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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
erally have no hesitation in saying that the tree on) si 
Ligustrum 
which it the well-known 
ize smaller will be more — for such as are not 80 
rath 
ongst t those 
assed am: 
what we familiarly call 
Keep th 
facts w 
t | without inducin can grow 
enc 
S. Julien par ee ee 
ich ar 
jumping at ath hee withou 
that M. S whose e opin 
i owledge of the written 
experience e considerable aia i in getting som 
nded/ rt; a 
sha 
tsing eo u 
lsum (ot 
but 
angha ma es, 
which had pee eed “et by one of the Catholic 
issionari the province of Sychuen, where the 
prineipal — of this valuable substance is eee 
can uld have bee — 9 
of th as reached this country 
dition, and is now in the Exotic Nursery at Chelsea. 
Messrs. K * and Perry have allowed me to place it 
with th the ee and I have no doubt they 
will allow “ny one interested in the beautiful white wa 
of China to see it. appears to be very like an in 
but rk pe arene —— any known species. It is 
deciduous, and no doubt will prove perfectly hardy in 
the gardens of this eountry. RP. 
PETUNIA (NIEREMBERGIA) INTERMEDIA. 
in th e late Dr. Neill, when a ai, 
inion ay. ae hanog s5 it by plant ne 
80 
collection owe 3 mplete without it; but as 
uty ist in t growth, and 
rofusion of interesting little flowers, from April to 
r, and in p ion of l gh- 
coloured blossoms of only a few weeks du „the 
ee taste o showy flo has 
iven this once favourite plant nearly out of cultiva- 
tion. I somewhat , and soon shows 
its impatience ope ent, of which it has 
x uce flowers, planted 
soil, covered with a bell glass, and placed 
for a fortnight i ina shady part of a cold fram e, and then 
60° to 70° 
thus treated, they will bo suficienly 1 rooted z potting 
eeks. Petunia is 
ill be ad le to grow p to furnish cuttings 
the Ee season. ni in pots as 
ngs are ciently rooted, using light 
rich —.— soil, ug =e close 1 st frm 
until they have a 
Bracaauy aceustom them 2 of air, 
and fall exposure sun’s rays, in esn to get 
the wood well ripened. 2 airy situaffon free from 
mp, and 5 the temperature may farc about 
d ter. 
dam 
40% will su ripe win Those intended for 
cera out should be hardened d uring spi by free 
e e to a mild days, but they had better be 
Kept 8 "ily, and if they can be shifted into 
5-inch pots this will assist in keeping them healthy and 
in having age plants at turning out time, which will 
3 ect. m red situation, 
with light r 3 soil and . rn nage, is 
indispen 8 especialy in Pee seasons as t af x t 
1 ants ett Ady wn — ror 
wa. 
uld be 
frekar 
zes larger than th "a 
to the vigour of the plants ; very fi 
ns may be allowed 3-inch pots, w hile a 
the | flowe 
hen done flowering, which, i 
roperly treated, = Seo be until well into 1 autumn, 
may be the -heap, as yo 
inter, and generally 
s kept after 
The . ee} yrs the pot culture of this plant is — 
loam 
which ‘shou sa ~ broken up into small pieces, rejecting 
all that is not full of fibre. To four aiad of this 1 
eee eee sand, and one of clean small po 
: . gees ty of thoroughly pace on 
dung passed throu for 8 sieve, to free it from worms, 
8 mixed the compost, will be useful to 
healthy plants, r in the final shift. Alpha. 
A NEW BRITISH pa 
In August, 1851, we received fro 
he had found wild near Chichéster. 
From these. 
„ and a 
of which a great m 
mel different from that —— 
The 
rachis, 8 „and ovaries are perfectly smooth, not 
r | greenish-y 
which w 
| A. ed to ge ners hatal alth À 
bons ged * ough we should be proud of the 
fibrous peat in about equal propor tions, 
bo 
the Rev. L. 
Vernon Harcourt a few flowers of an Barton, which us 
a 
trace he coarse short down - 
| latifolia =- observable. The flowers , to, 
W. Bee very 
the middie lobe is narr 
. raceme 8 of being 
argie a 1a once — poe 9 — — a drooping 
to 
Nev 
of Mr, 
magnified Sower, will assist the 
tanist in forming his conclusion, J. L 
ROOTS AS A MEANS OF PROPAGATION, 
As it is a fact, which 3 1 e 
strated, that all the organs of p 
rms, adapted for our 
and f reasing our enj opment 179 
21 3 „that all plants. origina a 
hat 
bipm it was take en. Practical pere daily furni 
with Se spine ! in support of this ver 
tithe from some 
ro Is 
becoming an individual si 
n? Do not cuttings. and buds afford daily came 
4 Isitnot 
Gloxinias and Achimenes, 
nt of a leaf brise 
Moreover, is 
single ele 
ni W 
case, hati in some plants, 
for example, a leaf, or the ee 
opagate the e speci 
some of the Lily tihe e — a 
9 
hese example 
are, I presume, sufficient for the subject 
ought likewise d my 
that ne a the pr, “elementary orie 
at this part of the plant has hitherto been 
ropagation, 
and they lea om conclusion, ber if the e 1 
portions of a atin = *p w individuals, © — 
19 <meta 
ymation, +! 
this respec 
shall be advantageously lo yr 
ts tha ound difficult to increase by othe 
pers 
Cydonia, Azalea, Maclura, iarain 
inga, rus, 
Ailanthos, Rhus, Ko.; and in the second, 
wish to 8 ust p 
e Peonia, Clematis, Bignonia, 
The examples which I have ei 
erb plants, 
Anemones. The 
o the roo 
the setae T that th 
ty 0 
be Wen in the 72 
plants en refuse to wee ole 
from shoots branches. 1 228 we 
in so propagating them, it 1 
mode ——— is not  gaitable ees ‘othe da 
domesticated state into w 
for cannot imagine 
over the earth innumerab 
and which are 
