724 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Noy. 13, 
of cell is capable of giving origin to another, however 
The observations of M. Tricut, which seem poyon 
all possibility of question, are confirmatory o of a fac 
which has before men 
an attempt was 14 0 on the part of the tr ties to repair | w 
e. in 
was thrown ou 9 at various Lichen into Which 
wha 
rEécun’s Nyssa, fresh tissue 
the M, 
advice, but ean, it, resh et A seepage that 
Vines would n t be tacked. N 
theless, by the Win 
the Oidium appeared. 
lan was tri 
=a observes that this ed has 
advantages whieh do not belong in the same degree 
the sulphur remedy, inasmuch as it i — more easily 
sive. That it deserves a 
The only question is 
lessive, which w 
helpe ed by 
medullary rays were contin 
and in a short time, ba the increased confluence of 
i ich oan clothed ‘ne new 
that barring 
k, it was . a accidents, the 
Injury would in a fe more or pme com- 
pletely remedied. After two or three years, how- 
of the medullary rays, which nobody supposes to be 
ed by the descending tissue, directly into th 
new patches of wood, is 1 eet impor- 
„ though t 98 75 tissue is, in Monsieur 
Tr&cur’s case, with equ aes a ‘Tier develop- 
ment from the already existent longitu udinal — 
After atime, as the patches increase, new ry (ar 
rays are formed from the woody 17 es, which — 
B. 
no connection with the others. M. 
Ovr readers are aware that the ——— 
s for W g MUS, shown 
2d of this month, 
unforeseen | n 
* on Decembe | 
a unity of showing their strength. 
As there i is to be an exhibition of autumn flowering 
table bles. 
15 
7 
fa of — and some alkaline aten either 
not happe * 
for ts 5 75 in countries wher era Won sed for fuel, as 1 Taney, tat an Ape pie „ 
we cannot be far wrong in assuming that the lessive they are large enough to crop. But w 
15 os consisted of dirty soap and water, plus potash- | that leaves are the lungs of plants, and that isn 
called lie ems . country, when wood-ashes more certain way of destroying the strongest plaka 
re sp — in addition to soap. to divest it 8 of its 1 coms ce as a rule 
bsery 
DISLEAFING PLANTS TO INCREASE THEIR 
BULK. 
ea v 
In connection with this e subject permit me | b 
ehind their yo piring 
to state a few facts which have come under my obser- | the case of Mangold Wurzel, I should say that after 
vation, ars, which your recent Boese u si — ae the middle of August every ! ich sink 
experiments, have called to mind. Som o I an angl g 459 t wo ist the plant might 
8 fine tuber of Tropzeolum tricolor, Ghieh! Éon be profitably taken: away, an fa as they fall 
w for three | below that angle thee: may oar rwards, 
oe cause ka inexplicable refused to 
and during that time it never —— 
* ce 
1. 8 lie was applied to the leaves and tree 
ca 
as wood-ashes are e employed lady who. found 
it was eaves 
A 
apart, I sowed Orange Globe Mangold Wama = 
as the middle of J om and wig aq 1 as late 
Skirving’s Swede Turrip i in the middle of hek a i 
same time (in June) I sowed Manai Wurz 4 
sery rows of youn between 
is last 
& 
while that —— Sin 
was os hed 7 the fal 
arly 10 ae per 
upon which che bia e was | rey 
8 defotinted being. at te gate „ 
re the other 
t, 
erop of roots t 
of good green food can 5 e same time 3 
much heavier crop of roots, surely that is one of te 
wealth” which no one can afford 
despi ise. 
a rule wit pai the aig N must not 
be, wildly carried o 
n 
e it 
all plants to be y 
defoliated must have arrived — pe htt, that is, they 
must t that orme 
k 
w 
oved afte 
I cannot go Smit, ee cut all the 
l 
te "slightest vestige of a shoot. 
dv — 
— ic o measurement was taken at the 
time, but I am 8 sure I am within the por when 
J state that th creased eireum 
e tuber in 
In 
Pears, and fore 
open — ition, a may be | th 
rere et recollect that every- | 
t be in Regent-street at | 
tting for eom by I . A. u., „that is is a o say, three clear hours 
ee the wowe: which ae place at 2. If th 
p n tim aiid ill run a great 
risk of n . bi the w arrangements for 
the Society’s exhi bition rendering it absolutely 
necessary that the ld be in pe 
by two hours before the meeting at ‘the very 15 
We have also th n to announce, for the 
information of the Fellows of ae Societ ey, that their | 
much-v. special privil the 
Gardens of the Society on exhibition days at half- 
Bae at her nd—or of transferring the 
Privilege to a brother, sister, son, —— father, 
oihar. or. wife, residing in his ‘ho 
extended, so that cal Fellow, or his representative 
within its, may introduce 
ly, i — of ONE. 
The last number of the Revue Horticole speaks of 
anew remedy 0 e. Vine Minpew. Mons. Duvar, 
a gardener at Cha near Sévres, Bd that recol- 
lecting how dirty "rae Ane ~ lam en destroys en 
Mushroom watered wi 
and finding that the. Vin — was produced by 
' — eat it occurred to 
“what is ‘ata to the one should 
eaux e 
re of which expression we 
M One of M. Duvar’s custome 
kept a washing atalino: at Ing, n 
He complained that for two yea 
with lie, * care e that 
ed after 
e arranged. that some plants 
akid. not be thus treated, in order that the effect 
ä ! tbe aa be better observ 
er either leaves. on time I have 
| frequent no noticed i in my stock of tubers of Tropæolum, 
especial 
ng with what he calls full of years but s 
8 ie ee the | no longer “looming in the future,” but i is an established 
earn from the 
who i 
ned, |t 
ference in the three years in N it was dormant: 
fourth it started into growth again, 
the plant was not only weak but sickly, and w 
ing in — dark, it could not have elaborated 
for its own nouri rishm ent, eae it st have d 
small 8 if the tuber 
uring the three years it w 
one to a 
os Sear to light. 
1 tlie plant never 
under 
circu mstances in size without 
— es 
but in — in 
remark that I ae | togëth 
N 
sap i 
— a — and . ee Pot fact, that tubers | Th 
nerease 
h 
as single specimens, surro’ n, pure, 
healthy. atm: N hirin with fall “facilities for both 105 
heat, air, and water, to exert t 
ese are important considerations, 
specimen plants fully 
ching, wide-cropping, a 
attain their maxi of Aen 
„ brachyeeras, some which did not 
grow for a a and I strongly suspect I ha 
e present time which intend “AE Aan 
nN rest. 
or 
y years ago, when my e eh bee: 
Man 
was first buddi Sar tte ed ma 
my text book and dai aily companion, I —— 
out to an old farmer in r ottinghamshire, 
no Mechi, still contrived to 
neig 
ture“ for 
| scrupulously clean, free from decaying 6 ae 
to the size it has to at i 
f y 
gain a uanti of "tood, ar at ans 
i x j Fesources the 
of increasing the the 
plant could 45 increase in size by the elaboration of 
sap in eaves 7 damn eehe t 
and consequen tly the more leaves ae 
as my ancient preceptor ; 
and 
If one of whe go nt 
oots and folia 
one of the a 
yar een 
ce knew a 
ee 
ool, but, nevertheless, a 
“Lon once 
ies bg Rina get that under certain 
— ya 
Mr. Smith’s experiments), a N of t et foliage 
remain rotting on the plant. 
increase in the 
afte the mutilation of the foli 
those first cut to 
in favour of the cut. 
strongest are eu 
e for that fact in estimating the 
ve produce. 
This 88 se ‘that the loss of my crop of 
sa | mn nad biteto 
nevitable, I had the points of the 5 
the rows, which were four feet 
the difference in bulk between the cut and met i An fally : 
eve very g 
2 used to ly the disleafing principle to ; 
— apply ially those for . 
discolour 
lage 
eners 
another e “of disleafing near 8 
neighbourhood they mi each piece 
séàson, and each time every — 
— ill a truth; -T 
is 1 * 
N it was, which Leven banded J 
to yield back again. Win. P. Ayre 
Blackheath, Nov. 8. 
