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the attempt to render these | 5 species eT for we find that a perfect h 
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branches, often as pruning.” Thave long been | time when you first made t t t 
eonvinced that a proper system pruning ought to be * a bee decent in their persons. In those bo | getal i 
gradual, and carried on during a series of years, ears, and | days a sup to be a good gardener be- always s incapable eof propagating itself by natural mem 
should consist not of lopping, but of dwarting, by a cause he 1 * a took beard, A "a and brush were | In the animal kingdom the mule is a striking instan, — 
gradual shortening, the branches destined e unknown to him. You weet do well, while trying to | and in i F 
eventually 9 The rationale of the practice | correct this race of indivi , to mention a few fa wn parents that 
i f the vital | which are not 1 genera ur known wn, and w relation | can expect success, and after we have succeeded, tẹ 
efit the honest, experienced gardener. | general tendency of the progeny is to return to onem 
vacant, t, Mr. Strictly Praetical other of the original parents. Thus it requires alli 
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nt of plants-is directed to. the longitudinal ex- may, per erhaps, be 
tension of the part—the limb. or the top—each | When a situation becomes 
terminating in an annual shoot of greater length and | g y 
vigour than the rest. The excision of this shoot and of | man ean do, ly if th Covent garden | every variation, however slight, that may present 1 
2 2 portion 8 a arrests this tendency to extension, 5 in which he will be sure 5 — a ſew pou to his observation. After various allusions to the a} 
r of the flow of sap to the branch, | and through this cireumstance, the pright, experienced ixture 0 
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distributing iti in a fes bler and scantier current among , 
ral twigs, thus ee its . is only to will never see the others remain long in the e : 
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a estnut sustain s, Melons, Cucumbers, Potatoes, Naar an 
pruning with impunity. e Birch å — of all E era that will bring in a shig go to make up their > 
the most impatient of Pi “knife, he branch thus wages, which become far e those kal by the | Again, the Raspberry and Strawberry are first cousin 
dwarfed by one or more successive 3 con- honest man. I will venture rey say hga a gentleman is | yet, after several attempts, they have not hybridise, 
tinues to afford nourishment to the stem, itself increas- | safer in the hands of a man who asks fair, remu- |The Gooseberry and the Currant are nearly related | 
ing very slowly in size, until the skilful pruner, per- nerating wages than he is with a . sae man. nd et their 
ceiving that the by wth of the head and|the sooner a stop is put to such base practice the | skilful hands. Mr. K. then commented on the min. 
ement of the stem, is independent of its aid, | the sooner will the honest man gain ure of herbaceous and shrubby species of plants, pa 
rem period of pruning is a f 00 cipled part of the eens ticularly Calceo: and semi-herb: Fue 
point on 2 hes have come to a decided opinion. That | world ought to be thankful for the endeavours that you | After alluding pro might he 
em. Mr. Bailey surely does not know cted in culinary vegetables and fruits by hybrid 
to be the 
the middle le of f Ju ay to the end of August), when the sap, | the extent of the injury which the men you are grap- 
having pervaded the whole structure of the tree, and | pling with si 
been elaborated in the leaves, is just beginning to de- or he would not have written as 3 did. 
scend, and to it the materials of the ts of the | that you mean, and the men that I mean, are those | plication of the means which Nature has put into 
g year. pruning is perfo in ve ribed ; men of no reg Bethe ands. The existence of sexes in plants is now a 
winter, the tree is, as it were, taken by surprise. I ing, who condemn books, G papers, knowledged by all, and hybridising, as well as crog 
vital action, during the past season, has been directed 2 in T. everything that will tend t ing, rally performed in the follo 
‘to the maintenance and extension of its e strue- r condition. An Old See but a manner: — Carefully select parents possessing th 
ture; and it cannot, previous to the renewal of its — nearest approach to the properties esired, place the 
„change the direction of the vessels of the Wine Making. — Reon receipt has been given to me | apart from plants of their kind, and pay particula 
amputated branch, ane, ete send them to the reinforce- for a wine: „Pale malt, ground, 4 Maai > ; boiling attention to their cultivation, in order to obtain 
ment of those When the amputa- water, 44 gallons ; "infuse and strain off w healthy fructification. may iscreti 
2 eam is performed in “Aatami, the tree adapts its Take 24 gallons, and sugar candy, 24 lbs.; ede ais. which to select as the male and female; by all thats 
resources to its condition, | solved, add yeast, 2 lbs. ; ferment. Keep scumming off known, the progeny will take more after the male, 
and jones provision only for the growth of its ex- the yeast, and when the fermentation is nearly finished, are i th: 
isting structure, turning the amputated sa A es N add raisin wine, 24 . brandy and Port wine, anthers 
into new channels, In pruning Spruce and other resi- each 2 puma and bung down for 6 or 9 months.” | before they arrive at maturity, or your attempts “i 
nous evergreens, a gradual dwarfing process, r Now, can any one inform me what is to become of the | of no avail, for Nature will have 1 her part, au 
during several years, to dry up the exuberant flow of | 20 gallons over oul above the 24 of the 44 gallons of | instead of a hybrid you will hav natural proget 
sap, is particularly important; and I have found the wort? or whether any advantage results to ont wort in | After extensting 4 the anthers from flower you 
months of August and September the period in which point of body from the larger infusion Prom s. [We | to bear the seed, carefully wate e progress of ti 
mere is least ten to bleed. It is no small re- have not yet received any answer to your iguana mes stigma, and as soon as you find it in a condition 
i 47 pruning in autumn in | specting Parsnip wine, printed at p. 799. ] receive the pollen, choose the matured anthers, a 
j of delaying to the following —that as the Plantati I think you will agree with me that bring them i gentle contact with the stigma, to whid 
i diately, a whole year’s | sufficient attention is not pai e preservation of t ent pollen will adhere. In some plants 
2 is saved in the closing of the wound. Nor is management, and it is highly probable no difficulty in ascertaining precise time when th 
all; for, t of branch com- that the next generation will suddenly find timber ve ma is ready to receive the pollen, such are 
I es at the same time, the wound would in the follow- | scarce and dear. The waste of timber is everywhere | goniums, the stigma in which until perfectly matured 
ing win by a whole years’ growth, and, | very great in all the wooded regions, and the demand | closed, and if not watched at its expansion, and fe 
inter be larger n 
1 erer two years longer in healing, so that | promises before many years to exceed the supply. For lised, abortion will follow. It mus b 
autumnal pruning actually saves two years’ growth in | centuries past some of the largest fortunes ‘have be been that the stigma once fertilised is sufficient. Insects al 
the closing of of tho wound. The judicious pruner varies-| derived from tim an currents of air sho i | 
— lan according to the position and intended purpose | w which a man could lea ave to his char ren has been by for hybridising are in flower. Mr. Beck, and other gon 
pen nee In hedgerow trees the object will be to | preparing an an extensive tim timber plantation (particularly | growers,practise t his plan by orën places throug 
- 1 -n and confine the exuberance of the |in the“ Wastes of Ireland,) which though returning which air is admitted with very fine gauze. Mr. K. a 
wa e will, therefore, dwarf all branches that tend him nothing during his life-time, has been in many | mitted that most of the approved Pelargoniums, Fuchsia 
* a with a view to ultimate removal, | instances a mine of wealth to his children. We believe &e., were not strictly hybrids but crosses of hybrids. 
park tam hie as become too much elongated. In many landowners could in no way more surely leave a | mental flowers and plants, when long an i i 
atten attention will be directed chiefly to a due | valuable inheritance to their children than by purchas- (continued Mr. Kendall), have a 
| i i ry | size and conformati 
symmetrical but picturesque outline. In plantation | accessible to ig canals, and rivers, which would | their natural state 
— the Kagan maa bat g timber, he will be attended with but trifling expense nif t the trees were upon these indications and perp e them. Thi 
ane arg lir ror to provide abun- annually and judiciously pruned. The demand for plants and flowers are much affected by seasons is ev 
the undue at of re g, however, | Larch in the country, the scarcity and high price of dent from the fact that some plants produce double 
their elon to’ T = particular branches, or | hard-wood timber, since the destruction of the Oak, semi. double, and single flowers alternately. Colour 
Saon ouR g vS as to aeng with ofthe ae in hedge-rows, from = total ignorance | also much affected by the same influences. Floris 
oni mode o ra ee epee s : 
: Surprising what may be made of the most unpromising Bini euting of all the foresta in Canada an d New Stier i ven 
y are sure to produce the most valuable flo 
Pee a by A a I Aeon seen a tree that | Brunswick ; of the western states are thinly | Now both are right + for when a = fruit or veg 
pelecting a leading ‘shoot, and mai r eren western New. York now depends | table is wanted, natural vigour is et requisite ; b 
= ing E sit, — an . thing else upon Canada for a supply of building lumber. In the in a floriat’s flower, ee PI of. ‘form and beau 
straight-stemmed 3 of Michigan, the best Pine region of the ful marking are required, the weak lants will } 
WO w waste is | the i 
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dieated for pruning, will be found also the best for fel- | almost incredible. A dozen or N 
e h i more of saw-mills are | dently the production of Nature's weakest power 
ling timber. According to Liebig the autumnal months | there erected in the midst 45 the Government lands, Bivident proofs of this are to be found in the Carnati 
u Dahlia. Gi a i i 
= mishin itan : s is ers e is gone. instead ifal bizarre 
ae beeps: 1 be which cause is making sad havoc * the forests along mg rivers, | Carnation, and a fancy striped Dahlia, you will have“ 
Rr aber giana sah toate tact Mom tes oigan re trained to taper like the | one a beautiful self with sometimes a dark stripe w 
arab * 22 es place, will prove more | Larch or Cedar, we shook hear of no patina of | defined, and the other self coloured and ugly enough 
1 oy EST own that carpenters arcae | their aging ak A tenantry.— W. M. T. say ost have been cheated, It may be asked wh 
i 9 e Paanan ene een enan e Y 0 
at each period, now under n e trial.— J. S Sotieties í j 
e 0 A ö + of all flowers the Cauliflower; and at the lusci? 
2 season ‘ins bal ae STAMFORD HILL, CLAPTON, AND STOKE} Apples that have been produced from the Crab; a” 
a e so mild that] NEWINGTON GARDENERS’ SOCIETY FOR our Pears, Peaches, Cherries, and Plums, how differe 
75 hamare e or w and Ash-leaf, planted in| MUTUAL INSTRUCTION. are they from their original state. Many of our fine 
being from 1 to 4 inches i * sae : oe all u up, many 1 6th.—Mr. Tant in the chair. —Mr. Kenpatt flowers, too, from comparatively insignificant hing 
ko l pla 3 2 ave self-planted gave an essay On the Art of Hybridising “en ‘have put on forms as beautiful, and colours as splen 
a roms hip ae pale k ight, producing new Po- | Although hybridisin gas an art, he said, was of but w ~ — can well conceive ; and if such has alrea® 
4 fatoes. 2 ye * fal bioom 5 air I have also | cent date, there is not the least doubt but that Nata sare results, what may we not expect w. ; 
i Fuchsias, tunias, a 1 the of Pace * herself practised it from time es — the agents one shal have become better known and put me 
4 ugi . “insects, extensively into practice A. Laidi a 
1 eres other tender der flowers, which are rarel tter more particularly the — "But he stated : see Sapia a = ease a 
Dec. 27, 18 5 Woods, Ha tel Essen, ia Ta her singe not only set bounds to Revi iew 
‘cat Ga ee admix f species ; she had also set up other An Experimental Inquiry into — cause of the Asc 
F racti ardeners. well remember the barriers almost as insurmountable as the mixing of! and Descent of the Sap, with some Observations UP 
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