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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[N° 44, 
6} inches in diameter, have produced buds during five 
rarias, and Helianthuses, and a gr seg —e of other 
| over th 
th 
, not the least of which a ” saving - 
ae a 
years. plants which remain buried for a -_ 
I have made the same experiments on some pieces of nalogous facts are remarked a pag succulent plants, 
Willow from ; to2 inches in diameter; they also pnd pn also among several genera of “Monocotsledons nae attend now to the covering of the hives, and see that 
duced new Moreover, there formed, every year, ena, Aroide ew, &e. ave had B ay. 's some rope 
these wayne — intervals, productions which then — s ich, left room | bee ata time. Keep t as dry as possible, as nothing 
down to the wood, and were soon afterwards covered with | without water or ath: pr foduced € every year new roots is more prejudicial to a sai wet, or a damp situation, 
fungi an ghee ap but notw nage this, buds | about an — of an Sl and mic pom ed | —M. £. H. 
— developed on the green parts, and t ey drie d up e 
of sips are the pre pei P th more every year; E CORRESPONDENCE. 
a any “oy here iy am epee of exotic: y lived, but did not grow. I t ¢—lIt is one misfortune attending 
ete often occu anaging cuttings, that i in- have seen mer om sheet oe the emplo yment of lively imaginations upon matters of 
panini physilogel rove yiows e place. oug sh fact, tha ata picturesque image takes stronger hold of most 
are developed we Bia a0 circumstances, on the sng pots i in ‘which the ey were porary were filled ahs roo of reasoning. Thus the per- 
branches cite f thi Ih e also seg mn shoots of Cactus Ro apr cides, | sonification of cold the figure of the well-kn 
to propagate po spec ee early a all our trees the oe is Jack — has done more to vate a 
is a great number of baits which often remain prone at at the tive principle than \ 
under the bark for = am years; they are found on the 
dullary pro olongations. 
I hay 
‘After a a hers nak 
nd 
served ioe a long time,if ever F 
well in the roots cad branches as in sip _ ves; spe as 
‘ion as an upper gongs ether of branch or stem, 1s ng 
off, they are not lon, howing them soleil bene 
the cut. e 
ccurs with stipular bud S, 
igs. Me hay 
fr — 
pesomadh ore a — short time, as may be remar rked with 
en 
1 
omce ed | by 
Hen 
it happens that few truisms require to ae ‘more riety 
those which had grown upon it gradually pee A 
ung shoot of Cactus opuntia, cut in May, had a flowe in the heat. And that k 
0 apparent, that it opened six months after, and it difference, is wn b every uplans 8 prin e4 
produced a fruit, which ripened a year later. During thi only one instance for : in the Gardeners’ ch ron 
time the same shoot produced a new one, which lived two | of the 16th inst., a euaindions of piensa? re skill 
years after the was dried u I have also preserved | and ction Paci am! scared apparently by the 
shoots of Stapelia asterias,, variegata, ceespitosa, and poetic _ aforesaid 
Fresong which have all produced flowers. oe ater of ates t-room by pla cin g hot-water pi pes i in 
e lived for three or four years, produc the hollow formed | by | double walls, the object being, as he 
toss ed in whorls, and forming buds ae aie aioe says, to ke Tf, indeed, cold 
lengt! were the active insinuating power shadowed forth by its 
* conclusion M. Pépin gives a list of ryan frag P , on the 
th 
ments 
f the well-known maxim, for resisting it at the 
author ses or 
be 
gl 
ing, a and for "Lsipi the pipes outside the house 
1 of i When cold 
hard-wooded plan 1 
same roi ag ‘There are others viet root at once, ie _ onia ian 10 years se ct ade canadensis, 
onc ay be. ping 10; —_— ‘shee 10; Ulmus depts 6; Dodartia 
yet the roots may have filled the pot in which th g Euphorbia dulcis, 6; omemnniye hs fal- 
are pla nt ted. I have seen some on hich the buds h c a tiene re 10; Puimonaria vir- 
fter pl g: of | gi 3 Urtica cannabin din, 
this the leaves of Hoya carnosa, and — ales rnish —SSS— object is really not t 
examples. Finally, my colleague, M. Neumann esented COTTAGE GARDENS. —No. XLI, 
in 1840 some ae facts to the pm al Horticultaral Every one the b 
there appears, it must be pecs, a sort of ieatirs in 
— the heat between the two omens it looks bare de. 
the outer ies * - rtifications ; but wher = 
ude a foe, “bat to preserve 
fri riend, the whole caystem oft tactics should be different. To 
ich have been shown t 
he ju udici 
ting the propagation of Theop hrasta, by 
hal 
Amon ly trees, there are many whose cuttings are 
i me which do 
ip 
and it is near that point that a great number 
length stops, an: hat a 
of cortical glands pay mand tumours (bourre/ets) _ 
rudiments of little roots destined to absorb moisture, 
misleadin ng, W 
mn 
"ie we were applying a m eat retainer, as 
r adhesive pent the ene = it now 
fF 
Roots have also the power of p roducing dl 
buds, as Lhave observed with roots of woody an spel at 
ceous plants, which have 
deep; they remain there orn but without vege on oe — 
longer er which they develop eg 
It a appeared to importan| to prove this, so I m: 
note of all the pists 1 sccidentally foun d to possess | ote | 
quality ; such, for i 
stance, 
effect i ——— nad fertility, and 
and by the it is required 
for cropping in the ensuing spring. Ev ems aa that now 
— mes vacant sho uld, therefore, ibe well manure ed, and 
ges En 
cane ok a aly dee. g or rid he enclosed space 
his time, and d dur ring winter to ‘the action of the oe paced fame 
frost an Ss. y 
this is not of so wich consequence ; Fy pats air 
to be of a strong 0 
ere 
atch, for —— pera of heat = ee case would 
a quite different; it might be well to place the thatch 
outside the building 3 but a source of a dditio nal _ beat 
resea'e » are pear the same 
on infiue is to be crerted that is to sar, 
t | thrown up in pes ps rid. 
m sure that 
| width. The Carrot and Pars: row 
| in this wa oy immediatly after the. ake hee: “heen ‘take: 
wi and, be i at ment, it might be so arra mie 
| as to » have of the garden ridge-trenched, 
broken _— a june was taken n up, and covered over again 
with the soil; 
ound very 
itiowing ts manner :—From the end of the piece. of ground 
under other circumstances, as, for ex 
strusks only were destroyed, and the 
roduced fresh stems 
cts are. 
—_ a cultivator. Pieces of Toots buried ; ata ‘sufficient 
roots | 
Th 
yao ep a heel the earth to the 
| opposite end to fill up and finish the last ridge. Measure 
off the width of another trench, then stretch op and 
| ma re it out with the spade. Pro ‘ocee eed i in tl unti 
and twenty inches wide, and w 
time oe salinity or any appearance of cents Tt 
surface or ‘ rept ae ae ‘ae a one ; then take the 
a foot long, and L planted like ¢ cuttings in pots, whether in 
“* bottom spit”” of the latter and t 
thed 
a hotbed or 
or adventitious buds, a yen, i'm nts, cad ofte 
— 
tion is out of the s soil, or at aa ona a mh x apes = Of cou 
contact e hum | sonainareas 3 
By this a portion of fresh soil is io cocaaly ean 
on the varied to supply the place o of that which the crop 
of the 9 season may have in some measure exhausted. 
the _ part so treated need not be previously 
¢ will 
ae Beaton will, as he can ‘well eet to ch poe these 
= - 
ian in this matte 
they may have noted in waa to ag e pla 
lie: es at differ ent seasons | of the yea 
4 
ei 
5 
a 
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i 
a 
te 
ct with the air; whilst the other receiv 4 but it require | interested in the subject to ine 
fa M > d ‘Attend to the oe ed | from the details that might be cg Sticited. 
- “ro n his relation of a botanical crops in mc rete, ‘and draw a a arth to such as | this sents fe particulars of an expe” 
pence ~ 2 Egypt in 9, 5, saya “in visiting the estate of appear to Prune Gooseberri arrants in| riment that was made at this place in the latter ent of 
RTA f _ “ape of his directors pointed out, near the | the manner 132 f roma 1840, and which, contrary to my expectatims, 
vi “@ ° “ge: a stock of a Locust tree (Ceratonia sili- | the s stsighest a and healthiest shoots of a for cuttings. | has been attended with the most complete success, clearly 
The » whic = n plan bout 300 y —The met thod of o perat ‘ing on a we eak hive a and | proving, in t this nstance at least, that altho Se _ — 
i e = wi = piers 0 es French, during their in- ll od 
i oe » and gay indi- | p. 612, is highly dese deration of ne | plantin Hollies may be correct, still, if taken pup” a 
cations of oy vegetation hag the Pacha caused the earth to be —. pi mana: geme nt d we confi- ri they will will smey Beng engaged at the nee abore 
sar abou it i n 1826, and a well to be sunk, the — oat = option by the pe raat mentioned i in ae g a part of the par! which 08 
hi ply y repay) him for “the tite ‘aouble to be intercepted by a belt of Pig? Beat Fir oe Bezch, 
hich in three years were three or four yards. high, and ie may tal cae in its exe fine Hol as undecwes 
almost I2inches! in circumference at the base. Even flower- | accomplished, I was directed to remove the latter 28 ‘eaathet » — 
: P seldom practised in this co : own oining the a roach, where a mass of Eve rece 
Thus this stock remained buried for 30 years without | in rae the “aes unt admir able Tittle work “Ss cuse for the road being 
SS ae and —— without ceasing to increase in | entitled ‘‘The Bee. Preserver,” as acafo ee a the | curved in its present dire ing always unde of 
aa aes ix Ma De act may be placed by the of that mn onas de n; who obse: hen — was great citiealty. ‘tending the trancplans 
ia y M. Dutrochet of a kind of Pine, whose root | treating on this subject, that ‘‘ in doublin Fpopeliticks e Holly after it has reai certain size, I was wa 
ian produ ig of wood for 90 years, | it — naturally be expected we mu: double e ms these, and ie 
any existence of ba M. Gaudichaud has | quantity of food ; b 7 to my on ST eer when I so as there was no time for — them befo! 
s 
he duration so 
ate ssus h yérophors, which after bei 
| dried _ years < ium, and even i 
Placed an oven, furnished cuttings, by which it has been 
that 
. entire, and do 
igs ed the hive a agai 
warm ha cae forbes amore " a —— 
Repeated experimen alway: 
toteed, therefore, of 
hives, or suffocating s =. 
hi 
ae ee 
Peonies, remain 
they are cut, except those b 
The same thing takes = 
whilst many inds produce tops. though 
een cutinto several er There “5 also rea 
ennial g s whose for more th 
may easily be cbisaned wichowt and 
the latter transferred s succes wie to nie hives that ‘have 
plenty of food. In operating o old hives for the purpose 
of depriving them of their shai ey, the same process. of 
; fumigating the bees should be resorted to, inste ad of the 
The 
year in the je citkealt cunietiig aE The same takes 
Place with the rhizomas of many Asters, Solidagos, Cine 
| latter practice, we trust, will in time be, discarded, when 
ee ae Se 
spectfully —, out to alee 
Mera nigh 
tuation 
expense a labour 
carne it was ultimately ar 
‘o cut down the "Hollies, 
e 
_— was sagt 
favourable for our operations, as it Tao si posed ¥ 
cuttin, a —. ‘ound the tree at a sufficien 
fs clearing away the subsoil, to get zach 
Se came 
a cg mi i eM Wee 
