoot as befi 
hides appear in the 
bacco water, 
He sar Go til Novem- 
mags stias which Tt sa he el t — a dormant ena nee 
bape olding water d allowed to 
ply amen may 
thus Meipedeseta ae on ya "The suckers 
taken off at the last potting, after being shifted into pots 10 
rai — * turfy 
mould. They pe ‘o be dug more 
than 8 inches ae. and should be bat ittle cgopped: 
ald ao 
coping on 
that the may be carried off in spouts; ne if 
spouts are on on the south side qd i 
@ covering to protect the blossoms from the Re frost. 
plants of last year. “t may be asked, why are the —— 
or Galande, Noblesse, Late Cha 
is this : 
ed moss on the oan Prevents evaporation fron 
absorb- 
peseeen <dact common to Madeira only with 
and the Atiantic isles, and species are entirely 
pect to the island. he ribed as being of the 
- Im the interior, and on the especially, 
combinations of yoorenti objects such as in 
part of the world can be wit , and whi 
oe conception one ~~ Api shee 4 formed of the grand and 
sublime i on scenery. greatly the result of the geological 
ancell rable, 
Late Catherine, bho Bess ei ste cae and 
Barrington. ‘he t wo culti: water from the pan, and _ ie feeding the sapeih ye formations of older geological epochs; but are 
Elruge, Violette Hative, ‘Early Ne wins ora New Wis, ig reot withou' ¢ conking them in come | Gaus ¥ a of Alpi aie — = a yesaien E gacine +4 
Hunt's Early Tawny — tmaston Orange, Brugnon post I use for Musa coccinea is equal parts of black an wildest confusi ing everywhi deeply riven 
n Haythorn, Wollat m Gardens. earth, well-rotted leaves, and fresh loamy turf from a rich | T*Vi™¢s, the precipitous cliffs of which are clothed to the very 
goer —In answer to some inquiries, Mr. Halli- | pasture, chopped fine and well mixed. In watering, oa bate: of ae te te eo ee Regd | 
day says he followed d no al when he made bis vine- always use rain-water if . ‘The following are the | ai her aps the finest in the world. The island was stated 
border, but was guided by physiological i bo ocr as above described :—Cir- | to be t wholly composed of voicani i basalts 
derived fr = “ Lindley’s ee hs to crag book 2. stem in.; atthe: ausface. of the pot | 20t basaltic consiomerates and cther igneous rocks ions 
x of the new aed mentioned in p. 59 was Bhi e coe ge the fiower, rather more than Soe ar Gets aaa a Sher ane tices 
y , but was removed, and a largest leaves were 3ft. long Lin. broad, in so very small a proportion of the whole surface as to 
rie de caus where none had p Bot including “the e footstalk. ere poms no effect upon the character of the vege em 
existed. ues in the house were rebuilt in such a common vin after its ts second shifting ; had it been wn | described as being of considerable range. In some of the shel- 
es - cry gro tered places of the south coast there is quite a tropical 
position as to heat the lower stratum of air befo ture; and in these places (such as the city of 
upper ; to effect this ar ny taken down and | G. G. Watson, Norton Viearage.—[We rece! spe- | where the invalids reside uring the winter) the climate: 
new = manner that the vines ran | cimen of this lant fro Mr. Wats and bea mare a oe Sete , 
up the centre of each light instead of along the rafters Fcaltivatior =a Me ee 
The border is 32ft. long by 21 ft. broad, 9 in. being _— of Ferns excluded from Air.—I have a speci- | experienced. calpain climate is 
ance the house. ~— in forming it, the men of Hymenophyllum tunbridgense which Snel been | met with, and the range of v pe og ae 
ground was about 3} ong ieee a th Dates, Bi Limes, Custard i % : 
made all round it, _ Several males for the ssa ges of the | three yea’ jud, the Apph tae Bt eiorsy th any Buropean be it ee fools 
oes the chances of stla-nopatecan oie tee ia above. From the mountains rising close fram thang, BS 
the | drain b as fresh as when first introduced ; and riper inempateane: D observe the variety of of vegetation prongs 
close During winter the Teients on the coast 
onds have me bac shrank, | jook up from amjdst tropical vegetation and genial tempera- 
comm: 
them cing fi filled, and covered oe rubble “on a. was 
i. a. 
rubbish, which may however be dispensed with, the 
. for th 
mstance 
lowing + statement, ‘whi 
whole Anan about a foot thick, leaving 2 ft. 3 in 
soil, whi f ty 1 and the 
the rest | 
with ‘their alties the Masns Aisa ty Jady i in irdand a 
Cete 
= ae is af first as long as it is ever i 
er Wasps Nor flies are 
ett 
av sy 
is yet an ui 
apper parts of the the variegated tints and the 
fading foliage of autumn. Dr. M. mentioned the following © 
i the south. side of 
rack, which had been above two gears in a portfolio in a} “yt. Region ths —Beyond 3500 or 4000 feet above the Se3- 
dry wa m, and after it in arborea the most characteristic plant. x 
ering it close, she had the satisfaction to see it co V. Region of Laurels—From 3000 to 4000 feet. Laurus — 
again to - ds a young frond came up, clothe mdoomt nad indigenous forest trees 
which con! to flourish at the time thisi Region of European 2000 to 3000 feet. Forests of 
as wy: and my — old ones have now withered away. chestnut and other trees introduced from Here 
—C.D TL. Region of Mediterranean Flora—1000 to 2000 feet. of 
t re eee ae of S. Euro ee cet Tee weer Doe 
RES ohrpareret e climates have been introduced. The upper limit ff 
from any of your —— — nts g g | marked by the vine being searcely 2000 
plan. "The soil of = pre: i , and | above the sea. aK: sn tok 
I am not able bs devote aay thee ground to yee a new above. The fi eet is marked by 8G a Cactus, t the se Opantin Tuna Feed 
orchard ; nor am I wi willing at shane Age op nt | De Candolle, which grows on 
in order t. 1 pro-| reach than 1e00 feet. ees 
: dieneore, between each row of the | present trees to <teone pene pe roa rs tou posit 
poder our fet ide and 1 inches dep the bottom 3 on some specimens of Woods from Barbados 
the Society by = Maynard. 
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