49—1852.] 
were quite ite melting and very juicy, with a most agreeable 
flavour; not so rich as some of the autumn Pears, but |, 
: this is 
an 
specimens ri 
were melting, juicy, rich, and ex 
very — eat 
bearing we this an rgam 
to be oft the Whiter Nels tribe, by — leaves and 
ear shoots, an 
should be, and generally is,a 
ed abo 
very rich and nigh — 
melting 8 not a vigirous grower on the mage but 
. or all the 
ast in 
ka paraa of pm amas Aa would be eligible, 
where it is hem — to grow ids or 
espaliers. Thon ay an 2 — 
EUROPEAN AND NORTH . M TREES 
TRAN 
SPORTED TO mai 3 
x Pror, 
of Zurich, so well ee be his eee | 
Oswatp H 
ying, in various points of view, the vege- 
there in 
tation of “that island, the climate of which is remarkably | i 
equable throughout the year. 
return 
Since he has laid before aod Société 
Helvétique des Sciences tin, 
observations relative to the pe of 
riodical imeta 
After remarking that all the woody “plants 
of Madeira are evergreen trees oi vane 
year. 
— m bya — — i — 
v 
from that fines 
‘Belle de Noel or Belle ma Noél n pn 
th 
THE GARDENERS’ 
on Rr apr: 
in August. 
y begin to lose | 
tay come into flower at 
fruit is Nen 
owever, varieties of Apple an 
ear trees which flower and psms e fruit — in te 
Cale oe eap er 
the 8th April the Vines w ea i 
pletely in 3 vw young rapes. e fi 
of April and the ae . p eg 
an e vi — 
— 157 days. — A. 
Lb 
during the months of 
it š 
appearance of being covered pin 
ular 
of Oxalis speciosa (a Cape plant) and of 
New leaves appeared by the end 
m- 
wers 
ace in 8 e repose 
eptembe 
De Canpoute, in“ Bibl. Univ de 
ays. AN 
Genève,” Août bey 52, p. 325.-Annals and Magazine of e 
Natural Histor, 
Home 
owth, of 
— 
leaving 
Was 
fe ourse, a 
voted to the 
as abo at a foot i in le k The width of t 
Correspondence, 
accompanying | 
, piral Ringing of Branches. — The 
wootent is intended to represent — effect, after one idle boast, for the sneaking paar h 
one | kestre 
| 
e 4 vigilant to be su 
spiral decorti 
transversely with the — 
CHRONICLE. 
tulipifera, 775 a native of North 3 
mplete repose of 151 days. 
The Apple and Pear trees 
the their leaves in Decem 
Funchal by the 7th of April, and their 
ere are, 
eir leaves; they berri 
— Ar of M. Heer, con- | it see 
S. Laureola in 
the — from 7000 to 10,000 feet pd — — 
an advan 
China, and go that 
nursery ay may disappoint this ends by substi- 
tuting for it S — unds for 
implying the inferiority of = latter 
want 
th 
that both these objections » — — 
unfounded, I have seen 
table 
in ri * 
mewhat 
growing in w 
7 feet Sigh, and assuredly 
posed 
ing, “ere 
laces Aa oming an erec 2 
and in all cases oat a 
same 
ory a 1 ** aware of 
seems to lie in the A tits which in S. Laureola I do not 
ere to be very fragrant, certainly not so agreeably 
ere describes those of the 
Chinese 3 RA M. pame yass 
isletoe are that I ever saw a 
Misletoe — Furdus 2 in Wales. Last 
autumn a flock was seen in — 
chased b row (Corvus corone), w 
fell swoop struck one, which fell dead and — teni * 
fancy that must — a very unusual occurrence, as the 
Misletoe nted as being — and 
courageous. — ase? ‘they are pugnacious and re- 
solute in defending their families from predatory birds p” 
again, “and with the missel thrush net arrow is no 
t-winged 
ose times 
is too 
l, and even the sparrowha * 
to keep their 
„, 
* 22 
‘Ammonia,—I have been in the habit of ted hore 
—— upon my hot-water Hau with — 
re water for these 10 years past. The 
of unremoved bark — the convolutions of the | 1 from this rich water has a most — 
ag carrie o- an m James 
which 
incision, 
d two-and-a-half 
und | upon e gg 
r and Melon plants. 
ti 
or ossoming the stem — the lower edge the d of Cum bers 
very of ing the coo cool š es how |unremoved bark, through t;the length of the upper | — Prolific ee —— p- 757. )—Surely the 
much species introduced from — northern convolution, there is a uniform deposit of art gardener Cadbury H Castle Cary, Som 
tries 2 “sig these i indigenous species in their | matter, which at a third of the length oF the second | could not have had this — true to re 1 
mode of vegetat a coil, marked a, is n | it with. all the leading varieties in a Cucumber house 
The Oak and the Beech, for instance, continue to lose in q At rin 25 ei is year, and it produ uced the finest fruit throughout the 
their leaves during the winter, although the weather is length in the upper edge season, a8 Colchester, 
then milder than it in s l bark, after ually diminishing dier is famed for Cucumber gro rower: rs, and it was the 
the summ hus, unchal, eaves of from the mmen ent do ration of growers in this neighbourhood. 
Oaks (Quercus pedunculata) planted in some public wards, it entirely disappears for Henry White, Chelmsford. 
and pro des began to grow yellow at the the remainder of the distance, From ants increase in n the Absence of Leaves.—In 
-end of October, and lly became dried up to the the point a on the lower edge, the my school days I enka: meeting — — e in 
Ist J Some isolated trees an to shoot by deposit grows gradually greater as an r work, published, 1 believe, some time 
the 10th January, and were green again on the 6th we approach the lower terminus. | about 1794 nt — on this subject 
but all the othe mai in a stats of This, as will be understood, corre- brought t to my recollection. Feed author’s words 
ere not generally covered with new leaves to that of were ‘Carrots will 
un 0 v. r. Gordon's garden, cation on which there is no deposit produce 4 f hay, which all chee cal cattle are 
at an elevation of 1800 feet, they were a month later, whatever. Above a the alburnum | very fond oh ‘and * 8 which they thrive 
The leaves of the Beech became yellow at Funchal pre the leaves and de- The tops sh as soon as cut. 
November, at Mr. Gordon’s garden by the posited in its devious route on both | They are cut oe a a is taken not to 
es, or at least the greater part edges of the bark, still shows by | injure the crowns of plants by cutting too close. 
e state upon the trees, until the vastly larger ity accu- | The roots will i the same as Parsnips if 
S in the spring, which about the mulated on the lower edge, how 80 cut.” The idea of Carrot-top ap I imagine to be 
st April. At Funchal, the terminal — — were open by direet wnward it always tends, | somewhat novel, even in this age of ts. It. 
the lateral a little late d dency seems to be given that ld be a crop of tops for green 
e period of repose e B h on an it by the action of the bark locally food in addition to the fii i ome w W. Hudson. 
4 days; in Mad ere the cold at every point, without the necessity | indow Gardening.—1 have Mr. Wood and 
like the summer at Glaris, it is 149 days. for —— den 8 “| = Church's — s on with 
rence is onl har days: The 8 connected wi ves, Ke, Wich us win gardening 
a period of re 4 3 the pendieular above it. The large attention which it merits, and which it has received in 
whilst = Madeirs it i it is p a 110 days, or 40 days formed below æ on the jower | som of France, - aia 
esch. M. Hei this differente | edge of the bark, goes also tojnot, however, mean to speak of: rk 
may arise . the Beec of I adoira havi prove this local action of the ordinarily * » but] simply of a series of double 
o thie Ti E tater and the Oaks from Portugal, for, from a point slightly lower panes in section thus, U across ’ — S SE 
latter would have previously acquired the ‘than a, I Sider the do permit the growth of Ferns 
their leaves later and y vegetating sooner flow of alburnum to have been | plants in the interstices, It would be naaar — 
0 or, quite insufficient to account for so groove or of the frames or 
ME 1 perhaps to tivo added, what he mo an accumulation of it as is sashes, when the pane, being 1 Sete 
doubt knows, that sudden variations of tem there seen. This, then, must have | sion, would slide into its place, retain it, v — 
Dre instantaneous been pre from 2328 prejud en. eee or chutter. It is 
or low ; at by the bark requisi provi — 
the leay 3 ee e cee OF leaved y | contain a little moist earthy to insert a Fem oF two, and 
4 menon in the west of| the young bark, probably, as as it formed upon the the complete 1 
e, and still more in “callus.” But that none was formed upon the other lifted out, while the vigens in 80 ge 
In the facts sta M. 8 facts of which w. e | edge, I hold, 7 f hear ire nga err 
y had examples in the hothouse culture of little or nothing; and its a appearance upon * 22 hol „ in “ Notio 
tropical plita ere is a proof of that impo side of the bark, above a, is to be ascribed to a lateral Badly Coloured apes.=— obani aie . 
Physiological law, too often forgotten by meteorologists, in a downward course, rather than to (what | Corresponden „ 4 
that the same te erature or the sam of t it would at first seem) an upward working. The bark |n lot f Grapes to aiai daai ii aaa T 
tures, combined with the oes not alwa power of elaborat p where | stood, and ena) r 
Produce the same effect upon f increase of substance tak in absence of | have ae that it apie — ee eee 
is ery species as it were a machine which pe the influence of ae sr it seems ve done | Bh refor : — We have two Vineries 
— 2 under the influences of external causes, in W oe the below a. viagra ‘six years ago, the 
hot wed by particular internal conditions. These vary This spiral ringing might F t perhaps te more | of v rich fiable loam with dung and it is 
— between one species and another, between one ue el stone fruit trees e i +110 feet wide and 3 feet higher at the back than the 
, of a species and another, and even up to a ce with a view to induce fertility in them, but the coil nding soil, I have never grown a crop on the 
, ween one pop d 8 ire ought not in any case, for to be ex border of either te t have encouraged the roots 
period and same heat, after | further than the edges are le of healing in some of i i wis ‘half rotten’ leaves, 
of vegetation for instance, not Slodacing the | degree, or the life of subj A en appear to like; for they are so near the 
Se ect as in oes ther circu endangered by it. In so n ene h ily be seen by merely moving the 
wit Madeira, the the Platanus occi etalii; a native of the | on the Laurel, carrying the ring or BoE | | N a 1 0 white, useful roots. 
and States, loses its leaves aly wos from the | three and four times in each, x N mode of treatment arh been as follows :—On 
yale of October, or ey gradually become | down in the following severe winter, although og ad the 24th December last 1 put border of house 
— and m the action of wind and them were 2 inches in diameter. Where e en RE dang and leaves t togiven gentle 3 
an, The repose is e in January, February, ted fro es for the of Plant making, * this slight heat 
“Med up to April, during a a period of 87 days. ee et eat wo to have | 80 as to 
